Looks like Tim Graham has sipped a little too much of that right-wing Kool-Aid.
In an Oct. 7 NewsBusters post, Graham declared that Katie Couric’s question to Sarah Palin about what newspapers and magazines she read “was designed as a “gotcha” question to underline Palin’s lack of worldly sophistication”:
Think of the pitfalls of the various answers. Say you read the New York Times and the Washington Post, and you disappoint the base. Say you read the Washington Times and watch Fox News, and the media treats you like a right-wing leper. Say you read the Anchorage Daily News, and they treat you like a hick.
Wait — isn’t Palin supposed to be all mavericky and stuff? Shouldn’t she be above caring whether she “disappoints the base” or if that darn mainstream media “treats you like a right-wing leper” or she looks like a hick? If it’s a gotcha question, why does it matter to Graham what the answer is?