Thought that the Palin interview on Oprah yesterday was fairly "puffy"-- but given Winfrey's ardent support of Obama, she wasn't really going to get away with being too hard on the ex-governor.
Nevertheless, it it seems to me that Oprah missed some very obvious follow-up questions:
-- Why Palin failed to alert her daughter ahead of time when the campaign released a statement about her pregnancy;
-- Why Palin expected the media to leave her kids out of election coverage when Palin continued to use them as "props" in campaign stops across the country. In contrast, Obama rarely allowed his daughters to make public appearances during the campaign.
-- Why Palin, who says she loves Levi Johnston and only wishes him the best, continues to respond to his public remarks in sarcastic and vitriolic ways.
And no-- I didn't buy Palin's bullshit about the Couric interview. She basically tried to lay off her flubbed answer on her reading habits to her annoyance at being asked about it. Palin indirectly accused Couric of being elitist in thinking the Alaskans don't have easy access to media and being able to keep up on current events.
Palin also tried to claim that she could better serve Alaskans by being out of the governor's office-- and Oprah failed to challenge her on how much she has actually spoken/campaigned on Alaska's issues since quitting (answer: little or none that I've read or heard about).
Sarah also leveled criticism at Levi Johnston, saying that he shouldn't be so busy courting media attention that he couldn't see his son. Pretty ironic coming from a mother who is on a multi-city media tour without her baby.
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