If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti
Morrissey has the series of youtubes of Palin’s interview on CNN earlier this year. It’s somewhat dry, actually. But I’m impressed by the way she handles the questions. This is no empty-headed beauty queen; she’s a sharp well-prepared woman.
So why not turn her loose on the media? Why hasn’t there been a Q&A session? I repeat what I said last night. I worry that she’s being trained to talk in safe sound bites. If so, we’ll know the first time she handles a question. And if so, it’s a pity. She’s good on her feet.
Update:Yeah, um, please don’t respond to that last sentence with the obvious joke.
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Hal_10000 on 09/08/08 at 02:55 PM (
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I suspect she’s getting 8-10 hours/day of policy instruction. No matter how smart she is (and she seems to be very smart), she’s not going to be up to speed right away on national issues, and turning her loose too soon is a recipe for disaster. It’d be better to delay it a week or two and have her come out with a solid interview than to watch her struggle too early.
She has her Charlie Gibson interview this week, and then I suspect you’ll see a lot more of her doing that kind of Q&A;. Everyone’s going to remember the first interview, and if she nails it, she’ll gain more prestige. If she blows it (which I think she definitely would have two weeks ago), that’s what people will remember.