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Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads
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September 30 at 5:06 pm - Link
"alaska isn't a foreign country" - peter
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 - Rah™
(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? - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (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... - Rah™
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 the friendfeeder
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 - Rah™
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'. - Anika Malone
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. - Anika Malone
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 Delucchi
c'mon, she pretty much said she only reads what is put in front of her (at this point by Republican party handlers), which to me is actually worse than not saying "all of 'em" or "getting in trouble" for name dropping the wrong ones. basically it says she reads only what someone tells her too. I could never support someone that has this little curiosity about the world. - Jon Price
This reminds me of a sign here in Austin, http://www.flickr.com/photos/r... :) - Tim
I think a bird that makes on a newspaper could name it. - Steve Rubel
I think it's amazing that people are actually trying to explain this away. Seriously, you guys? - Chieze Okoye
Wow, people still use newspapers to keep in touch with what's going on in the world? - Michael Pick via twhirl
WOW! Did she name names after this clip? Or was this the end of the question ? - Sumit Chachra
C'mon, people, she reads all of them! Any of them! - Dror Shimshowitz
the hilarity just doesn't stop. fun fact: sarah palin got her degree in... journalism! - Leonard
Thinking that PT Barnum is wishing he could charge for the spectacle coming up on Thursday. Wow. - Casey
FriendFeed
Robert Scoble posted a message
“FriendFeed celebrates its first birthday on Thursday. What a first year! Thank you to FF for being such a huge part of my life this year!”
September 29 at 1:10 am - Link
I predict a birthday cake meme! - David Young
FF FTW *FIREWORKS AND CRACKLES* chick chak, what is to do then? - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Not if you got to do the private beta. I signed up on September 3, cuz I'm cool like that ;) - Shannon Jiménez
I joined a while ago but have only recently got the addiction. It's a great service, look forward to many years to come. - Kol Tregaskes
Hey, same as my birthday! Very cool! I suggest a "Party Hat" meme is in order. - Mark VandenBerg
Ohh, Happy Early Birthday FF! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Well done FF and users, it's been a great year! - Mo Kargas
Does anyone have a printable party hat template... hmmmmmm - John Worthington
lol +1 John - Kyle Lacy
@robert scoble Is this 1 year birthday since launch of product or of the company overall? - Jason Goldberg
That went fast! - Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed helped me achieve my first Google PR5 ranking - Glenn Batuyong
YEAH!!! Congratulations FriendFeed!! What an amazing and productive first year...very impressive!! So happy for you guys!! Thank you Robert for reminding us of their birthday and to appreciate their product!! - Susan Beebe
Thank you FriendFeed, Robert Scoble and everyone else that has made FF the useful and entertaining tool that it is! - David Ward
I must thank the Twitter outages for pushing me here. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I look forward to seeing how FF moves forward, very good service, thanks to Paul and the team for their hard work creating a very useful utility. - Jeremy Campbell via twhirl
FriendFeed is so useful that I don't even know what I'd do without it. Congrats on completing your 1st year FF!! - J. D. Ebberly
Wow, its hard to believe that FF is already a year old. - Josh Smith
It took you almost a year to get me onto friendfeed? Dude, WTF? - Alex Scoble CISSP
I predict that I will be unemployed by this time next year if my first month's activity on FF is any indciation of what the next year will bring. :D I joke. I think. - .·*♥pea♥*·.
Shannon: that wasn't even the private beta. That was the "are you a sibling of Bret beta," of which you were the only participant :) - Bret Taylor
Cake in the Logo time ?? - Charlie Anzman
Alex - LOL that was snarky!!! Ok Robert, what took you so long to get Alex on FF?!! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe
Truly a great year for and on FF -- what an awesome service, a BIG thank you to the developers and to all the COOL PEOPLE on FF. - Nicholas Kreidberg
glad this is still the BEST item on "Best of the Day"! Bump!!! - Susan Beebe
Actually the birthday party is on Wednesday evening. Yikes. Well, it'll be Thursday in Australia! :-) - Robert Scoble
Congrats to Friendfeed - i predict BIG things :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
At first I didn't 'get' the point of FriendFeed, but after a while, its become my favorite internet hangout. - Nick Humphries
Happy Birthday Friend Feed--in a very short period of time, you have made yourself a critical part of my day. Kudos! - Amie Gillingham
Happy Birthday FriendFeed! Congrats to every FriendFeeder! - Cesar Cardoso
happy happy! - Jason Calacanis
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do in year two. - Chris Luckhardt
Boom shacka-lacka-lacka Happy Birthday! (in three more days) - Pete Delucchi
Wow only one year for FriendFeed, and it's already quite a hit, I only joined it last month - Alvin
Happy birthday FF,can't believe it was about a year,I joined it about two months ago,and now I can't live without it,kinda addictive. - Steve
Happy Birthday FF btw - Kol Tregaskes
is there a party somewhere? - Loic Le Meur
Happy Birthday, FF. I like it, a lot. - Leon Ho
First of many successful - Alex Hammer
FriendFeed
Corie "Viper" Jones posted a link
WTF?
October 2 at 4:56 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I'd like to see a teacher use that - Outsanity
Does it work on foreheads? - Chris Rivait
w00t! - ※Fu※
I should order one of those - Josh Haley
YES PLEASE - Anna Haro
I could totally use this!! - Susan Beebe
Too many people are thinking about the wrong message, the teacher is telling the student to Work Till Finished. - Bob
Yeah, I totally want one!!!!! :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones
I would like a handsome WTF / WTH set, please. - Ayşe E.
I'm sure you could get them made. :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones
where can one purchase such a wonderful thing? - acedanger
I need that stamp. - Fancy Fembot
WANT. - Jandy Stone
The big office supply stores will custom-design any kind of stamp you want. This is probably less than five bucks. - Pete Delucchi
Yeah, the one of the website I liked to is $6.25 - Corie "Viper" Jones
No desk is complete without. - Christopher Harley
i ordered a stamp with that 4 years ago and it got stolen within a week. :( - Anika Malone
I need this when I reject a proposal. - Leon Ho
leon you can use karateexplosions logic meter: http://flickr.com/photos/anika... - Anika Malone
I have one of those stamps. I also have OMG! - Trish R
Hahaha, that's awesome, Trish. :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones
@Bob....ummm if that stands for Work Till Finished, why does it have a question mark at the end? What kind of teacher would that be? - Sean McGee
Sean: I was wondering the same thing... - Corie "Viper" Jones
I just remembered I have an alphabet's worth of single-letter stamps! With punctuation. Sweet. or should I say FTW. - Donna Mugavero
hahaha, Donna! :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones
FriendFeed
Social Media: Grey Drane posted a link
Dipity 2.0: It’s Like A Timeline View For FriendFeed (And It’s Fun)
October 2 at 2:28 pm - via Reshare - Link
"FriendFeed isn’t popular because it looks especially attractive - it’s popular because it’s conducive to helping users participate in “the conversation”. That said, Dipity’s timelines are fun enough that the company may not even need to view itself as a direct competitor to FriendFeed. I may go to FriendFeed to talk about current events, but if I had to choose a widget to put on my blog, I’d probably go with Dipity." - Grey Drane
Twitter
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter
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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter
FriendFeed
Robert Scoble posted a message
“Dave Morin, head of. Facebook's platform just asked me "who is Louis Gray?" oh, just a guy who is a badass user of bleeding edge stuff.”
September 24 at 9:08 pm - Link
Dave = FAIL - Kyle Lacy
Man, he does not know Louis? WTH? - ※Fu※
They pay this guy money? - Charlie Anzman
Louis, shut off his access. - Shawn Farner
LOL. Thanks guys :) - Dave Morin
WAIT! you are on friendfeed and you do not know Louis Gray? lol - Kyle Lacy
Can't expect everyone to know. I had no idea who he was until I got on FriendFeed. - Candace Holly
Wow. He's gotta be really out of it. - Eric Florenzano
Dave doesn't know who Louis is? you've GOT to be kidding...srsly! Dave needs to step away from facebook a sec and hang out here on FriendFeed more!!!! :*) - Susan Beebe
Maybe Dave was being sarcastic - imabonehead
We know Louis. We are just having some fun in a taxi in Boston - Robert Scoble
Lol.. I love the outrage. - Kyle Lacy
Wish I were there! Have a drink for me, guys. - John McCrea
Hi Dave, I didn't know who you where until just now, but nice to meet you. PS: I think Robert has a Bromance with LG! (which is completely understandable) - Not Not Geoff Schultz
You got asked that in the shower? Dude, you have to disconnect *sometime*. - Pete Delucchi
LOLs, lulz, and WTFs! - Richard Walker
Dave - Assuming you noticed Shawn's post http://friendfeed.com/e/4be364... (heh - have fun guys :) - Charlie Anzman
Oh, Dave and Louis MUST meet. We need to get Louis using Facebook more. Dave, send Louis a Facebook shirt, too - he needs some FB love. - Jesse Stay
need a Gray / Morin meetup! - Susan Beebe
Okay, let's have Louis and Dave meet on our next episode of http://thesocialweb.tv! What say you, Dave and Louis? - John McCrea
You guys are nuts. I can't even give the kids naps without some kind of drama. :-) - Louis Gray
Louis, FriendFeed + drama is way better than reality TV :) - imabonehead
John, you know I'm open to it and you know how to reach me, BTW - Louis Gray
Louis, just sit back - we've got you covered ;) - Jesse Stay
Jonathan, he's davemorin on FF - Jesse Stay via twhirl
I don't know who Louis Gray is either. Oh, wait... - Tamar Weinberg
John/Louis, I'm in! - Dave Morin
Thanks Jesse! - Jonathan Kong
What has Louis Gray ever done? Does he have a Facebook app? - Sam Pullara
echo... echo... echo... echo... - Jason Carreira
I've heard of both of them (most have) - Alex Hammer
FriendFeed
Kol Tregaskes posted a link
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars rover facing two-year trek
September 23 at 12:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
What an epic final mission for this plucky little rover. :-) - Chris Baskind
Twitter
Olaf Kolbrück posted a message on Twitter
FriendFeed
Bret Taylor posted a message
“We updated the FriendFeed Beta site (http://beta.friendfeed.com/) based on feedback. We made a number of small improvements, including bringing back room stats on the navigation bar and comment/like stats on your profile page.”
September 16 at 3:45 pm - Link
After a lot of consideration and testing, we've decided to keep the navigation bar on the left hand side. We've heard people's concerns about this issue, but we believe this UI provides the right balance of usability and consistency for site navigation. Likewise, it provides extensibility for some exciting features we have on the way. - Bret Taylor
Excellent work guys! Kudos. - Stu Andrews via twhirl
We also plan on fully launching http://beta.friendfeed.com/ very soon. We appreciate everyone's feedback through this beta-testing process. - Bret Taylor
looks good guys - no more room icons? - MG Siegler
You guys are totally on the ball. FF rocks! But can we still use the old UI? (like the opt out option Facebook gave us...) - Mona N.
The icons were small enough and the screen real estate issues real enough, we decided to 'nix the icons. The longer names and stats performed better in our testing - let us know what you think after using it for a bit. - Bret Taylor
Mona: when we launch fully, the beta UI will replace the old UI entirely. - Bret Taylor
think i like it more without em, less distracting on the left to right scan - MG Siegler
Ok, thank you Bret... - Mona N.
Without the icons it's impossible to distinguish between rooms if several rooms have the same name, like Mozilla Firefox at http://beta.friendfeed.com/roo... and Mozilla Firefox at http://beta.friendfeed.com/roo.... Not good :( - Ray Metzen
Sweet. - Kevin Bondelli
Nice update... - Steve
Ray: maybe it's more confusing that there are two competing rooms with the same name than there not being room icons. Why are there two rooms with ostensibly the same topical focus? - Mark Trapp
I'm a happy camper. - Jason Wehmhoener
Looks better. Still prefer the navigation on the right but I'll live. - Akiva Moskovitz
very nice! me likey. - Rob Diana
@Brett: It looks great! Congrats and thanks for listening! - Alex Popescu
I'm a big fan of the current design. The right rail was cluttered before. I kinda miss the icons, but not much, rather have the room stats. Great update! - Steve Isaacs
Christopher: they gave a reason during the first change; it was for people with wide screens who did not like the huge gap between the sidebar and the content. It's also more usable and expected to have navigation elements on the left side. - Mark Trapp
Yeah, Mark, I read that. In one place. And it wasn't referred to again. And it's not a meaningful reason. And it's not an "exciting feature". So pardon my musing aloud. - Christopher Galtenberg
i do like the rooms w/out icons better, and the time since last update is good. i did like the "x posts, x comments today" for the rooms as well, though - Trent Olson
list of all rooms please - Gregory Lent
I'd like it if I could drag people over to my lists. - Alex Scoble CISSP
THANK YOU for brining the room stats back!!! But I do miss the icons... it was easy to "navigate" to the one I was most in the mood for easily... I can't have my cake and eat it too?? - Lindsay Donaghe
Whoa ... This one gets a blog post! - Charlie Anzman
I don't like it. Anyway, can you bring back the option to expand the Rooms list? I don't want to go to the All Rooms view every time I want to check a specific room, - Alejandro S.
Alejandro: why not add that room to the navbar? Click on prefs and you can add as many rooms as you like. - Mark Trapp
I guess I will have to get used to the left bar. The issue I always have is the flow, and that the real estate is taken up as you scroll down even though there is nothing in there. I think I can live with it though ;) -