User: stephl Date: 04 Oct 2008 16:01 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Ack

she believed that CBS's Ms Couric was accusing her and fellow Alaskans of not being "in tune with the rest of the world.

Best way to refute an accusation? TELL HER WHAT YOU READ.

Oh, wait. That would presume that she, you know, READS.

User: ste_noni Date: 04 Oct 2008 16:12 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Once agan , she answered her own question but that wasn't even close to what was asked.

User: jerel Date: 05 Oct 2008 00:53 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

When I'm instructing students in taking standardized writing tests (AP, SAT), I always make sure I tell them "Answer the question that is asked, not the one that you wish was asked."

Perhaps Ms. Palin should have sat through one of my classes.

User: redstarrobot Date: 04 Oct 2008 16:14 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Awesome, a defensive vice-presidential candidate who falls apart and breaks off the conversation when she thinks she's being accused of something. That's gonna be effective sitting across the table from Putin.

User: neadods Date: 04 Oct 2008 16:45 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I've been thinking that every time she says she's not doing something because it's "mean" of the journalist. That and what happened to saying that she didn't want to be treated with kid gloves because she's "the girl"?

User: copperwise Date: 04 Oct 2008 17:47 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Monkeys

"I don't wanna play your game, I'm gonna take my ball and go home!"

Seriously? Even as an excuse that's pretty pitiful, never mind trying it as a behavior if you're actually elected.

User: juliansinger Date: 04 Oct 2008 18:07 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Yep. That was quite clear in the second half of the cip.

(The Economist is a good rag. Which I sometimes read. At the library.)

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 18:08 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I used to subscribe, until one day I realized that I was feeling guilty about not reading it far more than I was reading it.

User: fridgepunk Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:01 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

You should read it - it's like the Onion, Private Eye and a carcrash had a baby. It's filled with these hilariously upbeat fake economic articles from some weird alternate universe where Lassaiz faire economics totally works, mixed in with the occasional piece of FOX news esque bit of info-tainment involving these fake world leaders they've used for decades now.

So Palin may be an idiot, but she's clearly got a good sense of humour.

User: juliansinger Date: 05 Oct 2008 06:36 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Yeah, that was the point where I stopped subscribing to _Yankee_.

User: movingfinger Date: 04 Oct 2008 18:15 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

In this, as in so many other parts of life, there is no do-over.

As I remarked earlier, the Anchorage Daily News would've been an answer, but I don't believe she reads it---or anything else.

More and more I get the picture of someone who has gotten along with special-case pleading, cuteness, and no actual performance. A whiner, too. Eeeeeeeugh.

User: omnivorously Date: 04 Oct 2008 18:44 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: General Armstrong

Personally, I read the Onion (Savage Love, at least), my flist, classical and queer scholarship, Bitch, Off Our Backs, On Our Backs, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Hmm, I don't think Palin would really be able to represent me all that well ...

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:36 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

She's promised she'd tolerate you. What do you *want*?

User: omnivorously Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:42 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Queen Christina says: wtf

You're right, you're right, a pervert like me should be *grateful*. And accept Jesus as my personal savior, I'll add that to my to-do list.

User: jerel Date: 05 Oct 2008 00:55 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I miss reading the Chronicle of Higher Ed. I used to work at a university, and we got it in our office.

User: cofax7 Date: 04 Oct 2008 18:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

If the average American has a weekly newspaper, it's Time or Newsweek, and if they get a daily, it's the local paper, for the sports scores and local news. WTF.

I started getting the Economist only when it came free with my KQED subscription a few years back. Now, of course, I'm hooked.

User: susanw Date: 04 Oct 2008 22:27 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Sharpe1

We had a bunch of frequent flyer miles about to expire that we used on an Economist subscription, but we'll probably shell out the $116 to keep it when the time comes, because we're good and hooked, too.

Aside from NPR, TDS/TCR, and the blogosphere, I get most of my news from the Economist and the Guardian website. Which would be too Anglophile an answer if I were running for VP.

User: troyswann Date: 04 Oct 2008 19:31 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: daniel cameron book

I guess Gov. Palin could institute, should she get into office as VP, a new provision called the "do over."

User:	urban_homestead
Date:	04 Oct 2008 19:49 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

I think her response goes a long way to validating your earlier hypothesis that she was in part scared to answer because she didn't know what an educated-but-not-elitist conservative was "supposed" to be reading.

Does anyone actually pay to read the Economist and WSJ anymore, though? I read them online, and before that, like the respondent above, I read the Economist at the library.

User: sabra_n Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:29 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

My dad subscribes to WSJ. *shrug* I don't get it, myself.

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:39 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

When I worked for a business school, I used to adore the column-three stories (which I think Murdoch hates) and the second sections.

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:36 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Aren't they both behind paywalls? (If not, I'll definitely start parachuting into the Economist again.)

User:	urban_homestead
Date:	04 Oct 2008 20:42 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

WSJ requires you to register but I've never been asked to pay; possibly that's because I'm only reading current articles and older ones are archived for paying members, I'm not sure. The Economist has parts you can read without paying, and then you can buy "credits" that you use to access the specific paid articles one at a time. At least that's how it worked a few years back; I haven't bothered with any of the non-free functionality in a very long time.

User: prusik Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:15 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

"her and fellow Alaskans"? Katie Couric didn't ask "What newspapers do you and your fellow Alaskans read?" She asked about which papers Mrs. Palin reads.

Can they manage even one sentence that isn't a distortion?

User: lyorn Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:24 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

"New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist"

Funny, because in at least two political blogs I read the question was pondered if Palin had trouble answering the question becasue she didn't want to be seen as reading the "wrong" newspapers, followed by a dicussion what would be safest to say, and three guesses what came up...

User: truejavachik Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:32 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I'm pretty ordinary, I have an Economist sub.

But you make a good point.

Though I think she's lying. I would highly doubt that she actually reads any of those publications.

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:40 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

If she were really reading the Economist, she'd be infinitely better informed than she's demonstrated being.

User: serrana Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:33 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

*shrug* Both are cheaper to subscribe to than a year of my local paper. Both are read regularly by members of my immediate family.

Now, I'll admit we're college-educated "elites," but neither of those strikes me as a particularly weird read. Particularly for someone in government. My brother the USAF captain reads The Economist and then takes them to work and leaves them in the control tower break room.

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:38 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Fair enough.

When I lived in Charlotte, I was the only person I knew (other than my in-laws) who read the Times.

User: serrana Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:49 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I get the impression, at least based on my family's reading habits, that conservatives read the WSJ the same way you and I read the NYT. Mother and Dad have had a subscription for decades.

User:	legionseagle
Date:	04 Oct 2008 20:34 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

Actually, you can get a lot out of the Economist (especially if you trade guano futures). I spent a year in Canada pre- internet days, and the only UK publications I had regular access to were the Economist (to which UofT subscribed) and Private Eye (which the father of a fellow UK student had subscribed to) and I managed quite well.

But it's much easier now. I can read the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Telegraph and the Globe and Mail online every morning if I want.

User: jonquil Date: 04 Oct 2008 20:38 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Same here. I've only been reading the Guardian; which of the others should I be reading? (For information, not for anger/laughs.)

User: the_wanlorn Date: 05 Oct 2008 00:18 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Well now that's just a tad bit suspicious.

User: jerel Date: 05 Oct 2008 00:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Let's see. I get my news from The Orlando Sentinel (local paper), The Boston Globe, The Guardian, NPR, the BBC, and CNN.