Curious but the Couric's interview was more telling of Palin. As the debate started she set the fool's rule, she wasn't going to answer questions, she was going to repeat slogans. Slogans matter more to republicans than facts.

"In a conversation, you have to build your sentence phrase by phrase, monitoring the reaction of your listener, while aiming for relevance to the question. That’s what led Ms. Palin into word salad with Ms. Couric. But when the questioner is 30 feet away on the floor and you’re on a stage talking to a camera, which can’t interrupt or make faces, you can reel off a script without embarrassment. The concerns raised by the Couric interviews — that Ms. Palin memorizes talking points rather than grasping issues — should not be allayed by her performance in the forgiving format of a debate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/op...ml?ref=opinion

"Palin launched into her charm offensive — winking, smiling, dodging questions and speaking in her signature Sarah-phonics , a mash up of sentence fragments and colloquialisms glued together with misplaced also’s and there’s — gibberish really. Everyone in the bar lapped it up. It was The Sarah Palin Show." Charles M. Blow

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/op...sq=blow&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/op...on&oref=slogin