Palintology: A Sarah Palin online video archive
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September 4th, 2008
Videos of Palin over the last year offer a peek at her folksy, low-key speaking style, which she uses quite effectively to soften her hard-line positions on energy policy, national security, and, more important … energy policy. Palin is about as pro “resource development” as it gets.
On the following clip from CNN’s “Glenn Beck” show, Beck and Palin agree that the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) is ready to be tapped, polar bears be damned. Later, at 3:50, Beck asks Palin whether she’d want to be the vice president if John McCain came knocking. Palin is coy:
“If I had to make such a decision today, it would be no. There’s a lot that Alaska could be, should be, doing to contribute to the U.S. and I think that I can help do that as governor of the state, staying here.”
User 1984dobson has posted a montage of clips relating to Palin’s participation in the Alaskan Independence Party, including a video welcome she sent to the party’s 2008 convention. In the clip, party official Dexter Clarke notes that Alaska is “the coldest state with the hottest governor,” and brags that Palin is “pretty well sympathetic because of her former membership” in the AIP.
Below, Dani Carlson, a member of MTV’s citizen journalism team, interviews Palin back on Super Tuesday on what appears to be a cellphone video camera. When asked which candidates she liked, Palin mentions Mitt Romney and Web-world favorite Ron Paul (”He’s a good guy … he’s independent of like the party machine, and I’m like, ‘Right on, so am I!’”) — but she doesn’t mention McCain at all.
In the following clip from 2007, Palin grants “Late Late Show” host Craig Ferguson Alaskan honorary citizenship, and invites him to visit the state and partake of “rich, succulent wild Alaskan salmon.”
“Is it just me,” Ferguson asks, “or do you get a kind of naughty librarian vibe from the governor?”
In an interview last week (but before being unveiled by McCain) with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, Palin defends herself from allegations that she fired a cabinet official who refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law, saying she welcomed the questions and that she “didn’t do anything wrong.”
Though not directly involving Gov. Palin, the MSNBC clip below has already garnered plenty of attention. Commentators Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy, thinking their microphones are off after they finished a discussion segment, proceed to say what they really think about the Palin nomination. Murphy calls the pick “cynical,” while Noonan labels it a bit of political bologna (though she uses a stronger word)–before saying “it’s over.”
And topping the YouTube charts today is Web star LisaNova’s funny (if work-unsafe) sendup of the McCain-Palin ticket. LisaNova has made sure that by the time the likes of “Saturday Night Live” gets its hands on the ticket, the joke will have already been told.
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