It's possible that she didn't want to name one of the "liberal" newspapers. I assumed that her staff clips relevant and important articles each day from the top papers and circulates them around her office. If so, she just had to explain that she reads clips from a variety of papers that include the Washington Post, NY Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, etc. That's what EVERY government office does, as far as I know. In retrospect, I think I could be wrong. I'm shocked that she didn't even name the paper in Anchorage. Heck, she could have lied.
there would have been no shame in simply describing the holding without naming the caption, like: "I believe that local governments and government offices should not be prohibited from displaying religious symbols," or "I believe that stiff-backed guy should have been declared president in 2000."
If you go back to grade school knowledge, (Are you smarter than a 5th grader type stuff), you can easily get this. Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. Topeka Board of Education then if you were around for the 2000 election Bush v. Gore then if you took a history / polisci class centering around the Constitution Marbury v. Madison McCullough v. Maryland then since Palin graduated with a Journalism degree New York Times v. the United States She should have at least been able to get Brown v. Board of Education.
I didn't ask you to name SCOTUS cases, by name or otherwise. I just am curious if people who are on her case about not knowing cases are doing so because they're so much in the public domain that everyone should be able to name a few.
Everyone who wants to be in charge of our nation should indeed know it's most basic legal decisions affecting the rights of it's citizens, yes.
Palin doesn't know any major court cases besides roe v wade. how embarrassing http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonat...to_do_more_interviews_and_tell_her_story.html and she is running for VP??? i just graduated high school and i know more than her. she doesn't even know Morse v Frederick, which happened in ALASKA!!!
But I can't! And I'm not embarassed about it. You forget all that stuff as you age, unless you deal with it in your daily life (which I don't). And yes, we could all name Brown or Plessy--but the question was what you DISAGREE with, not whether you could name a court case. [now that I'd think about it, I'd name the case that permitted forced sterilization of mentally disabled folks--I think the line was, "three generations of idiots is enough." that is, if I could think of the caption. Which I can't]
Re: Palin doesn't know any major court cases besides roe v wade. how embarrassing Wow, that is awesome to hear. :]
Re: Palin doesn't know any major court cases besides roe v wade. how embarrassing nice post...you dont have anything to contribute?
Me? Well, there's Brown vs. the Board of Education. There's Bush vs. Gore. And the Dred Scott case (don't know the proper name of that one). I'm not sure I could name 3 more without hints, although I'd do pretty well at a multiple choice test on the subject. But I'm not asking to be put in position to appoint supreme court justices, nor does my job have anything to do with making or interpreting laws, except in relatively trivial and tangential ways. If your point is that Palin is no more ignorant of the SCOTUS than the average person, then I agree with you. The average person, however, does not and should not appoint supreme court justices. Finally, you are asking me about SCOTUS based on my reply about which newspapers she reads and whether Alaska is a typical state. I can name 3 newspapers - I could probably name 30 off the top of my head. barfo
Re: Palin doesn't know any major court cases besides roe v wade. how embarrassing my bad. i didn't even know this was being discussed in the gotcha journalism thread...delete?
Chicago Tribune, Arlington Heights - Daily Herald, Chicago Sun-times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinnel, Racine Journal Times, The Daily Missourian, USA Today, The NY Times, the Wallstreet Journal, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the NY Post, the Denver Post, the Orlando Sentinnel, and the LA Times. That is just off the top of my head. Maybe I can get some more if I spent more time thinking about it.
Re: Palin doesn't know any major court cases besides roe v wade. how embarrassing I prefer not to delete content, so I merged it.
