No, it wasn't the so-called "liberal media" calling Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin unqualified and McCain's choice "political bullshit" and "cynical."
It was Peggy Noonan, conservative columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Mike Murphy, Republican political consultant, along with Chuck Todd, NBC News political director.
The video comes from Talking Points Memo, along with the transcript:
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.
1 comments:
Once again the Republican MO is to charge the liberal media as being unfair and unbalanced, quite unlike their "more accurate" approach. With respect to Sarah Palin, who delivered a speech the other night that I felt was strong on style and delivery but very short on substance, the one's that have pointed out the weaknesses in her personal life have been her own "supporters" complaining of a double standard, not the liberal media, as you point out. It reminds me of Checkov's short story, "A Slander", where the protagonist, thinking that he is putting a rumor to rest, is actually the only one spreading it. I learned of Palin's pregnant daughter through conservatives as they were complaining about democrats making an issue of a matter that they believe should be off limits. It was not a liberal media attack. The democrats have left this one alone.
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