I think you are right... I admit I am a news junkie. I read CNN.com all day, have a subscription to Newsweek and the Tennessean and watch CNN/FOXNEWS(for humor)/Daily Show et al. all day long on a TV in my office.
I think she is a lot like my wife who will read an article if it is sent to her or somebody says something to here. Occasionally she will say something like "Did you hear about the..." And 9/10 times I have already read it and it could have been 2-3 days ago. She actually gets mad at me and now says things like "I am sure you have already heard this..." anytime she brings something up. My wife does not read any publications... occasionally a Newsweek cover will catch her eye and she will pick it up but that is maybe 2-3 times a year(Out of 50 issues). She gets all her news from me or from people she comes in contact with and is very ignorant to the world affairs around her. This isn't her fault it just isn't an interest of hers and being a stay-at-home mom she really has no reason for it to be. Palin is very versed in the affairs of Alaska, which she should be, but is far from a "Expert on Energy" as I heard Elizabeth on The View call her... folks she was in an oil rich state, she is an expert on how to tax Oil Companies and that is it. She doesn't have anything to say on Foreign Policy because she just hasn't thought about it... and neither has my wife. I guess my point is that my wife has the same world view as she does... She might read something if it is passed across her desk but has no real interest in world policy and affairs. And as Fareed Zacharia said in his latest article on her "It's a hell of a time to start!" OK go ahead and filter me now! :-) -J.J. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:271907 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
