Palin Cannot Name any Newspapers or Magazines She Reads
Remember how Sarah Palin said that she explored foreign countries through books and how implausible that was?
Now it turns out that she can't even name any newspapers or magazines that she reads reqularly. Pressed by Katie Couric, she said she reads 'all of them, any of them.'
In a 2006 Pew poll, only 40 percent of Americans said that they read a newspaper "yesterday."
So Palin is in the 60% and not that unusual. What I mind about her is that she keeps trying to bluff her way past such questions and doesn't just admit the truth. Does she think the American people won't vote for her because she doesn't read?
Bush admitted that he does not read the newspapers but rather is read to by Condi Rice and Andy Card, as though he were a toddler. And Americans elected him president twice.
Crotchety Harlan Ellison is angry that 27 undergraduates he addressed at UCLA did not understand his reference to 'the emperor's new clothes.' He thinks they read Hans Christian Anderson in their spare time for fun? Most Americans don't read many books any more.
The 2000 census found that only 43% of Americans read a book that year.
Indeed, if the US public discovers that Palin does not read books or newspapers, they may vault her over McCain and just make her president and have done with it.
God forbid that someone should lead the country who knows what they are talking about. They might a) be less easily fooled by the con men among the lobbyists.
By the way, despite what Palin said about Russian incursions into US airspace over Alaska, NORAD denies there have been any such incidents.
posted by Juan Cole @ 10/01/2008 12:04:00 AM
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Saying "Americans elected him [Bush] president twice" is being no more truthful than Palin. In 2000, the USSC appointed Bush, and there's enough credible evidence to show the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio. As an historian, such mistakes are unsatisfactory.
The worst thing about Sarah Palin is that she does not learn from her mistakes.
Her awful nomination acceptance speech, full of lies and sneering half-truths, must seem to her be to her shining moment. She does not understand that much of her current problem comes from newscasters testing the source of her arrogance and finding that it is based on raw ignorance.
Her current sound bite regarding Joe Biden, "I remember his speeches from when I was in the second grade." must seem to her to be witty. It is not. It is trite and very sad.
Sarah Palin has not learned that her instant popularity was due to the perception that the hoped for characteristic which justified her sneers and mal mots was education and intelligence. Instead, we find a woman child so delusional she thinks that running the USA is like running a PTA.
Bush also bluffed when asked about things he didn't know (no one seems to even bother asking him nowadays.) When asked who was the President of Pakistan, he replied: "general". "General who?" "General", repiled Bush, "do you know?".
Palin is Bush with boobs. Well, two more than Bush's numerous boobs.
I think Ms Palin stated her general philosophy very frankly during her ABC interview with "Charlie" (Charles Gibson): she simply does not want to "blink". Lest we forgot, let us refresh our memories (see e.g. from 1:00 into the interview):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oNPGnZurs1k
BF.
"Indeed, if the US public discovers that Palin does not read books or newspapers, they may vault her over McCain and just make her president and have done with it."
I agree. Palin would make the quintessential American President-- uneducated, uninformed, supremely confident.
I wish somebody would make be vice president. I'd reel in all of Cheney's overreaching and return the vice presidency to its proper place - ribbon-cutting and state funerals. I can do that.
And if the worst happened, I'd just appoint a competent vice president, then resign and live out my days on the ex-president pension. Sweet!
"...con men among the lobbyists."
Redundancy alert!
CNN has discovered that Palin has NEVER visited the one small island off the mainland of Alaska where one can see Russia across the Bering Strait.
Her appeal is not her so called expertise but that of a high school cheerleader.
Here is another example of Palin's foreign relations experience. What's interesting is how the McCain campaign engineers can work so hard to sustain so obvious a fabrication.
One major accomplishment of the Palin nomination is that it once and for all removes those "I'm a patriot" tattoos that cover 90% of McCain's body. No patriot would put someone with Palin's qualifications a heartbeat away from the presidency. (But I'd still have to pick Palin over Cheney.)
Speaking of Palin, the media is making it sound like the future of American politics is riding on the Palin/Biden debate. The notion is that if Palin does ok, then the criticisms of her qualifications will be null and void. The media is going to make three ring circus out of it - CAN BIG JOE OUTFOX THE FOX???,STAY TUNED.
Do keep in mind, that Sarah Palin actually STUDIED JOURNALISM.
America, how I fear for you...
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