Anchorage Edition: September 12, 2008

Fri, September 12, 2008
Posted in Anchorage Edition

Each week, host Michael Carey gathers journalists and commentators for a review of the week’s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska. Topics this week include:

All Sarah Palin, all the time in the national media and as Palin has returned to Alaska after the VP nomination
Was Sarah Palin wrong to take the State’s per diem while staying at home in Wasilla?
What’s the status of the “Troopergate” investigation this week?
Is the media avoiding the question “Is Palin qualified to be Vice President?”
Why does Palin have trouble with conservative Republicans in Alaska, when she’s so popular among right-wing politicos in the lower 48?

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HOST: Michael Carey, independent journalist

GUESTS:

Paul Jenkins, voiceofthetimes.net
Frank Gerjevic, Anchorage Daily News
Steve MacDonald, KTUU Channel 2

KSKA (FM) BROADCAST: Friday, Septmeber 12, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

KAKM (TV) BROADCAST: Friday, September 12, 2008 at 11:00 p.m. (no repeat broadcast this week, Anchorage Edition will return to its normal schedule next week)

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One Response to “Anchorage Edition: September 12, 2008”

Paul Fournier on September 13, 2008 at 8:01 am

It’s pleasant to listen to quiet voices discussing Sarah Palin rather than the banshee wailing that prevails in the media South of where I live (Ottawa Canada).

Item: When McCain was tapped as the Republican candidate, I was left with the impression that his party had decided to forfeit the election. This is a tactic used down here in Ottawa, typically by the liberals. When there are just too many sordid scandals, or the whole country is on the edge of bankruptcy, they will put up an embarrassing candidate and let the opposition take the blame for the sky falling in for the next four years. Then I learned a bit more about him; followed by the Palin nomination and decided otherwise.

Item: I would have expected you to be rather proud that Palin is in the running, and that she has come across as a reasonable woman from *your* state. Those who seek to hate their opponents build expectations of perfection, and when, like all of us, they turn out to be sinners, then it’s off to the gallows. You ought not to buy into such a temptation.

Item: What do you make of the noise floating about that Obama was not born in the United States, thus is not eligible to run for President?

Item: We are having an election too, here in Canada, and I just wish we had someone as *inexperienced* as Sarah Palin: - lipstick and all. Count your blessings. We do have a very few actual human beings running for Parliament though. (snide comment - I hang my head in shame).

Cordially,
Paul Fournier