[lzwha]

You just can't make this stuff up, folks.


(CNN) - If Sarah Palin does run for president next year, at least one high profile journalist will be forbidden access to the former Alaska governor.

Speaking to Fox New's Sean Hannity in an interview to air Monday, Palin said she wants nothing to do with Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor who's line of questioning facilitated one of the most memorable political foibles of the 2008 presidential campaign.

"As for doing an interview, though, with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say? Why waste my time? No," Palin told Hannity of Couric, according to excerpts obtained by Time's Mark Halperin.

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting," Palin continued. "I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us."

In a series of interviews with Couric authorized by the McCain campaign, Palin stumbled over a number of questions, most memorably when asked, "When it comes to establishing your world view…what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read?"

Palin appeared unable to name a single publication – a performance for which she was much maligned - and later said she found the question insulting, as well as emblematic of a liberal slant in the mainstream media.

"So a journalist, a reporter who is so biased and will, no doubt, spin and gin up whatever it is that I have to say to create controversy, I swear to you, I will not my waste my time with her. Or him," she told Hannity in the interview Monday. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ime-on-couric/

[neeclindy]

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism."

Huh?

[Qzmsdoem]

She said she studied journalism. She never said she passed the course.

[Rabbahpuptiopp]

Do you think that's where she learned the term "lamestream media?"

[Spongebob]

I'm guessing that's from copying someone's class notes and not being able to read their bad handwriting.

[Gintovtosik]

From one journalist to another Sarah, it's not the degree, it's what you do with it... I've seen some of your reports. You should start with cleaning up your sloppy delivery before you worry about the state of journalism.