DISQUS

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

It's the answer Miss Wasilla would give in 1984. In fact, all her answers are canned pageant responses. Pageant coaches actually teach the competitors to "turn" the answer to another topic. "Vapid" is a word that can't even begin to describe this person.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Air head

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

For the last time... jesus doesn't need stinking newspapers or magazines. ok?

thinga · 1 year ago

Hey, no fair.
Didn't you see the picture of her with the John Birch Society Newsletter on her desk?

lauren1959 · 1 year ago

It gets worse and worse. And wasn't it wonderful of her not to judge people for their "choices", and to indicate that she wouldn't put people in jail for having abortions.

Thursday she will either exceed our extremely low expectations or continue the blather that has been her interviews. I'm still waiting for her to come down with a sudden case of food poisoning.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Just look at my cute face and mannerisms, pay no attention to the bullshit coming out of my mouth.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Thursday should be the end for McCain / Palin.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

with any luck... it will be.

then mcsame has to make the choice. Ride the trend down to unelectible.

or

get rid of palin, deal with the religious right hating you again and repugnican women accusing you of sexism for canning her AND your fellow party members finally calling you stupid for even selecting her in the first place... and THEN riding the trend down to unelectible.

still, bob dole isn't doing Viagra commercials anymore... so there's still a chance of employment after mcsame loses.

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

I posted this on the previous thread, but it pertains more here. She never did even name one periodical she peruses regularly, just that she reads "what's around". Well there is a huge difference between the periodicals you find on the supermarket rack and the ones you find at the library. My guess is that Sarah doesn't hang at the library...

houstonray · 1 year ago

People, US Weekly, OK Magazine, Nat'l Enquirer (ooops, she'll probably take that one off her list now), Field and Stream, Guns and Ammo, Better Homes and Gardens, Moose Monthly...

You know, the ones that show Alaska is not a foreign country and that she's in touch with Foreign Affairs...and stuff like that there...

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

you forgot Outdoor Life... McManus' stories are her favorite.

Bubbles · 1 year ago

Did you mean "Moose and Squirrel Monthly"

Like Rocky and Bullwinkle, she has to keep an eye on the Russians.

tas · 1 year ago

Yes she does. Looking for books to ban that don't fit within her "the only book you need is the Bible (my version)" world view

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

Yeah, you're probably right, for her big bonfire...

vkobaya · 1 year ago

"the only book you need is the Bible (my version)"

Ah ah ah ah ah! Only the King James Version. All the the others were written by Satan to lead people into hell.

houstonray · 1 year ago

To keep it clean, I'll just say OMFG!

I can't WAIT for the debate. Wow, just wow. I mean, Katie was even GIVING her more than one chance to clarify.

And that last comment that Alaska was a microcosm of America? What? Never heard of Alaska being called that.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

What are the demographics in Alaska? Do they have a problem with illegal aliens? Well, other than Russians swimming over the Bering Sea?

HelenaMontana · 1 year ago

Call me paranoid (well, I am--very!) but I smell a trap. What if all this dumbitude is just a giant shell game, and she comes out like gangbusters on Thursday, throwing Biden completely off balance? I hope he will be prepared for literally anything.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

we used to think that about bush too... he CAN'T be that dumb!

I think she might be able to memorize a bit more than a pop-up book... but that doesn't mean she isn't dumb.

she's an aspiring actress maybe? a dumb aspiring actress.

"I'm not VP, but I'm hoping to play one on TV!"

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Debate format favors her: 90 second answers (2 min follow-ups). Expect superficial pageant responses, thus:
1. We're takeen the fight to the terrists.
2. We're shakeen up Washeengton.
3. John McCain is a hero and maverick.
4. I have taken on the old boy network in Alaska.
5. I want us to be energy-independent.
6. John McCain and I love our real allies like:
Sock-gosh-vee-lee
Cars-Eye
Zar-dar-eee
7. John McCain and I mistrust bad guys like:
Ock-ma-din-ah-jad
Med-vee-yeah-dev

Easy for a skilled bullshitter like her to run out the clock.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

yep. the 2 min. follow-up will be a verbatim repeat of the 90 sec. "answer".

ndtovent · 1 year ago

Reads just like Tina's impression of her.. ROFL!

bob915 · 1 year ago

Maybe not.....As far as shaking up DC,all Biden has to do is bring up the latest Dumpster fire, which is the Bailout Nonstarter, starring Gramps McOld. THen he can move on to the Ted Stevens I Was OnHis Staff Before I Wasn't Show, then he can eat her ffor lunch when she starts the I Can See The Reds From My Porch Crap.

Bubbles · 1 year ago

Like if we talk about how dumb she is maybe conservatives will circle the wagons, and we'll forget to mention that McCain is the same as Bush only worse. And that there's an economic crisis and McCain doesn't get it, and et al....

gwpriester · 1 year ago

The woman is seriously brain damaged.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

I don't think so... she's just a hockey mom.

'nuff said.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

"Alaska is like a microcosm of America"

good line, except that Alaskan racisim is stuck in 1962.

ndtovent · 1 year ago

That's sooo true... mostly rugged individualist libertarians living up there, which I admire, but you're right in that it's pretty much white bread in alaska, and they don't like most of 'our kind' from the lower 48...

1970cs · 1 year ago

I don't think she doesn't know, it's what she is trying to hide. This may be giving too much credit, but even she may understand saying the 'Wasilla Aryian Newsletter' would be slightly controversial

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

true... mcsame's campaign won't allow her to wear the swastika armband to the rallies... and she realizes this is probably the right decision.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

And "Mormon Polygamist Hairdos Weekly."

tas · 1 year ago

She is a perfect Republican candidate - a lyin' sack of crap.

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

I posted this on the previous thread, but it pertains more here. She never did even name one periodical she peruses regularly, just that she reads "what's around". Well there is a huge difference between the periodicals you find on the supermarket rack and the ones you find at the library. My guess is that Sarah doesn't hang at the library...

houstonray · 1 year ago

People, US Weekly, OK Magazine, Nat'l Enquirer (ooops, she'll probably take that one off her list now), Field and Stream, Guns and Ammo, Better Homes and Gardens, Moose Monthly...

You know, the ones that show Alaska is not a foreign country and that she's in touch with Foreign Affairs...and stuff like that there...

houstonray · 1 year ago

Not sure what happened with this post appearing twice attached to the other post! Weird. Sorry for dupe...

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

my post showed up twice----don't know why. Mercury is retrograde..

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

Actually, she said she reads "all of them," which is simply bizarre. She reads Le Monde? The Kansas City Star?

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Like all bullshitters, she doesn't know how much she doesn't know. She thinks there are maybe 5 or 6 newspapers in the country.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

"all of them" likely means "none of them" ... someone should look up the subscriptions and periodicals are sent to the Governors office... I'm sure they probably expense them...

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

the Washington Times. 'nuff said.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Lou Dobbs was attacking the "liberal press" just now, saying that they were attacking, and being vicious to poor Sarah. Lou seemed quite upset about that.
For someone who did not blink, and is ready to be VP, she seems such a frail little flower. Dobbs also mentions that Biden makes more gaffes than poor Palin.

Perhaps Lou has forgotten how Al Gore, and John Kerry were ridiculed, and caricatured, in the past two elections.

houstonray · 1 year ago

Lou Dobbs needs to check with his wife and find out if she's got his teeth again cause it always looks like his don't belong...

But I digress...It's one thing to just slip up about a word or say the wrong thing, that's what Biden does. She is just spouting off answers that don't even pertain to the question as an attempt to deflect from the fact that she doesn't HAVE an answer.

martha · 1 year ago

Yea, I saw that too. Biden has been in the public sector for 20 something years, Palin - 1 month. Of course he has made more gaffes! Lou Dobbs is such a tool.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

44 years old, never had a passport till 2007.
Of course she can't name a newspaper.

but she can gut a moose.

Like I said earlier.....she's one of those people who made it where she is because people didn't want to say "No" to her.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Now come on John, let's be fair... she couldn't really have said she relies on staying current by reading the latest GOP talking points, listening to Limbaugh and her "pastor" and reading bones could she? That would just make her look silly.

IAmATVJunkie · 1 year ago

http://www.thewomanhunter.com/

http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/cat...

https://smarttan.com/free_tt.php

PeteWa · 1 year ago

Whew neads readering wen uh pursin is uh repoblicatishun?

HereinDC · 1 year ago

She didn't even try to give an answer.....at least Miss Teen South Carolina tried to give an answer.

Hardy_Haberman · 1 year ago

Surely she is faking this ditzy act? No one is this clueless. I suspect this is a fake so when she comes out as a real firecracker with during the debate we will all be floored. Yea right!

HereinDC · 1 year ago

I have to disagree, she didn't want to get pegged saying, Time or Newsweek or Washington Times of the Post of any web site.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Her responses don't reflect someone who even reads the Wash Times. She doesn't even know what Gaza and Hamas are. If she read even the Moonie paper she could be conversant on the crisis, however wrong-headed.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

that's simple!

Gaza is a type of cheese... and Hamas is a spread you put on crackers!


/snark

martha · 1 year ago

No - she is really this dumb.

triple7s · 1 year ago

I think there are sooooooooo MANY people in many states that never read a newspaper, or mag, or look at any political website. They get their instructions at church, or at the local PTA meeting. This will appeal to those people.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

You are right, she represents a lot of those people, and it is sad that those people don't realize that you don't vote for someone, who is like you, but someone who is smarter and experienced than you.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

This is absolutely true. However, since she's a vicious 72 year-old heart beat away from the Oval Office, this level of ignorance and incuriosity is unacceptable.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

LOL -- first time I've heard it called a vicious 72 year old heart beat! Good catch.

ndtovent · 1 year ago

you forgot to mention the pentecostal version of the king james bible

DoctorDingus · 1 year ago

Indeed

I wonder where my neighbor got the idea that Bush will be judged in a few years as "one of the best presidents"? Recently, my partner and I were canvasing with an out-of-date list of "friendly" but undecided voters. We should have taken a clue by his American flag shirt and cross. We actually had a good conversation--- on the issues, we had some agreement; e.g., he was against the initial bailout. It would have been interesting to know what he read, where he got his political information, but we didn't get that far.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

all of 'em, any of 'em that um have been in front of me

Yup...And, even after a quick on-the-run briefing, Mooselini can't understand why America would let Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson decide school desegregation or the 2000 election.

munjoyfan · 1 year ago

She's petrified.
No governor reads the newspaper or even online NYT. They have clippers who prepare briefing folders with summaries of the days news, and they have executive assistants who select information to put before them. The governors are way too busy--most of them, anyhow.
Palin is adept at changing the subject. So are most politicians. The value to all this is the envelope has been pushed by Couric who has redefined Palin's image for the public.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

She spent 300 some nights at her own home. Does she have clippers bunking with Trig?

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

she's been a busy governor for less than 2 years. is that how old she is? are you sarah's mother?

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Except that Ms. Palin has been so UNbusy and absent from the capitol that the legislators have taken to wearing "Where's Sarah" buttons... and since she's surrounded herself with her high school buddies, all of which were as "qualified" for their positions as Ms. Palin, the likelyhood that they've kept her informed about ANYTHING except who, from their high school days, is f^cking who and other small town gossip is very unlikely.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

I don't think the gov. of Alaska is busy. I don't even think it's a full-time job.

dad · 1 year ago

WOW!

wee.

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Here is an old video of McCain TWO months after 9/11, making a case for attacking Iraq, citing all the false intelligence, and supporting Bush.
It is disgusting, and shows, once again, poor judgment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/uneart...

HereinDC · 1 year ago

She gets her news from the place mat at the Bob's Big Boy.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

HAHAHAHA!

ndtovent · 1 year ago

This would be realistic satire, and comical if it wasn't so scary - the fact that this woman could actually end up as our president. Ugh! ! I heard on npr today that she would be going through some coaching on how to deal with the press from here on out. I wonder if she even listens to or watches news on the broadcast media (s). Geeez!

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Maybe she just quit reading after she was photographed with that John Birch Society rag.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Wha...

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Wow, speaking of illiteracy, I just read at DCRTV.com that a 36 year-old DC book tradition, Olsson's bookstores have closed.
Really sad...Always enjoyed browsing at the one off Dupont Circle...Where else could one buy a book from a white kid with a bone thru his nose???

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Last week's New York magazine had a clear-eyed assessment of the book publishing industry: it's on life support. Only 1 out of 500 Americans is a regular buyer of books.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Thanks for the info...I just Googled it...looks interesting and it will likely make me sad. I love books but I imagine the dreaded Kindle is in our one out of 500 future...

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Hey! There is a reason Americans aren't buying books. Have you checked the prices lately? There are paperbacks, I repeat, paperbacks that cost $60 and many that are $30. I used to go into a bookstore and walk out with a bag full. And I recall back when I was in Junior High School, buying books from the publisher, special order, Some of which were regular 25 cents and we paid 20 cents. I still have one and guess what else. It is still readable. I have paperbacks that are 15 years old that are falling apart and even hardbacks that don't survive the years. Back in 1961, $60 would have bought books for the entire 9th grade class. I'm afraid to walk into a bookstore now. Afraid that I'll have a fatal heart attack if I look at the price of the wrong book.

ndtovent · 1 year ago

Tina Fey, WHERE ARE you??!
LOL!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

She is busy rehearsing for SNL, she doesn't need to WRITE anything. Palin is the gift that just keeps giving.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

OMG! This can't be for real, it just can't be. Does she think playing "cutesy" is going to get her to be VP? Enough with the cutesy and Enough with the mocking.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Ever hear of "Moose Hunter's Digest" ?

Me neither.

mmedefarge · 1 year ago

Oh---and that recipe for Moose stew that was in Good Housekeeping just made her day.

IamSmartypants · 1 year ago

Doesn't she at least lay down the occasional newspaper when she's cleaning fish or gutting a moose?

I simply don't understand the profound lack of curiousity about the world. As so much else about Palin, it would be laughable if the stakes weren't so high.

Rufus · 1 year ago

This has to be a joke. She can't name even one? Weird. Very, very weird.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

She has "Executive" experience.....she doesn't need to read newspapers.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

meanwhile, FOX News thinks the vote is "split" in Scranton. (Warning: extreme self-parody, viewer discretion advised):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkqosRiyYo

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

That's was classic.

Even the guys in the diner sounded like they were laughing at the Fox shill.

grandma · 1 year ago

I was just going to post that one.....too funny...I've been laughing for an hour at that one.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Hysterical.... I saw one old lady raise her hand for McCain; the rest - Obama. Fox's news guy looked surprised and didn't know how to respond.

houstonray · 1 year ago

That is HILARIOUS!!!!!

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel · 1 year ago

Steve, that's fabulous! I sent the link to the manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel, who hails from near Scranton, for his viewing pleasure. Well, probably not pleasure--he'll bang his head in recognition.

Kcunac · 1 year ago

You know, now it's just funny. It's just funny. All she talks about is bloody Alaska. Maybe she thinks she's running for Vice-President of Alaska; who knows anymore? This is great theater. And Tina Fey... well, if she had to get pressed back into service, at least the woman's making it easy for her. It's funny. It's surreal. The whole country... the events... it's all just sunk to the surreal.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Did we all forget she has a degree in Journalism

susano · 1 year ago

Ha ha ha!! I DID! That makes it even better!

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

which mail-order college offers that anyway?

ndtovent · 1 year ago

Oh, and speakin of Tina Fey... THAT's probably where she got her news from.. Tina doing the weekend updates on snl.. When Tina left the show.... ??

IamSmartypants · 1 year ago

If only Government Magazine (distributed for free to just about every elected official in the country) published a kids edition...

Busboy · 1 year ago

Look, Obama and McCain both had to find running mates dumber than they are. It was tough, but both succeeded. McCain's is sure a hell of a lot easier to look at. When Sarah looks at Biden, I'm sure she's thinking of the best way to gut him out and save the most meat. When Biden looks at Sarah, I'm sure he's thinking of the most clandestine way to get her under the covers.

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

Biden is brilliant. What are you talking about? He may ramble, but the man is clearly extremely intelligent and well educated.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

John, you're arguing with Busboy.

he's kinda... umm... what's the word? redundant?

Busboy · 1 year ago

What's he ever done that made him famous besides plagiarizing a Neal Kinnock speech? Just askin....

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

What's mcsame done that qualifies him as a maverick... besides voting with bush %92 of the time?

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Not a goddamn thing. Nor was he a war hero. Mythology created by Republicans who have read as much as Palin has.

wmforr · 1 year ago

As I recall, Maverick was a tin-horn gambler and a con man. McCain seems to fit the bill there.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

What's he ever done that made him famous besides plagiarizing a Neal Kinnock speech? Just askin....

Hey! If Palin plagerized something, anything at all, it would at least prove she has read something. Sort of like Bush plagerizing. It wasn't Bush who was plagerizing, it was his speech writer. About all Bush could plagerize is "My Pet Goat," though not the last few pages or maybe "Dick and Jane See Spot Run."

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

When Biden looks at Sarah, I'm sure he's thinking of the most clandestine way to get her under the covers.
---

I doubt it, this is Biden you're talking about... not newt, or guilani, or larry craig, or vitters, or mcsame... etc.

.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Busboy, you're projecting here. We all know how you feel about Palin. lol

Busboy · 1 year ago

Please, Miss Smartypants, don't try to pigeonhole me....
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.....

wmforr · 1 year ago

It's all subjective, my friend. If you were a gay man of a certain age like me, you would find Biden quite easy on the eyes.

However, I think we can all agree that McCain is a lot less than eye candy.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I hope to god she pulls one of these "I don't know but listen to my BS" answer on Thursday. When she is done Joe can ask her to explain the answer in terms of the original question.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Quarterly Review of Fish Guts Photography

gustavmahler · 1 year ago

OH John, you missed the punch line!!!
Which papers do you read, specifically?

Palin: Um, all of 'em... !!!!!

OMG!!!!

The story is that she reads them all, not that she cannot name one!

mungobuh · 1 year ago

I can't help but wonder if Sarah Palin is being coached by Rove & Co. to give these dismally stupid responses deliberately. Thus, even her lamest of 'comebacks' will give her sycophants a boner.

It's patently clear that Republicans want her going into this debate with lowered expectations, but we--and especially Biden--shouldn't underestimate her.

(On an off-topic note: I live very close to the debate site at Washington University. Drove around the perimeter of the campus and noticed a veritable army of television trucks parked outside of the Field House. Closure reminders are plastered all over the sidewalks and cross streets. Reminds me of the crazy atmosphere from the Bush/Kerry debates four years ago when I was a grad student there.)

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

She was perfectly adequate "debateen" the issues in Alaska. It was parochial stuff that she had a direct personal involvement with. But it's clear that she was a big fish in a small pond. Juneau is not exactly a trampoline to propel anyone on to the world stage.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Palin is no Resse Witherspoon in Legally Blond.

Plain is not that bright.

she is not a wonderkid.

lisainWA · 1 year ago

I can understand that she wouldn't want to be pegged for reading one specific thing but she could have said "I read a variety of local and national papers and magazines. We are not isolated in Alaska." When Katie asked her for one specific she could have answered "the Anchorage Daily News". It could have been that simple. I just don't get it. I'm speechless.

mollyjmoon · 1 year ago

I just don't know why she couldn't be honest. Its not like there is that much of a difference between her two favorite periodicals anyway...
Who really cares if she reads both the conservative flag-bearer, Highlights, and the leftwing eco-friendly Ranger Rick.
I mean come on, aren't we all just happy at this point to know she can READ?

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

The fact that she said she reads "all of 'em" (referring to all periodicals) tells me she has no clue how many periodicals there ARE. I am guessing that "all of 'em" means she looks at Ladies Home Journal, People, and McCall's when she's in her doctor's waiting room.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Does Palin know what a periodical is? I know she has a degree in journalism, but it did take her five colleges before she found one to actually give it to her.

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel · 1 year ago

Isn't, um, a "periodical" something that happens every twenty-eight days or so, unless, of course, you're pregnant? [Palin titters nervously.]

Bubbles · 1 year ago

Well if you were a governor you'd probably rely on a news clipping service. But that doesn't make you sound like Joe Sixpack.

As shocking as her answer is, I detect a Rovian trap here. So I hope a deal is made of this, just not too big. I'm surey tina fey will be tempted to give it a good whack

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

does a newsclipping service conceal the names of the newspapers?

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Rovian trap?
Please........

curlytoes79 · 1 year ago

"Name a specific ice cream flavor that you enjoy."
"Well, I like all kinds of ice cream, and yogurt too. And sorbet. I think it's important to appreciate all flavors and..."
"But which ones do you like, specifically?"
"Well pretty much all of 'um, all 31 flavors."
"Can you name one?"
"Uhh.... Alaska?"

Kcunac · 1 year ago

I know you're making this up because there is no way Sarah Palin would use the word sorbet, even if she did know what it was.

evan_la · 1 year ago

No, those bricks of frozen juice are called "sherbet" in Sarah's vernacular. That'd be properly pronounced "Sherbert".

greymoose · 1 year ago

Actually,

Sherbet (Sure-bet) is the proper pronunciation. I worked at Baskin Robbins for about 7 years starting when I was 15 (yeah, 15, Utah--child labor, schmild labor). The spelling is "Sherbet". There is no "R" after the penulitmate "E" and therefore, sure-bert makes NO SENSE!!!

G.

p.s. I am also anti-new-cew-lur!!!

mirth · 1 year ago

Ok, so you can spell. Now try learning to recognize sarcasm. And humor.

sheesh

curlytoes79 · 1 year ago

Yeah, she probably wouldn't eat yogurt either. That's for liberal elitists.

wmforr · 1 year ago

Perhaps a better question (just so Katie doesn't get accused of doing a hatchet job on Sarah) would be, "It you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"

okojo · 1 year ago

This. is. bad. This. is. painful. She is so out of touch with reality..


I suggest liberals see her Alaska "debate" on youtube (it was actually a roundtable) she is good with canned answer to general issues, but after the forceful answer, she starts to trail off and repeat herself...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

I wonder how much bribe money the Republicans are paying to get their hands on the questions for this Thursday. So they can prep the right canned answers for Polly McPalin to recite.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

It could also be that she avoided saying what she reads because all she reads are rightwing fundamentalist wackadoodle rags, and she didn't want us to know that.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Or...........Time, Newsweek.... which would be WORSE for her Rightie base

msirt · 1 year ago

And Palin's brain is a microcosm of American ignorance.

Indigo · 1 year ago

To be fair, "most of them" could refer to the magazines at the dentist's office.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

population of San Diego, Ca. = 1,311,162

population of Alaska = 670,053

population of USA = 300,000,000 (esttimate)

one heartbeat away from the POTUS position, and her entire STATE has less people than the CITY I live in.

Question... ignore the fact that he can't run for President for a second... does anyone outside of the repugnican party think Arnold Schwarzenegger is qualified to be President?

'nuff said.

DoctorMemory · 1 year ago

Would it be unsporting to note that the population of Delaware, as of the last census, was 864,764?

(Don't worry, I still think Palin's a dangerous dingbat -- but the constituency-size argument is pretty much a wash vs Biden.)

SteamingPile · 1 year ago

The population of Vermont was also something like 670,000, if memory serves. People said the same sort of thing about Howard Dean in 2004. It's not the size of your state, or lack thereof, it's the size of your focus, and Gov. Dean's was clearly larger. Furthermore, he was governor of Vermont for ten years. Given the fact she can't name any of Alaska's daily newspapers, I doubt she does as good a job as governor as people give her credit for. I can only imagine what would happen if she suddenly had to serve as President of the United States.

Wyoming has the smallest population in the nation, yet its former congressman is now the Vice President. Of course, he was also a Chief of Staff and a Secretary of Defense, so Biggus Dickus' qualifications trump those of Ms. Palin. So do those of Sen. Biden, who served in the Senate since 1972, and was chairman of various committees conducting critical business in the Federal Government.

So it's not just the size of your constituency, it's what you've done for them.

wmforr · 1 year ago

Hell of a lot more than Sarah! I doubt I'd vote for Arnold, but at least the man has a brain!

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

HOW DID THIS TWAT get to be a govenor?????anybody?????crickets

okojo · 1 year ago

She beat a very, very unpopular governor in the Republican primary in Aug 2006. She also beat a former two term Dem governor, (Tony Knowles) basically with a reform pledge mixed in with social conservative values. When she is talking about Alaskan Issues, she is fine, and she isn't bad on the stump, with prepared remarks. There is a video of her at Fairbanks in Oct. 2007, talking about oil revenue sharing. She isn't brilliant, but she comes across as competent, even though she isn't getting into nitty-gritty.

However, by far what is so lacking in her, is the same problem with President Bush, she has no intellectual curiosity. She is told what to say, and what to think. I think why she is so dangerous, is that she won't get good advice, or whoever is the last person to get to her, much like Cheney does with Bush, will win the policy for her.

To put in verbose form, nuance is not in her scheme of things.

Or as women as I dated have said, they are more big picture people, and don't like to get lost in the detail.

evan_la · 1 year ago

What okojo said below, plus there's been a huge influx of evangelical settlers to Alaska, so she rode a conservative social change tidal wave. Alaska used to be pretty free-wheeling and wild.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

"I like the Peoples magazine, ya know? Like especially the one where they rate all the Hollywood hunks. Todd will be a good First Hunk for our important America, eh?"

KISSman · 1 year ago

Oh lawd...

She sure has a variety of hymns-and-haws when she can't answer something specifically. And when she's especially stumped, she has nothing -- absolutely nothing.

The bottom line is that when Katie Couric asks you (soft) questions and after each interview you end up looking like a complete baffoon, you are truly ill-equipt to be VP.

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

She's making Shrub look smart.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Scary, huh?

wmforr · 1 year ago

Yeah. She didn't even read "three Shakespeares" or Camus's "The Stranger"--that's a good'un!

anneeliz · 1 year ago

She reads "All of them"? I bet she's also familiar with all internet traditions....

AngelaChanning · 1 year ago

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I am a dumb bunny from Baltimore and I would have rattled off the Wall Street Journal and National Review off the top of my head.

porchcow · 1 year ago

When I was in junior high, I found out I could just read the cards in the card catalog files to do my book reports, without actually having to read the books. And it always worked. Once, when I was doing an oral book report on "Crime and Punishment" the teacher asked me how I liked the ending. I told her I was surprised by it, but I didn't want to say what happened because I didn't want to spoil it for anybody that might want to read it. When I got to high school, I found out that didn't work anymore.

Who knew I could have just skipped high school and gone straight into politics...and over 30% of the people in this country would think I was qualified to lead the country.

NCNerd · 1 year ago

When will Katie understand that she should just consult to http://www.palinanswers.com to get some straight talk from the VP candidate?

lost_nacf_gop · 1 year ago

I'm thinking "US" Magazine once. For about half an hour. Then she realized it wasn't "about America," put it down, and tuned into the "O'Reilly Factor."

And to those idiots in my li'l home town burg with those "Palin Power" stickers on your car, why not stamp EEJIT on your foreheads - be honest.

zavlin · 1 year ago

Shes playing softball right now with couric, and she cant even field the easiest of the easy. If she cant answer what papers shes read, can she make any presidential decisions at all?????
Lordy lord, whats going to happen at the debate.

marblex · 1 year ago

she is dumber than a bag of hair on fire.

ikonoklast · 1 year ago

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that she's just another a-literate American. But it may very well be that she was playing coy rather than confess the kind of stuff that she reads.

My guess - it's got to be stuff put out like the Limbaugh Letter, Answers in Genesis (Creationist mag), stuff from Focus on the Family, The John Birch Society, Tim Lahaye, etc.

Aha! Check this out!
http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plin...

Lo and behold, a picture of Palin reading what is supposedly American Opinion Magazine, the official magazine of The John Birch Society. The BAGnews notes link has more.

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2008/09...

evie · 1 year ago

I actually think she's just afraid to name any of the ones she read for fear of them being the "wrong" publications. She probably read mostly the local press, which is perfectly understandable, given that she is governor of AK. She just shouldn't be on a national ticket.

Montgomeryblue · 1 year ago

Jesus Christ...My 88 year old grandmother knows what damn newspapers she reads. I just can't believe that there are people out there that take either one of these morons (McCain or Palin) seriously.

dhl · 1 year ago

anyone else catch the expression on Katie Couric's face at :34 as Palin launches into her "Alaska isn't a foreign country..." rant? Pure disgust.

otto42 · 1 year ago

Oh wow. It was like "get me out of here, can I leave yet???!"

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

old issues of Field and Steam
Moose Monthly
Snow Machine Times

oh quit pickin' on her. the only magazine she could remember was "Juggs" because Todd has a subscription. But she couldn't say it on the tee-vee

nsr · 1 year ago

"the rest of Washington, DC"? Wow. She does seem to vaguely grasp the idea of blowing smoke, but she can't even do a decent job of that.

ggm1957 · 1 year ago

This is ALMOST laughable - BUT she could end up as the president. I mean, we have had Bush for 8 years. I'm beginning to wonder what's in the water? Or the air? How in the world is McCain staying so high in the ratings? This is downright scary.
VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!

jameslaflamme1 · 1 year ago

yes lets all vote for obama the Man without a plan and his plagerizing VP, lets be honest the choices here are scary for the average Joe Six pack, things will get worse before they improve and that's the bottomline!!

ggm1957 · 1 year ago

Absolutely, let's all vote for Obama! Obama gives hope for the future. We sure don't need another blithering idiot in the White House. Our country needs someone to look up to and we need to regain the respect from the rest of the world that we once had.

cereal · 1 year ago

a couple things jump out to me:

1. Palin appears beyond all doubt to be a complete fucking moron, on a level making Bush look like Aristotle.

2. This COULD be intentional, though. Something the Rove.McCain team have drummed into her think skull. It's very hard to imagine that she couldn't babble on long enough to (even by accident) name ONE newspaper or magazine. It could be that she doesn't want to (has been trained not to) mention any particular ones, for tactical political reasons. First, to avoid having read any "bad" stuff (like the NYT or something a drooling wingnut might consider heterodox), and second to avoid looking like one a' those egghead east coast intellexyouals. If she says (um, lies) "I read the Economist" or Foreign Affairs, or what not, lots of the people who love her for being "just like them," i.e.massively ignorant dipshits, might get turned off. If she reads any "tainted" Liberal" stuff, same deal. he needs to present as pure "heartland" innocence, which strategists like the ones molding her now may feel is best done by avoiding damning admissions of evil secularist elitist book learnin' altogether.

3. Notice how Couric asked what Palin reads to keep up with what's happening "in the world" and Palin gets all defensive and takes it as a question of how she knows what's happening "in Washington" and/or the rest of the US. "Alaska is not some foreign country," she says, it's a "microsocm of America (whatever that means), blah blah, so don't assume she's out of touch with what's happening in Washington and the rest of America. But Couric didn't ask what she reads to "learn about what's going on in the lower 48" or in Washington. She asked about THE WORLD. And Palin's dippy answer was about how Alaska, Washington DC, and God Bless Amuricca are all together in Jesus.

It's apparent that basically, for her, the "world" doesn't exist. Thre is Wassilla, where she is from, Juneau, where she doesn't like to spend time but signs stuff and fires people who she doesn't like and hires her kindergarten pals for stuff, and Washington DC, where she wants to go next to to God's work and speed the Rapture.

And of course, Russia, looming next to her living room window.

And that's it.

Which brings us back to #1: forget that she can't name a single printed source of news, this woman is a shocking, disgraceful, dribbling, babbling, hapless fucking IMBECILE. If millions of Americans kick up their recent track record of stupid enough to elect this person, the nation deserves whatever catastrophe happens as a result.

PopeRatzo · 1 year ago

She's playing rope-a-dope. She's gonna get onstage with Biden and become Madeleine Albright on meth.

To be fair, she might be a little overwhelmed, being face-to-face with the brilliant Madame Couric.

MoonDragon · 1 year ago

It is vitally important that we know Alaska, where she's spent most of her insular life, is not some foreign country, but American. It's perfectly all right that we might think Hawaii, where Obama spent his youth, is some kind of exotic other place.

All a part of McS(h)ame/Palin projection (or projectile vomiting).

GreyFoxThree · 1 year ago

She has probably never read a newspaper or magazine. Do they even get those things in Alaska?

Jiff
www.privacy-center.ru.tc

BillP · 1 year ago

Pretty simple to see what is going on. Palin, like Bush, lives in a bubble. People tell her things, she doesn't need to seek out information. She doesn't read anything much herself, she has people for that.

It goes with the Right Wing/Religious certitude. Let Rush do your thinking for you, "dittohead". If you start to think for yourself, you might stray off the reservation.

jameslaflamme1 · 1 year ago

Well it was dumb and dummer in this interview, but I would be carefull not to count the GOP out even with this Ticket because Biden is no genius and then he is matched up with someone who has a very poor voting record no executive experience, his foreign policy experince is weak to non existent and an econnomic plan that most non-bias economists say will not work the one thing he has going for him is his age

Finally whether you like Palin or not the media has done a hatchet job unlike no other in modern political times, this makes for a very interesting future for joe sixpack and that's the bottomline

wmforr · 1 year ago

Hatchet job? Isn't it the media's job to probe the qualifications of the candidates? What kind of reporting on Saracuda would you consider NOT a hatchet job? In depth reporting of her recipe for chocolate chip cookies? Katie asked her questions you would expect any candidate to answer. Her answers were beyond stupid. And you blame the media?

jameslaflamme1 · 1 year ago

Obviously your are mis informed I am not a Palin supporter I heard few intelligent questions from Katie

macarthur · 1 year ago

way to call it laflamme. loser. related to palin? take a course in grammar before leaving your comment.

helen · 1 year ago

no need for that, however it is humorous for someone to make blatant typographical and grammatical errors while commenting on someone else's idiocy...

i think it was safe to discount the GOP after the choice of Saracuda ( I liked that one, WM) began to draw republicans away from their party rather than drawing in undecideds.

i know it's a late comment regardless, considering the race ended weeks ago, but i find these videos of sarah fumbling with the english language hilarious.