He asked Palin, "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"
She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, "In what respect, Charlie?"
Sensing his "gotcha" moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense."
(Glad to have my perspective confirmed!) Krauthammer continues:
"Wrong."
...Yes, Sarah Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Charlie Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know -- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, sighing and "sounding like an impatient teacher," as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage.
Read the entire article here. He explains in detail that there have been four successive versions of the "Bush Doctrine", all different. It was perfectly proper that Sarah asked for clarification...and perfectly clear that Gibson, in spite of his snottery, doesn't have a clue.
I hope they all get what they've got coming, and what looks like they're bringing down on their own heads.
The Gunslinger
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