The Talking Point Creature
by David Sassoon - Oct 6th, 2008
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If you haven't seen the Saturday Night Live spoof of Thursday's Biden-Palin debate, you can click here and have a look. Says Tina Fey's Palin:
We don't know if this climate change -- or whosie-what's-it -- is man-made or if it's just a natural part of the End of Days.
After the laughter in your belly subsides, consider that it was re-broadcast, in part, on Sunday's Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw. Debate moderator Gwen Ifill was on the show, and she said that Palin, who ignored most of her questions, "blew me off I think is the technical term."
Think Progress put together a compilation of clips from the debate showing Palin reading her prepared lines. She was well-trained, taught how to use any question as an opportunity to deliver her talking points.
There's a story told about Henry Kissinger, who once began a press conference by saying to the journalists there assembled, "Do any of you have questions for my answers?" And so Palin was "media trained" to be her party's obedient attack dog. The pit bull with lipstick, now with talking points -- and no answers.
It didn't matter to Joe Biden, who didn't go to the lectern to debate Sarah Palin, but to take on John McCain. It was a wise decision. There was no Sarah Palin there, merely a talking point creature.
Read her words on climate change carefully and see the string of talking points for yourself.
Yes. Well, as the nation’s only Arctic state and being the governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of climate change more so than any other state. And we know that it’s real.
I’m not one to attribute every man — activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man’s activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.
But there are real changes going on in our climate. And I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?
We have got to clean up this planet. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.
As governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We’ve got to reduce emissions. John McCain is right there with an “all of the above” approach to deal with climate change impacts.
We’ve got to become energy independent for that reason. Also as we rely more and more on other countries that don’t care as much about the climate as we do, we’re allowing them to produce and to emit and even pollute more than America would ever stand for.
So even in dealing with climate change, it’s all the more reason that we have an “all of the above” approach, tapping into alternative sources of energy and conserving fuel, conserving our petroleum products and our hydrocarbons so that we can clean up this planet and deal with climate change.
Tina Fey's Palin was so much more authentic.
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