"MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Berates 'Emotional' Young Woman for Being a Sarah Palin Fan"
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MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Berates 'Emotional' Young Woman for Being a
Sarah Palin Fan
View the Video Here MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell on Wednesday interrogated
a young woman who supported Sarah Palin in 2008, demanding this new
voter explain her reasons for admiring the ex-Alaska governor. “What
is it that you most like about her? What policy,” she grilled. [Audio
can be found here.]
When this Palin fan, Jackie Seal, applauded the Republican for “uphold
[ing] the Constitution,” O’Donnell insistently queried,
“Specifically?” The correspondent, who filed her report from a mall in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, had a cue card with her and read a quote
pointing out that Palin supported the bailout of Wall Street. She
repeatedly brought this fact up: “Did you know that Sarah Palin
supported the bailout?...So, Sarah Palin was for the bailout...She's
against the stimulus, but during the campaign, she was for the
bailout, as was John McCain. Does that change your view?”
O’Donnell later reported on the incident for that evening’s Hardball,
telling host Chris Matthews that many Palin supporters have an
“emotional connection.” She condescendingly explained: “A lot of the
people I spoke with today were unable to articulate exactly why they
supported Sarah Palin. One of them said it was because she upholds the
Constitution, was confused and thought that Sarah Palin had opposed
the bailout when, in fact, Sarah Palin supported the bailout.” She
also made sure to point out that the crowd was “largely white, almost
no minorities.”
O’Donnell updated the story on Thursday’s News Live. Apparently, some
talk radio hosts were incorrectly labeling the young woman as only 13-
years-old. While not giving an exact age, O’Donnell did say that she
had voted in the last election. The MSNBC reporter continued to tweak
Ms. Seal for being "confused about Palin's position on the issues. I
think that is important to point that out.”
O'Donnell proceeded to dismiss the Palin fan and complained about the
ex-Alaska governor's book, Going Rogue:
NORAH O’DONNELL: This book wouldn't tell you about the issues, it
requires reading. It requires examination. And so I think that that
was a reflective moment in terms of finding out just how much people
are either confused about the issues or didn't know about the issues.
Did it ever occur to Ms. O’Donnell that the job of vice presidential
candidates is to support the top of the ticket? In this case, it meant
that Palin had to back some of John McCain’s less conservative
positions.
A transcript of the MSNBC News Live segment, which aired at 3:15pm EST
on November 18, and the following day’s update, is below:
DAVID SHUSTER: MSNBC's chief Washington correspondent Norah O'Donnell
is live in Grand Rapids Michigan. And, Norah, are people concerned
about policies or just want to meet the celebrity, Sarah Palin?
NORAH O’DONNELL: They want to meet Sarah Palin and there are
thousands, thousands to people that have been lined up since five
o’clock this morning. Some even came last night. There were 1500
people by 7am. They’re all standing and waiting in this line, even
though Sarah Palin is not expected to be here for another three hours.
It’s truly remarkable when you look and talk to some of these people,
a lot of people connect with Sarah Palin right here.
...
3:19
[O’Donnell is now talking to a 18-year-old girl]
O’DONNELL: Tell me your name?
JACKIE SEAL (Waiting to meet Sarah Palin): Jackie.
O’DONNELL: Jackie and you have been out here. Show me your t-shirt.
Tell me what it says.
JACKIE SEAL: “The U.S. government handed out $700 billion in Wall
Street bailouts and you will I got was this lousy t-shirt.”
O’DONNELL: Did you know that Sarah Palin support the bailout?
SEAL: I don't- where did you hear that?
O’DONNELL: During the campaign, John McCain brought everyone to
Washington, praised the bailout and Sarah Palin, during the debate,
the vice presidential debate, praised John McCain for bringing folks
together to pass the bill and said, [reading off a card] “It is a time
of crisis in government. That it's time to step in. So, Sarah Palin
was for the bailout.”
SEAL: I don’t think she was. I think if you asked her today, she was
not for the bailout.
O’DONNELL: The reason I ask you, I think it was -- there's some
confusion about Sarah Palin's policies and that's why I asked you
that. She’s against the stimulus, but during the campaign, she was for
the bailout, as was John McCain. Does that change your view?
SEAL: No, it does not.
O’DONNELL: What is it that you most like about her? What policy?
SEAL: Uh, she upholds the Constitution, the document that made this
country so great. And that's what we need to go back to. We have gone
so far from the Constitution that we are reaping the benefits- the
consequences of that right now.
O’DONNELL: Specifically?
SEAL: Um, big government, the Constitution was written so that
government would be limited and spending didn't become out of control
and it was in the hands of people.
MSNBC News Live
11/19/09
3:33
O’DONNELL: Well, her name was Jackie Seal and she voted in the last
election, not 13 years old as some have suggested. And it is important
to point out that when I walk and talk to a bunch of people up and
down the line, I say “Who wants to talk on camera?” Some people say,
“I don't want to talk.” They’re not ready to talk. Some people say, “I
want to talk, So, I walked down and met that man who had the shirt
that said Palin for president on it. and I said, “Is there a woman who
will come and talk about Sarah Palin?” And he grabbed that woman and
pulled her over. So, I did not choose that woman, it just so happens
she had a shirt on and was confused about Palin's position on the
issues. I think that is important to point that out. We do it with
both sides of the aisle, sometimes people are connected to a
politician or someone but know very little about them on the issues.
This book wouldn't tell you about the issues, it requires reading. It
requires examination. And so I think that that was a reflective moment
in terms of finding out just how much people are either confused about
the issues or didn't know about the issues. But, it is important to
point out everybody we interviewed volunteered and that case, a
previous voter and not 13 years old.
♂ ☿ Turin ☤ ☭
> ah, the elite, highly-educated feminists do not understand what
> today's average women wants...
This is the state of all so-called "mainstream" politics - liberals
included. There are no meaningful distinctions left in them, at all.
It's just one party divided up into two camps of personality-based
characters. And, people are really just supposed to pick the one that
they *like* best, because they "relate" to the phony personas that
they project. Even where there seems to be any distinctions to
separate the two, they resolve those by talking one way and acting
another. Voters can only ever vote off of the contents of the menu,
never to totally replace the contents, themselves.
Small-town beauty-pageant Palin is as much of a feminist as Uncle
Obama. She's a woman holding public office, Isn't she? So what, if
she doesn't pay lip service to abortion? She's already living the
main goals of feminism, with a dash of "ditz" to confuse simple-minded
voters. And, of course, idiot, so-called "conservatives" scarf up all
of that distraction as meaningful and substantive.
Where are their traditional values to even elect a woman to office, in
the first place, if they care so much about "roles" as the way to
solve problems? "Extremists" is a wiggle. Define the rules. And,
remember how Governor Palin misused her authority to get even with a
sister's ex? Is all of that supposed to qualify as "conservative",
and as maintaining of the order of their ideal of what society should
be, all because it was carried out within the aupsices of the
corruption of nepotism ("family") that a Man in power might have done,
just as well? Apparently, so.
But, when you play even that old game, with such a fundamental shift
underlying it, then you're only lying to yourselves that you can keep
getting away with it. These debates that we're forced to have, these
days, are STUPID AND MEANINGLESS. Ideologically, Sarah Palin has
always represented absolutely NOTHING ...except for the neocons
willingness to compromise with the women's movement for the short
term.
But, here we are still promoting the consumer news industry, and
fattening the consumer sheep, by talking about her dumb ass and her
big legs. The only ideological reason for that is to avoid issues
that are based in scary REALITY.
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Turin
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