Palin on which newspapers she reads: ‘Um, all of them.’

[SirMoby]

She has to be sand bagging. I know she lives way up nort dare but she has to at least pay attention to what's going on down south a little.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palins-news/
Tonight on the CBS Evening News, host Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin which sources she relies on for her news consumption. Three separate times, Couric tried to elicit a response from Palin about which specific newspapers she reads. Seemingly caught off guard, Palin could not name a single news source:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, 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?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —

COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.

PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.

[Mr, gone]

Palin has a very myopic veiw of reality... Must be why allot of repugs love her so much. They both see things the same way. :lmao2:

[SeedyROM]

Maybe Palin was playing games with the Couric? Couric is no Babara Walters now is she? Nor is Couric even close to Lesley Ann Stall Couric asks pointless questions and asks hypothetical questions that have no relevance. Everyone wants to think Couric is this great mind in journalism.......like I said she is lightweight. When the media ask dumb or pointless questions it tend to either piss off the guest or it throws them off thier talking points.

Youtube has many interviews with Palin long before we knew her, she did quite well with many of them.

Sand bagging is most likely in play here.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Moby, you fail to realize that the comic section is in nearly every newspaper.

:)

[disrupter]

Palin has grand aspirations,

she wants to be on every comic page in the nation.

Looks like it is working.

[asroc]

Maybe Palin was playing games with the Couric?

That's quite a reach there.

[Hog Trash]

Katie Couric is about the dumbest ugliest bitch I've ever seen...............No doubt.

I've noticed this ever since she made her first appearance as a liberal mouth piece on a morning talk show years ago.

She damn sure never got her job because of looks or brains.....Hmmm?......Wonder what special talent she possesses??? :dunno:

[SirMoby]

Couric asks pointless questions and asks hypothetical questions that have no relevance.
Like explain your foreign policy experience or give us an example of what your running mate has done?

I think those are pretty straight forward, not hypothetical and kind of important.

[SirMoby]

Katie Couric is about the dumbest ugliest bitch I've ever seen...............No doubt.
If she had the looks and Palin was able to answer her simple and direct questions would you consider her "Amazing?" :lmao2:

Again your programming is showing.

[SeedyROM]

That's quite a reach there.

No it's not. Have proof otherwise?? Post it!

Even Sirmoby sees that Palin is bluffing the airhead bimbo.:lmao2:

She has to be sand bagging.

[SeedyROM]

Like explain your foreign policy experience or give us an example of what your running mate has done?

I think those are pretty straight forward, not hypothetical and kind of important.

That question was not asked in the manner you suggest. So much for truth.
You need to actually watch the interview to have a competent summation of the event. You look like a moron for pretending to comprehend what I commented on in the other thread.

[SirMoby]

That question was not asked in the manner you suggest. So much for truth.
You need to actually watch the interview to have a competent summation of the event. You look like a moron for pretending to comprehend what I commented on in the other thread.
It was such a difficult question.

She could have said, The Economist, News Week, Time, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, People, National Geographic, Cosmo, Vogue or Sports Illustrated for that manner.

Instead she couldn't come up with anything? Come one. How do load that question so it can't be answered?

[SeedyROM]

It was such a difficult question.

She could have said, The Economist, News Week, Time, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, People, National Geographic, Cosmo, Vogue or Sports Illustrated for that manner.

Instead she couldn't come up with anything? Come one. How do load that question so it can't be answered?

Liar, you said she was sand bagging!! Too late to change the truth.

Why should Palin give a straight answer to Silly airhead bimbo? Couric is on her way out at CBS, check it out yourself. Her ratings are low and the talk is CBS will not renew the current contract.

You are reaching well beyond the facts!

[Hog Trash]

If she had the looks and Palin was able to answer her simple and direct questions would you consider her "Amazing?" :lmao2:

Again your programming is showing.Palin is simply nervous from the bullshit instuctions and coaching that the republican handlers have been bombarding her with.

Every time a question is ask, instead of just answering, she must think of what she's been told to say......Nerve racking.

You're an idiot. I don't believe you have to have this explained to you. Surely you must understand this was sprung on her literaly over night.

She had to jump in, while others have been in the game for a year or longer, rehearsing and preparing.

They don't trust her "free speaking" because they fear she might stray outside their campaign strategy.

Having no control of the situation is frustrating and takes her out of her element like a duck out of water.

She is very intelligent and a very capable communicater. If the campaign managers would turn her loose, she could win this thing for them.

[Binky]

While I find it odd that Palin didn't just come out and name the newspapers or mags, let's say, The New York Times, The LA Times, Newsweek, USA Today, etc, I also find it disconterting that this crapola bothers you all that much.

Could be Couric was tougher on her because Palins another woman. Who knows? But why waste your time repeating such a silly question in the first place? Maybe they were both playing ridiculous games with each other. Still, it's stupid. She should have moved on to a more important question, rather than sitting there beating a dead horse. I'm sure ego had something to do with it.

[Hog Trash]

While I find it odd that Palin didn't just come out and name the newspapers or mags, let's say, The New York Times, The LA Times, Newsweek, USA Today, etc, I also find it disconterting that this crapola bothers you all that much.

Could be Couric was tougher on her because Palins another woman. Who knows? But why waste your time repeating such a silly question in the first place? Maybe they were both playing ridiculous games with each other. Still, it's stupid. She should have moved on to a more important question, rather than sitting there beating a dead horse. I'm sure ego had something to do with it.Ego had nothing to do with it...She was simply trying to destroy Palin to promote her candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

That's really some good old fashioned honest unbiased journalism there from Katie Couric........Don't ya think? :winkwink:

[asroc]

Ego had nothing to do with it...She was simply trying to destroy Palin to promote her candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

That's really some good old fashioned honest unbiased journalism there from Katie Couric........Don't ya think? :winkwink:

I've asked you once if you found any of the questions were unfair of Couric to ask Palin, and you said it wasn't a question but Couric's body langauge.

[Hog Trash]

I've asked you once if you found any of the questions were unfair of Couric to ask Palin, and you said it wasn't a question but Couric's body langauge.Come on asroc....Are you seriously telling me you're so stupid, you don't know what I'm talking about.

To explain the tactics of Katie Couric and the rest of the left wing, so called journalists, would serve no purpose.

What they do is obvious, and even if I took the time to explain in detail, you would still deny it.

Being much smarter than you, I already know this.

[Cat slave]

Who in this world reads newspapers anymore? Another 5 years and there
wont be any left to use in the bottom of litter boxes or trash cans. Eeeeek!:disbelief:

[SirMoby]

Palin is simply nervous from the bullshit instuctions and coaching that the republican handlers have been bombarding her with.
Now you're saying that she cracks under pressure? The pressure of Katie Couric? Imagine if she had to make a decision on shooting down a hijacked plain heading for New York.

Maybe you should stop defending her.

[SirMoby]

To explain the tactics of Katie Couric and the rest of the left wing, so called journalists, would serve no purpose.
You say this because you can't in a rational way because your lying again :taunt:

[SeedyROM]

I wonder if Palin does better with male interviewers or was there something about little Katie that threw her off her game. I did notice Couric closed her arms a lot as iff she were signaling rejection of Palin. We do know the interview was in fact EDITED!!! I'm surpised no one has mentioned that by now. Cut and splice to humiliate, its been done before.

[SirMoby]

I wonder if Palin does better with male interviewers or was there something about little Katie that threw her off her game. I did notice Couric closed her arms a lot as iff she were signaling rejection of Palin. We do know the interview was in fact EDITED!!! I'm surpised no one has mentioned that by now. Cut and splice to humiliate, its been done before.
Last time they cut and spliced didn't they cover up some of McCain's bad answers?

It's up to Palin to gain rapport and if she's not capable of gaining rapport when she's not on stage then how can she be an effective leader?

[Hog Trash]

We do know the interview was in fact EDITED!!! I'm surpised no one has mentioned that by now. Cut and splice to humiliate, its been done before.Considering the interviewer and the network, guilty without a doubt.

[Binky]

Ego had nothing to do with it...She was simply trying to destroy Palin to promote her candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

That's really some good old fashioned honest unbiased journalism there from Katie Couric........Don't ya think? :winkwink:


Well, I still think that a bit of ego was coming through there. And it certainly wasn't unbiased. Couric could have asked better questions rather than wasting time repeating that same one over and over.

But by the same token, Palin could've have been a bit more prepared. I've watched her enough to know that she has been thrown to the lions, so to speak, and has had a crash course in all sorts of issues. So it stands to reason that maybe she should read up more on econ. and foreign policy. However, I can only imagine how overwhelming the whole situation is. I understand that some of her answers leave something to be desired. But I also understand and wonder how you or I or any of us would do in that situation.

[Binky]

I wonder if Palin does better with male interviewers or was there something about little Katie that threw her off her game. I did notice Couric closed her arms a lot as iff she were signaling rejection of Palin. We do know the interview was in fact EDITED!!! I'm surpised no one has mentioned that by now. Cut and splice to humiliate, its been done before.


Oddly enough, that thought had occured to me as well, except I was thinking more in the lines that Katie seemed to do better interviewing men. Notice how she smiles and jokes around somewhat with them. However, while interviewing Palin she sat stern, barely cracking a smile and appeared skeptical. So to me, it looked like she does better with men and uses her feminity to further her interviews. And with Palin, being woman to woman, we saw nothing of that. She was closed off from the get go and had already made up her mind before she began interviewing.

[Smurf-Herder]

I'm not even bothering to read the responses in this thread.

Talk about Gotcha politics :(

Anybody ever ask what media sources Obama, Biden and McCain get their news from?

This is just another skirmish in the "Get Palin" campaign.

[asroc]

Smurf, if someone asked you what newspapers you like to read, you would be able to give a straight. It's not the question that is the issue, it's the nature of her answer.

[Smurf-Herder]

Smurf, if someone asked you what newspapers you like to read, you would be able to give a straight. It's not the question that is the issue, it's the nature of her answer.

Lame excuse for the double-standard.

It's the nature of the question - that hasn't been asked of any of the others.

Why don't they ask Obama who inspires him?

Rev. Wright and Malcom-X - according to his own books.

It just shows how most of the media is in the tank for Obama.

[asroc]

Lame excuse for the double-standard.

It's the nature of the question - that hasn't been asked of any of the others.

Why don't they ask Obama who inspires him?

Rev. Wright and Malcom-X - according to his own books.

It just shows how most of the media is in the tank for Obama.
How is it a double standard to ask a national politics newcomer who could potentially be president what they like to read?

[asroc]

This rationale is silly. You're claiming that senators with years of voting records, interviews and books written by/about them warrant the exact same questions as somebody whom 98% of the voting public had never heard of six weeks ago.

[Smurf-Herder]

This rationale is silly. You're claiming that senators with years of voting records, interviews and books written by/about them warrant the exact same questions as somebody whom 98% of the voting public had never heard of six weeks ago.

You're trying to rationalize a double-standard. :thumbsup:

[asroc]

No, I'm saying that it's not one. You have three candidates who are relatively known quantities, and one who is largely unknown and new to most americans. A double standard would be treating subjects of equal quantity unequally.

[Smurf-Herder]

No, I'm saying that it's not one. You have three candidates who are relatively known quantities, and one who is largely unknown and new to most americans. A double standard would be treating subjects of equal quantity unequally.

How are they unequal?

I never heard of Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton, until they ran for President - both State Governors like Palin.

[asroc]

Well, the question "what do you like to read" certainly would not have been out of line to ask of either Clinton or Carter. I don't really understand your argument there. I'm the one saying it was fair to ask Palin, remember?

[Smurf-Herder]

Well, the question "what do you like to read" certainly would not have been out of line to ask of either Clinton or Carter. I don't really understand your argument there. I'm the one saying it was fair to ask Palin, remember?

What exactly was the point of the question; and why is it so important?

I don't recall it ever being asked of anyone else in all the years I've been watching the news, in my entire life.

IMO, it was nothing more than an attempt at trying to find something new to attack her on.

[asroc]

Considering that she's making the jump from state to international politics, hearing what she likes to read would be a small window into how she views the world and could help show her intellectual curiosity. It's not an uncommon question to ask in an interview or profile. In fact, it's in journalism 101.

[SirMoby]

Considering the interviewer and the network, guilty without a doubt.
Yet you're not able to mention anything that actually said or did that should throw a strong executive off her game. It's just one of those feelings isn't it? That's how NLP works Hog and you keep proving that you've come under the programming.

[SirMoby]

What exactly was the point of the question; and why is it so important?
Because no one knows anything about her. She's spent very little time south of Canada, most of her career has been spent in a town of 7,000 people and her state doesn't even border another US state. Her education is in communications, wink, cutsie smile, bat eyes and not in law, economics, US history or anything that helps to instill confidence.

She was asked about the Bailout and she was clueless. She was asked about The Bush Doctrine and was clueless. She was asked about specifics in McCain's career and she was clueless.

Many Americans get the impression that she's a little out of touch. Not just coming from a town of 7k but coming from a state with such a sparse population, so far from the rest of the USA and she's never bothered to even travel outside the USA.

A simple question asking about how she stays informed is appropriate for someone that seems so distant, shut off from the rest of the world and so clueless on current events.

I think the reason that she couldn't answer it is because she doesn't read any national or world news. If she reads anything it's the local paper and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you're not interested in being hired to run or influence the nation.

[Smurf-Herder]

Considering that she's making the jump from state to international politics, hearing what she likes to read would be a small window into how she views the world and could help show her intellectual curiosity. It's not an uncommon question to ask in an interview or profile. In fact, it's in journalism 101.

Was it ever asked of Clinton, Carter or Reagan - who were all governors?

If it's an issue now, then the only reason has to be that it's a setup, IMO.

Or because she's a woman, who SNL continually tries to portray as a dummy.

[Smurf-Herder]

Because no one knows anything about her. She's spent very little time south of Canada, most of her career has been spent in a town of 7,000 people and her state doesn't even border another US state. Her education is in communications, wink, cutsie smile, bat eyes and not in law, economics, US history or anything that helps to instill confidence.

She was asked about the Bailout and she was clueless. She was asked about The Bush Doctrine and was clueless. She was asked about specifics in McCain's career and she was clueless.

Many Americans get the impression that she's a little out of touch. Not just coming from a town of 7k but coming from a state with such a sparse population, so far from the rest of the USA and she's never bothered to even travel outside the USA.

A simple question asking about how she stays informed is appropriate for someone that seems so distant, shut off from the rest of the world and so clueless on current events.

I think the reason that she couldn't answer it is because she doesn't read any national or world news. If she reads anything it's the local paper and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you're not interested in being hired to run or influence the nation.

I think a lot of people are clueless about the bailout; as to how it's actually going to work. They hadn't even voted on the 451 page plan until the week before the debate. You think she has the time to read all that in less than a week, with everything else going on?

Which Bush Doctrine?

a) fight them over there, so they won't come here?

b) spreading democracy, so stable countries can't be bases for terrorist philosophy to grow?

c) containing the proliferation of nuclear weapon technology?

d) those who harbor terrorists are considered just as guilty?

e) pre-emptively attacking threats?

People say there is a "Bush Doctrine". But in actuality several "doctrines" have been stated over the years; with none of them "officially" being called "the" Bush Doctrine. Talking heads on all the networks discussed that extensively after that interview.

Do you know all the specifics of McCain's career?

Hey, what does Obama read?

Certainly not the magazine of his own church, which had articles from members of Hamas and gave the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award to Louis Farrakahn - apparently.

BTW, I don't read "any" newspapers. Newspapers are usually 24 hours behind what's actually happening nowadays. I read Google News stories, and watch CNN, Fox and MSNBC - to see what all sides are saying on everything. Unless it's something in-depth I need to flesh out in a paper, in online articles.

[Hog Trash]

She has to be sand bagging. I know she lives way up nort dare but she has to at least pay attention to what's going on down south a little.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/30/palins-news/

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.You make claims, but fail to back them up with any proof or examples. Please post verification of your claim or shut up.

[asroc]

Was it ever asked of Clinton, Carter or Reagan - who were all governors?

I don't have Lexis/Nexis or access to all interviews of all President/VP candidates for all time. I remember Bush saying he read Bernie Goldberg's bias in 2001, but he was already president at the time. I remember Obama mentioning that he's read Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team Of Rivals", which is about how Lincoln brought his opponents from his election into his cabinet in a truly bipartisan fashion.

Would it have been out of line to ask any candidate what they like to read?

Is your logic that if a simple question wasn't asked of any/all candidates before, it's then somehow unfair to ask now?

Why complain about SNL, they make fun of everybody. The complaint makes one seem petty.

[Smurf-Herder]

I don't have Lexis/Nexis or access to all interviews of all President/VP candidates for all time. I remember Bush saying he read Bernie Goldberg's bias in 2001, but he was already president at the time. I remember Obama mentioning that he's read Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team Of Rivals", which is about how Lincoln brought his opponents from his election into his cabinet in a truly bipartisan fashion.

Would it have been out of line to ask any candidate what they like to read?

Is your logic that if a simple question wasn't asked of any/all candidates before, it's then somehow unfair to ask now?

Why complain about SNL, they make fun of everybody. The complaint makes one seem petty.

You know what's really petty?

This becoming such a big issue for the loonies.

[SirMoby]

I think a lot of people are clueless about the bailout; as to how it's actually going to work.
I think at that time if you asked 100 random Americans about it 98 would have been able to offer an opinion. I'm assuming that 2% are conservative beauty queens. It was a simple question and most Americans were talking about it.

[SirMoby]

Which Bush Doctrine?
When I heard about that question being asked it's because my asked me what it was and I explained it to her. The next morning I learned why she was asking because I was working during the interview.

[SirMoby]

Do you know all the specifics of McCain's career?
In 20 years of working with corporate America when I went into an important business setting with a partner I learned enough to answer such questions. She wants to take on one of the most important jobs in the nation and be able to take his place in the world's most important job and didn't bother to research his record?

Come on. It's not like it was the first weekend. She had weeks to prepare for some very basic knowledge on her running mate and the issues facing America.

The truth is that if Palin did have an opinion on the largest economic crisis facing America in her life time she wasn't able to articulate it. If she did know about McCain's history on such issues she forgot. If she did read any type of news she simply forgot from where.

Either she forgot a lot of important information or she's just out of touch with the lower 48 and the rest of the world.

[SirMoby]

You make claims, but fail to back them up with any proof or examples. Please post verification of your claim or shut up.
It's my opinion that no one would chose anyone that stupid as a running mate. That's why I figured she has to be sand bagging but I'm starting to second guess and think that maybe she really is that clueless.

[Smurf-Herder]

It's my opinion that no one would chose anyone that stupid as a running mate. That's why I figured she has to be sand bagging but I'm starting to second guess and think that maybe she really is that clueless.


You can't offer a qualified opinion if you weren't in on the negotiations.

Disrupter could give an opinion - but he wouldn't be flayed like a flounder if he were wrong on anything; because people aren't trying to play gotcha games with him.

[SirMoby]

You can't offer a qualified opinion if you weren't in on the negotiations.
the negotiations for what?

Dude, it was a simple question. It wasn't some intricately laced gotcha question framed before hand. Just tell America what news sources you read so we know a little more about you.

She couldn't answer it. I find it hard to believe that anyone running for VP can't answer a question that simple.

She could have said, "None" and that she subscribes to Internet news outlets. She could have named that ones she reads. She could have just said "Us Hockey Mom's don't bother our pretty little heads with a bunch of useless facts."

How can she not be able to answer so many simple questions? You betcha I could understand one gotcha but it's hard to believe that she couldn't answer so many.

At least when I started this thread it was hard to beleive and that's why I thought she was sand bagging.

It appears I was wrong. I no longer think she was sand bagging. I really think she doesn't keep up with news, didn't understand what the bail out is much less what it means and knows very little about John McCain or the lower 48.

[Smurf-Herder]

the negotiations for what?

Dude, it was a simple question. It wasn't some intricately laced gotcha question framed before hand. Just tell America what news sources you read so we know a little more about you.

She couldn't answer it. I find it hard to believe that anyone running for VP can't answer a question that simple.

She could have said, "None" and that she subscribes to Internet news outlets. She could have named that ones she reads. She could have just said "Us Hockey Mom's don't bother our pretty little heads with a bunch of useless facts."

How can she not be able to answer so many simple questions? You betcha I could understand one gotcha but it's hard to believe that she couldn't answer so many.

At least when I started this thread it was hard to beleive and that's why I thought she was sand bagging.

It appears I was wrong. I no longer think she was sand bagging. I really think she doesn't keep up with news, didn't understand what the bail out is much less what it means and knows very little about John McCain or the lower 48.


As to the bailout, it isn't a simple question.

Simple minds may think it is, but it isn't.

You can't give a qualified answer, from somebody the masses are expecting to know everything, without knowing what's in that 451 page document.

I just heard tonight for the first time that there's a provision in there to establish a Carbon Tax - of all things. How can you expect her to give an answer worthy of what she thinks people expect the quality of from her, before she's had a chance to take the time, while campaigning, to go through the whole bill in detail - to form an opinion?

[SeedyROM]

the negotiations for what?

Dude, it was a simple question. It wasn't some intricately laced gotcha question framed before hand. Just tell America what news sources you read so we know a little more about you.

She couldn't answer it. I find it hard to believe that anyone running for VP can't answer a question that simple.

She could have said, "None" and that she subscribes to Internet news outlets. She could have named that ones she reads. She could have just said "Us Hockey Mom's don't bother our pretty little heads with a bunch of useless facts."

How can she not be able to answer so many simple questions? You betcha I could understand one gotcha but it's hard to believe that she couldn't answer so many.

At least when I started this thread it was hard to beleive and that's why I thought she was sand bagging.

It appears I was wrong. I no longer think she was sand bagging. I really think she doesn't keep up with news, didn't understand what the bail out is much less what it means and knows very little about John McCain or the lower 48.

Palin admitted she played games. You are overreacting.

Go join a neocon website and make your Dem status known, watch how quickly you'll be treated as dumb or a hick for living in the south. Location has nothing to do with education or intelligence. Couric got played. Watch more recent interviews. Palin is not dumb. You are also saying 500,000 people in AK are not smart either........tell that to Ted Stevens!

[SirMoby]

As to the bailout, it isn't a simple question.

Simple minds may think it is, but it isn't.

You can't give a qualified answer, from somebody the masses are expecting to know everything, without knowing what's in that 451 page document.
No one was asking for a complete and detailed answer. Dude, she started rambling and repeating talking points for other issues.

She could have just said it was a complex issue and that she hasn't read the document yet but supports the idea or doesn't support the idea and is waiting to read the 451 pages before coming to a final judgement.

I've been in much tougher situations then that and answering a question is not that hard.

Besides, that was only one question. There were a few others and she was clueless on them as well.