Palin filmmaker detained by police at Couric award ceremony

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/palin-filmmaker-arrested-at-couric-award-ceremony/

The documentary filmmaker who recently called it "an outrage" that Katie Couric was receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Journalism for her interview last September with Sarah Palin was detained by police outside the award ceremony on Wednesday.

Ziegler, who is working on a film blaming the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket on the media, believes that Couric deliberately set out to create a negative impression of Palin and that she is being "rewarded for the political outcome of the interview."

[MADem]

1. So, when FOX influences elections, that's good. When CBS does it, that's bad?

Is that this dolt's thesis?

[TankLV]

6. umm - CBS doesn't try to INFLUENCE elections, only FUX DOES that...

CBS reports - at least more than the FUX GOOPER "network"...

[MADem]

10. The accusation here is that is precisely what they were doing.

All I'm doing is pulling the string.

[bluestateguy]

2. Watching white conservatives whine about police brutality is downright amusing

Suck on it fools. We control the police now.

[LostInAnomie]

3. Look out "Charlie" Gibson! He's coming for you!

[TankLV]

4. So let me get this straight: WHEN WE RECORD THEIR OWN REMARKS FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE

what FUCKING CLUELESS DUMBASS she is - it's somehow OUR fault?!?!

IT'S HER OWN FUCKING WORDS!!!!!GODDAMMIT...

zeigler/paling - here's a fucking dime - go out and buy a fucking CLUE - they're going CHEAP now that the DEMOCRATS and OBAMA is back in OUR White House that YOU trashed!!!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Though this guy is a wingnut, for Couric to get any journalism award is a crock

[Botany]

7. He is a two bit hack and looks to be a little drunk

Palin made Palin look bad not Couric

[Mist]

8. Yeah--Couric sabotaged Palin by asking questions! How dare she??!! nt

[tanyev]

9. Oh please. Sarah Palin would have made a negative impression if my cat had done the interview.

[derby378]

11. Couric receiving ANY award with Cronkite's name on it gives me the willies

Katie got lucky. She got damn lucky when she landed the Palin gig. Doesn't mean that she's an accomplished journalist - I still see her as little more than a glorified morning talk-show host.

Of course, that would also speak volumes of how well this reflects on Slappy the Dodo Bird and how badly she got owned in that Couric interview.

[katanalori]

12. Ziegler is a clown

U.S.C. is a private institution, not a public one. You can't just start filming there. The same thing would happen to Ziegler if he started filming at Pepperdine University in Malibu, another private institution (which is "Christian"). Pepperdine would throw him off, as it, too, is private property. Ziegler is an idiot not to know this. But then, a real journalist would know that, right?

Apparently Ziegler was NOT recognized media, was NOT in the designated media area and was accosting people entering the Walter Conkrite Media Awards. They should have arrested him for tresspassing - he was NOT invited to this invitational event.

[Ocracoker16]

13. that film maker guy is really nutty

I have seen selected clips from his so called documentary. It was hilarious.