Does Palin Really Read ‘The Economist’?
Does Palin Really Read ‘The Economist’?
Earlier this week, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) gained widespread attention for her inability to name specifically which newspapers and magazines she regularly reads. “Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years,” she told CBS’s Katie Couric.
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Hardball, Politico’s Mike Allen suggested that Palin should have lied and said that she reads “The Economist.” “Somebody told me, she should have just said ‘The Economist,’” said Allen. “Everybody lies about reading ‘The Economist.’”
Ironically, Palin was given a chance to redeem herself on that same question in an interview with Fox News today. Her response? “The Economist”:
CAMERON: Well, what do you read?
PALIN: I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the “New York Times” and the “Wall Street Journal” and “The Economist” and some of these publications that we’ve recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska.
Watch Allen’s comments, followed by Palin’s Fox interview:
Transcript:
MATTHEWS: But I still am stunned with her inability to answer these general knowledge questions that most people who read the paper can answer. I don`t know why she is afraid to answer them. Maybe it`s her bad training. My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual curiosity that the president of the United States has right now. And that is scary.
(CROSSTALK)
HEILEMANN: Mike, do you think — do you think when she wouldn`t — when she wouldn`t answer what she — what she reads, do you think that was because she doesn`t read, or do you think that is because she was afraid to say the local say the local Wasilla newspaper, or she was afraid to say “The New York Times”? Which of those do you think it was?
ALLEN: Somebody told me, she should have just said “The Economist.” Everybody lies about reading “The Economist.”
MATTHEWS: No. Come on, Mike. [...]
CAMERON: OK. So, at the risk of annoying you, when you are asked, what do you read? Which papers and magazines? You didn’t answer it. Or, you said, I have all kinds of resources.
PALIN: Right, right, right.
CAMERON: Well, what do you read?
PALIN: I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the “New York Times” and the “Wall Street Journal” and the “Economist” and some of these publications that we’ve recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska.
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I was not aware those were available in comic book versions. I wonder if she just looks at the pictures or actually reads them?
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 pmThis is utterly pathetic.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pmThat's bullshit. If she read The Economist, she'd have some idea what's going on in the world.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pmShe's a liar. That's been established. She needs a second chance on easy questions, so she's a few beers shy of a six-pack.
The VP? Really? republicans are going to change everything?
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pmPeople are buying this?
Bob Says:
She’s a liar. That’s been established. She needs a second chance on easy questions, so she’s a few beers shy of a six-pack.
The VP? Really? republicans are going to change everything?
People are buying this?
Only people who would buy the Brooklyn Bridge or send money to one of those Ethiopian email scammers....
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmshe couldn't even come up with the name of her own alsaka daily...
gawd, what a fraud.
no. she's real. a real opportunist. carazy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmWhat astounding bullshit. SHe is so damned dumb that she couldn't even THINK of a lie in the Couric interview. This woman is S T U P I D personified.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmIf I guessed Field And Stream, People, and nothing else---I'll bet I would be close to the truth.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmWhat about her Campaign Staff?
I'll buy the fact that she's Real Busy, and may not have the luxury to spend Sunday reading the NY Times. Probably, any News she consumes would be on her laptop anyhow.
But doesn't someone advising her give her News Items she needs to be aware of? When some columnist makes a good point...favorable or unfavorable....wouldn't she want to know about it.
Maybe she's too busy to do anything but homework and rehearsal practise....but do we really want on the job training for the VP Spot?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 pmWayne Says: #6
Wayne dammit, their Nigerian, not Ethiopian. Get your facts straight dammit. I read the Economist dammit! OMG! I apologize. Sarah is making me bleed from my ears! She is the evil, wicked, high priestess of misery from which there is no escape!
In all seriousness Wayne, I totally agree!
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 pmsatirev Says: #15
Did you say S L U T T Y?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 pmHer base are all, at this very moment, praying to American flag draped, lapel flag pin wearing, republican neocon God that the heathen, non flag lapel pin wearing, realistic Americans become stricken with any dibilitating disease that would prevent them from voting for Obama/Biden. Therefore McCain/Palin would win by default.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 pmHere's a link to a clip of her 2006 gubernatorial debate (her first response starts two minutes into the clip) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-K
Just watch it and compare it to the candidate that shared the stage with Biden. Notice what's missing? My take -- her folksy, cutesy, winking persona is a total put-on. She is about as authentic as a dimestore cowboy.
As many have noted here, she has no "substance". Now, I think it can be said that whatever "style" she may have is a total fabrication as well.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pmWhodah thunk the Economist has a comics section?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 pmWhere was the question asked? On Fox? Oh, what a surprise! No chance that she knew the question was coming and had been prepped in advance -- unlike with Couric where she did her deer in the headlights response because she doesn't read AT ALL. It's soooo convincing.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 pmMark Shields made this point on tonite's Newshour about the Five Weeks left till the election....
MARK SHIELDS: I'd just add that one thing. This race is far from over. I mean, five weeks ago, OK, just take -- we've got five weeks to go, basically --(five weeks ago) no one had heard of Sarah Palin, all right? She's now a major national figure.
Five weeks ago, Lehman Brothers was a respected American institution. Wachovia was my bank. It doesn't exist anymore.
Personally. I'm Very Optimistic About Obama's chances...but this Five Weeks is Crunch Time.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pmI thought McCain's campaign was saying just a month ago that the New York Times was full of lies. Why are letting little Sarah read such a slanderous rag? That's no way to raise a Vice President!
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmWatch out Warren Buffet, Sarah Palin is taking your spot. Look what idiot told her to say Economist as one of the magizines she reads. Fox News gave her answers with thinking she doesn't know anything about the Economy. Now at lease John McCain admitted he knows nothing. I guess like her Foreign Policy expereince is with looking at Russia now her knowledge in the Economy is strong because she read the word Economist.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmThe Back Pedal Express rides again, here in the lower 48 and as Ms Folksy would say: "...up there in Alaska..."
Such an idiotic think so ~ if you're from Florida do you say "down there in Florida"?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pmShe's a staged distraction. Shift the focus off the old man, no substance, all fluff.
I would think the popular vote would look more like the win percentage on fivethirtyeight.com with all these bad things and a sitting repub prez. Somehow people manage to justify it, though, like saying it's Clinton's fault. Just today I had to say that if you're going to go back, you ought to go back twenty plus years to Reagan.
It shouldn't be close, but I've been disappointed before.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pmcotton candy.
When she falls by the political wayside, she'll be doing pictorials.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 pmAll I can do to sum up McCain's campaign is this quote:
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” Adolph Hitler
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pmThe Economist?? Yeah right
Here's Palins silly explanation to Cameron for why she couldnt answer Courics simple question what newspapers she reads:
BS of course. There was no such suggestion in Courics questions. And Palin couldnt answer even when asked three times. And now all of a sudden she has list ready of newspapers (carefully balanced with WSJ and NYT) that she reads?
I guess her explanation is part of her and the McCain campaigns strategy to paint the media and everyone that disagrees with them or asks them tough questions they cant answer, as elitists, out of touch with everyday Americans.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pmOh Yeah! Hitler also:
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.".
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 pm“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”.
That was the Bush Cheney plan for Iraq.
Of course "Victor" implies some sort of Victory.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 pmJebus, guys, stop dissing comic books!
Makin' me feel all defensive n' stuff.
(btw, you know there was a comic book version of the 911 comission report?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071501044.html)
"I read The Economist"!
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 pmwink
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pmYou know what? I can't even begin to process this yet. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the notion that we have a Vice Presidential candidate who in a major debate in front of 65 million American use nose scrunching for rhetorical emphasis.
Seriously it's really $#!%ing me up.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 pmNow we know what the "p" in "stupid" stands for!
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pmIn English or Russian?
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 pmI wonder why the Christian Science Monitor did not make the list. I occasionally read it for a different perspective and as my login suggests, I am a far left liberal.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pmi've read every issue of The Economist for 6 years. i have no life. but i can say with authority that if you've actually read one and have nothing half-way intelligent to say, then you're a liar.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 pmListen, we can't question the good candidate's honesty. She has shown herself to be an able leader.
So I'd just like to ask, as you read the WSJ, NYT and Economist, how come you couldn't name even one SCOTUS decision ?
Is your reading comprehension that low ? And if so, how are ya gonna read all the stuff that passes over the VP desk ?
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pmThe last time we were in the middle of a huge crisis, George Bush was reading about a goat.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pmThis might be considered an improvement
http://www.WilyTrax.com
Good.
Ask her about the articles in the recent Economist, then...
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 pmMy big lie that I will keep saying, "Sarah winked at me last night" Yes,it was me she was winking at. She wants me. Iknow it. God told me during my prayer meeting tonight.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm"Sarah you ignorant sl*t" Who the hell are you winking at?
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pmI am suprised she didn't have a garment malfunction.
Do you think they give her multiple takes of each of these fake interviews so that she gets it just right? It would be hilarious in 2 weeks if in another interview someone asked her about the Supreme Court cases again and she drew a blank since she clearly memorized them before this interview (and it's pathetic to act like she always knew them). Unfortunately, she will not be doing any more interviews before the election, unless it's Hannity.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 pmRight! And Bush goes to sleep every night after reading another hundred pages of yet another biography of John Quincy Adams.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 pmThere's NO Do-overs in Politics, don'tcha know?
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pmBush admitted that he didn't read the newspapers... and someone elected HIM President.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm"I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the “New York Times” and the “Wall Street Journal” and the “Economist” and some of these publications that we’ve recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska."
Such a scripted answer. Sounds like Karl Rove politics right there. I mean seriously, that sounds like something from my college speech textbook.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pmALERT!
Brian Williams on LETTERMAN -
call 1 800 NBC NEWS, press 1,
and tell them how much you LOVE
OLBERMAN and MADDOW.
thanks!
October 4th, 2008 at 12:18 amLiberalVoter Says:
I was not aware those were available in comic book versions. I wonder if she just looks at the pictures or actually reads them?
Funny!
She has the "Economist" on her bear skin coffee table right next to "Shooters Digest."
October 4th, 2008 at 12:23 amHow come this bimbo gets a Mulligan?
October 4th, 2008 at 12:25 amEven plain presidential idol, Geraldine Ferraro, thinks plain is a ding dong.
Gawd she's awful.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:30 amYou folks are just pissed that Sarah Palin is not a typical pants-suit-wearing-Abortion-Loving-FemNazi-short-haired-lesbian-liberal.
She actually has brains and appeal, unlike your big mouth idol Rosie O'dopey donnell. 0r those borish pieces of menepausal work on The View.
Sarah Palin is a true American woman who has intelligence above and beyond the useful idiots posting on this board. The ONLY reason that you folks hate her is because she is not a screeching liberal like yourselves.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:54 amLOL. The Economist. I am an investment economist who reads The Economist and I'm telling you right now there's no way Sarah Palin has the attention span to read it. Way over her head.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:55 amStrange...Primal Fear is on tv.
repugs are Edward Norton's character.
Perfect example.
.:Thank you:.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:58 amGuess what party the dems played?
October 4th, 2008 at 12:59 amLiberalVoter Says:
I was not aware those were available in comic book versions. I wonder if she just looks at the pictures or actually reads them?
We're giving Sarah too much credit to understand the political and social underpinnings of X-Men. Until she can connect two separate and relevant thoughts, I think she failed Hooked on Phonics.
She seems more like a visual person, probably a huge Zoey 101 fan.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:12 amTim43, no I can't stand her because she is a screeching IDIOT, you little troll
If I had to interview her for my company and she brought cliff notes with her like she did to the debate she would most certainly not get the job. This isn't a seat of your pants position where you hope the people who are helping you aren't just out for their own gain. She is running for the position of the second highest office in this country, with the very real possibility that the aging pressures of the presidential position may bring an early demise to the forerunner of her party if by chance he were to be elected. She would be eaten up and spit out, not by people in this country, but by other leaders who can see her as an obvious wink link in the system. There is so much more here at stake than likability and looking good on camera.
This isn't high school where the kids are popular and president of the class because they are attractive.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:18 amOops--"wink link" must have been a Freudian slip from the debate squeaking through.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:20 amTim43, I don't understand why you guys are so anti abortion? Only a godless liberal would get one and I would think you would be happy they aren't reproducing.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:28 amWhat person(s) would one inspired to be?
nuff said.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:30 amBy the way, Tim43, from your moniker you are male, so why the hell do you think you have a right to tell a woman what to do with her body? It isn't like you personally are going to have an abortion, is it, unless you have had some transitional surgery or something?
There was a time when a woman could not even have a C-section to save her life unless her husband signed for it. In my view an abortion ban is one step away from this. How would you like it if you were not able to have your sperm tested to see if they swam because they were considered viable living organisms? Or could not have a wart or a cancer taken off you ugly arse because they were living cells and deserving of their life?
Get a clue-the world at large and the political arena are much more than one religiously charged position.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:38 amNaw shucks that is just conservative filtered coincidence.
Don'tcha think?
October 4th, 2008 at 2:14 amThat didn't seem like a test you would need 2 weeks to prepare for
October 4th, 2008 at 6:30 amThe Economist's poll of economists
October 4th, 2008 at 7:08 amExamining the candidates
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127
Governor Palin, I've read The Economist for the last 18 years. I've read the commentary of Lexington, chuckled at the tongue & cheek musings of its writer Charlemagne. I've read The Economist in my night clothes. I've fallen asleep with many of its issues in my hands. I know The Economist. Ms Palin, you don't know squat about The Economist.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:59 am1984 Says:
The Economist’s poll of economists
Examining the candidates
http://www.economist.com/ world/ unitedstates/ displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127
Ouch McCain
Thank God the Maverick picked a VP candidate who "reads" the Economist. No doubt a real whiz kid in economics who will fix the economy in just a wink of her eye
October 4th, 2008 at 9:09 amIf it matters...which it really doesn't anymore, certainly someone could simply check to see the status of every Economist subscription in AK(?)
"I'll betcha"(ugh) there ain't none with her name on it.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:30 amTim43 Says:
You folks are just pissed that Sarah Palin is not a typical pants-suit-wearing-Abortion-Loving-FemNazi-short-haired-lesbian-liberal.
She actually has brains and appeal, unlike your big mouth idol Rosie O’dopey donnell. 0r those borish pieces of menepausal work on The View.
Sarah Palin is a true American woman who has intelligence above and beyond the useful idiots posting on this board. The ONLY reason that you folks hate her is because she is not a screeching liberal like yourselves.
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tim43,
do you read the economist?
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October 4th, 2008 at 10:51 amTim43,
October 4th, 2008 at 11:18 amIt's time for you to quit playing with yourself and go shower up,your bedroom smells like rotten fish!
Since fundies are convinced the rapture is always at hand, they don't bother to read. For that matter, they don't bother to think, either!
Palin is to many men in this world the ultimate f(uk fantasy: good looking with no brains.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pmTim43 Says:
You folks are just pissed that Sarah Palin is not a typical pants-suit-wearing-Abortion-Loving-FemNazi-short-haired-lesbian-liberal.
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Uh... I guess that makes George Will a liberal then, huh?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/george-will-palin-is-not_n_130647.html
Famed conservative columnist George Will told a gathering of Senate aides on Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin is "obviously" not prepared to assume the presidency if necessary, two event attendees told the Huffington Post.
Appearing at a Senate Press Secretaries Association reception at the Cornerstone Government Affairs office, Will offered a harsh assessment of John McCain's running mate.
Palin is "obviously not qualified to be President," he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a "disaster."
Sheesh... who knew?
October 4th, 2008 at 5:01 pmTim43 Says:
Nothing worth the waste of life it takes to read. Timmeh. You are an ignorant troll. A liar and a fool. You only come here to antagonize us and parade your impressive stupidity. The latter you do quite well. You lose one more braincell you are a talking monkey.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pmI can guarantee she has read virtually nothing in her life.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:40 pmReading and then reading and understanding is a life-long
commitment. It's a type of logarithmic progression based on
retention and an ability to apply and cross-reference what
one has read. I don't say I have it, but I know what it is.