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August 31, 2008

About that MSM (taken out of context) quote of Palin on VP duties

Topics: Political News and commentaries

You'd think that the MSM could have gotten it right in the first place, but perhaps, being so solidly in the tank for Obama, they need a little nudging. After all, what Gov. Palin actually said in the interview was:

KUDLOW: ... Is this police flap state investigation going to disqualify you from becoming Senator McCain's vice presidential candidate?

PALIN: Well, it shouldn't disqualify me from anything, including progressing the state's agenda here towards more energy production so we can contribute more to the U.S. Nor should it dissuade any kind of agenda progress in any arena, because again, I haven't done anything wrong. And through an investigation of our lawmakers who are kind of looking at me as the target, we invite those questions, so that we can truthfully answer those questions.

But as for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers, for me, what is it exactly that the VP does every day. I'm used to being very productive and working really hard in the [inaudible] administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position. Especially for Alaskans, and for the things that we're trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I could even start addressing that question.

KUDLOW: Well, I worked in the White House during President Reagan's first term, let me assure you -- and I've spent a lot of time in the Bush White House as a journalist in meetings and interviews. It's a pretty big job, Madam Governor. It's a real big job. You'd be surprised how big the veep job is these days.

PALIN: Well, this is a pretty cool job here too, as governor of Alaska.

And that, "my friends," puts an entirely different light on the matter than that which is being promoted by the MSM, Team Obama, and liberal bloggers.

Here's the video of the interview on Kudlow and Company. The relevant portion starts at 2:16.
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Thus, Belder Blog's observations are indeed, very pertinent.

... on watching the larger video clip for context -- and especially hearing Gov. Palin's emphasis on the phrase "for me," and her deliberate pause before and after it -- it's absolutely clear that she was not talking about the job responsibilities of vice presidents in general, but rather about what kind of specific duties she would be delegated in this particular administration.

Thus her references to being a productive and busy person, with an important job now, which she clearly wouldn't want to give up to be a figurehead vice president. Thus her concern that she be part of an administration in which the VPOTUS slot is actually a "fruitful position." Kudlow certainly understood her that way.

This should put this matter to rest, once and for all. But the operative word here is "should." Liberals live in a different universe than the rest of us, where they see things as they want them to be rather than as they are, and have no compulsion to discriminate between fact and fiction when it suits their purposes to do otherwise.

Posted by Abdul at August 31, 2008 1:30 PM

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