I’m sure our readers here are far, far more informed about the economy, world events, the workings of governemtn and Supreme Court decisions as Sarah Palin. She reads all the newspapers and magazines, though, or so she said to Katie Couric. Here’s Howard Kurtz with the transcripts of the Couric interview of Palin:

COURIC: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?

COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.

PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.

“All” and “a variety of sources” might mean this, where they have an article about Palin’s belief that men and dinosaurs were on this earth at the same time, and this, and this. But seriously, we all read more than Sarah Palin. I have read the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, DailyKos, Eschatonblog, NPR, the New Tork Times, the Anchorage Daily News, MSNBC and CNN this morning, mostly online. It’s not even 10:00. Sarah Palin has likely read and not understood her umpteenth debate prep briefing document. Which brings us to the notion of what her answers in the debate will be.

Surely Governor Palin will have canned answers she can just spit out when needed, whether to answer the question posed, or more likely, to change the subject. Roger Simon, not exactly a rabid liberal, has a few guesses at what those canned answers might be. He writes at Politico:

Still, I suspect Palin’s debate preppers have provided her with some all-purpose answers for Thursday night just in case. These could include:

1. “Bounces off rubber and sticks to glue.”

2. “I know you are, but what am I?”

3. “OK, so I may not know where Waziristan is, but I can see Russia from my roof.”

4. “Drill! Drill! Drill!”

5. “I don’t know the answer to that, but if you give me your address, I’ll have my husband snow machine over to your house and punch you in the nose.”

6. “How those hair plugs working out for you, Joe?”

7. “How should I know? I am not Sarah Palin, I am really Tina Fey.”

8. “Sure, I said, ‘Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States,’ but at least I didn’t plagiarize it.”

9. “The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Oh, sorry. Wrong cheat sheet.”

10. “How much do you really have to know for a do-nothing job?”

Oddly, I have to agree with Simon when he notes that it just might be good for her if she uses these lines. It’d be an example of Sarah Palin imitating Tina Fey, hitching herself to someone with vastly more popularity than she enjoys.

To be serious, list those news sources that are indispensible to knowing about our country, the ones that if Sarah Palin were to focus on just them, rather than on “all” sources, she could save herself some labor. Let’s give her some help. While you’re at it, you can suggest more answers as Roger Simon has done — it is your choice whether to mangle the syntax or give her pointers on that.

Countdown to the big event is 11 hours.