Wow! I am not American, but hell all you need to do is watch movies and you’ll learn more than that.
How can anyone forget the most aptly-named case ever: Virginia Vs. Loving.
Or at least The People Vs. Larry Flint*, Kramer Vs. Kramer? 
*I know that wasn’t the real name.
It seems Palin’s major in college was…wait for it…journalism.
In the linked article, Palin is also quoted as implying that homosexuality is a choice.
Although, in her defense, she did look a bit smarter later in that video. Wrong, but not floundering about at least.
Oh, God…
First, that she thinks “all of them” would be a reasonable lie. Skipping magazines and valuable foreign publications:
(Granted the Masabi Daily News probably isn’t read much outside the range)
Then, that she can’t just say “Wall Street Journal and New York Times” with a moments reflection - or even Time and Newsweek…
Hmm. Seems to me that if I were a journalism major, I would be more prepared for “gotcha” questions. I’d at least be a better communicator. Especially after six years of study…
I can’t believe McCain and Palin are running with this “gotcha journalism” crap. If Palin can’t handle the softballs that Couric lobbed at her, then what the hell is she going to do when she’s being grilled by the Press Corps? Call for Big Daddy McCain to save her again?
Seriously. Olberman just showed another clip of her with Couric. She was gabbing about how Biden has years and years and years of experience (she really emphasized the years as if to remind us that Biden is old…because it’s not like McCain is even older than him, no not at all.) And then, after that, Palin described herself as the “new face”. The new face, yall.
I dunno, maybe I’m the dumb one in this, but I thought the McCain was all about touting the experience card. How is having years and years of experience less than or equal to simply being a new face, all of a sudden? What is going on in that head of hers? Is the world topsy turvy?
Maybe she’s trying to throw this election. That is the only thing that makes sense to me. Maybe I’ll try to convince myself that this is what she’s doing because that’s the only way I won’t get sick with embarrassment whenever she opens her mouth.
If the rumors are true, she took your advice when asked about Supreme court cases, so let’s not be too hard on her. She paused a long time before answering that question. And the libruls are attacking her anyway. Can’t win for losing!
Can we get away from this myth, please? Studies have shown that Clinton would have won even if Perot had not run.
While he did draw votes from Bush, he also drew votes from Clinton. He was not the Ralph Nader of 1992.
She’ll use one of her life-lines.
A *very *long time. She’s still on the clock, in fact.
Some of the shrillest calls for her to go away are from the GOP’s own house journalists.
Reader’s Digest would have at least been something.
Guns and Ammo?
God, I’d settle for Playboy for the articles.
How about the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (Wasilla local paper) for the hockey scores? That would have been a great non-answer.
She’s aparently in Sedonato relax and regroup for the critical debate coming up. Are you kidding me? Sedona? Maybe one of the vortexes will make her more coherent in answering questions. She sounds like a disney movie mom packing a sandwich in a kids lunch when she talks about how Maverick McCain is all the time.
From the article:
Drunken debate attendee: Woohoo! Take off your shirt!
The fact that she doesn’t know how to bullshit her way out of a question correctly is really the problem. Jon Stewart has observed that John McCain has no poker face, and that’s true, but what Palin has is worse. She has a really bad poker face but doesn’t know it. The lousier her cards are, the bigger she tries to bluff. Instead of just naming a magazine – any magazine, she just goes bigger and says she reads ALL of them. Really, Sarah, you read all magazines? You read Psychology Today, The American Journal of Archaeology, Juggs, Guitar Gear, Car and Driver, The New Yorker, Field and Stream, US News and World Report, Maxim, Soldier of Fortune, Newsweek, Cracked, Guns and Ammo, Time, Newsweek and Hustler?
Does she know how many newspapers and magazines there are in the world? Did she really think that saying she reads ALL of them would be a convincing bluff?
She’s giving me new respect for GWB. At least he didn’t do THIS. He just admitted he didn’t read and if we didn’t like it, we could go fuck ourselves. I’m also sure that, if pressed, as Palin was, to simply name a news magazine or newspaper, he could have done it. I swear to God, she’s doing the impossible my making W look like he had something on the ball.
From the article:
I can see where here little remark about journalistic ethics comes into play. After all, it’s mighty shadey of them reporters to ask her questions about the important issues of the day. :rolleyes: Crap like that makes me really not like her.
I don’t think he likes to share the spotlight with anyone. That whole Maverick thing. I think he chose her to feed his base and thought she’d look cute and shut up and be adoring toward him. If they should win the WH, she’ll probably be treated much like LBJ treated Hubert Humphrey–marginalized as much as she can be. We may go from the most powerful VP in history to the least.
I think the newspaper blunder was her over-thinking. I could almost see the gears turning in her head: “If I say The Anchorage Daily News, they’ll think it’s too local. If I say the New York Times, they’ll jump on it being too liberal. If I say the WSJ, they’ll ask me about an editorial from yesterday.” I think she’s getting so freaked out that she’s second guessing everything, trying to figure out five moves ahead. Whoever has been preparing her has really messed with her head.
Great Ghu, it gives the mental image of someone with so little life experience that their concept of “all of them” is something on the scale of the magazine rack at a small-town drugstore. :eek: