More of the interview with Palin
Several people have asked about the videos of Greta’s interview with Palin, so I’m posting them here. I already posted Part 1 of the interview in Palin’s office.
Office Interview
Below the fold, videos from Greta’s at-home interview with Palin.
At-home interview
33 Responses to “More of the interview with Palin”
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bluemorning says:
Very interesting interviews at home- thanks for posting them.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am EST -
anna says:
So do your videos contain the entire office interview?
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Violet says:
I don’t know. I have everything that was available on the Fox News site.
I think the at-home interview part 1A is extremely interesting, since the topic (energy) is one on which Gov. Palin is clearly expert. This is a highly intelligent, articulate woman, and it’s fascinating to watch her expound on natural gas while she stuffs hot dogs with cheese there in the kitchen.
I say that as someone who disagrees with Palin profoundly on, for example, “clean” coal, which I think is a boondoggle. But that’s the kind of opposition I would be happy to voice, and it’s the kind of opposition other feminists should have engaged in. Oppose Palin on her policies, if you are so inclined.
But did they do that? No. Instead we got demeaning sexist tropes, nasty personal attacks, outrageous lies about Palin and her record — and all from feminists.
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votermom says:
I was very impressed with Palin’s energy policy speech during the campaign. She really looks at problems in an integrated way, and she did a great job pointing out energy, security, and the economy all interconnect.
She’s definitely smart, despite not having had all the advantages of an ivy league education handed to her. -
Sis says:
And now, with the cultural report: that ice was not safe. See the candling (melted wet parts) Don’t go on ice when it’s like that. Geez. I was terrified for Greta.
The cheese stuffed hot dogs. Omigawd. I’d forgotten about those. Haven’t had any since, hmmm. Anyway, a staple in the north, along with the moose chili. You hear so much about moose chili because it can be pretty gamey tasting meat. And it’s dry. You want the spices and the acidic cooking method. Yes, you do.
I love this woman. I can’t believe what a disservice the Democrats and media did her, and thanks to Greta for just putting the camera on her and letting her set the record straight. Just by being herself. A genuine person. Lordy. Have they ever seen anything like her before?
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Violet says:
I don’t think the snow machine part is in these videos, is it? I guess I should post that one too.
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votermom says:
Aw, I just watched the chili-eating part. Piper is so adorable.
I love how Sarah explains how important hunting is to Alaska’s self-sufficiency, and that it’s healthier (indeed it is). Sounds like good conservation. And the way a family all pitches in to divvy up a moose and all that — very strong sense of community up there. -
TheOtherDelphyne says:
I watched part 3 first, with Sarah at home cooking because cooking is something I love to do. What impressed me was her self sufficiency, not only on intellectual and emotional levels, but she is quite capable of physically taking care of herself and her family - she can provide food to feed them - and doesn’t have to go to the market for it. And it appears obvious to me that she takes great pride in that. I was definitely impressed - and I think that is something that is very freeing from the man as provider model, man bringing home the bacon, man as hunter, man feeding “his” family. Perhaps that is precisely why the elites hate her - she doesn’t need them. She is quite capable of taking care of herself and will not indulge in learned helplessness.
Maybe that’s why I crave land and learning how to farm it - perhaps I’m craving real self sufficiency, to learn how the physical Earth provides for us, to learn how to interact with her and learn another way of living. It appeals to me.
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Lexia says:
Thank you for posting some of the few media videos that tell the truth about Alaska and the way people live there. I just can’t understand how that wonderful land and straightforward, honest, capable people like Sarah Palin and her family were turned by the media into nothing more than oddities and freaks.
Waxing nostalgic here - I’d add there may be few things more dangerous than a momma moose, but nothing cuter or more clueless than a baby moose. So you end up torn between safety and not being able to tear yourself away - and if the baby moose can’t make up its mind which way to go and ends up just running down the road in front of you, you might not even have that choice.
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Anna Belle says:
TheOtherDelphyne, thank you for posting this:
Maybe that’s why I crave land and learning how to farm it - perhaps I’m craving real self sufficiency, to learn how the physical Earth provides for us, to learn how to interact with her and learn another way of living. It appeals to me.
I thought I was weird for having those cravings! Glad to see I’m not alone… I would love to be able to grow food the right way, and not have to rely on supermarkets and all the processing of foods.
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Sis says:
A woman like me, without the means now to hunt (although I have aboriginal rights to that) would never go without country meat. I’d never have to ask. People like Sarah would just bring it to the me, all wrapped up, to the older people, the women sith kids who don’t have hunters in the family.
It’s not a perfect culture, northern culture, but just using food as an example, it sure beats buying a tiny piece of meat at the grocer, who knows how old it is or how it lived, and seeing people pull up and load their SUVs with all manner of gross over indulgence — cheap — from some third world country, trampling over me and my mobility limitations, not to mention, financial limitations, people who think they have the right to tell Sarah, and any northerner, not to kill an animal, for food, or clothing, or to sell, in whatever way it suits and is convenient for them and expedites that.
Sounds like Sarah’s daughter saw the c*nt shirts. Imagine, out there in a public demonstration, likely with crowd control and law enforcement. Of course, the n*gger shirts were there too? Not likely, that would not be acceptable, to anyone.
I’m going to play flamenco all day, then Rachmaninoff and Schumann. Because I just can’t stand the media. I may never listen to those *%#@ again.
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Kiuku says:
Sarah makes me want to move to Alaska.
I am so grateful for Greta, who seems is the only one unafraid to stand up for the truth and what is good, honest, and right.
Journalism now has a gravestone. Journalistic integrity is not just a phrase. What a disservice they have done to the American people. What a disservice sexism has done to all of humanity, for denying us the Sarah Palins and the Hillary Clintons over and over.
Instead of Sarah Palin, the real Sarah Palin, we got a bunch of sexist tropes and unfair, untruthful, and demeaning “journalism”. How was anyone supposed to make an informed decision? People are sexist already. We don’t need sexist coverage on top of that. Journalism should strive to be beyond sex gender and race.
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Kiuku says:
I think Journalists have gotten too “uppity”. We don’t want your opinions, unless you are specifically an opinion journalists. We just want your coverage..so quit it with your petty agendas. Maybe it is because you don’t make that much money that you feel you need to abuse your job as a journalist to throw your “weight” around to your opinions. We don’t care about your opinions.
That’s all I have to say about journalists.
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Kiuku says:
I have a question off topic. When I’m looking at the news I always get these stupid IQ test advertisements and they always advertise famous women’s IQ’s and they are always incredibly low. I seriously doubt them. Then they will show famous men’s IQ’s and they are always ridiculously high. I think they reported Biden’s IQ as 142 or something absolutely ridiculous. Does anyone know where they get this data?
It really bothers me.
Does anyone else know what I’m talking about?
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bob coley jr says:
I agree wholeheartedly that ISSUES not stereotypes should guide us. That said, as a long time believer in selfsuficiency, 2 questions come to mind while listening to these. 1)What are you willing to give up to be honestly self suficient…oil, amount of food, type of clothing, etc, 2) If no one lived in our large cities, what would be the poulation per sq. mile in this county and would the ability to sustain us be compromised if this came to be? These questions may shed light on whether Palin’s and other’s life choices are atainable by most of us, or just convienient spin on the true state of our planet. Hunting revenue as a salvation for some is planetary suicide for others.
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Sis says:
One hahaha hundred HAHhahhaHAH forty-two?
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Yanni Znaio says:
Kiuku says:
I have a question off topic. When I’m looking at the news I always get these stupid IQ test advertisements and they always advertise famous women’s IQ’s and they are always incredibly low. I seriously doubt them. Then they will show famous men’s IQ’s and they are always ridiculously high. I think they reported Biden’s IQ as 142 or something absolutely ridiculous. Does anyone know where they get this data?
They make it up.
Biden’s IQ might actually be 142.
If you’re using base 4 to express it.
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Yanni Znaio says:
Whoops, base 4 wouldn’t have a 4 in it.
I plead cerebroflatulence.
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Kiuku says:
I think that they do make it up. It’s messed up that they make it up, because they said Hillary’s was something obnoxious which I know it cannot be and now they are saying Palin’s IQ is 116, and Biden’s is 146. LOL So I guess he is a mensa member.
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Yanni Znaio says:
I qualified for MENSA, but invoked the Groucho Marx rule and declined to join.
:-)
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Lexia says:
Well, you know, Yanni, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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Phoenix says:
Alaska looks very much like northern Minnesota, and the northern accent sounds familiar too.
Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:
“An Augsburg College student and Sarah Palin supporter from Alaska was beaten on election night while walking to her dorm and was called a racist by a group of four young women because she had on a McCain/Palin presidential campaign button, authorities and the victim said.”
Full story:
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myiq2xu says:
I wonder if any of the Obamanationals who were wearing those “c*nt” T shirts will feel even a twinge of guilt when they realize that Sarah’s children saw those shirts.
Probably not. I hope the ones who were smiling proudly in pictures wearing those shirts run for office some day and have to explain themselves.
I hope for their sakes they never have to explain to their own daughters why they did it.
“Mommy, why did you think President Palin was a c*nt?”
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Actually, Myiq, I hope the women who wore those shirts find themselves having to answer that question from their daughters.
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Yanni Znaio says:
Lexia says:
The reason I flubbed it was I was mentally calculating to eyeball what 147 would be in the lower number bases so that it’d come out to be less than 100.
And as for your 10 types…that’s an old IT joke, but true.
Population density is a phrase that has two meanings.
YZ
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Yanni Znaio says:
147? AARGH!
Note to self.
Do not post in the morning unless you’ve had at least TWO cups of coffee.
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gob says:
The New York Times carries a story exposing the “she didn’t know Africa is a continent” story as a lie. Only, funny thing, the headline on the web site is “A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence”.
While the story leads off with the “exposure of the hoax” — never labeled as a lie — the focus is not on the smearing of Palin or the gender politics thereof (invisible to the reporter, apparently), but rather the fun, amusing, antics of the hoaxers, and the failure of reporters to properly check their sources.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11.....3hoax.html for your daily dose of media rage.
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votermom says:
gob, funny the NYT times names itself and other gullible media as the “victims” of the hoax — not the targets including Palin, Joe the plumber, and McCain’s campaign. It’s all about them.
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Carmonn says:
The AP story on the hoax is ever worse, it explicitly states that the ’substance’ of this unsourced, ludicrous story isn’t at all discredited by this hoax. Just because the people reporting it are too lazy to do basic fact checking, don’t hesitate to believe the gossip that passes for reporting on their watch.
Even Republicans who suckered over Obama’s on-the-record 57 states gaffe admit that they don’t really believe that he doesn’t know how many states their are. The degree of dishonesty here is astonishing.
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wiggles says:
Palin is obviously an intelligent woman, but from Part 3 (”I consider myself a feminist, whatever that means”) it sounds like she’s really unclear on what feminism is. FFL is not a feminist organization. If you visit the site, you’ll find very little beyond an agenda to restrict women’s reproductive freedoms and to give full citizenship to zygotes. They don’t even have an official stance on contraception, so it’s really about forced pregnancy. They are opposed to the death penalty though, so at least they’re more consistent than most “pro-life” advocacy groups.
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Sis says:
It sounds like she’s really unclear what feminism is? Well do tell! I’m wondering myself. Just what is it, when B*SM, p*rn, and women haters in general think they can call themselves feminist.
I’ll take Palin’s refersshing candor and honesty on this, without someone splitting hairs on it thank you.
I’m a feminst too. Whatever that means.
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Sis says:
It sounds like she’s really unclear what feminism is? Well do tell! I’m wondering myself. Just what is it, when B*SM, p*rn, and women haters in general think they can call themselves feminists.
I’ll take Palin’s feminism any day over that, and Palin, with her refreshing candor and honesty, her courage and (most of) her values, without someone splitting hairs on it thank you.
I’m a feminist too. Whatever that means.
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Yanni Znaio says:
Carmonn says:
The AP story on the hoax is ever worse, it explicitly states that the ’substance’ of this unsourced, ludicrous story isn’t at all discredited by this hoax
They’re just recycling that old “fake, but accurate” bullshit that Rather/CBS tried to pull over the Texas ANG memo.
Like we’re that stupid.
