{"id":1190,"date":"2012-05-07T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:11:29","slug":"producers-went-along-with-distorted-account-of-palin-pick-financial-times-03-31-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/07\/producers-went-along-with-distorted-account-of-palin-pick-financial-times-03-31-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Producers went along with distorted account of Palin pick | Financial Times | 03.31.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Mr Clark S. Judge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sir, In \u201c<a title=\"FT Life &amp; Arts - Gillian Tett: The Achilles heel of women in politics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/bbafe276-73b2-11e1-aab3-00144feab49a.html\">How Hollywood changed my view of Sarah Palin<\/a>\u201d (Comment, March 24), Gillian Tett mistakenly accepts the HBO movie\u00a0<em>Game Change<\/em>\u2019s account of John McCain\u2019s August 2008 selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running-mate.<\/p>\n<p>As portrayed in the film, the Palin pick arose from the McCain team\u2019s desperate YouTube-facilitated search for a compelling \u201ccounter to the charisma of Barack Obama\u201d. In fact, Mr McCain faced a political dilemma to which Ms Palin was almost the inspired solution.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McCain had a problem with strong conservatives and independents. Each group was bound to see his vice-presidential choice as evidence of whether they could trust him. However, any likely candidate who would attract one was all but certain to alienate the other \u2013 except Ms Palin.<\/p>\n<p>We all know how she energises conservatives even today. But in mid-2008 she looked as good a bet to excite nonaligned voters.<\/p>\n<p>In becoming Alaska\u2019s governor, Ms Palin had shown independence and courage, challenging an entrenched establishment of her own party. In her brilliant convention acceptance speech, Ms Palin reached out to both conservatives and independents, and for the next half month the ticket led in the polls. Then came the financial crisis and Mr McCain\u2019s erratic response. The contrast with Mr Obama\u2019s cool-headed performance sealed the election\u2019s outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Palin\u2019s strengths and weaknesses have been, in Ms Tett\u2019s phrase, \u201ctwisted by a political machine gone mad\u201d as operatives tried to pass blame for their campaign blunders. But whatever one thinks of her, it is a shame that HBO\u2019s producers went along with that distorted account.<\/p>\n<p><em>To view the\u00a0original\u00a0Financial\u00a0Times publication, please follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/f11509bc-774c-11e1-93cb-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1uCyD931s\">link<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mr Clark S. Judge. Sir, In \u201cHow Hollywood changed my view of Sarah Palin\u201d (Comment, March 24), Gillian Tett mistakenly accepts the HBO movie\u00a0Game Change\u2019s account of John McCain\u2019s August 2008 selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running-mate. As portrayed in the film, the Palin pick arose from the McCain team\u2019s desperate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-commentary-campaign-2008","tag-financial-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}