Palin on Hannity and Colmes
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 20th, 2008 4:35 am by HL
Sean Hannity interviews Governor Sarah Palin in part one of their 140 part series (I have no idea how many parts of this series will be.) After the pleasantries, Fox News’ Sean Hannity asks Governor Palin about the economy. She begins her explanation by stating that we need reform. She also states that we are working with 1930s laws in order to govern these modern companies. Then, probably most importantly, she backtracks and states that the government alone is not the answer. That’s it. As expected, Sean Hannity does not ask any follow-up questions. What reform? And if governments not the answer what is? Is there a Palin echoing the same type of verbiage we heard from President Bush after the Enron scandal that CEOs and CFOs need to have more moral fiber? Sean Hannity is done with this line of questioning.
The Fox News host then asks whether the Barack Obama campaign is politicizing this issue. Governor Palin responds with some gobbledygook then dovetails into her talking point — Senator John McCain has worked with both sides of the aisle. Of course, this has nothing to do with the question.
Sean Hannity then pitches the softball right down the plate — who was responsible for the market collapse that we are seeing on Wall Street (this is paraphrased)? Corruption on Wall Street. Wall Street corruption — that is the problem. Of course, there were no follow-up questions. But, what specific corruption is she talking about? Is she saying that the US Attorney General needs to prosecute some of these companies? Or she just talking about bad behavior? Again, she talks about a role for government without being specific. Is she talking about more regulation? Is she talking about enforcing the 70-year-old regulations (she said they dated back to the 1930s) that we already have? Governor Palin can’t even hit a softball.
Somewhere in this interview I’m hoping there’s going to be some meat.
Hannity follows up with a statement and not a question about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The statement is about government intervention. It appears that Governor Palin has done some of her homework since she has a better understanding of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and she did a little over a week ago. She states that the government had to step in because it would have been to “impacting” on the American people. What? What does that mean? Anyway, Hannity concludes this segment with an extraordinary statement that Barack Obama received the second most amount of money in the form of campaign contributions than any other politician, from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Really? Governor Palin did not take the bait. Instead, she stuck to her talking points — lobbyists are evil and cronyism is evil. This is almost laughable when almost all of John McCain’s top advisers are former lobbyists.
I can’t wait to see more of this hard-hitting interview. (Dripping with sarcasm)
