I remember being this being the most incoherent interview in the history of televised elections. Rewatching in 2020 I'm baffled... Now it feels average.
More tests than you've ever seen before and I'm sure that he although we disagree quite a lot would say they are the greatest that we've ever had so we are rounding the turn we are rounding the corner
👐👐👐👐👐👐 fake news 👐👐👐👐👐 rigged election 👐👐👐👐👐 I’ve done more than any other president 👐👐👐👐👐👐 How was she governor though? I mean, did she fall apart on the national scene or was she like this in the gubernatorial race?
@@theflash1508 Oh there was change. 2 years ago. It seems every single American is fucking miserable now that Trump is in office. Even the sour bitter ass "winners" who defend him like he's an infallible God. Making America Great Again = Turning all Americans on each other, then teaching them how easy it is to cop out and blame it allll on the last guy
@Alex F I have nothing against Trump supporters personally, but what I see is a lot of people on the constant defense, bitter and nasty at whichever Democrats Trump targets that week. I've rarely spoken to or debated with a Trump supporter who wasn't personally angry with whoever Trump said to be angry with. And they almost always express that at some point in a conversation, even when we're not talking politics. People say Liberals are overly emotional, but I've never seen a more easily triggerable, defensive group of people. That's bitter and miserable, whether or not their trained hurrahs indicate it lol
@Alex F You haven't met any Trump supporter have you? They're the most miserable bunch. Trump calls others snowflakes, but the biggest snowflakes are his supporters. They wear their emotions on their sleeves. They blow up at everything minor and are one of the angriest, most angsty, defensive group on the internet.
You never saw the outtakes. Okay Katie....take 27, now stop laughing. Now 2022 she's running for office again. Because Americans forget after 10 years.
“I’m just going to ask you one more time not to belabor the point..” 😂 Katie’s best interview .. hands down! She did the US a huge favor by exposing Palin’s incompetence.
The absolute dichotomy between the intelligence of these two women is striking, one is trying her absolute hardest to sound smart with no substance, the other has nothing to prove.
Bach baroque, 👍 ...but her looks are not! The expression "air head" comes to mind. ✌ "We can't afford to lose in Afghanistan." How is that prediction working out for you now in 2021, Sarah?
@Harald Harster Perhaps to see a defining moment in contemporary U.S. politics, when the ability to string together a coherent sentence or put forth actual policy was no longer a requisite to hold office at the highest levels. I mean, George W. Bush nudged us in that direction, but Palin goddamn wrestled common sense and intelligible English to the ground. And people STILL wanted her in the VP seat.
@@dantasticmania8728 In the 2024 State of the Union speech Joe Biden will announce that he will not run for reelection. Hopefully then, Kamala Harris will select AOC as her VP running mate. It's about time we get rid of right wing "unfettered-capitalism-at-all-costs" morons like tRump and his criminal cronies. Then we need to institute some responsible democratic socialist programs like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free education through advanced degrees and free elder care. Of course our taxes will have to be increased but with proper medical care and free education; I would not have been bankrupted by a medical bill. I also could have been spending $200.00 more every month in the economy rather that paying back a bank for my college education until I paid that college loan off at the age of 63.
You’re wrong. If Palin was a Democrat and took the same heat over that interview, liberals would have roared ‘sexism’ over her treatment.. many of those same Democrats actually were sexist in their criticisms of Gov. Palin, essentially calling her an idiot or simpleton, as you’ve pretty much done yourself in your comment. If you actually listen to what she’s saying, which you appear not to have done, she’s speaking perfectly well.. if you’re mocking her accent or conservatism, then you have no case
@@seansweeney8911 Republican or Democrat, the way the population voted, highlights how members of both parties felt about her. Had she done such a great job, John McCain, not Barack Obama, would've been elected president. Also, Palin made it clear that she was not properly briefed or prepared for this interview. She lacked the knowledge, certainty, poise, or confidence to successfully carry this interview. Her posture was defensive, you can see how uncomfortable she was. Because s female was interviewing her, she anticipated softball style questions. This woman couldn't even answer a simple question about the type of reading she does. Let's not even get into her position on foreign policy experience. Palin did an atrocious job, she took queries she couldn't handle to be personal. I am happy that Couric conducted this interview. My only regret is that Trump never sat down with Couric, before the 2016 election.
@@seansweeney8911 honey, that’s wishful thinking. It’s republicans that loved her, loved Trump, MTG, and Boebert. Oh Walker! The GOP is the party of imbecile voters and its imbecile candidates.
Palin: "No, I haven't traveled, I've understood the world through books and other mediums that gave me a good perspective on global events" Kouric: "So what are those publications you've read that informed your world-view?" Palin: "Ummmmmm......"
I LOVE me some Katie Couric. she can ask the right questions, and find a way to bring out if someone is full of bs, and show them for who they really are. This interview proved it, and we dodged a HUGE bullet by not letting this lady into offic. If she did next thing John Mc Cain have a heart attack, and BAM she would be president.
I still would have preferred McCain-Palin over Obama-Biden. Any candidate in 2008 would have been better than Obama for the oval office. These past 6 years have been do-nothing years and the Democrats had an absolutely terrible agenda for the first 4 years of Obama's presidency.
Jacob Oros Think of it like this - if Obama hasn't lived up to your expectations then what in the name of holy fuck would you expect someone like this to do? The system is the thing that's fucked though. Parties mean nothing anymore.
Craig Hicks Obama is nothing but a politician, he simply doesn't understand how the system works because he was a senator for only a few years prior to his election to the oval office. McCain is of course almost just as much of a moron, but not quite there with Obama which is why I would have preferred him. Romney on the other hand was an outstanding candidate. I mean he had 25 years balancing budgets in the business world, founder of a vastly successful investment firm worth an approximate $75B, and governor experience in the bluest state in the country as a Republican with a state legislature that was 87% Democrat. All these Democrats and left wingers put him out to be a corrupt rich guy who wanted nothing but to see the country end in flames which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. He ran a shitty campaign in 2012 and lost as a result. The 2008 primaries was lost by Romney because McCain was fed dog food by the biased mediators during the debates. Parties mean plenty buddy. There's a huge reason why we care that the congress is going to have a Republican majority in 2 days.
Can’t believe it’s been 12 almost 13 years ago since this debacle. We’ve seen a lot since 2008-2021 I genuinely wonder how we’ll be able to fit that into a history book
This was one of the best eye opening interviews Katie has ever done. I wonder when she heard Palin's responses to the questions if she secretly laughed inside. How did Katie keep a straight face without making some kind of facial expressions like "WTF is she saying?" Great interview KC, you did your job perfectly!
Julianne Moore did a really good job playing her in "Game Change." The movie really makes you dislike Sarah Palin. Not that many people need much help in disliking Sarah Palin.
Her answers reminds me of how ppl generally BS during their job interviews, usually very generic replies. LOL It's so hard to watch it without cringing...
The fact that McCain picked Palin as his running mate and considered her an intelligent member of his team was a slap in the face of intellectual conservative women. He could have picked so many far more intellectual, educated, and well spoken women.
Fact - conservative women weren't the target, they had those political diehards. It was the non political, minor league educated and intellectually challenged they were hoping to scoop...most as first time voters for obvious reasons.
This is like a defining moment in American history. Decades from this point, we'll look back and say, "That was when the Republican Party imploded, children. Take notes."
Actually I now see the Democratic Party imploding with Bernie Sanders still fighting Her Highness the Hildebeast for that party's nomination. The Democratic Party is really the political party of liberal idiots like many people who are commenting on this UA-cam video.
It's amazing because this is already happening 2 years after your comment. You were 100% right. People are now pointing to Sarah Palin as to when the Republican party started to shift into what we have now.
First she was a CORRUPT Mayor of Wasilla where she spent 9 MILLION taxpayer dollars on an ice hockey facility. Wasilla was an itty bitty town with 2 stop lights. Gee, amazingly her son played ice hockey. Wasilla is probably bigger now. As Gov, she used personal email accts to keep illegal activities out of Gov records. She threatened state employees, was full of chaos, drama, accepted "gifts" & didn't report them, etc. Now she's running for a Congressional seat. BIG MISTAKE TO LET HER IN THE DOOR AGAIN. She's NUTS.
No...beg to differ...ANY Trump Rally or ANY SOTU speech or ANY response to ANY question that requires "intelligent thoughtful responses" or "compassion or empathy". As much of a mindless, clueless fruitcake as Palin was...Trump is 1000 X worse hands down any day of the week. Palin was uneducated and unprepared but Trump is just plain EVIL...AND HE IS UNEDUCATED AND UNPREPARED...bad combination...Stephen King had it right when he wrote "The Dead Zone".
Watching this after the SNL parody, i got confused as to which one was the real interview. Lol And poor McCain (RIP) twiddling his fingers and squirming in his seat as he slowly realized in that interview the big mistake he made.
@@mauricepowers8079 I thought that Couric was always known as a tough interviewer: consistently well-prepared, asking tough questions that don’t leave much wiggle room.
Looking back on this now, I’d say John McCain would have been president if he didn’t pick Palin. And I can see why McCain didn’t want her at his funeral.
I don’t think he would’ve been president. Bush’ popularity at the time of the election was in the 20s and most people associated McCain with Bush. The republicans were at a very low point much like they are now in 2021
I think people forget how charismatic Obama was. McCain picked Sarah Palin because he was trailing in the polls. If they found the right running mate it certainly could of helped but it’s hard to know.
He wanted joe Lieberman but the gop didn’t want a Democrat Vice President as part of the gop ticket, they wanted a woman so they can counter Hillary Clinton and gain some female voters. John McCain never wanted Sarah palin but he was forced too
It feels like she had prepared answers, but she completely messed everything up under pressure of someone, who's actually a proper journalist.I mean she couldn't have just said I don't know anything about foreign policy, but you can't say that when you're a politician right.
I remember watching this when it originally aired. What really dumbfounded me was that she wouldn’t even answer a simple “what do you like to read” question. It was maddening. And she was chosen to run as VP - the second highest office in the US - and she’d never been out of the country? Crazy.
And she said that was a "gotcha question". "What magazines do you read?" is a gotcha question? Seriously If you had really read magazines like you said, just say which one. If you were lying about reading magazines, just name ANY magazine. Surely you at least knew the name of a magazine. Just say Time, newsweek.....".
At this point of the interview it was clear to Palin that Kaitey was acting unprofessionally and working for the Obama campaign; she was trying to illicit gaffes that she could demean Sarah with.
Katie Couric.... you are one of the BEST journalist, and a Global News Anchor that i have ever seen on TV. My respects, and my best wishes to you and to your loving family. Thank you very, very much for your pure professional work.
The fact that Katie Couric was able to even hold a semblance of decorum during these interviews just proves her position as a true, die hard, American journalist, tactful, gracious, insightful, challenging, and extremely inspirational means EVERYTHING. Palin is so pathetically under the respect that Couric is. I feel so bad that she even had to be compared to this embarrassment.
Palin on Canada and Russia: "They're in the state that I'm the executive of." Holy crap!!! I don't know who mangles the English language worse: Palin or Trump.
And despite these interviews effectively ending ole "mama grizzly's" chances at being elected to anything else, she walked away from them thinking that she'd hit a home run.
I watch this clip at least once a year. It’s soo funny. I can never get through it without pausing for laughter. “I’m going to ask you again, not to belabor the point but do you have specific examples...?”
Great interviewer, follow-ups are precise and challenging when required (ie when Palin skirts around the point). This is a skill that is now sorely lacking in MSM today!
Palin sounds like a mensa compared to the past four years. Poor Sara was out of her league then and we did not heed the trend that began with this type of vague generalized statements that tell the listener nothing.
Wait... you mean to tell me that when someone is undeniably insane and has zero knowledge or background on any of the key issues, they do not get elected? Must've been real nice back in the day
They were BOTH so phony... he was talking behind her back and she was pretending she knew wtf she was talking about...and he was pretending SHE KNEW what she was talking about. 🤣😆
+Mister Anthropy to incite racism during the 2008 campaign is every bit of malevolent and promoted violence against blacks and Muslims. The intolerant temperature much like now was dangerous not only minorities but Obama and his family.
@@Yesu44 lol, I found the movie to be entertaining in a comedic sort of way, but also found it fascinating how someone like Sarah Palin could be allowed to run for Vice President.
I wonder what they would have done with her if John McCain had actually won? Sat her in a room next to the Oval office with a colouring book and some crayons for four years?
@@theflash1508 secured a job for his son as son as the U.S. backed coup in Ukraine was finished. Biden likely worked behind the scenes for Big Finance (as always) and advised Obama agains the public option.
Ahhh the good ol' days when you could actually enjoy watching a politician say a bunch of words strung together..... I watch this on a regular basis; it is 2019 and it is still as "exciting" as it was back then.
Looking back, this reminds me of my son's first girlfriend.. I was watching "The World At War" documentary. She watched it for awhile. She then commented, "I thought Japan was our friend".
Wow. I'm in the UK, I sometimes heard the name 'Sarah Palin' with reference to American elections, but never really heard her talking. I came here after seeing the Saturday Night Live sketches, just to see. And fkkkk, there's hardly any difference between the sketches and reality. How can you parody this? It IS parody. Jesu, America, wtf. That's some scary shit. You realise you're the world's only superpower, right? And you're voting this woman close to the presidential seat? I'm struggling to believe what I'm seeing.
OK, good to hear from another conservative who found several parts of this interview incoherent. (I did agree with her on some small things, though.) I could not help but laugh at the irony of Palin praising McCain for taking stick from members of his own party, given how she has degenerated into a Trump-supporting robot who threw her great friend Senator Ted Cruz under the bus when he didn't toe the new party line.
Listening to her answers from the interview, I wonder how the heck do you think Cain ever think about using her as his running mate. And I also wonder how the world to citizens of Alaska ever vote her as their Governor
The good old days, when exposing yourself as a mindless idiot on national television actually disqualified you from the executive branch.
I just watched Game Change and feel for her. If they had chosen her earlier and had more time to prep her - she could have been fine
@@yeahiprotest No. She never had the maturity or intellectual curiosity for this position. Don't feel sorry for her she wanted the power.
Omg I miss those days! Sarah paved the way for ppl like MTG and Lauren B 🤦🏽♀️
So true. Just shows men can get away with being dumb because they’re just good ol boys
Lol 😂 excellent comment !
If you cut through all the mindless babble, she does a great Tina Fey.
I would love to see her with in bed with Tina Fey
+twisterwiper Excellent!!!
twisterwiper haha!!!!
Lol, it's ironic because both Katie and Tina went to UVA.
🤣
This interview even convinced McCain to vote for Obama
nakedstud good one!!😂😂
-Sarah!-
No it didn’t
☺☺☺
when did this aire?
Sara sounds like me when I had to make up a book report on the spot
LOL...spot on
@@BigBirdy100 dude really replied 3 and half years after
😆😆😆
anthony williams, ...yeah, a report on a book I haven't read.
@@alexgoddyn7962 that’s when he saw the comment.
I remember being this being the most incoherent interview in the history of televised elections. Rewatching in 2020 I'm baffled... Now it feels average.
So true!!
Indeed
We are doing more testing
More tests than you've ever seen before and I'm sure that he although we disagree quite a lot would say they are the greatest that we've ever had so we are rounding the turn we are rounding the corner
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How was she governor though? I mean, did she fall apart on the national scene or was she like this in the gubernatorial race?
As Americans, we owe Katie Couric a BIG "Thank you!"
How was that hope and change?
@@theflash1508 Oh there was change. 2 years ago. It seems every single American is fucking miserable now that Trump is in office. Even the sour bitter ass "winners" who defend him like he's an infallible God.
Making America Great Again = Turning all Americans on each other, then teaching them how easy it is to cop out and blame it allll on the last guy
@Alex F I have nothing against Trump supporters personally, but what I see is a lot of people on the constant defense, bitter and nasty at whichever Democrats Trump targets that week. I've rarely spoken to or debated with a Trump supporter who wasn't personally angry with whoever Trump said to be angry with. And they almost always express that at some point in a conversation, even when we're not talking politics. People say Liberals are overly emotional, but I've never seen a more easily triggerable, defensive group of people. That's bitter and miserable, whether or not their trained hurrahs indicate it lol
Alex F Sure...Trump supporters are angry cultists. They know they made a mistake, but are too embarrassed to admit it.
@Alex F You haven't met any Trump supporter have you? They're the most miserable bunch. Trump calls others snowflakes, but the biggest snowflakes are his supporters. They wear their emotions on their sleeves. They blow up at everything minor and are one of the angriest, most angsty, defensive group on the internet.
As a 11 year old I didn’t understand why the media had such a field day with this lady now i know why.
I’m glad “know i know why”.
@@whatthefrickbro typo lol
Those were the good old days!
Me too! haha
Same here!! lol
HOW IN THE HECK did Katie not burst out laughing....all through the interview.
You never saw the outtakes. Okay Katie....take 27, now stop laughing. Now 2022 she's running for office again. Because Americans forget after 10 years.
I believe Professionalism lol
Ikr 🤣. She's a pro.
She is a professional.
Her eyelids burst out laughing though
This shit is priceless.
Yep
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel sorry for Katie Couric, she has to keep repeating her questions then you see the pain in her face with the final responses.
“I’m just going to ask you one more time not to belabor the point..” 😂 Katie’s best interview .. hands down! She did the US a huge favor by exposing Palin’s incompetence.
I watch this interview every now and then and then watch Amy Phoeler and Tina Fey’ version! It’s classics!😂
Oh I thought this was Tina Faye oops 😅
Fey lol my wife’s name is Faye so autocorrect typed it that way lol
AHH remember when we thought this was the lowest you could go ? 🤣
This comment was 4 years ago then we got Boebert and Taylor Green. "The Gazpacho police" would not be pleased.
@@joanalorenzo6949AOC, Maxine Waters and Pelosi are far worse
Katie was laughing hysterically inside!!!!
Over a decade later, it is a gift that keeps on giving!
😅👏
No kidding! Can’t even imagine having THAT in the Oval Office.
Couldn’t agree more! I still enjoy watching it every now and then and the SNL version with Amy Phoeler and Tina Fey
Factssss 💯💯🤣🤣☠️☠️
The absolute dichotomy between the intelligence of these two women is striking, one is trying her absolute hardest to sound smart with no substance, the other has nothing to prove.
Came back for a good ole laugh.
ole*
Kris Tofer I just did the same thing!!:)
+Peggy Reely me too
+Kris Tofer Same! Damn she's dumb lol.
it's actually scary since there's a male version in the white house now.
We really dodged a bullet here
A bullet that you fired at yourselves :p
Hey, we didn't nominate her.
I would do anything to have John McCain as president right now instead of the Orange Ape.
William Williams, and then shot ourselves with trump.
Funny thing is, Palin could've satisfied the hunger for stupid, and there would've been no Trump.
my eyes went crossed when sarah said “ill try to find em, and ill bring em to ya”...... so godamn dopey
Oh you BETCHA...ROFLMAO
😂😂
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After all these years i still have to 😄
You can see the regret all over McCain's face in this interview
KC: "what newspapers do you read? Specifically?"
SP: "All of them."
I'm impressed she has time to read thousands of newspapers every day.
@@SomethingSomethingg I mean, she's from Alaska...
😂😂
Palin's answers are a throwback to her beauty pageant days.
She is beautiful though. Don’t shoot me for saying something actually complementary and true. Peace.
Bach baroque, 👍 ...but her looks are not! The expression "air head" comes to mind. ✌ "We can't afford to lose in Afghanistan." How is that prediction working out for you now in 2021, Sarah?
I remember thinking this was as bad as it could get.....I was wrong.
This interview was the nail in the coffin for the McCain/Palin campaign.
And then didn't Palin write a memoir that seemed to stab McCain and his campaign in the back?
This is the interview that's going to be playing in US History classes 50 years down the road.
overthehedgeisamovie Not anymore! They've gotten tons of great educational material from the current administration.
We watched this in my history class last week
No worse than trump.
@@sheriffburfordt.justice4488 much better than trump
@Harald Harster Perhaps to see a defining moment in contemporary U.S. politics, when the ability to string together a coherent sentence or put forth actual policy was no longer a requisite to hold office at the highest levels. I mean, George W. Bush nudged us in that direction, but Palin goddamn wrestled common sense and intelligible English to the ground. And people STILL wanted her in the VP seat.
"I'll try to find some and I'll bring 'em to ya!" - didn't know shit about John McCain, ran with him - derailed the entire campaign.
Nailed it.
That was the best part
When a conservative says "libtard", show them this interview, then follow up with Trump.
Libtard
She's still a more a pretty lady with intelligence vs that socialist joke called AOC.
DANTASTIC MANIA ive never heard the dumbest response until you decided to comment. You’re funny
@@dantasticmania8728 In the 2024 State of the Union speech Joe Biden will announce that he will not run for reelection. Hopefully then, Kamala Harris will select AOC as her VP running mate. It's about time we get rid of right wing "unfettered-capitalism-at-all-costs" morons like tRump and his criminal cronies. Then we need to institute some responsible democratic socialist programs like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free education through advanced degrees and free elder care.
Of course our taxes will have to be increased but with proper medical care and free education; I would not have been bankrupted by a medical bill. I also could have been spending $200.00 more every month in the economy rather that paying back a bank for my college education until I paid that college loan off at the age of 63.
Republicans are on another level of stupid to be honest...
Best Tina Fey impersonation EVER
Children don't try this at home!
She is really a perfect representant of usa's republican party's politics and voters
You’re wrong. If Palin was a Democrat and took the same heat over that interview, liberals would have roared ‘sexism’ over her treatment.. many of those same Democrats actually were sexist in their criticisms of Gov. Palin, essentially calling her an idiot or simpleton, as you’ve pretty much done yourself in your comment. If you actually listen to what she’s saying, which you appear not to have done, she’s speaking perfectly well.. if you’re mocking her accent or conservatism, then you have no case
@@seansweeney8911 dude who fucking cares who "roars" sexism lol. the fact is, sarah palin had no business being on the ticket
@@seansweeney8911 lol
@@seansweeney8911 Republican or Democrat, the way the population voted, highlights how members of both parties felt about her. Had she done such a great job, John McCain, not Barack Obama, would've been elected president.
Also, Palin made it clear that she was not properly briefed or prepared for this interview. She lacked the knowledge, certainty, poise, or confidence to successfully carry this interview. Her posture was defensive, you can see how uncomfortable she was. Because s female was interviewing her, she anticipated softball style questions. This woman couldn't even answer a simple question about the type of reading she does. Let's not even get into her position on foreign policy experience. Palin did an atrocious job, she took queries she couldn't handle to be personal. I am happy that Couric conducted this interview. My only regret is that Trump never sat down with Couric, before the 2016 election.
@@seansweeney8911 honey, that’s wishful thinking. It’s republicans that loved her, loved Trump, MTG, and Boebert. Oh Walker! The GOP is the party of imbecile voters and its imbecile candidates.
I love how when she gets cornered and stuck she tries to act cute and likeable
Total bitch stew inside.
Palin: "No, I haven't traveled, I've understood the world through books and other mediums that gave me a good perspective on global events"
Kouric: "So what are those publications you've read that informed your world-view?"
Palin: "Ummmmmm......"
When you interview someone who aspires to be (Vice) President of the United States and who doesn't know that Africa is a continent, what can you do?
I LOVE me some Katie Couric. she can ask the right questions, and find a way to bring out if someone is full of bs, and show them for who they really are. This interview proved it, and we dodged a HUGE bullet by not letting this lady into offic. If she did next thing John Mc Cain have a heart attack, and BAM she would be president.
Exactly!
I still would have preferred McCain-Palin over Obama-Biden. Any candidate in 2008 would have been better than Obama for the oval office. These past 6 years have been do-nothing years and the Democrats had an absolutely terrible agenda for the first 4 years of Obama's presidency.
Jacob Oros Think of it like this - if Obama hasn't lived up to your expectations then what in the name of holy fuck would you expect someone like this to do? The system is the thing that's fucked though. Parties mean nothing anymore.
Craig Hicks Obama is nothing but a politician, he simply doesn't understand how the system works because he was a senator for only a few years prior to his election to the oval office. McCain is of course almost just as much of a moron, but not quite there with Obama which is why I would have preferred him. Romney on the other hand was an outstanding candidate. I mean he had 25 years balancing budgets in the business world, founder of a vastly successful investment firm worth an approximate $75B, and governor experience in the bluest state in the country as a Republican with a state legislature that was 87% Democrat. All these Democrats and left wingers put him out to be a corrupt rich guy who wanted nothing but to see the country end in flames which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. He ran a shitty campaign in 2012 and lost as a result. The 2008 primaries was lost by Romney because McCain was fed dog food by the biased mediators during the debates. Parties mean plenty buddy. There's a huge reason why we care that the congress is going to have a Republican majority in 2 days.
#warren2016 sounds really awesome!
Can’t believe it’s been 12 almost 13 years ago since this debacle. We’ve seen a lot since 2008-2021 I genuinely wonder how we’ll be able to fit that into a history book
True.
Well history is being rewritten anyway so🤷🏾♀️
She really didn’t know what she was talking about! And this after viewing this 12 years later.
She sounds like she did, just didn't seem prepared.
Couric: "Can you name a few newspapers that you read?"
Palin: "Well... Um..."
Really? That is a "gotcha" question? What newspapers do you read?
They never asked Obama that question
For her position, the answer really would matter
The didn't have to
LOL, "Alaska is a microcosm of America" What a twat.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES That's because Obama was an educated man. Palin was ignorant and backwards.
This was one of the best eye opening interviews Katie has ever done. I wonder when she heard Palin's responses to the questions if she secretly laughed inside. How did Katie keep a straight face without making some kind of facial expressions like "WTF is she saying?" Great interview KC, you did your job perfectly!
every time I feel down or think my life couldn't get jacked up any more I love watching Sarah-it assures me I am OK:)))))
:)
Lmao 😂
Even Sarah Palin will vote for Obama if she watches this interview.
I'm just gonna ask you One more time, make some sense
I'm not a religious man, but I thank all gods, large and small, that America voted against this incomprehensible woman.
Then how do you explain Trump?
@@mauricepowers8079 1/2 of America decided to make Idiocracy a documentary.
@@mauricepowers8079 exactly. America dodged one bullet, but we failed miserably at dodging a fucking cannonball
@@harrycooper5231 I’d take President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho over Trump
@@mem1701movies He's got electrolytes.
I never noticed Couric blinking until SNL!
Julianne Moore did a really good job playing her in "Game Change." The movie really makes you dislike Sarah Palin. Not that many people need much help in disliking Sarah Palin.
Totally agree with you. She portrayed Sarah Palin perfectly -- the voice, mannerisms, comportment etc.
Nailed everything about Sarah Palin so perfectly. Julianne Moore is an incredible actress!!!
Her answers reminds me of how ppl generally BS during their job interviews, usually very generic replies. LOL It's so hard to watch it without cringing...
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The fact that McCain picked Palin as his running mate and considered her an intelligent member of his team was a slap in the face of intellectual conservative women. He could have picked so many far more intellectual, educated, and well spoken women.
Yes.
It really was an insult to women, came down to 'looks' over all else, eh?
The future says nope. The very best leader Conservative America can currently produce is Trump, a complete moron.
Intellectual conservative is an oxymoron
Are there any intellectual conservatives? 🫢
Fact - conservative women weren't the target, they had those political diehards. It was the non political, minor league educated and intellectually challenged they were hoping to scoop...most as first time voters for obvious reasons.
Gawd! I miss those days where journalists weren't afraid to ask hardball questions. Thanks, Katie Couric, for exposing this fraud.
This is like a defining moment in American history. Decades from this point, we'll look back and say, "That was when the Republican Party imploded, children. Take notes."
Actually I now see the Democratic Party imploding with Bernie Sanders still fighting Her Highness the Hildebeast for that party's nomination. The Democratic Party is really the political party of liberal idiots like many people who are commenting on this UA-cam video.
Hah. hahahahahhahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAH yeah, the GOP sure imploded when they rigged the primaries and lost the election... oh, wait
Iisdabest889 that's why the there's more evidence that it was rigged in favor of the GOP. Oh wait....
It's amazing because this is already happening 2 years after your comment. You were 100% right. People are now pointing to Sarah Palin as to when the Republican party started to shift into what we have now.
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After all this time I am still amazed at this interview. How could this woman ever be a vice-president.
Don't forget she was actually governor
@@edub9930 Governor of what? Her house where she spied on Russia from?!
First she was a CORRUPT Mayor of Wasilla where she spent 9 MILLION taxpayer dollars on an ice hockey facility. Wasilla was an itty bitty town with 2 stop lights. Gee, amazingly her son played ice hockey. Wasilla is probably bigger now. As Gov, she used personal email accts to keep illegal activities out of Gov records. She threatened state employees, was full of chaos, drama, accepted "gifts" & didn't report them, etc. Now she's running for a Congressional seat. BIG MISTAKE TO LET HER IN THE DOOR AGAIN. She's NUTS.
With Trump she might have been better and that's terrifying.
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*Half-Governor
This is the most disturbing video on youtube !!!!
No...beg to differ...ANY Trump Rally or ANY SOTU speech or ANY response to ANY question that requires "intelligent thoughtful responses" or "compassion or empathy". As much of a mindless, clueless fruitcake as Palin was...Trump is 1000 X worse hands down any day of the week. Palin was uneducated and unprepared but Trump is just plain EVIL...AND HE IS UNEDUCATED AND UNPREPARED...bad combination...Stephen King had it right when he wrote "The Dead Zone".
Watching this after the SNL parody, i got confused as to which one was the real interview. Lol
And poor McCain (RIP) twiddling his fingers and squirming in his seat as he slowly realized in that interview the big mistake he made.
That's what I was thinking
When I feel dumb I watch this and I feel smart!
***** Hats off to you, reporters like you are the true unsung heroes of America, showing the people the stupidity of their representatives.
And she isnt considered a tough reporter...
@@mauricepowers8079 really? I'm not familiar with reporters/journalists... who would be an example of a tough reporter?
@@mauricepowers8079 I thought that Couric was always known as a tough interviewer: consistently well-prepared, asking tough questions that don’t leave much wiggle room.
"i'll try to find some examples and bring 'em to ya." = i don't know shit.
She seems like she'd be a sweet mom but as a candidate she's DOPEY!!
Looking back on this now, I’d say John McCain would have been president if he didn’t pick Palin.
And I can see why McCain didn’t want her at his funeral.
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I don’t think he would’ve been president. Bush’ popularity at the time of the election was in the 20s and most people associated McCain with Bush. The republicans were at a very low point much like they are now in 2021
I think people forget how charismatic Obama was. McCain picked Sarah Palin because he was trailing in the polls. If they found the right running mate it certainly could of helped but it’s hard to know.
I think McCain messed up with picking her for a running mate
its was Steve shmidt
You think!?!?!?!?
He wanted joe Lieberman but the gop didn’t want a Democrat Vice President as part of the gop ticket, they wanted a woman so they can counter Hillary Clinton and gain some female voters. John McCain never wanted Sarah palin but he was forced too
It wasn't really his choice. He wanted Joe Lieberman, but Lieberman turned it down plus the Republicans wanted a GOP VP not a Democrat.
If he had picked Rice,he would had won
I really like SNL and Tina Fey and Amy Phoeler
If I could be polygamous I want Tina Fey and Amy Phoeler
It feels like she had prepared answers, but she completely messed everything up under pressure of someone, who's actually a proper journalist.I mean she couldn't have just said I don't know anything about foreign policy, but you can't say that when you're a politician right.
I remember watching this when it originally aired. What really dumbfounded me was that she wouldn’t even answer a simple “what do you like to read” question. It was maddening. And she was chosen to run as VP - the second highest office in the US - and she’d never been out of the country? Crazy.
And she said that was a "gotcha question". "What magazines do you read?" is a gotcha question? Seriously If you had really read magazines like you said, just say which one. If you were lying about reading magazines, just name ANY magazine. Surely you at least knew the name of a magazine. Just say Time, newsweek.....".
At this point of the interview it was clear to Palin that Kaitey was acting unprofessionally and working for the Obama campaign; she was trying to illicit gaffes that she could demean Sarah with.
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You’re joking, right?
@@57andstillkicking Yeah he is being sarcastic.
Chosen because Hillary bowed out of the race and so McCain's campaign thought we women would vote for her because we had anatomy in common...
This is embarrassing to the point of non-belief, I was literally waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump from behind Katie with an MTV camera crew.
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Katie Couric.... you are one of the BEST journalist, and a Global News Anchor that i have ever seen on TV.
My respects, and my best wishes to you and to your loving family.
Thank you very, very much for your pure professional work.
Katie you must have the migraine of migraine headaches after this interview.
Legend says she has yet to recover
Schmidt: "Oh my God, what have we done?"
just watched that movie ) damn its hilarious
The fact that Katie Couric was able to even hold a semblance of decorum during these interviews just proves her position as a true, die hard, American journalist, tactful, gracious, insightful, challenging, and extremely inspirational means EVERYTHING. Palin is so pathetically under the respect that Couric is. I feel so bad that she even had to be compared to this embarrassment.
5:24 😂 LMAO Katie's smile was like "she's really a fuckup but I'm not gonna say it out loud" so patronizing in retrospect
Palin on Canada and Russia: "They're in the state that I'm the executive of." Holy crap!!! I don't know who mangles the English language worse: Palin or Trump.
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This is what happens when we don’t push for public education- Real history, civics, math, real health nutrition, science, and economics 101.
"Alaska has a very narrow maritime border against a foreign country, Russia"....maaaan this aged really well😂😂
I'm not high enough for this
I think if I ate 60mg of edibles I would have a panic attack watching this. I'm embarrassed for Palin
That train-wreck lasted 28 minutes?
@Digby Dooright And THAT was just the prequel.....
The ACTUAL is worse and has lasted for much longer!
I'm sure it felt like 3 years to Sarah.
Eeeaarrrgggghhhhsssscreeeech!
(Sound f/x of a train wreck.)
And despite these interviews effectively ending ole "mama grizzly's" chances at being elected to anything else, she walked away from them thinking that she'd hit a home run.
Yes but they were broadcast on tv over a few days so each day a new installment hit
I watch this clip at least once a year. It’s soo funny. I can never get through it without pausing for laughter. “I’m going to ask you again, not to belabor the point but do you have specific examples...?”
" Governor Palin, how is your morning going?""Is that a Gotcha question?!!"
Great interviewer, follow-ups are precise and challenging when required (ie when Palin skirts around the point). This is a skill that is now sorely lacking in MSM today!
It is absolutely incredible how air-headed this woman was. Perhaps still is.
"What magazines have you read?"
"Most of them...all of them...any of them."
What's wrong? Is she afraid to plug "People"?
Maybe she didn’t know there were magazines beyond Good Housekeeping, Field and Stream, and Teen Beat.
Palin sounds like a mensa compared to the past four years. Poor Sara was out of her league then and we did not heed the trend that began with this type of vague generalized statements that tell the listener nothing.
Thank you Tina Fay and also a big thanks to SNL for actually making "Sarah Palin" look like somewhat competent in those sketches. 😨😨😱😱
Jesus it's still tough to watch all these years later. The McCain team must have been squirming like no tomorrow.
I will watch this once a year for the rest of my life
time for the annual watch.
Wait... you mean to tell me that when someone is undeniably insane and has zero knowledge or background on any of the key issues, they do not get elected? Must've been real nice back in the day
Thanks Katie.very good work.
Every time they cut to a Katie’s face and blinking I crack up. All I can see is the SNL skit lol
God I thought SNL was joking
They were BOTH so phony... he was talking behind her back and she was pretending she knew wtf she was talking about...and he was pretending SHE KNEW what she was talking about. 🤣😆
Evil and very stupid. A dangerous combination.
+CharethCutestory I don`t think Sarah Palin is evil. She`s simple, ignorant and misguided for sure, but she doesn`t strike me as malevolent.
+Mister Anthropy to incite racism during the 2008 campaign is every bit of malevolent and promoted violence against blacks and Muslims. The intolerant temperature much like now was dangerous not only minorities but Obama and his family.
Just like the piece of inbred shit we presently have in the White House!
Evil? You're foolish
Katie Couric talking to a blade of grass.
I really don’t know of anyone who can match Katie’s preparation, understanding of issues and communicative strengths.
I'm here because of Game Change, great comedy I highly recommend!
Me too!
I just finished watching the movie....8 years later. Wow.
@@Yesu44 lol, I found the movie to be entertaining in a comedic sort of way, but also found it fascinating how someone like Sarah Palin could be allowed to run for Vice President.
Ty 4 telling y ur here I really wanted 2 know
After watching "Game Change," I had to watch the full interview to judge how accurate the movie was. Looks like it was spot on.
Omg!!! I watched the movie and I had to check these interviews out....SPOT ON. Omg
I wonder what they would have done with her if John McCain had actually won? Sat her in a room next to the Oval office with a colouring book and some crayons for four years?
What else could McCain have done with her? LOLOLOLOL
Same thing they did with Biden. Enlighten me on what he accomplished.
That is priceless! And what's worse is it's true!
@@theflash1508 secured a job for his son as son as the U.S. backed coup in Ukraine was finished. Biden likely worked behind the scenes for Big Finance (as always) and advised Obama agains the public option.
Isn't that kind of complicated?
Palin is such an airhead, but much smarter than Trump. Who knew.
Ahhh the good ol' days when you could actually enjoy watching a politician say a bunch of words strung together..... I watch this on a regular basis; it is 2019 and it is still as "exciting" as it was back then.
you betcha
LOL, Perfect
It’s all gone, I miss it very much😂 it’s very entertaining, at the same time it expose the candidates real qualities and qualifications!
@@bonzrh68 Yeah, you make a very good point.
I’ll get back to ya 😅
Boy, I forgot just how bad this interview was. Good Lord.
me when I have to make a presentation and made it 15 minutes before class
anyone just watched the movie Game Change (great movie) then wanted to see the real interview lol
Looking back, this reminds me of my son's first girlfriend.. I was watching "The World At War" documentary. She watched it for awhile. She then commented, "I thought Japan was our friend".
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Good to know your son has his priorities straight😆
Haha!!!
You sound like an amazing mother-in-law...
Wow. I'm in the UK, I sometimes heard the name 'Sarah Palin' with reference to American elections, but never really heard her talking. I came here after seeing the Saturday Night Live sketches, just to see. And fkkkk, there's hardly any difference between the sketches and reality. How can you parody this? It IS parody. Jesu, America, wtf. That's some scary shit. You realise you're the world's only superpower, right? And you're voting this woman close to the presidential seat? I'm struggling to believe what I'm seeing.
i did too.. snl sent me here!
And Trump is in office.
Tenacious Me LOL
I’m conservative and this made me LMAO! 😄
OK, good to hear from another conservative who found several parts of this interview incoherent. (I did agree with her on some small things, though.) I could not help but laugh at the irony of Palin praising McCain for taking stick from members of his own party, given how she has degenerated into a Trump-supporting robot who threw her great friend Senator Ted Cruz under the bus when he didn't toe the new party line.
poor Couric, that must be hell, an eternal interview with Palin.
Listening to her answers from the interview, I wonder how the heck do you think Cain ever think about using her as his running mate. And I also wonder how the world to citizens of Alaska ever vote her as their Governor