Kristin Powers on the Sarah Palin interview by ABC's Charlie Gibson:
Her responses to Gibson's cross-examining seemed canned and rehearsed, a little like the answers you might give in a tough college interview. But that may be a result of the ham-fisted editing - which seemed to cut her off mid-thought on many answers. ABC should release the entire, unedited interview, so that Americans can judge her more fairly.
After watching 247 fragmented clips of the interview on Youtube, I came away thinking Palin did OK. Not great, just OK. But I also thought that in a way, "OK" was all Palin might have needed to be.
The bar was set so low for her in so many places, that as long as she didn't confuse the Russian invasion of Georgia for Sherman's burning of Atlanta, she might actually gain ground in some warped way.
However, after reading the full interview transcripts, you do have to think that in this day and age of mega-bandwidth, ABC should release the full, unedited video. And you'd have to think there is something in it for them in terms of attention and advertising dollars.
