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Watch Video Conservative Columnist Liz Trotta as she Rips Sarah Palin a New Hole and she does it @ Fox news On Air [Live] !!
Trotta: "Palin is Inarticulate & Undereducted"
Even Fox News has started to turn on Sarah Palin. In the midst of a segment about the Alaska Governor's battle against "liberal" attacks, Liz Trotta went off-message.
Frankly, "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated," Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was "well-deserved."
"I think all the liberal stylists ... really have a case. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky." When pressed, she added, "We're talking about somebody who, right from the get-go, has been a flashy person who gets into a lot of trouble and really has no credentials for any job."
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Governors make hard decisions, especially now in an economic downturn. You have mandates you can't fill and treasuries that are looking kind of scary. I wonder if you could take a moment and talk about the toughest decision you've had to make, so that people can really understand what it is governors do each day, what tough jobs they are.
Yeah, you have to deal in reality and legalities everyday. A recent decision that, again, put me on the outs with the Republican Party there was recognizing--and I go back to industry and resource development here--environmental standards that were not as high as they should be with some of our resource development projects up on the North Slope. Having to sue the oil companies to make sure they were adhering to law. Then the criticism that came back said, "You're going to drive industry out of this state and create unemployment in this state." … [People said,] "You're going to sue an industry that provides 85 percent of our state's budget and send this message that we're not actually partners with industry?"
But I'm looking long-term. I'm looking at my kids growing up and wanting to provide them opportunities, wanting them to realize clean air, clean water, healthy wildlife up there in Alaska. We've got to make sure we're taking care of that today, which means we've got to make sure the producers of our oil and our gas are following the law. In fact, we have to beef up and strengthen our environmental laws in Alaska so that we can prove we have the correct oversight to allow this development to happen. So, recently, in suing Exxon, BP, Conoco Phillips, you know, the party leaders don't like that.
In California, that would be cause for great celebration, but in Alaska, we should point out, it's a different deal.
The Exxon Valdese oil spill happened 19 years ago. 11 million gallons of crude flowed in our waters after a spill with this tanker, covered 1,100 miles of coastline, decimated fisheries in Alaska, decimated some of our coastal communities. Exxon refused to pay the punitive damages, and they've appealed and appealed. The other day, we filed a friend of the court briefing. 19 years later, the state finally takes a position saying, "Yes, Exxon, you will pay up, you will help remediate these oiled beaches." The beaches are still oiled, too--you kick over a rock, you see oil, and it's from that incident 19 years ago. These livelihoods have been taken away from so many villagers. They want to work; they relied on commercial fishing as their work, but all that's been taken away from them. So, filing a friend of the court briefing there--yeah, it puts you on the outs with some in my party, the leadership there, but it's the right thing to do.
And these are the people who write the checks in Alaska?
Yeah, right.
I do want to circle back to Hillary. There's been so much second-guessing on Hillary, and Hillary's our stand-in for the next frontier for a woman candidate. But this notion that she's made herself so tough that she's not likeable. Do you find you have to walk that line between toughness and likeability? Does anybody still doubt, is she tough enough?
I recognize that Hillary seems to be trying real hard to be tough, but I say, more power to her. I think she's had to do that. It's unfortunate that she's had to do that, but she comes across to me as tough, capable. I can respect that in her, that she is that tough, capable and experienced and all that. You wonder, though, if there is that other side of her that is, I don't know, softer isn't the right word. But you wonder about the personality. What's the other side like? Because what I perceive in just watching mainstream media is that she's trying really hard to be tough and to show that resumé and to prove that she's got that experience. In fact, that's the latest round of everything this last week or so, it's been the experience again, isn't it? Like, Karen, you said, everything's gone around and around in her campaign, but it does seem to have come back to the toughness and the experience. So, I recognize that's what she's trying to do and I think it's unfortunate that maybe a woman candidate feels that she has to go there. You don't see male candidates doing that.
Did you ever feel that? Like you had to pull out your shotgun or hoist a set of antlers?
I have to admit, there are a lot of Web site pictures of me shooting.
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