Hannity and Palin's Friendly Game Of T-Ball

The "softball" imagry should never be used in a situation such as this one between Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin and lunatic-fringe sychophant Sean Hannity. A more appropriate and accurate vision that one should have before them is of two kids playing "t-ball"

While Hannity is more than happy to frame his questions in such a manner so that his guest really doesn't have to answer - if they are a Republican - and doesn't let others answer multi-level question, often laid-out in the vaguest of terms - if they are Democrat.

Sean Hannity hypes all his interviews with leading Republicans hard-hitting journalism, they are - in reality - nothing more than him setting the ball on the "t" and jesturing to his guest to just walk up and "touch the ball with the bat". The ball never goes far, but - just like in the t-ball games for our children - Hannity and his audience cheer with all their might as their little-batter ( in this instance Palin ) musters all the dexterity their little legs can muster as they wobble and stumble their way around the bases to home-plate.

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Think Progress has highlighted the clip below to show Palin's rhetoric around the Fannie Mae / Freddy Mac bailout. Whereas Hannity's question seemed to be framed in reference to McCain's statements about campaign contributions, Palin seems to think that "lobbyists" are to blame. Interesting, since McCain and Palin's campaign boasts several fundraisers that have worked as "lobbyists" for Fannie and Freddy. The most notable of whom is Rick Davis, their campaign manager.



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Part I of the interview was nothing more than a rambling "let's keep up the talking points that are probably working" back-and-forth. Hannity asked "what was it like being chosen?" like he was asking the members of Led Zeppelin what it was like writing Stairway To Heaven. Palin seemed very comfortable - unlike the disaster that was her interview with Charles Gibson. Palin didn't have a "in what respect Sean-y" moment at all.

She stuck to what was comfortable.

She talked about reform - a lot - without giving any examples. She talked about McCain's bi-partisan track record without noting how it has helped. She did a lot of talking and at one point stated that 'talking about it isn't enough'.

In all, the interview served little to no purpose at all. It wasn't designed to sway voters one way or another. This was a piece designed to tell Republican voters things they already knew.