Sarah Palin: Voracious Reader

Seriously, folks. Even Tina Fey doesn't make Sarah Palin look this daffy. Katie Couric asks "What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?" Straightforward enough, right? Still, Couric really had to press to make headway with this one.

Palin's eventual answer? "Alaska isn't a foreign country where it's kind of suggested it seems like, 'Wow,how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington DC may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me: Alaska is like a microcosm of America."

And no, she never mentioned a single title.

LAT on Palin Interview

Blunt. Palin talks to Couric--and if she's lucky, few are listening.

Palin and Couric: Foreign Policy Experience

UPDATE: The original draft of this post began "And dumber than I thought, too." I erased that because I thought it was a shade too rude. But we've talked it over in the office here, and she really does come of as just plain not smart in this clip.
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Via Ambinder, here's another round of Couric and Palin. And you've really got to see this, and hear it with your own two ears, inflection and everything, to believe it.

The question went like this.

COURIC: Explain to me why that [Alaska's proximity to Russia and Canada] enhances your foreign policy credentials.

And then the answer.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our--our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of.

Seriously, though. Words on the page fail to capture. It's really, embarrassingly, worth listening to.