By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST
Palin on which newspapers she reads: ‘Um, all of them.’
Think Progress- By
at 7:14 pmTonight 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.
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Alaska gets ALL of the news papers! Just LIKE the rest of America! WOW!
Need a Reason to Vote in 2008? How about a few Sarah Palin Facts.
She reminds me of Bush… like when he said he was reading all The “Shakespeares” one summer..
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shes just stupid.
How does she have time for her family? Reading all of them… good grief… she is an idiot!
I’m single, kids are grown but I don’t have time to read all of them!
She thinks people will believe that sh*t?
Unbelievable. When is she going to be replaced?
No not replaced…just think of her as a republican Hallmark card … a gift to Dems….
She is SO dim – SO stupid – SO vapid…SO out of touch with people…typical McMelanoma choice….
He shot from the hip and this was what he brought down – pathetic.
I’m sure she “reads” – or perhaps someone reads to her???
Would love to see some of your posts on politics4all.com
it’s true: sarah is just like you!! many americans don’t read anything other than people and US mag, with the occasional enquirer for the juicy stuff…sometimes the USA today.
but would you choose yourself to be VP??? no way, do you trust yourself to make the right, informed decisions that can impact the world in a few minutes? look how fast the markets fell from congress’ inaction. look at iraq!!! Katrina, Ike.
imagine a dimwit, uninformed, and ignorant person like sarah trying to make the most important decisions in the world with all the many pressures coming from aides, lobbyists, competing interests, and opposition.
forget it! never is it OK to want someone like the average joe to run this country. NEVER. that would be like having your average joe perform heart surgery on you. THINK ABOUT IT. i’m sorry, but it is necessary that special positions like VP, POTUS, and heart surgeons are left for those who have studied it the most at the highest levels and have a higher level of intelligence and comprehension of the subject matter. at least, require that the person be able to speak in basic clear sentences.
If that’s called elitist, then guilty as charged. but i’d rather call it leaving the complex jobs to those best qualified to handle it.
the rest of us should just try to be good citizens.
Why aren’t the citizens of this country up in arms (figuratively, as I am pro gun control!) over this nomination. John McCain has put our nation at grave risk by even suggesting that Palin is qualified to be Vice President let alone President. Below is a word and definition that fits this act.
treason (trē’zən)
n.
Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Sarah Palin can’t name any magazines or newspapers she reads because she DOESN’t read any. She gets all her philosophies on the issues from the Bible. The family through their religious beliefs and convictions to their religion is what she believes. There is nothing wrong with that except, they want that to be the policy for all of us and thats where I draw the line in the sand. I can’t support anyone that wants to dictate to me what and how to believe. Sarah, I know you don’t remember this, but thats how this country was founded. Leaving England for individual freedoms, one being that there be no laws deciding one’s religion.
Wake up America
Former McCain supporter until Palin
If she had named them, then that would have scrutinized even worse, Sarah Palin did the wise thing, she knew exactly what Katie (the 15 million dollar a year) woman was doing.
Sarah did come back with Alaska is not another country, which i think most americans need to be reminded of.
The President of Pakistan says he’s taken Palin’s Alaska plan
back to his people as a way to improve the life of his citizens
and help them lift themselves up by using their resources to help them with their low incomes..l what a concept someone
actually thinking of how to help the people of their nation.
This interview (and the others) should send chills up the spine of every educated American. I only blame Palin for the chutzpah for thinking she was qualified to be VP and a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Mostly, I blame McCain and his handlers for the cynical decision to put politics above country by putting Sarah Palin in this position.
I definitely do not blame Sarah Palin for not giving information about what she reads. If she had given specific information it would have been disected, criticized, publicized negatively and speculation about which articles she read and why would have been abundant (and not in a positive manner).
Personally, I think she is a fast study and has learned that any specific information can and will be used against you in the court of a biased, bloodthirsty media. The way the media has treated her is unbelievable and it is embarrassing to realize that we have what are supposed to be objective professional media personalities in America that would treat ANYONE, left, right, black, white, republican or democrat with such scathing disdain.
In November I will go to the poles and vote not because of personality assasinations and media portrayal but by trying to sift through the rubbish and see what McCain and Obama really stand for and how they plan to run this country. However, it makes it difficult to be objective and calm when you see this form of abuse by the media. It makes me angry enough to have thoughts of voting for her ticket just to even the score!
In response to what Anne said up there about her being “Smart” to not mention her sources (which, personally I think is probably mainly 2000+ year old reports) because she doesn’t want to be “scrutinized” is EXACTLY THE PROBLEM!!
We NEED to scrutinize someone we’re about to put one step from the oval office! It’s our DUTY AS CITIZENS to scrutinize these people. That’s how democracy works.
Feel-good, happy answers and skirting around the issues (when did anybody suggest Alaska was a foreign country in that interview?) should not be tolerated.
A heartbeat away from the presidency if McCain wins and she can not even answer a simple question like that. She has definitely taken a few loooong walks on that bridge to nowhere. Way to go McCain, you sure know how to put “COUNTRY FIRST”!!!!!
stupid question deserves a stupid answer
Harry, a stupid question? Reeeeally?
Palin is so painfully uninformed on national and international issues that she even has people of her own party saying she’s not ready and should step down.
She was a journalism student for God’s sake. She can’t list ONE newspaper or magazine off the top of her head? A person’s reading reveals a lot about what helps inform and shape their worldview. When she knee jerks “All of them”, I’m inclined to think NONE of them.
I met two Alaskan women recently who said Palin is not an informed person. You scratch the surface and she cannot articulate any kind of depth or true understanding of the issues. They said they’ve seen it in play in Alaska.
Well, I guess Couric in the Palin interviews has revealed that to be 100% accurate.
I dont have newspapers delivered to my home. But could list many of them. I dont think she was afraid she would be scrutinize, she just cant think that fast. she could have at least name 3 and said “And a few others” My god she cant even lie well.
This is what she reads:
(and this article was written by Robert Kennedy, Jr.)
We all new why he picked her to start ( to get Hillary voters) and what have they done so far but clarify that to everyone with at least half a brain. To pick this women and hide her from the world because you scared she would make a mistake is more sexiest than anything else to happen thus far. Wake up people if she was Tom Palin she wouldn’t been picked. Gov. Palin adds nothing to the ticket but gender.
the ” what news papers do you read” was a stupid question. A stupid question that I was stunned was being asked. Couric has downgraded to efforts of all of the rest of the media trying to get Palin.
How stupid can the question be? What do you read? She can’t answer that?
I don’t really like the question. Too easy to avoid and then make a big deal about or answer and make a big deal about. However… Sarah should have been able to come up with a much better answer. Personally… if you don’t want to answer or can’t think of one fast enough then… “I don’t think we will cover that right now” seems to work… hell Bill used it Regan used it … Bush should have used it. As for me that is easy. “Thank you, but I rely mainly on websites for my more up to date information.”
Thank you for listening.
OMFG.
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Any of you cranks ever had an executive position?
Your minions subscribe to clipping services and several newspapers.
Each day they hand you a bunch of articles to read that are important for the job, etc. You might not even know what paper each is from. So it is conceivable that Palin reads articles from a variety of news sources on a daily basis: “all of them.”
Longing For Holiday:
As a matter of fact, I am an Executive and I have to stay informed of the news & current events. Even in my position, like I said, I do not have time to read all of them…
I am just glad that Sarah’s not a lesbo. She’s a normal, Ms. American Pie woman who will be a great example of decency to bring normality and sanity, back to this country. You would think that all of America believe what the loud and obnoxious 10% do. Our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves because they stood for freedom to worship God any way you choose, not freedom to practice the devil any way you choose.
She should have said she gets her news from the pack of lies most liberal newspapers try to brainwash everybody with, and that inspired her to want to save the country.
Stephanie:
Save the country from what? More Republicans who have screwed up everything over the past 8 years?
No thanks! McCain/Palin is more of the same… 8 years was enough! McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time and he is same politics in a different suit.
Obama/Biden ’08
VOTE
Stephanie:
Three of my ancestors were ‘our founding fathers’ and I know they are rolling in their graves!
You betcha!
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