Reid, Susanna

[marky]

Name: Susanna Reid
BBC Position: Presenter
Hat Tip: DB

BBC News - Sarah Palin makes gaffe, saying North Korea is US ally www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11840828 Nov 25th, 2010 Twitter

[marky]

The Sarah Palin gaffe was a non-story, in beeb world it weren't.

Palin/Obama Double Standards

[Teddy Bear]

The BBC 'story' is so absurd it deserves posting in full for all all to see, especially the way the BBC tries to make the most out of a slip of the tongue, by drawing the conclusion Her slip of the tongue over North Korea will provide more ammunition for critics who say she doesn't have sufficient knowledge or experience for high office. Also the picture they use for Sarah Palin shows how they want her presented. Funny how they only have as flattering as possible for Obama, which considering his jug ears can't be easy. Clearly they learned that by demeaning previous President Bush for every gaffe he made had an effect on public perception they are doing the same for Palin. If they really learned from the Bush episode they would see that Bush made 2 terms in office, which is unlikely for Obama.

Sarah Palin makes gaffe, saying North Korea is US ally

Former Alaskan governor and potential 2012 presidential contender Sarah Palin has made a gaffe on a radio show by saying North Korea is a US ally.

Answering questions from host Glenn Beck she said, "Obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies."

Corrected by Mr Beck, she replied: "Yeah. And we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes."

Ms Palin says she is deciding whether to run for president in 2012.

Her slip of the tongue over North Korea will provide more ammunition for critics who say she doesn't have sufficient knowledge or experience for high office.

Former First Lady Barbara Bush recently said that Ms Palin should "stay in Alaska" rather than run for president.

The conservative US website The Weekly Standard came to Ms Palin's defence, pointing out that "she correctly identified North Korea as our enemy literally eight seconds before the mix-up".

[Teddy Bear]

I see on the B-BBC Blog site a link to this excellent riposte on Facebook by Sarah Palin to show some of the gaffes that Obama has made that the media prefers to ignore. Also a much nicer picture of her.

A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
by Sarah Palin on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 1:46am

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.


Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.



If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)



“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!



Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!



- Sarah Palin

[steevo]

I listened to the audio clip with Beck and if it was live I know I wouldn't have thought 2 cents worth. An honest slip of north and south. I did wonder though when Obama referenced our 57 states, that to me just doesn't seem so easy

Anyway I don't think this hurts Palin here. I actually think people are getting used to all the mockery as her poll numbers have gone up this past year.

[Teddy Bear]

Shows how desperate her detractors are, much like the guy pointing out how you'd missed an 'e'

[steevo]

Well it was obvious the man I was referencing but, his pointing it out did cause me to wonder if you weren't desperately polite when I initially posted? ;D

[Teddy Bear]

To be honest I'd never heard of the guy (either of them) before then, and overlooked the spelling at the time. If I felt it was really important I could always have modified it. In any event, anybody who would focus on that aspect of your posting rather than the actual content is the 'desperate' one

[steevo]

Desperate and pathetic.