Charlie Gibson's bias...

... as obvious to thinking people as obvious can get.

The Anchoress brings us the salient points:

Bill from Ahwatukee Musings passed this along to me, from a Hillary Clinton forum, of all places. I don’t know anything about the writer, Nancy Kallitechnis, but she makes some interesting observations about the difference between Charlie Gibson’s interview with Obama, when he became the presumptive nominee, and his talk with Gov. Palin:

Even the camera angle was designed to be prejudiced against Palin. She is filmed from the side and slightly with her back to the camera. …In contrast, the film crew placed the long shot camera facing Obama so at all times when he is speaking the camera looks him in the face rather than looking at his back.

…Obama was asked much easier questions mostly about feelings about winning, breaking the glass ceiling and 2008 campaign decisions. In contrast, Palin was asked numerous specific policy and military strategy questions that required extensive knowledge about treaties, U.S. anti-terrorism strategy and world history. And Gibson misquoted Palin… The following is a breakdown of the questions asked of the nominees:

Obama interview:

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

There’s no doubt the Charles Gibson interviews showed extreme prejudice against Palin and extreme favoritism towards Obama…He constantly questioned her ability to lead but never questioned Obama’s ability to lead, all the more amazing considering that Palin was the only one with executive experience and the presidency is the highest level executive job in politics.

And yet the unthinking, the Obamessiahians, the ignorant, the uninformed, the moonbats and idiots, don't see it:

Does it strike anyone else a little strange that there are so many complaining that Charlie Gibson was mean to her in the interview? This is a woman who is going to possibly, (Hopefully not) going to be Vice President of the United States, and dealing with difficult stuff of the economy, foreign relations, a country in war, etc. etc. etc. And they are complaining that a journalist was "mean" to her????? For asking the tough questions? For asking her to clearly articulate her positions about budget, about foreign relations???
 
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! (And hopefully, prayerfully, not in the White House).
 
-Rev Susan in Ca.

I guess my question would be what exactly should Charles Gibson HAVE asked her? What questions would not seem to "mean" or "hard" and still given America a glimpse of Gov Palin and her readiness to serve as VP? I wish those who are bashing Charles Gibson for this interview would give us a list of approved questions so we could see what the Gov was supposed to be asked that went beyond what she has been scripted. That would be an interesting list, I think.

-Rev Glen.

Incredible display of stupidity from the loving and compassionate left.  Just incredible.  You wonder what their congregants would say if they heard them spout this lunacy.  We'll never find out.  They lack the courage to be that honest.

Which is telling.

In the mean-time, the McCain camp has release a new ad:

Nicely done.