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It takes guts to refuse to be tried by a biased court.

Actually, the problem with most so-called "liberals" is that they take you right-wing conservatives seriously...

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It takes guts to refuse to be tried by a biased court.

Yup, Sarah was sure raked over the coals. It was damn unfair of the media to have asked such tough questions. I hear that she has demanded that the rest of her interviews are "open book" interviews. She's bringing a dictionary and encyclopedia on CD Rom.

Oh, I'm not trying to have an argument with you, Brand (sorry for the earlier typo). Just injecting a little levity into a subject which doesn't merit much serious consideration. Actually, the problem with most so-called "liberals" is that they take you right-wing conservatives seriously and try to argue back and forth. I don't play the "gotcha" game. There's a reason why I call myself "Merry."

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Actually, the problem with most so-called "liberals" is that they take you right-wing conservatives seriously...

I take Bush Co. and his disastrous policies very seriously. I avoid debating with conservative locals because it is futile.

Unless she resented the fact that it was a hostile interview and simply refused to gratify Couric.

The point, is that she could obvously have named a newspaper had she chosen to, but her initial answer, "all of them," had been perfectly sufficient.

I think Palin is an elitist.

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The point, is that she could obvously have named a newspaper had she chosen to, but her initial answer, "all of them," had been perfectly sufficient.

Bullshit. No one reads all newspapers.

No, not Barndan - I'd spell it Boredom.

BBB

Correct, but had it been Obama who had made the statement, she would have understood that he meant many, and not pressed further in an insulting attempt to prove that he didn't read the news.

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Correct, but had it been Obama who had made the statement, she would have understood that he meant many, and not pressed further in an insulting attempt to prove that he didn't read the news.

Also likely bullshit, assuming he reads any newspapers. (And mebbe he does, mebbe he doesn't.) And assuming Couric would have pursued this line of questioning with him, which one also wonders at. After all, he's not the candidate who's demonstrated a profoundly provincial attitude and a questionable awareness of the larger world to this point.

But I've actually known a couple of people (semi-retired journalists both) who would read most of 8 or 10 newspapers a day (so, about as close to "all of them" as you could manage), and they'd actually, you know, be able to name them, and tell you which ones they leaned on heavily and which ones they just read to hit the main points.

And maybe Palin does read a bunch of newspapers and was, I don't know, flustered or afraid of offending some rag by omitting their name or something, I don't know. But she handled the situation with a profound lack of aplomb, and this was just Katie Couric. What will she do when the ****'s really hitting the fan and there are real antagonists (like, you know, "the terrorists") in the mix.

I've gotta say, I'm sick of blind loyalty from American political partisans of all stripe. Your person can screw up and still be your person, you can agree on some points and not others, but we've all consented to this climate of "MY GUY'S ALWAYS RIGHT YOUR GUY'S ALWAYS WRONG," and it's just ******* ridiculous.

And I'm singling you out as an example because I found you particularly smug, priggish, and obstinate.

Ah, name calling, the lowest form of debate.

As I've said in this thread several times now, she could obviously have named at least one such as the New York Times, but probably refused to play Couric's game.

I don't suppose you actually have anything to say about Palin's campaign platform?

Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: We don’t have to second-guess what their efforts would be if they believe … that it is in their country and their allies, including us, all of our best interests to fight against a regime, especially Iran, who would seek to wipe them off the face of the earth. It is obvious to me who the good guys are in this one and who the bad guys are. The bad guys are the ones who say Israel is a stinking corpse and should be wiped off the face of the earth. That’s not a good guy who is saying that. Now, one who would seek to protect the good guys in this, the leaders of Israel and her friends, her allies, including the United States, in my world, those are the good guys.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.