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Have you ever heard of Fox News, CNN, Newsweek, or The Washington Post?

Have you ever heard of Fox News, CNN, Newsweek, or The Washington Post? If you have, then you're not like Governor Sarah Palin.

Last night on the CBS Evening News, Palin was asked where she gets her news. "I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media," Then when asked for examples she said "Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years."

It is very sad for anyone in this country above the age of 15 to not be able to name a source of news. If a person were asked this same question during a job interview and came up with Palin's answer, they wouldn't get the job.

She can kill a moose and produce a cute smile when she lies, but she can't answer a simple question. A vote for Palin is not a vote against the democrats, it is a vote against the future of our country.

What are your thoughts?

Best regards,
Jay

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Posted by Jay Allen - MovieVoice on 10/01/2008 12:06 PM

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21 Comments on Have you ever heard of Fox News, CNN, Newsweek, or The Washington Post?

OCT

2008

Jay - Maybe we are all being sexist? Maybe the poor thing can't read at all?

John, I'm sure all the time she spends fighting the special interests and cutting the budget for special education programs keeps her too busy to deal with the news.

Yep, you're being sexist ..."poor thing..."

Instead of looking only for bad things said about her, why not balance it with positive press (as rare as that may seem)

Alaska is sweet on Palin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhpqeo_AMz0&feature=related

Palin on Glenn Beck before she was picked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2oVFWaEPu8

Before McCain picked Palin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr_LZpMHqA

Palin's reaction to the Exxon decision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34&feature=related

Seems like a reasonable answer. Heck, I read the Californian daily. Most of you have never heard of it. When I travel I read USA Today and whatever the local paper is. I also get the Telluride Daily Planet and I was one of the original subscribers to Rolling Stoneuntil just a couple years ago when Jann Wenner got too whacked out. I used to watch CBS but now prefer NBC, I watch CNN & Fox once in awhile, the BBC, read Time Mag & National Geographic. But just because my information hascome from a variety of sources that were 'in front of me' thru the years, and they didn't include either the NY Times or the Washington Post, I would probably be considered illiterate by Washintgon & NY elite talking heads. Can you imagine if she would have answered truthfully that for most of her life she read the Wasilla Frontiersman? You simply can't win with this crowd - you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Or, she could have listed a few publications that she has read and been harangued for her choice of media. My first thought was, "since when are candidates asked to endorse a news medium?" I can never remember that question being asked before or yet to realize it's relevance.

Do people actually believe she could not remember the name of publications? Do they actually believe she has never read printed media? If they believe either of those, then they have different issues to deal with than the educated voter does. Or, could she have hesitated because the question was so far out of left field and a straight answer has more pitfalls than the deflection.

Speaking of tough questions, why hasn't anyone asked Pelosi the relevance of her speech before the vote call on Monday? Or her PAC donation scandal? "Speaker Pelosi, we are curious as to why your PAC fund hired your husband's company, when you have blamed that very issue on Republicans as a form of government corruption?" "Oh, but before you answer that question, what newspapers and magazines do you read?"

Pacita, I watched the clips...

Alaska is sweet on Palin - As details of her abuses of power emerge, her approval rating has dropped by 25% in the past month.

Palin on Glenn Beck before she was picked - Beck talks about her being a good mother, not her ability to be Vice President.

Before McCain picked Palin- Politicians have been talking about drilling in Alaska before Palin was Governor.

Palin's reaction to the Exxon decision - Of the 4 clips you linked, this is the only one in which she is interviewed. She is in a broadcast booth and appears as though she is reading notes from a teleprompter.

Gene, you're not running for VP, but managed to list several sources of news in bold print.

Why are the Dems so obsessed with Palin? She's not running for President.

People are obsessed with Palin because it is likely, if her ticket wins, she would serve as President. Reagan was old, not as old as McCain, but at least he had an intelligent, seasoned VP (prior to 1980 Bush served as Director of the CIA, US Representative, and Ambassador to the United Nations).

If Reagan would have died during his term, Bush would have retained his cabinet, his policies, his diplomats, his legal counsel, his...etc. And, Palin would get to pick a new Vice President, who could have all the Ambassador leadership you feel is missing. In fact, maybe she would pick Newt Gingrich and we would finally have the smartest and most able politician in the White House.

There is a big difference between winning a presidency and assuming a presidency, that is why, until a month ago, the VP and President had different expectations. Now, the Dems are so obsessed with McCains imminent death, (which is odd because his mom is about 142 and looks healthy), that they have put an unprecendented emphasis on the VP's presidential qualifications.

Joe, I believe if Palin became President, she would do as she has done - replace high ranking employees with her personal friends.

Jay - I think you are better than this. And here you go again with the "experience" garbage. What you are saying is that the bottom of the Republican ticket might become President if McCain dies and she has no experience. Meanwhile, the top of the Democrat ticket has less experience than the bottom of the Republican one. She has run a town and is currently Governor of a State. Those are both executive positions and you know it.

Jay:

You forgot to mention a couple of sources of unbiased news: Carson Daily, Colbert, and, of course the most fair and balanced MSNBC. I suspect that she refrained from mentioning Fox or the Wall Street Journal, since she would be excoriated by folks who are saying that she is "too biased" to be VP. If she said she watched NBC, ABC, or any of those opinion news shows, the conservatives would disown her. It was a gotcha question, and they got her. However, the question wasn't important to the political debate.

I can't speak for the rest of the people who you state are voting against the country, but I am voting against the status quo that exists: politics and party over country. Obama does not have experience, but he certainly did learn to lobby quickly and effectively (thank you Mr. Raines for your donation). However, he has trouble with the "yay" or "nay" button when voting. However he is "present" when voting. However, when the financial crisis hit Washington, he sure wasn't present - he literally called it in. That's not leadership, and it sure isn't putting the country first!

>SIGH<

People will choose to see only what they want to see.

Regardless of how Palin got to where she is as governor, there will always be those who will not give her credit for how she got there. Mayor? Yeah, of a city with only 10,000 people. Governor? Yeah, of a state with only 670,000 people (2% of the US Population). Never mind that the state has 571,951 sq miles (16% of the United States), where people live so far away from each other that cohesiveness and cooperation could be challenging.

Do people think that Alaska is such a podunk state the people don't have enough good sense and brain power that they elected a governor who can't read newspapers or read without a teleprompter?

That the people who believe in her, and have faith in her ability. are admiring her only because of her being a good mother, a conservative, a Christian?

Yet...they are willing to believe in someone who has spent the last two years of his first term as a U.S. Senator running for president, who does not have the record of accomplishments that his rivals on the Democratic ticket had. Hillary, at least, chose to complete her first term and was into her second term before she ran for the nomination. Even Obama himself said in 2004 that he would need experience before he ran for a national ticket.

And...why the obsession over Palin? Where's the vetting of Biden who is mostly known for plagiarism ever since he was in college and well into his adulthood, and who has been caught in more than one lie (such as claiming to be near the top of his class when in fact, he was closer to the bottom?). On the Democratic ticket you have a 2-year Senator with limited experience, and a long-term Senator who embellishes his?

I doubt she wanted to endorse anyone. You have to be very careful with what you say. HAd she named any one broadcast or publication specifically she would have had fallout and that is why the question was asked in the first place.

I assume you mean the Couric interview which I did not watch because I do not like Katie.

OCT

2008

Jay,

Thanks for the invite to your group.......I joined today...

Dan, thanks for joining! What are your thoughts on Palin's answer about sources of news?

You've got to be kidding. I can't imagine spending my life in front of a TV, and I'm glad to see that she doesn't either. If you want to start and end your day on a bad note, watch the media you are talking about. It's all about the spin for these guys. With the same facts, they can have 10 different stories. I've seen it this week.

Larry, you could probably name some, if not all, of the sources you watched/read for those 10 different stories. Palin could not.

If you spend 30 seconds a day watching/reading the news (not "spending your life") you could name a news source. Suggesting that she needs to spend her life in front of the TV to name a news source would be like saying that she does nothing but work on the computer because she "sold" a jet on eBay. If she doesn't have time for the news, she doesn't time to be Vice President.

Jay - I respectively think you have your C and W confused. There is a big difference between could not and would not discuss her medium choices.

Has anyone ever remembered a candidate being asked this question before? What relevance does the answer hold, except to apply later criticism. Katie - "Gee Sarah, which of the vultures picking at your bones do you like the best?" The media has not been kind to her, why should or would she be expected to plug one of them. Cmon, the question was ridiculous.

Jay ~ I really believe secretly you are in love with Sarah Palin. The liberals are so afraid of her that everyday they are printing and going on talk shows, celebrities like Asley Judd, Pamela Anderson all say this woman has no experience, have they ever heard of this woman before? Are they all so researched they know every Governor in the United States?

How about when Obama said there were 57 states? Isn't he a Harvard Graduate?

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