Questions which are meant to lead her into possibly damaging answers, kind of like when lots of editing scrapes away a true meaning, and whats left makes a person look bad.
I think.
There are legit gotcha questions which have no good answers, or force you to admit an unpopular view.
Palin is an idiot. She’s labeling normal questions as gotcha questions to reframe the discussion about her stupidity. Now she can deflect the conversation to how the media is out to get her instead of having the coverage focus on how she can’t name a newspaper she reads.