Gov. Sarah Palin, Queen of All Media
From the latest interview with Katie Couric:
Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?The above is almost unbelievable. For anyone to make such a claim and then try to act as the victim of some sort of lower 48 intellectual snobbery is a shameful display. (On a related note, I'm getting really annoyed with Palin bringing everything back to Alaska. 400 people live there.)
Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, "Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
I actually thought on the whole this was her best interview. Perhaps it was the less formal settings in which the conversations took place, but she seemed more relaxed, genuine, and credible (with the exception of the aforementioned "I read everything" comment). At least she sticks to her (fundamentalist, hyperconservative) guns on social issues.
I can see her appeal to certain voters.
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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/02000.html
acutally, it's 670,000 of the 3 BILLION people in the US. So that's 0.22% of the population. Yeah, so I guess 400 people is about right.
that question killed me too
Huh...you're three days behind the regular updates.
Katie attacked her like a yippy Chihuahua on something that doesn't matter.
Do we know what Obama reads? No.
Do we know what Biden reads? No.
Do we know what McCain read? No.
Do we know what Clinton reads? No.
Do we know what Katie reads? No.
Why are we assuming that it was a GREAT question. It wasn't.
I know, she was supposed to answer, "Every morning I read the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the local Alaska paper. And Glamour, Vogue and People."
You've been suckered by a biased liberal media into treating an unimportant question as if it were an important question.
@Savvyd: I think it was a great question, not because the answer is important in that "I read the NY Times" is better than "I get all my geopolitical news from American Rifleman" (although that happens to be the case), but because she clearly failed to provide an honest answer to a softball question.
I think it's another small but important insight into her character. Even if she doesn't read anything of note, she could say something to the effect of "I'm too busy being the governor of a state to spend much time reading news aside from briefings from my staff."
Which is inadequate, although probably close to the truth and a bit more believable than "I've read most of them...all of them."
It's just incredible doubletalk and an insult to voters that she would consider such an answer acceptable.
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