Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part One)
Once again a great beginning.
Page 105-106
It’s the middle of winter, and ten degrees below zero. It’s nighttime and it’s dark. It’s Thompson Pass on the way to Valdez. Driving is “treacherous” and this area has very little traffic, hazardous conditions, and an average snow dump of 50 feet in the winter. Sarah Palin is cresting the pass which skirts a 400 foot precipice, zipping along in her black Jetta drinking sugar-free RedBull and fumbling around to put on a Toby Keith CD while she is driving with the window down to keep herself from falling asleep. She wishes she’d taken Todd’s big 4-wheel drive truck but she didn’t so she’s in this little Jetta. AND HER CHILDREN ARE SLEEPING IN THE CAR! This trip, according to Palin, was the same distance as New York to Raleigh North Carolina, and it was a trip she didn’t need to take. Unbelievable. Every Alaskan parent is cringing right now. Well….except her.
“It was a tough road to barrel down in the dark.” But she was running for governor now and she was having a ball getting out there and meeting people, so it’s all OK. Former State Senate President Rick Halford asked her to run for governor. Thanks, Rick. His encouragement was a “signpost on the road.” Not the frozen treacherous road she was barreling down in the dark with her kids in the car, the road from God.
Page 107
Halford reiterated that it would be brutal on family life, but that she should do it anyway. She agreed.
Andree McLeod is mentioned. “Andree the Gadfly.” (More name calling. Welcome to Jr. High yet again.) When McLeod ran for mayor she had an “ill-advised logo of giant red lips and the slogan ‘Kiss off Special Interests.’” Oh, reeeeealllly…..
Good thing she never had anything unfortunate with big red lips like that. It would have been most ill-advised.
Everyone was afraid for their children’s freedom. Alaska was going to be “Left Behind.” Growth of government bureaucracy was out of control! We had to stop it and had to stop it NOW…. This was the root of our problems.
Page 109
Voters wanted drilling and they wanted change. Kicked off her campaign on Bristol’s birthday so they had cake at the gathering.
Back to the death ride from Valdez. Here she was “still toting kids on the campaign trail” only now it was in the Jetta instead of on a sled. She talked at the event about “unshackling the private sector.” She promised in front of everyone that if she was elected governor, “I won’t let you down.” (Ummm… like accepting the VP nomination and then quitting?)
Page 110
She was the first one to file for governor. Clark (high school friend) and Kris Perry got her campaign off the ground. She painted her campaign office red. (No, I guess it didn’t just ooze from the walls spontaneously that way)
Page 111
“We built a network of nonpolitical, hardworking, Alaskans…” (Were there any from the DemocRAT party perchance?)
Puff paragraph on Kristan Cole. They were both “wired to handle that pressure through faith in Providence…”
Her focus on the campaign would be to get that gas pipeline built that so many others before them did not. Other people had promised to do it but they didn’t do it. SHE was going to do it. (Looking through binoculars for pipeline) No more sponging off the federal government for us. We were going to give baby give.
Page 112
Intro to the Corrupt Bastards Club – She was going to clean up the “favor factory” in the Capitol building. Alaskans felt disenfranchised from their own government, and they were going to clean it up. Since she was campaigning on ethics reform “critics start trolling to see what kind of dirt you’ve got under your fingernails.” She told everyone to dig deep. She’d gotten a D in a college course (English?) and yelled at the wrong kid for not taking out the trash. Those are her skeletons.
***********pause for laughter************
Page 113
Road trips to tiny towns “flung across” Alaska.
Page 114
People gave them pie.
They played the BlackEyed Peas and LL Cool J in the car.
She found it amusing when Barack Obama “one of whose senior advisors (come to think of it) – had roots in Alaska – adopted the same theme. Yes folks, you read that right. She is insinuating that Barack Obama stole HER idea to run a campaign on “change” via Pete Rouse. I bet nobody in political history EVER ran a campaign with a change theme before.
Page 115
A round-table primary debate allowed Murkowski and Binkley to go after each other with “claws” out. She just let them fight and then swooped in at the end acting like a mom and saying that Alaska deserved better discourse, proving that there is no better preparation for politics than motherhood. (I wonder if she took a road trip with them at 10 below in a Jetta across Thompson pass drinking Redbull and rolling the window down to stay awake. Now THAT’s motherhood.)
Questions turned to abortion. She would choose life in each and every case, and said so – if a woman were raped, if it was her daugher, if it was incest or whatever.
She won the primary.
Page 116
This piece of brilliance came from the Alaska Dispatch. And thank you Andrew Halcro for correcting what was an obvious unintentional blunder from Palin who said “Democrat governor” instead of “Democratic governor.” I’m glad you said it correctly, despite you being all effete and everything.
Page 117-118
Halcro, “the Wasilla town crier” (Kilkenny) and “the falafel lady” Andree McLeod were considered credible sources by the national press. Imagine that! I wonder if they engaged in juvenile, petty bitter name-calling? That would be really lame, and people would find it hard to take them seriously. You know, like if they called you “the crazy lady” or “the Wasilla town whack job” or something.
There was a debate at a chamber of commerce luncheon. She chose to send Sean Parnell (the Lt. Governor nominee) to attend in her stead, and she went instead to visit with the troops who were about to be deployed because that was more important than a silly Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Irony Alert! The very same Sean Parnell (who became governor when she quit) decided it was more important to attend an Association of General Contractors luncheon than to meet the President who was stopping off 2 miles down the road to honor the troops last week. I just had to throw that out there.
Todd has an interesting Grandmother who is an Alaska Native.
Page 119
Campaign staff all brought their kids on the road. They memorized Big & Rich, and Travis Tritt songs. Her commercials were “Little House on the Tundra.”
Page 120
She won the governor’s race.
Her father and his friends went to Humpy’s bar “which they said was like a funeral” because it was the Tony Knowles’ crowd. They gloat and try to start a hip hip hooray cheer for Sarah but it doesn’t go over well. Nice guys.
Page 121
In the first of many “Juneau last” incidents, she decided to be sworn in in Fairbanks in the hockey arena.
Page 122
She thanks the students who played hookie to attend the inauguration for “warming up the place”.
She winked at Kris Perry. (Is she trying to establish a pattern of winking behavior, or what? This is the second winking reference.)
Page 123
She said “Alaskans, hold me accountable, and right back atcha!” (Umm…. OK. Will do.) God decided to “overwhelmingly bless” Alaska, because Alaskans are better than all the people that were underwhelmingly blessed.
Page 124
Decided that until there was a road built to Juneau that she should just work in Anchorage and not in the capital because she was all about open and transparent government and giving the people access. (chuckling)
From her office “We overlook Cook Inlet, abundant with sea life, including salmon, halibut and beluga whales, all safely coexisting with offshore oil rigs for the last thirty years.” (Yes, if by “safely coexisting” you mean that the beluga whale is now on the endangered species list after a population crash and you decided to dispute the listing and threatened to sue the federal government over it. Then, yes.)
We all need to be like Ronald Reagan. Again.
Page 125-129
All about starting off getting a gasline. (I look around for a gasline. I peek under my napkin. “No gasline here!”)
She meets with oil executives who backed her opponents and thought to herself, “Hmmm. You just spent a year trying to kick my ass. I just spent a year trying to kick yours. And now we’re in this room together. Out loud I asked, ‘Want a cookie?’”
(THUD)
That was the sound of my head hitting the desk.
They were reaching out to Greenies, Grannies and Gunnies to support the gasline. (clean burning fuel, price of energy, and national security)
Page 130
Alaska is big.
Willow dragged a bunch of girls in pajamas outside to see a sow and cubs.
Track was away playing hockey in Michigan for the semester.
Page 131
The Governor’s Mansion in Juneau is really cool.
Page 132
Tried to light a fire in the fireplace, but the dampers were shut. Fire department came.
Staff loved Piper.
Page 133
The chef “seemed so darn bored” because the kids didn’t like fancy food so they fired her to save money.
They saved the state even more money by eating fish they caught themselves, and moose chili.
If any vegans came over she could explain “her philosophy on being a carnivore. If God had not intended for us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?” (So, why did he make us out of meat? Does God want us to be cannibals? Oh, the dangers of bumper sticker wisdom.)
Hollywood pressured her to “halt hunting, ban guns, and end wildlife management such as predator control.” (Banning guns? I believe it was shooting wolves out of airplanes. Slight difference.)
Page 134
“I had plenty of backup when telling Hollywood liberals what I thought of their asinine plan to ban guns.”
“One animal rights group recruited a perky, pretty celebrity” to attack the policy of shooting wolves from airplanes. The “perky pretty” celebrity is also known as a “delicate starlet” in previous Palin snipes. That would be Ashley Judd. So why does she pick on other women’s “perkiness” or “prettiness.” To quote her famous retort – would that happen to a man?
She finds it ironic that Ms. Judd would oppose shooting wolves from airplanes which was backed up by TWO ballot initiatives, but is perfectly fine accepting a role in Hollywood where she uses guns to kill “predatory humans.” (Um, ex-governor? Hollywood movies aren’t REAL. They’re just pretend…like a made up story. Nobody actually dies, and the guns aren’t real. But reality IS real. Do you see the difference? Am I making sense?) And besides if we didn’t shoot wolves from airplanes Alaska Natives would starve!
Page 135
Piper joined in at the table during important meetings in the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau, and served cake and sat in her lap and whispered things to her.
Page 136
Entitlement programs get people dependent on them.
Todd was called the “Shadow Governor” only because nobody could find anything legitimate to pick on him about.
Page 137
They got a puppy named AGIA for the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. She will not forgive the people that gave her the puppy. Willow got “busted” bringing the puppy to her office. There was another puppy too. (What ever happened to those puppies? They vanished. What the heck was in that darn chili?)
Trying to avoid “any whiff of impropriety” she banned Willow from riding with her dear friend’s mom because she was a lobbyist. Willow said ethics laws would ruin her life, and that people wouldn’t “pick on her” if she didn’t do anything wrong. “You’d be surprised,” her mother answers. (oy.) Finally she gives in but makes sure to note the ride sharing on her disclosure forms but insisted Willow cannot take so much as a Gatorade from the family. Willow rolls her eyes farther back into her head than any teenager alive.
Page 138
There were threats against Willow of gang rape by “students at her Juneau school.” Same threats against Bristol. Somebody threatened to shoot Bristol from a helicopter.
Piper learned how to ride a bike. She got to yell “Yay me!” with nobody to tell her to be humble and quiet. She wants every child to say “Yay me!” without being humble and quiet.
Page 139
She did not require her staff to live in Juneau.
Meg Stapleton did work previously for GOP “power broker” Fred Malek. (Didn’t know that)
Page 140
McCain campaign would only allow her to bring one staffer on the trail – Kris Perry.
Juneau is a den of iniquity. Drunken bowling, drunken brawls, sleeping around, quickies at lunchtime, infidelity, secret meetings, illegal acts. “In short it was a lot like Washington D.C.” She didn’t have time to keep up with the “cocktail circuit” and all the gossip. Some people held that against her. But some people were good.
Juneau’s corruption problems are because it’s inaccessible. Some people want to keep it that way so it can stay corrupt.
Page 141-142
Corrupt Bastards Club and ethics investigation. She reached across the aisle to Democrats. Republicans didn’t like it and told her not to try to reform things. They knew which bills would pass and which ones wouldn’t, and it all depended on who was sleeping with whom.
Page 143
Doesn’t believe in homosexual marriage, but the constitution said that denying benefits was unconstitutional so she had to support that.
Page 144
Slamming John Bittney (not by name). Her “first legislative director” was a “Blackberry games addict who couldn’t seem to keep lunch off his tie.” He liked to think of himself as a “player” in Juneau. He told her to have a “come to Jesus” meeting with lawmakers and tell them that they needed adult supervision. She did tell them that and they didn’t like it. She wanted to blame him, but he shrugged.
Page 145
She told the Democrats that for every law they enacted she wanted to see two repealed. They didn’t like that.
Page 146
Bumper sticker – Dear God, Please Give Us Another Oil Boom an We Promise Not to Piss it Away This Time. (I’ve only seen that bumper sticker that said “Spill” instead of “Boom” and yes, I was horrified.)
Quoting Thomas Paine? Does she actually know who he is?
Page 147
Both parties spend too much, but at least with Democrats their “fiscal liberalism is expected.” Like how they want to fund a Woodstock Music Festival museum and have the taxpayers pay to celebrate an LSD flashback.
Murkowski grew the budget and he bought a jet. “That darn jet.” “After I was elected, I listed the thing on eBay and an agent finally sold it.” ((Ding ding ding! A moment of TRUTH!)) Remember in the campaign speech when she said that she put the jet on eBay and that was IT? Now, at least she drops that it was an agent who sold it. Maybe next time, she’ll fess up altogether and talk about how she sold it at a loss.
She saved money by firing the chef so they didn’t have to pay for fancy meals. “My kids still hold that against me.” (Wildly flipping back and forth between page 147 and page 133 where she said that the kids DIDN’T like fancy food and the chef was “so darn bored.” Well, I don’t know which it is, but ….
Page 147
She was noble and took per diem only for herself and did not accept the $60 per day per diem checks for all the other members of the “First Family.”
Page 148
Denies ever accepting per diem while living in her house. (!!!) Slams Kim Elton for taking per diem while she looks for a hotel in Anchorage that will put up a family of seven and feed five kids for $60 a night. (!!!)
Page 149
Her first budget. There was whining. People wanted things funded including “a lawmaker’s friend’s suicide memorial.” (No I have no idea what that means)
Back to (former High School buddy) John Bittney. He should have been there, but only occasionally wandered through, played on his Blackberry and nibbled cookies. Staffers on their way to the bathroom peeked over his shoulder and ratted on him that he was playing “Brick Breaker.” As she was ready to announce budget cuts he was slouching and had his shirt buttoned wrong and poking through his fly. (OMG! How does anyone think that this kind of thing helps them in a political career. I cannot imaging anyone ever wanting to work for someone who talks about people like this!)
Page 152
More hatchet job on Bittney. He never told lawmakers cuts were coming so she was accused of blindsiding legislators. He was too busy with personal affairs to do any state business. She fired him and he went to work for a legislator who then became a critic of hers.
Thank you again, AKM………….I just love Andrew Halcro and his little butler too…..lol.
Rich………..
I absolutely love the pants on fire graphic. If I weren’t such an awful person, I might even feel a tiny bit sorry for her charred legs and all. But I am, and I don’t, and I never will.
Help me, help me – I can’t take it any more. No more Sarah – ever. Oh and BTW tomorrow is a big deal for friends I hold close. See: http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=1907 . Sadly, rather than raising taxes (income, property or otherwise for the corporate bloodsuckers from outside) the same game is playing itself out here in AK – the people pay so that others may profit.
What the heck was she doing checking out John Bitney’s fly?
SP has just given press, comedians, enemies, and Tina Fey, the most material that will keep America laughibg for years to come. Yep!!
SP has just given press, comedians, enemies, and Tina Fey, the most material that will keep America laughibg for years to come. Yep!!
At least until the price of her book drops to $1.00 in the remainder bins – oops, the guy at the liquor store said some sites are offering it for free if you buy something else. Surprise, surprise.
Hahaha, the Halcro Video is a gem!! What a fun you are all having. I guess the only way to go is humour! And you are good at it.
Anybody want to make bets on what Title Wave is selling Pallin’s book for in, oh say, four weeks?
I think Going Rouge is her stab at penning the life she “wished she had”
or more frightening
The life she “thinks” she has
…he was slouching and had his shirt buttoned wrong and poking through his fly.
OH OH OH OMG x infinity. That is jaw-droppingly horribly funny and bizarre. I gasped, mouth agape, then let out a long derisive snort followed by peals of laughter—all apparently loud enough to wake spouse from deep slumber
“Palin?” he asked.
I’m dumbfounded. She is> crazy.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/11/17/am.costello.palin.oprah.cnn
It´s not just me then! I think she is really boring. Even her lies.
OMG AKM – I didn’t realize this book was comedy! Well, I’m sure it isn’t to you, having to read it and all. I am actually enjoying your rendition of it though. Thank you so much for taking one for the team. Now get some sleep and I hope you don’t have nightmares. Cheers!
I find it so very interesting that Todd Palin is never interviewed or asked his opinion on anything his wife does as an Alaskan or regarding her political office.
Maybe one day he’ll write a book of his own which I would look forward to reading.
I’m going back in, but I just had to squee. Mr. Halcro, you are an inspiration — well, to everyone but… I just can’t say her name one more time.
This is the way to respond to personal attack — it’s classy, sardonic and way effete, man! You are destined for YouTube glory. Hey, if you weren’t hatched from Republican slime and therefore unescapably creationist, anti-education, pro-corporate slavery and tax-free skull-vacuuming, not to mention a suspiciously hetero-claiming white male, I’d so vote for you!
Moderator, I’m joking. I swear. Relax. Halcro Is King.
I keep waiting to see coverage of the block busting crowds that must be forming to get autographed copies of the book. What if you had a parade and …
Dear Jeebus, the woman can’t write a coherent narrative even with a competent ghost writer. In her defense, one can’t help but wonder if there aren’t some undiagnosed learning disabilities–adult ADD certainly comes to mind.
And you’re a hero in my book for slogging through this mess. I’m from SC, so I guess I have to return the favor when her highness, Jenny Sanford, releases her book of personal trials and oppression (as only the heir to the Skilsaw fortune can experience, natch) in the Spring.
If she runs in 2012 the commercials of her clips next to her other clips showing lie after lie should be fun. “We took a vote,” “Oh, we didn’t vote this time,” “We had a family meeting,” “Oh, no, the not so perky one told them.”
bless you, mudflat lady. you are close reading this awful tract so we do not have to. i worry that your sanity may not hold out to the end, so please take frequent breaks to reconnect with the real world. there are still places in the world where logic and truth rule, so after your long visit through the looking glass with sarah, we readers out here will offer you a helping hand to reconnect with reality!!!
As always, we are deeply indebted for you for reminding us to smile–even chuckle–rather than cry over this drivel.
Palin has quite a mind for remembering small details about people…guess that’s why there’s no room left up there for all that boring icky policy stuff.
FINALLY. This book has been revealed as an LSD trip.
I’m not sure why this would be thought to be true without independent investigation:
“Meg Stapleton did work previously for GOP “power broker” Fred Malek. (Didn’t know that)”
given that there is so much else that is merry moosesh:t.
A real mom wouldn’t have tortured her kids by driving with the window down in the cold like that. A real mom wouldn’t have put them in danger. Species preservation and all. Her father came from a dysfunctional family and so did her kids. And now T2 is in the same dysfunctional, leaking boat.
I’m really enjoying your summarization of the book. SP is so nasty, petty and vindictive – who in their right mind would work for her? I’m thinkin’ that she’s really burning the bridges to nowhere!
When is comes to politicians, looks, attractiveness mean little to nothing. When we talk of such major issues as health, jobs, education, laws, etc. It really is a matter of policy, executions, track record.
However, because the media talking-heads and pundits make such a big issues of this here, “hot granda ma”, I’ll just point out, that Barbara Walter’s interview is unique look at S’error. She comes off a incredibly petty, mean spirited. Combined with terrible make up, poor lighting, and close ups that show much more than perhaps even Todd or God care to see.
I do wonder if the MSN and powerful behind the scenes are starting to say enough. Let’s bring this dangerous ignoramus down.
CNN ran the latest lie in opposing clips this morning.
First, where she tells Oprah that SHE decided to accept the VP
then the Hanniity clip where she says, “it was a time of havin the girls vote”
very funny and surprising they would do that!
Well- I was waiting to see what the blathering bimbo would have to say about Juneau…
Hmmph.
( And the so-called bored chef… wait til I tell her… hmmph.)
It’s bad enough SP had the shadow gov
( yes, he did act behind the scenes SP and you know it . Pants on fire isn’t as hot as it’s going to get for you if there really is a final reckoning, dearie…)
out trying to get the push going to pull the capitol out of Juneau again but to blame the behavior of staff, Legs , and Herself on us…?
Phhhhttt.
We pretty much keep our mouths shut about stupid behavior by Govs and Legs and their minions
but I think we need to prove just how accessible we are if she’s going to start this crap again…
AKM-
glad to see you are taking a breather…
I’m going to as well.
Shheeesh…
May I say, this book is so boring. Details no one but the most sycophantic fan could be interested in reading.
Again, I think it is sad that there is no one in her life that seems to care about HER. Her fans are too blinded and her “friends” want big jobs and proximity to power and the pundits want her to keep riling up the racists and teabaggers, but SHE looks like a petty fool to most Americans.
I am glad that she doesn’t have real handlers because she could have faked being a serious person if she let someone help her. Thankfully for us, she wont’ take advice.
I can’t stand her on so many levels, but if she ever spent a minute without being hopped up on Red Bull, she might feel sad about her life.
First time poster here but I had to comment as a dreadful realization came to me this morning.
With all the bashing and backlash on her FIRST book, I fear she’s taking names and jotting notes for her SECOND book…you know, to set the record straight, again. :::shudders:::
@24 Lilybart-
She had a real handler in the poor messy tie and untidy shirt gent… Many,many folks feel we would have known her better here if he hadn’t done so well…
til she threw him under the bus
When I heard the book was going to come out, and quickly, I remarked that it was going to be easy to write because it was going to be the same stump speeches and canned answers she’d been honing during the campaign. Boy, I called that.
On the vegetarian thing, I have a theological bone to pick, as it were: God told us to be vegetarians in Genesis Chapter One; we only got permission to eat meat (and terrorize nature) later (Chapter 9), so clearly it wasn’t God’s original intention, but a concession to our baser nature.
You deserve a reward for reading through this slop. Much of it sounds like excerpts from a teen aged girl’s diary rather than a tome written by a politician who it seems did not much like most people she came across in her life.
Anybody putting any substance in this piece of baloney ought to have their heads examined. Nothing but a torturous journey based on delusions and half truths. And yes, who in their right minds would ever want to work for her. She sounds like a milder version of Anna Wintour.
Breather… gotta go take a breather…
If Sarah Palin has all that great family support as she claims in her interviews, then why is she dragging her kids all over the place with her? Or is she just trying to bore them to tears?
If Sarah Palin’s walls have you seeing red, vote blue!
AKM(Looking through binoculars for pipeline)
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Can you see the pipeline from your house??
Obama “probably won’t” read Palin’s book.
He is a wise man.
AKM: Quoting Thomas Paine? Does she actually know who he is?
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She has no common sense, so I’d guess no. But I’ll gladly loan her my copy in an effort to fill out her apparently thin education.
Yesterday S, tells People Magazine, she wants Rahm Emanuel’s job as Chief or Staff. She wants to be in charge of hiring and firing at the White House.
Imagine that! All White House staff signing letters of resignation before they are hired. A pilgrimage of high school classmates, redneck, Mat Su-billies making the mecca from Wasilla to DC. The DC belt-way congested with pickup trucks, racked guns, cases of ammo and American flag bumper stickers.
I doubt she herself would move to DC. Her plans are likely that she can handle the job via Facebook and Twitter, while getting Per Diem for living at home.
The Mean Girl-ness of this book takes my breath away! Could she be more petty, vindictive and shallow?
OMG, it is far worse than I ever imagined. How can you not throw up? As someone else mentioned it is like a teenager’s diary. I am glad to see that some TV stations are starting to report her lies. She should thank her “God” that the news people have been way way kinder than I would have ever been.
BTW, I heard that Barbara Walters called little miss SP smart. What in God’s name is that woman drinking because if it alters your reality that much I think I need some;) I will NEVER watch Barbara Walter again because she is seriously nuts. Of course since she likes Sarah’s puppet Elizabeth I was already through with her.
Good luck, I don’t know if I could even read 1/10th of that book w/o blowing my brains out!
I have driven the Thompson Pass route in the summer, and it gives me the willies.
Another nightmare tonight, courtesy of Sarah Palin.
Good job, Andrew. I spit my Earl Grey on my laptop.
AKM, thanks for these posts!
Question, AKM:
Are you missing all those parts of the book Rush Limpbaugh said make it The great policy handbook?
I just love the Andrew Halcro video. Did she really write down that he was the limousine driver at Todd’s cousin’s wedding?
Unbelievable.
Comment disappeared again. No dirty works or nothing.
Is toxic tome flagged?
cotton candy, meet white bread.
Wow, all those nasty mean-girl references to people, food on ties…..zippers open, nicknames instead of calling them by their real names, just plain mean. I would have to say, the “fruit” of her spirit, isn’t sweet-smelling in light of her
constant reference to her religion.
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.”
Bloggers and writers will insult her too but, per the request that politicians ask the people to keep them accountable. She stands on this platform of christian principles, yet can’t control her tongue by way of throwing insults at people she doesn’t like, insults that have nothing to do with their tasks, or the tasks of her administration.
We’ll get through this! Argghh!
I was not online yesterday, so lots of catching up to do. Thank you AKM – great job!
“There were threats against Willow of gang rape by “students at her Juneau school.” Same threats against Bristol. Somebody threatened to shoot Bristol from a helicopter.”
I suppose she brings this up because she is not fawned over in Juneau – and wants to justify not living in the Governor’s mansion. But, OMG – bringing up the rape of Willow AGAIN (ala Letterman). And murdering Bristol? Any follow up of police reports? No way would these threats on the Governor’s little girls NOT be on a police blotter, right? GOTTA BE POLICE REPORTS!
She is extremely sick to write about the rape and murder threats if not true (who am I kidding? Of COURSE not true). SICK SICK SICK Sarah.
Reminds me a Lou Dobbs claiming some liberal shot at his house. The police report saying it’s hunting season, and likely a careless hunter. As Lou lives on a 200 acre farm.
Okay…..so who get’s to chair CREEP. CREEP stands for Conservative Republicans to Elect Palin. If the young people get involved, add a y after CREEP, making it CREEPY. Supporters simply add an s and it becomes CREEPS. Buttons will read, CREEPS or CREEPY. CREEP for Palin. Is this creepy or what?
When going for the mother-of-the-year award, aren’t you immediately disqualified if you haul your kids across a mountain pass at night in the dead of winter for your own gain? Isn’t that the selfish mother award? All those kinfolk, and not one could take her kids overnight so she didn’t subject them to that risk?
This woman is nuts. May this week be over with so I can go back to pretending that she does not exist.
Eugene Robinson, who is a regular on Olberman, has a very insightful column about “Our Evita” that ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. About why so many (well, maybe not SO many) people seem to like and support her. Read it here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602632.html
Aren’t you afraid of her book lawyers coming after you for copyright fair use issue?
Wow, a must read. Thomas Frank eviserates Palin!
“From Ms. Palin’s masterwork, we learn that the personal really is the political. Every encounter with a critic seems to be a skirmish in the culture wars, from the Alaska debate moderator who didn’t play fair once to the “wealthy, effete young chap” who ran against her for governor but who, in one of the quickest transitions from anti-snob to snob in all of literature, is also said to have served as “our limo driver at [her husband] Todd’s cousin’s wedding.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704782304574542051447849052.html
eviscerates
This book is such a rookie mistake. Any good writer knows you get all this personal junk out in the first draft and THROW IT AWAY, then sit down and start in on the hard work of producing a thoughtful, interesting book that is worth reading. Whoops.
Even that A$$Hat Halford warned her that running for office with a family full of little ones was going to be murder on her family – her mama bear instincts is to go for it anyway? She lugs them around. Forces them to become a part of her Administration.
Flash forward, she campaigns further, asks Alaskans to give her a very demanding public job, the highest office in the State, and complains she shouldn’t be punished for having young children. She should be able to see them, have them participate and diminish the importance of State business in meetings with her constituents, put up with cookies and cakes and a shadow Governor to boot. Doesn’t see anything wrong with using State monies to finance her family time but criticizes every other government funded program under the sun.
Tells villagers with energy challenges (cause the State never invested any of their multi-Billion dollar budgets into energy infrastructure) that the realilty is, they need to move to make a living. Flash-back folks and realize, she CAMPAIGNED for a job that required her to live elsewhere, but she changed the rules to fit her preferences to live in her nice big warm house in Wasilla. And took a per diem for that privilege and exploitation! Villagers, with an ancient homeland – aren’t allowed that kind of consideration. . .
This was test enough, but she thought gunning for the second highest office in the NATION was going to improve her family time and relationships?
Let’s keep in mind too, also, that Sarah once again swoops in and stands on the shoulders of a two year national campaign by veteran Senator John McCain and manages to bungle it further in a matter of weeks. Weeks, in comparison to years. . .and she still thinks it was exhausting, confusing, hindering, unfair and bottled up. Of course she would throw the party that plucked her from obscurity and throw them under the bus, look at her record!
I’m sorry people, but I am GLAD and GRATEFUL this book is out there, it clarifies for anyone that was on the fence (but not her devoted supporters) that she is a world class self-serving, juvenile, vindictive, delusional, child exploiting and abusing lunatic and does more damage to herself than all of our bloggers and biased reporters put together.
As anyone who has ever watched a horror movie knows: When the walls start bleeding, you start muttering “don’t go in there…get out…get out now!”
Andrew Sullivan has had enough. It appears that he is taking time off to get to grips with all of Palin’s lies.
“And we have had the book for less than a day. We feel we owe it to you to get it right – or as right as we can – until we post or publish anything. As readers know, we also differ on some key issues and intend to air them and thrash this out until we are confident that whatever we publish is as fair as possible.
At some point, we will also go back and make sure we have not missed all the evidence of the other lies that Palin is now peddling. We won’t miss anything. But we ask for your patience.
There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.
We have only one commitment: to get this right. Please bear with us as we do the best we can.”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/to-our-readers.html#more
Palin supports Isreal’s limitless expansion into Palistinian terrirtoy. She said Obama doesn’t deserve Peace Prize. She wants a surge in Afghanistan. Just send whatever troops McCrystal wants. She likely doesn’t understand McCrystal isn’t Commander in Chief or simply does not support the Commander in Chief during a time of war.
Palin states Ft Hood shooting was act of terrorists and supports the profiling of all American Muslims. Although she thinks abortion clinic bombers are just misguided and should re-frame from acts of violence.
Dogs? These people had dogs??? OMG where is the ASPCA? Everyone knows that there is often a direct parallel between how people treat their animals and how they treat their children. Hmmm.
# 47 Irish Girl:
Excellent link!
OUCH!
A very minor point, compared to all the other stuff, but I found her comment about vegans enlightening. Presumably, anyone coming to her home for a meal would be friends, colleagues, etc. Yet, even with these people, she is totally self-centered and lacking in graciousness. She is dismissive, and even demeaning, of their views. She is so certain that her way is ALWAYS the correct way that she won’t even entertain another’s preference.
Dear Sarah of Wasilla (not to be confused with Sarah of Palmer, Sarah of Talkeetna, Sarah of Eagle River, Sarah of Timbuktu, etc . . . frankly sometimes I do get confused) :
I’ve disguised myself in previous entries here– actually, I’m God.
As God, I don’t know if I can tolerate another chapter of your book– I’m feeling a building pressure.
Despite claims in “your” “book”, I have not chosen you for anything special. We can talk about that later. I’m in no hurry.
If you have any questions in the interim, feel free to contact my representative, AKM. Or just subscribe to Mudflats.
You are no prophet. Prophets are generally literate, or at least they can speak for themselves.
Cheers,
God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxuI3CoFf8
I don’t know if everyone has already seen this. I just learned about her ‘latest ignorance’ when she gave an interview to the Alaska Daily News after she quit her job as governor. Wow, she really doesn’t know at all not only how her country runs, but what the various government departments are – incredible considering this nutty critter was running for VP (actually President when you consider that all VPs really are running for President too).
Mary Matalin’s thoughts
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/18/matalin.palin.book/index.html
I wonder what the back story is at Harper Collins: why did their editors ever let her go through with publishing this mean spirted, childish screed. Was there a draft that was even worse than what they ended up publishing or was it their intention to let her through herself under the bus?
ooops—”throw”
Jimmy Fallon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/going-rogue-goes-rogue-sa_n_361803.html
Ok, Ok I will give you the purple heart for having to read this book. But please stop now, my head is spinning and I can’t take it any longer. Honestly, I don’t know how you do it. I have managed to not watch any talk show that has had her on. Its bad enough to hear her on the news show.
AKM, you continue to rock! I hope you will consider publishing the definitive (Over The) Cliff Notes version of “Going Rogue.” That’s one book I’d stand in line to have signed. Thank you for faithfully keeping the reading lamp lit.
I just LOVE the pants-on-fire jabs…love’em. They made me laugh the first time, and every time I see them I laugh. Ha ha ha hee hee hee hee har har har whew! So appropo …
GA Peach @62, that Matalin article was IMO pretty terrible. The last paragraph has a glaring grammar error and I’m pretty sure there were other ones as well.
I haven’t read her before so thanks for sharing and exposing us to new stuff.
I read this quickly and if somebody wanted to ‘factcheck’ me, I might have overlooked something, but here’s my take on her article:
As nicely toned as it was, it was sad how she had to bend over so far backward to make excuses for Sarah (and that comment amount a woman getting slapped? What woman puts up this that? At my most generous, I would demand he apologize profusely, and promise never to do it again with the backing of the boss that if he slaps or hits anyone, ever again, his A$$ gets fired then and there.)
No doubt Palin remembers the incidents painted in how she was viewing things at the time. And to say that that technically does not make them lies is beyond generous. The point is, if someone under stress cannot react to the reality of the situation at the moment, if they cannot stop reading their projections into what is being said rather than just LISTEN TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING SAID, they have no business in …. well, any business that involves negotiations, or discussion of important matters … i.e. totally unfit for POTUS and SWL (Significant World Leader – I just made that up!)
So once again, by covering for her, Matalin brings to light all the exact reasons why she is unfit for high office (heck, even low office).
And once again, in all those words (learn to edit, honey!), Matalin STILL did not articulate any good, substantials reasons why Palin would be so good for the country. What does she believe in? What are her policy positions? What was her record as government? Seem your piece was all opinion and no fact, which is fine as long as it is billed that way. Still, facts, statistic, footnotes, links to supporting documents, make your opinion stronger and more convincing. Use of ‘common-sense conservatism”? Not so much.
Needless to say, you failed to convince me.
Is Sarah Palin ‘picked on’? Well, in terms of sheer negative volume of what the media has produced about her, I can see how one might get that impression. But being ‘picked on’ implies that one does not actually deserve the criticism.
When in living memory have we had a candidate who’s own behavior and choices is what brought on all this predominantly just criticism?
She tries to compare her treatment to that of Joe Biden. His gaffes were not ignored, but were not dwelt upon, I’ll grant you that. But they were just that, gaffes. And he did not turn around and blame someone else for those gaffes. And when did he say mean things, lie, drag his children around as props? Accuse John McCain of being associated with terrorists? Imply that only certain parts of America contained ‘Real Americans?’. Have a lawsuit against him in which he was found to have abused his power as a state or fed. official? I’m sure no elected official is perfect or able to be criticism-free but SHEESH! Sarah Palin has done, and said, on the record, tons and tons of things that can be legitimately criticized. She is hardly being ‘picked on’ if she continues the kind of behaviors that bring on the criticism.
Overall impression of article? Mary Matalin, Human Pretzel for Palin
This is fantastic….I am so ha
ppy that you are nailing yourself to the cross for my benefit.
What I find most intriguing is that e-mails written by Sarah Palin have surfaced from the McCain campaign disputing some of her allegations. In each one, Todd Palin is cc’d on the e-mail.
In 14 years of using an e-mail address daily to conduct business, I have never cc’d my wife on a business e-mail. John McCain is a great patriot and heroic figure, but he should be ashamed for foisting this trainwreck upon the people of this great land.
I really do feel like this whole thing is her junior high diary updated to include her post-junior high years. But it’s clear that she hasn’t matured at all.
And wow! She was hauling those little kids all over in a wagon and then a car late at night while she campaigned? Well, at least she has done one thing consistently – use her children as props instead of thinking of their safety and welfare. Those kids have even less chance of turning out to be normal human beings than I thought. They’ve never had any semblance of a normal life. So very sad.
And now I have to take a break before tackling Chapter 3. I suppose this book can actually get worse. Someone should sue the publisher for inflicting this on the American public. No, we don’t have to buy it or read it (I won’t), but there it is, out there, and there she is, still talking. What idiot made the decision to give her a book deal? Hope he’s losing sleep over this one.
Rogue “Going Rogue” watch at local Target:
Now, I suppose it is possible the shelves have been restocked, but …
… seems a whopping 4 copies have flown off the shelf.
And I live in what would be considered a major metropolitan area, near Ft. Lauderdale.
Ah, that explains the disinterest. Target book buyer appears to know her customers!
Kinda makes you wonder what her ‘writer’ was thinking as all of this was being compiled – does she really want her name on this book as the person responsible for making it legible, readable, credible, factual, yada yada yada. Because even if those *weren’t* her responsibilities, from this day forward she’s forever linked to Sarah Palin and this book. And you’re right: Who would ever want to be associated with Sarah Palin, knowing that at anytime in the future she’d hand you over if she thought she could get a laugh, a vote, a second look. She’s worse, so much worse, than America deserves. Having said that, however, I think this book may well be the knot in her noose…
#53 I See Villages from my House Says:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
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Outstanding post!
You are a better person than I, AKM. I’m curious about the book, but the idea of even taking it out of the library makes me nauseous, let alone buying it. Thanks for sacrificing your eyes and brains to share with us all her ridiculousness.
MSNBC certainly seems to have bought the Palin Kool-Aid, though, unfortunately: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34000354/ns/politics/
Thanks AKM for your self-sacrifice and taking one for the team. I surely could not… I need to keep my food down not up and out… I would surely starve especially because of the time it would take me to slog through the book’s entirety.(sp?)
Andrew, Harco Bravo! Short but sweet and quite debonair in a tux. Masterpiece Theater meets Monty Python. (kinda, but y’all get my drift)
Just read a report on Immoral Minority that SP signed a jacket for some guy in Grand Rapids today.
Let the floodwaters break open.
Umm … the rules said “only books will be signed, only books bought from here (or another store in our chain) and no personalization.
Rogue-y Sarah has now opened the floodgate for every fan to bring anything they want signed to the book tour, and they can rightfully claim, “well, you signed HIS jacket, so you should sign my [whatever] too!”. If she wants to explain to her fans why that guy’s jacket was more worthy of signing than your daughter’s Hello Kitty Journal from the last year filled with great things to say about Sarah Palin as a role model …. well then, have fun with that. Or, if you want to explain to little Susie, “sorry, personally, I’d love to, but this dang bookstore has a policy that says I can’t”. And because Susie’s parents rightly take affront to this, they decide to never shop at that bookstore ever ever again (yeah, I think book tour venues agreed to host her because they thought the tour would PROMOTE sales, not DRIVE THEM AWAY!)
It’s not that she couldn’t have organized an open signing if she had wanted to. Oh wait, she’s not paying for it. So, yeah, HarperCollins called the shots. BlameFest in three …. two… one …
Practical upshot: If she continues to “Go Rogue”, and allow herself to sign whatever she feels she wants to (which would be anything and everything), that will mean she will either not have enough time at one stop to sign the books of the people who did legitimately buy them there (royally and rightly cheesing them off) or she will end up being late to the next book venue, once again jeopardizing the ability of the people who legitimately bought books and followed the rules, to get their book signed by her.
The above assumes there will be crowds of people flocking to see her …
Popcorn sounds REALLY good right now …
I cannot imagine your pain in reading this book. You need to spoil yourself with something fun this week.
how long until the signed books appear on e-bay so impoverished Michaganders can try and make a buck?
terpsichore your post about the matalin article was right on..How any woman would stand for any one slapping her in the face and doing or saying nothing about it explains why so may republican women stay with cheating husbands. She does sort of bend into a pretzel doesn’t she(rhetorical)
Stephen Colbert just used SPs magmum opus for his “WORD”. Had me belly laughing. Big time. beth.
my dog, enough about selling the jet sarah – you then proceeded to monopolize the dept. of public safety’s king air prop jet to commute to and from juneau and fly around on your going away thank god state tour – including taking family to see the bears at mcneil. operating costs are around five thousand an hour, including crew and not including security, etc.
I was afraid I’d crumble under the pressure and go buy her book, hating myself for whatever royalty crumbs would end up in her coffers. You’ve saved me the humiliation. Now I’m content to wait for Amazon’s .01 cent copy and in the meantime enjoy the show as America recoils in horror from what the GOP has wrought.
Thank you.
“god knew what he was doing?”
I HATE that when people say that God GAVE their kid autism or DS to, I don’t know, test the faith of the family or whatever justification they come up with.
Autism can be absolutely heartbreaking and the stats on couples with special needs kids are bad — very high divorce rate. Our sitter tried to work for a family with a serverly autistic kid, he screamed all day, it was just awful and sad.
No God I could respect would GIVE disabilities to some people, just to do it.
I don’t believe in a God that micromanages the Universe. The universe was created to run itself on natural laws.
“‘She had to go to the ER, and Track was there and they wouldn’t give him water because he was a minor and if they had to do surgery he was supposed to have an empty stomach. She understood but was furious because an underage girl “could undergo a painful, invasive, and scary abortion and no parent even had to be notified.’”
What a load of hog’s wallow. She is right that if someone is or might be undergoing surgery they need an empty stomach so that they won’t vomit and drown on their own vomit of stomach reflux. But that has nothing to do with their age. It has to do with normal medical precautions.
The major reason for the need for non-parental consent for pregnant teenagers, is
1) incest – highly possible
2) abuse – possible
3) unreported rape, date or otherwise – pretty common
4) bad parenting – probable
Remember that when, I believe Colorado, passed its parental consent law, one of the first girls impacted by that law was murdered by her parents when they discovered she was pregnant.
“Looking for love is all the wrong places.” isn’t just the title of a song.
“Thanks God for second-greatest generation.”
Tells us what she thinks of the Viet Vets, doesn’t it?
Not just Kerry, but all of them, Repugs and Christian conservatives and kids who died believing they were doing the right thing. In fact the entirety of them. Of course Chaney, Bush, and Rush, the Viet draft dodgers, are OK by her.
She is a disgusting human being. 50,000 died and she blows them off but expects the rest of us to respect the military. No wonder she chokes up as the military, but not non military, play the Star Spangled Banner, she is chocking on her own hatred and prejudices.
She is so internally conflicted I’m surprised she can walk in a straight line. But her inner truth teller keeps telling us what she really thinks. And it is UuuuuglE.
Page 191
She’s 7 months pregnant and “hadn’t put on a lot of weight” so she was able to conceal her pregnancy with scarves.
(NO. I won’t make a joke, and you can’t make me! >clamping hand on mouth<)
Another thought, isn’t a Jetta one of them ‘furrin’ made cars? Why, why, that’s totally un-American.