Palin’s Next Interviewer: Sean Hannity
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Media, Palin, Partisan Hacks, RepublicansThe hard hitting interview we’ve all be waiting for!
Fox News will air the interview over two nights, next Tuesday and Wednesday, on Hannity and Colmes.
Do note that this isn’t a dual appearance with Alan Colmes where he would get to ask questions. No, this is just Sean Hannity, one of the most unapologetically partisan voices that exists today, giving Sarah Palin an open forum.
Some possible questions…
- How did you get to be so awesome?
- Why do liberals hate America?
- Who really knows what the Bush Doctrine means anyway?
- What’s it like living next to Russia?
- You bucked your party and killed the Bridge To Nowhere project. How did that make you feel?
- And many, many more…
Yes folks, Sean Hannity.
Let that sink in a bit.
Chills. Spine. Ugh.
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September 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I think Sean Hannity is a pretty cool guy. eh is fair and balanced and doesn’t afraid of anything.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
you’re joking, right ?
As it is, Charlie Gibson was about the tamest of the major network reporters Palin could have gone before. God help her if Tim Russert was still around.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Justin,
More questions Hannity will ask:
And the Republican base will eat it up.
This is the journalistic equivalent of having Olbermann or Matthews “interview” Barack Obama. Although I don’t think Matthews would survive the leg quivers if he got that close to Obama ;)
September 12th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I once saw Hannity “moderate” a mini-debate between some unknown House Democrat from a small state and Ollie North. I’ll give you one guess who won.
Gibson at least asked a couple of tough questions, but the whole setting was softball. Touring small-town Alaska with Palin isn’t exactly hard-hitting. The problem is, McCain only has to shelter his VP nominee for two more months – he might just pull it off.
September 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Tough Tough interview ahead for Palin. About as tough as Donnie Osmond interviewing his sister Marie.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Did you any of you notice that Barack Obama was interviewed by Keith Olbermann last week? Now I can’t stand Sean Hannity, and I am sure he will be asking softball questions as pointed out here. But no matter what he asks, or even comparing to the humorous invented questions in this post and in this thread, NOTHING can compare to the real live questions asked by Keith Olbermann of Barack Obama on Monday.
These are the actual questions:
OLBERMANN: My interview tonight with the Democratic nominee on getting his message past the Republican wall of noise, on Iraq, on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout, on whether or not Governor Palin is qualified to be president anytime soon, on returning the campaign to the essence of the contrast….
OLBERMANN: …As late as October of 2006, Mrs. Palin insisted to voters in Alaska that not only would she defend that infamous bridge, but she also said—and here’s the quote—â€She would not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative.†What are Senator McCain and Governor Palin doing in this new commercial, do you think?
OLBERMANN: And Governor Palin hired a lobbyist to get earmarks to the tune of $27 million for a 6,000-person town which is—in its own scope, is kind of a neat trick, but it does seem to counterbalance the basic platform of the Republican Party. You said that they’re not telling the truth here, but when the stuff is a gross distortion, whether it’s about their own positions or yours, or facts in your history or whatever, what can you do about it? And why do people hesitate to use the word “lie†about these things?
OLBERMANN: To something from your own convention, maybe the most compelling moment of your acceptance speech in Denver was that one strongly voiced word, “enough.†A lot of people who have felt angry about what’s been done to this country in the last seven or eight years have that same sense of urgency and simplicity to it. Have you thought of using on the campaign trail and in your speaking engagements, more exclamation points? Have you thought of getting angrier?
OLBERMANN: But clearly it must not be fully on their minds because the race is as close as it is. And nobody’s burst into laughter at the latest Republican ad, at least not many Republicans have.
Have the Republicans succeeded in muddying up this election in kind of overcomplicating it so the point is not as simple as you just made it? I mean, sixty years ago Harry Truman went out and campaigned very simply, looked out at people in trouble because of a Republican Congress at that point and the impact it had on their lives and he said, “How many more times do you have to be hit over the head until you figure out who’s hitting you?†I mean, has your campaign in some way not kept it that simple?
OLBERMANN: You pointed out last week how little time at their convention the Republicans spent talking about the economy. I think the time might have been zero, zero, zero. I’m not sure. We weren’t running a clock. But if the election does, in fact, hinge on the economy, on how Americans are doing, has there been thought given to breaking this down to its simplest element, in much the way one of the Republican icons, Mr. Reagan, did during the 1980 campaign, and ask the voters if today, are you better off now than you were eight years ago?
OLBERMANN: Rachel Maddow wanted me to ask this question, so I’m doing this on her behalf, because her new show is starting tonight. Given—given the tone that the campaign has taken, I mean, this Georgia congressman last week, Mr. Westmoreland, who called you and your wife, quote, “uppity.†In that context, do you regret putting the brakes on the 527 groups who would have produced or could have produced hard-hitting ads that would have been sharing your sympathies?
OLBERMANN: One more campaign question. It pertains to not knowing someone or something. This is a question I have not really heard asked directly of anybody in a position perhaps to answer it, let alone answered. In your opinion, is Governor Palin experienced enough and qualified enough to become president of the United States in the relatively short-term future?
Link here for the transcript (and Obama’s answers to these tough hard hitting questions) It was easily the most useless interview of a presidential candidate I have ever seen. Even Hannity cannot do worse. I guess it went on for another day. I couldn’t watch it.
Puked. Gut. Out.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
yes, and Obama also did an interview with Bill O’Reilly. You can’t ignore that Palin is being incredibly sheltered from the media, and you’re not going to win this argument.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
@captain
yes, and Palin also did an interview with Charles Gibson, which created plenty of fodder for those who oppose her. And she will do more interviews, and a debate, along with her other campaign duties, none of which will satisfy those who are not interested in assessing Governor Palin fairly, but are only interested in finding and exploiting a flaw. Thats fine. Partisan is as partisan does. I would not even try to win an argument with that mindset, but I will present my view for the benefit of those looking for different perspective.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:45 am
And where is the partisan outrage, Justin, when McCain goes on The View and is grilled by a gaggle of leftist harpies? Again, you’re making this about Obama-Palin, which is going to really hurt the Dems in November.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:01 am
You think the Obama / Olbermann interview was soft? Look at these questions asked by Charlie Gibson himself in June:
ZZZZzzz….
September 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Jimmy,
That’s the best you can do?