In what seems like an infinite number in a series of Katie Couric interviews, Sarah Palin opened up about some issues that hadn't previously been discussed including gay rights, global warming, and her sources of news. Her most noteable was response to the answer to that last question where Palin, a journalism major, could not name one major news source she reads:

Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.

Couric: What, specifically?

Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: "Can you name a few?"

Palin: I have a vast variety of source where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, 'wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

So your response to what newspapers you read is similar to a 14 year-old’s Facebook favorite music section: “everything but country!” except probably it’s “ya know, everything but the New York Times!” But the absurdity didn’t stop there. Want to hear her thoughts on global warming?

Couric: What's your position on global warming? Do you believe it's man-made or not?

Palin: Well, we're the only Arctic state, of course, Alaska. So we feel the impacts more than any other state, up there with the changes in climates. And certainly, it is apparent. We have erosion issues. And we have melting sea ice, of course. So, what I've done up there is form a sub-cabinet to focus solely on climate change. Understanding that it is real. And …

Couric: Is it man-made, though in your view?

Palin: You know there are - there are man's activities that can be contributed to the issues that we're dealing with now, these impacts. I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate. Because the world's weather patterns are cyclical. And over history we have seen change there. But kind of doesn't matter at this point, as we debate what caused it. The point is: it's real; we need to do something about it.

Wait, “I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate”? I’m getting more and more convinced that English isn’t even Palin’s first language. To close, how about some gay stuff?

(in response to a question that her old church had a “Pray the Gay Away” program)

Palin: But what you're talking about, I think, value here, what my position is on homosexuality and you can pray it away, because I think that was the title that was listed on that bulletin. And you know, I don't know what prayers are worthy of being prayed. I don't know what's prayers are going to be asked and answered. But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay, and I love her dearly. And she is not my "gay friend," she is one of my best friends, who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice I would have made. But I am not going to judge people.

I’m guessing her friend isn’t too happy she’s being told her sexuality is a choice, but I suppose this answer is the least ridiculous thing Palin said in the interview. Though that’s not really saying much at all. Oh and I also forgot the excerpt where she said that a daughter raped by her father should consider having an abortion.

ONE MORE DAY UNTIL THE DEBATE!