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...fighting a holy war?" Gibson asked. Palin suggested that she was invoking not Pat Robertson but Abraham Lincoln. "I would never presume to know God's will," she said. Her model, rather, was a Lincoln assertion: "Let us not pray that God is on our side, in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side. That's what that comment was all about, Charlie." And she expressed her pride in "my firstborn, my son, my teenage son," who had made the decision to go fight for his country rather than taking...
...JAMES PONIEWOZIK For the past few days, the entire world has been offering Charles Gibson unsolicited advice on how to interview Sarah Palin. I've done enough bad interviews in my day that I can hardly imagine handling one in front of an audience of a million kibitzers. So I'll spare you (and Gibson) my two cents on which follow-up I would have asked here and how I would have phrased this question there...
...Gibson's first interview with Palin proved wrong those who thought he would either offer up a volley of softballs or spring a name-the-heads-of-state quiz to try to gin up embarrassing moments. (Of course, the World News segment was on foreign policy, so it didn't provide much opportunity to get into hot-button campaign questions; he still has another day to bring up "lipstick on a pig" if he chooses to.) Instead, Gibson interviewed her - imagine this - the way you might interview a candidate for Vice President about whom people still know very little...
...pretend to know whether more people will see Palin as nervous and unready or refreshing and outsiderish (or see Gibson as firm or contemptuous). But either way, it was definitely a different interview tonally than you would have gotten from, as she said, someone with a "big, fat r?sum?...
...most interesting aspect of the interview was/is its format; Gibson is interviewing her in three installments, the next two coming after the first round of the interview has already aired. Theoretically, this will allow him to adjust his questions - and her to strategize her answers - based on seeing the interview playback. It's like a sped-up version of Nixon and Frost...