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September 12, 2008

Bush Doctrine? Palin Got It, Gibson Didn't

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Leave it to Charles Krauthammer, the first person to use the term, to do the best job of nailing Charles Gibson on the idiocy of his questioning of Sarah Palin on the Bush Doctrine:

[...] The Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today.

[...] Yes, Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know -- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, "sounding like an impatient teacher," as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the phenom who presumes to play on their stage.

Read Krauthammer's entire piece here ...

Posted by Abdul at September 12, 2008 11:09 PM

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