- Posted by Christopher Estep on September 12, 2008
First, let me start with my wife's comments:
Oh, my gosh! He's being so rude!
Look how condescending he is.
I watched him on GMA for years and he never treated anyone like this.
Look how smug he looks. Look at how he keeps looking at her.
Why won't he let her finish a sentence?
He's not even listening. Look at his face. She's talking and he's somewhere else already thinking of what he's going to say next.
It was a hack job and anyone watched it could see it. The sad part is that it's such a bad hack job of editing that you have no clue what she actually said. There was case after case where she was clearly not finished answering a question but it was edited out. In one case, she was actually in mid sentence and they cut her comment.
Worst of all, they completely distorted her position on the war as to whether it was a "task from God", with Gibson denying it saying, "Exact words." Well, Charlie, those may have been exact words but it wasn't the complete sentence.
As far as an interview goes, I'd give it a D, even though Palin was fine. Unfortunately for Chuck, even the LA Times could see that it was a hack job.