According to the Hillary Clinton Forum
here are the lists of questions from Gibson's interview with Barack Obama and Sarah Palin:
Obama Interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to "win"?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?
Palin Interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]
These lists show a difference of night and day in the treatment by Gibson between Obama and Palin.
Add to that the fact that he took TWO quotes by Palin, cut out relevant words in the quotes and used the distorted versions to ask her about them. When she challenged him about the quote not being right, he insisted "Exact words". Sure Charlie, the words in the fragmented quotes were exact, but they represent a totally different meaning.
Add to that the demeaning nature of Gibson toward Palin, as if he were talking to a school girl.
Add to that the fact that Gibson asked about the "Bush Doctrine" known to have multiple meanings. Palin may have known that the definition has changed over the years and wanted to make sure she was answering in the right context. Palin also likely sensed that Gibson was trying to link her to Bush as the Obama campaign keeps attempting to do. Her answer spared her that trap.
Add to that the fact that ABC hacked the interview to pieces. This gave the interview a very disjointed effect and when viewing the missing elements, it is very clear that some very good strong answers by Palin were cut out. You can see those missing statements at Mark Levin's
website.
Finally, add evidence from this
blog that ABC used different camera techniques with Palin than they did with Obama and Hillary Clinton. With Obama and Clinton, they are shown equal in size to Gibson. With Palin, however, they angle shows Gibson larger than Palin.
The media seems to have totally thrown all concern about their credibility out of the window in this election. Charlie Gibson and ABC hemorrhaged credibility in this interview. I think that at the least Gibson owes Sarah Palin an apology for his distortions of her quotes and Gibson owes an explanation of why there was such a discrepancy between the Obama and Palin interviews. I'm not holding my breath for either.
Labels: Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin
