Suderman has a theory as to why Palin didn’t name a specific publication she reads when pressed:
My guess is that the newspapers that she usually reads are the obvious ones — The New York Times, The Washington Post – and she was worried about either 1) implying some endorsement of these papers (or any, really) or 2) shocking some of her more sensitive conservative base with the fact that — gasp! — she gets her news from the liberal media!
The campaign’s been waging a war on the press as of late; maybe there’s an internal directive not to mention any of these outlets.
If true, this doesn’t make her answer any more excusable. Mostly, it makes it weirder — and, as far as I’m concerned, rather more depressing. Has the populist right really cowed its top candidates into a position in which they can’t admit to reading any mainstream news source?
Yes. If you read even the saner blogs on the right, like Instapundit, you find a belief that almost everything in the mainstream media is a lie. Conceding you read the NYT or watch SNL with the sound on is like confessing to a sin. You cannot let yourself be exposed to error.
My own view is that she probably reads only the Alaska media – and mainly catches everything on TV or listens to the radio. Remember: she had no idea what the surge was at the time, except by hearing about it "on the news."
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