Another Volume in the Sarah Palin Library…
Yes, kids it’s another Sarah Palin biography. First we had “Sarah – How a Small Town Girl Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment on Its Ear” written by long time Wasilla buddy Kaylene Johnson. It came out long before Palin’s VP nominatioin, and sat in the Costco in Anchorage in giant stacks. I don’t know how much interest there was in it at the time, but there weren’t too many Alaskans that I knew that were all excited about a fluff piece on the governor.
Then, of course, are the rumors that a book by Sarah herself (read: Sarah’s Ghostwriter) will fetch an outlandish sum rumored to be a cool $11 million, whenever she can figure out how to tiptoe around that pesky Alaska State Ethics Act that says that while she is governor, she can only earn money being a governor.
And now this. An “unauthorized biography” with input from her parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, and her sister Heather. There will undoubtedly be fodder enough between its covers to keep the media busy for a long time to come.
My favorite quote, and one I shall be tempted to resurrect for a variety of uses was this:
“Sarah made one slip-up – but [she] dampened suspicion by explaining it away.”
It’s fun to think up all the different scenarios to which one could apply this little sentence. But this time, it applied to the fact that she wanted to keep her pregnancy secret from her children because:
“Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs – I couldn’t talk about it.”
So when one of her daughters actually found Trigg’s ultrasound pictures, so the story goes, she “explained it away.”
The other reason for lying about the fact she was pregnant?
“Not discussing the pregnancy with her daughters, she felt, would shorten the process and spare them from unwanted attention.”
Liiike taking them out of school for weeks and bringing them on the campaign trail, having them participate in interviews with the media, and having Great Van Susteren talk to one of them on camera about her own out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy? Like that?
We also discover in the new book that a pregnant Bristol Palin, was pulled out of her own high school, away from the baby’s father, and sent to Anchorage where she was a not only a full-time student, but held down jobs at not one, but two espresso stands at the same time. I can’t even go on…
You can read the blurb, or the dissection of the blurb by The Immoral Minority for further insight.
*Question to self – Am I actually going to have to buy this book? And if so, what dust jacket can I find to cover it over, so nobody will think I’m actually reading it? Don Quixote perhaps? Or that perennial Alaskan favorite, The Lyin’ the Witch and the Wardrobe?
The lies just keep piling up, don’t they?
this is all the buzz in other areas. There are definite issues creeping into the light. She may regret this. BIG.
Follow the money.
InJuneau – The lies ARE piling up…….like a Porta-Potti that no one empty’s out……..and oh that smell !!
“I can’t even go on… ”
yep, AKM, it takes your breath away, doesn’t it?
Just listening to CNN at about 4pm today. Only 8 people in King County, Texas voted for Obama. The rest voted for McCain/Palin. WHY? They said it was because they are more MORAL? I don’t know how they define moral, but it does not define Sarah Palin. I don’t get it.
Oh AKM,
I was waiting for your take on this. You didn’t disappoint me.
My favorite SP Volume (a Christmas gift from a Mudpup friend):
“The Wit and Wisdom of Sarah Palin”
inside? Blank pages!
Well, she’s adept at keeping lies straight, so far. But the day is coming when she will be hung out like a muskrat pelt, drying on a clothesline.
Sarah Palin says
“Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs – I couldn’t talk about it.”
The remark seems odd to me. If she is Trig’s mother Wow SP is such a selfish b++ch! As a parent of three girls myself I would want to prepare my children for the birth of a special needs child….not wallow in the me, me, me muck. Her duty to her other children would have been to share the knowledge of Trig’s condition in order to prepare them. As usual her response is all about Sarah…….and I believe she made it up.
And I am still trying to figure out where God’s divine purpose fits into the above statement by SP as well……..perhaps I do not understand because I am a disbeliever.
Pacificnwgal (15:21:24) : in this case, “moral” means “racist”. you can see how they might mix them up. Fools.
Palin is a LIAR.
Palin is a HYPOCRITE.
Palin is an IGNORAMUS.
Palin is a FRAUD.
..but since when do Republicans care about anything other than just themselves?
AKM, your last sentence is brilliant. Title of your own book, a compilation of Mudflats artices? Think about it.
That’s an oldie but goodie….a post I did before the election. The link is embedded. Interesting idea!
AKM
When is a book deal not a book deal??
This is how Gov Winky doe-see-doe’s around that pesky money issue – by allowing an ‘unauthorized’ biography.
Palin said a few weeks ago that she “knew nothing about any book deal” — does she expect us to believe that she was unaware that her parents, sister, co-workers, friends, etc. were interviewed for this ‘tell all’ book? Wow……….
She’s a trailblazer, all right – of deceit.
EatWildFishNo Gravatar (15:41:14) :
Palin said a few weeks ago that she “knew nothing about any book deal” — does she expect us to believe that she was unaware that her parents, sister, co-workers, friends, etc. were interviewed for this ‘tell all’ book?
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Yeah, right. Sarah’s family would NEVER talk about her without her permission. In this case, her participation is obvious – she really, really, really needs some good press.
I want to know who’s name is on the check from People. Even if it’s Bristol – under the statute that has beem cited here – can’t she be called before the Leg. ??
AKM,
Would you reconsider your headline? Maybe changing it to “Another Volume In The Sarah Palin Lie-brary”???
The more she talks about her stupid “pregnancy”, the more likely it seems there is some weird reason she needs to keep bringing it up. “The lady doth protest too much.”
austintx,
I can’t recall the exact source, but I read on a web site earlier today that supposedly the Heath family authorized the biograhy.
Now that is trickle-down economics the Heath/Palin Clan can believe in.
Resist the painful urge to buy this book for research AKM. Just check it out from the library and return it with giddy joy and relief. If you buy it the money will find its way to palin one way or another. Resist!
Trying to understand this… You have 4 kids,high school age, elementary school age and you keep your pregnancy a secret from them? How do you do that? And why? I am really having a hard time grasping any of this. Wouldn’t a “normal” person gather them all together and explain that a miracle is on its way in the form of a special needs baby boy, who will bring challenges and joy, but will require understanding and extra attention? I really don’t get this.
“Not discussing the pregnancy with her daughters, she felt, would shorten the process and spare them from unwanted attention.”
what kind of “unwanted attention” does a kid get as a result of having a pregnant mother?
“shorten the process”?
what process is she talking about?
oh, duh, that’s right. it’s sarah palin talking, it’s not supposed to make sense, it’s just more word salad.
Today we have a book authorized by her parents:
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138050
and Greta is interviewing Bristol…..
Did Greta go all the way to AK to interview Bristol or Sarah?
This is already gone from gretawire, but it was there and you can google it and find the page it was on…
â??Tonight ON THE RECORD at 10pm, 18 year old Bristol Palin with her son Tripp. This is her first interview (and yes, Governor Palin surprised us and joined us for a few minutes so you will hear her talk about her daughter and grandson. We had not expected the Governor to be there so we were delighted to talk to her.) You might be surprised by what Bristol has to sayâ?¦.â??
Enquiring minds want to know…
Couldn’t the publishers find a more flattering photo?
Isn’t lip liner out of style?
Don’t they want Pat Buchanan to purchase a copy?
DaisyDaisy – You are so Right On! As the parent of a special needs child, who has DS – my husband and I didn’t know before our daughter was born – we told our son almost right away. He was older – as SP’s daughters & Track are, and we figured he would wonder why we were crying so much when we have a new baby to be happy about???!!! So, he learned with us, as we learned about DS.
AKM – Check the used book stores for a copy.
If you are going to disguise the book while reading,
how about “Crime and Punishment”?
wasnt Levi workin’ on the slope when Bristol was pregnant last year until he got busted for not having a HS diploma?
At the rate that Governor Palin is going, she will have more for her current library than our most recent ex-President, George W. Bush.
Buchanan already has the blow-up Sarah Palin doll…………
InterestedPerson (16:11:09) :
BRAVO!!
The People Magazine teaser for the book reminded me of another Palin issue. I looked through the Palin tax/financial statement put out by the campaign but don’t recall seeing anything about paying payroll taxes for their nanny.
Extended family is in abundance, and while they have helped Sarah and Todd Palin raise their children – enabling her to serve as governor and pursue her political career last fall during the presidential campaign – the couple hired a Wasilla nanny to help out at home, the book reveals.
A lot of politicians seem to get tripped up by home employee taxes.
The answer to your dilemma, AKM, is right there in your title–the library. Then, you can read it and not give a dime to the guv or anyone who supports her. When questioned on your reading choice, say that you are doing it for the good of the people while affecting a pained look on your face.
You deserve a medal for keeping on Palin’s butt. I would have kicked it by now.
wow
Greta went to inteview BRISTOL! How sick.
“Tonight: ON THE RECORD at 10pm ! Meet Bristol Palin and her infant son!
by Greta Van Susteren
Tonight ON THE RECORD at 10pm, 18 year old Bristol Palin with her son Tripp. This is her first interview (and yes, Governor Palin surprised us and joined us for a few minutes so you will hear her talk about her daughter and grandson. We had not expected the Governor to be there so we were delighted to talk to her.) You might be surprised by what Bristol has to sayâ?¦.
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2009/02/16/tonight-on-the-record-at-10pm-meet-bristol-palin-and-her-infant-son/
*Question to self – Am I actually going to have to buy this book? And if so, what dust jacket can I find to cover it over, so nobody will think I’m actually reading it? Don Quixote perhaps? Or that perennial Alaskan favorite, The Lyin’ the Witch and the Wardrobe?
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AKM- in keeping with your love of Shakespeare, might I suggest:
The Taming of the Shrew?
Greta went to inteview BRISTOL! How sick.
“Tonight: ON THE RECORD at 10pm ! Meet Bristol Palin and her infant son!
by Greta Van Susteren
Tonight ON THE RECORD at 10pm, 18 year old Bristol Palin with her son Tripp. This is her first interview (and yes, Governor Palin surprised us and joined us for a few minutes so you will hear her talk about her daughter and grandson. We had not expected the Governor to be there so we were delighted to talk to her.) You might be surprised by what Bristol has to say….
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2009/02/16/tonight-on-the-record-at-10pm-meet-bristol-palin-and-her-infant-son/
Thanks for the plug Bro.
By the way get your finger ready to start hitting that delete button because the TeamSarah people are out in force today.
I don’t know why but they seem very agitated. Imagine that.
“Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs – I couldn’t talk about it.”–SP
I don’t get that comment. All during the campaign she went on and on about special needs children, and raising one. Loving him no matter what, yada yada yda…. At a first read of that line, I thought she meant she might have considered abortion. Not very Palin like at all. I know people with special needs children, and they have never once said for a moment that they didn’t think they could love or embrace there child. Her statement is selfish, and clearly says a lot about her. that poor baby. God forbid he ever see that book when he is older, or have some mean hateful person say something like “your mother wasn’t sure she even wanted you”
And then this quote…
“Not discussing the pregnancy with her daughters, she felt, would shorten the process and spare them from unwanted attention.”—Unwanted attention?!?!?! How is knowing that their mother is pregnant and that they are going to have another brother/sister going to cause them unwanted attention. Just like she didn’t tell them that she accepted McCains offer of VP running mate. She didn’t tell them that either.
Does she ever think of her children and their well being? Thats a serious question, and if anyone can prove me otherwise that would be super. Because I can’t find any insistence when she actually puts her children needs first. And I’ve been following her very carefully. In search of something that says she is actually a woman who cares about advancing the status of all woman and not just herself.
new press release by GINO, thanking Murkowski and Young for their efforts. Mark Begich was not mentioned.
state.ak.us
under governors page
Pacificnwgal (15:21:24) :
Just listening to CNN at about 4pm today. Only 8 people in King County, Texas voted for Obama. The rest voted for McCain/Palin. WHY? They said it was because they are more MORAL? I don’t know how they define moral, but it does not define Sarah Palin. I don’t get it.
King County is in the rural part of West Texas. There are probably only a few hundred residents in the county. West Texas (especially the panhandle) is a big time conservative area. I went to undergrad in Lubbock, and even the university has a right-leaning agenda. Those people wouldn’t vote for a Democrat even if Jesus was running as one. The moral thing is just a cover for the fact that there are still a lot of racist people in that part of the state as well.
SP is sure does like to have people wrapped around her finger. This web of lies is getting penned down in black and white. A Intimate Biography of a Sarah Palin-Trail Blazer. This is a great attempt to make up a believable story.
Does this book have a rating? It”s a comedy right?….. Or is this a Fictional Biography? I think Youtube viewer are going to enjoy seeing segments of the book ready on the web.
If you put the dust jacket of “Don Quixote” on the new book about SP, be ready with this quote by Sancho Panza if someone unexpectedly asks you to read a snippit of the book to them:
“Now that I’ve to be sitting on a bare board does your Worship want to flay my bum?”
Wouldn’t be stretching the truth……since it describes so nicely the sycophants surrounding Her Worship. (AG Codpiece being the last Sancho to get his bum flayed royally, for example. )
No one will be the wiser.
Actually, no one will be the wiser if they read this new book.
I don’t heart Sarah Palin one single bit,
The more we know – the worse it git!
Does anyone here ever hang out on the site called “TeamSarah.org”? Very instructional. Also very hard to hold your tongue when you read the twisted logic and ignorant statements…. but it is entertaining. It is also heartening: if those people are Sarah’s “base”, then she will be toast.
A recent comment from TeamSarah about GW Bush:
“I could have put my arms through my tv screen to hug him if it were possible.”
Wow.
Ripley in CTNo Gravatar (15:33:59) :
Pacificnwgal (15:21:24) : in this case, “moral” means “racist”. you can see how they might mix them up. Fools.
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Yes! I have to agree on that….
sjk from the belly of the planeNo Gravatar (16:21:51) :
Greta went to inteview BRISTOL! How sick.
“Tonight: ON THE RECORD at 10pm ! Meet Bristol Palin and her infant son!
by Greta Van Susteren
Tonight ON THE RECORD at 10pm, 18 year old Bristol Palin with her son Tripp. This is her first interview (and yes, Governor Palin surprised us and joined us for a few minutes so you will hear her talk about her daughter and grandson. We had not expected the Governor to be there so we were delighted to talk to her.) You might be surprised by what Bristol has to say….
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2009/02/16/tonight-on-the-record-at-10pm-meet-bristol-palin-and-her-infant-son/
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What a load of Moose Pucky! Remember Saturday it was Greta goes to interview GINO and Dud at the finish of Irondog? Then as reported earlier by Gryphen she attended a “function” in Fairbanks (ie: per Diem, collected) now its Greta goes all the way to interview Bristol, and just happens to run into GINO! Moose pucky! She is trying to downplay how she maneuvered a trip to Fairbanks and irondog and turned it into Face time with Greta and collected a per diem!
Gov. Grifter!!!!
ya know how we all just love to open up mudflats to see what akm has posted for the day ?
yes, right.
well, i’m having a very. difficult. time. seeing. not. one. but. two. images. of. gino. on. my. monitor.
what’s person to do.
Oh here is GVS comment from her site
“by Greta Van Susteren
I am sure you know…Alaska is FAR from Washington, DC! We needed to get to Fairbanks, Alaska by early Saturday morning to interview Bristol Palin (and we were surprised by Gov Palin) ”
And why did she have to RUSH to Fairbanks???? Doesn’t Bristol live in Wasilla??? Oh yeah….IronDog ended in Fairbanks…Uh-Huh, and gov. grifter just happened to be there along with Bristol….And we are supposed to swallow that crapola?????? NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why oh, why, would SP allow her daughter to be interviewed by a national network? And talk about her pregnancy and show the baby. This is irrational, if we are to believe Sarah wants no press, or hands off her children. The Governor is no longer a candiate for VP, so what does interviewing Bristol have to do with Governor Sarah Palin? Have other senators, governors encouraged such public exposure of their kids like this?
Bloggers, voters, can’t understand the double-speak of SP. Why the need for her child’s publicity? I think SP has the “starlet” syndrome, and no one get in her way.
rebekkah (17:35:46) :
I know why would we really care what Bristol has to say? (except to nail GINO on all her lies!) GINO has CelebuTARD syndrome!
She thinks she is the rising star of the Republican Taliban, celebrity and pushing her kids out there while her mouth lies about “being a mother grizzly” {Harf, pass the barf bag….} and protecting her kids. Lies, every time her mouth moves a lie comes out. Boy we should make a drinking game out of that….we’d all be sloshed….
AKM looking at people.com in article about Sherry Johnson noticed this at bottom of article.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259315,00.html
Son Levi made news in December when his fiancée Bristol, gave birth to their son, Trigg, who is Gov. Sarah Palin¹s grandson.
retfarcNo Gravatar (17:49:26) :
AKM looking at people.com in article about Sherry Johnson noticed this at bottom of article.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259315,00.html
Son Levi made news in December when his fiancée Bristol, gave birth to their son, Trigg, who is Gov. Sarah Palin¹s grandson.
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good catch! What a GINORMOUS boo-boo!!!!
I hope the IRS is watching this v e r y closely. May there be a big ol’ audit in her future.
Also, SP has slipped up more than once, it’s time to do a timeline with photos of both SP and BP.
Bristol was working in two coffee houses? How many are there in that town? The entire population of AK is 3 times the population where I pay my taxes–how many coffee houses are there in that AK town? In my town, there are 3-5 Starbucks, 2 Coffee Bean and Tea Leafs and probably another 10 that aren’t from a big corp. Who could do a little investigatin’ up there to check out this inconsistent story? BP was supposed to be doing correspondence courses, not being a 8 or 9-month pregnant student at a HS…This story smells….
Trigg, Tripp, whatever. In that family, the kids don’t matter too much.
I think a Mudflats “book club” is in order. First on the agenda, dissecting the GINO books and comparing the statements from both, and perhaps interpreting the meaning behind the lines (or lies).
For example, “Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs – I couldn’t talk about it.” in GINO speak is, “I’m not sure yet how to use Trig to my political benefit. I couldn’t tell anyone because telling too soon would have added months to the “Palin can’t be VP, she’s pregnant” talk. The longer she kept it secret, the longer the discussion of her political future. She KNEW she was being “groomed” by the GOP.
I thought pro-lifers embraced life no matter how it’s given to you or what is given to you? Am I confused?
Also, CBJ can’t be happy with the revelation of Trig having a congenital heart defect because it makes her advice, or lack thereof, to fly with ruptured membranes look REALLY bad.
Sara’s base is toast, that’s why she couldn’t go and have a love fest with Rush. She has to keep their relationship secret to the more moderate republicans. Shhhhh. I’m curious as to why Governor Palin hasn’t really come out with a budget plan, it seems like such a responsible thing to do. No wonder she’s paling up with the leadership. They’re getting ready to have the biggest shet sandwich handed to them, yaknow. If they aren’t careful, they’re going to be where they were when she turned the legislature into a drama stage for two years, AAALLLSSSOOOOO.
nswfm
Bristol was working in two coffee houses? How many are there in that town? The entire population of AK is 3 times the population where I pay my taxes–how many coffee houses are there in that AK town?
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I think this little tidbit was added on 12/21/08 When GINO had her little rant about Bristol and Levi not being dropouts.
We have not heard of Bristol working before and doncha think someone would of reported it, before Now???
Lies, lies, lies, wasn’t that a beatle song?????
The title “Trail Blazer” is apropos. GINO would burn down anything or anyone to get to where she wants to go.
If You know who’s daughter isn’t married, she and her baby qualify to be under the Governor’s insurance as long as she isn’t married…anyone…?
Regarding that People.com boo-boo about Trigg. Notice they put the Gov. “Secret” pregnancy in quotation marks. I think People knows the truth about Trigg. Hmmmmm.
nswfm CA – re: coffee shop……..I agree…..I mean , how many coffee shops could there be ?? AND she worked in TWO of ‘em ?? TWO high traffic places and no one had a camera phone or even just plain saw her ?? I say Bull-shit !!
Did it say Bristol (DINO- Daughter In Name Only) was working at two coffee houses at the SAME time? Or was she working part-time at both? Or did she get fired from one and went on to another?
Yes, DINO’s family, and family should be off-limits, like Obama says; however, I would argue that DINO is of age and has put herself into the limelight. If you don’t want attention, you avoid it, it’s that simple.
DINO because if GINO were really a mother perhaps her underage and unmarried daughter would have had better supervision, and hence, not pregnant at 17.
Wow! I need to go back to first grade! “were” should be “was”. Yikes! I need a nap.
WTF!!!
Is anyone else watching Greta Von Suckass?
Coffee shops are high traffic with several employees…..someone would have AT LEAST seen her if not taken a picture with a camera phone……..sounds like a BS story to me.
crystalwolf a.k.a. caligrl,
yeah… its a big steaming pile of moosesh*t!
I wonder why GVS posted that…Maybe Tom Cruise told her to since I think he outranks her in the Scientology cult they both belong to right here in sunny Clearwater FL…..
RE: “more moral” It has been my experience that evanagelicals who voted for McCain/Palin voted on ONE issue only: abortion. They don’t care about helping the poor and the needy; they care only about abortion. Hence, they will vote for any candidate who claims to be against abortion, even if that person is evil. I agree that racism most likely played a part in those 8 Texas votes, but it is easier to say “more moral” because it sounds less racist.
Alaskan’s love their coffee, we can be just as crazed over a good cup of ol’ joe just like those in the Pacific Northwest. In Anchorage, they have coffee stands and/or drive thru coffee carts on just about every corner, not to mention the coffee houses. Lot’s and lot’s of coffee drive thrus. When it’s dark, freezing cold and or freezing wet, we drink lot’s of coffee and tea.
Although the drive thru coffee stands in Anchorage can be dangerous at times, due to the high crime rate in Anchorage. They do have their Gangs that have come up from L.A. and it at times, can get quite violent. I would not want my pregnant teenage daughter to be working at any of the coffee stands in Anchorage during the winter months, due to the many dark hours and the gang members. Dangerous to say the least.
Anchorage is a big city with it’s fair share of violent killings that are mostly alcohol and gang/drug related. For those of us from outside of Anchorage, Anchorage is quite different then what most of Alaska is about. It’s big, it’s dirty and it’s violent….it’s NOT what Alaska is really about.
Un-freaking-believable! Lies Lies and more lies!
AKM, I agre….don’t buy the book–get it from the LIEbrary
OMG- Watching Greta and Bristol. According to Greta, Bristol told her mom the day before she was doing the interview with Greta. Greta makes a point of saying that Bristol was 18 and could make her own choices. Next up after commercial, you’ll never guess who pops in! Fade out with Bristol holding the baby.
Greta asks stupid questions.
If GINO says ONE more thing about her kids I will puke.
Poor Bristol was thrown into the Greta den. My heart breaks for that kid. It is not right.
I can’t watch Greta the plastic surgery queen! Please fill me in on what’s going on in the interview. If I watch, I might vomit, so please let those of us that can’t watch, know what’s going on. Gag!
Oh my, sarah just happened to stroll in. Great didn’t “expect her at all.” Greta making a big deal about her being there to interview Bristol, not Sarah. I am SO not fooled.
They have to be in Fairbanks not Wasilla. What river would she just come in from???? They said the interview with Brystal was from her home in Wasilla.
Can’t watch anymore………..KO beckons.
Sarah explaining how pregnancy can happen to anyone…Bristol a good student, athlete, etc. Sarah saying how she was a bit shocked when she found out. Maybe like her own mom was with her?
So very grateful for all the lovin’ of such a big family to pitch in and help. Greta and Sarah just talking about absentaince and really both implying that it doesn’t work and when “it” happens, you just gotta move on…
Next up, Sarah’s advice for PRESIDENT Obama before he signs that stimulus package. But first, a word from Fed Ex….
Bristol, even with a bit of “Valley Girl” speak, sounds 100 times smarter than Sarah, aka GINO. What a sweet girl she is (Bristol). Mom looks like a control freak, barging into the interview and then NOT SHUTTING UP – Sarah babbles on and on, the interview is over for poor Bristol (Sarah hogging the camera and microphone). Baby Tripp is very cute – no Levi, no ring on Bristol – Bristol says her grandparents are helping raise Tripp, dunno if Levi is still in picture.
Bristol looks like a loving and caring mom, unlike someone else we know.
during Bristol’s interview on Fox:
One minute she says that Levi sees the baby “everyday” and then turns around and says that Levi is “helping his dad” when asked what Levi is doing now for a job. Soooo, it’s been reported that his dad works on the North Slope…if Levi is out on North Slope how is he seeing the baby “everyday”?
Shes had some impact on the instate gas pipeline with the letter to the president. Sure, take credit for it.
Did you mean to call Greta “Great”?
“Liiike taking them out of school for weeks and bringing them on the campaign trail, having them participate in interviews with the media, and having Great Van Susteren talk to one of them on camera about her own out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy? Like that?”
Greta is anything but Great.
…because we haven’t already had WAAAAY tooo much of this?
Isn’t there an avalanche up there that we could count on to bury her?
Good grief! Will the lower 48 (49) have to put up with this for four more years?
We love you, Alaska, can you help us out with this?
Please help us.
Now GINO telling Greta that Obama needs to veto the Stimulus Bill, LOL!
Greta admits she was there for the weekend with the Gov and family. Greta “accidentally” running into Sarah at the race. Oh my, how surprised we are supposed to believe Sarah is.
Sarah concerned that Congress had no time to read the package. Calls for Obama to veto it. Thinks it will hurt states because there will be things states will be beholden to after the stimulus is over. No time to study it. She is concerned that Obama is not quite there yet understandin’ the energy needs. Greta is giving Sarah credit for writing to the president to tell him how important the pipeline is. Sarah is hoping he will now understand.
Sarah concerned about Fairness Doctrine. Urges listening to Hannity, O’Reilly and Beck about it. (Just the people I turn to for truth.)
That segment over and Blago story is next. I now feel dirty, but I took it for the team…
I just watched the first 10 minutes of the Bristol Palin interview with Greta V.S.
Bristol looked pretty relaxed until her mother showed up, albeit she mostly seemed to answer a lot of leading questions from Greta V.S. and never seemed to get beyond the “wait 10 years” thought — and barely admitting that abstinence doesn’t seem to work — she couldn’t seem to bring herself to talk about contraceptives although she does seem to see herself as an advocate for (I’m still trying to figure this out) “waiting to get pregnant”.
I thought I saw a flash of (what?) exasperation/annoyance/fear on Bristol’s face when Gov. Palin loomed over her with the baby….and that was all she wrote. It wasn’t Bristol’s interview any more. Gov. Palin seems to home in on cameras, bright lights, and microphones like a moth.
“Sarah concerned about Fairness Doctrine. Urges listening to Hannity, O’Reilly and Beck about it. (Just the people I turn to for truth.)”
I just threw up a little in my mouth, I feel dirty and icky after watching that!
hmmm, wondering if they snuck levi back up on the slope, where would he be helping his dad out? Thought she almost made a slip at where he’s working at, then said “working with his dad”. Never watched greta before, she sure is one ugly looking chick, lol, not that I’m no beauty queen.
I agree with you Kajo, she did seem to have a look of fear, or irritation or something. Intimidation? I feel so bad for Bristol, and yes, she did come in at the right moment, didn’t she?
Re: Anchorage
I spent a day there with my family before boarding a cruise 3 years ago. I thought it was a great small city and charming….and my mother-in-law and I agreed that there must be something in the water because our hair came out wonderful that day!!! lol
Many years ago I watched Greta (she looked different then). I didn’t think she was that snarly. She is really weird. She is now complaining about PRES Obama wasting gas in flying all over the country…not that she is saying he is like the CEOs, but….
Saw on KO that Young was claiming credit for some of the additions to the stimulus package.
I HATE FOX. These people are just way too stupid. What a lot of cheap shots. She is complaining about no time to read the bill and the guy on with her is being so critical. they are both SO scared about the economy and the bulldozing being done.
Where was this outrage the past 8 years?????
But, to make this not OT, I should be glad that Sarah from the cheap seats is calling for the veto.
BTW, is her budget done yet?
Bristol, the very young, high school drop out, teen mom seems more articulate than her own mother…even with all the silence and one word answers and memorized responses.
I used to watch Greta when she was covering the Holloway and Smith cases, when she acted more like a judge and lawyer, than a biased, political, fox news crony of hannity, oreilly, and the like
Reading excerpts from “An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin” is akin to turning over an old dead log and seeing the variety of creepy things underneath.
Just what a person needs……..more cheek-to-jowl time with a lying ignoramus.
Can’t see how these tidbits will enhance her image with anyone….at least anyone who has a brain.
Greta is on a mission: to provide air time for Sarah Palin in any way possible. These are her marching orders from the extreme right wing and Fox News, the mouthpiece of the hard right.
I thought Greta was fine years ago, but she’s become a right wing extremist.
Oh wah, they don’t claim or like the book…
http://community.adn.com/alaska/node/138073
“I asked Stapleton, who worked for the McCain campaign in Alaska, if she was a paid spokeswoman, and if so, who was paying. “I help the Governor with non-official business. I have an arrangement with the PAC to handle the Governor’s unofficial activities from Alaska,” she wrote in an e-mail.” (notice she says “HELP THE GOVERNOR” and “HAVE AN ARRANGEMENT” instead of answering the question).
So Meghan is her PAC megaphone, AND the “Palin Family Spokesperson”. Those two voices in the same room would break all the windows and all of the china.
here_in_PANo Gravatar (18:52:35) :
hmmm, wondering if they snuck levi back up on the slope, where would he be helping his dad out? Thought she almost made a slip at where he’s working at, then said “working with his dad”.
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Yeah, well his dad works on the slope although he was with his Mom and Sis on Fri for court sooooooo???? Maybe the dad has a side biz?
Bristol looked like a deer in the headlights, and abstinence, she kept saying prevention, and I kept waiting for greta von stupid to ask like “Birth control” but of course she didn’t. Oh I can’t believe their (GINO) trying to make like GVS came all the way up there for Bristol! And that kid doesn’t look almost 2 month old, much younger almost a newborn.
So GINO was like if abstinence doesn’t work you have roll with it? HUH? So
That means it is unworkable? Doesn’t work? Insert Planned parenthood here.
Keep waiting for the Gotcha question, you know about the villages?
It was pretty much of nothing. I guess people isn’t coming through with 300K pics…
all in all pretty pathetic….Bristol, the poster kid for teen pregnacy right up there with Britney’s sister, Jamie lynn……
Re Greta’s interview – If I hear “hungry markets” one more time, I’m gonna scream! It’s really starting to grate on me also too.
If I recall, Greta asked if Levi was there, Bristol said no, and Greta asked where is he what is he doing now, and Bristol said working, I think she realised she made a mistake, and said he was working and going to school, Greta asked where he was working, and Bristol said he was helping his father.
OT, but both Yon Dung and GINO got mentions on KO tonight…
Oh brother, this book must be really, really bad, a TS is saying its a “anti-palin book only moonbats will care about”,lol, NOT!
I love the Repubilican Taliban come up with such stoopid names aka moonbat??? WTF?
I guess I would rather be a”moonbat” than a “wingnut” LOL!
There are TONS of coffee shops/espresso stands in Anchorage (how else do you think they keep warm up there other than by drinking lots of skinny white chocolate lattes?).
What concerns me about this latest “tale” of what Bristol was doing last year, however, is that the previous story was that she’d been pulled out of school because she had mono for 5 months, so what the h*** was she doing making and serving the citizens of Anchorage their daily caffine dose?
Re: Greta interview:
When SP brought Tripp into the interview Greta said oh! I expected the other grandma! SP said yeah, she’s down the hall.
I wonder if Sherry was going to bring Tripp in but Sarah took over? (plus, why would Sherry go to Fairbanks?)
I agree that Greta just asked leading questions and Bristol mostly answered “yes” or with very short answers. But that answer about Levi was interesting. I thought she said Levi worked “for” his father. What could that mean if his dad is a North Slope employee? (not business owner)
The show was taped in the Anchorage library_go see it at Grteawire _behind the scenes on the record. there are pictures of the inside of the libary. Sarah is full of BULLSH#T, coming in from the river!!! I don’t think she ever tells the truth.
OK .. she can’t accuse us bloggers of making this stuff up now … it is in writing (authorized by her parents?) and it is coming out of the mouth of the daughter. We and the main stream media are not and do not need to make anything up! Plus, on another blog today, I saw where in the book she talks about hiring a nanny? To take care of whom? All the kids except Bristol (who they were hiding) were paraded around the country from one rally to another for months!
“[Teens] should just wait ten years, it would just be so much easier,” Bristol said about teen pregnancy. As for abstinence, Bristol says she supports it but sometimes finds it “unrealistic.”
Oh yeah – I’ll bet she does support it now – especially at 3 a.m.
Hahahaha Asian, I won’t say what I’d have kicked on her. She’s a vile, wicked creature.
Jan (SW Washington– Good post, saved me some typing. SP admonished Greta for asking such tough questions, yikes. Yes, I watched and I’m sorry for doing so. Spoiled my day. My wife slapped me upside my head for watching FOX. That network is taboo in our household. Especially hurt because I had earphones on.
@ former Alaskan, I doubt it was at the library in Anchorage because when they showed Sarah coming on scene, you see a bed with camera boxes on them behind the lights. So, she definately wasn’t at the library.
from ADN:
Trailblazer
Posted by Alaska_Politics
Posted: February 16, 2009 – 8:46 am
Update: The reader comments on this item were shut off this afternoon. The volume of off-topic posts and personal attacks – on all sides of the discussion – were out of hand, and a number of accounts were disabled.
and my account was disabled too – and I did not even comment about that story!
Where is Willow lately?
Hey, AKM–
Can’t find an email address, and this isn’t even the right chain, but I had a question. I took the picture of Brian and did some tweaking and arranging and came up with a “Pallin’ around with Brian at the Mudflats” design. Interested? If so, let me know and I’ll get it to you offline (if I can find/obtain a link). If not, it’ll just wither on my computer (or get scrubbed off, if you prefer).
I would think it would be very difficult to work two part-time jobs, go to school full-time, and take care of a new baby. Most students I taught had great difficulty working more than 20 hours a week plus go to class/do homework. Often they snoozed in my class…(one slept through the bell, and woke up with the freshmen-LOL)
Don’t think this is reasonable- my guess is school dropped by the way side.
I read the teaser on the book site- aargh. I hate writers who write one sentence paragraphs; no flow to the story. Retitle the book: “The Lyin’ Witch and Her Wardrobe”.
Secret Shopper for Hungry Children (18:02:19) :
Also, CBJ can’t be happy with the revelation of Trig having a congenital heart defect because it makes her advice, or lack thereof, to fly with ruptured membranes look REALLY bad.
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… especially, since she stated in her PDF on the eve of the election, that he was born with no health problems besides some jaundice, and could go home after two days… (Yeah, right! A Special Needs Child, with congenital heart problems (which, miraculously, healed by themselves…)
@Martha: http://community.adn.com/alaska/node/138073 thanks for the link.
Gee, how many Governors have both a “camp” and spokesperson for official business, and a second “camp” and spokesperson for unofficial business? And to ease my confusion here, could someone please explain to me what constitutes a “camp”? Since it appears ADN knows about the Palin Camp, maybe they could explain. I thought she was our Governor, we would all be considered her “camp”, and there should not be a difference between “official business” and any other business. Because that is the job she signed up for.
Oh, my head will explode before I get this whole Twilight Zone trip she’s taken us on. Or through the looking glass, or off to Narnia….whatever.
To those who “took one for the team”…I thank you. No way was I gonna watch Faux News or Greta for any amount of promises of black humor. Not worth it, no way. I’ll wait for the SNL take.
Over at ADN, the Palin camp is now giving a thumbs down to the book. No truth in it? 250 pages of codswallop, so says Meg the cheerleader. And she now is on the SARAHPAC payroll. SP makes you want to barf. Thanks to her letter to President Obama, Barack now sees the light. Can you believe it. Anybody know if Greta is bisexual? Can’t get that idea out of my head, especially the way she fawns over SP.
CRFlats (19:40:38) :
@Martha: http://community.adn.com/alaska/node/138073 thanks for the link.
Gee, how many Governors have both a “camp” and spokesperson for official business, and a second “camp” and spokesperson for unofficial business? And to ease my confusion here, could someone please explain to me what constitutes a “camp”? Since it appears ADN knows about the Palin Camp, maybe they could explain. I thought she was our Governor, we would all be considered her “camp”, and there should not be a difference between “official business” and any other business. Because that is the job she signed up for.
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Usually a “camp” is the group of supporters- so TeamSarah, SarahPAC, and any Sarahpeople in the Governor’s office. I’d want to watch the expenses for Palin, to make sure Mouthpiece Stapleton is not paid with taxpayer money.
@BodieP (19:38:59) :
You can find AKM’s e-mail address up there in the About and FAQs tabs.
IS this interview on the web yet?
So who was “the other grandmother” that Greta was expecting to walk in?? She said it a couple times and Palin quickly tried to shut her up with a “she’s in the hallway” and acted all catty that Greta was asking about this “other grandmother”. I’m guessing that it is Sarah’s mother who has stepped in to help with Bristol and the baby. Anyone remember how Palin’s parents were interviewed and talked about how the place was piling up with gifts and how the nursery was ready..then Palin’s father yelled out to Bristol “what’s the name going to be” to which Bristol responded “Oscar….” and then ” We don’t know yet”. Sounded like Bristol was right at home at THEIR home. My guess is that Sarah stepped in as the interview was happening, took the baby from HER mom and walked in on the interview with baby in arms to get attention. If this is such a family affair, why did Sarah not invite the “other grandmother out in the hall” in, also???
If Hoya Meg, is now the family spokesperson, does that mean that Bill McCallister sports tire tracks on his backside?
The interview is up on Faux if you can bear to go there.
InJuneau,
About that timeline…was it just me or did Bristol refer to “last summer” when asked about finding out about the pregnancy, telling the Palins, etc? It caught my ear because going by due date/birth date, she should have conceived the end of March/beginning of April…not this summer. Couple this possible slip of the tongue with the baby not really looking 2 months old on the video tonight kind of had me raising an eyebrow.
pvazwindyNo Gravatar (19:42:57) :
Over at ADN, the Palin camp is now giving a thumbs down to the book.
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Whole lotta bodies piling up under the bus.
@txdemocrat (20:06:28) :
Oh, I SO did not/cannot listen to that interview, so you’ll have to check on the timeline with someone else. That would seem odd though, except that sometimes it takes women a while to figure out they’re pregnant (esp. teens?). I can’t remember when GINO said Bristol told them when she announced the pregnancy in the course of the campaign, but if she really didn’t get preg. till summer, that certainly would discount GINO’s claim that there is no way BP could be the mother of Trig.
Y’know, it’s pretty clever to say this is an “unauthorized” biography, and better yet to give a thumbs down on it (or for her “camp” to).
If something inconvenient should come out in this book (it’s HARD to keep all those stories straight), then it’s unauthorized, lies, innuendo, or whoever it was didn’t know what they were talking about. But SP would be off the hook for any “inconvenient” statements.
Clever take off on the Narnia title.
Watching the interview was crazy fun despite reeking of contrived spontaneity. It was mostly Greta framing questions for Bristol’s, almost monosyllabic, replies. At one point Greta elicited Bristol’s comment that people who questioned the official version of the Palin pregnancies were “evil”. Sarah “dropped in” with the baby AKA Tripp towards the end. There was a mention of the other grandmother(Levi’s mom) being at the location as well but nothing else. We got to see a few snapshots of the baby & Levi, the baby, Sarah-Bristol & the baby, etc.
They also had an interview w/Sarah done on Sunday when Sarah got to regurgitate all the GOPer talking points. Pretty banal stuff.
Overall, The whole thing had a stage-managed aura about it. Bits and pieces of events surrounding these people are laid out but always subjectively.
@ pvazwindy
McAllister No Spine is Palin’s state spokesperson, paid by the State of AK. Meg the whiner is a personal, unofficial whatchamacallit who won’t answer a direct question by the way.
Remember fri & sat morn everyone was saying GVS was coming to interview GiINO and Dud? I wonder if she changed it b/c wasn’t thurs. her birthday with the “Press conference” and gotcha media asking about all the donations in her name for planned parenthood? Maybe that’s why she decided to make it look like this interview for Bristol…subliminal message “hey kids if abstinence doesn’t work”….”just roll with it and have the kid” no matter what.
But what of the teen mother’s with out the “GREAT” support system Bristol has??? Go on Welfare? Food stamps? What?????
There was something b/c this was supposed to be about GINO and dud at Irondog and suddenly its about Bristol and MIA Trip, who barely looks a month old.
PatDNo Gravatar (20:26:00) :
contrived spontaneity
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You betcha!
AKM, if you wait a week after the book is out, coming to a birdcage near you, the new pooper scooper autobiography of Palinbott!! Suggestion — make sure you wear gloves like in doctors office for your own protection. You decide whether its protection from the ‘bird’ or Palinbott!!
Gotta love the “unauthorized” by her parents. Yearightsure. Too bad we couldn’t take a boo at their taxes to see if anything appears for “book” payment. Income somewhere for info. This family doesn’t do anything unless there is something in it for them.
B said she told parents about her pregnancy last summer….the book says B was sent to Anchorage to live with her aunt and uncle “last year” when she worked at two espresso bars while pregnant, and that Levi would come visit her with flowers and take her out to dinner. She was supposedly in school then also. I’m a bit confused. By ‘last year” do they mean last fall? But wasn’t she on the campaign trail with mama bear? So do they mean last winter, when she could have been pregnant with Trig?
That interview was so painful. She’s not very articulate and it’s probably because Mama Bear was standing in the wings. Surprise visit, my eye. Did you see how SP crouched over her when she made her entrance, like a vulture? Then she stole her daughter’s thunder. Shameful.
McAllister may be out of the picture for now? They are signing a card for him over on TeamSarah. They say he has cancer.
Tape Boise Palin,
I got the impression that Bristol left the campaign trail and heard she went to stay with her grandparents. She seemed to appear only periodically if I recall correctly.
COME on…SarahsMOUTHpiece says the book is no good…come on, just a plot to sell the damn thing…
Could the People Mag. [writer] write it without it being OK with GINO? Plus, it seems that interviews had to take place in order to collect info..no way that it was published w/out GINO blessings…
Looks like the Bristol interview was filmed in one of the hotels in Fairbanks. It could easily be Pikes Waterfront Lodge, so SP could have just come from the river. Bristol seems like a nice kid. I hope all works out for her.
no words can express my chagrin
I admit I had to partake of some “Dutch courage” before watching the interview and that was only 4pm here.
Finally we see baby “Tripp”. He’s very cute but somewhat small for a baby that was 10 days overdue and now 7 weeks old. Sure enough there were family pictures with him looking newborn but those were not taken by Pox News and could have been 1 month ago.
I watched BP’s body language rather closely. On most if not all questions she either looked “up right”, signifying visual reconstruction – lying in other words, or she looked down to the point it looked like her eyes were shut – again lying.
I’d say momma Grizzly had coached her on the answers. Overall she looked most uncomfortable and probably wanted to be anywhere else but there.
Then – “oh what a surprise” momma Palin pops in with baby Tripp – Greta had no idea – allegedly (ho hum) that SP was going to appear. This was Palin stagecraft at its least convincing.
Later, at the Iron Dog, SP hogs the mike and acts like she’s on a GOP rally – blah, blah, blah.
Greta van suck-up then asked Piper a direct question and as Piper tried to formulate an answer Palin cut in to spew more talking points – she couldn’t keep her mouth shut for 2 seconds and interrupted her own kid.
Palin, from one mother to another (pretend one) – you STINK!
And please let me take this opportunity to thank all mudpuppies here for helping me keep my sanity – in my corner of the world SP isn’t much news and your lively discussions help me feel normal in hawk-watching this be-ach in case she really has a shot at 2012 in which case I’ll be planning my funeral.
As for the “unauthorised biography” – I agree with others’ opinions here in that it reads like a not particularly good high schooler’s essay. Stilted and forced is how it comes across, that and filled with soporific irrelevance. Pity anyone who shells out money for such tripe.
Why doesn’t TS like it? It’s hardly attacking her and takes everything reported as gospel. I suspect it’s just not adulatory enough.
la palin may have a very small group fooled but every time she or her family appear in the news, whether on fox or in people magazine, the rest of the country see further confirmation of their low opinion of her.
and that teamsarah.org site someone referred to above — the “blog” hasn’t been updated since february 5. it can’t be getting a lot of traffic or they’d be updating it more frequently. it’s not as though there is a lack of material.
good night all!
daisydem (19:29:52) :
Read the statement about the nanny again. It does not state they hired a nanny just for the campaign.
“Extended family is in abundance, and while they have helped Sarah and Todd Palin raise their children – enabling her to serve as governor and pursue her political career last fall during the presidential campaign – the couple hired a Wasilla nanny to help out at home, the book reveals.”
During one of her “sermons” to the church in Wasilla, Gino gives a shout out to Christy who was Track’s nanny.
From wordpress.com:
Check it out… Christy was the nanny’s name. It is at the 3:17 mark of the video on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k
My question, besides the “truthiness” of the Soccer Mom Who Can Do It All image, is whether Gino paid the nannies payroll taxes.
Does that law apply to her, if it is her father or sister.
I feel for her children as well.
RE: ….”Anchorage is a big city with it’s fair share of violent killings that are mostly alcohol and gang/drug related. For those of us from outside of Anchorage, Anchorage is quite different then what most of Alaska is about. It’s big, it’s dirty and it’s violent….it’s NOT what Alaska is really about.”
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and for those of us who choose to live 25 min. from the more scenic Alaska, with perhaps equal acts of violence (maybe) per capita, Anchorage is set between gorgeous mountains and Cook Inlet, has an active nightlife, some fine restaurants, and great shopping for those who visit from the villages. I love my town.
Looks like ADN has just removed the article whereby MS gives a thumbs down on the book.
MS?
It is interesting to me that GINO wants the recognition as a great leader but doesnt want to do the work. Or she goes around paying the taxes. Wasnt there a lady named leona that got put in jail for tax evasion?
re: RE: ….”Anchorage is a big city with it’s fair share of violent ….”
The best thing about Anchorage is that Alaska is only twenty minutes
away.
Well, I went over to fox new to see the interview which was a joke when SP showed up. I only watched the fisrt video of Bristal and then I just put my IMAC computer to sleep and went to the move in town. I came home watched the other sections of the interview. Only now m Imac has a viris, I can’t type letters and wright anything and read it……..I just see strange charictors that I can not read.
I’m typing this with my back up IBM machine which kind of sucks. I love my Apple, I have to fit it! Does anyone have any suggestions on fixing my Imac?
Please help!
new post
Team Alaska — are you running Classic or OS X? If you’re on Classic (OS 9), rebuild your desktop. If you’re on OS X, repair your disk permissions.
I may have to go to town tomorrow. If you’re running OS X, I can burn a good system maintenance program to a CD for you. It’s shareware — you can pay the $10 or $12 for it later, if you like the software.
If you don’t know how to do the stuff I told you to do, I can show how you on my laptop and you can go home and do it.
What a lying sack of moose hockey! Of course the children knew she was pregnant because I’m sure she didn’t find out the baby had downs until at least 20 weeks right? And by then, she would have been showing and would have those pesky pregnancy symptoms to boot. The only thing she may have withheld is that the amno came back positive for downs. Of course, that’s if she is the mother of Trig. She’s a piece of work.
I watched it all. Then I almost puked up my dinner.
SP invited GVS up to the slope when she “interviewed” Sp at the FeDawg race that WASTES MORE FUEL than anyone can imagine. How about DONATING THAT FUEL TO THE COLD FOLKS, eh? Or a matching donation?. SOMETHING???
Bueller? Anyone? Bueller? How ’bout addressing about your freezing hungry citizens instead of a friggin FeDawg and pony show.
off topic:
I noticed Bristol doesn’t say kids her age shouldn’t have sex for religious reasons or out of wedlock, just that they should wait ten years so they’ll have a job/career, their own house and finish school.
Isn’t her family exceptionally big on religion? If so, it’s a glaring omission.
offtopic:
I noticed that the Gov. doesn’t say that either…it is a glaring omission.
The way Sarah Palin lies, and the fact that she kept her pregnancy (IF she was ever pregnant with Trigg) from her entire family for 7 months, makes me wonder if Todd had had a vasectomy years before and everyone knew it. SP was trying to figure out to explain her pregnancy. I am appalled that she said she knew Trigg had DS and a heart problem and yet she flew all the way to Texas with amniotic fluid leaking, and then didn’t even attempt to go to a hospital for at-risk newborns. Sounds to me like she was doing everything possible to lose that baby.
I would like to thank all of you for this excellent blog. It is so refeshing to hear other peoples opinions on Palin. After first hearing her speech at the convention I wondered who the heck she was…..getting no info from the press as she was under wraps so to speak I started to read Alaska newspapers and also heard about Palin on the radio from Stephanie Miller and also Ed Schultz. I listened to his broadcast when he was in Alaska and it was great to hear the opinions from there. I wondered about her huge approval ratings and got a understanding of how she achieved them….unfortunatly she was lying to the Alaskan people who believed she would be a honest, open Govenor. I still don’t understand how some people can think that she would be great as President…what is this world coming too? Anyway I am sooooo glad I found people who think the same as I do!! Thanks and keep up the good work.
i can hardly wait to see what jon stewart has to say about the interview of ‘les deux palins’. honest to goodness i would not be surprised if one day that family just implodes;creating a giant suck hole in the middle of Wassilla.and when that happens, i hope it will draw all the rest of the willfully ignorant,feckless fanatics,woefully inept humans down into eternal oblivion with them. the Goodness knows i am so sick of these people. next week i have to spend an evening having dinner with a woman with a personality disorder very like la palin and i really don’t know how i will cope.my hands keep making fists and i got a twitch in my right eye. somebody please have mercy on poor bubbles and ‘keep me where the light is’…love b
There is a resident “Troll” on Gryphen’s site, and she/it has a bright pink (gag) Sarah Palin blog…anyway she posted this about the book! Priceless, it must be so hella bad for a hardcore palinbot to diss it,lol!
“Like many intrigued by the emergence of Sarah Palin on the national scene, I looked forward to reading the anticipated books about Governor Palin’s life and achievements.
Foolishly, I snapped up the first post-election book, Trailblazer: An intimate biography of Sarah Palin, by Lorenzo Benet. Never have I been so disappointed. Trailblazer is more anti-Palin stereotyping than anything else. It could have been written by someone in the Obama campaign or their surrogates on MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other Obama support groups.
I would not recommend this amateurish book to anyone other than the Obama people who are not interested in reality. The book is unorganized, poorly researched (I’m being charitable), and seems to be pure propaganda on a scale that would make Joseph Goebbels proud.
Benet goes so far as to feign disbelief in Palin’s assertion, shared by many notwithstanding Al Gore’s musings, that global temperatures are related to solar activity.
His analysis of the vice-presidential debate between Palin and the factually challenged Biden is farcical. Suffice it to say that he was watching a different debate than the one I watched. The number of errors made by Biden in that debate was staggering. Governor Palin made only one…mispronouncing general McKiernan’s name. I could go on and on.
I will close by saying that anyone who wants to read an objective and factual account of Governor Palin should not waste their money on this deceptive book. One can obtain the same anti-Palin claptrap by watching the Keith Olbermann show and save their money in the process. Trailblazer: An intimate biography of Sarah Palin is neither intimate nor a biography.”
I read this after several emails by readers warning me about the book. Thank you.
Too, funny wasn’t all of it ok’d by grandpa chuck???? LOL! ooooOOOOPPPs!
Grewingk,
Still having problems with my Imac running Leopard 10.5.8
I live in Homer, would love to get my system working, you have a disk?
were and when?
Do people in Alaska wonder why Palin is always campaigning for GOP talking points?
Is she the Gov of ALL Alaskans, or not?
Late to the game: what does GINO stand for? I can’t figure it all out. Thanks!
Greta has to stop drinking the koolaid aka the lattes
let it run (10:15:44) :
GINO- Governor In Name Only
… and hopefully too, the Gov’nah’s daze are numbered, also!
Methinks Greta has a crush on GINO.
Finally suffered through the ABC version of the Greta interview. Interesting since I don’t read Esquire, but GINO was quoted as saying marriage is basically a “business contract.” How callous is that??
I married my husband for love and companionship, and because we are each others’ best friend. Soul mates. We complete each other’s sentences. Somehow I don’t recall the words “business contract” coming into play. We stay married because of commitment, not contractual obligation.
GINO is becoming more pathological by the day.
I watched the video and OMG Palin lurking around the edge sticking her big fat pony-tailed head into the shot all mavericky like….gag. How embarrassing for the daughter who didn’t get to say anything else. She pretty much is calling her a loser to her face right there at the end – LIFE HAPPENS AND THEN YOU DEAL WITH IT – the look on Bristol’s face is NO SH!T I’ve heard this a thousand times already from you dumb @ss!
There is a good article about Palin on the huffington post today
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
I am wondering what is *in* that book. I believe the author *did* have some interviews with GINO, but then put in some stuff from other sources that the GINO did not like – thus the ‘unauthorized’ biography. Still – SOMEone is making mucho $$$ from it (also from the Fixed-Noise interview…), so, I hope the IRS is keeping a CLOSE EYE on all of this!
Team Alaska,
You can call the MacHaus, the local Mac Support and Sales venue. Here is the phone number for their Wasilla store, which has a very good tech person named Bruce. I emailed him your issue and he can maybe walk you thru some diagnostics and perhaps solve your problem.
1-907-357-6622
Hope they can help you!
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Team Alaska, email me at grewingk at gmail dot com. I have a teleconference this afternoon and can’t get into town. I live way out of town. I can probably talk you through your repair. Try booting off your system disk and run the disk permissions repair off that. Start with that and email me.
The ‘working in two coffeehouses’ bit is just too much. Especially since there were NO Bristol sightings. Period. Either spring 2008 or late fall/ winter 2008.
There is something very wrong with people who lie about things that can be easily verified. Like the lie about ‘staying in Alaska while attending the Alfalfa dinner.’ It’s like kleptomania, unable to stop or get help in any other way than getting more and more obvious about it and hoping to get busted . . .
Yeah, I saw her comment on marriage being a ”business contract”.
Wow. So where is the Love? She’s always proclaiming how Godly she is, yet makes this statement. Her base must be really disappointed.
The question for her is: What’s the business contract between Levi and Bristol. I smell another Pay for Play scandal. ha ha
Computer back in ACTION!!! Defective keyboard it seems……
Thanks for the support. There is something very homey about this group. My life and family would be smaller without AKM!
Time to catch up on the new topic. Have not read it yet, but I would Stimulate!
mmboucher Florida (19:36:23) :
Where is Willow lately?
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At the doctor’s office, getting birth control pills if she has any sense. With an ice hockey/Iron Dog man if she doesn’t. I hope she learns from the mistakes of the others in her family….
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pvazwindy (19:35:02) :
Jan (SW Washington– Good post, saved me some typing. SP admonished Greta for asking such tough questions, yikes. Yes, I watched and I’m sorry for doing so. Spoiled my day. My wife slapped me upside my head for watching FOX. That network is taboo in our household. Especially hurt because I had earphones on.
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Thanks for taking one for the team! Sorry about the pain it caused.
irina – couldn’t agree more on the “sightings” or lack there of.
The only thing worst than the watching one of Greta’s “Kiss Palin’s Ass” phony interviews, is watching her interview Hannity the other day while he pretended to be an expert on the economy.
Well, if Bible Spice is going to get someone to write a book for her, it should probably be entitled “My Pet Ghost”.
Other suggested titles:
“Some Like It Rot”
“My County, tis of ME”
“The Private Life of Queen Sarah the Wraith”
“Never Cry Wolf, or I’ll Shoot You”
“Life was Beautiful” (ghost-written by a now-dead wolf)
“Dumb-as-a-Log Millionairess”
“Frosty Vixen”
“Goll -E”
“The Curious Case of Ms. Palin’s Nuttin’ “
SP said to GVS, “Come up to the slope and check it out”…She shoulda said “come up to see my citizens freeze and starve.”
AKM wont let me post what I really want to say, but I’ve seen buzzards on the side of the road that have more class than Gov. Sarah Palin (R) AK.
Sarah, I am speaking to you in terms you should understand.
One day a door will open and there will be eternal fire and brimstone waiting for you. Then have Murthee cook up a spell for you. That should add some extra time for you in the penalty box!
Ummm..hey, guys/ladies…watch the video. Bristol saying that her pregnancy wasn’t an issue with school because it was during the SUMMER?? Me thinks this little PR stunt may have backfired on the Palin family. Summer pregnancy start leaves plenty of time post-Trig pregnancy.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138077
(the video is the one where she is pictured, below Palin’s interview/pic)
Watch the video of her…at about the 6:47 mark (it counts backwards) Greta asked her “what happened in school” (when she found out she was pregnant, I assume)..Bristol responds “well, it was during the summer, school had just gotten out” and acts like school was not an issue.
Here is a link to the written interview with Greta and Bristol for those who want to go over the details:
http://tinyurl.com/bvvzhw:
Several photos of Bristol with Tripp:
http://tinyurl.com/9zsze9
I guess Greta will be interviewing Levi also, some day.
Well hellooo hobojohn. Welcome to the mudflats.
OK, after reading what you mudpuppies had to say about the Fox interview I went to the FoxNews site (felt dirty just doing it, and not in a good way) and cued up the interview. I sat watching Bristol and I found myself wanting to cry for her. As somebody else said here, she seems very sweet.
I saw the sweetness, but what I mostly saw was a girl trapped by the life her parents have chosen for her. Did anybody else notice how her eyes kept shifting, avoiding the intrusion of the camera? How when she voiced the careful platitudes of abstinence and loving, strong family she tended to look away? And all the while she was talking about how having baby Tripp was “her” choice, and then about how her life had basically ended before it really began. The dichotomy set my teeth on edge. If having a baby was “her” choice she would not be feeling that her life had been stolen from her. She would feel it had changed, true, but she would still feel it was hers.
She just sounded so trapped–by circumstances, by the values she has been taught she should believe in, by the love she feels for the child who is also the symbol of her imprisonment, by family loyalty, by the fact that all her industry to the contrary–and that bit about working in two coffee shops and going to school and being pregnant sounds a little overdone, to me–she and Levi are still children in their parents’ houses, bound by rules that in Bristol’s case seem to be beginning to chafe.
I listened to her trying to defend the idea of abstinence (as she has been taught) and then bursting out that it’s just “unrealistic” and I thought, “Okay, she’s starting to think for herself,” and I was afraid for her.
I’ve been in that position–trapped in a place where you are forced to abide by bizarre and unrealistic rules, and where you voice your objections at very real physical and/or emotional peril. Until she got pregnant she had college, and that house she spoke of, and a career to look forward to–escape. But now there’s Tripp, and much as she might love him, having a baby, particularly as a single mother, is difficult and draining. I know this because I am a single mother, and I had the benefit of the house, the career, and the age thing going for me, and it was STILL hard.
I really, really hope that there’s somebody in her life who can be a safe place for her–a place where she doesn’t have to be “strong,” and “wonderful,” and “a great Momma,”–a place where she can be sad, and lost, and confused, and angry sometimes. I listen to her saying that she’s had to “grow up fast,” and I hear the echo of her mother saying the same thing, and I get so angry at the sheer unreality of it. We do not “grow up fast” because of circumstances. We may rise to an occasion, but it’s a temporary thing. Deep down, we know that we are still the children we were before adulthood was demanded of us. We are only pretending. I hope Bristol has a place to be real. I hope it both for her sake, and for Tripp’s sake. All the lip service to him being wonderful to the contrary, it’s very clear that he’s very much seen as Bristol’s just desserts for not abstaining–he’s like a cute little Scarlet Letter. No baby deserves that. Bristol needs a friend who is mute and has excellent hearing.
Why doesn’t TS like [Trailblazer]?
TS (I call them the Sarahjugend) doesn’t like it because they were told not to like it. They don’t even listen to Sarah, they’re just being manipulated by Dannenfelser and other conservative opportunist.
Oh wait, “conservative opportunist”…is that a redundancy? Sorry.
LOL are there ANY non-white people in Team Sarah?
LOL!!