Sarah Palin Can't Name Most Influential Journalist (VIDEO)

Here we go again.

Sarah Palin had a Katie Couric moment over the weekend during the White House Correspondents Dinner festivities.

At the MSNBC after party, NBC's blog NBCU Direct asked several party attendees the following question: Who do you think is the most influential journalist today?

But while most of the attendees had no problem coming up with answers (Eliot Spitzer said Brian Williams, as did Andrea Mitchell, while SNL's Bill Hader went for The New Yorker's David Grann), Palin fumbled when asked.

"Oh my goodness, that's a great question," she said, before turning to her husband Todd and asking for his input.

When Todd also balked, Palin came back and said, "Um, gosh, that's a great question, I have to think about it, OK? Because there are many."

As Palin walked away from the camera, she ran into her Fox News pal Greta Van Susteren, and then turned back to the NBC cameras to shout, "Greta Van Susteren is the most influential journalist!"

WATCH (Palin appears around 1:20 in):

The exchange called to mind Palin's infamous 2008 exchange with Katie Couric, where she could not name a single newspaper or magazine that informed her worldview. That interview set off a bit of a back-and-forth between the two, with Palin going so far as to mock the recent news that Couric would be leaving CBS News to pursue a syndicated talk show.

Comments

[Sha44ss]

11:02 PM on 06/03/2011

6000 Comments by ALL 6000 'Insensitive' Liberal Idiots who are the Entire Liberal Base

[Fever911]

12:39 PM on 05/19/2011

Why was she even at this dinner??????

[BamafanNJ]

11:52 PM on 05/14/2011

Palin is just plain and simply entertaining too watch, I just get a kick out of hearing the bumbles and stumbles that come out of her mouth, she can't even go too her puppet master Todd for help, it has to be humiliating, not having any confidence or reliable source of information to base your knowledge on, and then not be able too name a right wing Journalist, even a bad one, is like not knowing your ABC's if your a politician. Now Mike Huckabee has bowed out of the race making a Palin appearance on the ticket even closer to fruition. We can only hope. please God run Palin and Trump on the same ticket so Obama can work on the country without ever having too campaign.

[Howard Sternner]

02:35 AM on 05/14/2011

Palin never ceases to amaze me.

[builderman55]

10:30 AM on 05/09/2011

But she can name the designer her clothes and eyeglasses! The GOP loves pretty faces with empty suits...

[cntlscrut]

08:34 AM on 05/09/2011

1. Ask Palin what her favorite molecule to breath is...
2. Casually mention that carbon monoxide was Reagan's favorite...
3. ???
4. Profit!

[westral]

08:26 AM on 05/09/2011

I doubt Sarah Palin could name the northern-most state of the USA.

[indy girl]

07:21 AM on 05/18/2011

She would probably guess, "Canada?"

[USCOASTGUARDVET]

06:44 AM on 05/09/2011

It's Charles Schultz, Remember?

[amd02148]

05:56 AM on 05/09/2011

Sarah Palin, not able to answer a question intelligently? stop the presses.

[Jason Wolfe]

06:15 PM on 05/08/2011

John Stewart!!!!!

[ffa1234]

11:06 AM on 05/08/2011

The poster child for the intellectually challenged has struck again. What is unfathomable is how ignorance is now a badge of honor.

[indy girl]

07:22 AM on 05/18/2011

But, she's so authentic also there, dontcha know!
*adjusts ratty wiglets*

[iconico62]

10:01 AM on 05/08/2011

I didn't believe her then, when she could not tell Couric a single paper she read, but I gave her the benefit of a doubt. This time though, with the answer she gave for a similar question, she has removed all doubt that a sprig of cilantro has more sense than her. She should stick to what she is best at: shooting animals from the safety of a helicopter.

[signgrrl]

03:28 PM on 05/08/2011

actually that was an act too. apparently daddy has to re-load for her . . . .

[scrappydoodle]

09:16 AM on 05/08/2011

doesn't the question itself bother you ? journalists should report the news, not be"influential"...

[xlntcat]

04:08 AM on 05/09/2011

Yes and no.  Research indicates (See Solomon Asch Conformity experiments) that the mass media has historyically exerted normative social influence. 

[BamafanNJ]

02:50 PM on 05/15/2011

A Journalist isn't a reporter per se'. A journalist compiles information and forms opinions and supposition from their translation of the information compiled, a reporter just tells you that there was an accident on the freeway, not who caused it or what make and model the vehicles involved were. many Journalist have been influential too the extreme, look at the journalist who started the whole mess between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, that influence caused unmentionable death and destruction, mass murder and eventually United nations involvement. It was false and irresponsible Journalism that caused that too occur and had nothing too do with reporting. Hope I have explained the degree of difference between the two.

[Crystal Lee]

12:56 AM on 05/16/2011

Actually, I think that it's generally accepted that the assassination of President Habyarimana instigated the genocide more than anything--the militant factions already had media outlets to disseminate their information to their supporters. In other words, most of those "reports" were actually those leaders instructing their (armed) supporters as to how to act/what to think in the aftermath of the assassination: "propaganda," rather than "journalism," as you assert.

[Muzzle Me]

08:05 AM on 05/08/2011

Let's see, Yah00 is usually a day late and a, well you know, when it comes to reporting any news, but usually not here. Yet, it's been over a week that other sites have reported on Brist0l's cosmetic work and yet nuttin about her with it. I would have thought for the clicks alone that would have made it to the front page even and it's a big change too. Hmmm...

[BamafanNJ]

02:54 PM on 05/15/2011

No amount of cosmetic surgery can erase the inherent hole that lyes between her ears. It's a barren wasteland, got it from her Momma.

[layman]

06:31 AM on 05/08/2011

She doesn't read, write, watch, or listen. When quizzed, she goes blank.

[indy girl]

07:25 AM on 05/18/2011

Just ask something that can be answered by one of her talking points:

God, patriotism, brave troops, real americans, smaller government, SNOW!machine, special neeeds--no, wait, scratch that one, she doesn't use it anymore--hard work, commonsense conservative, _____________ (fill in your own)