Chapter Two – Kitchen Table Politics
Here we go with chapter two. (Deep breath)
Page 63
First sentence – “When I first got into Wasilla city politics, I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce the mayor’s name.” So, what do you suppose the mayor’s name was? Wojciechowski? Finnbogadottir? No, actually it was Stein. Pronounced the regular way. John Stein.
You know… like FrankenSTEIN, or beer STEIN, STEINway, STEINbeck… And John. Like McCain.
Nick Carney got her into politics. He was a snooty golfer and didn’t wear duct-taped bunny boots. Recruited her to run for City Council. (Thanks a lot, Nick.)
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Group Watch on Wasilla was looking for “progressive” candidates. Back in those days it didn’t mean librul. She took it in “the more common sense spirit of “progressing” our young city by providing the tools for the private sector to grow and prosper.”
She ran for office going door to door pulling her kids on a sled.
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Wasilla needed a police department and they had to pay for it with either a property tax or a sales tax. She went for a “fairer and more optional” sales tax even though she didn’t want it. Got her in bad with Republicans who hear the word tax and assumed she wanted it. Tax passed.
Didn’t get along with old white guys in the city council. They wanted to talk about regulating how many children someone could babysit in their home at one time, and whether they ought to allow flashing signs and spinning barber poles. Valley residents are not “master-planned-community kind of people.” They don’t need no stinking rules, or zoning.
Page 66
Wasilla is the duct tape capital of the world. That means they’re all anti-government libertarians because they do everything themselves.
They wanted to pass a rule stating that residents of a particular subdivision had to pay for garbage removal. She voted no because she was “on the side of the people and preserve their freedom so that Wasilla could progress, and not restrict opportunities.”
Her fiscal conservatism kicked in. No raise for the mayor. But it happened anyway. (Hmmm. Wonder if she’ll mention the $50,000 redo of the mayor’s office when she was there?)
Page 67
Went into labor with Willow on the Fourth of July while kayaking. “I so wanted a patriotic baby that I paddled as hard as I could to speed up the contractions, but she held out until the next day.” (Ah yes, patriotic acceleration of childbirth. So very normal and healthy.)
Willow was “raised on Todd’s hip” for a few years.
She cut a commercial at a radio station for a local politician while breast-feeding Willow to keep her quiet. Pretended not to notice that anyone was shocked.
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Spent two hours on Xmas eve with kids all over the place and Todd signaling her to wrap it up, on the phone with some guy about the sewer system. Took it as proof that she really cared about her job. (Head bang)
Providence with a capital P took her to the governor’s mansion (metaphorically, since she wasn’t actually there much) and the VP trail.
Page 69
It’s time for the unpronounceable “John Stein” to be re-elected. Some guy told him he wasn’t impressed with his “public management” degree because “the public doesn’t need to be managed!”
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The unpronounceable John Stein wanted things like land use restrictions and building codes. She decided to run against him to protect Wasilla from big government. “As every Iditarod musher knows, if you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.” (More bumper sticker wisdom)
She ran again, this time with Track and Bristol in a wagon and Willow in a back pack. She promised to take a pay cut, and Todd was not happy with this.
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Someone told her she would never win because she had 3 small kids. This made the “Mama bear” rise up in her and made her more determined to win. (That makes no sense I can decipher. Anyone?) She won the election.
Page 72
Nobody welcomed her into the mayors office and told her what to do. Everyone disliked her for various reasons because they were all older than her, and she had run against someone they liked, etc. They all stared at her with their arms crossed and defied her to make them work for her. She wanted a team and they wanted no part of it. She fired the museum curator because she wasn’t needed.
Page 73
She asked everyone to write a letter of resignation so she could keep it on file for the future just in case she ever wanted to replace them. Most people didn’t want to do that and got bent out of shape. She knew then that they wouldn’t be team players.
Nick Carney launched a recall effort because she was too inexperienced. Accused her of taking the pay cut to shoehorn herself into a lower tax bracket. “Hmmmmm, I thought, wish I’d thought of that.” (So, she would have done what they accused her of if she had thought of it??)
Slams police chief, for taking an aerobics class… (?) Wants him to cut his budget and he says it can’t be done.
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The thing in her office that everyone thought was a fancy marble desk was just an old kitchen table that she was rescuing from her kids drawing on it with Sharpie markers.
A woman came to her office and said she was praying for her daughter who got caught smoking pot. It wasn’t her daughter it was “another nearby mayor who did have a teenage daughter who may have been smoking weed.” (Weed?)
Page 75
She was horrified at the prayer chain gossip mill that repeated this rumor that she is repeating in the book. She learned later that there are people who win prestigious awards for believing unsubstantiated rumors and telling other people about them. (eye roll)
She couldn’t go to her favorite coffee place when she was pregnant with Piper because the smell of smoke nauseated her. But she didn’t look to push through legislation banning smoking in restaurants. She just stopped going and the cafe just magically became smoke-free all on its own, which is how it all should magically work out every time.
She continued to go to the shooting range when she was pregnant with Piper.
Page 76
Her friends threw her a baby shower for Piper at the 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.
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Talks about feeling like the mayor of Peyton Place. Cut taxes. Lots of taxes. Cut cut cut. New conservatives worked with her. Soon Wasilla was open for giant box stores like Fred Meyer and a WalMart Super store. Plus she built the giant sports complex.
Page 78
“Issues multiplied” with the police chief and she fired him after he “forced her hand.” She didn’t know how to fire him and nobody else did either. He sued her on the grounds that he fired her for “sexual discrimination” because he must have thought that he intimidated her because he was a big man and she was a small woman. (Perhaps this is because that is what she SAID, but I quibble…)
The unpronounceable John Stein wanted to run against her again. He called her a cheerleader. “A cheerleader? I thought. Come on, don’t insult cheerleaders like that. I was just a jock and a I couldn’t hold a candle to their pep and coordination.”
***************head bang/cold water on face break**************
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John Stein referred to her as a Spice Girl and a female reporter wanted to commiserate with her and milk the sexist comment for all it was worth. But Sarah said no. We simply have to rise above the fray and work twice as hard to look half as capable as men think they are. “Then I gave her a wink and whispered the old familiar punchline, “Thankfully, it’s not that difficult.” (Would that not be…a reverse sexist insult? Just askin.)
Page 81
9/11 – Where would be hit next? The Alaska pipeline? She monitored things from her Wasilla office. Later she prayed for the victims.
Her parents traveled to NYC later to help. They got a temp job with the USDA Wildlife Services keeping predators and pests away from the landfill as detectives searched for remains at the Fresh Kills landfill. (I DID NOT WANT TO KNOW THAT!!!)
Page 82
“Alaskans were just coming off eight years of a Democrat governor, Tony Knowles. Knowles was quite liberal – he was later considered by President Barack Obama for a cabinet position.” (Ah, the DemocrAT party again. She really has no interest at all in any of them.)
Talks about Stevens, Murkowski (Frank) and Don Young as being the strongest congressional delegation in the country bringing in more federal money per capita to Alaska than any other state did. But she argues against that notion. Alaska should be a giver, not a taker.
Page 83
Home life was busy. Todd was building their new house. They were moving. They had three kids plus a new baby. Todd worked on the Slope. The kids were playing sports. She was coaching. She was the mayor. Todd was preparing for the Iron Dog snowmachine race. And she decided to run for Lt. Governor.
She wrote a contemplative prayer in her journal, and “somehow I knew that God was working on something significant ahead in our small-town life, and I felt myself seeking something ahead.”
Page 84
Those running against her didn’t have “executive experience” only legislative experience. And experience doesn’t count anyway. If she won for Lt. Governor, she joked, “Frank Murkowski wouldn’t need a food tester.” (Neither would John McCain)
Disses Karl Marx.
Page 85
Free market principles. Conservative fiscal policies. “National leaders have a responsiblity to respect the Tenth Amendment and keep their hands off the states.” The old Jeffersonian view. (*Note to Sarah Palin. It was also Thomas Jefferson who was part of the Democratic Republican party which was shortened to DemocratIC party. So, a little respect for Jefferson please.)
Page 86
Everyone else was “be-bopping” all over the state raising money and she only had $40,000. She didn’t like asking for money. “There were times when I thought, You know what I could really use? A wife. (How about a personal assistant, while you’re busy not being sexist.) She didn’t have a fire in the belly and ran a lackluster campaign.
Page 87
Todd’s mother was running to replace her as mayor, even though Sarah thought their parents were “too smart and too nice” to get into politics. (Meaning she’s mean & stupid? Hey, I didn’t say it) And the evil unpronounceable John Stein was thinkng about running for mayor, so she decided that she’d recruit somebody else and support them. She did this WITHOUT TELLING TODD that she was basically working against his mother. Then the candidate spilled the beans, Todd found out. “I was busted,” she said. Todd called her two-faced, but really she just wanted to save Wasilla from the libruls and she didn’t think Faye could win.
Page 88
An uncomfortable recounting of a back and forth arguement between Sarah and Todd. She’s “two-faced” and unsupportive. He’s always tinkering in the garage. bla bla bla. She admitted that she was wrong and self-centered. She lost the Lt. Governor’s race.
Page 89
She will not make the mistake of running an apathetic campaign again. (Again?)
Worked on electing Murkowski. Did whistle-stop tour with Ted Stevens. “Emerald green mountains plunging straight down into brilliant blue waters surrounded by picturesque fishing villages…glacier-covered mountains forming a spine that juts down the coast. Communities ringed by green islands rising out of waters that house whales and copious sea life, tidewater glaciers and the towering trees of Chugach National Forest” (Paging Mr. Shatner!)
Page 90
After Murkowski won, he had to appoint a replacement to his Senate seat. She wasn’t sure if she felt comfortable being on the short list, not being sure she’d fit in to a group that required loyalty to a party machine. “I didn’t know if there was room for one more maverick on Capitol Hill.” But national service was appealing.
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Interview with Frank Murkowski for Senate job. Says he looks like an insurance salesman, and picked a controversial Attorney General who left in a cloud of scandal. (Gee, THAT sounds familiar, doesn’t it?)
Page 92
Murkowski tells her political life is tough on kids. What would she do with her kids? She didn’t understand HOW BRUTAL political life in DC is on kids. She knew she didn’t get the job. She would have gotten it if it weren’t for him being all kind and worrying about her and her family. Oh, well. She was sad for seven seconds, then went to a basketball game. Excellent post on this page at Henkimaa – HERE.
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Frank Murkowski gave the senate seat to his daughter, who had two young kids. He made her chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission filling the seat to be occupied by a member of the public.
Page 94
Target – Randy Ruedrich, head of the state GOP and the commissioner from the petroleum industry. Ruedrich is bad and corrupt. She was accused of “being in bed” with the oil industry (Todd) He’s not management, “he actually works.”
Page 95-97
Still slamming Ruedrich. He was doing campaign work on his state time and computer. She wasn’t allowed to talk about it.
Page 98
Sarah as whistleblower. “If I die, I die.” (Nice Biblican reference again. I’m sure it will be back later.)
Page 99
Ruedrich was gone and she wanted to speak publicly. The public had a right to know what went on. (Wow. A love of transparent government… What happened THERE?) She prayed and then quit. (Interesting)
Page 100
Praises and then slams Hollis French.
Here we go. Mike Wooten.
Her sister Molly who was perfect, was swept off her feet by him. He’d been married and divorced twice, filed for bankruptcy and had infidelity issues, none of which she knew about.
Page 101
Addresses the glowing and effusive letter of recommendation she wrote for Mike Wooten while she was serving as mayor. “Mike asked me to write him a recommendation for the Alaska STate Trooper Academy, ans I did for lots of people applying for different programs and scholarships.” That’s it.
Goes through the laundry list of Wooten stuff. Drunk driving, threatening her dad, tasing the stepson. And remarkably brings up the shooting of a moose illegally but does not mention her dad was with him, and was the one who butchered it and doled it out to the family.
Page 102
“This sad family episode would later be twisted and used as a political weapon against me and John McCain.”
(AAAAARGH! The spin is making me nauseous.)
Page 103
“There was a longing inside me that winter, a sense of purpose hovering just beyond my vision. Was it ambition? I didn’t think so. Ambition drives; purpose beckons. Purpose calls.” (Sudden urge to brush my teeth.)
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God opens doors. She vowed to seek those open doors. Women are looked at badly for looking for doors.
End of Chapter Two, and this endless endless book is now 1/4 over. Oy.
I don’t know how you do it. I am exhausted.
Here’s some of her commonsense answers on Rush’s book interview today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/sarah-palin-tells-rush-li_b_361337.html
Trying to “help”…………
Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” was published without an index — the alphabetical list of subjects and their page numbers which usually accompanies any biography or memoir.
The lack of an index has already sparked a conspiracy theory that it represents Palin’s attempt to frustrate pesky reporters and Washington insiders — though publishing sources insist that Harper Collins staffers didn’t have the time to put one together before the book was shipped off to the printers.
So, in the interest of providing a useful service to the public, here is an unofficial index to the book:
“Soapy Smith,” Wild West crime boss: 13
Abortion, questions during Alaska Republican primary: 115-116
Abstinence-only education: 237-238
AGIA vote and the pipeline: 204-207
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, serving as chair: 93-100
Anti-hunting groups are clueless: 19, 133-134
AP set-up of press conference with commissioners: 345-346
Arctic Cat logo controversy: 355
Arguing with a nun that the letter E was too “naked”: 9
Attempts to fly, fails: 8
Beatty, Warren – conversation: 301
Becoming a sports reporter: 28-29
Biden, Joe – “Can I call you Joe?”: 289
Biden, Joe – stretching his quads: 296
Blitzer, Wolf – preferring his mother: 351
Bloggers and Internet rumors: 347-348
Bono, conversation: 301
Bristol pregnancy rumors: 238-239
Bristol, finding out she was pregnant: 207-208
Bristol’s pregnancy, announcement: 234-235
Cameron, Carl of Fox News: 298, 343
Campaign perks: 232-233
Cap and Tax plan: 390-391
Carnivore, personal philosophy: 18, 133
Change was our theme long before Obama: 114
Cheechakos: 17
Clinton, Hillary and media treatment: 286-287
Clothes-gate: 314-317
Clothing, flying it back to Alaska: 343-344
Clothing: 226, 230-232
CommonSense conservatives: 384-388
Corruption in Juneau, FBI’s VECO probe: 141-142, 155, 161
Coulter, Ann – “spot on” in Biden remarks: 288
Couric, Katie – feeling sorry for: 255-256
Couric, Katie – interview: 271-279
Creationism vs. evolution: 217-219
Debate – “think hair plugs!” 296-297
Debate preparation: 281-289
Down syndrome: 249-251
Election night speech and faceoff with McCain camp: 332-337
Emails, hacked: 262-266
Emanuel, Rahm and the Chicago treatment: 368-369
Ethics attacks, loss of reputation: 372-375
Exxon Valdez accident: 59-62
Fey, Tina: 310
FOIA and critics: 352-356
Free Sarah campaign: 255-258
Frugality as governor: 147-148
Gay marriage: 143
Getting “the call” from John McCain: 6
Getting a D in college once: 112
Getting baptized in Big Lake: 22
Getting pulled over by state troopers for riding a snow machine: 18
Gibson, Charlie – interview: 270-271
Governor of Alaska, running for office: 110-114
Governor, first budget: 148-154
Governor, picking a team: 139-140
Governor’s mansion, setting off the smoke alarm: 132
Governor’s race, Republican primary:
Governor’s race, Republican primary: 114-119
Groundhog Day, movie: 277
Growing up in a house where “butt” was a bad word: 26
Halcro, Andrew – “effete” opponent during Republican primary: 116
Halford, Rick – friend and political mentor: 106-107
Halloween on the campaign: 324-326
Ifill, Gwen as debate moderator while writing pro-Obama book: 281
Inauguration ceremony as governor: 120-123
Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder: 305-308
Judd, Ashley and wolf-control program: 134
Kerry, John – “elitist loon”: 181
Kid Rock: 300
Knowles, Tony – previous governor of Alaska: 82
Kudlow, Larry of CNBC – “I like his energy”: 206
Lauer, Matt: 351
Legal defense bills, payment: 363
Letterman, David and controversy: 350-351
Lieberman, Joe – a bright spot in Philly: 285-286
Lieutenant governor’s race: 82-86, 88-89
Lobbyist who gave rides to Willow and her basketball team: 137
Marrying Todd: 49
McCain camp feeding lies: 343-344
McCain campaign team, meeting: 227-228
McCain introducing Palin in Dayton, Ohio: 225-226
McCain, John – meeting for VP selection: 219-222
McLeod, Andree – the gadfly: 107-108
Meat, loving it: 18
Media, credibitily and counterfeit objectivity: 348-349
Miscarriage: 55-57
Miss America Scholarship Pageant: 42-44
Mitchell, Andrea: 379-380
Monegan, Walt – the definition of “insubordinate”: 201
Murkowski, Frank – former governor: 81-82
Murkowski, Frank – hypocrisy in naming his daughter to Senate seat: 90-93
Natural gas pipeline, first priority: 125-129, 156-164
O’Biden slip-of the lip: 289
Obama’s mistakes: 388-394
Oil industry, butting heads: 196-199
Opposition research, Alaska: 236-237
Palin’s birthday and the earthquake that followed: 7
Piper posing as poster child for Alaska Right to Life: 2-3
Poehler, Amy – comparing pregnancy to Bristol: 311
Pregnant and the birth of Track: 50-54
Reading, love of (during elementary school): 15, 27
Reagan, Ronald as an inspiration: 45-48
Registering to vote as a Republican: 45
Reporters who cornered Piper: 346-347
Republican convention speech: 239-246
Resignation announcement: 378-381
Resignation decision, inspired by Track: 375-378
Ruedrich, Randy – state GOP chairman and ethics complaints: 94-100
Running accident during debate prep: 290-291
Running, a lifelong passion: 27-28
Sarah Palin Is A C— T-shirt and Philadelphia: 279
Sarah’s grandfather was a celebrity photographer and her father grew up in Hollywood: 10
Sarkozy prank phone call, the merde hits the fan: 326-329
Schmidt, Steve – accusations of postpartum depression: 318
Schmidt, Steve – tension: 252-253, 261
Schmidt, Steve aka “The Bullet” – first meeting: 212-213
Schmidt, Steve and advice on Atkins diet: 284-285
Schmidt, Steve and Randy Scheunemann fight: 318-320
Scully, Matthew – convention speechwriter: 239-240
September 11, 2001, Palin’s reaction: 81
Smith, Andrew – first meeting: 229-230
SNL appearance: 308-314
Soul-searching: 102-104
Stapleton, Meg – Alaska spokeswoman, squashed by McCain camp : 253-254
Stein, John – challenging Palin, calls her a “Spice Girl”: 79-80
Stein, John – previous mayor of Wasilla: 69-72,
Stuffed cougar’s tail used as a way to measure the force of earthquakes: 16
Taking on the “good old boys” in Juneau: 4-5
Tea parties, promotion: 395
The B Team, meeting: 229-230, 247-248
Todd calls Sarah “two-faced” for not supporting his mom’s race for mayor: 86-88
Todd Palin “roared into my life in a 1972 Ford Mustang: 34-39
Todd, divorce rumors: 352
Track, almost naming him “Zamboni”: 53
Travel expenses scandal: 364-367
Trig, down syndrome: 176-180, 184-187
Trig, pregnancy results – “Holy geez!”: 171-174
Trig, water breaking and delivery: 191-196
Troopergate: 201-204, 246-247
Turkey slaughter video: 345
Vegans, dinner options at governor’s mansion: 133
Vetting for vice president: 213-219
Vogue magazine fashion shoot: 204-205
Wallace, Nicolle – first meeting: 227-228
Wallace, Nicolle – selecting clothes and stylist: 230-232
Warren, Rick – taking the call while in the shower: 302
Wasilla City Council, running for office: 63-65
Wasilla City Council, serving: 65-71
Wasilla City Hall, shaking things up: 72-74, 77-80
Wasilla Library, the rumor about banning books: 76-77
Wasilla Warriors: 39-41
Wasilla, running for mayor: 70-72
Wooten, Mike – Palin’s brother-in-law and state trooper with a temper: 100-102
Wright, Jeremiah “God Damn America”: 307
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/going-rogue-the-unofficia_n_360988.html
help me. somebody.
There also too…a handy index to Palin’s book published on huffpo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/going-rogue-the-unofficia_n_360988.html
Well, I got my new toupee today. That’s right … I’m Going Rug!
This hurts just reading it. I can’t imagine actually holding the book. Ick.
Weed! Love it!
uh…..
sarah sure is a vindictive little witch.
I haven’t even read the book, but there’s a big eyebleeder on page 92 about Frank Murkowski, about which I wrote a post — Palin adds a whole new definition of solipsism.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this!
Your reporting is HILARIOUS.
Not only do we NOT have to read that stupid book, we get your hilarious recaps.
Stein.
OMG!
I’m still laughing.
“Weed” ==> “Matanuska Gold” (well, we called that in the ’70′s). Everything grows big in the Matanuska Valley. And yes, Wasilla is there, too.
Great post Mel! Isn’t there a story about how PISSED Sarah was that she didn’t get the appointment?
It reads like… everything you really don’t won’t to know about her. Perhaps cable can dig up some Anna Nicole or Paris Hilton video clips to give everyone a break from the 24/7 Palin coverage.
Is the President still in Asia or did he drop off the planet?
You are so much tougher than I am. Sarah just makes me so sick. The only good thing is that it seems like she passing out the ammo at her own execution.
she is passing—sorry
kimosabe@5:
that’s my favorite post of the day!
I can only say thank you. I could not do it. No way. Simply don’t have the stomach and the eyes would certainly rebel. It seems more and more of the “conservative” media are now mocking her. We’ll see.
With all the outright lies and defamation of the honorable citizens of Wasilla, you would think that some folks out there will begin to come forward with the truth….
Sarah Palin really is a waste of skin.
Kathy and Christy are having a field day with the book right now on Studio 1080, http://www.kudo1080.com/
Country last
McCain & Lieberman should be ashamed of themselves.
(just a passing thought).
Check out these newly released emails!
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/11/e-mails_portray_palin_campaign_trail_chaos.php
Whoo Hoo! Now Linda Kellen Biegel on
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Someone told her she would never win because she had 3 small kids. This made the “Mama bear” rise up in her and made her more determined to win. (That makes no sense I can decipher. Anyone?) She won the election.
Just more brain salad from Sarah.
Also too, dogs and most animals see to the side not to the front so the not lead dogs see the passing view just about as well as the lead dogs, who are actually blind to what is directly in front of them.
Sarah tosses up whatever words or phrases she thinks will sound good at the moment.
“Only dead fish swim down stream.” Except baby salmon do. And so do some eels. Brain salad.
Palin’s book is mind-numbingly boring.
I’m surprised she left out the special meatloaf she made back in the 1990′s.
Mel Green….you’re so right in your excellent post. Sloppy solipsism.
AKM….unbelievable fortitude for reading this narcissistic clap-trap.
Yikes! It only gets worse and worse.
I feel like I’m in that scene from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” where people are out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, with their lawn chairs and BBQ grills waiting for the flying saucer show…
except instead of a cute UFO light show, we have a trainwreck.
still entertaining…in a psychotic sorta way
Just when I need a mental cleansing momma moose and one of her yearlings just came and parked themselves in my yard, eating the clematis vines and finishing off the frozen sweet pea vines.
Thank you momma moose for giving me a much needed break from the Palin madness!
Also too, Thanks AKM for taking one for the team and sharing with us!
20 BigPete Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Country last
McCain & Lieberman should be ashamed of themselves.
(just a passing thought).
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EXACTLY!
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“When I first got into Wasilla city politics, I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce the mayor’s name.” So, what do you suppose the mayor’s name was? Wojciechowski? Finnbogadottir? No, actually it was Stein. Pronounced the regular way. John Stein.”
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Didn’t she have a bar stool named after her at the local watering hole? She can’t pronounce STEIN, a single syllable name? Did the local watering hole not use beer steins?
And we thought she was a rube….how could we?
On a happy note:
Here’s a book review from a conservative:
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=120508053&m=120513332
She sure is special & so very mavericky. What an iconoclast.
AKM – There’s been lots of conversation all over the blogs, regarding possible missing pages. Amazon’s blurb cites 432, but the book only has numbering to 413. Can you do a quick count of blank and unnumbered pages and clarify this discrepancy? Thanks for all your tough work. You deserve a manicure, a pedicure, and matter of fact…… a whole day at a spa to recover your equilibrium for taking on this task!
This from one of the commenters on Palingates:
Like a couple previous commenters, I too work i publishing. Before everybody gets into a tizzy about the “missing pages” I’d like to point out that 432 is likely the number of physical pages that make up the book.
The actual text page count would be 413.
If you add to 413 all the unnumbered pages I’m assuming are there (frontispiece, title page, dedication page, copyright page and whatever else filler) you’ll get your magic number of 432.
If the blank pages in the back are counted it would be 418, not counting the end paper. Amazon could have been an estimate, or …who knows? AKM
Searching for the lowest price on her book. This one is for FREE!
On Palin’s face book page, she is selling her signature for $ 100 and you get the book for free (plus shipping and handling).
Lol….Keith has a graphic up with her picture and her nose a foot long, labeled:
Love it!
“Palinochio”
well, how can you stop at 9/11? how will we be able to sleep tonight having to wait until tomorro to find out what sp had to say about 9/11?
you are a cruel, cruel blogger.
perhaps you are trying to force me to read the book myself????? even crueler!!!
get back to the keyboard and report on the 9/11!! now, i say!!!!!!!! now!
Chris Matthews had Cynthia Tucker on to discuss the book. She was blunt: “She has always been petty, she has always been vindictive, she has always been a score-settler.”
Uh….tell us how you really feel!
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Wasilla is the duct tape capital of the world. That means they’re all anti-government libertarians because they do everything themselves.
A few rows of duct tape wrapped around the wart infected lip for 2-3 weeks might help cure your herpes, Sarah! It might even improve your poll ratings!
My head is spinning. How many years are we going to have to listen to her complain?
Seriously, did she even take time to eat an Atkins bar between attacking the AP and attacking Newsweek?
How long will she be in the news cycle attacking everyone and everything that offends HER. She offends me, where do I complain?
Don’t know how you are doing it AKM -
I would need to start drinking again to get through that word salad.
Am sure the book fact checkers had trouble figuring out what exactly was the fact in the 45 word sentence. Must have gone nuts trying to diagram those sentences!
Do not miss this! Yksin tweeted it just now and it is guaranteed to cure a headache! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrlpxqlZ0M&feature=player_embedded
Wealthy, effite Andrew Halco reading from S’error’s toilet paper.
What do we have to do to make this woman go away? I watch Obama in China, and when I remember that it could actually be Palin representing this country, I simply want to hurl.
I just want one thing from Santa this year: please, please make her go away.
@trisha – “How long will she be in the news cycle attacking everyone and everything that offends HER. She offends me, where do I complain?”
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Me too, yeah where can we all complain? Maybe McShame?
Sarah Palin has taken refrigerator magnet speak to a whole new level! Hazzah, beeotches, I can’t even pronounce Stein (I’m guessing she thought it was pronounced Steen…don’t they sell beer by the stein in Wasilla).
I mourn for the trees who lost their lives….
Thanks tantef! The Andrew Halcro bit was priceless. It must niggle her so that he is so much more mentally acute than she is and has such a better grasp on things like Alaska Oil and Gas!
Page 73
She asked everyone to write a letter of resignation so she could keep it on file for the future just in case she ever wanted to replace them. Most people didn’t want to do that and got bent out of shape. She knew then that they wouldn’t be team players.
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OMG………..I just caught this. For real? Have you ever heard of an employer asking everyone to write a letter of resignation to keep on file? They wouldn’t be team players? What a…..errrrr…witch. I can see that she throws everyone under the bus, not just McCain staffers. When will these people speak out?
I. swear. to. God. Anyone reading this sad drivel and not recognizing that this woman is too mentally ill to even dog sit should forfeit their right to vote. Sarah Palin in the White House would make the Founding Fathers cry.
wait. She ran against Tahd’s mother? In secret? What a b*tch.
I’m so sorry for you AKM. I can barely skim these posts without getting a headache, never mind actually reading her words.
No she supported and encouraged someone else to run against Todd’s mother. Still… AKM
Trisha 43:
I found that strange as well. Did they have a Human Resource Department to step in and say that is a no-no!? If a manager did that where I worked they would be called to the carpet and probably fired!!!!! This sounds strangely made-up and possibly another lie.
TRANSLATION, PLEASE!
what are ” bunny boots” and why would they have ( or not have) duct tape on them?
Why would she like ( or not like) somebody for wearing duct-tapeless bunny boots?
This from the wearer of yellow duck boots…
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/24/open-thread-the-great-bunny-boot-quiz/ On bunny boots. AKM
OK, for those checking back, I just posted the rest of the chapter. Errand to run now. Need to clear the brain. I feel yucky.
LOL @ Andrew! If it wasn’t for Bob Poe, I could almost vote for you.
Sarah is the moral of the be-careful-what-you-wish-for story.
She rubbed everyone’s nose in her having won the mayoral and gubanatorial elections. She saw these victories as acknowledgments of her greatness, so when the VP nod came, she didn’t blink. The groundwork was now in place for Sarah to make an absolute FOOL of herself before everyone and God. We are not disappointed.
OMG! You must read about Palin on Limbaugh today!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
God love ya’ AKM. You are a strong, strong woman. I couldn’t do it. I feel ill just reading the exerpts.
txindygirl, OMG–so funny, but so true.
Seriously, I knew she was petty and mean, but I cannot even find the words to describe HOW petty and HOW mean spirited this woman is about so many people.
She is a small small person…….and mentally ill.
While I still salute Helen Philpot for reading Ann Coulter’s book for us, I am convinced she got the better deal. Unapologetic naked hate like Ann’s must be easier to read than this sarcastic, fake, folksy, unoriginal, boring bag o’ lies.
AKM, you can cast the Palin pearls like no other! Huzzah!
That whole business on the first page of the chapter about not being able to pronounce “Stein” is probably a dog-whistle shout-out to all the anti-semites in the redneck base (as well as all the anti-intellectuals. Or maybe she’s just proud of being an idiot. With Palin, it could be either, really.
And on the next page, pulling the kids on a sled while doorknocking? Nice!
AKM you have a cast iron stomach to be reading this for us – I couldn’t even make beyond two pages of your summary before needing a break
Didn’t someone say “elements of truth mixed in with fiction” or something like that? You are a brave soul AKM to read this rubbish.
I posed this accidentally a few post down …Rachel Maddow has an exclusive response from Nicolle Wallace
I found this website soon after McCain’s announcement about SP as his running mate-like a lot of us. My radar first went up about her when I saw her prance on stage with Trig, carrying him like a sack of potatoes . I wondered how a mother could expose such a young baby to all those germs and stimulation. Boy! Did I get an education here! I’ve been a faithful follower ever since.
It’s been quite a ride! I so appreciate all the thoughtful comments from everyone and all the hard work AKM has done.
I have been reading this blog and the other stories about SP’s book. So many lies have come out!
However, what worries me is that all this fact checking doesn’t matter to her true believers. She has set it up so that the evil media is out to get her so obviously they are trying to trash her. She has now added the Republican Party to that list of groups who are trying to keep her down-from expressing her opinions and representing the “real “people of America.
She is one scary person! Our only hope is that something major is revealed about her that cannot be disputed and that her base finds offensive. I know they are in the minority right now, but somehow sometimes extremists have more power than they should.
Who knows what will happen in 2012? Hopefully “common sense” will prevail. But I do know that I will not live in a country with SP at the helm. I live 80 miles from Canada and I will be heading North!
Wow! That sounds drastic! But I hate to even think about what she would do! I’d want my country back!!
Just watching Rachel – she had on Frank Schaeffer and Jeff Sharlett again. They are full of good info. The topic was on the latest threats and prayers for Obama’s death and how it is getting out of hand with the evangelicals, and Schaeffer named PALIN as one of those at fault for promoting such hatred in his direction. I’ve never prayed for harm against anyone in my life, but I’m very close to praying for something drastic to happen to her and her ilk.
Per Rachel – Carrie Prejean is being floated as a possible candidate for representative from her CA district.
She’s starting the story of Nicole Wallace speaking up against Palin’s lies……..hey! I’m live-blogging!
Off-camera, but on-record = Nicole denies everything Palin said about her pushing for the Couric interview. Nicole termed it all FICTION.
Regarding Palin’s thinking she should have been allowed more freedom to go her own way – per Nicole “all her imagination …. hated me from the beginning ….. bizarre fixation that everyone else has moved on from.”
Thank you, AKM.
Bradley article is go9od:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/the-inevitable-fluke-that_b_360697.html
Just done with 2 chapters and the book is 1/4 over already? Really? Strange start to this book, but I guess I didn’t expect anything but strange.
Dang. Now I don’t trust myself to go to her book signing. I won’t be able to keep my mouth shut even without provocation from Palin lovers. (((((Bubbles))))), I will stay home and safe.
AKM, you amaze me. Breathe and rest your mind for a bit dearheart.
Off to watch Olberman and Maddow now…
Thanks AKM. We all laugh, but at the same time you are truly doing a service.
Just finished watching a clip of the narcissist with Baba Wawa. Check out her lipstick – it’s well off her lips and riding up towards her right nostril – a leetle too much makeup for the little (nature) woman – a bit ‘tarty’.
Anna Marie Cox was also on Rachel and she said that she believes Palin’s time is over and done as far as politics go. Per conversations w/McCain staffers, no one thinks she has an intention of running for any office. Cox also said that she can’t imagine anyone ever wanting to work for Palin, based on the way she ranted on everyone in her book.
I don’t know how you can keep going. I can only read about 1/3 of the way through your summary (excellent as it is in it’s own right), and I have to quit. Yes, I’m a quitter!
Seriously, watch your blood pressure. Thank you. And I’m really sorry I can’t read it all, but I just can’t.
I watch a little of the Walter’s interview as well…oy vey! Palin almost speaks in complete sentences but it is amazingly clear that she does not know what she is talking about. The depth of her knowledge is clearly spelled out in each sound bite (don’t dig further because there is nothing there). Does she even know what the Jewish settlement crisis in occupied territories is all about?!
If you haven’t seen it watch here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Palin/sarah-palin-talks-barbara-walters-afghanistan-policy-economy/story?id=9109226
I think Palin will just become another shock jock – Rush Limbaugh in drag. Her future is quite clear, but however will they dull that screeching nasal twang that passes for a human voice?
By the way…in my opinion, Palin is definitely marking her territory for a run for the White House. Watch Walters ask the girls about their mother becoming Pres., take a look at Palin during the questions…this is a woman who believes that she not only has a chance but that it is her God given right.
This article on Huffpost by a 17 year old truly sums it up.
By: William A. Nelligan
Katie Couric’s “the perky one?” Steve Schmidt’s “rotund?” I’m 17 years old and high school isn’t much of a distant memory for me, but jeez, I don’t remember much teenage drama that was as self-satisfying and egomaniacal as Going Rogue.
Sarah Palin, in her bestselling new book (anybody outside of the media or McCain campaign buying it?), delves into some pretty weighty topics over the course of 400 pages. These include meat and those who don’t eat it, Alaskan weather patterns, “fish that sprout legs and crawl out of the sea,” and “traditional values implants” (is that what Carrie Prejean got?).
The elephant in the room, in oh-so-many ways, is the 2008 presidential campaign. “Sarah” presents a wide cast of characters in this 400-page political treatise, each about as three-dimensional and nuanced as the 4th season cast of One Tree Hill.
Whether it’s evil Steve Schmidt, with his big bald head and tendency to rely on facts and logic in discussion and debate, or elitist Nicole Wallace, with her tendency to try and do her job effectively by attempting to market Palin and her family to the American electorate, everyone is at fault for the failed campaign. Except its arguably most prominent campaigner.
A lot of politicians and politicos have exacted revenge in a lot of different ways. Justice Clarence Thomas supposedly keeps an enemies list of everyone who voted against his confirmation, as did Richard Nixon with many of his political battles; while Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a pollster that contributed to a losing campaign, as did, um, well, alright no one compares to Rahm Emanuel, but you get my point. They all did it privately.
You see, that is what’s truly remarkable about this book. It’s written in the same literary style and sensibility of the five-year-old who throws sand in his classmate’s eyes and blames the kid standing on the other side of the playground. On nearly every topic of consequence imaginable, political or otherwise, Palin’s straightening of the record almost always seems to consist of also fictionalizing and/or attacking it. Sometimes its criticizing federal aid to states while allowing Alaska to receive more than nearly any other, while on other occasions it’s simply forgetting which of our Presidents did what, and when (I’m vague here because it happens so man times through the book.
Regardless, its emblematic of two simple facts. One: Sarah Palin is definitely running for president in 2012; two: in the spirit of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats alike should work harder than ever to make sure she never gets there. As for my personal advice to the “candidate” herself, let me put it in a way only a 17-year-old can: grow up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/youth-radio-youth-media-international/sarah-palin-going-childis_b_360873.html
Want to know why Palin is dangerous? Really dangerous??
IF you watch NOTHING else on TV tonight, watch the 1st half hour of Rachel Maddow’s show and her segment with Frank Schaeffer; it’s powerful stuff …. and when the video of this segment is out, please pass it around as much as you can!!
Then I would say it was Gods plan for her to lose and be a quitter,I am sure it wasn’t his plan for her to be a liar. God closed the door she thought he had opened. LOL
I’m wondering if Palin thinks she is running for President in 2010?
@MomMom,69
Thanks for that awesome article from the 17-year-old.
Between Sarah’s infantile need to seek revenge and replay every fight, trivial choice of subject matter, I would understand it if Sarah said that she wrote it all by herself. That she was aided by a professional ghost writer makes it even more laughable. Fortunately, keeping track of facts was no detriment to getting that book out quickly.
People who have been following Mudflats write posts that are educated, reasoned, humorous, touching, sentimental and worth reading. Anyone here could have written something more meaningful that that rogue junk. And, highest compliments to AKM whose writing is an inspiration. Even the simple description of walking through the woods with the dog, stopping to enjoy the changing season and capture a delicate detail in a photo has more really good writing going on than Harper Collin’s latest embarrassment.
I just watched the first segment of the BW interview …
“I cannot predict what doors will be open in 2012″
“those are backasswards ways of fixing the economy?” huh? is this a statement that should ever leave the mouth of someone who wants to lead the US?
SP “took aim at the Obama administration’s stance on Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. She states, “I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin told Walters. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.” BW, “Even if its Palestinian, uh, areas?”
SP, “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to expand”
Huh? More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel … ? Perhaps the cease & desist message should have come from the UN, and not the US ? Does it matter who says it?
and, she continues to speak of the Alaskan proximity to Russia as “significant foreign policy experience”. I guess my recent trip to Europe qualifies me to be a Diplomat, too, also? At least I speak more than 1 language.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Palin/sarah-palin-talks-barbara-walters-afghanistan-policy-economy/story?id=9109226
AKM, your synopsis of the book is going to be nearly as long as the original tome.
The position statement on the Isreali expansion into Palestinian territory is clearly a press for the expansion of Isreal for the End of Times. This is the first time I have heard her with such an overt reference.
In one of the other posts, someone pointed out a Boston Globe article. Buried on page 4 (link is correct, even tho page in link is different – watch the times stamp) of the comments, I found this gem of a response as to why SP scared folks; cleaned up some mispellings.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/11/17/for_palin_reality_goes_rogue/?comments=all&plckCurrentPage=3
162rob wrote:
gregb6344, To answer your question why is S**** P**** so frightening, Because our country is involved in two wars, Facing the biggest economic crisis since 29, our health care system is failing and our primary school system ranks 37th among the worlds wealthiest nations. And frankly most clear thinking Americans know that the “Elly Mae Clampett of the North”</b) is not up to the task of solving any of these issues!!! Now I love the tv show "the Beverly Hillbillies" and the character Jed Clampett, And old Jed was a plain spoken straight shooter with a lot of common sense, But I much rather has Mr. Drysdale as president of the commerce bank then good old plain spoken straight shooting mountain man Jed any day!!! Because while Jed's attributes are great for a friend and neighbor, Simply being plain spoken with good common sense just doesn't cut it, You've got to bring more to the table then that to sit in the most powerful office in the world!!!
Every time I see Elly, Ah I mean Mrs. P*****, I'm reminded of an old saying, That goes like this "SHE WAS BREAD IN OLE KENTUCKY, BUT SHE'S JUST A CRUMB UP HERE"!!!
11/17/2009 1:01 PM EST
Ok, I am sure Gryphen and Levi are right about the screwed up state of her marriage if he called her two-faced after getting caught on the Mayor of Wasilla thing. Even back then, he had her number.
I don’t think Andrew Halcro was very impressed the way Palin described him in her book.
You have to watch this one minute U-Tube of him reading from it!
http://syrin.vox.com/library/post/andrew-halcro–reading-of-going-rogue-part-i.html?_c=feed-atom
I meant Todd up there.
At the Boston Globe site, I found a gem of a response as to why SP scared folks; cleaned up some mispellings.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/11/17/for_palin_reality_goes_rogue/?comments=all&plckCurrentPage=3
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162rob wrote:
gregb6344, To answer your question why is Sarah Palin so frightening, Because our country is involved in two wars, Facing the biggest economic crisis since 29, our health care system is failing and our primary school system ranks 37th among the worlds wealthiest nations. And frankly most clear thinking Americans know that the “Elly Mae Clampett of the North” is not up to the task of solving any of these issues!!! Now I love the tv show “the Beverly Hillbillies” and the character Jed Clampett, And old Jed was a plain spoken straight shooter with a lot of common sense, But I much rather has Mr. Drysdale as president of the commerce bank then good old plain spoken straight shooting mountain man Jed any day!!! Because while Jed’s attributes are great for a friend and neighbor, Simply being plain spoken with good common sense just doesn’t cut it, You’ve got to bring more to the table then that to sit in the most powerful office in the world!!!
Every time I see Elly, Ah I mean Mrs. Palin, I’m reminded of an old saying, That goes like this “SHE WAS BREAD IN OLE KENTUCKY, BUT SHE’S JUST A CRUMB UP HERE”!!!
11/17/2009 1:01 PM EST
Apologizes if double-posting happens…’puter acting woozy, probably from too many SP stories.
Too me, it sounds like she is pandering to the Jewish segment of the voters. I think she really believes with her book of lies explaining and blaming all the gaffes and mistakes she made on others that we will see her differently. She is so dead wrong and I do believe she will run for POTUS. She thinks she can smile and charm her way into the white house. This is one evil woman. She actually believes she’s smarter than everyone else. John McCain is a coward for not speaking out.
@Sandra,77
Perhaps, but another part of me says she’s not bright enough to recognize the lunacy of advocating the continued encroachment of Israel in the West Bank and other Palestinean territories. I recognize we have supported, and in many ways enabled Israel in their actions against the Palestineans (sp?), but I firmly believe the best way to start the peace process is to fix the borders, reverse course and enable all parties to get a ‘win’ at the bargaining table, and to for the US to take a broader look at their mideast policy with regards to blindly supporting Israel at the risk of continuing to degrade our relations with the other nations in the region.
Yeah, but at the same time she’s “pandering” to some interests in Israel, she states she doesn’t know how to pronounce the name of the Mayor, John Stein.
She is full of *&^%^
I too just caught BW and found the following scariness:
-A little too much botox near the eyebrows-harsh look
-When asked about 2012, she goes into a trance-like state, trying to savor the adoration and her expression becomes almost seductive (maybe she’s been watching Carrie’s new releases). Very creepy!
-When asked about her critics she said she’s above all that and it doesn’t bother her because she knows “the truth”. Oh, is that why you just spent 400 pages settling scores with those critics by slandering them with lies?
-As for the talk show question she says “I’d rather write than talk” Oh yeah, then why did a ghost writer just write your book for you? Quick money and little work, now I get it.
-As for Obama criticism-she goes to dithering (also restates on Limbaugh). Is this an attempt to connect with Cheney? But ya know Palin didn’t dither when she gave her 2 weeks notice, she just went fishing the next day.
-On the Newsweek cover saying “They should be more policy oriented” but when she interviewed with Couric she thought it was just a workin’ moms chatting about gal stuff?
-Her kids looked super nervous, like they’d be beaten if they said the wrong thing and then said she’s a good cook because she can make a hotdog w/cheese?
-On Bristol’s pregnancy she says “C’mon Bristol, didn’t you know there were things to prevent this?” (No mom because you only taught me abstinence-see what happens when you don’t offer birth control information?)
-On Levi’s statements about the retarded baby & her marriage-Her demeanor totally CHANGED, she gulped, softened her voice and stumbled on her words because I think he told the truth and she was shocked to be hearing it. She gets angry when other people “lie” about her, why not lash out at him too, but instead she went passive-very bizarre!
going to the shooting range while pregnant? did she not know about the lead contamination present at shooting ranges? does she talk about the high number of ds children born in Wasilla thought ot be caused by toxic waste dumping? And she’s pro life….
Now, I live in RED RED RED Cobb County, GA, the infamous place where the school board decided to put the ‘evolution is a theory’ stickers on books and got summarily swatted down by the courts, so take this for what you will.
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At local Walmart, during a 3 hour visit to the store, I passed the display with the book. During 5 pass bys, not a single book was removed from the display. This was during late afternoon/just past working hours by the way.
My prediction…book tour will be scaled back.
Overthemoon, $arah, like most of the religious wingnut “prolifers” only mean it to tell a woman what she cannot do with her body. All concern for life terminates at birth.
just found this at Slate: very funny, and helpful too. also.
an index of the book:
http://www.slate.com/id/2235917/
I’m still trying to figure out how one can even get into a kayak at 9 months pregnant (much less put on a personal flotation device and then paddle)….
70 mommom Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
This article on Huffpost by a 17 year old truly sums it up.
By: William A. Nelligan
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As much as enjoy a good Palin scathing, I cannot believe a 17 year old, wrote this.
No matter what the IQ or interest in politics, This is tooooo much.
First of all you would have to believe he read Palin’s ENTIRE book in one morning, (4-5 hours!) then wrote this critic AND posted it by 12:21pm (followed the HuffPo link to original post):
17 Year-Old Thinks Palin is “Going Childish”
Posted by Youth Radio Editor on November 17, 2009 at 12:21pm
http://www.youthradio.org/news/17-year-old-thinks-palin-going-childish
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(from his post)
Sarah Palin, in her bestselling new book (anybody outside of the media or McCain campaign buying it?), delves into some pretty weighty topics over the course of 400 pages.
“Sarah” presents a wide cast of characters in this 400-page political treatise, each about as three-dimensional and nuanced as the 4th season cast of One Tree Hill.
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If Anna Marie Cox
( Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972) is an American author and blogger. She is the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette and is widely considered synonymous with the title. She is Washington editor of the Time magazine web site and previously held the same position at the defunct Radar Magazine.)
can’t give a “admittedly” decent review in roughly the same amount of time, no 17 year old is up to the task.
We are all tired of Palin’s nonsense, so I am in no mood to be played by a ” 17 year old kid.”
Please don’t think that I am criticizing you mommom, but I had read the following article earlier, so my bull$hit radar went off on this.
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Dueling Palin Reviews Equals Zero For Readers
But let’s consider the two points of view. Writing “for the left” is Air America blogger (and Friend to Eat The Press) Ana Marie Cox, who, by her own admission, was given a single afternoon to read the entire book and render a “review.” This restriction, apparently, did not bother the Post’s editors, but Cox made sure to mention it, out of deference to readers.
Cox:
I cannot claim to have completely read “Going Rogue” — I had to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only got the thing into my hands late Monday afternoon with a deadline of early evening. It’s terrible, I know, but if I didn’t read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it.
Cox, despite the limitations imposed on her review opportunity, gamely attempts to pull out some interesting details and make as informed a criticism as anyone can who’s admitted up front that it won’t be possible. Lest you think that I’m mounting a blind defense of a personal friend, I’ll tell you that Ana Marie’s review is surprisingly bereft of the sorts of insights into Palin’s relationships with the various players in the McCain campaign that I know she could offer, having covered the McCain campaign as extensively as she has.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/dueling-palin-reviews-equ_n_361290.html
You are a courageous woman and I salute you. Thank you for boiling this beast down to its meaty bits so we don’t have to get our eyeballs dirty doing it ourselves.
OMG, Palin is positively deranged! I would never be able to make it through without your commentary. The books sounds…really boring, in addition to being disturbed, petty and dishonest. I hope you don’t suffer any permanent damage from this experience.
@ 74 mommom Says:
This article on Huffpost by a 17 year old truly sums it up.
By: William A. Nelligan
Sorry, I’m not buying it. Absolutely NOT written by any 17-year old. Harlan Ellison didn’t write like that at 17. Mark Twain, William Goldman and Ben Disraeli were writing at 17, and despite the brilliance of each already being obvious even at that early age, the limitations of inexperience — in language, philosophy and incorporation of information — was apparent.
C’mon. You know what the modern school system is turning out. And we’re *generations* into the DDDs — Deliberate Dumbing Down. Let’s not prove it by accepting anything off HuffPo as gospel, hmm?
Or have you not on occasion compared a headline to the actual article? Not exactly WOG, old HuffPo.
she’s a ‘nut’!!! really nutty, crazy, sick, etc.
Watching MSNBC right now , i guess the crowds at the booksigning are crazy, people have been there all night waiting !!
Sara Palin says what she means and means what she says and she is an inspiration , for the ordinary people and a rock star (comments of Fans)….i think i need to change the chanel lol
lol…she does NOT mean what she says, b/c she contradicts herself over and over and it’s caught on tape!
…oh these modern inventions!
Side note regarding ‘Stein’: Our family is not Jewish, our ancestors are Christian. She [SP] would do herself a favor by understanding that.