My goodness. I haven’t seen Oprah in years. She is huge. I wonder if she is on a see-food diet?
Who isn’t annoyed by the perky one?
I think Sarah’s explanation was obvious and she sort of explained this at the time. It was insulting to ask her what newspapers she reads, as if she didn’t read any. But Sarah underestimated the press’s ability to be absurd. As if she never reads a newspaper.
Maybe "the beef jerky one."
Said she wore her annoyance on her sleeve.....I LOVE that woman!!!
I always thought that the best answer to a question like “What kind of magazines and newspapers shape your world view” would be “Katie, an adult worldview should be much more mature than the kind of fluff you find in women’s magazines and the deliberate misinformation often found in newspapers like the NY Times. The great philosophers and writers of the past, along with my own nascent experiences and calculations forms my worldview.”
Then she should have smiled and said, “Is your worldview determined by the shortsighted and deadline driven 300 word article one normally finds in newspapers? That’s a very unreliable way to come to a conclusion, Katie.”
I suggest watching the interview closely. To me, it looks like in the question before the newspaper one, both Palin and Couric were both smiling and and walking along. As Couric starts to ask the newspaper question, it looks like they may have walked a little further and stopped and the demeanor and obht women’s faces have changed. Not only are the smiles gone but Sarah Palin looks like she’s already annoyed. Was there an edited gap in there and, if so, what was it and why did it change the emotional dynamic of the interview.
As for the question itself, it’s an urban liberal question that can easily be answered by any Democrat (all they have to do is name their local left-wing urban paper) but it’s a mine-field for conservatives. For eample, if Palin had mentioned the Anchorage Daily News, she might have stepped in to a follow up about that paper not endorsing her, for example, or that paper’s provincialness.
I may be mistaken, (though rarely wrong, lol) but I believe that it was Rush who saddled Kouric with that moniker--"The Perky One" which would lead one to believe that Sarah listens to Rush?
Another feather in her cap and an elevation in statute in my eyes.