Palin answered honestly in a September interview with Charlie Rose about what she likes to read: Christian-themed fantasy and health columns in a running magazine.
Let’s face it. Sarah Palin, unlike some of us, does not read the Washington Post, The New York Times, and other “elite” intellectual fancy pant publications during her lunch hour at work. She didn’t go to some high falootin’ school and then take the summer before law school off to backpack and hitchhike and live out some Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady fantasy.
When pressed by Charlie Gibson to explain her lack of world travel or waiting to obtain a passport until a couple of years ago, here is what she said.
"The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world."
Some might venture to guess that this reading would involve newspapers or some type of periodical like Time or Newsweek. Not so, according to the Katie Couric interviews.
Actually, Palin likes to read C.S. Lewis books and Runner’s World magazine, according to a Sept. 6, interview with Charlie Rose. Link here.
C.S. Lewis is “very, very deep.” Check out my ever increasing counter of Sarah Palin’s very, very crutch.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus is not buying it. I think Kathleen Parkerreferred to it as BS. From Marcus’ column on Tues., Sept. 30.
This would be more reassuring if Palin had demonstrated more evidence of having read extensively about history or world affairs. Asked in an interview for PBS's Charlie Rose show last year about her favorite authors, Palin cited C.S. Lewis—"very, very deep"—and Dr. George Sheehan, a now-deceased writer for Runner's World magazine whose columns Palin still keeps on hand.
"Very inspiring and very motivating," she said. "He was an athlete and I think so much of what you learn in athletics about competition and healthy living that he was really able to encapsulate, has stayed with me all these years."
Also, she got a Garfield desk calendar for Christmas 1987 that made a big impression.