Sarah Palin At Long Last Reveals Her Reading List, Calls Charges She’s Uninformed “Ridiculous”

by Mark Joyella | 1:00 pm, December 9th, 2010

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Sarah Palin would now like to tell you exactly what she’s reading.

Most Americans can still remember the seemingly throwaway question that then-VP candidate Palin tripped over: CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric asking, “what do you read?”

In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters set to air tonight, Palin gives that question another shot–and shoots back at claims the former Alaska governor is uninformed:

“I read anything and everything that I can get my hands on as I have since I was a little girl,” Palin told Walters in an interview to air tonight on ABC as part of Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2010.”

So what books and newspapers currently top her reading list?

“I’m reading the best book right now — Dean Karnazes’s book about being an ultra-marathoner. I read a lot of C.S. Lewis when I want some divine inspiration…I read Newsmax and The Wall Street Journal. I read all of our local papers of course in Alaska because that’s where my heart is,” Palin said.

And no, she’s still peeved at Couric for asking that question–and for the way reporters seized on it as proof she wasn’t ready to play in the big leagues:

“Because of that one episode, that one episode, that would turn an issue into what it has become over the last two years. I think that’s ridiculous,” Palin told Walters. “That’s one of those things, where that issue…that I don’t read, or that I’m not informed, it’s one of those questions where I like to turn that around and ask the reporters, ‘Why would it be that there is that perception that I don’t read?’”

That’s “something that’s been pretty much ginned up by the press,” Palin said.

Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, reading list, Sarah Palin

Jon Bershad

She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!
Atticus Draco

Jon Bershad said:
She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!

lol,, i know,, that was kinda odd
Atticus Draco

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Rhinos are pissed,, “NO NYTimes?!?!?”

“SEE! We told ya NOT to like her!!!”
TrollJuice

It took her long enough to answer the question Katie asked her 2 1/2 years ago!
skyfet

To Sarah the Question what Newspaper do you read? is a tricky question. Her words not mine.
Pablo

It’s too bad she never talks to anyone but Fox News.
Harry Flashman

Jon Bershad said:

“She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!”

C.S. Lewis was a brilliant and prolific author who wrote much more than The Narnia Chronicles. My personal favorite is “The Screwtape Letters”. Ever heard of it? No? Of course not. Your knowledge of Lewis is probably limited to Narnia, and that’s most likely because of the movie, not the actual literary work.

That, of course, is another example of the sneering psuedo-intellectualism of the left.

Palin mentions C.S. Lewis, therefore her entire acquaintance with that author MUST be limited to his children’s books.

Pitiful rationale, Jon.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

It took her two years to put a reading list together, way to go Sarah!
skyfet

Jon Bershad said:
She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!

That’s not a surprise as Murdoch’s company are now bank rolling the film, after Disney pulled out.
Hugo Daun

What a crock…typical of Palin.

Anyone who is REALLY a reader could have answered Couric easily and quickly.
Atticus Draco

Harry Flashman said:
Jon Bershad said:

“She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!”

C.S. Lewis was a brilliant and prolific author who wrote much more than The Narnia Chronicles. My personal favorite is “The Screwtape Letters”. Ever heard of it? No? Of course not. Your knowledge of Lewis is probably limited to Narnia, and that’s most likely because of the movie, not the actual literary work.

That, of course, is another example of the sneering psuedo-intellectualism of the left.

Palin mentions C.S. Lewis, therefore her entire acquaintance with that author MUST be limited to his children’s books.

Pitiful rationale, Jon.

You could be right Harry,,
it’s just my immediate thought was “Fantasy?” “She likes fantasy,, wow”
I didnt automatically peg her as someone reading fantasy
things fall apart

That said Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President, not because I disagree with her views or that she is a woman or has experience in Alaska or whatever else people say is not actually a fault of hers: It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea.

If she proved me wrong then by all means run for office. But all she does now is put forth policy ideas on her facebook page, criticize governing from the sidelines(has she offered even 2 pages of original material on any substantive policy?), and hide out with friendly media.

She should continue to be a spokeperson for her cause, or maybe get into the Alaska senate, but as far as running the country she will automatically kill the Republican party is she seeks election in 2012.
Harry Flashman

” It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. ”

Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.
Atticus Draco

Harry Flashman said:
” It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. ”

Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.

OHHHH,, good one!
lol
Pablo

Harry Flashman said:
Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.

The Dems can’t even seem to monitor their own caucus.
lazzzlo

skyfet said:
That’s not a surprise as Murdoch’s company are now bank rolling the film, after Disney pulled out.

That’s not true. Walden Media, owned by Philip Anschutz/Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has the Narnia franchise rights.

Not everything is associated with Fox!
roxsteady

The more she talks, the dumber she sounds.

“Because of that one episode, that one episode, that would turn an issue into what it has become over the last two years. I think that’s ridiculous,” Palin told Walters. “That’s one of those things, where that issue…that I don’t read, or that I’m not informed, it’s one of those questions where I like to turn that around and ask the reporters, ‘Why would it be that there is that perception that I don’t read?’”

That’s “something that’s been pretty much ginned up by the press,” Palin said.”

No dear, it’s not ginned up by the press. It’s the things you’ve said and done that have lead them to conclude that what they thought they were seeing and hearing was in fact true. You’re an ignorant, uninformed, crass, coward who throws rocks from facebook, calls reporters the “lamestream media” and is still pissed because Couric exposed you as a moron. Oh, and writing on your hand wasn’t ginned up by the media. Using the word cackle instead of gaggle, saying refudiate instead of refute, referring to a reporter as impotent and limp wristed is also not something you’d expect to hear someone with presidential aspirations say, let alone write in a childish tweet or facebook rant. All of these things and many others is proof that you should never get anywhere near the White House without a visator’s pass.
roxsteady

Harry Flashman said:
” It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. ” Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.

Yes, but Obama is the President of the United States and she’s a reaity show star. Apples and Oranges!
Atticus Draco

roxsteady said:
roxsteady says:
December 9, 2010 at 1:39 pm roxsteady(Quote)
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Harry Flashman said:
” It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. ” Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.

Yes, but Obama is the President of the United States and she’s a reaity show star. Apples and Oranges!

AND YOU’RE definitely a NUT,, a FRUITY NUT
Atticus Draco

Atticus Draco said:
roxsteady said:
roxsteady says:
December 9, 2010 at 1:39 pm roxsteady(Quote)
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Harry Flashman said:
” It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. ” Yeah, well, neither does Obama or the liberal left wing of Congress, if you go by that barometer.

Yes, but Obama is the President of the United States and she’s a reaity show star. Apples and Oranges!

AND YOU’RE definitely a NUT,, a FRUITY NUT

You get it Rox,, it’s kinda more drastic that the so-called smart people currently in charge are kinda screwin’ chit up
YEAH?

Unless you wanna contend that they’re are doing a swell job at it?
roxsteady

Surely, you all recall the meeting Obama was invited to by the Republican House members where, off the top of his head, on national tv, without notes or the teleprompter you folks like to mock, he smacked down their lies on budgets, policy, and the healthcare bill? How do you suppose Palin would have performed in that situation facing the Democratic House members? When she gave her speech at the 2008 convention, she then went around for the next 3 weeks repeating that same speech. Could she ever take questions at townhall meetings like Obama did and answer them? Hell no! Even when scripted she sounds like an idiot.
Just4thefax

TrollJuice said:
It took her long enough to answer the question Katie asked her 2 1/2 years ago!

Fact: Troll if you where following politics when she ran as VP with McCain, she had a fear of the moment and just went blank to the question, but she didn’t want the viewer thinking that she just doesn’t read. For months after the attack that’s all she answered because that’s all the lefties would ask jackass! Even Mark Jollies probably asked it at that time himself before this year’s attempt at a gasp. In a college government class debate, I had a like experience where I too lost my place on my prepared speech with my paper in hand. I had no idea whether I said it all right as written or not I just had lots of sweat on my neck and I felt like throwing up then quickly sat down. I know you haven’t got there yet in life but someday if you continue in school you will.
timcajun

Pablo says:

It’s too bad she never talks to anyone but Fox News.

Unless all questions are known before hand and they are all softballs,( she had a couple years to review her past mistakes) Bless Sarah and anything she says.
Atticus Draco

roxsteady said:
Surely, you all recall the meeting Obama was invited to by the Republican House members where, off the top of his head, on national tv, without notes or the teleprompter you folks like to mock, he smacked down their lies on budgets, policy, and the healthcare bill? How do you suppose Palin would have performed in that situation facing the Democratic House members? When she gave her speech at the 2008 convention, she then went around for the next 3 weeks repeating that same speech. Could she ever take questions at townhall meetings like Obama did and answer them? Hell no! Even when scripted she sounds like an idiot.

Fess up rox,,
how many times have you been repeating that same ol’ diatribe?
IN FACT,,, did you even come up with it on your own?
Just4thefax

Jonathan Scott said:
It took her two years to put a reading list together, way to go Sarah!

Fact: another llllllloooooosssssssseeeeerrrrr missing the point of the article!
roxsteady

Sorry Atticus but, they’re doing a better job than these same Republicans when they were in charge. Want proof?

The deficit has dropped. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43681.html

Even with high unemployment right now, Republicans are worse at job creation.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/greta-van-susteren-thinks-karl-rove-qualif

While under Obama? http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2010/08/circulate_this_2.html

So, yes, they are doing better. It’s a fact!
Just4thefax

things fall apart said:
That said Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President, not because I disagree with her views or that she is a woman or has experience in Alaska or whatever else people say is not actually a fault of hers: It is because she is simply unfit. She demonstrates no knowledge of how to monitor things from commodity trading in Chicago to the conflicts in China and Korea. If she proved me wrong then by all means run for office. But all she does now is put forth policy ideas on her facebook page, criticize governing from the sidelines(has she offered even 2 pages of original material on any substantive policy?), and hide out with friendly media. She should continue to be a spokeperson for her cause, or maybe get into the Alaska senate, but as far as running the country she will automatically kill the Republican party is she seeks election in 2012.

Fact: Put them all on the line and let them race!
roxsteady

I have to go now, stupid wingnuts make my head hurt.
Just4thefax

roxsteady said:
Sorry Atticus but, they’re doing a better job than these same Republicans when they were in charge. Want proof? The deficit has dropped. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43681.html Even with high unemployment right now, Republicans are worse at job creation.http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/greta-van-susteren-thinks-karl-rove-qualif While under Obama? http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2010/08/circulate_this_2.html So, yes, they are doing better. It’s a fact!

Fact: Well that answers the question for the where’s the jobs crowd!
skyfet

lazzzlo said:
That’s not true. Walden Media, owned by Philip Anschutz/Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has the Narnia franchise rights.

Not everything is associated with Fox!

Now you just missed that completely. Owning the franchise doesn’t mean you finance the movie. A simple research will show you that it’s sponsored by 20th century fox. They replaced Disney, who financed the first two films. Capiche?
Just4thefax

roxsteady said:
I have to go now, stupid wingnuts make my head hurt.

Fact: It hurts me to think that you think your thinking! oooooouuuuuucccchhhhhhh…….
Just4thefax

skyfet said:
Now you just missed that completely. Owning the franchise doesn’t mean you finance the movie. A simple research will show you that it’s sponsored by 20th century fox. They replaced Disney, who financed the first two films. Capiche?

Fact: We herd it all before from you.
I’m not an animal I’m a human being…….?????
BatBoy

skyfet said:
To Sarah the Question what Newspaper do you read? is a tricky question. Her words not mine.

What is really tricky is writing a well structured sentence beginning with a capital letter at the start of a sentence, then adding a subject and verb and ending with proper punctuation. That is T R I C K Y!
Just4thefax

Fact: 12/11/2010 Go Navy beat Army!
lazzzlo

skyfet said:
Now you just missed that completely. Owning the franchise doesn’t mean you finance the movie. A simple research will show you that it’s sponsored by 20th century fox. They replaced Disney, who financed the first two films. Capiche?

I capiche just fine….looks like we split down the middle. They both are financing The Dawn Treader with Walden Media holding the Narnia franchise rights.

The second sequel had almost died because of financing, but has met its savior in the form of 20th Century Fox who has agreed to co-finance Voyage of the Dawn Treader, pending final script and shooting budget approval. This will be the third in the Chronicles of Narnia trilogy.

Walden Media, the other financier, will split the production and P&A costs of the film’s $140 million budget with Fox. Disney Pictures had decided to pass on helping finance the third film in the series…

source.
skyfet

lazzzlo said:
I capiche just fine….looks like we split down the middle. They both are financing The Dawn Treader with Walden Media holding the Narnia franchise rights.

source.

I’ve got news for ya, it’s finished and it’s out in Europe, well England to begin with.
moriarty70

Harry Flashman said:
Jon Bershad said: “She’s a Narnia fan? Cameo in the next movie! Cameo in the next movie!” C.S. Lewis was a brilliant and prolific author who wrote much more than The Narnia Chronicles. My personal favorite is “The Screwtape Letters”. Ever heard of it? No? Of course not. Your knowledge of Lewis is probably limited to Narnia, and that’s most likely because of the movie, not the actual literary work. That, of course, is another example of the sneering psuedo-intellectualism of the left. Palin mentions C.S. Lewis, therefore her entire acquaintance with that author MUST be limited to his children’s books. Pitiful rationale, Jon.

Or it could be a logical assumption since it’s his best known works. When someone says they’re a fan of Asimov you think “Science Fiction” not “Anatomy”. Or if they’re a Doyle fan you think “Mystery” not “Paranormal Study”.

That’s not “sneering psuedo-intellectualism of the left.” that’s thinking horses not zebras.
ondrock

“At long last…”
Um yeah, I’ve heard her recite this list for almost 2 years…..but nice headline.
Scott_in_MI

roxsteady said:
Sorry Atticus but, they’re doing a better job than these same Republicans when they were in charge. Want proof?
The deficit has dropped. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43681.html

What? Are you stupid?

deficit in 2008 (GW Bush as President): $400. BILLION
Deficit in 2009 (Obama first full year a President): $1.4 TRILLION

Obviously this is beyond your compresension, but 1.4 TRILLION is more than 400 Billion.
Scott_in_MI

roxsteady said:
Republicans are worse at job creation.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/greta-van-susteren-thinks-karl-rove-qualif
While under Obama? http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2010/08/circulate_this_2.html
So, yes, they are doing better. It’s a fact!

This poor fellow is having a tough time with 2nd grade math.

Unemployment rate in 2008- (last year GWB was President): 7.3%
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jan/wk2/art02.htm

Unemployment rate in 2010- ( latest unemployment rate): 9.8%
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20101207.htm

Roxsteady, I will use small words because I know this is hard for you to under-stand. 9.8 is a bigger number than 7.3.
Under Stand?
ondrock

roxsteady said:
Sorry Atticus but, they’re doing a better job than these same Republicans when they were in charge. Want proof?

The deficit has dropped. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43681.html

Even with high unemployment right now, Republicans are worse at job creation.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/greta-van-susteren-thinks-karl-rove-qualif

While under Obama? http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2010/08/circulate_this_2.html

So, yes, they are doing better. It’s a fact!

Anyone that thinks the deficit is smaller, and that Democrats know ANYTHING about creating a job (except government jobs) is delusional.
Reagan cut taxes by 25%, added over 20 million jobs, and doubled revenue.
Bush was hit with the Clinton recession and then the 9-11 attacks. Most people have forgotten the economy was in free fall…until his tax cuts single-handedly turned it around. We had radical growth and FULL EMPLOYMENT…..until the Dems re-took the house and he joined them in the spending extravaganza.
ondrock

timcajun said:
Pablo says:

It’s too bad she never talks to anyone but Fox News.

Unless all questions are known before hand and they are all softballs,( she had a couple years to review her past mistakes) Bless Sarah and anything she says.

Watch the Palin-Couric interview and then contrast it with the Obama-Couric interview…NOW THAT WAS A SOFTBALL-LOVE-FEST.
Obama hasn’t been asked a tough question yet by the State Controlled Media….and he doesn’t know the definition of a follow-up question. Obama sounds more like Trig Palin than a president without his precious teleprompter.
Khyber Pass

Scott_in_MI said:
This poor fellow is having a tough time with 2nd grade math.

Unemployment rate in 2008- (last year GWB was President): 7.3%
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jan/wk2/art02.htm

Unemployment rate in 2010- ( latest unemployment rate): 9.8%
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20101207.htm

Roxsteady, I will use small words because I know this is hard for you to under-stand. 9.8 is a bigger number than 7.3.
Under Stand?

What hurts my head is the proles who think that 2010 unemployment has nothing to do with the corporations (read: Republicans) sending jobs overseas and starting the dominoes falling. And that the Iraq/Aghanistan wars being left off the budget under Bush, but Obama had the integrity to put those wars on the books, thereby appearing to increase the national debt.
Khyber Pass

roxsteady said:
The more she talks, the dumber she sounds.

“Because of that one episode, that one episode, that would turn an issue into what it has become over the last two years. I think that’s ridiculous,” Palin told Walters. “That’s one of those things, where that issue…that I don’t read, or that I’m not informed, it’s one of those questions where I like to turn that around and ask the reporters, ‘Why would it be that there is that perception that I don’t read?’”

That’s “something that’s been pretty much ginned up by the press,” Palin said.”

No dear, it’s not ginned up by the press. It’s the things you’ve said and done that have lead them to conclude that what they thought they were seeing and hearing was in fact true. You’re an ignorant, uninformed, crass, coward who throws rocks from facebook, calls reporters the “lamestream media” and is still pissed because Couric exposed you as a moron. Oh, and writing on your hand wasn’t ginned up by the media. Using the word cackle instead of gaggle, saying refudiate instead of refute, referring to a reporter as impotent and limp wristed is also not something you’d expect to hear someone with presidential aspirations say, let alone write in a childish tweet or facebook rant. All of these things and many others is proof that you should never get anywhere near the White House without a visator’s pass.

Roxsteady: beautifully said. Go get ‘um, pal!
Khyber Pass

Just4thefax said:
Fact: Troll if you where following politics when she ran as VP with McCain, she had a fear of the moment and just went blank to the question, but she didn’t want the viewer thinking that she just doesn’t read. For months after the attack that’s all she answered because that’s all the lefties would ask jackass! Even Mark Jollies probably asked it at that time himself before this year’s attempt at a gasp. In a college government class debate, I had a like experience where I too lost my place on my prepared speech with my paper in hand. I had no idea whether I said it all right as written or not I just had lots of sweat on my neck and I felt like throwing up then quickly sat down. I know you haven’t got there yet in life but someday if you continue in school you will.

Gee, that’s a good excuse for not doing the job. Heck, says Sarah, I haven’t had enough experience with the press and fame so I broke out in a sweat and couldn’t think straight….Or:.I can face a grizzly bear or get an antelope in the field, but dang, i just cant answer a straight question about something so basic as what i read.Or: I thought I was in a college class and my hand started to shake and I felt like throwing up……oh, palin excusers, go get a life, will you?She ain’t in school, and she pretends to be up to handling the problems of this whole nation. Please, please let her run for prez. If she wins, I expatriate. If she loses, you do. How’s that for a deal?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

Khyber Pass said:
If she wins, I expatriate.

Bookmarked.
Nachi

But she still is unable to work thru “My Pet Goat.” Same dull, perplexed look that BushDrunk had/has.
td7456

Her favorite magazine is “Highlights!”
Snidely

We have a current Treasury secretary and a recently deposed head of the tax-writing House Appropriations Committee – Tim Geitner and Charlie Rangel – failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in income taxes until they get caught. And Liberals are saying Sarah Palin doesn’t know enough about everything to qualify as president? These schlemiels are the EXPERTS that President Obama goes to for FINANCIAL ADVICE?! You have GOT to be kidding!! The president does not have to know everything, just know how to choose good people to advise her. I think Sarah Palin can do this. In any event, it is unlikely she could do worse.
Sunnyr

Way to go, Sarah! Keep up the good work! You have the leftist, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragger’s foaming at the mouth. lmao!!!
timcajun

Would the foaming of the mouth, be for her or over shock that the sheep follow this uniformed, no background, fake christian, no core value, (pure children,yeah) one line queen?

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