Milk, the film portraying the life and times of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold political office, premiered in San Francisco’s Castro district.

Katie Couric interviewed Sarah Palin and John McCain on September 29.  Couric questioned Palin on abortion, gay rights and feminism.  It seems Palin has changed her position on a few items and contradicts herself repeatedly.

Case in point:

Katie Couric: Do you consider yourself a feminist?

Sarah Palin: I do. I’m a feminist who believes in equal rights and I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed and to try to do it all anyway. And I’m very, very thankful that I’ve been brought up in a family where gender hasn’t been an issue. You know, I’ve been expected to do everything growing up that the boys were doing. We were out chopping wood and you’re out hunting and fishing and filling our freezer with good wild Alaskan game to feed our family. So it kinda started with that. With just that expectation that the boys and the girls in my community were expected to do the same and accomplish the same. That’s just been instilled in me.

Couric: What is your definition of a feminist?

Palin: Someone who believes in equal rights. Someone who would not stand for oppression against women.

I’m not sure how you can call yourself a feminist and define feminism as a belief for equal rights and a firm stance against sexism and oppression when your record clearly indicates that you have not supported equal rights and you are in favor of eradicating choices for women.  This woman exhausts me.  I’m ready for Thursday’s debate.

For the full transcript, read here.

For the clip, click here.

Go to 5:20 to here her response to Couric’s question asking her which publications she reads to inform her worldview.

Transcribed on the Huffington Post:

Katie Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious: what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Sarah Palin: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
KC: But, like, what ones specifically? I’m curious.
SP: All of ’em, any of ’em that have been in front of me over all these years.
KC: Can you name a few?
SP: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where, it’s kind of suggested and it seems like, ‘Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?’ Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

Or, click here.