“My response to her, I guess it was kind of flippant. But, I was sort of taken aback, like, the suggestion was, "You're way up there in a faraway place in Alaska, do you know that there are publications in the rest of the world that are read by many?" And I was taken aback by that because, I don't know, the suggestion just was a little bit of perhaps we're not in tune with the rest of the world.”

— Sarah Palin

Interview with Carl Cameron http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/sarah_palins_interview_with_ca.html, Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, , quoted in
on her response to Katie Couric's question about which newspapers and magazines she reads (see above)
2008, 2008 interviews with Katie Couric

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