Holy crap.  Is that even possible?  I mean...she didn't even have to be truthful!  And the best part is, there would be no way for anyone to prove she was lying!  She could have just said, "Oh yeah, I try to read the Washington Times as much as possible" and no one would be the wiser.  I mean...she really couldn't even NAME a magazine!  Hell, she could have made up a fake Alaska newspaper and no one would ever fact check it!  She could have said "Oh yeah, I read the Juneau Post all the time" and then if that's not the correct name, she could always just say she forgot the whole name.  Wow.  I think she might actually just be terribly ignorant.

Publications! She don't need no steeeenking publications!

God speaks to her directly.

Countdown until Nancy comes in and tells us how sexist we're being that we expect a female VP nominee to read a newspaper. Any newspaper. At all.

support. Even Republicans are scared of her..she's so far out there...one said we don't need another unqualified person in the White House, a female Bush..

She could have a good debate Thursday night. She will come out swinging against Biden, with a couple of "oh, gee in Alaska we know what it is like to make ends meet by shooting moose" comments and the next thing you know the press will be calling her down to earth and in touch with every day Americans.  

She had a very good powder puff interview with Hugh Hewitt today, where she played the "I'm just a regular gal," card and pulled at the heart strings...

McCain tried to pull that shit, too... expect a lot of it at the debate...

She's going to do better than we all think... and with her expectations so low, it's going to hurt us...

Don't get cocky, the race is not over, yet!

that she was reading the newspaper from front to back at age 10.

What a shame that she never looked at the names of those publications!

She did win a governership and must have been ok with the media in that race.  She also reportedly performed fine in those debates.  I can see why she would completely bomb foreign policy or Supreme Court questions, since she's clearly very narrow-minded and provincial and never thought much about the world beyond Alaska, but there's no reasons she shouldn't be able to answer this softball question.

Maybe Katie should've asked "in creating your world view, what newspapers or magazines did you consider banning?"

so sad..for the country..that we've reached this level.. if this isn't the sign of the decline of the american empire personified i don't know what

She also refers to Alaska as a "microcosm of America" in that interview...

Riiiiiiiiiight.....

"I like the Economist"?

"Scientific American is good"?

"Time"?

"Ranger Rick"?

..but she suspected that Cosmo wouldn't have cut it.

Sarah Failin is a joke.

i don't think she failed to name a publication because of being stupid.  not at all.

remember, the source of her popularity is "she is just like us" but the people who are voting for her for that reason don't read.

There was NO publication she could have named that would be acceptable to them.

If she mentioned reading any publications more substantial than Us or People she would no longer be "just like them" -- she might even be (gasp!) elitist.

and obviously she could not claim she gets her information from Us and People.

she was stuck.  that's why she said nothing.

The Journal of the US Supreme Court...

Hell, she would spend WEEKS going over the
"Best Cases of The Year" issue.

THAT stupid? Or... is she just not listening to the questions?

Oh My Gauuud!

The way the question was framed, clearly Couric wanted her to name not just any publications Palin reads, but the ones that inform her worldview. Perhaps the publications she reads that inform her worldview are ones she would not care to name.

Proceedings of the Alaska Independence Party
Abortion Clinic Bomber's Quarterly
Fascism Today
Aerial Hunter

So she chose to be vague.

 Biden must not win so big as to potentially drive her to drop-out of the race.

I actually feel sorry for Tina Fey.  She's brilliant, but there's no way she can ever come up with anything funnier than the raw video from these interviews.

Who can't at least even name USA Today???

Granted, this is the wonder bread of newspapers, but everybody knows it.

Beyond that, Newsweek and Time should be pretty obvious.

To not be able to name one publication is pretty damning.  I think this shows that she is even less intellectually curious that W, and I didn't think that was possible.

Didn't you listen to her...

She reads all of them!

That's right, every SINGLE newspaper and
periodical in the country.

It's astounding, but when you're a genius
(just ask Nancy) like Palin, you take this
kind of stuff in stride....

Was she afraid to name one and get pinned down by follow up questioning?

I truly think that this is all part of a larger strategy of the McCain/Palin team to demonize the media, neutralize its influence and fan the flames of the culture wars.

The meme of in-the-tank, bias, gotcha journalism etc IS a strategy. It is everywhere... and spreading. Look around.

Today, the lead meme among conservatives is that Gwen Ifill is unfit to moderate the VP debate because she is writing a book "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama". She is being painted as hopelessly biased towards Obama and unable to be an objective journalist. Any tough questions which Ifill may ask Palin during the debate are being preemptively neutralized by this meme. I'm not going to link to all the buzz surrounding this story, simply google it and you'll see what I mean.

It is all part of a larger story to paint the media as biased, absurd, condescending and in-the-tank for Obama.

Yes, to liberal Democrats, Palin's answer here is scary, absurd, incurious, astonishing... but put your ear to the ground... that is not the way this is playing everywhere. I've read comments on conservative boards where Couric is the one who is condescending in asking the question. We live in a country where there are huge MOVEMENTS to boycott the liberal media.

Palin's supporters are not impressed by someone who reads the NYTimes, The Economist, The New Yorker or who watches PBS... in fact, the exact opposite is true. They see value in pushing back against the media... and the elite, intellectual world of DC, NYC and LA etc.

Are we feeding the beast here by making liberal Democrats look like gloating know-it-alls who take great glee in belittling and insulting Palin?

Take a step back and look at the big picture of what the opponents' strategy is here. I think it is becoming glaringly obvious.