Campbell Brown is on a roll!

Lol. Waaah mommy, the girl is beating on me!!

This is fun.

Mmmh, somehow the CNN videos are not working for me. Is that just me or did CNN pull them?

Mmmh, working now, seems to have been temporary. Nice post!

I'm not convinced the gagging of Palin is sexism - I suspect it's a confidence issue. Her minders aren't confidence that she would be able to survive a press conference. Which I think says rather a lot about her.

Well ... to be fair they do treat Palin with exactly as much respect as she deserves.

Lovely lady. Like Olbermann but without the barely repressed anger.

Any opinions on Olbermann? I rather like how he usually looks like he's about to go ARRGLE-RARRGLE-BLARRGLE at any moment.

Of course it's not sexism. The whole point of her satirical rant is that the Republicans are trying to cover their lack of confidence in Palin by accusing everybody else of being SEXIST and MEAN. They've been saying that for weeks, and it's wearing very thin.

And from what bits of Palin-speak have leaked out so far, their lack of confidence is well justified. They are terrified of what will happen when, inevitably, she is forced to answer questions.

Campbell Brown kicks butt! but the 2 CNN links didn't work for me either.

Her handlers are terrified that Sarah Palin will speak her mind. That would doom McCain's.

The 2nd & 3rd CNN videos say "MALFORMED ERROR The video you are attempting to embed does not exist.
Please check your URL and try again." Did CNN pull them?

I really, really, really, really, (did I say really yet?) can't stand her. I am absolutely frightened she may become VP.

P.S. The videos work fine for me.

LOL! I used CNNs 'official links' because I thought they would be more reliable than YouTube.

heh. Thatll learn me. YouTube clips are up!

I'm not convinced the gagging of Palin is sexism...

Having seen some of the Katie Couric interview, I don't think so either. I think it's because Palin really is a) poorly informed and b) stupid.

Well, she is from Louisiana...
I'm convinced, I could do better arguing with these nitwits, though...
Hey, Abbie, do you think there's any way to get the political candidates up against a Ph.D. economist or scientist in a debate?

Wow. A TV journalist with a spine. You don't see that every day.

This is a bit of grandstanding on Brown's part, but the basic idea is dead-on. Andrew Sullivan is always talking about how Margaret Thatcher is a real feminist, but Hillary and Palin are the phony variety. I couldn't agree more. Katie Couric proved herself more qualified for high office than Palin the other night. At least she does research.

The thing that galls me about this sort of thing is that the McCain campaign is doing its best to paint Sarah Palin as a tough-talkin', two-fisted, take-no-prisoners achiever - a "pitbull in lipstick", if you will - while at the same time telling us that she's such a fragile little flower that she can't stand up to a tough interview.

What would she be like in office? "I want war with Russia! But only if Vladimir Putin stops being a big meanie and shows me a bit of respect." Yeah, good luck with that, Failin.

Love her! I haven't seen anyone else take Paulson to task like that. 'Twas a thing of beauty.

Wow, if that counts as a kick-ass reporter over there, I feel like starting a petition to send Paxman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlE5cTcYZbs) over there. The politicians would fall over dead!

BOB O'H -- Campbell was being ironic. Who new sarcasm could be sexy?

"Afterwards we loled at the fact that in order to see reporters kicking ass and taking names..."

Read Matt Taibbi on a regular basis.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/100551/mad_dog_palin_/

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power.

Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV -and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

I think that giving undue celebrity to someone like Sarah Palin is an active contribution to sexism.

Campbell Brown is so awesome.

I want to have her babies.

(joking about the latter, since I'm married, but serious about the former, since she IS awesome)

I remain baffled by the Republican Party's choice*. They have picked someone with *real* scandals (not just silly sex scandals, but serious abuse of power stuff) whom they do not even trust to make it through a news conference unless it's all scripted. What on earth were they thinking? Even ignoring her unscientific attitudes, it seems to me that she would be poison for a campaign. Are they *trying* to lose the election?

Either the Republican Party is run by people foolish enough to pick Palin but effective enough to get McCain to do what they say, or they are pulling a "Producers". Is it possible that they realize how difficult the next president's job will be, and are eager to saddle the Democrats with the problem? If they lose the election fair and square, the mess becomes somebody else's problem, and if/when public opinion turns against the Democrats (as it did in the latter years of the Clinton administration), the Republicans will be well-positioned to swoop in and get someone else (say, Mitt Romney) elected in 2012. That would be an awfully cynical strategy, though, and I don't think they'd be able to conceal it effectively. No, difficult as it is to believe that this many political experts would be this stupid and impulsive, it seems that they really are.

*She can't have been McCain's choice. She was his *campaign's* choice. If nothing else, this convinces me that McCain is not really in control of the situation; someone is directing from behind the scenes. And that's very sad on many levels, because I *liked* McCain, back when he had a spine.

There are about three possibilities for how Palin got picked.

1. They said, "We gotta get a woman to attract those disgruntled Clintonites, and picked a name out of a hat - any woman would do.
2. They let McCain do it and he picked cute & perky.
3. They wanted someone so junior she'd be easy to manipulate
4. They can't tell good from bad and they don't voters can tell either.
5. They are sloppy or hasty and failed to do any investigation.
6. They have bad judgement.
7. Women all look alike to them.

Sorry - I lost the notes saying 4 - 7 are all essentially the same as 1. I just liked re-stating it.

Campbell Brown is on a roll!

So what? Mother Teresa was on a cinnamon bun.

What would she be like in office?

Because she knows very little about important issues, she would put up a facade of toughness to mask her ignorance. She would also be reliant on advisors, and we know that she would surround herself with advisors who were a) loyal rather than competent and b) neo-con ideologues. Does this remind you of any current, extremely unpopular president?

All I will say is that we nee more reporters like Ms Brown.

Many more.

Does this remind you of any current, extremely unpopular president?

No. I can't imagine who you're talking about. So stop spamming ERV with nefarious, unpatriotic commentary like this.