Saturday mornings have gotten a little busy. Out the door to get the daughter to her voice coach by 9:15. Drop the son off at Karate at 9:30. Luckily these places are not too far apart, because I have to be back to the voice coach at 10:00, and then pick up the son at karate at 10:30.

The upside (downside?) of all of this carbon generation is that I get to hear a little bit of Saturday morning talk radio. Specifically I caught some of Mark Simone on WABC. His Guest this morning was NBC new anchor Brain Williams. In the course of their discussion they touched on the Charles Gibson of Governor Sarah Palin.

I wish I had the means to record it so I wouldn't have to do this from memory. Williams said that even though the Palin partisans were critical, the fact that the interview hadn't been ripped apart by the media means that Gibson did a good job.

I'm not a Palin partisan, but what a steaming pile of BS. The fact that the media that had been going after Palin from the moment she was announced as McCain's running mate didn't criticize Gibson's hack job of an interview proves only that it fits their world view.

There were three approached Gibson could have taken to the Palin interview. 1: He could have lobbed softball questions designed to show Palin in the best possible light. 2: He could have asked even handed questions designed to elicit information, good or bad, about a relatively unknown candidate. 3: He could have set out to make her look bad.

Gibson clearly chose 3. He came of as pompus and professorial. He clearly viewed and treated Palin as an inferior person to be tolerated with an amused contempt.

Of course the rest of media wasn't critical. They probably want to give him an award.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 10:05 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment