"Liberal" Media Bias?  

Well it's happening just as I said it would. They are going to question her credentials, look into her financial records, history, and relationships. Soon she'll have satellite vans on her lawn and we'll hear about democratic officials illegally accessing her DMV records and her tax reports.

The way that question was worded you know as well as I do there would have been no "adequate" answer. What her being a health reporter has to do with it is fairly simple - on any local news station I've ever seen the meteorologist doesn't usually give the sports report while the consumer advocate gives the sports and the news anchor gives the weather and the health reporter gives the "hard" news.

Had everything been equal except for Palin being the interviewee and the "reporter" being married to a Democratic consultant as well as being a Democratic activist himself (or herself), this would have been the worst interview ever.
Annie

YAY you!

You're kidding, right? You consider what Palin got from Gibson or Couric being "GRILLED"? Have you watched any TV when Palin isn't onscreen lately? Biden has appeared on Meet the Press and all the other major political and news shows more than politicians and he's never backed down from tough questions. I'm sure you'd like the transcript of every single one but that wouldn't help because we're not going to agree on this no matter what anyone says. Let's suffice it to say that I agreed with Keith Olbermann 100% when he called Sarah Palin a fraud at the end of his campaign comment. Sorry if this offends some here but it's how I see it. I'm also very sorry as a woman that the first female V.P. nominee in over two decades could ever be seen in that way.
Annie

It is known that the "do you agree with the Bush Doctrine" was misleading. Many people have pointed out that there is no clear cut Bush Doctrine, and at least several different points have been referred to as the Bush Doctrine. How was she supposed to know which one or what he was referring to?
So Biden and Obama have been given a free pass all this time from the media, and finally someone dares asks them the question that the public has been asking all week, and that Obama has denied -- and Biden with all his years of experience can't answer it? It's so different from Palin.
Obama embraced socialism and Marxism in his book, yet now claims he is neither or rather he doesn't lean in those directions. It is a reasonable question to ask. If they are not leaning in that direction it would have been answerable. You Obama supporters keep arguing that he is not Marxist or socialist or even leaning that way --- how come Biden couldn't answer that question. IF it's not true, there's a way to answer it. If it's true, the American people NEED to know and have a RIGHT to know.

I'd love to hear how what Palin boasts about all the time and takes undeserved credit for in Alaska isn't every bit as socialist or marxist. With all the money the current Administration has borrowed to wage this immoral war in Iraq there is no possible way to balance the budget and pay down the debt without raising taxes. I agree earmarks should be eliminated but they account for less than 1% of the total budget. Obama/Biden's plan will only return the tax rate for the very wealthiest Americans to what they were during the Clinton years and they'll finally give a bit of a break to the middle class who somehow always get ignored.

What the Bush Administration has done with this bail-out is much more "socialist" by definition than raising taxes slightly on the wealthiest among us while giving a break to the less fortunate.
Annie

I agree the bail out were socialist and also they were "corporate welfare". It is disgusting. I keeping hearing on the news that the CEOs will probly get their million dollars in bonus money from it. Nice to know I am paying them my tax dollars to pay them for helping to get us into this mess (not).

The Bush Administration is NOT campaigning in this election. They are a separate entity, and despite what Obama keeps putting out there with his unprecedented amounts of money (after saying he would accept public finds which would LIMIT the amounts spent) McCain has BUTTED HEADS with the current administration many, many times.

Then would you say the ladies of the view, excluding Barbara Walters, have no business asking political questions of their guests?
Why is it called skirting the truth when Sarah Palin doesn't answer a question but it is perfectly acceptable for Biden not to answer?

Being a health reporter has nothing to do with it. Absolutely nothing.

Good thing we are in the US and we are both able to have our own opinions.

"Why is it called skirting the truth when Sarah Palin doesn't answer a question (...)"

Didn't know it was called "skirting the truth" I can't stand listening to Palin and I hate listening to news being reported about her. I have actually never been so sickened by a politican and I'm from a state that is almost as corrupt as Alaska.

As for "The View" it's a talk show they can have on whomever they want and ask whatever they want. This was suppose to be the news. Our local news has some reporter that pulls all the reports on restaurants from the health department, the station made him take some health classes at the local college.

Isn't that the difference between the talk show and the news? The ability to ask questions? So you are saying if it was someone else then it would have been a legitimate question that Biden should have answered. Right?

Nah I'm just making excuse after excuse for Biden because that is what the Republican sheep do for Palin. Don't you remember, "she didn't hear the question correctly" "it was a gotcha question" "those were hard questions" "those were sexiest questions"

Good for you, Zephyr! I'd love to see how the Palinites would react if someone asked her a question even remotely as rude and misleading as this one was.

"Governor Palin, how are we to believe your Administration would treat those parts of America you yourself have said are not the "real" America the same as those areas you admit to favor?"

Annie

I've heard several say obama's ideas are Marxist. Someone asked Biden about it. It wasn't a loaded question, but something that has been on the minds of some people. Biden could have easily given an answer and settled it. Unless he just doesn't know the answer.

Kind of like Sarah could have answered the question about what magazines and newspapers she reads but she saw it was a question meant to make her look bad so she evaded it? I think it would have been a lot easier to think of just ONE publication when you've claimed that's who you've learned about the world than to come up with an "adequate" answer to a question about Marxism to satisfy a reporter and an audience who don't even know the true definition of the word or what the Obama/Biden campaign is really proposing.
Annie

I am tired of people claiming that anyone who says Marxist or socialist doesn't know what they are talking about. That's not true. And just because Obama has not said anything in this campaign to indicate he plans to push to the full Marxist society does NOT meant that he is not leaning in the direction of Marxism and/or socialism.
His reason for not halting the capital gains tax at least temporarily during this economy?
"It wouldn't be fair",
more than once he has answered in a similar way, even noting at times that it will mean a MUCH SLOWER RECOVERY, but it's "only fair".
Obama clearly prefers evening out the society rather than growing our economy.
History has shown his ideas to be unworkable. His ideas are straight from Herbert Hoover, and John Dewey. Herbert Hoover initiated many of these same ideas -- and took our country from a DEEP recession to a severe DEPRESSION; the Great Depression. News flash: WE ARE CURRENTLY IN A DEEP RECESSION.

the-

I have no idea why you are in my thread talking about marxism and socialism because no one has brought it up until you. Guess you're a little off topic. But since you're here...

"And just because Obama has not said anything in this campaign to indicate he plans to push to the full Marxist society does NOT meant that he is not leaning in the direction of Marxism and/or socialism."

What in the heck do you call the bank bailout? How about the other bank bailout of the 80's? How about the auto makers bailouts? All forms of socialism.

"His reason for not halting the capital gains tax at least temporarily during this economy? "It wouldn't be fair", (...)"

Who has capital gains? My 401k took a $1,000 hit in September. Do you honestly think that once the next president takes office that the US's problems are going to simply disappear?

"News flash: WE ARE CURRENTLY IN A DEEP RECESSION."

Just depends on where you live. There are some areas that have not felt the recession that was just announced. Yes the US just had all the offical numbers happen for the offical amount of time to announce a recession but you won't hear that out of the Bush adminstration.

For Irishidid....Pres. Obama wouldn't like it if he put his foot in his mouth, again. Remember the swine flu remark....don't tell the people to wash their hands after they sneeze for heavens sake! lol

He probably didn't want to get called on the carpet for saying the wrong thing again! So he asked if the question was a joke...;)

They discussed this issue on a news program. I forget which one, on CNN I believe. What they said was that when a candidate doesn't like the questions they will generally find excuses not to have interviews with the station. The only difference here is that Obama's team openly stated they would no longer speak or give interviews to them. Not exactly a smart move on their part and may come back to bite them later on.

The McCain campaign made no bones about it either. They were very clear that they were canceling Senator McCain's interview with Larry King on CNN because they didn't like the fact that Campbell Brown pressed Tucker Bounds to answer her question. Their official statement was "after a relentless refusal by certain on-air personalities to come to terms with Senator McCain's selection of Alaska's sitting governor as vice presidential nominee, we decided John McCain's time would be better served elsewhere."

Great point, and CNN is a national network while the Biden interview was on a local Orlando station who decided to put their health reporter whose husband happens to be a GOP consultant on the air with the specific purpose, I've no doubt, of trying to make Biden look bad. Sorry, righties, but I don't think it worked, I think she made herself look bad but it's fine if you disagree with me because that's what myLot is all about. I knew I'd take some heat for this post but I didn't care.
Annie

Barbara West is not just a health reporter. She has a long history as a journalist and reporter. Her station also has a history of asking hard questions.
Fox news has mentioned that McCain stopped interviews with CNN for a time, but I didn't hear that interview and don't know the details to comment on it.
My understanding in this case with Biden is that the Obama campaign blacklisted the entire station indefinitely and that was the difference.

The Obama campaign canceled an already scheduled interview by Jill Biden with the same reporter (West) on a Florida network affiliate because of what they felt were biased questions asked in an interview with Joe Biden. When pushed further, they said that they didn't foresee any other interviews with those connected with the campaign before election day.

The McCain campaign canceled an already scheduled interview by Senator McCain with a different interviewer on a major national cable news network because of what they saw as rough treatment of Tucker Bounds by Campbell Brown on a morning news show.

Good points, Tally. OI heard some reporter say that it seems maybe many people look at the candidates in the light of whether they personally will be affected.
I, for one, stand to gain significantly under an Obama Administration. But I am voting for McCain. Because I believe that Obama's ideas will harm our economy, our Constitution, and our country ultimately -- and that is not worth whatever gain I might have in the short run from his expanded welfare/socialism.

This has been the worst-run eight years in presidential history. Now suddenly tge fringe is screaming Marxism and socialism (a lot of people skipped government class) about rolling the tax code back to a reasonable level? To a time when our country balanced its budget. And a time where people had jobs. You have seen a redistribution of income to the wealthy for the past several years, while jobs have been exported overseas and companies rewarded for doing it.

Socialism involves government control of utilities, transportation and media. Please read about this, as changing the tax code is not socialism. These "tough questions" as you call them were twisted setups by the wife of a Republican strategist. They were laughable as anyone who didn't skip government class knows. I wonder how many of those crying about pending socialism sent back their stimulus checks, and have opted themselves and their folks out of Social Security and Medicare?

You should also study the Joseph McCarthy communist witchhunts of the 1950s. They led to the needless ruination of dozens of lives.

thedogshrink - I'm in a similar situation, I would benefit from Obama's socialist ideas of spreading the wealth, except my parents taught me to work for what I get and not expect handouts through life...I'm old fashioned I guess, at 31!