The Gotcha Questions

One little aspect of Sarah Palin's let's say "instability" is her view that any questions asked of her or of any other Republican (and no, Greta van Susteren is not a member of the press when interviewing Palin, she is a p.r. consultant) are "gotcha questions." NYMag has assembled a slide-show of those questions. Here's a brief list:

1. "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?"

2. "So we do cross-border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan, you think?"

3. "What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the world?"

4. "What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?"

Palin had answers to all these, but felt restrained to utter them. The true answers were

1. What?

2. Sure.

3. Just Alaskan stuff and blogs about me.

4. It's a great coach.