by Nomad
It's really hard to believe that an entire decade has passed since John McCain's vice presidential candidate stepped up on the nation's political stage. So much has taken place since then. McCain has met his maker but Sarah Palin is holed up in Wasilla still flinging inane remarks via twitter and Facebook.
Sadly, we no longer have emotional energy to care much about Palin. The country, faced with a destroyer of the American Republic, now has so much more to think about than the shrill and absurd Alaskan.
But in some ways, the very serious problems we are facing today can be traced back to that time, when it suddenly became perfectly all right to stir up violent hatred for the sake of winning. When character, dignity and intelligence all became non-essential traits for prospective candidates for high office.
To mark the 10th anniversary of Katie Couric's interviews, here is a two-part podcast which examines puts the events into perspective. Hope you enjoy.
The Palin Interviews, 10 Years Later is a two-part documentary series from the Katie Couric podcast. For this special series, Katie and Brian look back at Katie’s interviews with then vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the impact those conversations had on the 2008 election. Plus, they consider the path Palin may have paved for the rise of Donald Trump.
In Part One, Katie and Brian go behind the scenes with top officials from the McCain and Obama campaigns and cover Palin’s extraordinary emergence on the national stage: her selection as John McCain’s running mate (which almost didn’t happen) and her electrifying speech at the Republican National Convention. And of course, they examine the interviews heard round the world and consider why they struck such a chord.
Part One
In the second and final chapter of their documentary series, Katie and Brian explore what happened after the Palin interviews aired: from the struggles of the McCain campaign to Sarah Palin’s decision to start “going rogue.” Plus, they explore how Palin helped usher in a new brand of American politics— and President Donald Trump.
Part Two