Page 57 Goes Rogue!
Well, it looks like rogue pages from Sarah Palin’s memoir are making the rounds on the internets. Here’s my contribution to the growing collection, courtesy of a Mudflatter who wishes to remain nameless.
Gather round for story time, children!
In this page, we join Sarah Palin as she recounts the birth of her daughter Bristol. We’ll learn how Todd elbowed his way past the post-partum Sarah to tackle the birth certificate, fill it in and name his daughter Bristol without consulting the new mother. We’ll also learn that Bristol did not get saddled with taking care of Piper and Trig all the time against her will as it appeared to the casual observer. Why, ever since she was a tiny child, she’s been begging…yes BEGGING I tell you, to take care of other people’s children. And we can only imagine how thrilled the teenage Bristol is about being called a “near freak” and having her potty training details memorialized forever in print. Track, we learn, was “clingy” and always needed his mom in sight. And then there were the tantrums… But I’m sure he won’t get ribbed about that in the army.
And, there was even a casual “I was reading” reference just to stick it to all those people who think that she doesn’t read everything they put in front of her. I’m sure those will be popping up frequently.
So, let’s recap page 57:
1 God blessing reference
1 Native reference
3 revisionist gotchas
See, I DID tell people she was named for Bristol CT and ESPN
See, she WANTS to babysit
See, I DO read399 pages to go…
Be sure to take many sanity breaks….for real!
Rush was right. This really is an in depth political analysis. NOT.
Eye Rollery, indeed.
Take it easy on this project. If you read more than three pages in one sitting, your eyes will be uncontrollably rolling for weeks.
Did they feel so compelled to sell a 400-page book that they used 48pt type? I’ve been sequestering myself from anything Palin over the past week, so this is the first example of the coming plague that I’ve seen so far. And believe me, I’m not forking over (even) 99 cents for something that should have been a pamphlet! The ghostwriter has done a nice job of sounding folksy, though–a “big-dog” sportscaster. Arf. Hee.
she “manifested her little mama’s heart?” Is that actually written down, here?
Good lord. It amazes me she got past as many English teachers as she did.
Sarah Louise Palin is a COMPLETE FRAUD.
“we were more cautious with our next…” Gee, all caution aside the last pregnancy, boarding a plane and flying to Alaska after her water broke. Pleased someone is screening this substantive book, as Rush opined.
Rent-a-baby? 10 years later Karma’s a b!tch…now that Bristol’s got two of them at age eighteen.
Bristol toilet trained herself at 14 months? RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
“Arnold Palmer Drive” in “Mission Hills”–muy, muy Alaskan!
Forget the minutiae of her child-rearin days, I’m dying to read all about her high school basketball games!
The big type makes me thinks of school kids who try to turn in a “five page paper” with three inch margins at each side – and think that the teacher won’t notice.
I read somewhere that there’s an afterward/essay by someone else at the end of the book – more padding?
So much for her astonishingly rapid production of a “400 page book”.
“Perfectionist and neat freak” — Rings a bell from dysfunctional family dynamics I’ve read about.
Oh, I only wrote that so I could write “I’ve read”. LOL.
She is SO transparent. I feel so badly for her kids.
Only 412 pages to go- keep all sharp objects at a safe distance!
I think what happened is once Lynn Vincent saw what Sarah wanted to say in the book, she told Harper Collins. And they said get this thing out ASAP FAST.
Why would any publisher release such garbage!! It is unbelievable that anyone would find this stuff interesting at all………its mostly boasting and mean girl taking things out on others. I won’ order this book, but I did just order Going Rouge. Support them!
It’s obvious she is trying to tie up all those loose ends into a nice little neat story.
Oooh, oooh, I remembered another way to fill up the pages of your school assignment, use lots of quotes, the longer the better.
Thanks to Wonkette, we can see that page 225 has six paragraphs, and three of them were written by John McCain! (or his speechwriters, really). She’s quoting extensively from his speech introducing her!
http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/rogue225.jpg
Mrs TBB, you are so funny! Yes, the Mission Hills subdivision has many roads named after golfers, and guess what, there’s not even a golf course within 5 miles! Well, we do have a little par 3, 9-hole course about 7 miles from Mission Hills but I don’t think it was designed by Palmer or any other famous golfers. (it’s a cute little course and is fun to play, especially because the surrounding scenery is magnificent, but it’s not quite like the courses in your neck of the woods!!)
Just another weird thing about Wasilla….
As a matter of fact, Mission Hills is only a few miles from the Sports Complex which of course is only a few miles from the current Palin compound. Perhaps a subdivision with streets named after hockey players would be more appropriate for Wasilla
Ah, man, I’m still trying to get over the white-out incident.
But yes, poor Bristol. I hope she’ll find the strength to flee soon.
I would suspect the larger font was used because Sarah (or whomever) anticipates the book being purchased by many on the far right that are middle age to elderly!
“I claimed that the name was a substitute for my plan….”
Translation: “I lied about the name’s connection to ESPN to sound cool when I was campaigning for VP.”
Newsweek has decided to go Rogue on Sarah this week as well. I posted the link on the other Open Thread. They are using her own “Runners World” photo ( draped in the flag) as a sort of sarcasm to the points made in the story.
Christopher Hichens comes on strong with many good quotes. The Sarah-Bot sites seem to be a little livid with his story. Don’t miss reading this one.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/222786
And the Cover photo.
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM130_dom_11_23_09.html
Todd grabbed the birth certificate before I could get to it , declaring that his first daughter would be named Bristol.
Could this be another lie of Palin poop. When my son was born 25 years ago a nurse came in to ask me what I was naming my baby. Palin makes it sound like you fill out the birth certificate yourself. Can I get a witness.
C.Rock, I think that varies from hospital to hospital. When I was born almost 27 years ago, my dad filled out the form. (He did name me what Mom wanted to name me, however. There had apparently been a to-do over the name, which is why I was told this story in the first place.)
Spot on, AKM!
If only Sarah’s begging manifested a mama’s heart…
If I continue to visit Alaskan blog sites I will have the entire book read or at least all the good parts. My, my I think we have cooked our very own goose this time, but I’ll hold back the celebration for a little bit…she is a rogue & a maverick.
Anna, thanks for the info. I do not put anything past Palin. She is a pathological liar.
If I recall correctly, $’error said Bristol was named after Bristol, Connecticut because that is where Fox News was based. But, of course Fox News wasn’t based there at that time of Bristol’s birth.
So the hits keep coming. She pretty much just makes up whatever best suits the occasion. I’m pretty sure she was the first woman to land on the moon, also, too. The foremost expert in_______ (fill in the blank).
CRock – great catch. Anna – a form – yes; birth certificate – nuh uh…at least, pretty unlikely. Call the fact-checkers.
Is there any chance Vincent cooled on Palin and got sloppy on purpose?
Wolf Pack: It was ESPN that was in Bristol I think, but again, I don’t know when.
And people are going to pay money for this book??? YIKES!!
I’m convinced she didn’t read the book just dictated info to the homophobe & sent it to the publisher. Remember last Thanksgiving…never underestimate.
And I thought this November was going to be kinda boring compared to last year…
As I scrolled back up to the top to view the WHOLE page after reading it.
If that is ALL that fits on 1 page…. this must be like 24 point Font.
So 400 pages is in reality… like 150 pages…?
I hope Lettermans Joke writers have a copy and are busy reading over the weekend. This will be great material.
OMG so far I’ve managed to avoid actually reading any of her pages, preferring to just get the highlights. That was the most boring piece of drivel crap that I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe that any publisher would risk their repuation by publishing that garbage. I’m beginning to think the reason for the expedited sale of her book was because her ghostwriter refused to work with her anymore (hence her name not on the front) and Murdoch gave up on her. If she doesn’t have his backing watch out for all the wolves to now start tearing into her.
Oh good lord.
This reads like an 8th grade essay.
Teacher says: Ok students.
1- Use descriptive words (adjectives) whenever you can.
2-Try to substitute ‘vocabulary words’ like DECREED instead of saying ORDERED or SAID.
3- Add rich details such as ‘toilet trained at 14 months’ to keep your reader interested AND add to the wordcount.
This prose if just pathetic.
What I have read so far reads like a mediocre HS assignment. This woman has a college degree? I don’t think so.
SHow it to me.
The thing is that her base will love this book. It’s very “just folks” and written right at them. I can see how they will eat it up with a spoon. I would think Palin’s people would encourage their base to buy it by the case to give out at conventions and meetings and drive up the ratings on the seller’s list.
It will be interesting to read the reviews. It reads like she is putting a spin on possible criticism’s of her as a mother. I wonder if the kids will go along with it. Lots of controversy guaranteed. Popcorn and cocoa time!
This book is overpriced at FREE with subscription to Newsmax.
Seriously .. this is so badly written, English teachers everywhere are cringing.
Wolf Pack (@ 24) — you had me at S’error !!!!
she could have written something about her perspective of the world…instead we learn things best left at the beauty parlor.
she blew her opportunity to rise above the fray.
she IS the fray and apparently plans on staying there permanently.
This book is overpriced at FREE… that’s a good one. She even wrote about the turkey slaughter and the bad angle they shot the scene at.
Bristol potty trained herself at 14 months….please
NYCgirl -Bristol potty trained herself at 14 months….please
Now that should go into the guinness world records book.
Just for page 57, sounds like she’s been reading Alaskan bloggers sites. Those points AKM makes were discussed on the blogs.
My adult kids today would be forever ungrateful if I mentioned them in a book, about their potty training. But the daughter had her first pregnancy displayed on national tv, so I guess that’s small potatoes.
So far, how is any of this going to “help” Alaska?
Ah, yeah.
You don’t “fill out” the birth certificate, you fill out a birth certificate filing form, and then you usually have to pay to have a copy mailed to you.
Wouldn’t you think a GOVERNOR would know the difference? Especially one who (supposedly) just had to go thru this process not too many months ago?
Oh, yeah. You don’t have to fill out those kinds of things when you deliver an empathy belly. My bad.
Phoebe #28, perhaps you should have specified that “the homophobe” Sarah is dictating to is Lynn Vincent, as some readers may be picturing some sort of computer device that turns word salad into English (sort of) !
calling Area 51. Come in please . Aliens HAVE landed.
This isnt a book. Its a 7th grade diary .
subtract her 2 months on the trail from her term as gover-not, also too.
I read a comment somewhere today & they wondered if there was life in Sarah Palin’s brain. My guess is very little.
John @2Says:
November 14th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Rush was right. This really is an in depth political analysis. NOT.
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Apparently, there is some old-school GOP policy advocacy as well, presumably at the insistence of Rupert Murdoch: “If we would only cut capital gains taxes and eliminate estate taxes once and for all, we could abolish unemployment”. (The rich suffered so much during the Bush glory days).
one kid clingy, needy for attention, one kid potty trained herself at a historical early age…hmmm, sounds like a neglectful mother to me….track was probably traumatized by her leaving all the time and bristol was probably sick of being in dirty diapers all the time…yep, that’s our mama grizzly! LIAR!
hope palin doesn’t think this book makes her look good
Hmmm, they must do things differently with the birth certificate in Alaska, or maybe I’ve just forgotten how it’s done. When I lived in southwest Kansas I worked in the Records Room (medical records) of the hospital. One of my jobs (my favorite part) was to talk to new moms to fill out the birth certificate information. The dads usually weren’t there and they weren’t just handed the paper work in a do-it-yourself fashion. By having the hospital staff do the actual filling out and typing (no computers back in 1969) meant that parents didn’t make glaring clerical errors. I have to say, though, that some of them came up with some weird names that rival the Palin flock.
I can’t believe she’s putting some of that stuff in the book. It sounds like the kind of stuff she should write to a best friend or a relative, not something that the rest of the world needs to read. And what was she reading anyway. With kids bouncing all around, I highly doubt it was anything that took much concentration.
Logically page 57’s “… little less Pollyanna-ish…” stage would have to be _BEFORE_ the Sarah Barracuda time-frame.
Page 57’s claim “We were more cautious with our next pregnancy…” also has a logic hole. By the 5th baby these supposedly cautious parents undertook the flight from Texas to Alaska leaking amniotic fluid… a sort of “we were for caution before we were against it” thingy.
AKM, “near freak” should read “neat freak”.
As for birth certificates, at least in VA the mom fills out the certificate unless she is incapacitated. I filled my daughter’s out the day after she was born, by myself in my room. My husband was at work (Naval Base).
And poor Bristol, her neat freak potty training displayed for all to read. How shameful of Idiot Palin for doing that to her daughter. It’s almost as bad as when my school teacher mom told everyone my underwear size in high school…
please…someone stick me in the eye with a sharp stick..who ever said ‘its better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick’…never had to read her book..
QUITTYPANTS IZ LIAR AN FOOL! SRSLY!
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APPARENTLY, THAR IZ SUM OLD-SKOOL GOP POLICY ADVOCACY AS WELL, PRESUMABLY AT TEH INSISTENCE OV RUPERT MURDOCH: “IF WE WUD ONLY CUT CAPITAL GAINS TAXEZ AN ELIMINATE ESTATE TAXEZ ONCE AN 4 ALL, WE CUD ABOLISH UNEMPLOYMENT”. (TEH RICH SUFFERD SO MUTCH DURIN TEH BUSH GLORY DAIS).
LOLCAT Rocks!
My question…?
On WHAT page is all the dialog about the ” some of the greatest policy statements of out time ” going to show up… as per Rush Limbaugh yesterday.
Is it written in some GOP Code and we have to decipher it or something.
Where is that decoder ring when you need it.
UnLess… Rush thinks ‘ potty training ‘ and ‘ baby sitting ‘ is considered a policy.
And Rush to my knowledge is the ONLY one who has weighed in positively. Has anyone heard about or gotten a statement Glenn beck yet…?
I thought I remembered Him pimping her book weeks ago on His Show.
@Gramiam
QUITTYPANTS IZ LIAR AN FOOL! SRSLY!
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EPIC AWESOME!!!!!
LOLCAT Rules!
I have this vision of Beck, wrapped in “The Christmas Sweater”, sobbing into his Hot Chocolate, “Where did I go wrong?”
Whether Mrs Palin wrote this or no, the language choice is tellingly weird. “It wasn’t my doing.” Implying, I guess, “I don’t need to take responsibility.”
Todd named Bristol. She was busy with two small children because Todd was away. Bristol and Track demanded things so she acquiesed …. It’s not that these things are sinister or implausible … it’s just weird that this is the way they’re stated.
And, yes, at some point, we all might have thought our children to be “commanding” and “clingy” … but who writes it, proofs it, and let’s it go to national press? Who calls their beloved daughter a “freak?”
Come on people, she’s just strategizin and marketin to her base, that’s all, she knows the down home folks who will be buyin her book memwarz, she knows what they want to read and how to speak right to them.
Remember the misspelled signs, the talking point tea bagger interviews with seniors? this book is for them, those blind faith, god fearin, family lovin, folksy small town main streeters in podunk backwood pockets of our real America. Where they still take time to chew the cud with neighbors and pass on gossip and talk about a new rising politician they can believe in. And dangit all won’t they feel sorry for her losing a child or two, and won’t they relate to raising or knowing a less than perfect child. No this book ain’t for big city slickers and elites, she knows real America.
Snark and GAH! She is so off base I cannot believe it.
But, there is hope! Look what happened with Carrie in one short week. Her big shinny star fell very fast. She’s canceled all her interviews to promote her book, ouch that must hurt sales.
Who will want her book now that’s shes let her Christian base down? It’s now reported there are MORE tapes out there, lol. Apparently, many sent her money for legal battles to defend herself, uh oh, now they feel, taken and used.
It’s also starting infighting within the base, just how harshly do they judge her, just how hypocritical is she, who should be casting stones, that sort of thing. Oh the controversy. Goodness, see the damage one person can do? One web site blowing the lid off a lie and sham, it spreads like wildfire. Delicious but sad.
So…………the good news is, some of them wake up and know a snake when it’s finally shown to them full frontal and know they’ve been bitten. Hopefully they won’t be so gullible and blindly trusting again. Hopefully they won’t let others do all their thinking and they’ll pay attention. The others, hmmm and sigh, they just can’t.
Sorry if any of this comes across as too harsh. I don’t really like making gross generalizations. But I really abhor a con and fraud. And the in feuding is quite interesting. It seems to be dividing them into more fractions. I even saw some Mormon versa Evangelical versa Southern Bapstist fighting, their common factor, conservatism.
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0911/prejean_cancels_d_c_stops.html
Poor Track and Bristol……..the quitter has no idea what she has done to them…….
“Rent me a baby” — you have got to be kidding!!
the norwegian blue Says:
November 14th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
“Rent me a baby” — you have got to be kidding!!
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Now THAT sounds like something Quittypants would say! Hmmmm! Maybe she did say it.
lol……..10 Juicy Items from Scarah’s book.
http://gawker.com/5403851/sarah-palins-historical-fiction-memoir-10-juicy-items-from-the-sneak-peeks?skyline=true&s=x
Must Read from Shannyn Moore : Palin’s Oily Lies Drip from the Pages of Going Rogue… http://bit.ly/3siET1
About the birth certificate thing, as I remember in Illinois 25 years ago as Pat in Washington state stated , Someone came to my room and asked what I was naming my baby ( That was the heirloom birth certificate, the one with mothers thumbs prints and babies foot prints from the hospital.) The birth certificate form you fill out gets mailed to the states vital records and they mail you a certified copy of the hospitals birth certificate Either way I think Palin lied .
Quittypants a liar? Isn’t that a given?
You mudpuppies are cracking me up.I almost peed my pants. Rent a baby LOL
honesty…
the “substantive policy” stuff is just when she invokes the name “Ronald Reagan”.
Page 57 demonstrates why her co-writer’s (Lynn Vincent) name is not on the book’s cover. The writing is clearly embarrassing tripe. I suspect Ms. Vincent wanted to maintain some professional credibility by distancing herself from the book.
This makes me puke! Oh, pleeeezzzzz….an eight year old asking for a baby for her birthday?????????????? I’ve been around a lot of 8 year olds and not one of them had this desire. Who the hell is she trying to kid?
I think she’s hinting at something else.
lol, quite possibly, Scarah named Track without Toads agreement, so he possibly did snag filling out the bc to name Bristol without Scarah, to do the same thing. Maybe they had some weird arrangement, after that, Toad gets to name the child if it’s a girl and Scarah gets to name the boys, kinda makes sense to me, Track, Tad, Trigg, Tripp compared to Bristol, Willow and Piper……personally, I like the girls names better.
I think Scarah enjoys embellishing stories. I personally know someone who does this, it’s like an event becomes a ’story conversation’, family and friends take this persons ‘exchanges’ with a grain of salt. But if this person comes up with fresh ideas, they are added to enhance the story, lol. It’s quite entertaining but you have to strip away the bs to get to the bare facts.
Perhaps this is why Scarah went into journalism, her mind likes to creatively make things up……….the truth and facts are too boring don’tchya know.
Just creatively sayin…
The setting w/Palin, the girls, and Barbara Walters is rather an elaborate one. Does that mean Walters didn’t/won’t be going to Alaska to do 5 segments? I’m assuming that it is just one interview and each of the 5 will be brief, like 10 or 15 minutes – I can’t imagine listening to her screeching voice for any length of time….. the campaign trail was bad enough!
I read somewhere that NO books were given out at the Oprah taping, and that is a rarity – apparently the studio audiences have always gotten free books of any authors.
oh crap, I used the special needs T child name making my point, gah……..
lol, quite possibly, Scarah named Track without Toads agreement, so he possibly did snag filling out the bc to name Bristol without Scarah, to do the same thing. Maybe they had some weird arrangement, after that, Toad gets to name the child if it’s a girl and Scarah gets to name the boys, kinda makes sense to me, Track, Tad, T***g, Tripp compared to Bristol, Willow and Piper……personally, I like the girls names better.
I think Scarah enjoys embellishing stories. I personally know someone who does this, it’s like an event becomes a ’story conversation’, family and friends take this persons ‘exchanges’ with a grain of salt. But if this person comes up with fresh ideas, they are added to enhance the story, lol. It’s quite entertaining but you have to strip away the bs to get to the bare facts.
Perhaps this is why Scarah went into journalism, her mind likes to creatively make things up……….the truth and facts are too boring don’tchya know.
Just creatively sayin…
Has anyone seen her college degree?
GreatGranny2C Says:
I read somewhere that NO books were given out at the Oprah taping, and that is a rarity – apparently the studio audiences have always gotten free books of any authors.
Palin is to cheap to buy the Chicagoan audience a book each. I’m happy to hear Oprah did not offer to spend her money on this piece of crap.That in itself is a slap in Palins face. Proud of Oprah. she did not want her audience mad at her for bring trash home LOL.
Post lost in cyberspace – thanks to Say No for suggesting reason why – in following post substitute “The last Palin son” for “T1″
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antiAnti@48 Says:
Page 57’s claim “We were more cautious with our next pregnancy…” also has a logic hole. By the 5th baby these supposedly cautious parents undertook the flight from Texas to Alaska leaking amniotic fluid… a sort of “we were for caution before we were against it” thingy.
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Nailed it in one, antiAnti! I’ve never been able to completely go on board with the “T1 Isn’t Sarah’s baby” crowd, but I also cannot reconcile the story, purportedly from her own mouth as the truth, of the circumstances surrounding T1’s birth. The book will certainly cement what she claims is the true version according to her. And may possibly contradict things she said earlier, which will do nothing to improve her credibility.
My disdain for the woman is in part exactly for this reason – Regarding her own documented actions and statements, there are as I see it only these possibilities:
1) She did not give birth to T1 and perpetuated a complete hoax; has told lie upon lie and has had to have others lie for her as well to keep the truth from coming out; or
2) She did give birth to T1 but did not want to; was hoping the airplane flight and protracted car trip would result in another miscarriage for which she could hardly be blamed; or
3) She did give birth to T1 but as antiAnti said “Was for caution before she was against it” and was simply reckless with the health and well-being of her 5th child for …. for what exactly? Because Todd didn’t want it born in Texas? So she could look all “Alaskans like me are tougher than you Lower 48 wimps with your Neo-Natal units”? Huh ???
If 1) is true, that is despicable. She would be caught in perpetuating the biggest of lies, and show she cannot be trusted in anyway, for anything, let along hold public office or be President of the U.S.
If 2) is true, that is cowardly and deceitful. If she cannot own up to and defend her actions as a private citizen, it shows she will not be able to be trusted in anyway, for anything, let along hold public office or be President of the U.S.
If 3) is true, that demonstrate her sheer recklessness for others’ well-being. It also either puts her doctor in a sticky situation, or it shows her (SP) to be a big fat liar again. In the story SP has told so far, she called CBJ and let her know what was going on with the fluid leaking.
What doctor would OK a 44-year-old pregnant woman, purportedly leaking fluid, carrying a DS child, who’s had two previous miscarriages to take two flights and then an hour drive before going to a hospital? It just does not make sense! So Sarah is either lying about either calling her doctor (”I’m so tough, I don’t need to call a doctor”), or about what her doctor said (”CBJ said to go to a hospital here, but I’m a tough Alaskan, I’ll just ignore her advice”) or about the fluid leaking (”I made up the story about the leaking fluid just to make myself look Alaska tough”).
Any way you slice it, the fabrication of stories, the recklessness displayed, the inability to listen to other peoples’ advice and doggedly insist you know best, is in part what turns me off about this woman and why I could never support her in any run for any office, ever, most especially for the highest office in our land.
I hope lots of people from Team Sarah and other Pro-Sarah sites are reading this right now, because you have to understand that this woman can never win a general election, and I do not see her winning a Republican primary either, for the reasons I just outlined. She is, from her own words about T1’s birth, either a big fat liar, or incredibly reckless with human life, and possibly both. That is not what I want in a President, and you should not want that either.
(BTW, no offense was meant to you actual tough, non-lying Alaskans in this post.)
Wow this has the look and it reads like a book for teenagers!
Whats the difference between s’arah palin and a pit bull?
Pit bulls dont quit or lie. At least mine doesnt! Mine does chew up rolls of toliet paper, but at least she fessus up by bring me the cardboard tube and wiggling her butt. I’m sure she would gladly do the same to “going rad” . She could teach s’arah a thing or 2 about honesty, also too.
Hi all – Shannyn live bloggin’ thread is up. AKM is guest tonight. Treehhouse/chat is open. See you all in one place or the other!
Even the ghost writer vanished! Dick Armey distanced himself from her yesterday. only the frazzled fringe and rush remain.
Archivist1000 @32 -
What I have read so far reads like a mediocre HS assignment.
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My EXACT thought when I read this tripe. And THIS is what is supposed to transform her image into something worthy of national political office????? I haven’t read “The Audacity of Hope”, but I’m guessing it reads on a slightly higher level of sophistication than this.
But I suppose there was a reason for the quality (or lack thereof) of language in this book. As an interpreter for the deaf working with both children and adults, I always have to keep in mind something called ‘register’. Basically, you use a level of language (whether in sign or speech) that matches your speaker and/or audience. For example, the same sign can be voiced as ‘let you know’, ‘inform’ or (my personal favorite) ‘disseminate information’, depending on the situation. I guess that, in this case, the tone and juvenile prose are appropriate for both the author AND the anticipated audience!
lol, just saw a quote from her B. Walters interview. She and Todd were “devastated” when they found out Bristol was pregnant. Really, they were “devastated” by the “blessing”? I mean didn’t she make a point to criticize Obama during the campaign for his pro-choice stance which he articulated in terms of not wanting to punish his daughter’s (possible future) mistake of having unprotected sex with forcing her to carry a pregnancy? She said all babies are a blessing, no matter what. But she was devastated to learn about Bristol’s “blessing.” Interesting.
Does anyone actually think Palins “base” read NYT best sellers? I don’t. They might buy it, maybe even “claim” to ready it, but really read it no? Look at the photos, YES!
So this was what she was doing behind closed doors, holed up in her bedroom. Pounding out this rogue story. Levi took it as depression, losing the campaign let down, distracted, disengaged with those around her. BUT it was really her writer privacy mode coming out………rogue hurt feelings, blame and revenge brewing forth and pouring onto her keyboard. She needed healing.
That’s all it was Levi. She was on a mission to journal her thoughts of this overwhelming whirlwind experience, she couldn’t do this on the campaign trail for heavens sake. They lost and she was trying to make sense of it all. Enter Scarah’s thought processing……….scary.
So in her sicko mind she’s just journaling thoughts, processing feelings, getting over it, moving past it…….. but really, in her other sicko mind she’s like, oh I am so out of here, I don’t deserve this, I can’t believe the real world outside of my Alaska, people were mean to me, it hurt, and now I hate my job, it’s not fun any more, or smooth sailing, it’s hard work and a lot of people don’t like me. So, F bomb them and let’s get on to Gods next idea…….a book and speaking engagements, get the heck out of the gov job and AK Dodge. It’s time for me and God to move some mountains.
Anyway………..
It appears to me that Palin really DID write this book; it is petty drivel. I think the “ghost-writer” was there to rein in the really loopy stuff, but looks like the intention was NOT to come over as too “professional”, deep or thoughtful. She’s a populist, after all.
And a special thanks to Carrie Prejean for stating that Sarah and Bristol were friends of hers before her own downfall. Sarah could be thrown under Carrie’s bus. Oh, the carnage!
I hope Qitter’s book is her downfall from public life. She has no concept of reality just her delusional world of being mistreated and mishandled. Always the victim never owning up to her flaws (which are many). I wonder what McCain really thinks about her now.
Its clear that Palin didn’t read or comprehend Obama’s two books, which are well crafted blends of philosophy and memoir and beautifully written.
she doesn’t even know people are having an astonished reaction to her…she’s that self-absorbed…she doesn’t get it and sadly, she never will…unless somebody has the cojones to shove reality in her face…somebody close that she has a shred of a heart connection with…somebody she cannot dismiss…she’s a narcissist (something clinical) of great proportion (one for the Guinness Book), so maybe it is hopeless.
OMG, AKM–you’ve nailed it. Frustrating that so many of the commenters here are missing the main point: Palin is *clearly* rewriting history in response to bloggers like AKM and Andrew Sullivan calling her out on her lies. You could reformat the book prose as a bulleted PowerPoint slide, where she takes each of the accusations of lying in turn and invents a narrative around it to try to prove her own veracity. It’s really *that* blatant and ham-handed.
Going Rouge and Revisionist By Scarah Palin.
Her poor children…starting with Track….a bedwetting momma’s boy??? My goodness he must be feeling pretty manly now and is probably surrounded by his soldier buddies who are having the appropriate amount of fun with this info……nice Sarah!
I just talked with an old musician friend in Alaska. He and his buddies are constantly forming and re-forming Irish bands. He said that their next attempt will be “Going Pogue”. Irishgirl – if you’re reading this, I know you’ll get it!
Ruh-roh, looks like the McCain staff isn’t going to sit still while Quitty lies her Bumpit off. Someone’s leaking the campaign emails that prove she’s seriously truth-challenged:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/14/mccain-campaign-emails-co_n_358124.html
(Bonus fun: Her emails read like something an eighth-grader might text.)
Forgive me if I am repeating an earlier comment…..I have not read them all yet…but -
Has anyone ever, in their life, heard of a book whose accuracy was directly and specifically challenged – with sourced quotes and emails – before the book was even released to the public?
This continues to be the wildest ride I have ever seen, dating back to the day Palin’s improbable candidacy was first announced. And honestly, today’s email-based refutations of Palin’s lies are soul-satisfying beyond belief.
Palin’s description of Bristol’s behavior is a clear description of a role called the caretaker which happens in dysfunctional families. It is usually filled by an older child and most often is a girl. They take care of the other children and sometimes the parents. They are all known as the perfect child and often are compulsive about cleaning and perfectionists.
Rob in Ca @ 96 -
It never ceases to amaze me that she thinks she can get away with all the lies when there are massive quantities of evidence to the contrary. She seems to keep forgetting that we live in the days of internet, bloggers, Youtube and twitter, and there’s not much that escapes notice and documentation when you’re as (in)famous and divisive as SP.
Then again, she continued to spout her “Thanks but no thanks” speech for weeks after it had been proven a lie. And the scariest part was that her loyal followers would still applaud wildly whenever they heard the line. Hello people, she’s LYING!!!!!
But, having been recently dealing with someone who exhibits much of the same delusional behavior, I suspect that she honestly believes that what she says is the truth. She creates her own version of reality in her head and, therefore, it becomes her reality merely because she wants it to. Soooo frightening to think how close she was to the White House…
“…when religious extremism is in the mix, the American people need to realize the social and political dangers of the Sarah Palin Trojan Horse.”
http://www.palintrojanhorse.com/
Mag the Mick @94
He said that their next attempt will be “Going Pogue”.
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Back in the 90s I traveled to Ireland every summer and hung out a lot with cops in Dublin so I’m familiar with the origin of the term. Very funny and quite accurate!
Instead of naming her book “Going Rogue”, wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to entitle it “Ruthless and Truthless”?
Wow–no wonder Lynn Vincent wanted her name off the cover. What a piece of whiny crap.
“The thing is that her base will love this book. It’s very “just folks” and written right at them. I can see how they will eat it up with a spoon. ”
Well, that would probably be correct; the book is written at about an eighth grade reading level…right on target for her supporters, like the ones around here who make proclamations like, “well, that’s how it’s always BEEN in America!” or “because we’re AMERICA, that’s why!”
jeebus
She has tried to spin a 10 page treatise about a singularly uninspiring, uneventful and unhelpful life into 400 pages of “Mom! MOM!!!!! Look at me! Look at me jump!!!!! Watch ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Palin’s life is particularly pathetic. She has done nothing to help anyone but herself and has basically failed at everything she’s tried. She’s not a journalist because she can’t do it. She wants success, satisfaction, fame all without effort. She wants talent without cultivation. She’s done nothing other than the campaign trail that thousands of others haven’t done and done better, but she wants to be seen as a maverick.
Her life is particularly dull and pathetic. She does nothing to make this world or even her family happier and better. How sad.
@ bubbles: lol!
My sentiments, exactly!
Someone said her book should be titled “Going Bogus”.
A Palin quote somewhere in the book :
“I’m the go, go, get things done type. Here in Alaska, the Iditarod mushers say if you’re not the leading dog, you know that the view will never change”.
In other words, she, as the leader of the pack is offering the sight of her a$$ to her loving fans.
I’m not sure they get it.
And now we are pleased to learn that Obama won because he copied palin’s former campaign platforms :
“I’d always run on a platform of change, and I quickly wondered how I could start interjecting that “we were change when change wasn’t cool” theme”
And I bet there still is so much more in that piece of trash.
Predictably, Palin is already being shown as lying once again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/14/mccain-campaign-emails-co_n_358124.html
It’s always amazes me how she thinks she can ANYTHING she wants about anyone and the people involved will not respond. Palin has picked a fight with just about everyone – the media, bloggers, McCain campaign staffers. I wish someone would pull her aside and remind her that things like emails, conversations and incidents witnessed by several people tend to stick around. Making stuff up isn’t going to be so easy anymore for Palin – I think her bridges really do lead to nowhere now.
Odd; when my children were born, we didn’t get (as Todd apparently did – for Bristol, at least) to “grab” their birth certificates to ‘fill in.’
A hospital administrator came into my post-birth hospital room, all official-forms on a clipboard like, and asked what the child’s names were to be. We told them the names and how we wished the names spelled. After double-checking with us the names and spelling she’d written down, off the administrator went; at no time could we “grab” the baby’s “birth certificate”…
The first time we saw our children’s birth certificate(s), was when they were mailed to us by the State’s Office of [Records? Health? I can't remember, but in any event, whatever office it is that they are the office of]. Maybe things are done differently in Alaska, though.
Then again, could it be that Todd’s just so darned special he’s allowed to create birth certificates? Too, also?
I think Her S’arahness has more esplainin’ to do… beth.
“…she potty-trained herself at fourteen months…”
Um…maybe cuz mom wuz “readin’ every one” of the newspapers and had no time to work with her child and dad wuz…well…god knows where he wuz.
Comment on Shannyn’s Blog: “Rogue means never having to say you’re sorry.” How true!
Reminds me of a lady veterinarian I once knew. Nothing was EVER her fault. The incident I remember most was the time she tied her huge dog to the bumper of their car in the driveway while she and her daughters were outside playing. When the oldest one did something that made her mad she took the girls inside. The dog was left out there for hours on the hot pavement and ended up with a horrible sunburn on it’s hind quarter. Eventually she had to remove a large chunk of dead skin. SHE BLAMED IT ON HER DAUGHTER (A FOUR YEAR OLD!) FOR FORGETTING THE DOG WAS OUT THERE.
Alas, these people DO exist and SP is one of them.
God!!! what makes her think people will find this vapid stuff interesting? She really thinks highly of herself that she thinks what she says to her 8year old is of any interest. Wow. She will be over exposed and the rest of the world will say “why do we keep hearing of her? we’re tired of her” I have been told that people who travel internationally and say they are from Alaska are asked “What do you think of Palin, Is she really as stupid as she seems?” It’s just the US that is taking a while to figure this out. The question may be: “Are WE as stupid as we seem?”
God help us. Could this be anymore boring?
AKM’s intro was more fun to read and actually, having read one following the other, shows just how boring the book is. I don’t think Palin’s ghost writer is going to get any future business if that’s the best she could do with so much fiction to play off of…yawn.
Has Harper Collins sent you a nasty-gram yet like they did Diva?