But still, the fact that Palin couldn't or wouldn't name one newspaper or magazine that she read to inform herself is pretty devastating. She looked quite inept at that point.
I know some people will say that it doesn't matter because her heart is in the right place and who needs the media anyway? But a lot of people said that about Bush and lived to regret their innocence or trustfulness or undemandingness.
I wonder, was she expecting the question? Had she been led to believe that such questions woudln't be asked?
YOU, x, are in front of rolling cameras and Pinhead Couric or any of the major MSM frowing, moralizing, "curious" Heads asks you point blank:
What newspapers and magazines do you read to inform yourself?
If you answer "The L.A. Times" or "Newsweek" or "Drudge Report" or "Free Republic" or "Washington Post" or Washington Times" or "Foreign Events" or "Hoover Digest" or "Foreign Affairs" or whatever -- it'll be the wrong answer. WRONGO. Frankly, anybody who tells me that they are informed mostly by the L.A. Times and radio or tv network news, I will know they are stone-cold ignorant idiots.
Anybody who tells Catie Couric otherwise will be spun as a stone-cold ignorant idiot.
We can all sit here and second-guess and armchair quarterback and talk about how Palin should operate on the media stage amid hot personality conflicts, and remember too that God made Palin drop-dead gorgeous, which proves He has a sense of humor. But consider this, gentlemen and ladies:
Do you think Sarah Palin has ever actually watched "Oprah"? I'm a woman. I have never watched more than a passing few minutes of the show or its adds promoting guests and topics ... and have never had the slightest desire to watch it. I know two kinds of women -- the kind who watch "Oprah," and the kind who would find it about as engaging as "The Flintstones." I'm pretty sure I know which one Palin is, and which one Couric is.
My point is that Palin is pioneering some new American territory with regard to women ... well, not "new," because there's nothing new under the sun (that is very great comfort to remember from Ecclesiastes) ... but she is working in a whole different dynamic with regard to expectations. Oprah types, Daddies and feminized men have problems with it, I think maybe!