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Obviously, I don't know anything. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

"Some people will never learn anything... because they understand everything too soon." Alexander Pope - Chris Rivait

I know, right? - Josh Haley

Except, of course, for the maths. See especially... http://xkcd.com/263/ & http://xkcd.com/435/ - £ogical €xtremes

I approve this message :) - Rahsheen™

Good question, and everything? I guess I see your point. I have strong hunches, but I'm open to new strong hunches if strong evidence is presented to support them. I think that's how science works. - Kamilah Gill

smells like a performative contradiction to me - http://tinyurl.com/3n94f3 - William Harryman

I believe you. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

It's not a performative contradiction...it's the human condition. Hey I didn't invent the brain...I'm just explaining how I believe it works. Don't trust your brain, it only shows you what it wants you to see. Actually, this makes Homer Simpson's views on life seem somehow logical now. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

What's great about the above statement is that it's impossible to prove wrong...because by the logic of the statement to prove is to know and that's impossible. *whispers* The universe is a lie! - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Hrm. I believe extremes are bad, which causes me to take issue with a statement that tells me I don't even know my name or how I feel. I could totally get on board with everything flows through your emotions, with volatility, lots of things being belief, feeling, opinion...but, say, Da Vinci? I think he knew some stuff. - Jaemi Kehoe

Alex, you're exactly right. Every thought we have is only a flawed and limited representation of world based on data filtered through our nervous system. These thoughts form stories and we believe those stories accurately represent the world, filling in the gaps and covering over the flaws until we have something "stable." We do this almost constantly. - Sean O'Maverick

It's all relative (as in Relativity) and it's all about your reality tunnel. What you "know" is only in the context of your life experience. What someone else "knows" is in the context of *their* life experience. Sometimes our tunnels intersect and we can connect our viewpoints and it seems as if we actually know some "truth" because the other person confirms that experience. Other times we can't connect, so is what you "know" really a truth if you're the only one who "knows" it? Maybe... maybe not. - Lindsay Donaghe

I know thats right... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

But do we now know what we don't know or are we still not knowing of what we should know... I'm totally Bumsfeld... - John Worthington

It is a performative contradiction, as William mentioned, but that's only because all discussion about the subject can also be seen as a belief. But that doesn't make the world more certain, or offer any solidity to our everyday understanding of the world. It means that even the description of everything as belief, accurate as it may be, falls apart and leaves absolutely nothing in the world of thought that is stable or reliable in the Universal sense. - Sean O'Maverick

Our experiences cause electrical signals to course through our nerves, leaving a persistent (though certainly not static nor permanent) record in our brain tissue. Isn't the ability to retrieve this persistent record and use it to recreate (however imperfectly) an experience the operating definition of "knowing"? Whether what you know actually has a basis in reality is another story entirely. - Victor Ganata

Dude, d[▪_▪]b ♫ called you out on the first comment. /discussion - Josh Haley

Define "knowing" - Vinay | विनय

As far as the brain is concerned, "knowledge" and "belief" are the same thing. The only difference is with regards to external reality. "Knowledge" implies that there is some piece of evidence that correlates with your belief. "Belief" implies no such requirement. - Victor Ganata

I'm not going to try to define "knowing" in a platonic sense, but from an empiric sense, a neurochemical sense, I would say that it's the ability to store and retrieve patterns from your brain that have been encoded based on your sensory experiences. - Victor Ganata

This is technically true but has no practical value. No one knows anything, all productive discussion grinds to a halt. Objective reality might be a myth, but it's a useful myth. - Eric

Thanks to everyone for participating in this mind alteration and expansion experiment. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Yeah... now I'm itching for the philosophy/epistemology books I donated to the library a few years ago. - Heather Sillypants Mina

Logical, even "the maths" has cracks in it. Russell and Whitehead took hundreds of pages to "prove" 1+1=2 in the Principia Mathematica, and then Godel came along and said don't bother finishing it. :-D But I suspect you know this already, given your name... ;-) - Karim

I like to keep this quote handy... "If you work on your mind with your mind, how can you avoid an immense confusion?" (Seng-Ts'an) ... which of course I roughly equate to Gödel's "A complete epistemological description of a language A cannot be given in the same language A, because the concept of truth of sentences of A cannot be defined in A." - £ogical €xtremes

And yet parts of C were programmed in....C - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Yeah, if it weren't for partial solutions to bootstrapping problems, I think we'd all be blobs of jelly writhing around on the floor ;p - £ogical €xtremes

I know Google. Isn't that enough? - l0ckergn0me

Yes, Chris makes a good point...my original title is talking about individual and not collective knowledge. Collectively, we know a lot, but only because we can write and store it in ways that are available while maintaining integrity. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Why can't most of America be as enlightened as all of us are ;-) - IAmGHOSTBLOGGER.com-BradW

Individually, our memory is very transitory and unreliable. There's a reason why criminal attorneys prefer physical circumstantial evidence over eye witnesses. We can technically know something for the moment by reading about it from a reliable source, but once read, the knowledge slowly begins to degrade until we read again...unless of course you have eidetic memory...in which case, you might actually know something. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

I know this is wrong - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

Actually, what you see is NOT reality, because a fraction of time passes as your mind defines what your eyes are seeing. By the time your mind has computed what you saw, new realities have come and gone. - IAmGHOSTBLOGGER.com-BradW

I went to a forum on this particular topic.. about how in the great scheme of all the possible things that can be known, we only really "know" a tiny % of it... and we are completely oblivious to so many things that we don't know. Our beleifs, prejudices, stereotypes, etc cloud our reality. The collective consciousness has it's own 'known' things that change with the times and cause a shift in 'reality' (laws, statistics, etc) We have no idea our reality is distorted because we perceive it as real, when it is actually all relative. It makes everything we think and do essentially meaningless. And does it mean anything that it's meaningless? Nope! - mortisha

OTOH, while it may not be "knowledge" in a platonic sense, if that stored electrochemical pattern happens to be useful and mimics reality closely enough that it allows you to attain your goals, what more do you really need? - Victor Ganata

Yup...concentrate on the small stuff and the rest will follow as long as you don't get hit on the head with a giant rock. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

I know you are but what am I. - K Welch

I'm cheering for fall in Virginia Beach! - Heather Sillypants Mina

yeah - I forgot to turn the heat on too. But my grandson insisted to wear shorts anyway. Kids! - Dan McGinn-Combs

Juan, it's a WONDERFUL thing! Fall is my absolute favorite time of year and here it's a very short season. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

If fall was only 20 degrees warmer it would be my fav too :D - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo

We're finally starting to sometimes have highs less than 100 here in Phoenix! It's getting chilly! Last night I had to cover my feet with a sheet. :o - Tad

We're finally having really beautiful mornings here in Orlando (73 degrees right now), but by this afternoon, we'll be running the air conditioning again. - Squirrel Girl

Same here in Pcola SG 60 in the morning 90+ in the afternoon - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo

it must have been about 55 degrees overnight here in nyc. woke up kinda cold - Cee Bee

yeah for fall!! - (jeff)isageek

It's the peak of summer here in LA. Ran the A/C all night long. It's supposed to be cooler today; around 90 degrees. - Faboo Mama

It's under 90 degrees in the day here, which means about the same thing. - Steve Spalding

Cat wrangling! - Bec

Football [by which I mean soccer] - David Miller

Football (ugghhh soccer if you must) - John Worthington

To play or to watch? - Faboo Mama

Foosball, fo' sho. :) - felix

What is this word "sport"? - Jemm

sport what? - Jeremiah Owyang

the thirty-second dash to Like a posting. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)

I'm going to have to get you into Tennis, Jeremiah. That seems like a sport you'd really enjoy. - Ben Parr

Cricket! Cricket! Cricket! On behalf of one billion Indians and a few Aussies :D - Yuvi

Table Tennis FTW! - George The Writer

Soccer and Handball (NYC style; not the fake crap they play in the olympics :)~ - Carlos Ayala

Skateboarding. - Iain Baker

College Football - RAPatton

Football (the correct version) you know the one involving considerable foot and ball contact. Oh and I like playing more than watching, playing at 6 and watching at 8. A good day. - Toby Graham

Politics :-) - Susan Scrupski

Love most sports but football and basketball have to be my faves. - Tim Bossie via twhirl

To watch = NFL. To play = soccer. - elroy

hockey! go habs - Jeremy Toeman

Baseball - Glen Campbell

basketball & football (soccer to you suckers) - Zee from WeDoCreative

MMA - imabonehead

To play: Squash and Basketball, to watch: Tennis, Football and Basketball - Juan Pablo González

I never told you all mine: Swimming, Football (the American variety), Tennis. I did all three and was a lifeguard. Go figure. - Ben Parr

Football. Real American Football. - Bryan Clark

Football ( the kind the rest of the world play), Rugby ( what american Football should have been :) ), and cricket (our version of baseball). - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

Golf - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

Ice Hockey - Mark VandenBerg

CURLING!!! - Michael Forian

Formula 1...although I haven't watched since Schumi retired. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Association football and US football. - K Welch

Baseball. go Red Sox - lester

Running, track and field - Hutch Carpenter

Baseball. Go Red Sox. Go Rays. Go Cubs. - Mike Reynolds

Can't speak for the first statement because I was not conservative before I was unemployed, but I disagree with the second. I'm far from conservative and I've been mugged AND assaulted. - Trish R

Where would an unemployed mugger fall on the spectrum? - Alan Simpson

@Alan - you make him campaign manager (Rick Davis) :-) - Shout out 2Jody

I really can't see why being mugged would make me feel a need to defend marriage from the gays, kill brown people, and screw poor people. - Eric

Alan: I think that's a high-finance NYC banker, isn't it? - Robert Scoble

Eric - I was mugged by a poor gay couple with brown skin - Alan Simpson

Unemployed and mugged, hallmark of Bush presidency - imran

I've been unemployed, never been mugged and I'm not liberal - Shey

Strangely enough, eric, as a conservative I help poor people by giving them an opportunity instead of insulting them with a handout. - Craig Eddy

I like - Any given liberal will become a conservative in 30 years even if none of his political thoughts have changed. - Tad

All the conservatives I know who were laid off, started their own businesses and are far better off than when they were employed. - Craig Eddy

@Just Yup, it's called maturity, and is usually preceded by responsibility. Responsibility in your actions and the results they produce, not blaming someone else, or expecting the government to bail you out. Labels are always too narrow, but to me, thats the mindset difference. - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

I like most of these definitions of conservatives. It's more or less how I feel as well. At what point, though, do you have to add in the insanely intolerant gay-hating moralist bit? That's the part that has alienated me from the Republican party. Marginalize them and I'll come back. - Tad

If you're not somewhere down the middle, you're out of touch with reality. - LarchOye

Or you are an elected official, you are out of touch with reality. - imran

+1 LarchOye and imran - Shey

Tad - good point. There was a time when I thought the "Maverick" who was once McCain could do a great job of bringing back conservatism to the Republican party, but that was the pre-2000/2001 McCain. I'm a conservative with a liberal heart, and don't necessarily appreciate government's incompetence thrusting me into the Democratic party, but then the two party system we have now is hardly how I would view democracy to be in a perfect world, so I'm forced into the lesser of two evils. - Shout out 2Jody

Hey, there's Shey...where you been? You missed the old school rap meme. Sorry to hijack this thread. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Jody: I'm a libertarian at heart... but there comes a time when the free market simply cannot provide for the needs of the people. The Interstate Highway system is a good example. There's no way in hell the free market would have EVER built the interstate system. - LarchOye

I want the government out of my bank account AND out of my bedroom and personal affairs. The GOP totally FAILS at this. (and yes, we all know the Dems want my bank account) - Tad

The free market would have built it (look at the railroads) you just would have had to drive different cars depending on which road you are going on...and there's no guarantee that you'd get them to all connect. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

I'm a bleeding heart liberal and I take full responsbility for my actions, I am as mature as I need to be and neither do I expect the government to bail me out. But I also believe in helping my neighbor, trying to give everyone a fair chance and caring about the community in which I live. Individually, labels as a whole matter very little as we all try to do the best we can with what we've got. I don't believe Republicans/conservatives are heartless individuals who don't care. I just don't happen to agree with a lot of the ways in which they try to help. - pea♥ fierce as a woozle

+1 Pea. - Lindsay Donaghe

I don't want a hand out, but I do sometimes need a safety net when irresponsible executives lay me off because they failed to manage properly. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

A socialist is a conservative who needs a bailout (until the money's in his pocket). :) - steplow is Steve

@pea♥: Well said. I'm a liberal because I strongly believe in equality of opportunity, human dignity, and meritocracy. This has utterly nothing to do with my personal circumstances, whether we're talking about crime or unemployment. - Eric

A truism is a cliche which has been repeated. - Chris Baskind

A cliche is a truism that has been repeated. :) - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

A horse is a horse, of course of course. - steplow is Steve

Unless it's a horse of a different color. - Rob Sterling

A liberal is unemployed. A conservative spouts nothing but inane cliches. - (teh)Kenny

I am a conservative who was a liberal who was actually mugged. On FF I am a conservative who is mugged by liberals. Somehow my inner child got molested. But I'm on the mend! - Jay Tannenbaum

Just like being an ignorant bitch? (sorry poli-geoff is out of his cage already its too late the damage is done) - Geoff "Maverick" Schultz

Just the thing she was trying to work against. :p - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

Keep sticking your foot in your mouth, you white trash ho. Are you working for the Democrats. LOL No education or common sense. Shining example of a Republican candidate. And like them, she has a gay friend. Oh, that is another SNL skit waiting to happen. - Stephan Miller

she will mess up sooo many times if she ends up in the white house... - Zee from WeDoCreative

Being uninformed on your government is a choice - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Liked so that people see this, not necessarily because I agree with her... - Jared Smith

Her "Best Friend" of 30 years, I guess one can't toss boulders in the glass house. - Jacob

Oh, but if you point that out, you're not being fair! :p - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

Jared: same here. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

+1 Jared - Juan Pablo González

Same here Jared. My comments would only be filled with curses, so I'm refraining. - Carmen

What I want to know is who is her lesbian friend? And why would a lesbian be best friends with someone like Palin? I find that very interesting and wonder if it is true at all. I've had people tell me this before and then when I push them on it they can't name their "best friend." Also, if I had a best friend and I was running for Vice President that person would be with me every stage of the way. Just saying. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, because it's so easy and fun being gay in America. Why not choose to be gay!?! - AJ Kohn

And can a moose be a lesbian anyway? - John Worthington

When we look beyond the cheap tinsel we are most likely to find, tinsel - Dave Martin

Would you rather she didn't share her beliefs? I personally wish more candidates would state their true (non party speak) beliefs - then each person can make an informed decision in the booth. BTW, amazing how many of you can't articulate your opinions without resorting to name callling. Talk about unprofessional. - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

Dan... cause you can't fight an illogical argument with logic... - John Worthington

DEATH TO INTOLERANCE!! Kill it where it stands. Slash it's violent throat and stab it's unloving heart. - Dawn

@Dan: Calling this woman an idiot is not an opinion, it's a statement of fact. - Eric

I totally respect Sarah Palin for making the choice of being blatantly stupid. It's not a choice that I have made, but I am not gonna judge her. - lezionidistile

Of course im unprofessional Dan I don't get a pay check for this shit. - Geoff "Maverick" Schultz

@Eric - Amen! - Nicholas Mercer

She CAN'T know how stupid she looks or she would have had a mental breakdown by now. - Stephan Miller

@Eric Yeah, ok you're the expert. I was more pointing out "white trash...", etc. Serves no useful purpose IMO - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

Owing to how free she is with her opinions, I am forced to wonder how many other people share her views. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

I live around white trash and know it when I see it. I fought to get away from people like her. Just the fact she is running for office is appalling. Anyone see Idiocracy. This is the beginning, mark my word. And sometimes it takes an expletive. I don't say "Oh,poop" when I slam my finger in the door. If she gets to the white house, this will hurt more than a broken finger. - Stephan Miller

that someone like Palin could be VP and possibly president is very very scary - Ryan

Based on her communicated belief system thus far, I just don't see Palin with a best friend who is gay, nor do I understand (like Robert) why anyone who is gay would consider her a best friend. I think its a "make believe" friend. - Shout out 2Jody

I've just scanned this, so I may have missed the details. Is the main bullet point from this thread that Sarah Palin is a gay moose who's best friends with Scoble? That doesn't seem correct. - Chris Nixon

There's a column on a gay conservative site about this too (I can't remember which, I saw it briefly this morning while horking down cereal). She really does have a long-time lesbian friend apparently. One assumes they must never discuss gay identity issues. - Soup

Therefore, wouldn't heterosexuality be a choice too? Life's about choices ... wait ... isn't she Pro-life? She CAN'T be pro-choice too ... time-space continuum collapsing ... - tj hanton

"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said. - steplow is Steve

That's the scariest part of it: facts, policies--in short, reality--don't matter to her or to people who are attracted to her as a candidate. - steplow is Steve

Nebraska? - Shey

Neither here, nor there. - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

Pac NW - Dave Martin

dude, you get lost a lot... - Zee from WeDoCreative

You're in a forest... with Heather Locklear - John Worthington

lol Zee - Nicholas Kreidberg

Yellowstone National Park - Duncan Riley

Not sure but my kayak and I would like to be there. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Looks like Wyoming to me... perhaps near Yellowstone, like Duncan suggested. - Jim McCusker

You are in a room that's gently spinning around your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't. - Alex Haar

Looks like Rubicon River in Northern California - Stephan Osmont

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. - Karim

> - Karim

Looks like a place we hiked once in North Carolina to me. :) - Lindsay Donaghe

new hampshire? - Cee Bee

+grue Karim! - £ogical €xtremes

Iowa Hill Bridge at the North Fork of the American River - David Vasileff

David wins! Here it is on the Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=... - Paul Buchheit

the real question is - did you 'swim'? - Robin Barooah

Pretty sweet, I was going to guess somewhere in the Eastern US until I saw you answer. Looks nice. - Mike Reynolds

How did you know so precisely David? Been there or guessed? - Maryam

I love that Katie Couric cannot hide her look of contempt at 35s. - Erica Baker

I can't name a newspaper I read. - Amit Patel

Saying she reads the Internets might have helped. - Chris White

I can name 2 newspapers I read in Alaska. The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer and the Anchorage Daily News. That was 4 fricking years ago and I can still name them. - Erica Baker

A weekly paper in Alaska: http://www.petroleumnews.com - peter

There are no words...I mean like gee...she's all like...WTF - Rahsheen™

(A) Honesty: "I read the Wasilia Moosehumper, but usually just have time for Family Circus and Dear Abbey". (B) Lying: "I read the Journal, Harper's, the Economist, and the Harvard Law Review". (C) Cluelessness: "Um. All of them." - Steve Weis

Maybe she didn't want to give free advertising to the papers???? Or maybe... just maybe.... she's out of touch with her state and the other 49 - Anthony K. Valley ©

Couric: "What about blogs, do you keep up with any blogs?" Palin: "Yes, I read any of the ones put in front of me. I read all of them Katie." - Jason Shellen

Why are you all so hard on her? She said she reads most, all, and any put in front of her. Oh, and a vast variety of sources. How can you argue with that?! I mean, personally, I've only read a "bunch," so she has me beat - I think. - Vince DeGeorge

I read a bunch too. Google News. Memeorandum. FriendFeed. Between the three all the world's newspapers come into my view. But at least I could tell you something about them. How can we get her to go away? Please make it stop. I really hope this helps the Republican Party purge themselves of all the Religious Right jerks who've destroyed that party in the past 20 years. - Robert Scoble

"I also read all the internets." - Chris Messina

I can't name a newspaper I read cause I don't read newspapers. I get all my news from the screen in front of me or a little bit from the TV. - Mathew Ballard

What's a newspaper? - Metta (Kamath)

I think the important thing to remember is we are not 'picking on her', we are trying to hold her to the high standard the office she is applying for demands... - John Worthington

Why does it feel like, the worse Palin appears, the more likely she's actually going to get voted into office? Oh, I remember now. That's what happened in the 2004 election. - Victor Ganata

I tell you one thing, she has really made me appreciate Hillary... - Vince DeGeorge

She should NOT have said she "reads them all". WTF kinda answer is that. I'm trying not to be on the Palin hater bandwagon, but she just won't work with me... - Rahsheen™

Wasn't it like this with Quale too? - Dave Saunders via twhirl

she reads "all of 'em. any of 'em." she's very entertaining! god bless her - Cee Bee

Alright, that's it - Palin has officially entered "un-parody-able" territory. Any joke about how uninformed she is only pales in comparison to the reality of how uninformed she is. SNL has got nothing on this Katie Couric footage. - Adam Kazwell

Gonna say it again... Principle from South Park - John Worthington

good god help us. This is it. I'm utterly disgusted at the joke that McCain and his campaign have made out of our election process and our government as a whole with this woman (sure, there are people there I'm sure who don't like her, but this nonsense was allowed to happen). - Chieze Okoye

I saw this mentioned this weekend, but I agree. It's cruel to put her in this position. She clearly isn't knowledgeable enough to answer these questions. She also clearly freezes up when challenged. They had to have some clue these were traits of her's before putting her up there. - Andrew Burd

more shit...this has got to go AWAY now dammit!! this is sooo stuoooopid! - Susan Beebe

this is a totally different stage than she's used to. they might not have known she would be like this under these conditions. <trying to give benefit of the doubt> - Jon Price

You know what I take away from this? That she reads and believes anything put in front of her. Let's hope the Taliban aren't sending her spoofed articles. *removes tongue from cheek* - Lindsey Smith

So you think she could name a newspaper and not get in trouble? Saying you read them all is a polite reply without picking favorites. - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

No, say "I'm not gonna give them free advertising", say anything that doesn't sound totally random and moronic - Rahsheen™

Just say "Time" or "People" any thing at all.... Well; any thing except what you did say. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

she gave the same exact answer W gave, except he also tossed in 'the Google'. - Faboo Mama

What's the shortest book in the world? The Sarah Palin book of Political Philosophy - Ivan Pope via twhirl

Not judging perspective, but Bush was proud not to listen to news and katrina happened under his nose. They had to basically put a You Tube style of clips in front of him so he could figure out what was happening. I am very concerned about someone who doesn't expose themselves to news that doesn't filter through their handlers. They should not be so easily controlled. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Dan: "get in trouble"??? with who? even if she said National Review Online, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, she still would have covered her ass on the right-wing side. Hell, I'm not running for anything (yet) and read those all the time. I wouldn't even expect her to read them everyday, but at least be able to list something. - Faboo Mama

Has anyone bothered to check if she can read at all? Illiterate VP overcomes diversity..wins election and hearts of Americans. Interesting strategy. - Matt Musgrave

I just brought myself to watch this clip. My God. Seriously? Seriously? Are they for reals? Seriously? How Katie didn't just stop the strolling and say point blank "Please, just name one newspaper you read.", I'll never know. Although, the look on her face was awesome. Your face said it out loud Katie. - Yolanda

I'm sick of giving her the benefit of the doubt. She's had how long to prepare and CAN'T NAME A SINGLE NEWSPAPER IN THE US?? Any other position where she's this clearly mismatched (scratch that, unqualified) for the role, ANY OTHER POSITION, and she would have been laughed out of the room. This is completely ridiculous. - Chieze Okoye

w. Sadly Tina Fey's excellent parody is straight up. She doesn't need to presenhy wouldst a caricature, just the real thing... she get into trouble for naming a newspaper. That's ridiculou - Tim Wolters via twhirl

"all of em" she read all of them. - MG Siegler

Palin is a near Dubya-grade imbecile :( - Tim

Ok, we all agree. Not smart. Perhaps the title should be: "Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Doesn't Read." What would your alternate video title be? - Jason Shellen

"I think the Onion has some great insight" But seriously, say WSJ, NYT, Washington Times - heck you'd even get points for USA Today. - AJ Kohn

If she says 1 particular newspaper, then people will drill down on that paper and assume that is the only place she gets her information from... and if she says 1 newspaper, the moment she has an opinion about something all media will be able to link it to one newspaper and its potential biases. She answered the question strategically here. I don't mind the answer. - Mike

She is totally in touch with the "microcosm of America" -- who actually reads newspapers or magazine anymore anyway? Reading is for lefty wimps. - Pete Delucc