{"id":310,"date":"2008-09-12T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/charles-gibson"},"modified":"2008-09-12T01:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:01:24","slug":"charles-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Charles Gibson&#8217;s interview of Sarah Palin was a disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally affable Charles Gibson gave one of the poorest interviews I have ever seen. He might have been worried about something. Well, after tonight&#8217;s performance he definitely has something to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>His use of trick questions has already backfired on him. More than a dozen bloggers nailed Charlie for demanding Gov. Palin answer for something<br \/>\nshe did not say regarding the War in Iraq being a task from God. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a> has links with all of the dismal details. <a href=\"http:\/\/confederateyankee.mu.nu\/\">Confederate Yankee<\/a> is also disappointed with Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>In watching the show I noticed that Sarah&#8217;s voice was edited out several times when replying to one of Charlies questions. This is an old 20\/20 technique for slanting an interview and it suggests that the fix was in to make this interview go a particular way. <\/p>\n<p>Sarah kept her composure and didn&#8217;t back down at any time. She was well<br \/>\nprepared and her answers obviously frustrated Charlie, because he would<br \/>\ndrop the line of questioning immediately without acknowledging what she<br \/>\nhad said.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Vote2008\/comments?type=story&amp;id=5778018\">ABC News site<\/a> and found a transcript of the interview. There are <del>6462<\/del> <del>8727<\/del> <del>9506<\/del> 10605 comments and about half of them describe Charles Gibson as a condescending jerk. <\/p>\n<p>Why do I get this recurring echo of &quot;fake but accurate&quot; when I think of listening to Charles Gibson now.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: For those who missed the interview, here is Part One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pal2pal.com\/BLOGEE\/index.php?\/site\/sarah_palin_abc_interview\/\">Sarah Palin interview<\/a>. Look at Charlie&#8217;s body language.<\/p>\n<p>(A tip of the hat to Pal2Pal.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally affable Charles Gibson gave one of the poorest interviews I have ever seen. He might have been worried about something. Well, after tonight&#8217;s performance he definitely has something to worry about. His use of trick questions has already backfired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1181],"tags":[850,851,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-50","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}