. . . by blowing up some of his own. Memo to Steve Schmidt: You are no Sarah Palin.
Sheesh; I used to like that guy, particularly after he took a stand in favor of gay marriage. But he’s really wigged out lately. What is it about Sarah that makes men take the razor to their own wrists like this?
Schmidt claims that in her infamous multi-hour interview with Palin, Katie Couric did not “ask a single unfair question in that interview.” First of all, no one has ever said the problem was “unfair” questions. As I clearly document in my film Media Malpractice and in my exclusive interview with Palin, the issue has always been the nefarious editing of answers and the distorted standards by which those responses were judged which form the basis of legitimate criticism of Couric. However it should be interesting for all of Schmidt’s future clients (should he somehow get any) to know that he is now on record saying it is NOT unfair to ask a pro-life candidate twelve different times about the abortion issue!
Not done toiling in the sewer, Schmidt then charges that there were “numerous instances” where the Governor was “not accurate” and even “untruthful” during the campaign, but the only two examples he provides are laughable.
His first is the Governor’s statement that the “Troopergate” report totally exonerated her. At worst what the Governor did would be called positive spinning, but what is incredible here is that a known liar like Schmidt (he… blatantly lied to me on the air in Los Angeles in 2006 while running Governor Schwarzenegger’s reelection campaign), who, like virtually every other political strategist, makes his living telling whoppers with impunity, now suddenly thinks that positive spinning is “lying.” Amazing.
His second “example” of Todd Palin’s voter registration with the Alaskan Independence Party is even more ridiculous. Long ago e-mails were released (obviously through Schmidt) which reveal a disagreement within the McCain campaign as to how to handle the fact that Todd was indeed officially registered for a time with a political party that believed in succession from the United States. The record shows that Todd thought he was registered Independent and all the Governor asked the campaign to do was make the case that there was no ill intent here. She in no way asked anyone to mislead the public about his registration . . . .
The comedy continues when the 60 Minutes story spends almost as much time on the asinine “revelation” that Palin was concerned she would call Joe Biden “O’Biden” in their debate (which is already dealt with extensively in the Gov’s book, page 289), as it does the entire campaign of Hillary Clinton and far more than the whole campaign of President Obama.
In some ways this episode breaks the only real “news” of Cooper’s interview with Schmidt: THAT NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAS EVEN BOTHERED TO READ SARAH PALIN’S BOOK!
But John—as others have noted, there was no index in the back of it to read. What were they supposed to do? You are being quite irrational.
Reynolds adds, “Does Schmidt expect to get more work now? From whom, exactly?” I’m thinking MSNBC, myself.
H/t on the Ziegler piece: Hot Air.
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Palin is such a uniter.
Hello! Big Tent Republican Party!
Who’s your favorite Republican, ponce? John Kerry?
I liked W.’s daddy.