Sunday, October 19, 2008

Channeling Miss South Carolina

By popular demand, I am posting this video of Miss South Carolina trying valiantly to answer a question:



Compare this answer to the style of evasion employed by Sarah Palin in some of her interviews. For instance. consider these:

Sarah Palin on the Bush doctrine:




On Supreme Court decisions:




On foreign policy:



In some of these cases, she would have been forgiven for not knowing the answers. However, the way she tried to cover up was channeling Miss South Carolina, and to me, made it worse by making her seem inauthentic. In any event, she clearly uses a beauty pageant style for answering questions.

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