ABC - PALIN SAYS COURIC HAD A "PARTISAN AGENDA" IN HER INTERVIEW

PALIN SAYS COURIC HAD A "PARTISAN AGENDA" IN HER INTERVIEW

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has told Oprah Winfrey that she was immediately aware that her interview with Katie Couric was going badly during the first segment but that Republican campaign officials urged her to press on with it nevertheless. "That is why Segment 2 and 3 and 4 and maybe 5 were scheduled. The campaign said, 'Right on. Good. You're showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview.' And of course I'm thinking, if you thought that was a good interview, I don't know what a bad interview is because I knew it was a bad interview." Palin appeared on Winfrey's program to promote her new book, Going Rogue , in which she accuses Couric of "badgering" her and having a "partisan agenda." She also accuses ABC newsman Charles Gibson of appearing to be bored by discussions of "substantive issues" and that while interviewing her, he "peered skeptically" over his reading glasses like a disapproving school principal.

13/11/2009