Palin Smacks Down NBC's Lauer: GOP Ticket Will Be 'Clobbered' By 'Lamestream Media'
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pressed Sarah Palin on whether the Republican nominee should pick a vice presidential running mate with more experience than she had in 2008. Palin hit back: "I would say it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience or not, they're going to get clobbered by the lamestream media, who does not like the conservative message." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Lauer denigrated Palin's qualifications as he asked: "When you were plucked from obscurity in 2008 you'd been Alaska's governor about two years. You didn't have any real experience on the national stage....Do you think, if Mitt Romney's the nominee, he should choose someone with more experience on the national battlefield than you had at the time?"
Palin issued a warning to her fellow Republicans:
The GOP ticket, to tell you the truth, Matt, doesn't know what's coming. They don't know what's going to hit them in terms of double standards being applied to them and the positions that they hold, and the records that they are running on, from, you know, personal family issues to anything else. There will be that double standard applied no matter who it is.
Concluding the segment, Lauer took a parting shot as he referenced Palin's guest hosting the show in the next hour: "And I want to mention to people, you are going to stick around and join us for our 8:00 hour, which technically makes you part of the lamestream media for that hour. I just want you to know."
On Monday, NewBusters' Geoff Dickens detailed some of the worst Today show bias against Palin over the years.
Here is a transcript of the April 3 exchange:
7:10AM ET
(...)
LAUER: If Mitt Romney is the nominee, one of the first real major decisions he'll have to make is on a vice presidential candidate. When you were plucked from obscurity in 2008 you'd been Alaska's governor about two years. You didn't have any real experience on the national stage, and in this era of intense media scrutiny, you took some lumps. You had mixed results, as we all know. Do you think, if Mitt Romney's the nominee, he should choose someone with more experience on the national battlefield than you had at the time?
PALIN: Well, you know, I would put up my record as a CEO of a city, of a state, as an oil and gas regulator, up against any of the other potential GOP vice presidential nominees last go-around. So you know, I'm proud to stand on my record as a private sector, and a public servant CEO.
LAUER: But if you were advising Mitt Romney, would you say go out and get someone who is battle tested on a national level?
PALIN: I would say it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience or not, they're going to get clobbered by the lamestream media, who does not like the conservative message. And it doesn't matter if that person has been a known commodity to the mainstream, lamestream media or not.
The GOP ticket, to tell you the truth, Matt, doesn't know what's coming. They don't know what's going to hit them in terms of double standards being applied to them and the positions that they hold, and the records that they are running on, from, you know, personal family issues to anything else. There will be that double standard applied no matter who it is.
What I would advise Mitt Romney, or whomever the nominee would be is, don't necessarily play it safe, and do just what the GOP establishment expects them to do. And that is, to get somebody kind of just going along to get along, not willing to go rogue and shake it up and say that we need relentless, and we need sudden reform of our government to put it back on the side of the people.
LAUER: Governor Sarah Palin. Governor, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
PALIN: Thank you.
LAUER: And I want to mention to people, you are going to stick around and join us for our 8:00 hour, which technically makes you part of the lamestream media for that hour. I just want you to know. Nice to have you here.
PALIN: Thank you so much.
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Pathetic little coward....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:46am.
that you are, Lauer.
Weaselly little girly-man
Submitted by HelenS on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:07am.
Weaselly little girly-man
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
use the Reagan Ridicule line
Submitted by neutron on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 2:03pm.
"Well, Matt, there you go again."
I was glad that SaraCuda fought them, but she could have used the Reagan Ridicule line.
We all can use it.
"Well, there you go again."
HEY MATTIE LAUER....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 4:14pm.
YOU WERE PWN'D now go ask Miss Couric if you can have the jar holding your little shriveled up plums........... maybe they you can pretend your something like a man... not a real man just something like one!
What a Graceless Man
Submitted by libBuster on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:48am.
That is a quintessential example of a classless man.
he really is
Submitted by NOLAgirl on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:52am.
"graceless and classless" It's a shame. He's just another example of a wimped-out, effete, ridiculous, liberal "man". They've all been neutered.
Metrosexual Matt
Submitted by libBuster on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:18am.
If this on-air behavior is a indicator of the private man, I can see why his marriage to wife Annette has been tempestuous at best.
Lauer's questioning style is anything but debonair. Cary Grant he is not. What a shame, If he were less snarky, he'd be almost watchable. Handsome on the outside, soulless on the inside.
Gutsy...
Submitted by dyardley on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:49am.
I do love that woman!!
Me, too, D.
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:56am.
That she called Lauer "lamestream media" to his face just rocks.
I only wish she'd said something along the lines of "Four years later, Matt, the lamestream media, *significant pause & stare*, is still doing it.....because the question you just asked me is one that YOU ALL have never asked Barack Obama".
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LOVE IT!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:02am.
She IS great. Media sucks! Elections STOLEN by media! Look at the T. Martin case! They are lying, misleading, agenda driven tyrants!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
"intense media scrutiny"
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:53pm.
When Matt cautioned about “in this era of intense media scrutiny …” I was hoping Sarah would say something like:
So, Matt, are you referring to the fact that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s book for him, or how Obama completely wasted all of the $150M of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or how Obama partied with a Palestinian Terrorist, or how Obama considered Jeremiah Wright his spiritual leader… are you referring to those facts and many others like them as receiving intensive media scrutiny?
Darn, a golden opportunity missed.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Me too!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:58am.
She has more guts than anyone currently running for President. She is the ONLY reason I wanted to go vote for McCain last time. I was going to do it anyway, but she had me believing we could pull off the victory.
Hey, GOP!....Fight like a GIRL!!
Me Too
Submitted by rhondacoleridge on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:47am.
to the Nth degree
Wow! Only TWO years as a Governor?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:52am.
Too bad she didn't have no heavy liftin' esperience lak community organizin' to beef up dat resumee, yo.
Matt Liar
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:00am.
Just another inbred newspuppet.
"When you were plucked from obscurity in 2008 you'd been Alaska's governor about two years. You didn't have any real experience on the national stage...(snip)"
(What Sarahs response should have been) "Well matilda, when you chose obama, did you ask him about his magnificent record on the 'national stage'?"
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Bumper Sticker: Romney,
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:07pm.
Bumper Sticker: Romney, Politically, just a White version of Obama"
the American public is zeroing in on all politicians. right versus left, black versus white.. and everything in between..
the evidence "sort of " trickled in from 2003 to 2010 but now its like a flood.
It's a shame
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:35pm.
It's too bad that in 2012 that we can't focus our arguments in the perspective of what we believe, as opposed to the color of people's skin.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
My comparison is based on
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:46pm.
My comparison is based on political message and past performance.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Obama was "plucked" out from
Submitted by jkwtrading on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:58am.
Obama was "plucked" out from obscurity also..Mr. Lauer. He had "quote" "less" credentials then Palin. yet the lame stream press completely ignored his "credentials" .
Now, now.
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:00am.
He did have credentials. Joe Biden himself told us that Obama was clean and articulate. What else do you need to be President?
Always be present. You never
Submitted by Drawn Edited on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 7:39pm.
Always be present. You never know when an issue might come up that requires unanimous agreement.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Submitted by inquiringmind on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:51am.
Exactly what I was thinking. Someone with national experience... Hmmm... Like say ...Obama?
And yet..
Submitted by H_Tuttle on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:00am.
a thousand times more executive experience than Lauer's adored Obami.
Yesiree!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:44am.
Is Matt Lauer ignorant? It seems as if he doesn't know that Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla for SIX YEARS! Prior to that she did her own version of "community organizing" by serving on the Wasilla city council.
9 1/2
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:52am.
If you total up Palins time as Mayor, Chair of the Alaska Oil & Gas Commission, and Governor, she has 9 1/2 years executive experience vs. ObamAA+s 0 years experience.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Laur vs. Palin
Submitted by charlietexas on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:00am.
That was a beautiful response to an ugly question. NBC is unapologetically having Gov. Palin on to boost ratings and that Katie Couric is on GMA. Stupid. I watched her in a panel with Nancy Sniderman among others and Nancy found herself agreeing with some of Palin's stances on stupid issues like Facebook enemies lists. I almost went to sleep.
Lauer could not respond.
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:04am.
He couldn't even argue with her about the double standard and the fact that the GOP would be harshly treated by the LSM. EVERYBODY knows it is true.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Genius
Submitted by octavioj on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:08am.
I thought it was a stroke of genius of governor Palin to take it to them in their own network. Hopefully more conservatives will do the same and then we will get some balance in these news shows. Wishful thinking I know.
Sweet, delicious IRONY
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:14am.
I loved it too...."lamestream media, lamestream media".
Kind of surprising they didn't bleep her for calling them by their name!
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Genius Indeed
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:37am.
She now knows she need to go into the snake den Live, not on tape. Its harder to creatively edit live TV. ;-)
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Hockeystick Meets Puck
Submitted by CJohnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:20am.
Definitely knocked his manhood around for him to squeal the truth about being on Team NBC.
oops
Submitted by CJohnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:22am.
oops
On the next segment
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:21am.
They were talking about the vitriol in society and Donny Deutsch said it was also in politics. I think it was Donny (could have been Lauer?) who said Palin was part of the incivility because in the previous hour she kept saying anyone but Obama. Really? After the horrible names she's been called? The nastiness of googling Santorum? The muck thrown at Romney because he's a Mormon? Saying ABO is uncivil?
Freakin' whiny little spineless wimps.
Anybody But
Submitted by miss911ninja on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:53am.
Don't these whiny wimps remember how the left coined the term with their constant refrain of "anybody but" Bush? Back then, they didn't think it was uncivil!
I'm waiting for the republicans to begin using
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:00pm.
"IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID" against obammy.
When the lefties coined the phrase we had a booming economy.
Now it's well proven and everybody with a "+" sign in front of their IQ score knows it.
Too bad the republicans neuter themselves with RINOS and wannabes that "has paid their dues to the party".
How about someone that has Paid Their Dues to the People this time?
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
weak
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:33am.
Lauer's last shot was very weak.
Turn in your Man Card Matt, you got PWNd by a girl.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
LOL
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 3:32pm.
Tru dat.
You can almost read Lauer's mind.
Submitted by NeoKong on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:38am.
When Palin was talking about the GOP ticket being clobbered with double standards he was thinking " You're damn right we will Trixie ".
Smack Down Matt Lauer?
Submitted by jdripper on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:01pm.
I thought for a second you meant she did heavy lifting then I remembered who Matt Lauer is and just laughed. Anyone engaging with Matt is like having a mental duel with a penny gum ball machine.
Come on guys if she can't b***h slap Matt Lauer then that would be news.
Jack
Palin talking points are correct and factual points
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:57pm.
Imagine him being this smarmy to Gerry Ferraro (Rip) or Hillary.
Not a chance, but he is just a little pu&&& liberal who I believe Palin is superior to him in every way.
He has gotten worse since he bleeped up and cut his hair and it NEVER grew back.....................
ha, ha, ha loser.
LAUER: And I want to mention
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 1:26pm.
LAUER: And I want to mention to people, you are going to stick around and join us for our 8:00 hour, which technically makes you part of the lamestream media for that hour. I just want you to know. Nice to have you here.
PALIN: "Actually Matt, I'm here to lend you, your show, and your network some credibility and relevance. Darn glad to be here."
Another reason
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:59pm.
Maybe she was there to lend a touch of class to an otherwise unruly mob.
Another reason
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:59pm.
Maybe she was there to lend a touch of class to an otherwise unruly mob.
Palin and Lauer
Submitted by NVRAT on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 2:04pm.
I got the impression that Lauer was a little afraid of Palin because his messages were sort of mild. Now that does not mean he would not have been more aggressive it just appeared to me he was not sure how much he would get clobbered if he took that road. So, he took the non aggressive approach with childish catty girlie remarks.
Lauer proved her case.
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 3:30pm.
He is a smug pompous water carrier for the Party Demokrat. His insolent and rude behavior tells viewers all they need to know about what is coming.
Matt Lauer's Alleged Mistress Used to be a Man
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 4:34pm.
This is what Matt Lauer is all about!! Google it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYr62tZ31U&feature=relmfu
Lauer's comment was not unexpected.
Submitted by Thalpy on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 5:04pm.
His lame comment reminded me of an old quote attributed to Winston Churchill: Mrs. Braddock said, “'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.” Tomorrow morning Matt Lauer will remain a member of the lamestream media, while Sarah Palin will not.
Excellent post!
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 5:39pm.
Excellent post!
Sarah
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 6:20pm.
Palin/Ryan is my dream ticket!!!
I detest these morning shows. Pablum for the masses, yuck.
That said, I did DVR this to see Sarah. 3 hours, and I fast forwarded to just her spots.
If TODAY wanted me to watch it? Sarah should have HOSTED it!!!
And Matt? You are scum.
Ronald Reagan
"Denigrated"? Seemed a pretty
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 6:25pm.
"Denigrated"? Seemed a pretty accurate assessment.
And I CAN'T BELIEVE Palin actually said "mainstream." She's obviously slipping.
She said "lamestream", not "mainstream".
Submitted by ghidorah15 on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:40pm.
If you're going to troll Sarah Palin, at least get your facts straight.
i never understood
Submitted by jimtrees on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 8:18pm.
the hatred that the dems had for bush. now, listening to obama,i get it. obama is evil in every sense of the word.
Sadly I was not able to grab
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 8:46pm.
Sadly I was not able to grab a picture of Sarah at the Today show. The bus was running late and instead of taking the minute or two to walk by the studio I did something the 99%'rs don't do and headed instead to work.
Now, I DVR'd the show and am watching it right now. I really wish that the camera would have stayed on Missy Lauer when Sarah was slamming Obama and calling out the lame stream media. That being said I do not think he knew how to handle the interview. He woefully pulled out the libturd tactic of of "Some people say" and Sarah just shrugged it off.
My score:
Gov Palin - +50
Missy Lauer - +1 (because he didn't go crying off the set)
Well Matt.... some people say
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 8:56pm.
That you do not have the brains of a dead skunk, shall we give those "some people" the same amount of credibility that you assume your "some people" has in your eyes?
My group of "some people" do not have a political agenda, they just make intelligent decisions based on what you say and compare it to the real world.
On the other hand Matt, your group of "some people" are mere figments of your imagination, made up on the spot in a feeble attempt to appear relevant in a world of irrelevance in the media elite circles.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Matt the dropout speaks
Submitted by Founders1791 on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:52pm.
HYPOCRITES, LIARS, and DOUBLE STANDARDS
Me thinks those who continue to deride Sarah' intelligence should look in the mirror.
[Matt Lauer] - NBC Today Show Host
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE DROPOUT, Ivy Tech in Indiana
- COLLEGE DROPOUT, Media Arts and Studies in Ohio
[Mike Schmidt] - Political Adviser, 'Game Change' adviser
- COLLEGE DROPOUT, Political Science Univ.of Delaware
[Sarah Palin] - Governor, Mayor, Business Owner
- COLLEGE GRADUATE, Bachelor's Degree in Communication from Univ.of Idaho
Cool to you! Thanks for that
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 1:44pm.
Cool to you! Thanks for that post!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.