[lbo-talk] Palin explains it all to Katie Couric

Jenny Brown jbrown72073 at cs.com
Tue Sep 30 09:30:48 PDT 2008


Michael wrote:

>>/ <http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/25/palin/> /

>/ /

>>/ I just got around to following this link, and now it's "updated" which is to /

>>/ say, completely repudiated. He quotes himself about Palin and then says "I /

>>/ was so wrong about that." And his evidence is the Couric interview. It's /

>>/ really seems like it's been a game changer. /

Andy wrote:

>Mmmaybe. I still have to wonder how much they were and are banking on down-home populist appeal, and how much it's going >to work. Don't forget when Kerry had it in the bag.

>

>A lot of the leftmost 50% watches this stuff and thinks, what an idiot, you've got be kidding. It's easy to forget that this smug >folksy ignorance being put on display by some fancy-pants media type is a selling point for a good chunk of the population.

Yeah, but that label doesn't stick to Katie Couric very well. It's worth watching the whole thing, if you haven't. Palin isn't smugly ignorant, she's just lost.

Jenny Brown



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