People who have \u00a0difficulty gathering and processing information have plenty of company. We all have moments that humble us. Fortunately, there is still considerable forgiveness in our society, so most times we can mess something up and rebound and get back on track.<\/p>\n

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\nHarboring a grudge against a neutral observer is an odd sort of behavior. But such is the attitude that Sarah Palin takes towards Katie Couric. I don\u2019t know enough Palin supporters to determine if they think that her continued bitterness towards Katie Couric is an acceptable form of behavior. Fortunately most people have the ability to eat humble pie and acknowledge when they had a bad moment. A good example would be Claire McCaskill in \u201cplane-gate\u201d when she apologized for unwise decisions and took the necessary steps to remedy them. David Letterman acted similarly when he was unfaithful to his wife.<\/p>\n

Katie Couric is not exactly a \u201cgotcha journalist.\u201d If anything she has been criticized for asking softball questions and paying more attention to the frivolous than the serious. Actually, it\u2019s that reputation which may have landed her the interview with Sarah Palin that virtually every other reporter wanted after John McCain snatched the Alaska governor out of obscurity and made her his choice to be the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee in 2008.<\/p>\n

Since Governor Palin seemed to be somewhat ill-informed about this issues that would face a president or vice-president, Katie Couric wanted to know where the Alaska governor is getting her information. What newspapers and magazines did she regularly read? This is not the early days of pioneering in Alaska when a New York Times might arrive two or three times a year by dogsled. This is the era of the internet where anyone can read virtually any publication on-line. Couric\u2019s question was eminently fair.<\/p>\n

Governor Palin said that she read \u201call of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.\u201d If someone can\u2019t name any of them, isn\u2019t it plausible to conclude that she really means none of them.<\/p>\n