Lauer Interview of Palin Before Her Today Co-Host Gig

I don't even have to check in on the Huffington Post or Daily Kos (but I will) to know that their comment section is rife with Palin hating right about now. If you didn't know, she guest-hosted with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on Tuesday. The interview started with Lauer asking Palin if Mitt Romney becomes the GOP nominee, "are you happy with that?" Palin answered "Anybody but Obama." Lauer then attempted to do what all MSM "journalists" do, get one conservative to attack another. He later called her a "polarizing figure," where as Obama was a post-racial transformer. Lauer also then tried to convince Palin (and get her to admit) that Romney doesn't have charisma and can't get the average American to think he's one of them. Perhaps a valid question, but again, Obama was the "harbinger of hope." And to throw in the misleading left-wing talking point of "the economy is getting better," Palin called Lauer on his cheer-leading and in correct English) "For whom? Maybe for those on Wall Street. Not for those millions still unemployed, not for those whose houses are under water..." And when Lauer tried to give Obama credit he never gave Bush (200, 000 jobs created-not a majority of which is private sector-manufacturing is looking better, the stock market is looking better, consumer confidence is up, etc) Palin informed him of the obvious that there is more unemployment under Obama than before he took office and the national debt is still astronomical.

Then Lauer laid his liberal cards on the table. "Why would I take that chance with another person in the White House?" Palin nailed it with simply, "Because things aren't getting better fast enough."

Later and she smacked down Lauer's left-wing question by typically insulting the former Alaska governor with his "question" of,
"When you were plucked from obscurity in 2008 you'd been Alaska's governor about two years. You didn't have any real experience on the national stage....Do you think, if Mitt Romney's the nominee, he should choose someone with more experience on the national battlefield than you had at the time?"

I don't know if being a United States governor qualifies as being "in obscurity," or that Lauer still doesn't want to admit Palin had more executive experience (with an 80% approval rating) than all of the other candidates in 2008 (including the current President and Vice-President and even her running mate) as she comments on in the transcript below.

She absolutely hit it out of the park with the exposing of the albeit obvious bias in mainstream television news like Today and hopefully informed and probably even shocked some moderate or middle-of-the-road Americans that maybe only get their information from the lib-fest that is the MSM. I'm sure she made some jaws drop as well as made some progressive heads explode. I'll take either.

"I would say it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience or not, they're going to get clobbered by the lamestream media, who does not like the conservative message." "it doesn't matter if that person has been a known commodity to the mainstream (lamestream) media or not. The GOP ticket, to tell you the truth, Matt, doesn't know what's coming. They don't know what's going to hit them in terms of double standards being applied to them and the positions that they hold, and the records that they are running on, from, you know, personal family issues to anything else. There will be that double standard applied no matter who it is."