Norah O’Donnell Ambushes Teen Girl For Supporting Palin
Nov 20, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The liberal media’s mission to destroy Sarah Palin in the heat of her ongoing book tour ensnared an unwitting a 17-year-old Palin fan in Grand Rapids, Mich. Norah O’Donnell of MSNBC set up the girl, Jackie Seals, by staging a confrontation with her over Palin’s views on last year’s government bailout of the financial industry because Seals was wearing an anti-bailout shirt.
First watch the encounter on YouTube, but then be sure to read Seals’ report of her encounter with “one of the many faces of liberal media bias” .
Seals “knew I was walking into hot water with MSNBC” but thought she was prepared. Off the air, O’Donnell asked Seals why she liked Palin. O’Donnell then noticed what Seals’ shirt said — “the U.S. government handed out $700 billion in Wall Street bailouts, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” — and decided to seize on that storyline for the live shot but without telling Seals in advance, after she had led the teen to believe the line of questioning would be about why she likes Palin.
Seals later realized she was the victim of a typical media “gotcha” moment. (Remember, she is just a teenager.) But thanks to the power of new media, she turned the “gotcha” moment on O’Donnell, not only reporting the context of what happened on the scene but also exposing an intentionally misleading factual error by O’Donnell.
