Charlie Gibson: This is No Way to Interview a Vice-Presidential Candidate Even if She is Sarah Palin

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
September 12, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/344/charlie-gibson-sarah-palin-interview

Excerpt:

I watched ABC News Anchorman Charlie Gibson interview Governor Palin last night and was horrified by his blatant disdain for her and by the Grand Inquisitorial nature of the interview. He was not there to draw her out but to trap, shame and expose her as an unqualified fraud. He never smiled. He never paused. He literally looked down at her as he peered through his half-lowered glasses. He grilled her relentlessly, on and on, and when he thought she did not have the right answer e.g. as to what the Bush Doctrine really is, he "failed" her right on camera.

According to Charles Krauthammer, writing in the Washington Post, it was Gibson who failed to understand that the Bush Doctrine has evolved through four phases and is not about America's right to pre-emptive deterrence. Take that, you uninformed bully.

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