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<\/a><\/p>\nA couple of good – and very deserved – shots at the always-vacuous Katie Couric, there. So you should ignore them.\u00a0 Bypass them.\u00a0 Let them stew.<\/p>\n Bypass them.\u00a0 Go directly to the American people, like Ronald Reagan did.\u00a0 Good gravy, if you have a talent in this world, it’s connecting with all of us who live between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre.\u00a0 Use that talent.<\/p>\n Ignore them.\u00a0 And when they react as they will – arrogantly, fuming at the impudence of a mere plebeian daring to displease them – then mock their impotent rage. Play to your strengths – and conservatism’s.\u00a0 We don’t need<\/em> the major media.\u00a0 We detest\u00a0<\/em> them every bit as much as they detest us.<\/p>\n Or at least make sure you have a camera crew of your own there, to make sure that the truth is <\/em>out there, somewhere.\u00a0 The word would get out, and fast; there are a whole lot of us bloggers (perhaps you’ve heard of us?) who’d see to that.<\/p>\n So take control.\u00a0 Even if you and Mac lose this one, you – like Reagan – can look forward to a short time in the wilderness.<\/p>\n Especially if – as I suspect will be the case – Barack Obama becomes the worst president of my lifetime on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n Tear ’em up, Sarah.<\/p>\n MBerg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 Governor Palin From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, supporter and fan. Re:\u00a0 Lessons Learned. Governor Palin, I watched with great interest your interview with Carl Cameron, about the two ambush interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. A couple of good – and very deserved – shots at the always-vacuous Katie Couric, there. But the real lesson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut the real lesson, I think, is to not give hamsters like Couric and Gibson the chance to “control the battlefield”, to shape your message for you, as they quite clearly did in both intereviews.\u00a0 Remember – you can say anything you want into the mike; when the editor gets done with the tape, you may or may not recognize anything you said.\u00a0 The media is a law and set of “ethics” unto itself; they are unaccountable to anyone<\/em>.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3213\/2909734318_8eb6ce5302.jpg?v=0\")
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