In a series of interviews over the past week, Sarah Palin has succeeded in making milquetoast anchor Katie Couric look like Edward R. Murrow. Most of the interview clips made me laugh and left me with a sinking feeling about our Nation's future but it was the following clip that really angered me:
Look at her try to spin it like cute little Katie was accusing Alaska of being ill-informed. No Mrs. Palin, she's only talking about you.
I don't think that Sarah Palin is dumb by any stretch of the imagination. She knows how to dodge a question, how to spin it and how to mention as many key phrases as possible. That takes smarts and I'm pretty sure she reads. She holds a BS in Communications-Journalism. If she doesn't read then that's just plain sad. So let's just assume that she is an intelligent and literate woman. Why would someone withhold their reading list? Though I have absolutely no way to prove it, my theory is:
By refusing to name specific periodicals, Mrs. Palin is trying to appeal to the anti-intellectual contingent within the Republican party.
Over the past eight years the middle-class has seen increasing hardship. The rich have become richer while average Americans have found it harder and harder to make ends meet. As a result, a great deal of Americans have a strong mistrust towards "elites". This puts the Republican Party at quite the disadvantage.
What is a political party to do? How can they possibly convince the biggest voting block out there (the middle class) that they are not the party of the elite?
*Light Bulb*
BY CALLING THE OTHER GUYS ELITES!
Look at them and all their fancy book learnin'. They don't know what it's really like. They just sit there judging you in their ivory towers. Rowin' boats and eatin' ivy. Let's go race snow machines and watch "The Passion of the Christ".
By not naming specific newspapers and magazines Sarah Palin sidestepped tarnishing her carefully crafted image as "one of us", by mentioning that she reads periodicals which some might characterize as being part of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, eletist - "Liberal Media". Rule #1 of being a VP nominee - do no harm.
Frankly I'm sick and tired of all this shit. There is nothing wrong with being intelligent and informed. Teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago doesn't mean you're an elitist -
IT MEANS YOU'RE SMART!
And that's what I want in a leader. I want someone smart!
PS: Sarah Palin spoke in California today and decided to spout stale talking points from long ago regarding Mr. Obama and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. In her harangue Mrs. Palin cited that "old gray lady" of the "liberal media" - The New York Times.
Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93JSBFO0&show_article=1
On a side note...
Since Sarah Palin claims to read "all of them" here are some titles we must assume she reads:
-The Struggle
-Calling Our Nation
-Nida’ul-Islam
-Al Ansar
-Newcummers
-Savage Male
-Uncut
Of course those last three she only reads for the articles.
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FIRST: This was a stupid question to begin with. You would never hear any reporter in main stream media ask this question to any other candidate. What’s your reading list? What is this question? A myspace profile question? Stupid and quite frankly a “gotcha” question by a member of the liberal media trying to trip her up.
SECOND: She answered it quite well. She reads everything! You got a problem with that? The list was too big to recount. I know I would have a problem with that. There are so many newspapers I read in a day online that I wouldn’t begin to tell you which one was which. This is hard for liberals to grasp because they think that conservatives are naturally stupid. That is what we in America call Liberal Elitism.
THIRDLY: You assume that she was sidestepping the “book list” because she didn’t want to be labeled as a liberal and pander to the Un-educated Conservatives. That is a short sighted immature comment. Do you think that Republicans are more uneducated because the dare vote Republican? I would put any conservative from the South against any Harvard man any day. They have more common since and a better grasp on the issues.
FOURTHLY: The debate was a homerun for her tonight. She made little ol’ Katie look like a buffoon and made SNL cast members look even more biased than ever.
~ The Republic’er
P.S. The Fifthly comment was taken out. It was a claim that needs more research. Excuse the confusion and we respect your thoughts… kindda.
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