Palin says she considers herself intellectual

[sabra]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGvyQEbhE7p4C9xKEkCpqqlIdvOgD93VLK4G2

NEW YORK (AP) — Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin consider herself intellectual? You betcha!

"And you have to be up on not only current events, but you have to understand the foundation of the issues that you're working on," Palin said in an interview with People magazine. "You can't just go on what is presented you."

Although Palin didn't name a single newspaper or magazine when CBS News anchor Katie Couric asked where she got her information, the Alaska governor told People that she has always been a "voracious reader" and named reading — anything from biographies to historical works — as her favorite thing along with her children and sports.

Besides author Lawrence Wright's terrorism history, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," Palin said she's reading a lot of briefing papers.

"I appreciate a lot of information. I think that comes from growing up in a family of school teachers," she said.

she has always been a "voracious reader"

[Ron Green]

1. Well, I consider myself an NBA super star.

How about THEM apples?

[Rambis]

2. Sack of hammers!

speechless!

[Lifelong Protester]

3. So glad "People" magazine scooped this!!

Has the National Enquirer weighed in? How about other planets???

[juno jones]

40. The Bat Boy will be weighing in shortly. n/t

[onehandle]

4. I'm sure the book deal she is working on, for after her 15 minutes are up, is quite "voracious." nt

[ErinBerin84]

5. heh

1.) she should start with the constitution
2.)I'd like to see a book report from her.

[Eurobabe]

6. Voracious reader of People, National Enquirer, etc. n/t

[kath]

7. You forgot to point out that the magazine on her desk in that photo is the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY'S mag.

[grantcart]

8. in the article she also think Bristol can be a great role model for girls too lol

[Enrique]

9. look at my glasses

that's proof right there!

[benld74]

10. She can't even spell intellectual!

[kath]

11. Is that article satire?? "'I always wanted a son named Zamboni,' she said."

WTF??

[renate]

36. .... words fail me....

I mean, they just fail me. :wow:

That is the kind of name that only a person on crack would give a child.

[verges]

43. You just can't make shit like this up.

It really is truly amazing. Are they sure they weren't interviewing Tina Fey? Zamfuckinboni?

[MadHound]

12. Sorry, but the fact that she attended five colleges in six years,

All to get a bachelors in journalism, sports journalism, tells me all about her intellectual pretensions. The sad fact of the matter is that she was another one of those students who attend college not to pursue intellectual achievements, but rather to acquire a degree from a degree mill in order to be employable. It's more than apparent that most of the grey matter in her head atrophied a long, long time ago.

[Berry Cool]

42. I think her bachelor's is in journalism, not "sports" journalism.

I think it's being misreported. Mind you, I'm not saying she isn't dumb as a box of rocks, I'm just a stickler for the facts. They're damning enough without the mythos that her degree is in "sports journalism" and that she used to be a "weather girl" (another incorrect meme).

[demokatgurrl]

13. Wow. I am

fucking speechless.
Intellectual.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[pleah]

14. Well, then, that makes me the Queen of England!

:silly:

[Lautremont]

15. The excerpt in the OP is missing the best part!

I know you can only put four paragraphs, but this deserves exposure. She's apparently serious:

Palin said if she and husband Todd had had a sixth child, they had already picked a name for a boy joining siblings Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.
"I always wanted a son named Zamboni," she said.

[jberryhill]

16. If she's an intellectual, I am apparently the best guitarist on earth

And I play those five chords really, really well.

Garcia, Santana, Hendrix... you pikers move aside.

[nini]

17. Well, I'm Einstein and Miss Universe

:D

[jberryhill]

44. Einstein was not smart enough to be Miss Universe

Was he ever in a beauty pageant?

No... and I've been reading his theories since I was, like, in second grade!

[geiger]

18. Quit picking on the poor woman. Her professional life is over.

[WinkyDink]

29. Not yet, it isn't.

[cboy4]

19. Now we know why everyone tried to keep her from speaking

to the media. :crazy:

[scheming daemons]

20. Sorry..... 841 on SAT is the OPPOSITE of "intellectual"

[maxsolomon]

35. debunked.

it's a bad score, but it wasn't hers.

[damonm]

21. And I consider myself Rightful Czar of all the Russias...

...so move over, Pootie-poot. :silly:

[SemperEadem]

22. considering the company she keeps and the type of people she draws to her shows

I can see why she'd say that.

[elkston]

23. That is one of her best photos

Guys, you cannot tell me you wouldn't hit that.

[Bucky]

25. And piss Todd off? I think not.

But yes, very doable.

[yardwork]

24. I consider myself a rock star.

[HughMoran]

26. Does every word this idiot moron speaks have to be posted on DU?

I just can't fucking believe the number of Palin threads I have to hide in a day - poor Biden is barely mentioned. No wonder the MSM shows this crap - even fucking DU eats it up like candy! :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

30. You'd best stay away from GDP, then

Because she's going to be discussed ad nauseum until PAST election day.

I personally find it fascinating how such an idiot rises so quickly in America on so little talent.

It's certainly better than TV.

[HughMoran]

33. Better than TV?

Seems to me we are simply parroting TV like good 'Mercans are supposed to :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

27. In what respect, Charlie?

To paraphrase the great Bartcop, this woman is dumber than the first-round draft pick at a convention of dumb bags of rocks.

[Orsino]

28. By her standards, yes. n/t

[NotThisTime]

31. Upon reading your headline, the first thing I thought was HOLY CRAP

If that's what goes for intellectualism these days we have really fallen to pieces.

[asdjrocky]

32. If you have to say that you are an intellectual then you're not.

And while we're at it, if you are a maverick you don't call yourself a maverick and there is no such thing as a team of mavericks. Christ this crap is driving me nuts.

[GinaMaria]

34. I've always been the Queen of Sheeba

[Johonny]

37. what issue has she shown a fundamental level of understanding?

Could you share that understanding with the rest of us... once.

[alison]

38. Too bad she can't even spell "intellectual" or "voracious."

You betcha!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

39. She's seen Barack Obama on television so she's absorbed the knowledge

of a President of the Harvard Law Review.

[11 Bravo]

41. And when asked to name a 21st century philosopher who helped to shape her world view ...

the insipid twunt came up with Carrot Top.

[bushisanidiot]

45. She's as dense as a brick.

I can't believe her degree is in journalism because she can barely form a sentence.
it's hard to believe she is a capable of getting a degree at all.