I hear what your saying and I agree that the Katie Couric Interview did not go well, but you also have to understand from Sarah’s point of view, exactly what happened. The infamous question about “What do you read?” Ok first of all, what kind of question is that, I know I know, simple question, but has anyone EVER asked Obama or Biden or even McCai what the heck he reads..no, so how come Katie felt it SO necessary to ask Sarah Palin, because it was a set-up..what do I mean, simple..Katie was already prepped by the Obama campaign beforehand, everyone knows that, this question was meant to do something and it was this..if Sarah had said “I Read the Wall Street Journal” she would have said “What article did you read today” if she did not remember as specific article she read, well there ya go, it was a set-up question. Anyone here who has read the Autobiography by Kaylene Johnson knows that Sarah knows how to read, she has been reading books and newspapers since age 5..she KNOWS how to read, but she knew why she was asking it, and did not know the right way to respond to it, saying instead “I read everything” now just imagine for a minute, being in a room with people who hate you, really really hate you and want you to look like a moron, and you knew they were gonna ask you question after question, how would you respond? The Katie Couric interview was NO interview, it was an interrogation, plain and simple. Now could Sarah Palin have handled it better, yes of course..I think someone with more experience with nasty press a-holes would probably know how to, but someone new to the game, they are not gonna know what to do in a situation like that, I think she was just shocked, shocked that someone could ask a question like that, like what, she reads the damn funnies, what does Couric think she reads, like Couric is saying “Hey idiot, what do you read, people here want to know what a moron like you reads” it was disrespectful and nasty and Sarah knew it, and she wasn’t gonna be suckered into it. She figured she would rather say I read everything then get into a series of gotcha questions that were a waste of time. Now that is my two cents about the whole thing
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It's a very common question. Obama was asked. Here's an excerpt:
In October, the New York Times asked Obama to provide a list of books and writers that were significant to him. Here goes – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk, Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, Robert Caro’s Power Broker, Studs Terkel’s Working, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments, and also Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men – a novel about a corrupt Southern governor (Rod Blagojevich anyone?). And then there were his theology and philosophy influences - Friedrich Nietzsche, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich.