I'll let up on the Sarah Palin posts soon, honestly. As soon as she stops being crazy entertaining. Or entertainingly crazy. Both. But until she stops tweeting random quotes and
Snapple-bottle-cap aphorisms I just can't take my eyes off this particular train wreck.
Thursday night she posted the following:

Full disclosure: the above image
has been Photoshopped. I cut out and swapped the positions of the two tweets in order for them to be read the way Palin sent them. If I had not done that, the last part of her statement would have been displayed first. And it would have made even less sense.
Anyway, she decides to pimp an upcoming radio appearance in Squarebanks by saying she likes that medium more than newspapers. Perhaps it's because us newspaperfolk know the difference between "anxious" (the word she uses) and "eager" (the word she likely means to use), which makes her uncomfortable. Nah, I doubt that. The rest of her tweet explains that she obviously feels newspaper peeps are more liberal and therefore... I don't know. But apparently that's bad to her. She uses a quote from Walter Cronkite to support this.
Too bad for Palin then that Cronkite, who sadly is near the end of his life, didn't mean what she thinks he meant. Here's an exchange from a Time Magazine
interview with Cronkite in 2003:
YOU HAVE BASICALLY COME OUT AND SAID YOU'RE A LIBERAL. HOW DO YOU RESPOND WHEN CRITICS SAY, "AHA, I KNEW REPORTERS WERE LIBERAL, AND THIS IS WHY THE MEDIA IS BIASED"?
I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. A liberal to me is one who--and it suits some of the dictionary definitions--is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
Damn newspapermen and their facts. They always get in the way of a good half-baked talking point. Weird though that she has such disdain for newspapers since as we know she reads "all of them."