Katie Couric: "When it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Sarah Palin: I read most of them, again, with a great appreciation for the press, for the media...
Couric: But, like, what one specifically, I'm curious, that you...
Palin: All of them. Any of them that have been in front of me over all these years. I have a...
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country where it's kind of suggested, it seems like, 'Wow, how could you keep in touch with the rest of Washington DC, maybe thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
Oct 1st
The Transcript
MSNBC Chief Political Correspondent Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
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Conservative Columnist Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
GOP Consultant Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
Noonan: It's over.
Murphy: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
Todd: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
Noonan: Saw Kay this morning.
Todd: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
Murphy: They're all bummed out.
Todd: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
Noonan: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
Todd: Yeah they went to a narrative.
Murphy: I totally agree.
Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
Murphy: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
Todd: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
Murphy: Yeah.
Sep 3rd
The Pivot: Too Little, Too Late
Tonight, Joe Lieberman, Fred Thompson, and, most laughably, George W. Bush, made the case that John...
Sep 3rd