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Thursday, November 19, 2009, 10:23 PM

If you come to Columbus, OH, in the near future, I would enjoy interviewing you.  Perhaps coffee or tea @ the local Panera?

There is something about blogging, something lacking.  We’re out here, just writing, alone and with little reward.  Many of us are neither reporters nor any other form of professional journalists.  A few, like Michelle Malkin, can make a good living in that field.  Some, as found here, are pastors or teachers — professional communicators.  But others of us just try hard.   At least we bloggers have a chance to edit and correct our errors and republish.  We don’t have to embarass ourselves as political hacks on national television.

In that light, here are a couple of subjects on which I would engage her.

1.  I’ve been thinking of asking her more than Bill O has planned on Fox News.  He said tonight that he wants to talk to her about policy.  Nobody, after all, is talking about her views on policy matters.  That is a good step for Bill O.  We certainly do not hear about policy matters on CNN — Behar and the others can only make fun of her.  I will ask her why she doesn’t write and perhaps publishing some essays on these matters.  It’s what Paul Tsongas did with his Call to Economic Arms.  It’s what Ronnie did as he prepared for his run against Carter.

2. I might even ask her to change her eyeglasses.  Those big lenses look like safety goggles.  City people seem to like to wear small lenses.  I think city people are intimidated by the size.  If she would wear smaller lenses, then perhaps she might honor us all with an imitation of Tina Fey.

I figure all she can do is say No.  Or not even see this post, but that’s not something she does — it’s something that she wouldn’t be doing.  So that really doesn’t count.  But I digress.  Hey, it was worth a try.



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3 Comments

    Frank Turk
    November 20th, 2009 | 6:53 am | #1

    Just as a ‘me, too’, Sarah Palin, since your people are reading this, you actually will be in Arkansas in early december signing books at Sam’s Club.

    I’ll take a day off from work to spend even an hour talking to you for publication on this blog and my standard platform at TeamPyro. If I could spend the day among your team, all the better.

    Jeremy Pierce
    November 20th, 2009 | 10:11 am | #2

    Sarah Palin just published a book, so I’m not sure why you think she hasn’t written anything. If you mean more direct policy writing, she has published a number of op-eds and other opinion pieces. A quick Google search turned up:

    Shovel ready or digging a hole? (Alaska Daily News, March 2009)

    The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End (Washington Post, July 2009)

    Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care (Wall Street Journal, September 2009)

    Drill (National Review, October 2009)

    I found several others, but my browser is misbehaving.

    Collin Brendemuehl
    November 20th, 2009 | 12:23 pm | #3

    Nobody talks about them. Nobody reviews them. Bill O didn’t discuss them. There is a fundamental lack of substance all around.