November 22nd, 2010

Sarah Palin won’t do another Katie Couric interview, according to Entertainment Weekly.  There’s no secret that the liberal media isn’t fond of Sarah Palin, and that the former Alaskan Governor/Former VP hopeful/Fox News Contributor/TLC reality star/Proud “Dancing with the Stars mama Grizzly” is a staunch conservative.  She’s polarizing – perhaps one of the most polarizing figures in the political landscape on the right. So is it really all that surprising that she doesn’t want to do an interview with Katie Couric?

Fox News’s motto is “Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid.” In all “fairness” some people think that Sarah Palin should do liberal interviews for networks such as MSNBC and CBS so that she can be “cross examined” so to speak.  If she’s going to be a candidate for the presidency – and some say she is most definitely going to at least give a shot at the office – she’s going to have to speak to more than just Fox News.

However, Palin may outright refuse to talk to Couric.  The Entertainment weekly piece gives a quote from a Palin interview on Sean Hannity (which can be seen below) which stated “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I study journalism. [Ed. All of journalism, in fact.] Who, what, when, where, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy … And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us. So a journalist, a reporter who is so biased and will no doubt spin and gin up whatever I have to say to create controversy, I swear to you I will not waste my time with her. Or him,”

Is that right, though? Even though liberals may not agree with conservatives and vice versa, shouldn’t we all try to speak to each other, and try to understand each other? There are things we can take from each others ideologies that could really help us all learn to get along, and make the country a better place.

Photo: (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)