According to the Associated Press, Sarah Palin has offered her first televised interview to ABC. According to the story, the interview will take place later this week after Governor Palin returns to Alaska off the campaign trail.
Stay tuned for details!
According to THR.com, Governor Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention pulled in 37.2 million views.
Barack Obama’s speech (one week ago today), Barack Obama delivered a speech that brought in 38.4 million views.
One wonders if the media will spin this as ‘people just trying to get to know her’ after the adulation that the Obamessiah got last week for his huge number of viewers. When it comes right down to it, that this unknown politician earned so many views even without the 12-month hype that Obama has received is pretty impressive.
Governor Palin’s speech tore the convention center down tonight. I’ve linked part one of her speech, from which you can find the subsequent parts. I can’t think of anything that Governor Palin left unsaid. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, the next Vice President of the United States!
The Seattle Post Intelligencer had a good article on the Bristol Palin media craze, which you can read in full here. While I don’t necessarily agree with her characterization of the switch in liberal and conservative roles, the columnist Monica Guzman cuts through the nonsense to the real issue: that Bristol Palin doesn’t matter to this election.
You can find the link to the article above but I found the following excerpts to be valuable:
If there’s a lesson here, it’s that liberals and conservatives are defined not so much by their dogma as by their need to use their differences against each other.
The debate about Bristol Palin isn’t really about Bristol Palin. It isn’t even about teenage pregnancy. The most angry exchanges in this conversation are about political consistency.
Most relevant, I think, is her plea that Republicans and Democrats put aside their partisanship for the greater good–and to finally put to death the inane arguments about flip-flopping. “I don’t often quote dead writers. But Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote something that’s changed the way I look at politics: “A foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds.”"
Amen to that, Monica. Thanks for the perspective.
Who was the most searched-about figure on the Internet last week? Why, Governor Sarah Palin of course. In addition to being a political outsider and relatively unknown outside of Alaska, the search terms indicate that John McCain’s runningmate is more than just a candidate: she’s a phenomenon.
TIME had an article on on this, which you can find here.
Keep Sarah Palin at the head of the game: google Sarah Palin!
Provided here are links to youtube videos of Governor Palin’s speech at the announcement naming her as the GOP Vice Presidential candidate:
If you have videos of Governor Palin you’d like to share, leave a comment and they’ll be posted on the blog.
