I didn’t think it was possible, I don’t think anyone did, but it appears that CNN can and has done worse than Sanchez! It’s not like the bar was set that high, I mean really, it was Sanchez. Now we have faux-conservative Kathleen Parker who has an odd paranoia concerning Sarah Palin.
It’s the first night of your big show, your chance to make something happen, to do something newsworthy! What do you talk about? For Parker the answer is simple: Sarah Palin. Okay, okay ,we can give her that for the first night. I mean, Sarah Palin is the only reason that anyone knows Parker’s name. It’s the topic that put her on the map. I get it. But in three separate interviews in two nights the number one question on Parker’s mind is Sarah Palin? Is this going to be a running thing?
Even more repellent than Parker’s unhealthy vitriol toward Palin is the lack of challenge to the most egregious, ill-informed and downright mean comments said about Palin — in the first two nights of the new Parker/Spitzer show. In her first interview, which kicked off the show, Parker asked Andrew Breitbart about Sarah Palin. After Breitbart responded that she is the conservative “Oprah” for the new media, fellow guest Thomas Frank went on to say that Sarah “captures a sense of grievance” that Americans identify with.
Not only was he not challenged on what he said about Sarah Palin, forcing him to give proof beyond the title of a book that someone else wrote about her, but he was never asked to defend his statements about what he implied about the American people.
Then we had on the same night the leftist member of the Hollywood elite, Aaron Sorkin. He made even more inane statements about Palin. He called her an “idiot” and “downright mean,” and when pressed to give an example, his pathetic excuse for an example is not challenged because, of course, the hosts agree with him. A good host should have enough independent thought to press his guest to prove his points even though the host may agree.
The next night, for a true representation of diversity of thought, Parker/Spitzer had on Oliver Stone. He continued the Palin bashing at Kathleen Parker’s request and again his inane statements are never once questioned with any type of intellectual honesty.
What Parker is revealing in these interviews her first two days out of the chute is that it doesn’t matter what the real news of the day is. Has Sarah Palin done anything over the past weekend or the past two days that is newsworthy? Palin’s last couple of tweets have been promoting campaign ads and a couple of articles that she didn’t write. There’s been little activity on Facebook. I haven’t seen any earth-shattering speeches on YouTube. Last I heard she was watching Dancing with the Stars, which for some reason is newsworthy.
The real exposé in first two days of the Parker/Spitzer show has been that it’s not actually going to be about news. As of now, it looks like it’s going to be a bunch of Palin bashing and I’m sure the worn out talking points of the left being spewed on the show won’t end there.