Sick of Palin
By Jennifer J. Foster
I don’t know if you’re like me, but if you are, you have to be sick, sick, sick of Sarah Palin.
After that turkey debacle, the Alaska governor did mercifully give us a few weeks free of pervasive Palin press. But she returned this weekend with a blistering interview in which she hit back against the media, which she says was “unfair” to her.
Ugh.
Yes, it’s true that there was a double standard when it came to the coverage of Palin. But she knew it would be that way going in.
And let’s be honest: She didn’t exactly help herself with those interviews.
It’s incomprehensible to me that Palin reportedly leads the pack of potential GOP presidential candidates for 2012. But at least one of those could-be rivals—former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee—is standing up and giving voice to the rest of us who are tired of and frustrated by her continued spotlight-grab.
From CNN’s Political Ticker:
“Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair,” Huckabee said. “In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just … I don’t know what happened. I can’t explain it. It was not a good interview. I’m being charitable.”
Last night on Anderson Cooper’s show on CNN, conservative pundit Bill Bennett opined that it would be to Palin’s benefit if she were to “take a little time off” from national media interviews and just govern quietly for a while.
Actually, Bennett called for a “moratorium” on interviews with Palin. That was his word, not mine.
Democratic pundit James Carville succinctly agreed.
The agreement between the fierce ideological opposites was an extraordinary turn of events that baffled both men—and exposed just how bad the GOP’s Palin problem has become.
