Rogue Nuggets – The Second Course
Digested your first helping of rogue nuggets yet? It helps if you wash them down with a nice tall glass of Maalox. All ready for a second helping? Got yer mavericky dipping sauce and your stack of napkins? Alrighty then. Grab your knife and fork (do not use them on yourself no matter how desperate you may feel) and let’s dig in.
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“She of the Iron Uterus” did work from her hospital bed after having Trig. Didn’t miss much work for any reason. Staff would have found it “inexplicable” if she was not at work on a Thursday morning for any reason, even delivering a special needs child apparently.
McCain campaign snuck her out of AK and Todd had to confiscate teenagers’ cell phones. This was “scarier” than anything the opposition could throw at them. Went to Arizona and experienced warm air and a “star spangled sky.” In Alaska it’s either cold and dark or warm and light. So this strange land the natives call “A-ri-zo-na” was very “foreign and exotic” to her. Does that count as more foreign policy experience?
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Introduces her arch-nemesis Steve Schmidt and talks about him working on Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004. Kerry called for “global test” for military action. He said he was “going to shove ‘global test’ right up Kerry’s ass.” Charming.
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Palin sits around the coffee table chatting deftly about her position on the war in Iraq, energy and the economy. Tells them how she reaches across the aisle and has a Lincoln-like “team of rivals” approach to governance. They already knew Bristol was pregnant even though she thought only family knew. (They must have been reading Mudflats!) She is told that nothing stays secret in a campaign. That’s OK with her because she only has one skeleton….it makes her sick to her stomach….it’s….it’s…a D in college! (eye roll) I’m guessing it was in English. Call it a hunch.
Talks about her in-depth knowledge of the middle East, being commander in chief of the Alaska national guard, Track going to Iraq, etc. If only Steve Schmidt weren’t so focused on the middle east and had focused more on the economy the campaign would have gone better.
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Apparently Schmidt didn’t think she knew as much as she thought she knew, because he gave her a stack of books, and DVDs to review the history of the conflict.
She is questioned about Walt Monegan and talks about “his budget problems and insubordination, his changing story.” (Has anyone noticed how unbelievably nice Walt Monegan has been to her? And she still keeps flinging the crap) Also talked about Steve Branchflower the independent investigator of the Troopergate case (who was chosen by a completely bi-partisan group in the legislature) and how he was not impartial and had worked with the “Democrat” lawmaker pushing the “ginned-up scandal.” The “Democrat lawmaker” would be Hollis French. Love that “team of rivals” reaching across the aisle with the “Democrat” party.
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Her dad was a science teacher, and after 18 years of science lessons at the dinner table, she still was not convinced by him or anyone else that “the earth had sprung forth conveniently stocked with the ingredients necessary to spontaneouslycreate life.”
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If anyone asked her about creationism, she wasn’t going to “parrot a politically correct line” just so people wouldn’t think she was a a fundamentalist creationist whack job who thinks the Earth is 6000 years old. Thinks evolution should be debated in the classroom. If Wm. F. Buckley can be a creationist why can’t she?
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Bemoans the fact that even though an Alaska station was willing to spend any amount to get a local reporter on the scene of the nomination to ask “simple, softball scripted questions,” the campaign wouldn’t allow it. “Headquarters” said no. She was hoping the national media would pick up on the simple softball scripted interview, but (shaking fist at sky) Headquarters screwed up again!
She blew off an Alaska reporter who ultimately said, “The Sarah Palin we knew is gone.” But it wasn’t her fault. It was the handlers’ fault. A “Free Sarah” campaign had started. (I remember that well… Would that they had succeeded. Would have made the opposition research job a lot easier!)
Nicolle Wallace wanted her to talk to Katie Couric, but she wanted to talk to FOX News because she thought they’d be friendlier.
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Eviscerating Nicolle Wallace. She’s the one who insisted on Couric. She didn’t speak well of her old boss George W. Bush. Didn’t like her job in the White House either. Wouldn’t let Plain give a “shout out” to homeland security after 9/11. Wallace said Katie needed a career boost, and suffered from low self-esteem. “She wants people to like her. She wants you to like her.” Palin began to feel sorry for Couric and was told that if the first interview went poorly that would be that. Perhaps her interview today helped to boost Oprah’s flagging self-esteem.
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She was on a “media blackout” and not allowed to talk to anyone so she had a friend in Anchorage give her phone numbers and she snuck phone calls to (drumroll please) Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and someone she thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neal Cavuto’s producer. (She’s not really good with figuring out who’s on the other end of the phone. Just ask Nicholas Sarkozy.) Had friends trying to call Bill O’Reilly and Mark Levin.
Wanted to talk to reporters in the back of the plane, but Headquarters said “No! Absolutely not! Block her if she tries to go back!” (Gee, what could they have been worried about?)
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The campaign got mad at her for talking to people on the rope line. She drove them crazy signing things and talking to people. Everyone loved her. They waved lipstick tubes and flags. They followed her in golf carts. Campaign thought she was uncooperative because they don’t care about the people. The people loved her. They followed her into Walmart and had a spontaneous rally. Love, love, love.
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They chose “Country First” as a slogan to counteract the “Blame America First” attitude of Obama/Biden. Especially after Michelle Obama’s comment that she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult lifetime, which Palin thought was an “incomprehensible statement.”
The economy tanked and McCain suspended his campaign to fix it. She had no idea what was going on and heard about it on the news.
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Presidential debate went on as planned. McCain did great, but the media gave it to Obama, trying to convince everyone that McCain was irritable and condescending. “Granted, 90% of the newspeople covering the event were liberal.”
Economy tanked and so did their poll numbers. Happened at the same time as her “seemingly endless serial chat with the lowest-rated news anchor in network television CBS’s Katie Couric.” (Oh, the Junior High, I remember it well…) Charlie Gibson came north but wasn’t that interested in her gubernatorial duties.
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She and Charlie came upon a group of moose hunters who wanted a picture. Charlie thought they wanted one of him, but they wanted him to take one of them and her. They went to Wasilla High School and people wanted a picture. Charlie thought they wanted one of him, but they wanted him to take one of them and her. He was grumpy during the interview later.
Katie Couric – where does she begin? She choked on some responses. She was harried. She allowed herself to show irritation and annoyance with “repetetive biased questions.” Thought it would be an easy interview about motherhood. It’s unfortunate it was mocked. She thought it would be the only one.
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First interview. She was anxious to have it over. She let her annoyance show. Nicolle Wallace said the interview was great. She knew it wasn’t. Wallace scheduled another one. Why would she schedule another one when the first one went so badly? (dramatic moment) She turns to see Wallace and Kouric HUGGING and posing for pictures.
CBS took hours of footage on the campaign trail and only used the bad stuff, and left all her brilliance on the cutting room floor.
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They cut out the part where she said she was all about alternative energy AND drill baby drill. They cut out the part where she said that “anti-development radicals” Photoshopped pictures of ANWR to look like it was a lush rainforest with “Bambi prancing to and fro”, when really it’s just a lot of flat ugly empty space.
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More about barren desolate permanently frozen ANWR. Couric edited out all the good stuff, but left in all the bad stuff. The whole “you can see Russia” moment was simply an attempt at putting the question in a geographical context. She was cut off before she could really answer the question. She wishes she had done that. Oh, there are so many things she wishes she would have said to prove how competent she was. But Katie interrupted her before she could talk about it all. And she talked to Canada on a weekly basis. Also.
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The melting polar sea ice has opened up fabulous new trade routes, but alas it has also increased security threats. (No mention though of global warming or polar bears or melting permafrost) Restates that yes, you can see Russia from Alaska. Just in case anyone was still unclear about that.
Couric wasn’t interested in talking about Alaska’s economy or Alaska’s wildlife management issues, can you believe it? She had her own agenda. When she talked about them anyway, it was cut. Putin in our air space was only a metaphor. She just wanted the gotcha moments. That was her goal. And it worked.
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You’d think that would be it on Couric, but no. There was more. She finished shaking hands on the rope line. She was pumped and sweaty and wanted a Diet Dr. Pepper, but there she was again with a microphone. Why was the campaign allowing her to talk to a reporter with a partisan agenda? When Couric asked what she reads, she tried not to react to the “condescension” but was unsucessful. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to – or as some have ludicrously suggested, couldn’t answer her question; it was that her condescension irritated me.” Yeah, she could’ve answered if she WANTed to. But she didn’t WANT to. So there.
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Had Katie Couric even read her op-ed in the New York Times about the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act?? The next interview was on the campaign bus, and asked about “praying the gay away.” She wouldn’t let her answer and badgered and badgered about abortion. She asked the proverbial “if a 15-year old is raped by her father” question. Palin said she is unapologetically pro-life and that she would counsel her to choose life.
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More badgering. Would she really counsel an incest victim to have the baby? Yes, she would counsel such a girl to choose life. Couric left out the part where we should support these women. The real extremism came from those who support partial birth abortions and “those, like Barack Obama who opposed laws that would protect babies born alive after botched abortions.” If you have no idea what the hell she’s talking about, click HERE.
More badgering. More badgering. Badger badger. Couric was nice to Joe Biden, but not nice to her. Joe Biden mistakenly attributed something to FDR and never got called on it.
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The worst part wasn’t the badgering and badgering…it was the wasted time. There were so many more important things she could be doing (I know how she feels) .”
She later heard a quote from Katie Couric that told her “everything [she] needed to know.” She said that the whole flag pin/USA/shock and awe stuff was “just too jubilant and a little uncomfortable.”
“Unbelievable.”
In Philadelphia there were people with a sign that said “Sarah Palin is a c—” Willow was shocked. Palin told her not to worry about it.
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Prep session with curtains drawn. The campaign was on the ropes. People were stressed out. She wanted fresh air. They wanted to sit in a dark room and yell. She wanted to go running in the sunshine but they wouldn’t let her. When they did schedule time for her to run, she’d be on the bus.
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Outrage that Gwen Ifill was the debate moderator. The campaign was freaked out. She wasn’t worried. She was confident. There were stacks of index cards with questions on one side and non-answers on the other side.
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The campaign didn’t want her to answer questions. She wanted to, but they wouldn’t let her. They wanted to change her. They caused her to question her style.
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She liked her simple style where she just told the truth and didn’t have to struggle to remember how she had answered things. They wouldn’t let her be that way. They yelled at her and told her she was wrong. She wanted fresh air, not a dark room. But they kept her inside in the dark with the yelling. Metaphor about the penalty box. Bla bla bla.
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Nutrition intervention. Steve Schmidt said he was flying in a nutritionist because of her over consumption of Atkins diet bars that were “all over the place.” She didn’t know where they came from and tried to tell Schmidt that she wasn’t on the Atkins diet.
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But he lectured her anyway on the hazards of a high protein diet. She notes that he is fat and he smokes. She didn’t need a nutritionist. She needed to go outside and be in the sun with the wind in her hair. He didn’t listen and there was no nutritionist.
But “there was a bright spot in Philly and his name was Joe Lieberman.” (Can we PLEASE just call him a Republican now??)
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Steve Schmidt drops the f-bomb while Piper is in the room drinking diet soda. During the debate she wanted to focus on the economy and free-market principles, and present a strong military pro-Israel message, but people were mad and stomping around and caking makeup on her and raising her hair to new heights. So she had to pray. She called Piper over to pray with her that she’d win the debate and Piper said that was cheating.
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The same woman that led her down the hall to the debate did the same thing for Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. She thinks Geraldine Ferraro is great and Ferraro called her during the campaign to thank her for the “shout out” to her contribution to political history because nobody else ever did it.
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People were giving her grief about clothes, but she likes her own clothes that she buys in a consignment store in Alaska. She wore a pre-owned jacket and her own jeans. She would have been happy to wear her own closthes but when Charlie Gibson was interviewing her in Alaska, Nicolle Wallace went through her closet and hated everything and was mean and made her feel bad. But she snuck a couple things in the suitcase and brought them on the trail anyway. Ha ha ha.
She explained the whole clothing story on the trail to reporters, but went off-script, explaining that none of the clothes were hers.
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The campaign was mad she explained her story about the clothes. They accused her of “going rogue” again. She was just defending her ethics, but they got mad at her and there was more yelling. The campaign knew how she felt about the clothes, but nobody defended her or spoke up for her. They just hung her out to twist in the wind. She realized that this was because some of the higher ups in the campaign were already “packing their parachutes” and she was going to be the scape goat.
Voters wanted her to take the gloves off and talk about Jeremiah Wright. The senior staff in the McCain campaign were mad at her because she kept going off script to set the record straight about the clothes. They were mad because she wanted to keep campaigning in Michigan. They were just maaad.
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To this day, Randy Schueneman won’t say all the bad things about Schmidt and what he was saying about her. But she did find out that he thought she was screwing up and not doing her homework and might be suffering from post-partum depression. Randy said this was ridiculous and that he didn’t believe anything of the kind. So she figured out that all the McCain staffers were collecting half-truths and lies and saving them up so that when they lost, they could all blame her for everything.
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CNN reported that her going off script “irked” McCain aides. Randy got mad and demanded to talk to Steve Schmidt.
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Schmidt and Schueneman argued. Schueneman good/Schmidt bad. Implicates Schmidt &/or Wallace as the leaker of the made up stories to make her look bad. Schmidt said she was an awful pick because of the clothes, the postpartum problems, and “legal exposure for Todd on Troopergate, whatever he meant by that.” (Could he have meant that Todd was found in contempt of the Senate for ignoring a legislative subpoena to testify in an ethics probe? Perhaps?)
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Schmidt said if there were any more leaks critical of the handling of Sarah Palin, he’d leak more bad information about her. She didn’t know any of that at the time, and Schmidt denies it. But even though Schmidt is a rat bastard and she’s been eviscerating him throughout the entire book, life is too short to hold a grudge and if she sees him again, maybe she’ll give him a “pretty white Peace Lily.”
(head bang)
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Target – The Associated Press. A reporter said that she had to rely on notes and her commissioners to answer questions at a press conference. What a set up! And the same reporter asks her how she handled a tough week and Palin answered “A lousy week? Really?” Says Track got back from Iraq alive. Trig’s heart is doing well and won’t need surgery, thank God. Todd is fine. Daughters are fine. Everything is fine! Life is rosy! Everything is wonderful. This lousy week was GREAT! Meanwhile the nasty fact-checkin’ national media were “sniffing around for tabloid stuff.”
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Target – Authors of ‘Sarah from Alaska’. Talks about Piper getting ambushed on the way home from school by reporters. Remember those reporters from the plane Mommy? The ones that Nicolle Wallace said didn’t like us very much? They just interviewed me on the sidewalk. (This account was later refuted by Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy. Can you believe they think she’s making things up?)
Complains about reporters hanging out by her house. And then… “in addition there were the ‘new media’ – the left-wing bloggers. The lines between the two were often blurred, with stories starting in the blogosphere and leap-frogging to old media channels.” Doesn’t point out that the “old media” still has to fact check all those bloggers, or that they will probably be fact checking her book. Doh!
Her Dad’s answer to “Trig Truthers” is “I know Trig is hers, dumbass. I was there when he popped out!” Gack! I hope that doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means…
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Picture of Sarah and Piper in matching Arctic Cat suits described as “warm winter gear.”
Picture of Sarah, Todd, Trig and Tripp playing on the floor. Cute picture.
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Bristol was criticized for going on the abstinence tour and her “pragmatic” position that the only way to make sure you don’t get pregnant is not to have sex. She graduated high school with great grades, is taking college courses and works two part time jobs to pay for diapers and formula. But you don’t read about that. (Should I erase this?) Partisan bloggers questioned Track’s enlistment in the army.
A fake Planned Parenthood ad was mean to Trig. So was someone who “Photoshopped distorted images over Trig’s pretty face in order to make him look monstrous.” (Err… that would be putting local radio shock jock Eddie Burke’s face on Trig’s body to show how cozy he and Palin are. Monstrous?? Well, Ok…)
WHEW.
OK, that’s it for this installment. Are your brains bleeding yet?
And just remember. NONE of anything is her fault, except for not following her true and noble impulses.
Sarah the “Talking Head” translated:
I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I
Can’t relax
I can’t sleep ’cause my bed’s on fire
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire
Psycho Killer
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
You start a conversation you can’t even finish it.
You’re talkin’ a lot, but you’re not sayin’ anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?
Psycho Killer,
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Ce que j’ai fais, ce soir la
Ce qu’elle a dit, ce soir la
Realisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire … OK
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they’re not polite
Psycho Killer,
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer,
Qu’est-ce Que C’est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh….
copyright: Talking Heads
Dang that woman is so full of sh*t. Thanks London for the am chuckle.
Bless you, AKM, for saving me from ever having to pick up this book myself.
I’ve been mentally flogging myself for not buying it when I saw it in Publix last Thursday: it would have been so cool to be the ‘book fairy godperson’. (I’m glad someone stepped forward on that – since I was a little slow figuring that out!)
London Bridges, Hahaha!
AKM, I think you have a potential new side-job writing Cliff Notes
Nice job!
“Especially after Michelle Obama’s comment that she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult lifetime, which Palin thought was an “incomprehensible statement.”” ~~~~~
I always thought people really mistook what Michelle was saying. Of course it’s “incomprehensible” to SP – she didn’t grow up as a minority race in a country full of hate against anyone not white.
Thanks for predigesting so we don’t have to! She’s such a farce and has the longest 15 minutes of fame ever. Blah! My first thought last night when I couldn’t come be for my daily feed was you had been ordered to “STOP THAT BLOGGING!!!” LOL.
You poor thing, I can’t believe how you sacrifice yourself (brain cells)for the rest of us. I had no intentions of buying the book but with some sick fascination I watched part of the interview with Oprah. Kudos to Oprah on behaving so lady like and politely. Especially when SP was reliving her version of the Katie Couric interview. I had to go puke. I still feel the same about her as I did after her speech at the convention. She has to be one of the most evil dangerous women in our life time.
The Boston Globe is chiming in:
For Palin, reality goes rogue
“THERE’S A thinly veiled agenda behind Sarah Palin’s autobiography, “Going Rogue,’’ which hits stores today. Based on her interviews and reports from those who obtained early copies, it’s clear that she’s trying to expunge the most damaging piece of information about her to emerge from the 2008 campaign. And it has nothing to do with her husband, children, or any misbehaving in-laws. It’s the revelation that she rang up $150,000 in luxury clothing purchases and fobbed the bill off on the Republican National Committee
Alone among what people learned about Palin – her cringe-inducing interviews, her lack of foreign-policy knowledge, her sometimes mean campaign style – the news about her clothing purchases undercut her authenticity. The fact is, Palin’s populist conservative supporters don’t care whether she’s been to Asia. But they need to know that she is who she says she is: an average woman from Wasilla who speaks for the middle class against moneyed and educated elites. If Palin were in politics for herself – for the Neiman Marcus handbags and Saks Fifth Avenue suits – her credibility would crumble…
Then it gets interesting. Read the rest: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/11/17/for_palin_reality_goes_rogue/
Her D in college was in… if I recall correctly… economics. Macro. The really easy, big world concepts economics. D.
That she could get anything higher than an F in English seems impossible considering her speech patterns. How the *^($ did she ever get a degree in journalism?
AKM, you crack me up!! I swear if I had to read any of that tripe for myself, I’d probably remove my own eyes with a spoon!! You are the best!!
Oh dear God. It is just one long whine.
Guess she’s now on air w/ Barbara talking more about Ricky Hollywood (ya know, the chapter that didn’t make the book). This women is a flaming idiot. I am glad she’s doing interviews. Hearing her speak really let’s her innermost dope out. And I forgot about that laugh… (my dogs ears are still ringing).
“Oh dear God. It is just one long whine.”
I wonder if the audio version is just Palin crying and hackling?
Lots of good stuff, AKM. You done good.
Here’s one part that had me going back a few times:
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She liked her simple style where she just told the truth and didn’t have to struggle to remember how she had answered things.
A wise man once said that if a person told the truth, s/he would not have to remember how s/he answered things. Considering all that I’ve read about Palin and all the times I’ve listened to interviews of her or other stuff, I have a serious question: when and how often does she tell the truth?
And there’s another part which bugs me: she continually blames others for what she claims happened to her. Did it never occur to her that she, yes, SHE, was the candidate and that all she had to do was utter one of the simplest words in the English language?? Why did she not just go Nancy Reagan on Wallace, Schmidt, etc., and just say NO! ?
Maybe CBS should air all those hours of footage that Palin said they shot. She claims they only picked the bad stuff. I doubt it. I’m sure they had hours and hours of stupidity coming from this woman’s mouth.
Let’s see all the Palin unplugged footage.
10 Paula Says: November 17th, 2009 at 4:10 AM
This women is a flaming idiot.
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Snark alert!
As good a time as any to wonder out loud…
Just how many sybils are inside that pointy little head of hers? Do they get along? Or do they spend all day pointing their little mitts at each other in blame?
Thanks for that link to the Globe.
Best paragraph saved for last. From the Boston Globe…..
This would all be fascinating if it were reality TV, not reality politics. “Going Rogue’’ has the audacity to disguise its attempt to launder Palin’s image as an exercise in truth-telling. People who are disgusted with Washington, who yearn for an authentic outsider, should take their business elsewhere.
BAA-ZINGA! Read that last sentence again!!!
Nice nugget from Central PA- The newspaper interviewed several of the top local Republicans (ya know, those non-mavericky kind who hold office and haven’t quit). Not ONE of them plans to read or buy her book. ALL of them said “she’s a nice lady” but none felt she was the leader of the GOP or well informed.
Coming from conservative land, wow, that says a lot.
And, what is Ms Private doing with 2 kids on Oprah? And likely her whole book tour? I assume she thinks (e.g Philly) no one will ask her mean questions in front of them? What a flake. The deadest mommy books should be a good read…
This is great. Had a hard time watching even the clips last night. “I’m not going to talk about Levi on national television did I tell you he’s now a p()rn star”
The good news is that only 9% of the electorate said they would definitely vote for her. This book is not going to help very many other people think they would.
This is a person with serious personality disorders.
I’ll say this, Palin did a very good job painting herself as a victim. But, was this her intent? My exerience is that “victims” don’t make good leaders. In fact, “victims” don’t make good friends, or employees, or neighbors, or citizens.
They are always whining, always complaining, always blaming, always….well….the victim. Think about it. These are not the people that are the movers and shakers of this world.
Apparently, a campaign aide was able to out-wit and out-control Palin. Wow…Palin is even weaker than I thought.
Nice job Palin. You described yourself perfectly in your book that you didn’t write.
Sarah with her new head of hair is Peg Bundy re-incarnated!
While this doen’t have a lot of “Sarah” footage, it gives you a good feel for the Palin household!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrNeG9yNEL0
She can’t handle a campaign aide but wants us to beleive she could handle Hugo Chávez? What’s she gonna do, call him nasty names on Oprah then invite him for dinner at Aunt Kitties house? Yeah, that’ll show him who’s drillin’ what!
What’s also amazing is the disconnect Palin has with reality. She “writes” (used loosely) a book where she complains about everyone……and then states that she doesn’t like complainers.
Huh? She doesn’t get it.
It’s just like the attacks on “fact-checkers” and “bloggers”. SHE wants to “blog” from facebook yet attacks bloggers. She wants to do interviews, write attacks from facebook, write a fiction book…yet, she doesn’t believe that anyone should ever question what she says.
There is a serious screw loose in her head.
I am stunned that anyone let release this juvenile whine-fest. I guess it is true that she takes no advice, and no one seems to really care enough about her to tell her that this does not help her.
She is a little like a Lindsy Lohan or Michael Jackson: trainwrecks as people but the gravy train they provide to others or in her case, hopes of big time political success and big time jobs, keeps them quiet, using the freak for their own ends.
Sarah Palin, She is never wrong about anything. Nothing is her fault. However if she is found to be wrong about anything, it is someone else’s fault .. Also, too.
Michael Jackson was quirky, but he had demonstrable talent. Sarah has no “REDEEMING” value or talent.
Is the Palin fest almost over? Oh well, this tsunami of Sarah news is giving me the chance to catch up on my DVD collection, do some painting, yardwork, oh and read some really good authentic books. I’ll probably turn on my television some time in the spring. Hopefully by then Sarahmania will have died and gone back to being a periodic annoyance and not a daily clusterf**k
Palin/Prejean 2012! Support the Dingbat Ticket!
What do you want to bet that in the not too distant future, her ghost writer will be the next one she accuses of throwing her under the bus?
Now she’s complaining about the current Newsweek cover through her FB! She is also lying about another non-issue (her pathological need to bend the truth strikes again).
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5675346.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines
I have known two (certifiable) pathological liars in my life. Their lies were so frequent and bizarre that if they said the sun was shining, you would still look outside to check the weather.
Hudson said: What do you want to bet that in the not too distant future, her ghost writer will be the next one she accuses of throwing her under the bus?
Yeah, ’cause you know she couldn’t possibly have proof read a 400 plus page book herslef. Egads!
Eighteen years under the roof of a science teacher and she still refuses to see the light about how the world began and evolution. Of course. This explains how little this woman has ‘progressed’ as a thinking human being in 40 some years. She is exactly the same whack-job she was in the PTA, City Council, as Mayor, Oil & Gas Commissioner, Lt. Governor candidate, Governor, VP Candidate and ‘author.’
Absolutely no evolution in Sarah Palin. She is not an intellectual sponge that grows with the art of humanity, she is a self-righteous pious bag of bones, rife with obtuse arrogance and stinks of entropy.
Oy –
Hoffman announces on Beck’s show that he is “Un-Conceding”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/doug-hoffman-un-concedes_n_359857.html
****While Hoffman’s opponent, Democrat Bill Owens, has already been sworn into Congress, a routine review of the election has revealed Owen’s marginal over Hoffman narrowing from 5,800 to 3,026 votes.
Hoffman, who conceded the special election under the impression he had incurred a significant loss to Owens on November 3, now wants to be rescind his forfeit. ****
ooops ! that post @32 was supposed to go in to Open Thread. Oh well – I’ll let it ride on this one, with apologies. I suppose it has some of Palin’s mucking involved in there somewhere, anyway.
Hmmmm, Palin the victim… I remember some psych class in which someone said “The benefit of being a victim is that victims are never wrong.” This is how she convinces herself that she is OK… they were all out to get her. But does she ever wonder if that were the case, WHY? No, I guess that is asking too much…
Another thought – has Oprah lost her umpf? What was Oprah’s agenda in this non-interview? Does she pity Palin?
Hoffman announces on Beck’s show that he is “Un-Conceding”.
Sarah’s hair announces on Ba Ba Wa Wa’s that it is “un-receding!”
AKM, for taking it on the chin for us, you are entitled to a (very large) adult beverage of your choice! Heck, make it two.
And, now, excuse me while I stick knitting needles in my eyes and ears.
Hoffman “un-conceding”? I thought God kicked that door shut?
“And just remember. NONE of anything is her fault, except for not following her true and noble impulses.”
Oh, AKM, you made one tiny mistake. Palin took the blame for getting a D on her college paper. Remember? That’s the ONLY skeleton she admits to.
When she said that on Oprah, thank God I wasn’t eating or drinking anything.
My jaw hit the floor.
Scarah thinks that she is Jesus Christ herself! Not one mistake, nothing to hide, she’s never done anything bad at all.
I suppose she thinks that when she dies, she’ll just rise on up there to heaven also, too, doncha know.
Another round of applause from me, AKM, for taking one for the team. The really telling thing is that your *cliff notes* are so much more interesting than that interview with Oprah.
$P’s college D was in… economics. Just what the nation needs!
“Another thought – has Oprah lost her umpf? What was Oprah’s agenda in this non-interview? Does she pity Palin?”
I think there were a few different motives for the Oprah interview with Palin. I also think that the rules were laid out, that she could only ask questions pertaining to what was written in the book.
But I did notice that Oprah looked like she didn’t believe a word that Palin said.
And when Oprah was questioning her about quitting being Gov., and Palin said she could effect policy more without her “title’, Oprah’s comment of “I’ll bet” kind of came out like disgust.
Maybe Oprah’s planning on writing one of those books!
Folks, the D Sarah got was in an Economics class not an English class. This is far more important, if she thought she was capable of being President. My guess is that D was what made Sarah change for a Business Administration degree to a Journalism degree. The woman barely passed a college econ class and you want her to devise an economic plan for this country.
Folks, the D Sarah got was in an Economics class not an English class. This is far more important, if she thought she was capable of being President. My guess is that D was what made Sarah change from a Business Administration degree to a Journalism degree. The woman barely passed a college econ class and you want her to devise an economic plan for this country.
AKM~ I new you wuld have a good one this morning…Still laughing ..Now if i can just get my coffee down.Having a little problen here..he he
I See Villages from my House Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 5:22 AM
Eighteen years under the roof of a science teacher and she still refuses to see the light about how the world began and evolution.
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Actually I do believe Daddy was a grade school teacher. Did that to avoid the draft. Like everything else it was embellished and or lied about…. just as she tried to imply that her mom was a teacher also and wasn’t. It is quite obvious that education wasn’t much of a priority in that house or in Palin’s own house.
Mary B- I noticed Oprahs very straight face, eyes not moving, almost looked confused. I thought, hmm, Oprah must be thinking, are you f ing kidding me? She looked more stunned than Charlie or that -what’s her name – you know, the perky one, when they were forced to listen to Palin blather.
I don’t think this book is going to help her.
Ick. This blog should be called the “Second Coarse”. Ick.
McCain throws Wallace and Schmidt under the bus:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29598.html
If you read through the comments you can see that many believe his silence casts doubt about Schmidt’s and Wallace’s side of the story. I know he is trying to take the high road but he has done more than that. By continuing to say “I’m so proud of her (Palin)” and not defending his loyal friends he has basically given (unintentional) credence to Palin’s slanderous statements against them. Nice Guy!
Confess to one D, and maybe nobody will ask “How many F’s?”
Prove you didn’t try to ban Harry Potter, and maybe everyone will assume you didn’t try to ban any books at all.
Thanks AKM, for taking on the task of going through this BOOK OF LIES. I coulda never done it.
Any speculation which “Alaska station” ?
Huff post is collecting Palins book lies. 18 so far…get busy mudpuppies, I am sure they can have 180 by the end of the day. Maybe what they should have done is pt the 3 truths in there (America was spelled right, the publisher was correct and she does have a house in Alaska).
Thanks AKM for reading this boring a** crap. I would not read it if it was giving to me on a sliver platter. Boring as hell.
Hilarious! Not even Piper wanted her to win!
Wanna bet that Wallace, Schmidt and their friends will be doing everything in their power to uncover more “truths” about Palin?
I would think that journalist would be pretty pissed off too. The way she “attacks” Couric, and all the “dark suits journalists who decended on Alaska”…..not good.
Palin has just pissed off a lot of people in high places.
trisha: apparently there is another book in the works that will show a lot of internal emails from McCain staff and to Palin. And vice versa.
That’s the one I want to read.
Seriously, what’s with the kids on TV and on tour with her?
A logical person would say….I learned my lesson and I’m protecting my children by keeping them out of the spotlight.
But NOOOOOOOO. Palin, AGAIN, uses her children. They are part of her little “story”, so they must be on stage with her.
I think she wants people to “attack” them, so she can play the victim again and again and again and again.
In the TMI category: In her book she complains about being asked by Couric about the abortion issue twelve different times…earlier in the memoir, she describes how she received a whited out bill that “mistakenly” charged her for an abortion. She just creeps me out completely.
Johnny…..most excellent. That’s the one I will read too.
I cannot help but wonder, if Levis centerfold is porn, what would she call her friends 8 videos dawdling her own winkie?
Johnny…please keep us posted on that book. To derail Palin, side by side videos of her claiming one thing then the opposite, and emails tracking actually conflicts are the best way to prove her lies.
Of course with tragically truth challenged Palin, even the truth doesn’t faze her…after all, there are still a lot more people to be held accountable for her mistakes, I mean, obviously, their mistakes (since she doesn’t make any).
There are so many advertisements with alluring half-naked people. Palin really did herself in making that “p()rn” comment- it showed her pettiness, stupidity, and real disconnect. Oprah didn’t have to ask any “hard” questions, Palin exposed herself just fine by herself. Wonder what Oprah and the Oprah Show staff thought of Palin? Now that would really be interesting, but we will never know.
I would like to commend Katie Couric for staying classy and above the fray and not slapping back at SP.
But I do look forward to “Sarah Palin — The Full Tapes” appearing at a DVD store near me soon.
and more facts Rogue nuggets here “Going Rogue” sliced and diced by AP.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_palin_book_fact_check
Katie Couric has interviewed people for about 20 yrs. I don’t recall a single instance in which anyone other than (you know who) complained about her being unprofessional, biased, partisan, or unfair. If anything, people complain she throws too many softballs.
If S was running for Mayor, of say a really small town, in the middle of nowhere, who would care if she can answer easy questions? Campaigning to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency is another matter entirely.
Barbara Walters asked S, if Letterman’s jokes bothered her. S replied as long as he is making her more money, she welcomes the coverage.
Send in ALL Palin FALSEHOODS…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/going-rogue-the-18-bigges_n_359837.html
They’re FINALLY paying attention!
Barbara Walters asked S, if Letterman’s jokes bothered her. S replied as long as he is making her more money, she welcomes the coverage.
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This is a perfect example of Palin’s motivation…………..money….and more of it.
Slate online has a few words about the Oprah interview.
http://www.slate.com/id/2235775
This time, the interview was on Palin’s terms. Oprah did stray from the Palin-approved script here and there, peppering the former governor with questions about her abrupt resignation and Levi Johnston and possible presidential ambitions. But the interview was fundamentally about Palin’s book. These were questions she has had plenty of time to mull.
I’ve read the excerpts, I saw the Oprah interview, and I have come to the same conclusion that I came to when I heard her say to Charlie Gibson that “she didn’t blink” when she was asked to become the Vice Presidential Nominee. The impression that I had then and the impression I have now is that Sarah Palin was hopelessly in polar ice waters over her head.
And the fact that she did not have the where-with-all to know or to even be self-aware enough to understand this before accepting this high level position, shows me that her critical thinking skills were desperately inadequate. She was not qualified to be Vice-President last year and if possible, she is even less qualified now.
“To this day, Randy Schueneman won’t say all the bad things about Schmidt and what he was saying about her. But she did find out that he thought she was screwing up and not doing her homework and might be suffering from post-partum depression. Randy said this was ridiculous and that he didn’t believe anything of the kind.”
She must have nice things to say about Randy, because that guy obviously KNOWS she didn’t give birth to T1.
Thanks for taking one for the team, AKM. Hope you didn’t pay more than 9 bucks for this merry moosesh!t.
McCain is not staying quiet to be classy, he is saving what reputation he has left.
SHE killed his chances, the polls tell us that.
If McCain had chosen a serious person, the racists might have won.
I hope everyone, in-the-know, from Alaska will post some of Palin’s lies at Huffpo.
There doesn’t seem to be enough “fact checking” regarding her actual record in Alaska and statements she has made in her book.
The complaining of the cover of Newsweek – wouldn’t it be nice if someone addressed the issue of her being disrespectful of the flag.
let me add….McCain is conflicted. On one hand he must still be enraged that the GOP fundies made him take Palin. He knows she killed any chance he had and I bet he would LOVE to let loose at her and those who forced her on him.
So, he knows she is a wack, but he picked her and must defend the choice or he looks really bad for letting her happen.
And he wants this OVER! He must be so sick of her and the attention and the poor way it reflects on him, indirectly.
A view from the audience at the taping, including one woman who essentially complained that Oprah badgered Palin about the possible talk show.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/television/palin-oprah-chicago-interview-studio-69775592.html
Lily – McCain left his cajones somewhere on the campaign trail… maybe Cindy is holding onto them.
I hit submit before I finished.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone addressed the issue of the kids being out of school. I recall the interview with Matt Lauer in the kitchen in AK just after the election I believe, wherein he asked Piper about returning to school and she said she was having a hard time.
So with this Chicago and NY interview fest – she seems to have dangled the carrot of ‘Hey girls, Chicago and NY or school – what do you think?’ Who will she be dragging along on the bus tour?
We have seen that these kids don’t appear to be the brightest bulbs but the fault lies on the parents irresponsible actions for the excessive removal from school. All the various non-events within Alaska to be at a race, the lengthy campaign where you know full well there was never a school book opened, the trips to the lower 48. These kids are being set up for failure.
Biggest falsehood of late is blaming Obama for making her quit being Governor. She claims his opposition research lead to various frivolous ethics complaints filed against her, wasting time and costing the State too much money.
Fact is that the State Senate’s “Troopergate” investigation, that found she had abused her power, along with her own filing of a complaint, against herself, on the same matter, was the lion’s share of cost and time spent on ethics complaints.
I am still disgusted with NJ, and there we go again with the Tsunami of Sarah.
I am about to start smacking my own state’ s leadership, for now, I am trying to cool down a little bit, so I do not sound too angry, though I am really pissed with NJ politics.
I think SP’s piece will give me an intertainment. I will try to do a candy for the whinning Sarah the kid. I think I still have a youtube clip of Sarah the Tsunami on my blog, when SP was condeming and saying Hillary Clinton ‘s whine sent a wrong message for woman. Remember when Hillary was running for president?
So we need Sarah to tell women the meaning of the ” Going Rogue crap”, other than whine whine and whine over the presidential campaign and media. It is just sickening to know that, there are just too many stupid people in this country, who still can not see through this crazy whinning puppet. I am so ashamed as a woman to have a woman figure like SP, representing women, especially that I am a mother, and learning how she handles her household, and still people think she is a good figure to be this nation’s future president, really scares the shit out of me.
Like AKM pointed out last year, do not take things for granted, since we have too many stupid tea baggers that can just put SP in the white house. It just happened in NJ. Worse in my county.
Thank you AKM for reading all her crap and summarising it for us. I am not going to waste my eyes touching her book.
It is Unbealivable . Just to know how many people believe in the Sarah’s Crap, her lies and look for her as their mentor. Sarah is their Jesus. It is frightening.
Even a person like me who was born in a grass hut can not buy Sarah’s crap.
I thought it was soooo sad that Piper was trick or treating alone in the vid. showed by one of those interviews.
I watched The Good Morning America interview with blogger sarah and Barbara “wa wa” this morning. I can not believe that piper was wearing make-up., lips gloss and all for a child her age. How can a mother let her young daughter go on t.v like that. What was sarah thinking that it was play dress up time for piper.
Sounds like the campaign people, especially Schmidt had her pegged from the git go.
Nutrition, she whines about Schmidt trying to get her to eat right? Seems to me she can’t even answer Couric what she reads because that question is so condensending and demeaning to Alaskans?
She will never live that one down.
I heard she quotes Plato and Aristotle in the book. To prove she does read something other than refrigerator magnets.
I heard on MSNBC last night that Palin’s SarahPAC announced that they will be offering a free signed copy of “Going Rogue” to anyone who sends in a donation of $100 or more to SarahPAC. (drumroll)
(pause)
(thinking about that)
Remember the confusion over the Palin handwritten thank-you notes to fans, the ones where Palin’s signature and some of the script in the notes in no way resembled samples of Palin’s handwriting known to be and witnessed as hers on official documents?
Yeah.
What are the chances that Palin’s devoted legions of fans would get a copy of “Going Rogue” signed by one of 5 or 6 of Palin’s closest friends (hello, Ivy), relatives (hello, Bristol and Willow) and/or advisors (hello, Meg) just like the handwritten thank-you notes?
Pretty good, I’d say.
Even at 10 times the price of getting an autographed copy of “Going Rogue” at a Palin whistlestop on her book tour, and with absolutely NO certificate of authenticity, I’m sure her fans will grab ‘em up like hotcakes.
lilyf Says: soooo sad that Piper was trick or treating alone in the vid.
I’d agree but, that was a photo op. Just like Bush on the USS Lincoln claiming Mission Accomplished.
Palin’s “lies” are being scrutinized by an Anti-Abortion group:
…But Trig isn’t enough to protect Palin from a phalanx of anti-abortion activists who plan to protest her appearance on Thursday to promote her book in the conservative heartland of Indiana. Their reason? They think she’s not really pro-life.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/anti-abortion-group-to-pr_n_360501.html
(the photo of her on this opening page is the one with the booger in her nose.)
C.Rock,
Maybe grooming her a la Prejean for a reality show like “Toddlers and Tiaras” .. Gotta keep the money coming in.
Strange when you think back, the big announcement for a paid event, when Bristol was introduced as the new representative of Candie’s Foundation including the media tour and the Candie’s panel conference and she’s never been seen or heard of again – no PSA, no nothing. Speaks volumes once again of whose benefit that was done for.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/sarah-palin-newsweek-cove_n_360334.html
UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Does she ever stop blaming and complaining???????
Now Palin complains about the use of this shot? Funny….she didn’t think it was sexist before. She complains that media would never use a photo like is of Hillary.
Hello….. maybe that’s because Hillary isn’t a media wh*re willing to pose in little running shorts for cheezy pin-up shots.
Plus, let’s talk about Palin’s treatment of the USA flag?
Palin posed for it, now she throws Newsweek under the bus for using it.
Letterman:
Top Ten Surprises In The Sarah Palin Book
10.Cover photo is actually Tina Fey
9.All proceeds from the book go toward a bitchin’ new snowmobile
8.Nearly had to pull out of campaign after spraining her winking muscle
7.Not interested in politics, is interested in joining “Dancing with the Stars”
6.Includes fantasy sequence where she beats Katie Couric with her own microphone
5.Someone’s got a crush on Jon Gosselin
4.It’s a science fiction romance about moody teenage vampires
3.Favorite website: YoubetchaTube2.Includes Levi Johnston centerfold
1.Even Sarah doesn’t know what Todd does
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/top_ten/
Kajo,
There are machines that you can sit on a desk which can sign the books. It is programmed with the signature and then you turn it on and it signs the signatures on anything you set under the pen
I see a lot on the internet about this book including many sites that are listing the number of falsehoods it contains. I have not read the book yet myself. Does she offer any solutions to America’s problems, any proposed legislation or things she would do differently?
Thank you AKM for the summaries.
I agree it’s suspicious that that page count went from 432 to 413. Let’s see, 432-413= 19 pages missing? I betch yer bottom dollar her own attorney advised her to drop the attacks on Levi in the book, but then she JUST could not help herself in the Oprah interview.
(paraphrased): “A national show is not the place to discuss the father of my beautiful Grandchild, but, what the heck, here I go; I’m so so disappointed in Levi’s choice to do p()rnos because before I heard about that, he was just the ideal (pronounced i-dill, or course) father and almost son-in-law and I just never ever saw fit to criticize him before…..we must all feel (again, pronounced fill) sorry for poor deluded Levi who lies all the time and you know, once you know that he lied about living with Bristol, you know that everything else he said is to be questioned (kinda like with me, ya know) but at the end of the day he is T2′s father, and oh, he is invited to someone else’s house for Thanksgiving (did she ASK Aunt Katie if that was alright?) and he is welcome even though he is a budding p()rn star and is setting a horrible example in front of my children who are sitting right here in the audience listening to everything horrible I am saying about Levi but oh well, they need to hear what a jerk I think he is, and plus it’s good sex education for them to know that I had no idea that Bristol and Levi were doing it and I didn’t know about it, and, Oprah, IF I were running for Pres in 2012, I wouldn’t tell ya anyway, but yeah I do think I deserve to be and ya better believe I’m certainly more qualified than that Kenyan dude who is tryin to run the country into the ground now, like I warned would happen but all you schleps were too dumb to see that WE were the real change candidates, and it was all an illlusion that the Republican ticket wasn’t really the change ticket. It just APPEARED as though we were the status quo, because, after all, *I* was on the ticket. And if that ain’t change, I don’t know what is. I also, too…….”
Yeah, whatever, Sarah. Like Levi said, you are just so full of sh*t.
@87trisha- Cult Goddess speaks from Facebook.
trisha Says:
Palin posed for it, now she throws Newsweek under the bus for using it.
Exactly my same thought.
It seems hypocritical to me, that the Palin children are off limits, although it is fine for S to trash Levi over and over again in the media.
It’s OK for Carrie Prejean to be best buddies with S and Bristol and do sex tapes but, Levi is on the wrong path for doing much less.
It’s OK for S to contemplate an abortion. Even when she and Todd are well off and can easily afford another child. Yet every other woman, even if she is homeless must give birth, even if raped.
Oh trisha , dontcha know Newsweek made her pose in shorts . Pleeease !
I guess it’s a good way to get started but I got no further than the title thinking that it should be Steaming Moose Piles and not Rogue Nuggets, when imaging Sarah, I remembered I hadn’t done the cat’s litter box for a couple of days.
So at moment I’m having a giggle fit and my litter box is clean.
Muddy:
I’m not sure how you do this without using a set of Ninja tools on yourself but me, I’d rather eat a roll of used toilet paper than go thru all of this..What a lame excuse for a person…..yikes…
Winski…leaving for the toilet now…..
When she says Newsweek photo of her is sexist, she acts as if the picture is not of herself and that she didn’t pose and get paid for it. It looks like Barbara Waltle’s head is going to explode or start spinning around. Real twilight zone or stepford wife stuff.
So if Levi poses with his backside showing (I hear) and some hockey apparatus, in order to make money to help raise his son, he’s a p()rn star,
but if Sarah poses in a swimsuit and struts around on stage in a beauty contest, she’s just getting money for her ‘education’.
AND she dresses up in shorts and stands in a “don’t I look great for just having a baby (*cough*) and don’t my thighs look killer and aren’t I so very patriotic posin’ with the flag?” look, and then complains that Newsweek is using her photo that she was so proud for having posed for?
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah………the whole world is against you. Yep. Simply BECAUSE you have NEVER done wrong, you have your proof that it’s every one else who is in the wrong. You know cause you know cause you know, right?
“McCain campaign snuck her out of AK and Todd had to confiscate teenagers’ cell phones.”
There was some deal where Bristol’s cell phone was given to Levi’s mother and an SS or Drug Inforcment guy called Levi’s mom on Bristol’s phone to buy Levi’s mom’s meds.
That’s one of those WTF moments that Gryphen or somebody needs to go back and look at. It is decidely not an all American Family Pack Value Deal either.
And it may be one of the things Levi is holding back on. If the Palins were part of an illegal entrapment of their grandchild’s other grandmother.
Lots of kids go trick-r-treating alone… plus, she wasn’t alone as someone was there snapping pictures.
Her comments about the Newsweek cover is typical S’Error. She was okay with having the shorts shots taken, but now she thinks they are salacious?? And who is she to tell Newsweek what kind of product they should put out? They obviously put that picture on the cover because they want people to buy the product. Perhaps she should have paid more attention in her Econ101 class. She simply does not understand business.
One thing I noticed in the vids on the abc website of her interview with Bah-Bah was the overdone lip gloss. Underneath the lip gloss, just to the right of the centerline, appears to be… a cold sore. And it looks like it’s gonna be a good sized cold sore. How long before someone starts the “Sarah has herpes” rant? And will she cancel/postpone part of her bus tour due to it? I know cold sores come and go, but with adults, they tend to come during times of extreme stress. Is Sarah feeling stress? I hope it bites her in the keister.
Ethics investigations… oh my but how she likes to blame people for that. But as pointed out by a few, the most expensive was the one she filed, then withdrew, then refiled (allegedly at the McCain campaign’s insistence) against herself. But not all of the ethics complaints or the document requests were filed subsequent to her selection as the VP candidate, were they? How long has the one republican blogger been waiting for the documents she requested all those months ago? Certainly cannot blame Obama for that.
Is it true that there are less than 20 pages of her book dedicated to policy issues? As for the Plato references, those weren’t made by her but by the ghost writer. btw – love how Palin says something to the affect how she likes to write but that that isn’t what she did here with the book. If she likes to write so much, why didn’t she write her own book??
O. my. Gawd. She. is. insane. AKM, you went far beyond “taking one for the team.” Wow. A full-blown personality disorder on display for over 400 pages.
Her dad was a science teacher, and after 18 years of science lessons at the dinner table, she still was not convinced by him or anyone else that “the earth had sprung forth conveniently stocked with the ingredients necessary to spontaneously create life.”
Absolutely nobody, but Sarah, believes that the earth sprung forth wi the ingreadients necessary to spontaneoulsy create life.
Or else her dad was not a science teacher, he was a make up fiction teacher.
I was going to say, thank you, AKM, for reading this so I don’t have to — but realized I had never felt I had the slightest obligation to read it. Oh well, thanks, AKM, and commenters, for the entertainment. Back during the campaign, more than a year ago, someone said that watching SP was like watching a train wreck in slow motion, and it’s amazing that there’s anything left to wreck. I guess it’s not over until the caboose collapses into the cowcatcher.
Palin has some nerve to compare her treatment that that of Hillary. First of all, Hillary is an accomplished woman, a former First Lady, and now Sec. of State.
Palin? A half-term quitter now blogger…who has to pay people to write her blogs.
She thinks there is a valid comparison between them because???????
Hats off to Oprah, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, and Charlie Gibson for having to interview this woman. Can you imagine the huge amount of restraint they must have? The Limbaugh interview will be a meeting of soulmates… I can’t imagine that kissy-face interview… An open platform to elaborate on her lies and whining. I am in serious need of a Palin vacation.
Thanks to AKM for your steadfast reporting, and everyone for the comments on the book. I definitely wasn’t planning on purchasing it. It was good to be informed by blogger journalists of the content.
note:”Palin vacation” means a vacation far away from her deceptions.
@ sauerkraut,
I noticed the lip thingy too. Couldn’t help but notice it as they had zoomed right in on her face. I wonder was that deliberate?
Just a thought. Remember when the Obama family went a Tv program and was interviewed ( sorry i can’t think of the name of the show ) and Malia was quite the chatter box and the Obama’s admitted that going on the show was a Bad decision on there part and that it would never happen again. Point is that Obama did not blame advisers , the show, aides etc. He admitted he made a mistake. Now who would you trust to be truthful . Palin or Obama .
I have finally figured out why Sarah always feels so badgered in her interviews. It is the age-old politician tactic of not answering the question. So the interviewer tries to ask it again, perhaps in a different way. I have seen Chris Matthews ask someone a question, and when they fail to answer, Chris gets increasingly angry. Then, they guy who wouldn’t answer in the first place plays the “wounded victim card.”
Oprah tried to get a response from Sarah when she asked such questions as “so, are you running in 2012?” or “so, do you want to have a talk show?” Sarah did not give satisfactory answers. How hard is it to say, “Well, it’s still under consideration; get back to me in a year of two.”
Sarah is the one who famously announced in that so-called debate that she wasn’t going to answer Gwen’s questions; she would just say what she wanted to say. It’s too bad that Gwen didn’t call Sarah on it. Katie was the one who pursued the question, which is why Sarah grew more defensive at each asking. A skilled politician has a way of saying, “Asked and answered; let’s move on.”
The reason that this is important is that Sarah was running for a major national office, and she could not handle a simple interview. Her emotions got in the way, and her reaction was (and still is) childish. That is no qualification for meeting foreign heads of state, daily press conferences, or trying to communicate with people who have different points of view.
And, special round of applause to AKM for reading that book and trying to make any sense of it! Please tell us what you drank to stay calm throughout.
It’s probably a sore from biting her lip trying to stop herself from attacking Levi even more or saying how she really feels about Oprah.
Or, it’s a side-effect from her meds.
I haven’t read the second round of Rogue Nuggets. I need a vodka handy first.
But I did spy this on Huffpo just now:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/sarah-palin-newsweek-cove_n_360334.html
In summary – Palin slams Newsweek for using a photo she POSED for, for her Runners World interview, as of all things, sexist.
What the what??? Colour me confused. Is there not enough attention for her this week without Palin manufacturing controversy?
I saw the cover, don’t see what’s so sexist about it. She posed for the photo which was used by Runners World in their magazine. Why is Newsweek getting the Palin wrath and not Runners World?
This woman is too much. Why pose for a photo that way (all cheesey and winky wink in her running shorts with a handy giant US flag draped nearby) if she’s worried about sexism. Geez. Go away already Silly Sarah.
Dang……I didn’t know we were going to blog the show, lol……I ran errands, made dinner, spent time with hubby and checked blogs before going to bed and WOW, lol, I missed watching the train wreck, oh well. Time better spent on my part, but I missed having the fun with all of ya.
As to Oprah doing the interview. I imagine she figured if she gave her an hour of yapping, she’d hang herself eventually, it’s what Scarah does, it’s exactly why she had to be ‘handled’. So I say let her blab, blab, blab. She’s cooked, well done, and on her way to burnt crisp.
Another thing, I SO hope she gets busted in the Arctic Cat Apoc ruling. Putting the picture in the book and further evily rubbing it in as a Halloween costume put on national tv will make it all worse for her. And like always, she does it to herself and has it coming. She thinks darkly.
I hope Levi gets ticked off and outs her. She’s gonna be sharing that removed chapter verbally every chance she gets. Take that stick in your eye Levi, she knows more than one way to skin a cat, right up her ally. Bust her Levi. Put her out of her misery. And spare the world.
Bring in the mental health experts. What does her family think when they watch her fabricate and tell lies on national tv for goodness sake? What do they think?? Do they excuse it somehow? Do they not understand this is not normal? Do they think it’s okay? Do they believe her or see her side only? She tells tall tales (if they can’t see them as lies or half truths, stretched truths, they’re not even white lies, they’re used as vindictive weapons) and she calls it the truth and expects people to believe it! Her family is not helping by enabling her. Get her help.
Robi Ludwig, Psy.D. says…..
“The major difference between a white lie and a hard lie is that a hard lie is said to protect oneself, whereas a little white lie is said to protect someone else.”
So, what sort of lie is Scarah telling, all the time, about anything she chooses? Hard.
Scarah and her family should read this article about lying…….
http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/text/carolynray/white_lies.html
So where is the harm in a lie that, for example, no one ever finds out about and that does a someone good?
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The harm is to the person telling the lie. Lies introduce falsehood and inconsistency into one’s mental life. And they are practice for more lies. The more you lie, the easier it gets and the better you get at it. If you do not take strict measures to control the temptation, lying can become a habit to the extent that situations frequently require you to decide not only how to phrase an answer to a question but even whether or not to lie about it.
Major retailers reportedly selling Palin’s Going Rogue below cost.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911160066#645122
“She thinks there is a valid comparison between them because???????”
…..let me finish that sentence for you, dear – because she is a selfish, greedy, grasping demagogue with an ego the size of Mars, who believes everyone exists to make her feel good about herself all the live long day. Also, too.
Gryphens take on Palin’s FB page today:
Barbara and I even attempted to interview Trig during this segment, but he was about as patient through the interview as any other one-and-a-half-year-old child!
(What? They “attempted to interview” a 19 month old toddler with Down’s Syndrome? This little boy is almost completely deaf and has virtually no ability to communicate.
I doubt he has very many words in his vocabulary, if any, and he could not even begin to respond to even the simplest of questions!
This is the sickest pimping of a special needs child that I have ever seen!)
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
Technically? From a medical standpoint, a cold sore IS herpes. It’s herpes labialis, a form of herpes simplex. She’ll call it a cold sore or a fever blister. But those of us who paid attention in health class will know the real truth. While this is in it’s eruption stage, certain actions should be avoided. Poor Toad. He can’t kiss her. That’s as far as I go!
Thanks, AKM, for the synopsis. DO continue!
Of note…
“Newsmax ties book offer to its magazine. As early as October 2, according to a Newsmax email sent to its mailing list, the right-wing website offered Going Rogue for $8.95 along with four free issues of Newsmax magazine, a price later dropped to $4.97.”
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911160066
The nexy thing you know, it will be free with a McDonalds Happy Meal!
“Had Katie Couric even read her op-ed in the New York Times about the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act??”
Wasn’t Palin’s NYT op-ed published this year? I haven’t been able to find it.
It was one of the first things that came out after the election where everybody was wondering who wrote it.
I think.
If you look at the page numbers and the subjects on each page you notice a couple of things. It appears to just ramble, with different subjects just thrown in. If you can sum up a page or three in four lines, and even that is boring, what is in there to fill the rest of the pages. Allot of boring, unless one is a devoted “follower”. So much for editing (if that were even possible), it sounded more like a long eighth grade whine chat.
Cinderella Cinderella
Just in case you missed this (my apologies if someone has already drawn attention to this), Lou Dodd’s won’t vote for Palin?! And, sigh, another lie uncovered during Oprah interview. Both posted at http://thinkprogress.org/
What’s the difference between a pitt bull hockey mom and Hillary Clinton?
A BRAIN!
clydedog… as my high school English teacher wrote on on of my book reports, keenly observing that I never actually READ the book, just the Cliff Notes…
“Trite trash”. ‘Nuff said!
Nexy? NEXY? What was I typing? Fat finger syndrome… sorry all! I MEANT…
“The next thing you know, it will be free with a McDonalds Happy Meal!”
Only got a ‘C’ in English myself!
Just wanted to tip my hat to you all… you just saved me $4.98 and hours of nausea.
Thank Goodness I have a brain, or is that a brian… let’s ask Simple Sarah she knows everything. Oh it’s not her fault either, also.
#88 LMAO A perfect summery.
Ugh. What this book says is she was never ready to become VP – it says she does not have what it takes, does not have strong character to blend in and get along with a team. How can everyone in her campaign team, reporters, etc. always be wrong? Does this indicate there were no “nice campaign staffers” during this whole affair? Interesting that she wasn’t “loved” by people who work closely with her, yet, was “loved” by adoring fans (who’ve never really got to know her close-up and personal).
Imagine, people only wanting their picture with her, not Charlie. This book seems to have a message, and it’s not about change for the greater good of the country. It’s about Sarah wanting to be loved. Being adored. Being understood. It was never about the election or the job of serving. This book really tells on her; that she needs counseling to get to the bottom of her desperate need for attention.
I think Palin’s way of thinking is she will plow thur any crack in the door and if it is viewed in not her favor she just pulls out the blame someone else card. Next………….
Michael Carey is a columnist for The Anchorage Daily News and the host of the public television program “Anchorage Edition.” This is his slant on Palin published in the NYT.
For the record, I don’t believe Sarah Palin will ever hold national office. She inspires many right-wing activists and enchants some members of the conservative news media, but the independents and moderates decisive to any presidential bid won’t send her to Washington with “quitter” on her résumé. Still, she’s likely to remain in the limelight for years to come.
If that makes you scream, don’t scream at Alaskans. We only made her governor. The nation made her a celebrity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17carey.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=alaska&st=cse
@112 aussiegal, Hilarious.
Funny that when Palin posed for the cover of a magazine a few years ago with the headline….America’s Hottest Governor, she didn’t think THAT was sexist.
But now, she objects to a photo for which SHE posed. If the Newsweek cover had a headline that read, She’s Hot and She’s our Gal….Palin would NOT be making a stink. I guarantee it.
I think she is just angry because her legs look fat.
A pro-life group will be protesting Palin’s visit in Indiana because she isn’t pro-life enough for them. Ha, ha, ha!
I for one am hoping her thyroid goes kaput, see how many fans “Fat Sarah” will have left, cause we know it ain’t about her brains. And as a bunus afterthought- a “Fat Sarah” Top Ten! Pow! Bang! Pop!
If I am correct the Op-ED was in February of this year and so she certainly was lying is she wrote that she was thinking that Katie had not read it months before.Does it never end?
Sorry if these are repeats. Media Matters
In book full of complaints, Palin writes: “I don’t like to hear people complain”
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911150006?lid=1077376&rid=37336046
‘Fraid not, mommom
Trisha, agreed, seems those nylons didn’t give her the support she needs either ;-0
Before Rogue: Sarah Palin’s Top 10 past falsehoods
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911150010?lid=1077380&rid=37336046
Sarah Hollywood
Levi fuming over latest Newsweek cover photo.
“It’s a blatant attempt to steal my thunder!”
http://www.runnersworld.com/photo/sarahpalin/images/sarahpalin_200908_477x600_7.jpg
Interesting interview in The Atlantic with the authors of Sarah From Alaska: The Truth And 2012
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/11/sarah_from_alaska_the_truth_and_2012.php
MadCity Chick Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Sorry if these are repeats. Media Matters
In book full of complaints, Palin writes: “I don’t like to hear people complain”
Editing erroe, I am sure, should have read “I don’t like to hear OTHER people complain.”
Kind of like that old line, “So, enough about me. What do you think of me?”
Rogue Facts: Media Matters’ ongoing list of falsehoods in Palin’s memoir
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911150011?lid=1077382&rid=37336046
See, I read that and all I hear is one big *WHINE*.
Man they just keep coming!
Rogue Fact: Palin attacks “Democrat lawmaker” who’s actually a Republican (te-he)
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911140005?lid=1077203&rid=37313696
I must admit, I am gobsmacked at the presence of her two girls at the Oprah show and the BW show. The discussion about Levi and p0rn, Bristol and her pregnancy, abortion and abstinence. This type of conversation should not happen in front of a 15 year old, not to mind an 8 year old.
Oh, and I love that their favourite meal that mummy cooks is mooseburger hotdogs and cheese!!
Those poor children.
Last one I promise and no big surprise here.
Van Susteren hypes Palin memoir, but fails to disclose her husband advised Palin after 2008 campaign.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911140003?lid=1077201&rid=37313696
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/17/palin-lies-oprah/#comments
A good read. Palin’s lies to Oprah. Some great comments too. One person has a list of about 30 lies that Palin told Oprah.
Compulsive Lying Symptoms
Attention Seekers: There are certain people who need to be the center of attraction where ever they go. In order to maintain their high popularity rate, they begin to build up attention seeking white lies. These lies soon become a part of their personalities and they never find it necessary to shrug off the harmless lies.
Create Stories: Creating stories of valor and great deeds about oneself all the time, is a compulsive liar symptom. They make up such great stories about themselves, that they loose their charm once the cat is out of the bag.
Covering Up: When a compulsive liar gets caught in his lies, he will cook up another story of how he is falsely accused or will deny it totally with another story to back up his claim of innocence.
Same Story, Different Characters: Plagiarism becomes another part of obsessive compulsive liar symptoms. One may not realize mentioning the same lie to the same person, more than once. Each time he says the same lie, the basic concept remains the same, only the characters, place, date of occurrence, etc. may change.
Poor Self Esteem: The hallmark of compulsive liar disorder symptom is low self esteem. An inferiority complex forces the person to make up stories, that makes him/her feel worthy and appreciated.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): This is mostly apparent in compulsive lying disorder in children. Even adults suffering from ADHD with impulsive behavior, exhibit compulsive lying symptoms.
Bipolar Disorder: People suffering from a bipolar disorder are always suffering from mood swings, that range from depression to a manic behavior. During this period, their impulsive behavior is switched on, that forces them to lie through their nose.
Other Addictions: Drug addicts, alcoholics, gamblers, etc. who are into similar activities that causes them to fall into trouble more than often, may exhibit compulsive liar disorder. They may keep lying to help themselves out of sticky situations, get out of financial mess, hide the truth about themselves, from their family and friends.
Reality Denial: People who are unable to face the truth or unable to admit truth are true compulsive liars. They may turn on a elaborate emotional display that takes the attention away from their lies. Know more on signs of compulsive lying.
If the shoe fits????
Alaskans eager for Sarah Palin book release
article from the AP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJIel28KCIBmX0YNXOy19mxFlzfAD9C1E1UO0
“At Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks, tins of candies packaged as “Sarah’s Embarrassmints” are a hot item, far outselling Palin’s book.”
OOOOHHHH…according to this (long but interesting) article, Schmidt says that he did not know about Bristol’s pregnancy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/the-inevitable-fluke-that_b_360697.html
I did not watch Oprah but also want to know why on earth her kids were on the show with her. I agree with Irishgirl…some topics should not be discussed when “little ears” are in the room – Piper’s. But given that this poor girl has already endured the campaign trail and her sister’s teenage pregnancy she is 8 going on 35 already. Oprah must have been rolling her eyes…and again.. why aren’t her kids in a place called —- school!!! 25 cents that Willow ends up her third h.s. drop out child. 3 for 3 that’s nice! ( OK Bristol went back and graduated on line, a year after dropping out. ).
Re: Piper trick-or-treating alone. Would YOU let your kid hang out with any of the Palins? I feel sorry for Piper, but Sarah and Todd do not seem to be ordinarily watchful, concerned parents, and I wouldn’t let my kids play with theirs.
And taking Willow and Piper with her on the book tour: how else is she going to have somebody to talk to while traveling? Does she have any real friends?
All I can say is that the rest of the world must be laughing at us. Only in American can a dimwit write a book full of lies and it’s a best seller.
Thanks AKM for posting this. Your comments actually make it fun! @page 272, so that’s where her brains are – on the cutting room floor of CBS! Gosh, I have have really been wondering about where they were. @page 275, mean, insecure Katie didn’t want to talk about wildlife management. Gee, it’s just a hunch here Buttercup, but Katie is probably like the rest of us, the idea of shooting wolves from helicopters actually makes us sick.
I wonder where Piper will end up. Photos on some of the sites show her actually signing autographs during the campaign. Then she’s made up and dressed up, down to one episode with Shirley Temple curls. With the lack of schooling and a stable lifestyle, she’s on the fast track to be a narcissist like her mother.
I can hardly wait for Geoff Dunn’s book to be released – months to go yet!
Newsweek merely bought the photo from the Runner’s magazine……that she posed for and had no trouble with in the past. She’s only dissing Newsweek now because the article was not flattering to her.
This comment from her FB page is so typical of her followers – low-education obvious from continual misspellings and poor grammar, Fox-fan, and dopey-soaps watcher, and this poster considers things OTHER than FB to be stupid, oh my!
“that’s exactly why i don’t buy that stupid magazine. I don’t even watch most of the other stations now except for FOX and my evening entertainment shows. Cooking channel and some soaps..won’t waste my time..ive got Facebook instead of stupidity to waste my time on LOL”
McCain’s personal denial about Palin’s 50,000 dollar legal bill claim:
http://www.adn.com/3437/story/1016532.html
McCain opened the Pandora’s box. Now he should close it.
@151 interesting link. What’s also amusing is that it has a bunch of clips from Palin’s interview with Couric. Fun to watch just as a reminder of her stupidity. She can spin it any way she wants, but we have the footage.
Maybe CBS should run a special where they show her interview again plus all the “fabulous” footage that didn’t make it on the air. You know…all the footage where Palin understands and can discuss international and domestic policy and Supreme Court cases. Snark.
The whole book sounds like a major BITCH session for poor little Sarah.
Wait a minute!!!!!
Palin was quoted as saying she believes in evolution.
In the Runner’s World article, page online, she says this:
“As I get out there and run, I see the most beautiful signs of this evolutionary process that has created the mountains and the glacial retreats that have left the valleys and the rivers”
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410–13221-3-1X2X3X4-5,00.html
Of course, in that interview, whole sentence structures are used and she also quotes Plato, so many ghost writers are in evidence.
Same page:
We like to have other people participate in these activities with us because, as Plato said, “You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
AKM – Instead of my blood boiling, I’m actually amused and smiling. Thanks for the 2nd course!
Did Palin actually pen a NYT op-ed on the gasline before the Couric interview?
What a pretentious charade she is. So typical of her to espouse how much poor Levi is loved by her and family, he should refrain from engaging in �drama�, and they all get along. In the next breath she calls him Ricky Hollywood and condemns him for engaging in �porn�. For crying out loud, he didn�t reveal anything more atrocious in the magazine than she did back in her own �meat show� days.
I�ve said all along, at least she is out of Juneau and our hair up here. Hard to imagine that anybody takes her seriously. I have a sense that considerable anguish exists within a minority of the GOP toward her and a number of others responsible for marginalization of that party into one of wingnut lunatics.
At the time she was designated by the McCain team the Monegan debacle was in full swing and had already contributed to a realization among many in Alaska to the phony side of her character. Why McCain�s team did not focus on the circumstances of her and her families inappropriate actions then before making the selection will always be a mystery to me.
If McCain doesn’t speak up soon and stop quashing his campaign staffers, I expect they will be the next ones going rogue. I don’t see them saying nothing more indefinitely.
Thanks, AKM. I couldn’t read it all in one sitting. Needed a break with some good strong tea and dark chocolate.
Does she do anything but whine and complain about how mean everybody was and how nothing was her fault? Bleah.
So, the thing about Trig – he was born prematurely (means you have to take extra care with the baby’s health), he has Down Syndrome, AND he has/had some sort of heart problem that could have meant he needed surgery? What the devil was she doing hauling that little baby all over the country, exposing him to who knows what germs! The rest of it is bad enough, but the way she has treated that baby is unforgiveable, absolutely.
“As I get out there and run, I see the most beautiful signs of this evolutionary process that has created the mountains and the glacial retreats that have left the valleys and the rivers”
Dixie grrl, she isn’t talking about evolution; she’s talking about geology. She’s using the wrong word, but all she is saying is she believes in stuff like erosion and gravity. And she is also displaying to the whole world that she doesn’t know the difference between evolution and geology.
So let me get this straight – Charlie Gibson, television journalist, is really a petty guy who throws a snit fit because he’s not recognized and therefore treats Queen Tea Baggette badly in the interview. Pullease – who is the media whore here??!!
Dixiegirrl # 160–
That Plato quote was in a womens magazine the month that Palin used it in her interview,either Good Houskeeping or Womens Day,along with some of the other ones she Tweeted that month.So now we know what she reads.
Let’s really get to the heart of her expertise creds, Energy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvUsdmqGYV8
I still want her to be called out on her shallow policy answer to the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. If she can’t even address, solve or improve affordable energy for hundreds of her own State’s communities, as usual, she is in way over her head.
http://alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/2938-twelve-villages-still-unprepared-for-winter-fuel-needs
God, please let her be the GOP’s presidential nominee for 2012. Comedy Gold amirite?