Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:05:36 PM
During his interview/college boards with Sarah Palin, Charles Gibson
demanded that Sarah Palin explain the Bush Doctrine. However,
according to the man who coined the phrase, Gibson doesn’t know what it
means, and ABC apparently didn’t bother doing any research on the topic
before posing the question. Charles Krauthammer
says Palin came a lot closer to the right answer than Gibson did
Rarely has a gotcha boomeranged so badly against the one who wielded
it. Instead of having a moment of triumph, Gibson made himself look
petty, snobbish, and badly informed. The question revealed a rube, all
right, but not the one ABC expected.
Update: The New York Times’ military correspondent, Michael Gordon, concurs
— and notes that Gibson either didn’t know enough about the subject to
define it in his question or intended it as a “gotcha” all along.