Bitch PLEASE!

As an aspiring journalist, I get really pissy when people mock the news media. News organizations are far from perfect and some are even biased *cough* Fox News *cough* but if you are making bs claims just because an interview didn't go your way, you deserve to be ran over by a steamroller.

See Sarah Palin:

Yes, I do hate myself a little for linking to a Fox News segment.

BITCH PLEASE!!

You couldn't even name a newspaper.


I don't think Palin realizes that a good politician is worldly...as in, they know about world affairs because they read papers, like uggh, let me think here...the New York Times! the Boston Globe! the Wall Street Journal! the Christian Science Monitor! the Washington Post! OMG, naming those drained my brain.[/sarcasm]

Oh! Oh! Oh! But she says more!

On her response to Katie Couric’s question about what she reads:

“My response to her, I guess it was kind of filtered. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, you're way up there in a far away place in Alaska. You know, that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many. And I was taken aback by that because I don't know, the suggestion that this was a little bit of perhaps we're not in tune with the rest of the world."

On her relationship with the media:

“I'll tell you, what I used to do is commit to not being so annoyed and impatient with mainstream media. And I will make that commitment because I do understand that that is how I speak to the American people in a position like this. I speak to you and through you and that way, that message is received by American people.”

“So, I apologize for the response that I gave through that interview on a couple of questions. I'm going to try harder. But, I would ask also then, that the media tries a little bit harder also. And that this is a two-way street. That there's fairness. Just objectivity and fairness and truth. That's all Americans ask for.”

“I look forward to speaking to the media more and more everyday and providing whatever access the media would want. My life is certainly an open book.”
~ Taken from Politico.com

From what I've heard, Palin is a journalism major. *le gasp* You wouldn't think by how she talks about the media! I'm sure she would know the intricacies of the media and if she had soooo many problems with it she should have stayed a journalist to better the profession.

It is better to be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Someone should have told Palin that before she took on this interview. If you can't stand the heat, leave the kitchen; if you can't stand the questions, leave the interview with your minimal intelligence intact.