I must admit that clip makes her look ignorant, and her saying she's read "any of them that have been in front of her over the years" is a bad sign. On the other hand, I can understand not wanting to name a *specific* paper.
Unfortunately, I rather suspect its not an effort to evade endorsing one paper and really *is* because she doesn't seek out these sources herself. She just reads whatever she is given, like how somebody gave her a piece of literature that said humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
Another way in which she sounds like Bush. Bush has expressed similar sentiments: He doesn't need to go out and get data, he has aides to bring him data and tell him what to read.
Her other motive may have been to avoid mentioning a newspaper that would alienate part of her audience (for instance, The Christian Science Monitor would give a soundbite for the people worried about her religious positions, even though CSM isn't much more conservative than, say, The Wall Street Journal).
I couldn't find anything other than rumors (albeit well-placed ones) to support this particular claim. The "video" I found is amateurishly fake, and CBS News appears to be denying it. So I'm thinking this one might not be true.
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Unfortunately, I rather suspect its not an effort to evade endorsing one paper and really *is* because she doesn't seek out these sources herself. She just reads whatever she is given, like how somebody gave her a piece of literature that said humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
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Her other motive may have been to avoid mentioning a newspaper that would alienate part of her audience (for instance, The Christian Science Monitor would give a soundbite for the people worried about her religious positions, even though CSM isn't much more conservative than, say, The Wall Street Journal).
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Let's see how well she fares with the NRA after botching THIS one....
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