Rogue Nuggets from the Pages of ‘Going Rogue.’
Well, thanks to my fairy godperson, I’ve landed the motherlode of Going Rogue pages, and have served you up a tasty breakfast smorgasbord of easily digestible Rogue nuggets. Let’s start with the most revolting quote:
“There was a bright spot in Philly, and his name was Joe Lieberman.”
It will be hard to top that one.
But here, for your reading pleasure is some wonderful comment fodder from the pages of Going Rogue.
Page 76
Her friends threw her a baby shower for Piper at a shooting range, with a cake the shape of an airplane. Piper’s middle name is Indi for “Independence.” (AIP anyone?) Starts railing on Anne Kilkenny whose letter about Sarah Palin to her friends went viral on email and was posted at numerous sites on line. Calls her a “Birkenstock-and-granola Berkeley grad.” She was friends with the evil town librarian and the police chief with whom Palin was “mixing it up.”
Page 77
Talks about the completely random and absolutely totally hypothetical conversation with the librarian about banning books, because she was just innocently curious what the librarians policy might be if, let’s say, someone might hypothetically want to keep certain hypothetical books from being in the library. (Pastor, I am Gay anyone?) Just tryin’ to make conversation. And then because of the local media who refused to report the story correctly, the library board all wore black arm bands in protest of her. And here she was expecting cake. Bummer.
Page 233
Says she wasn’t used to fancy hotel rooms (Fancy hotel room anyone?), but learned that Bristol’s pregnancy had been outed while she was brushing her teeth looking at the flat screen TV embedded in the bathroom mirror. If only she had been able to be up front about it from the start, but the McCain campaign botched it.
Repeats the lie that Barack Obama told the media to lay off his family and they “obeyed him”, but they trashed her family. In actuality, Obama had asked the media to lay off HER family.
Page 234-235
There’s some mysterious entity called “headquarters” and she doesn’t know who they are, but they wrote a statement about Bristol’s pregnancy saying they were proud of her, and proud to become grandparents. She disagreed and wrote a statement that was more “serious.” The McCain campaign ran the one they wrote anyway. Schmidt tells her to stick with the script.
Page 236
The McCain communications team learned that she was the VP pick the same day everyone else did so they were completely unprepared and had no idea who she was.
So when the avalanche of press inquiries tumbled in, the national media folks had zero information. What they did report, patchy factoids cobbled together from the Internet and a few left-wing Alaska bloggers was usually wrong.
(Woooo! Alaska blogger shout out!)
The national media, referred to as the “black-suited, laptop-toting flatlanders” apparently drove around Wasilla trying to find out where Sarah Palin bought her liquor, and talked to: “a defeated former opponent” (Andrew Halcro), “a maniacal blogger” (Heck, that could be any of us, but probably Syrin), “the falafel lady” (political watchdog Andree McLeod) and “the Wasilla town crank” (presumably Anne Kilkenny).
Page 237
On this page, Wasilla mayoral rival John Stein gets slammed for telling Time Magazine that Palin sought to ban books in the Wasilla Library.
Unbelievably, she also asserts that in the media “It was one lie after another – from rape kits to Bridge to Nowhere. All easy enough to disprove if the press had done its job.” WOW. Blames the Alaska GOP and Randy Ruedrich for not correcting it. Yes, it’s her lie and she’s stickin’ with it. Fortunately it remains easy to fact check HERE and HERE.
Slams media and bloggers for saying that if she couldn’t control her own daughter how could she be president, and saying that her philosophy about teaching abstinence was hypocritical, and didn’t work just because… it’s hypocritical and it doesn’t work.
Page 332
She worked on two speeches – one victory and one concession. Everyone else knew McCain was toast but the “B Team wouldn’t give up.” She just wanted to say thank you to John McCain and that she and her family are proud to be Americans and….. “also wanted to say a word – finally – in appreciation of the Bush/Cheney administration’s efforts.” (No, I’m not kidding)
Every possible relative and friend including Iditarod musher Martin Buser had flown down from little towns all over Alaska. They endured a long plane flight just to be together.
Page 333
Some day she’ll be able to make it up to her family and friends for not having enough time for them during the campaign. They lost the election even though they had the better message for America. But at least, she had one thing….she knew that despite the heartbreak, she’d be able to stand before the American people and tell them to keep fighting for what is right as she delivered…her speech! But then…
Page 334
The B Team was stunned! Was it possible? “Headquarters” said no speech! Unbelievable! She gets called to McCain’s suite and told by senior staffers, no speech. But the speech is great! No speech. But it honors John! No speech. Don’t think of it as a concession speech, think of it as… NO SPEECH.
Page 335
It wasn’t her idea to write the speech. Matthew Scully wrote the speech. Everyone knew about it and thought it was great. But “Headquarters” micromanaged everything and botched it and kept her all bottled up again.
Page 336
John McCain says he’s going to thank America. She says “I want to thank YOU!” He says, NO SPEECH. She finally gets that there will be no speech. Time to get on stage, but she’s not ready and doesn’t know where the giant entourage from all across Alaska is. She wants to go on stage with the whole family. She walks on stage with Todd and everyone she could find and the speech still in her hand. She wants five generations of her family there.
Page 337
No kids and no Todd allowed on stage, she is told. “Piper wasn’t thrilled when I had to shoo her and her cousins away. Todd came on stage anyway.” McCain gives speech and she embraces him in gratitude.
Page 338=339
During the post-election party reporters who usually look for “inside stories” on the campaign already had them because McCain staffers had been leaking stories to the press about her for use after the election – “negative stories mostly about the governor and her family.”
Post-election poolside moment with family, Kris Perry, Mike Nizich and his wife, and Meg Stapleton. Nicolle Wallace tells Todd to prepare for things to get nasty because of leaked stories. How would she know that, Palin muses? If Nicolle Wallace didn’t want to beat the stuffing out of her before, she certainly does now.
I’ve read more than that, but I’m afraid my brain will actually start to ooze out of my ears if I go any further right now. We expected Going Rogue to be truth-challenged, but this surpasses even my greatest expectation. It’s obvious that what Palin has been doing is collecting a list of every bad thing anyone has ever said about her, and using that as a starter, has constructed a story that upholsters each of those points one by one with revisionist history, self-aggrandizement, exaggeration, and in some cases, outright lies. This book is a 413-page puff piece and hit piece all rolled up into one.
More coming soon.
Does she spend 400 pages just trashing people with mean nicknames?
I am really shocked at the juvenile snide remarks.
Falafel Lady?
Her publisher should have cared enough about her to tell her to lose the Jr, High nicknames. If she seriously had a case about frivolous ethics complaints, she would take the highroad and call her by her goddam name.
She called Levi “Ricky Hollywood” on Oprah so that tells me she is JEALOUS.
My husband, a vet of NYC journalism and publishing, says it is sad that
I see a pattern here…Palin blames everyone for anything bad that happens to her and is incapable of accepting any responsibility for her actions.
Rogue, indeed.
oops…sad that there seems to be NO ONE in her life that actually cares about HER.
Facebook fans are not real people.
Her publisher didn’t care at all, they let her put out this trashy junior high school memoir, just fast enough to make their money.
The teabaggers and the politicians who use them are using her also, too.
Who cares enough about her to help her not become a joke?
I can’t stand her but I got sad thinking that this is TRUE.
Ummm, Palin does realize that the internet, newspapers, emails and correspondence, um, EXIST, doesn’t she? Every lie she told to her ghostwriter which ended up in the book can be fact checked — oops, sorry – that’s “opposition research” — and the truth will be told. Chucklehead.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LAYING OFF FAMILIES: (She LIED big time about this)
MONROE, Michigan (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said firmly that families are off-limits in the campaign for president, reacting to news that GOP running mate Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
“Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people’s families are off-limits, and people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”
Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
“How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that’s off-limits.” Video Watch more of Obama’s comments »
There are probably several people who care about SP….. but….were they to try to keep her from making herself a joke, they wouldn’t be listened to. There’s a difference between constructive/loving criticism and flattery. It appears that she prefers the latter. The bottle has come uncorked, grab a towel with that popcorn and beverage.
I hear she says in the book that she is worried about paying for health care. Aren’t she and her family covered by ANS? Please keep the list going, ie exaggerations, and pure fabrications by page number.
Well, it IS opposition research; opposition to her lies. I know this trash will appeal to everyone who shares $P’s victim complex, but what about all the name calling: “the Wasila crackpot”? I may be naive, but I have to believe maybe ONE Scarah supporter out there will be turned off by the blatant nastiness. Of course it was her snide comment at the convention about “community organizer” that showed me her true colors, and they all lapped that up.
After Palin’s FB rant yesterday I think she will have a meltdown before her book tour begins.
We all know that she cannot handle critisizm of ANY kind.
The bloggers in AK drove her squirrelly pointing out her lies and misdeeds.
Now she has mass media scrutinizing this “book” and doing the same.
Since Palin couldn’t cope with the bloggers in AK, I predict she will have a complete meltdown in short order.
Palin has truly bitten off more than she can chew this time.
How does one take on the entire media world?
Facts are facts, she cannot deny them and brush the entire media world off as “bloggers in pajamas”.
Describing them as “the opposition” is not going to work, because that is simply ridiculous.
For every sentence in her “book”, there will be a paragraph describing the lie it portrays.
waaa waaaa waaaa, love ya $carah…too bad, sooo sad…
AKM, again, your sacrifices to placate our insatiable curiousity of that train-wreck saves us the torture of reading her crap and contributing to her book sales. Quyana!
Her efforts to rebrand her ethical lapses are generally successful, at least, among her supporters. “Frivilous” ethics complaints sure has taken root. Gotcha questions and liberal media is a favorite. Biased or inaccurate reporting.
It must be nice to be Sarah Palin, explain away or justify her mistakes by placing it firmly on others. It must be nice to be perfect and infallible. I’ll fast for the rest of day, not to contemplate the wisdom of her greatness, but to prevent myself from losing my breakfast.
I predict a Carrie Prejean moment in the next week… Sarha will stomp out, take off her mic, and call it a day.
I’m sorry but her line… “Piper wasn’t thrilled when I had to shoo her and her cousins away. Todd came on stage anyway.” WTF? A defeated candiate who lost the election in a landlslide, and all she’s thinking is that her 7 year old daughter wasn’t thrilled? I’m sorry, but that girl is a disaster waiting in the wings. This is an international political disaster, and she’s mad her little princess can’t come up onstage?
Damning with faint praise
Lieberman, who tutored the gullible crusader on the finer points of neo-con foreign policy (was Kristol not available?) probably wishes she had also trashed him!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/joe-lieberman-helping-pal_n_124190.html
About that Obama “lay off her family” comment: I just watched the Oprah interview, which I found surprisingly…. boring. Oprah brought up the fact that Obama was defending Palin, and Palin seemingly agreed with Oprah. So lets see… she misrepresented in her book, then just misrepresented her misrepresentation on stage. I’m amazed her head doesn’t fall clean off from all the whiplash. It was bizzaro world incarnate.
Do we have a new “queen of mean”? Her victims love it when she makes all the junior high remarks. Yep, I think her followers are victims of her “politics of personal crisis”. Max Blumenthal is calling her style the POPC. It really fits.
When times get tough her followers don’t look for self directed solutions; rather, they form prayer circles to let “him” take the wheel. Reminds me of the Carrie Underwood hit “Jesus take the Wheel”. It reminds me of an overheard conversation–when one woman’s daughter was getting married she was relating how “the power of prayer” got them through all the planning. Wouldn’t a well done “to do list” have worked better? These are folks who have lost their personal power to get things done and live the life they want to have.
Makes me wonder if Oprah has a longer term plan by soft-balling the interview? Get these lost souls back and then educate them on how to take their lives back into their own control? Just a theory in the non-scientific sense of the word.
HC, Murdoch and GOP Kingmaker Malek let this book be published with out fact checking it. They WANT her to go down in flames with those who are sane. She is dangerous to the uber rich thugs who actually call the shots in the GOP and they know it.
Her crazy posse of Facebook morons will love her even if she has had a dozen abortions. They will just say she is forgiven in the Rasputin-like religious views (must do the sin to be forgiven and find god) they espouse.
Whoever did this to her must be just tickled pink. I almost feel sorry for her in some sad way. As much as I can’t stand her political views, she is a human being and does deserve some peace at some point in her life. The people who are enabling her ego to outstrip her sense should be tarred and feathered. Sarah just needs psychological help with her personality disorder.
Will we ever be rid of the Palin Plague? Is her 400+ page book simply one sentence after another of snide remarks, juvenile nicknames and revisionist history?
I am at the end of my rope with this woman. Will NO ONE tell her she is making an astronomical d*ck out of herself? Or are they too busy cashing the checks?
And lamenting LEVI doing X rated material? Really?!? How about her new BFF Carrie? HER video was so racy even TMZ didn’t want to post it! TM-freaking-Z! As in, the celebrity tabloid gossip people who will stop at nothing to get the story! Even THEY have boundaries.
Oh the humanity. Seriously. And, I highly doubt all this scrutiny will result in a meltdown – she is too craven and power hungry to let it stop it. She’ll just roll out more victim stories and her supporters will get even more riled up.
Heavens. I thought I was prepared for this week but honestly, I am all Palin-ed out. Get her away from me!!!
Never underestimate this woman. It is true that she can not accept responsibility for her actions and words but that is only because in her (sick) mind she makes no mistakes. She is driven by her belief in her own perfection and her desire for greater wealth, power and celebrity. Remember, she believes that she is God’s chosen one. I would be very happy to see her go far far away but, alas, I do not think my wish is soon to be granted. McCain owes the American people an explanation and an apology about unleashing her but he wants to take the high road so says nothing. His silence further empowers her which is truly frightening. To use her infamous words (or something close to), “Like many Americans I’m talking to, I’m ill about this.”
“think of it as… NO SPEECH. ”
Ok, I’ll bite. WHY not put the precious speech in the xyxyx book?
#15 A Fan from CA:
I really enjoyed Max Blumenthal’s article on Palin and the “personal crises” politics she plays so well.
I’m a Christian and read the bible every day and pray to God every day. The thing that IRKS me the MOST about the evangelicals that support Palin is their TOTAL and UTTER lack of sense. This woman is not a real Christian. She lies every times she opens her mouth. Everything she does and says is vindictive and her life mission is one big vendetta. She is a terrible example for non-Christians and it’s NO WONDER people are leaving the church in DROVES. After seeing the behaviour of Palin and her supporters, I am tempted to do otherwise.
However – my faith is in GOD and not in a person, no matter how noble they appear to be. People are fallible and as a Christian, I choose to put my faith in God and the bible. Does it mean I pray for help and guidance? Absolutely. Does it mean I forgo all self control, personal responsibility and common sense? Absolutely not! I can not stand these egotistical judgemental Christians who are SO QUICK and EAGER to point an accusing finger. They are a shame to the name of Christ.
Jesus himself asked the mob who was ready to stone the adulteress that whoever has no sin should cast the first stone. Unfortunately – a lot of Christians these days really do believe they have no sin, because they are Christians. It’s a disgrace and so are they. May God forgive us Christians for setting a shameful example.
Gosh AKM, I sure hope you got a WHINE flu shot before exposing yourself to all viral lying.
“I am tempted to do otherwise.” I meant – I am tempted to do the same.
Gindy51 Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
HC, Murdoch and GOP Kingmaker Malek let this book be published with out fact checking it. They WANT her to go down in flames with those who are sane. She is dangerous to the uber rich thugs who actually call the shots in the GOP and they know it.
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Runaway train: The GOP has been taken over by the very people-teabaggers and bible thumpers-that it used to exploit!
@aussiegal77
I’ve always wondered why Jesus didn’t ask where the adulter was. It’s like the adulteress did it all by her lonesome.
Thought this was cute and decided to pass it along……….
Sarah, Sarah, quite contrary
how does your garden grow?
With thorns and thistles
and Patriot missiles
and moose heads all in a row?
Takes loads and lots of time to collect all those little insults people hurled against her… no wonder she had no time to be governor.
aussiegal77…I would encourage you to share your thoughts about Palin’s Christian values with some of the people in the conservative movement (and at the GOP) that adore her.
Oh, AKM, you are a real trooper, digging through the dirt so that others won’t have to.
Think I better say a Huge Thank You!
I think Levi pretty much laid waste to the claims of her being a hunter, and I don’t believe the “field dressing a moose” for a second. Didn’t even know what gun was under her bed, and wanted him to teach her to shoot it.
Google “pathological liar” Sarah’s picture should be posted by now….
sauerkraut: she probably has a rolodex of insults she has collected
What a bunch of self-aggrandizing, tedious drivel! I can’t believe the “No Speech” episode takes 4 pages to describe—no wonder the book’s 400 pages! It sounds as if she recounts every petty disagreement she’s ever been in. This book clearly is a major snoozer. But Max Blumenthal’s brilliant essay (found on HuffPo) will wake you up.
Johnny – I do not for a minute believe that. She’s just not smart enough to operate a rolodex.
AKM, is this typo in the book?
“Starts railing on Anne Kilkenny whose letter about Sarah Palin to her friends went viral on email and was posted at numerous sites on line. Calls her a “Birkenstock-and-granola Berkley grad.” She was friends with the evil town librarian”
Because if so, that’s proof that Harper Collins didn’t fact check.
Haven’t read the rest or comments.
Nope that was my own 2am typo! Thanks for catching it. There may be more of those before I’m done… AKM
NSWFM: the funny thing is that people will now go look up the Kilkenny letter again
You know, this is just getting creepy. Sort of like a hidden-away journal belonging to a person with some serious issues. Ick.
This just makes all the walking and knocking on doors and handing out Obama literature that I did for months worth it. Thank you Thank you Thank you this NUTJOB is not our VP.
413 pages of large font, lots of spaces at parahraph ends, lots of “….”‘s. Basically lots hot air, bullsh1t, and whining…
Were you guys all “riveted to watergate” at age 10, like Sarah was?
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Since Oprah is so big on pushing new books I wonder if she will be doing any interviews for Going Rouge? AKM and Shannyn would be a great place to start!!
This might have been mentioned previously (I have been out of the loop for two days)…
Amazon states Going Rogue is 432 pages as a preorder
(Product Details * Hardcover: 432 pages)
and yet those with the book in hand say it’s 413 pages. It went from 432 in September to 413 in November. What happened to 19 pages??? Are these the missing Levi pages?
Thanks for posting these potential H-bomb tidbits. My question is . . . aren’t some of the people that The Thing is bashing so blithely private citizens (such as Anne Kilkenny?) Can they sue the creep for blasting them without full disclosure beforehand? When I wrote my book, everyone mentioned or pictured had to be contacted ahead of time by the publisher’s legal department, even their estates if deceased, if one could be found. Oh, wait, that’s right, I forgot. They hadda get the most anticipated tome since the Bible out to the racks fast–no index, no checkin’, no nothin’. Any one of them could have held up publication for a retraction. Tuh.
T-shirt idea to get the message out: one side has “Going Rogue: The Pages on Which Sarah Palin Lies” and on the back, simply list the pages in columns, 1-400. And the front and back covers.
Misfit — What will be funny is if she accidently signs “going rouge” at one of those book store events.
I liked it better when you told us what was on the quilt.
She must not get any sleep at night obsessing over all of the bad things that people have said and done against her.
Poor little thin-skinned thing… And she’s in politics because… why?
Correction to above: pages 1-413. Sorry, thought it was “only” 400!
That made me bleed from all seven openings in my head. ‘Going Rogue” needs to be declared a superfund site, and given a surgeon general’s warning…”Warning: The contents of this book may cause permanent IQ reduction, thinking and language handicaps. Pregnant women and children under 18 should not be exposed to more than one page per day.”
Well, at least now we know what was in that journal she was keeping. I’ll bet it didn’t have anything on governing.
Am I suffering with Palin syndrome? Since last night, and today, I’ve got a headache behind the eyes. Not because of reading so much, but the content is so stressful. Lying is not just about doing a wrong. It goes much deeper, it’s tentacles slithering, spilling into other people’s lives, upsetting family, friends, acquaintances, the general public…….lying has a nasty way of leaving everyone in it’s wake depressed, sick and tired.
She doesn’t even realize how this will have psychological repercussions for her and family in the future. Having lived with a family member with NPD, I know the negative psychological effects, and the many years of deprogramming from pathological liars takes.
For her kids and grandkid’s sake, may she reconsider her actions. This book can’t get unprinted. Once it’s out there, it’s targeting and hurting only herself.
pantsonfire Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Amazon states Going Rogue is 432 pages as a preorder
(Product Details * Hardcover: 432 pages)
and yet those with the book in hand say it’s 413 pages. It went from 432 in September to 413 in November. What happened to 19 pages??? Are these the missing Levi pages?
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Nice catch. Proof that SOMETHING got nixed at the last minute. (Explains lack of index also, too.)
Here’s the exact Amazon listing info:
Product Details
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (November 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061939897
ISBN-13: 978-0061939891
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Wonder how long until it gets scrubbed… er… “corrected”?? Will XINO blame Amazon for “makin’ pages up”???
I can’t decide if I’m going to be sick, or if I am in need of popcorn, adult beverages, chocolate, or a quiet room locked away from the world. Perhaps I should just shut the computer and go do something useful like laundry and dishes.
AKM – thank you from the bottom of my sanity for reading this awful drivel and sharing it in small doses for the rest of us. I don’t know how you do it!
I wonder when the first libel suit will be filed against Palin for what is in this book.
39 Johnny Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Were you guys all “riveted to watergate” at age 10, like Sarah was?
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Nope…I was mad Gilligan’s Island wasn’t on when I got home from school (although Sam Ervin did sorta remind me of the Skipper).
Thank you for taking one for the team. I desperately want to know what Miss Whackydoodle is up to, but I can’t suffer through fiction at the hands of two hateful girls from church.
Palin and her ghostwriter went full tilt meanass high school warfare in this tomb, but saved their nastiest spitballs for Katie Couric. I can just see them now huddled together in front of a laptop and cackling as Bible Spice says, “Oh, I know, I know! Let’s get her with the ‘ol , I feel sorry for her trick. That’ll piss Couric off!” Click, click…”Wallace said Katie had low self-esteem.” Cackle. Cackle. Click, click, “I felt sorry for her because her ratings were so low.” Cackle. Cackle.
May Pain fail.
And no, I’ll never feel sorry for her.
Obamanos!
This is all nuts, to be sure. One has to wonder about the autobiography route — it’s not as though that does not beg for a fact-check on the part of the press. She could have gone the alternate route and done some sort of pithy faith-based thoughts/encouragement/??? book and sold it by the zillions WITHOUT it being subject to truth vs. lies checks. After all, if she says that she keeps her faith by praying every day and wearing red high heels as a biblical statement, well, who can refute that?
But no, she just had to go down the autobiography road, the vendetta thing, sliming everyone & anyone w/whom she has a bone to pick. I sincerely hope that what comes around goes around re: her and her book. Andrew Halcro’s words about libel sound ominous, and it could be that she has plenty of that to come, from REPUBLICANS, so it would then be hard to play the liberal-media-hates-me card.
I like the idea above that mentioned that it was a deliberate play on the part of Murdoch et al to expose her lies and expose her to the legal woes that sometimes come with true defamation & libel, an effort, perhaps, to push her to the fringes with her supporters.
I was a registered Republican for 20 years, and I can say that she does not represent or support any of my political beliefs — she & her 20% wingnut supporters need to start their own crazy party. The real Republicans needs to ensure that their dollars are not going to anything that she has anything to do with. Let’s see… ConocoPhillips and the like or a bunch of unemployed teabagging yokels… which one fills the coffers?
#20 Aussiegal: Amen!
Get a look at a “new & improved” front cover from Patrick/Palingates!
http://image.blingee.com/images17/content/output/000/000/000/5f6/505242708_96204.gif
I did not see a page count on Amazon. Is it in the advance search capability?
AKM, thanks for reading this. Wow, can’t get over the petty, name calling. I have tried to stay above the fray and will still do so. But I completely now understand why folks come down on her.
This book is headache country.
There are mental health issue floating around and they are all hers.
Is “opposition research” looking into “opposite marriage?”
I remember John McCain’s concession speech, it was great. Imagine if she gave her “speech” after. Sarah is self destructive!
I am shocked I tell you – just dumbfounded that the McC professional campaign staff, involved in state & national elections — had the absolute GALL not to follow the tips & suggestions of this campaign honed world traveled – high ranking pit-bull hockey mom governor on how to win a national election.
Just shocked !
PS: I was 17 at the time, but I did watch the Watergate Hearings – especially enjoyed John Dean & Fred Thompson -
Obvious lies, irrationality and whining–but she’s so PRETTY! There’s something really strange about all the real news people–like Andrea Mitchell–spending so much time on this wretched book (knowing full well it is wretched) because a certain segment get off on Sarah. Seems to me her appeal is verging on creepy political fantasy right now.
I’m eagerly awaiting the 1,000 page book written by a coterie of contributors that debunk Palin’s tome line by line.
This piecemeal dissection by you, AKM, Geoffrey Dunn, the AP, Factcheck.org, the McCain campaign staffers (whom I hear McCain has attempted to muzzle), etc., with debunking scattered all over the Internet needs to be compiled in one place.
Then we thoughtful, discerning, curious people can buy THAT book and put it on our bookshelves next to our Bible — or our copies of “Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams of My Father” and any books written by one of the Kennedy brothers, or any number of books written by respected diplomats and public servants who’ve truly represented the best of politicians we’ve chosen to lead us.
10catsinMD Says:
November 16th, 2009 at 11:54 AM
I did not see a page count on Amazon. Is it in the advance search capability?
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Go here: http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258404611&sr=8-1
and scroll down to just below “About the Author” to the “Product Details” section.
AKM, thanks for giving us this in small doses. I don’t think I could read it for myself, especially not since it seems to be, as others have pointed out, written like some bad junior high version of a life. I can’t believe that we had to deal with her as a VP candidate (thanks for nothin, McCain) and now we still have her showing up on talk shows and news shows. Speaking of talk shows, I just saw new clips from Oprah’s show and SP’s body language speaks volumes. She looks like she could spit nails.
@ #20 aussiegal77: I couldn’t have said it better myself. So much of what comes from the “Christian” right has nothing to do with anything in the Bible or with the way Christians are to act or behave towards others. Thanks for stating it all so clearly.
@39 Johnny: I was riveted to watergate, but not at age 10. I was in my mid-20s and we spent that summer in a very small town where I knew no one and people weren’t very friendly. Hubby was working all day so I stayed in the apt. where it was at least cool. And all that was on TV was everything about Watergate. Honestly, I don’t believe that any normal 10 year old would have watched more than 30 minutes. Hmmm, guess that explains it.
pantsonfire said, “…and yet those with the book in hand say it’s 413 pages. It went from 432 in September to 413 in November. What happened to 19 pages??? Are these the missing Levi pages?”
Sorta reminds one of the “missing 18 minutes”, doesn’t it?
Maybe some enterprising junior editor at HarperCollins will bring the missing 19 pages with him/her when he/she decides working at HC is no longer in his/her best interest — a lthough I think the 19 pages will ever see the light of day due to some sort of non-disclosure clause, unless it could be leaked totally anonymously.
What’s all this “opposition research,” AKM?
Hooray! Just received email confirming my copy of Going Rouge has been shipped and will arrive tomorrow…….can hardy wait!
By the way, “Going Rogue” is now…
$9.00 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Quality stuff, I tell’ya!
Okay.
Everything good that happens in Palin’s life is due to God.
Everything bad that happens is everyone elses fault.
What ever happened to ‘Free Will’?
And to be honest, even Bristol’s pregnancy was Obama’s fault!
Shay, thanks for keeping up and informing us. I just can’t watch it. Its to much for me. Honestly to watch her makes me very ill.
I’m waiting for my library to have it on audio tape. Will listen to her screachy voice for a few minutes at a time. That is all I can bear.
One of the worst voices in political life, Of course some irritating right wing talk host are a close second.
Guys, don’t read anything into the page count discrepancies. The Amazon page for the book was put up long before there was a draft of it, let alone a final layout or physical book. 432 pages was a guess.
There’s no conspiracy here. Just Ms. Palin falling short of expectations. (Tell me you’re shocked.)
Thank you, AKM. I don’t think my stomach would allow me to do that much reading of the poor, pitiful, pailin primer. As others have said, it’s hard to believe she has a jounalism degree. I took journalism in high school and believe I learned more about than she knows. pailin must stay awake all night obsessing about every little thing anyone says about her.
Thanks Mudflats… From “a maniacal blogger”
Wear it like a badge, my friend! AKM
Just to put this interview with Quittypants into perspective, Oprah’s guest tomorrow is P(o)rn Queen, Jenna Jamison.
At least Jenna Jamison admits what she is! (and doesn’t drag her kid on the show).
With Jenna, Sarah and the woman who got her face ripped off by a chimp, Oprah is going through the entire freak show for sweeps week!
Sorry if mentiond before in these comments, but why is her book $9.00 on Amazon? It’s like they are putting it in the remainder bin before it comes out! Nine bucks!
My overall impression of the Oprah interview was that it appeared to be a convention for stress monkeys. I saw utter panic in Sarah’s eyes more than once, and an expression on Oprah’s face like, “Whew, I got through another segment still acting like a lady!”
I find myself very sadly witnessing the self-destruction of another woman and fellow human being. I know it is richly deserved and don’t feel in any way responsible, but it is still sad.
AKM, I owe you a case of wine for jeopordizing the health of your brain and doing such a greaat synopsis of each page. Thank you for sparing me from having to read the mess myself.
SP told another “Pants on Fire” at Oprah tonight! Said, in regard to the McCain folks not letting her give a concession speech, that the reason was that VP candidates do not give concession speeches. She said, in essence that of course they do, she had heard them. See below:
“Speeches were never delivered because a) Palin lost, and b) vice presidential candidates don’t deliver election night concession speeches in America, a tradition with which Palin was unfamiliar because she’s from Alaska. McCain had to personally intervene to tell her she couldn’t have the podium, and his staffers brought the house lights down when Palin stayed on the stage to take photos with her family for fear she’d grab the mic.”
What I don’t get is how anyone could want anything to do with her especially after this — two things stuck in my “craw”
First (small thing first) — talking of possible divorce from 1st Dude (gag) there is no talk of shared family or love but makes up her mind because she thinks he’s a hunk — them family values right?
Second — I think in her Barbara W interview she has a statement (preview) that their campaign lost because of the staff and their mis-management and lies and its all their fault but she’ll take responsibility — oh really? Let me help you up on your cross and hand you a nail — no she talks about getting on the cross while she’s busy nailing everyone else to the wood — can’t someone with guts call her on this — Walters? anyone?
I just finished watching Oprah. Sarah contradicts what she has written in her own book!
It was a softball interview, but at times it looked to me that even Oprah didn’t believe much of what came out of Palin’s mouth. Of course, she had already read the book. But Oprah never really followed up any questions. She let Palin get away with her claim about Obama’s people doing opposition research on her after the election.
When Oprah asked her about quitting being Gov., you get the standard non-answer, that she is not a quitter. How she can do so much more without a “title”. Then Oprah said, “I’ll say”. That was the best part of the entire interview.
The only thing other than that one reaction from Oprah was that Sarah was continually contradicting things that she had written.
I’m looking forward to you blogging about this, AKM. Good luck with it. I wanted to reach inside the teevee and slap the shit out of Palin just on principle.
One other thing. She swore that other losing Veep candidates have given concession speeches after losing elections before. I don’t ever recall that happening. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
One other thing. She said the only skeleton in her closet, (as far as being vetted for veep) was that she got a D on a college paper. Perfect Sarah. That’s the only thing that she said she had to hide, as the campaign already knew that Bristol was pregnant.
Maybe McCain’s campaign should have spent a little more money on Ms Winki’s wardrobe… she could have used some big girl p@nties!
Re. the Letterman joke and her criticism of it, does she still not understand that statutory rape means consensual sex with someone who is underage or is she still in the land where multisyllabic words equal harsher definitions?
They named their baby girl after an airplane and a secessionist party?!!!!
Piper Indi.
That should help in ads against her.
How much more proof does the world need that the Palins are out of their flipping minds?
This is not going well, that was just the first exerpt and I’ve had a cow already.
The book will be in the bargain book bins by month’s end.
Well, maybe Oprah can´t play it hard on Sarah, but this attention certainly has brought a lot of attention here, where SP would never want it. HEhehehe, it was pretty hard getting on Mudflats tonight. Thankyou for keeping the light lit on the truth. Oprah, , how did you feel after that interview? She was having you on and you know. Hope you got yourself a decent book to read after that!
VoteNov4 @ #88 —- i have to say that i did not get the reference that statutory rape was consensual. oops. that makes it way worse coming from mom and dad, don’t it?
yuck. what young girl wants their parents saying crap like that about them?
i really don’t like these two – toados y s’error – they are creepy on steroids.
Can someone explain to me why, in reference to SP, “Going Rogue” is seen as a virtue – but was used as a pejorative against Walt Monegan? One of the first on her enemies list along with Trooper Wooten.
Pants on fire,
You really caught a “big” lead into something, the missing pages. Sounds like McQuitty pants pulled a whole chapter. LOL!! Sarah Palin must really be afraid of young Mr Johnston!! Go Levi Go!!!
Pants on fire,
You really caught a “big” lead into something, the missing pages. Sounds like McQuitty pants pulled a whole chapter. LOL!! Sarah Palin must really be afraid of young Mr Johnston!! Go Levi Go!!!
From CNN with John King, Nov. 13, 2009:
In Wasilla and across Alaska, most believe Palin has future — and national — political ambitions, and there is considerable curiosity about what she might say in the new book.
Among those near certain to get a mention is Gov. Sean Parnell, who was lieutenant governor until Palin’s abrupt resignation in July.
“I can really say nothing except that I wish her the best because she treated me and her fellow Alaskans so well and looked out for us so well,” Parnell told CNN in a recent interview at the governor’s office in Anchorage.
“Do you as governor pick up the phone at all and say, you know, ‘This is a tough one, let me seek her advice?’ ” we asked.
“We keep in touch on a personal basis,” Parnell said. “I haven’t, we haven’t, had the policy consults or anything, but we
keep in touch.”
“You going to read the book?”
“Of course I am going to read the book.” //
Parnell is Palin in Pants.
#81-Gramiam
I hope you are right and what you saw in her eyes means she recognizes how far over her head she is.
I like John Stein and Anne Kilkenny. They are intelligent, honorable, Christian people, and are the kind of people who, along with their families, you’d be happy to sit down to a holiday meal with. They have both done good deeds in this community. Any negative comments Sarah has made about them further diminish her.
Sarah says she was embarrassed about getting a “D” in a college class. But I am wondering how many classes she flunked outright. After all–didn’t it take 5 or 6 colleges before she got a degree in ? something?
I really hope that everyone will participate in this.
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Anyone catch babawawa on ABC? Palin is dripping with pink cotton candy lip gloss and she made herself up with the lipstick extending way beyond her normal lips….doesn’t look too good in the closeups. I kept wondering how they got that much on her. Sad that she even let her youngest wear makeup on the show.