Loyal Sarah Palin Booster John Ziegler Urges Her to Accept Tapper’s This Week Invite
We reported yesterday that ABC News’ Jake Tapper has taken to Twitter in an attempt to get former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin‘s fans to encourage her to appear as a guest on This Week. On day two, Tapper’s campaign is at least a partial success, as Palin’s biggest booster, Media Malpractice director John Ziegler, exclusively tells Mediaite why he thinks she should accept Tapper’s invitation.
Tapper, meanwhile, continued to engage Palin on Twitter. In response to this Palin tweet:
Assume u WON’T get straight scoop on Israeli flotilla incident via mainstream media;PLEASE read Krauthammer,Horowitz,et al 2learn other side10:34 PM May 31st via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Tapper responded:
So @SarahPalinUSA says the media won’t cover the flotilla incident fairly. How so? Come on #ThisWeek, Governor! #PalinThisWeek about 23 hours ago via UberTwitter
Tapper’s not being cute here, he would genuinely like to discuss this with Palin. As I said yesterday, if Palin is looking for someone to conduct a tough, fair interview, she couldn’t ask for a better host than Jake Tapper. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so.
I can’t think of another person who can lay claim to being a more staunch defender of Sarah Palin than John Ziegler. He made an entire (very entertaining, if blinkered) movie based on the premise that the media treated her unfairly during the 2008 campaign, and has come to her defense repeatedly since then. Here’s what he had to say about Tapper’s Twitter campaign:
“Personally, I wish Governor Palin had gone to work for “This Week” instead of Fox News so she could have reached/persuaded more people in the middle. I have always encouraged her to do more adversarial interviews because I think she would pleasantly surprise a lot of people and really do great. I hope she does appear on “This Week” but I don’t think this is the best way to go about getting it done.”
Ziegler knows a thing or two about such an invitation, as he challenged Keith Olbermann to a $100,000 charity debate on Palin, which Olbermann ignored. Surely, Palin’s fans can count on her to show more fortitude than that.
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
