Sarah sat down with conservative filmmaker John Ziegler this week and dished big time on the media, viewers, Tina Fey, and Caroline Kennedy. She said she thinks the media and women like Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been “capitalizing on” and “exploiting” her.
I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen. And I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration. That’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.
Palin also said she believes Caroline Kennedy, who is pursuing a New York Senate seat, is getting lighter press treatment than Palin did as the vice-presidential nominee because of Kennedy’s social class. She doesn't hold back — you can watch the video for yourself when you, read more.
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It also says quite a lot about our society that someone with as mediocre and limited a grasp on national and foreign issues as she seemed to have was considered a viable candidate for the second-highest office in the nation.
1I don't think exploited is the right word here at all.
2The porno was exploitative, but that's about it, really.
3My dream was to never see this woman again. Thanks for ruining my dream citizen. YOU'RE RUINING MY DREAM!
4Uh-oh, conservatives keep forgetting - LIBERALS are victims, not them.
5How have Tina Fey and Katie Couric exploited her? I think a sitcom with Tina as the governor of an unnamed far northern state would be a hoot, but she's not doing one.
Selling your grandchild's pictures for $300,000 is SELF exploitation, and it was her name that got the attention.
Caroline Kennedy isn't an idiot and she isn't getting white glove treatment from the press.
Palin's still wrong about everything.
I have to agree with part of it, she was the focus of alot of news stories but not on her politics or even her qualifications, it was all the paltry dumb crap like her clothes and her family and her hair, and accent......
6Would a cookie make her feel better?
7Maybe a moose cookie.
8Only if she gets to fly up behind the moose and shoot it.
9I agree that "exploited" is the right word for her to use in regards to Couric and Fey. She noted the importance of being able to laugh at oneself, so what's the biggie?
I've said it before, but I do prefer hearing what she has to say now that she is out from underneath the election business. At least her vocabulary has expanded! (Seriously! I haven't heard the "M" word in a long time!)
One final note, her outfit was really distracting to me -- the boots, the weird top. Lady has nice knees at least!
10YIKES! "exploited" is NOT the right word. Oops.
11Barack Obama did not go after her family!!!! The media went after her family!!! She is ridiculous!!!! She should stay in Alaska!
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13Oh my....
14Caroline Kennedy is running for a Senate seat, not for VP. So, 1.) this affects only 1 state and of course won't get the attention that a position like VP would get, and 2.) She is assuming that since Caroline is a female as well that they are equal in their skills...just getting viewed differently.
She would like to make it into a class war, when really, people ridiculed her because of her lack of intelligence. Class has nothing to do with intelligence. She put her own foot in her own mouth, and now wants to blame other people for noticing.
Harmony, you crack me up!
15Spreading lies?! Excuse me?
16"Selling your grandchild's pictures for $300,000 is SELF exploitation, and it was her name that got the attention.
17Caroline Kennedy isn't an idiot and she isn't getting white glove treatment from the press."
She is not the one selling any pictures, that would be her daughter and her daughters decision only. Sarah Palin is not receiving the money and you are perpetuating lies and assumptions about her.
Sarah Palin is not an idiot either, despite what you may want everyone to believe. And I think kennedy IS getting white glove treatment. but that is my humble opinion, where are the questions about her as a mother? How can she handle a political life and being a mom? What about how much she spends on clothes? Does she have any political experience? Usually people work their way up to a senate seat. It shouldn't be an entry level job, regardless of law degrees and books written. And what about the fact that she wouldn't even run in 2010 when the seat becomes available, she only wants it if it is given to her?? What the???
Agreed, Jill. There won't be nearly the spotlight on Kennedy since she's only running for Senator, not for President.
And Kennedy has gotten a lot of bad press.
Also, Palin, it's not that people dislike you because you're a chili-cookin' Joe Six Pack. They don't like you because you sound like an idiot all the time. Also, you talk funny.
18Hain, she hasn't used campaign contributions for clothes.
"Usually people work their way up to a senate seat. It shouldn't be an entry level job, regardless of law degrees and books written."
You are making it seem as if Kennedy has never worked. People in the Senate have a variety of careers before hand (doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, etc.). She worked as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the the New York City Department of Education. She also serves as one of two vice chairs of the board of directors of The Fund for Public Schools.
Now she may or may not have what it takes to be a good Sentor, but I think we should allow her to make a case for what she stands for.
19My dream is to see people getting equal treatment in the media, you are ruining my dream.
20"She is not the one selling any pictures, that would be her daughter and her daughters decision only. Sarah Palin is not receiving the money and you are perpetuating lies and assumptions about her."
Hainan, if Bristol Johnston had called magazines offering to sell them her baby's pictures, she'd be out the cost of the calls. It is Palin's name that got them the money, it is Palin exploiting Palin for cash.
21correction: I don't think the senate should be an entry level political position. I think if she were interested in politics as a career she should run for local offices and work her way up and prove she can be a good politician. That's what I meant. I understand that she has held many board positions. I am aware of her credentials. I am not saying she isn't qualified, just that she shouldn't think she is entitled to it, because of her name. Which personally is the sense I get from her. And I hardly thinks she represents the state of New York. The fact that she has never needed to work a day in her life makes her way out of touch. IMO
22Steph- you just make it seem as if Sarah Palin is herself going and exploiting her family for cash, which is untrue.
23Hain, I think your opinion's valid. A lot, a lot of people have said the same thing. She has gotten a ton of negative press. That's why it's so ridiculous for Palin to imply she's getting special treatment. Palin's obviously not reading those newspapers she says she loves so much.
24How is it untrue if she sells her grandchild's pictures to a magazine? Do all politicians offer to sell their family pictures? How is Palin not complicit?
25Right. I'm sure Bristol did this on her own and neeever talked to her mom about it.
26"She has gotten a ton of negative press. That's why it's so ridiculous for Palin to imply she's getting special treatment."
From what I could tell from the campaign, facts and reality don't matter to Palin so much as class wars that are skewed to benefit her political career.
27degrees and taking positions for $1 does not prove that you are anything more than someone who can work for nothing. I don't believe that the degree or even where you graduate in your class means much of anything if at all. And who wouldn't hire someone for $1, regardless of qualification? I have seen many people with degrees who just cannot hack it in the real world. Degrees do not equal perfect candidate.
28Oi, I can't watch the video because I'm at work, but talking about someone or even the gossipy stuff about her hair and her glasses isn't exploitation. Katie Couric's ratings went up because Palin was interviewed by her and made an idiot out of herself. In several of the skits, Tina Fey repeated VERBATIM what Palin said.
Caroline Kennedy has certainly received negative press. She is also asking to be appointed to a seat where she needs to convince 1 person, not an entire country. COMPLETELY different scenarios!
Jeez, if you want to be a public figure you need to accept that people will say things about you that you don't like. This seems like plain old whining.
29Who said degrees do equal perfect candidate?
30MM- you need to watch the video. I think the way sugar restated things make it sound more like whining than it actually is. It was simply her, answering questions with her opinion regarding certain topics. Not just whining, does that makes sense?
31Not so much anyone stated that verbatim Steph, but the intent I saw from other posters was that she was qualified simply because she has a law degree, wrote a book and served on committees.
32Jillness - just as a point of clarification, campaign contributions were not used; it was RNC money (which is different and subject to very different campaign finance laws under BCRA), and she had to give any of that back, or report it as income to the IRS. From what my colleagues have told me, she gave almost all of it back.
The rest - eh, whatever. Caroline Kennedy hasn't been handled all that nicely by the press. (she's a terrible public speaker, though in her defense she's been saying that for years; part of why she's stayed out of the public eye is b/c of an incredible shyness, which makes me wonder if she's suited for the Senate or any public office for that matter) But, Governor Palin may not really be following it all that much, in whatever newspaper she secretly reads but wouldn't name in that now famous interview.
33She's written several books Hainan, and you seriously oversimplify their point.
34Palin sounds like she's continuing her "Real America" campaign. Caroline Kennedy has received her fair share of critism. Palin seems to love playing the victim.
35"degrees and taking positions for $1 does not prove that you are anything more than someone who can work for nothing."
Your statements seem to imply that you think what a person is paid is always an accurate reflection of the amount of work they did or the results they produced. She was working for an education charity, and is personally wealthy. You can attack her results all you want, but attacking the amount she got paid seems a little irrelevant.
As for the wardrobe, wouldn't a contribution to the RNC be a matter of public trust just as much as a contribution to a specific campaign would be? That is great that according to your colleges that she is paying "almost" all of it back, but IMO it still doesn't erase the inappropriate action of using contributions for wardrobe.
36No, Jillness it's not the same at all. It's not the same in the eyes of the law by a longshot. Political parties aren't the same as a political campaign, and they raise their money differently, for different purposes. They're really very different animals. And, knowledgeable donors know that - and those, rather than the public at large, are actually who the political parties are beholden to in matters such as this. (Obviously as long as they are operating within applicable campaign finance laws, which in this case, the RNC was.) And, I said give back, not repay - anything she keeps, she's required to report as income on her tax return, which since it's only January, I suppose we'll have to wait for her to file to see. But she literally gave back the clothes. I'm not entirely sure what they're doing with them, though I've heard auctioning for charity, but I have no idea.
It's not uncommon for people to expense tux rental, for example, when their job requires that they attend formal events. This is similar in principle, and actually not that uncommon a practice. The amount spent was more out of the ordinary than the practice itself.
37I think if the RNC chose to purchase the wardrobe for her, it isn't inappropriate. It is not against any rules.
38I love her in this interview! I felt the laser rays coming from her eyes after the comment on snl. When did she say that Barack Obama went after her family? Why do some people insist on spreading lies?! She said that: Obama said his family was off limits and the media respected that, she thought that the media would respect that with her family as well. I do think that Couric and Fey have received a definite career boost following this election cycle and at her expense. Take it as you will. Intentional or not, but it has happened. And amen to her saying that the media trusting anonymous blogger as factual sources it the biggest downturn of the media today" had to be removed from the site.
39hypersensitivity
40I'm retired, so I did have time to watch this entire (edited) 9:24 video of Sarah Palin.
41I also watched Palin introduce Bristol as "pregnant" on nat'l TV during the campaign, where she also introduced the boy, Levi, as "the father." What now? She says it wasn't/isn't fair to discuss 'family' on TV or have children pushed into the public eye. (?) Hmmm.
Palin also insists it's not true there's lack of a high school diploma, though lack of one is why Levi couldn't keep the rig job.
I watched this because of glimpses of a 2009 Palin calendar, talk of a possible $7 million book-deal and more = Stuff put out there by Palin herself.
She now says: "Yes, I'd run for office again. I want to represent the real people."
Well sorry, Sarah, don't count on me as anyone you can represent.
I can't take more lies, as you say so sweetly yourself in this video. Do you tell the public the truth? No, hardly, and rarely. Nothing classy in that, whether for 'real people' or for 'fake people.'
Too bad Senator McCain ever heard of you. Bye-bye.
Barack said his wife was lovely and introduced his children, must mean they were fair game too??
42Im with Harmony on this one...please...stop.
43"Political parties aren't the same as a political campaign, and they raise their money differently, for different purposes....Knowledgeable donors know that - and those, rather than the public at large, are actually who the political parties are beholden to in matters such as this. "
Since John McCain signed on for public financing, if citizens wanted to donate to his cause, they would have to donate to the RNC instead. Correct? To say that they weren't beholden to the "public" doesn't seem quite accurate to me.
44"She now says: "Yes, I'd run for office again. I want to represent the real people."
Once again, she makes it seem like if you disagree with her political beliefs you are not "real". That is such a condesending, elitist attitude.
45And what about the interview, speaking about their personalities then everyone in an uproar because someone called Sasha "sassy"???
46Jill, i think you are over analyzing her comment. I think she means real as in not elitist or rich (or upper class), but Ok!!??
47"Since John McCain signed on for public financing, if citizens wanted to donate to his cause, they would have to donate to the RNC instead. Correct? To say that they weren't beholden to the "public" doesn't seem quite accurate to me."
Nope, not correct. The RNC isn't a public organization, and is beholden only to those who contribute to it. Those people, particularly the large dollar donors, know that expenditures like that were likely. The RNC is only beholden to its donors, who never cried foul.
48"I think she means real as in not elitist or rich (or upper class)"
That is exactly what I thought she meant, and that is why I have issues with it. I think it is completely wrong to assume that someone is not "real" because they are upper class. In fact, with the amount of money she makes, she falls into that category.
A person's economic standing, their political party, whether they live in a small, medium or big city...these do not make someone "real" or "not real". The state where you live does not make you "real American" or an unreal American. However that seems to be her definition. It is incredibly superficial of her to keep repeating these ideas. It is incredibly elitist...morally elitist.
49Hater, you make it sounds as if large donors are the only ones who contribute to the RNC. As I said before, if an average citizen wanted to contribute to the McCain campaign, after he accepted public financing they were directed to contribute to the RNC.
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