On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Got me, but only an idiot or a brainwashed Obamanational would believe that > she doesn't read the news. > It's not that I don't think she doesn't read *any* news. She said she reads what people put on her desk. I'm sure that if she has a briefing memo that includes news stories she reads those. She's not an idiot, nor is she uneducated. Rather I think that she is a true believer. She's got the died in the wool, uncritical thinking, old time belief that you fault Obamanationals for. She's a GOPAC alumus, which was a really well put together grass roots organizing squad put together by Gingrich and pals to find, train and groom a certain type of conservative operative. With great success I might add. GOPAC put together trainings that laid out the mindset precisely including words to use to describe democrats and words to use to describe republicans. All battled tested phrases designed to get the speaker in step with other similar speakers and reinforce an over arching message. I do think that Palin reads news. But I think she reads news that largely comes pre-filtered, designed to reinforce her established cultural, religious and political viewpoints. And that's why she couldn't name magazines or papers that she follows because I don't think she sits down and reads the Washington Post or the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Instead she reads what is put in front of her, she reads an op-ed from one, a story from another, and doesn't go out of the way to read the surrounding material, to find anything that might disagree. I wouldn't trust anyone that got all their news from DailyKos. DailyKos cites articles from a bunch of different news sources each day. So if I read DailyKos each day, I could say that I read all the papers. But the news that gets posted there comes pre-filtered. It ignores some important things and largely doesn't have a great deal of contrary opinion posted to the front pages. For me, its a matter of wanting an intellect that goes out in search of knowledge, that seeks opposing opinions and looks to reconcile them. I don't see that in Palin. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
