Blog posts like this one make me mad. These people are either ignoring or ignorant of how TV actually works: a program's "host" is not the producer who does the interviewing, or the editor who puts the pieces together. This was not going to fake Palin as the interviewer, and people who are saying that Palin was being false are exaggerating.
At the same time, LL and Toby Keith should have been told beforehand who would be the host presenting the program on them.
Ronald Smothers, Times Reporter Who Covered Protest and Politics, Dies at 79
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In a career that included 35 years at The New York Times, he chronicled the
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential run and the bombing at the 1996
Olympics...
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