Columnist: Palin right, Gibson wrong on 'Bush Doctrine'

The far left has been making hay over Sarah Palin's answer to a question by ABC's Charlie Gibson about "The Bush Doctrine."

The man who first coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine," columnist Charles Krauthammer, has reviewed the tapes and has pronounced Gov. Sarah Palin the winner in the exchange.

From Krauthammer's column in Investor's Business Daily:

I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term. In the cover essay of the June 4, 2001, issue of the Weekly Standard titled, "The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism," I suggested that the Bush administration policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol, together with others, amounted to a radical change in foreign policy that should be called the Bush doctrine.

Krauthammer said Gibson didn't know what he was talking about when he asked Palin about the "Bush Doctrine," so whatever answer Palin gave would have been wrong.

From his column:

Yes, Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know — while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, "sounding like an impatient teacher," as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the phenom who presumes to play on their stage.

The Gibson interview is yet another case of the liberal media piling on Sarah Palin. The move appears to have backfired again, as have countless attacks by the Obama campaign and their media surrogates. Sarah Palin emerged from her first major network interview unscathed and continues to build sympathy from Americans who are tired of the corrupt media influencing American politics.

Read the full column," Bush Doctrine? Palin Got It, Gibson Didn't" at the newspaper's Web site.