WaPo: Sources Say CBS has more embarrassing Palin footage to air this week

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Who are these sources?  Republican or Democrat?  How do we know that the Republicans aren't trying to pull a trick like Clinton administration did on his Lewinsky testimony?

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I didn’t editorialize, obviously these sorts of things are intentionally leaked 50% of the time.  The exact nature of the leaks (anonymous), and Palin’s context, make me more than a little suspicious that they were all intentional by Davis and Schmidt.

I didn't say you did.  I share your suspicion.

[cinyc]

oooh, there's another one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y

Almost feel sorry for her. Just say 'Time', Sarah. or 'Wall Street Journal'. or the Wasilla Daily News. anything......

but no, she's read All of Them

Well, what newspapers do you read?  Hint: if you get your news from the Internet like most of us on this forum do, the correct answer is probably any of them and all of them.  Katie Couric is a dinosaur who thinks people under 50 still read dead tree newspapers.

[cinyc]

But she said "all of them" despite being asked three times to name specifics.

Lunar has a subscription to the Economist and WSJ - I don't think they have a liberal bent.

It's a gotcha question if you don't have a subscription to any - and the newspapers she mentioned would be more than happy to rat on her. 

I suspect Sarah Palin gets her news the same way most of us do - through the Internet, based on what Yahoo!/Google News/Drudge, etc. decide to link on any given day.  And her office probably culls the Alaska papers for Alaskan items she needs to know about.

It's 2008, not 1978.

[cinyc]

well that is really besides the point. Couric asked her if she reads the national newspapers and news mags and she said 'most of them' and then she said 'all of them', but was unable to name a single one she read.

How hard could it have been for her to just say "time" or "newsweek" or "washington post" I mean really. After saying you read 'all of them' it just doesn't look good if you can't name one. This just feeds into the Tina Fey 'can i have a lifeline' stereotype.

Personally I think she was afraid of naming something that the right wing would consider to leftist and couldn't think of something that the right hasn't at some time labeled as biased and so she froze.

Yeah.  Because Sarah Palin doesn't know the names of national newspapers.  Or perhaps she gets her news from the Internet, like most people her age.  And there's no one newspaper that she gets her national news from.

Most people under 50 don't read their news directly from dead trees these days.

[cinyc]

Why couldn't she say that then instead of completely ignoring the question (which said "specifically") asked three times and lying and saying "all of them."

I couldn't answer which newspapers I read every day.  All of them is a pretty good answer.   Last week, it might have been the Tennessee papers and Knoxville TV station websites because of the Palin hacking story.  Tomorrow, I might read a bunch of articles from the Wall Street Journal to keep up on the bailout, articles from the print edition of the New York Post or Daily News, two New York Times articles, a Washington Times article, a National Post (Canada) article, a Telegraph (London) article from a Drudge link and an Anchorage Daily News article.  All of them.  

This isn't 1976.  Most Americans under 50 don't get our news from one newspaper.  We read the articles we want to read from multiple newspapers.  Which exact newspapers we read varies each day, depending on the news of the day.  

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If Palin said that, there wouldn't be a news story about the response.  I think Couric, who works for a television news-story, knows that newspapers are dying as a medium.  If Palin thought the question should be broadened to include her favorite news websites, she could have.  Couric was clearly looking for specifics (she said "specifics" three times), I don't know why you have to spin this so hard, Palin's answer was obviously flubbed - much like things Biden and Obama do occasionally.

The answer wasn't flubbed.  That this is a "news story" speaks more about the sorry state of the MSM than anything else. 

If Palin wanted to name newspapers that she reads, I'm sure that she could.   You think she hasn't heard of the New York Times or Washington Post?  Just because Katie Couric asks for specifics doesn't mean someone has to give them.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9BWP84sLo&eurl

The entire new video clip, included some non-talked about parts on this thread.  Wait until tomorrow for the rest.

More importantly, the full (supposedly) unedited transcript is here.