In other words, this was like every interview Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Jon Stewart, et. al has ever conducted with Barack Obama. If only Sarah had swatted a fly.

Sorry Pat, but this interview Beck has his pie-hole so far up Palin’s gun barrel that he could taste her pig lipstick.

Not surprisingly, the interview was disgustingly incestuous.

I didn’t get to watch it, will have to catch it on a replay later. But based on Glynnis’s take, I expect it to be terrific. Sounds like it was a good exchange of information about Palin and her life. WOW, what a concept.

I’m with Pat — it sounds like any interview that Katie, Brian, Charlie and all other state run media folks have had with teh one.

I look forward to watching it later this evening.

I’m curious Same: Did Beck bow at the end like Brian did to teh one?

Palin works for Fox now as a news analyst. The interview was never billed as some kind of interrogation. I found it very interesting and informative. Those who hate Palin will continue to hate her regardless of what she says, where she says it, or who’s asking the questions.

M & same2u

Classy.

Well, the reason I hate Palin is the same reason Ali G managed to become Prime Minister in his Ali G Indahouse: an incredibly stupid person says incredibly stupid stuff that some people rationalize and end up believing in. She’s a complete joke. Matt Damon summarized it the best: she literally is like a bad Disney movie.

Except it’s real life. Which is what makes it so disgusting.

Something tells me the next time Rachel Maddow interviews someone like Alan Grayson, it has a much better chance of being described as “an honest discussion of progressive issues” than an “infomercial.”

“News & Opinion” from the Mediate page title should just be changed to “Opinion”

I thought I was actually going to get some information on the interview instead of another “Air America” hit piece.

Did you see Rachel’s first interview with Grayson? She repeatedly hammered him for uning the Holocaust finally, forcing him to retract it!

As for that “interview”, I liked Media Matters’ take which I’ve previsously posted today on another article about Palin:

Beck and Palin — stupid in stereo
by Simon Maloy

“I’m watching the Glenn Beck interview of Sarah Palin, and it’s really leaving me speechless that two people who are so woefully and determinedly uninformed have such an impact on the national discourse.

Beck just asked Palin if she’d heard about the Federal Reserve’s record profits for last year, and then bemoaned that “nobody’s having hearings on the Fed, nobody is looking for a windfall profit tax on the Fed, we can’t even open the Fed’s books.” Palin responded by thanking Beck for “bringing this to light,” adding: “I don’t know anybody else who is.”

There’s a very simple reason why no one else is talking about taxing the Fed’s profits or having hearings or even discussing this — because people who care to know what they’re talking about already know that 100 percent of the Fed’s profits go to the Treasury. Every single cent. There is no talk of a windfall profits tax because it’s already effectively at 100 percent.

Perhaps if Beck put his crack research staff on the case, or if Palin spent a little less time lying on Facebook, they would know basic facts like these before making (greater) fools of themselves on national television.”

I knew she’d fit in!

Glenn Beck has never said anything wrong of Palin before as far I as I know, and he did ask her about actually being a Republican and about McCain.. Oh, he was supposed to ask about that guy and the playgirl thing? Is that why it is a softball interview? Seriously.

Maybe she should have corrected him about that whole Federal Reserve thing? Except that she didn’t know that he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about either. This fit is like the skin on a grape! The dumb leading the dumber!

What I heard from the clip;

First, Beck wonders aloud if Palin is the person who could lead his movement. Then, he asks the small-town girl from Alaska, if she had realized there were two-faced sharks in the world (apparently, Beck has never lived in a small town, especially an isolated community).

He follows that with a question about whether or not, she believed something he had reported and the clip wraps-up with him trying to get her to distance herself from the political establishment, one would assume to measure whether she’d be willing to sign onto his “third path”.

IOW: I didn’t see so much of an infomercial from the clip, but a job interview and as I said to one of Glynnis’ previous, post-Christmas, Beck posts: it appears that he may have been serious about his “100 year plan”.

Pat Doherty wrote:

Something tells me the next time Rachel Maddow interviews someone like Alan Grayson, it has a much better chance of being described as “an honest discussion of progressive issues” than an “infomercial.”

If you want an example of a softball interview from Rachel Maddow, you need to watch her drool all over Meghan McCain, who is not a policy expert or an expert on anything. However, she does criticize the GOP for not being sufficiently moderate, young, and/or gay-friendly, so Rachel just luvvy luvvy loves her, and gave her a pass (pun not intended) on the tough stuff.

After talking about her “feud” with Ann Coulter and her new Daily Beast column and her looking for a new man in New York and how Rach follows her on Twitter the GOP is too extreme and how she didn’t want to go to CPAC, this is how the interview ended:

MADDOW: OK. Do you agree with the Republican Party right now on policy, like on what to do about the economic crisis? I feel like I don‘t really know what they‘re – I study this every day, spend all day reading the news. Hard for me to figure out what the Republican Party is proposing on the economic crisis. Are you with them on policy there?

M. MCCAIN: I agree with my father that there should not be as much pork that‘s going on (UNINTELLIGIBLE). There is pork in each segment of the bill. I think that the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) is awful.

MADDOW: But you can‘t agree with him on the spending freeze? I mean, the spending freeze is a bad idea.

M. MCCAIN: No economic things – I said it on “Hannity.” I didn‘t take economics in college. I don‘t completely understand so I‘d hate to make a comment one way or the other. That‘s the – truly, out of other things I keep reading, and I just do not understand it.

MADDOW: Yes. Totally fair enough. I don‘t want to pressure you.

M. MCCAIN: I‘m sorry. I know -

MADDOW: Don‘t apologize. You‘re not here be to be economist-in-chief.

M. MCCAIN: I know it‘s scary and bad. I only write what I know about. So …

MADDOW: Meghan McCain, it is a real pleasure to have you on the show. And thank you for saying yes to being here. Thanks for your writing. It‘s nice to meet you.

I guess people have stopped being shocked by the fact that MSNBC is a never-ending Obama infomercial.

she is “too closely associated” with the goop – to get my VOTE AND the ‘others’ are “just as BAD!” – (by the way? Who have “we” hired to COUNT the votes?

I am watching a video of Beck’s show tonight, and he said he is sick. I think that is why he was so mellow. He is losing his voice, and he was probably not feeling well. Because we all know Beck is not usually so…tranquil. haha