Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:16:06 PM
In the days leading up to Charles Gibson’s interview with Sarah
Palin, many demanded that he ask her tough questions on foreign policy
and reform. Certainly that is what journalists should do with all of
our elected officials and political candidates, but it seems that
Gibson doesn’t always meet this standard. Two bloggers have already
provided evidence that Gibson treated Democrats much differently.
First, the Anchoress
has a list of questions posed by Gibson to Barack Obama three months
ago, who has arguably less experience on foreign policy than Palin and
no executive experience at all:
Obama interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?
Palin interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking?
Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]
Newsbusters, meanwhile, has Gibson’s interview with John Edwards in 2004
after being selected as John Kerry’s running mate. Edwards had less
than a full term in the Senate as his entire political background, and
no foreign-policy, military, or executive experience at all. Yet
Gibson didn’t press Edwards on these points at all. In fact, the
entire interview consisted of a hard-hitting interrogation … on how
mean Republicans are
Update: Newsbusters takes a look at the full transcript and finds some interesting answers left out of the broadcast portions of the interview.