Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 1 of 3)
I have not mentioned until now that each chapter begins with a quote. But this one, I have to share. It may not mean much to you if you have not already waded through the first three chapters, but here it is.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes. ~ Charles Swindoll
(Aaaaahahahaha! I love it when she starts us off with a laugh. And we are in the middle, right now, of how Sarah Palin reacts to her life. )
Page 209
They land in Arizona.
Managed to sneak out of Alaska without being detected.
Page 210
God presents doors.
“A nice guy named Adam Brickley had started a Web site trying to rally ordinary folks to draft me for the job.” (Adam Brickley was actually a blogger in his parents basement, but notice how because he’s on her side he becomes “a nice guy with a Web site” instead of those other nasty bloggers who are the “opposition research.”)
Met McCains in February 2008 and they “really connected.” Cindy loved her kids just like other moms even though she was “elegant and beautiful.” (rich) John McCain is “full of an inspiring inner joy.”
Page 211
When McCain called her at the state fair and asked her to be his running mate she wasn’t surprised. It seemed like a comfortable natural progression. (Not for anyone ELSE!) After he asked her, she hung up and took Piper on a ride. Then called Todd and Kris Perry. How would she keep the secret from her staff? She always worked. She gave birth to Piper on a Monday and went to work on Tuesday and brought her in a car seat.
Page 212 (previously posted as a sneak peek)
“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?
Page 213 (previoulsy posted)
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.
Page 214 (previously posted)
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! (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 they might have won. It’s all his fault…
Page 215 (previously posted)
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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She had no litmus test for abortion in her administration. Her roommate in college was gay. “To me she was still Tilly.” She opposed ‘homosexual marriage’ but so did the DemocrAT candidate so it wasn’t an issue.
And now, we find out exactly WHO was responsible for the extensive vetting process that she went through. (wink) I present Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. He knew it all – voting records, tax records, even transcripts of sermons that visiting pastors had preached at a church I had not attended regularly since I was a teenager. And they even knew Bristol was pregnant! “Good. They know exactly what they’re getting.”
(While they were looking up sermons from visiting pastors that went to churches that you don’t attend, did they see THIS ONE?? Just curious.)
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“I didn’t believe in the theory that human beings – thinking, loving beings – originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea. Or that human beings began as single-celled organisms that developed into monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees…” (Wow.)
Steve Schmidt felt a little uncomfortable with this part of the discussion. Imagine that. “I had just dared to mention the C-word: creationism. But I felt I was on solid factual ground.” (Wow.)
Page 218 (previously posted)
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.”
Page 219 (previously posted)
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?
“Cathedrals of soaring red rock rising near forests of ponderosa pine.. I craved stretching my legs.”
The McCain compound didn’t feel like a rich person’s compound. It had that lived-in compound feel.
Page 220
John McCain can identify hawks in flight by genus and species.
He told her that running for Vice President would be really tough on her family. She said she knows but it’s OK because her kids have grown up with it.
Page 221
She says she’s up to the challenge. They’re everyday Americans and will appeal to voters. They know what it’s like to have to make payroll. They know “what it’s like to be on a tight budget and wonder how we’re going to pay for our own health care.” >>>SCREECHY BRAKE NOISE<<<<< (OK, remember the part about Todd being part Alaska Native? Well, guess what comes with that? Free health care. Yup. Socialist government-run health care. And it works really well. Todd gets it, Track gets it, Bristol gets it, Willow gets it, Piper gets it, and Trig gets it. Sarah gets it too, for all her pregnancies. So, let me just say:
Cindy McCain reminded her of a 1950s TV mom. Some people call her an ice queen (McCain) but she isn’t. She’s tired of being “unfairly clobbered in the press with lies” about her and her family.
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She knows just how Cindy McCain feels. After a while “some of the giddy gets knocked right out of you.”
“Because of her upmarket elegance, she’d almost been ostracized from working-class people.” But her dad was poor. And she does volunteer work and adopted a kid.
John McCain offered her the job.
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They got ready to step on stage. They whispered “Say a prayer!” to each other. John McCain made a bold pick.
Page 224
McCain introduces her to an adoring world.
Page 225
More of McCain’s introduction of her. It struck her as ironic that Obama had captured the theme of “change.” After all she’s the one who came up with it first. She wondered how she could interject that into the campaign – that she was for change “when change wasn’t cool.” (Wondering how many other political campaigns have had change as a theme. Probably every single non-incumbant. Nice try.)
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She gave the speech. Now John McCain would have some explaining to do when people asked Who in the heck is she? (And the nation asked the internet and found a bunch of Alaska bloggers!)
She got to the hotel room in Minnesota, and what do you think she found? Racks of clothes! She thought that it was great. Somebody was going to just hand her something to wear. One less thing to worry about.
Page 227
She met Tucker Eskew. He was the one who “torpedoed” John McCain’s campaign in the 2000 primary. McCain hired him hoping he could do the same thing to Obama. (Nice.) She recalls the first time she heard Obama speak and thought he was good but that his “smooth style would obscure what he was actually saying.”
Met Mark and Nicolle Wallace, married couple that worked for Bush who met during the Florida recount. (How romantic. Not.)
Page 228
Mark has a bad temper and drops the f-bomb and yells at people. Nicolle is blond, charming and pretty and is always “on.” She speaks in sound bites. She likes Randy Scheunemann and Steve Biegun. Steve’s kids play basketball. She hopes he’s not missing their games for this. He is.
Page 229
She is “reminded” that she has more foreign policy experience (Russia) and more administrative and executive experience than Obama or Biden. “We assumed it was the campaign press people’s job to get that message out to the voters.”
The VP people were called “the B Team.” Steve Schmidt (the evil) introduces her to her campaign chief of staff who has “a thick East Coast accent” (Whatever the hell THAT is! I guess to Palin with her weird Wasilla-Wisconsin hybrid thing going on, all the East Coasters sound the same). The campaign manager is a financial guy and doesn’t know how to run a campaign.
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She thought it was odd that this inexperienced guy was going to run the show. Silly her, she thought they must have known what they were doing. It ended up being a “learning experience.” (More excoriating to come, I’m sure)
A tailor showed up. She was beautiful and helpful. Nicolle hired a team of NY stylists, “one of whom had apparently worked for some big-name newscasters, including Katie Couric.” (insert scream here) She looked at the price tags and they “almost knocked her eyes out.” Why, one blazer alone cost more than a semester at the University of Alaska. And she was horrified at the “fancy” packaged $70 nylons. There was also a real pearl necklace, but she gave it back because she didn’t need fancy stuff. Why, even her wedding ring only cost $35 “and it still works!” (Even though she doesn’t wear it?)
Willow, ever the fiscal watchdog asked who was paying for all this? The staffer said she didn’t know but not to worry because it was all taken care of. Her dad showed up and they bought him a $200 tie and $350 shoes and he too was horrified and wanted to know who was paying for it, and was told the same thing.
Page 231
More with the clothes…
Why did they all have to go through the ordeal of getting new clothes. They are simple people who don’t want new clothes. Nicolle Wallace, up to her old tricks, assured her that this was all totally normal. Amy and Angela the hair and makeup girls arrive on the scene. She always did her own hair & makeup. She wasn’t trying to look chic by putting her hair up in the giant plastic clip, it was just easier. The wardrobe people wanted to take lots of time with her, and put her on a pedestal and rotate her slowly in front of the mirror and gaze at her to make sure everything fit absolutely perfectly. But she had no patience for this. She had places to go and things to do! Go go go!
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Oh, the clothes… what a collosal waste of time they were. She hated them. Who strategized this part of the campaign? She couldn’t beLIEVE how much they emphasized “packaging” and she’d never seen anything like it. They don’t have these kinds of people in Alaska that are members of this “elite and highly specialized guild.” But even though they were campaign professionals, nothing but nothing could prepare them for the deluge of lies and more lies and rumors and innuendos that would befall and how the “packaging” would taint her candidacy.
Page 233 (previously posted)
And while we’re at it, what’s up with the fancy schmantzy hotels? She’s used to the Best Western in Wasilla. Says she wasn’t used to fancy hotel rooms (Fancy hotel room anyone?), but learned that Bristol’s pregnancy had been outed while she was brushing her teeth looking at the flat screen TV embedded in the bathroom mirror. If only she had been able to be up front about it from the start, but the McCain campaign botched it.
Repeats the lie that Barack Obama told the media to lay off his family and they “obeyed him”, but they trashed her family. In actuality, Obama had asked the media to lay off HER family.
Page 234-235 (previously posted)
There’s some mysterious entity called “headquarters” and she doesn’t know who they are, but they wrote a statement about Bristol’s pregnancy saying they were proud of her, and proud to become grandparents. She disagreed and wrote a statement that was more “serious.” The McCain campaign ran the one they wrote anyway. Schmidt tells her to stick with the script.
Page 236 (previously posted)
The McCain communications team learned that she was the VP pick the same day everyone else did so they were completely unprepared and had no idea who she was.
So when the avalanche of press inquiries tumbled in, the national media folks had zero information. What they did report, patchy factoids cobbled together from the Internet and a few left-wing Alaska bloggers was usually wrong. (Woooo! “A few left-wing Alaska bloggers” shout out!)
The national media, referred to as the “black-suited, laptop-toting flatlanders” (Flatlanders?) apparently drove around Wasilla trying to find out where Sarah Palin bought her liquor, and talked to: “a defeated former opponent” (Andrew Halcro), “a maniacal blogger” (Heck, that could be any of us, but probably Syrin), “the falafel lady” (political watchdog Andree McLeod) and “the Wasilla town crank” (presumably Anne Kilkenny).
Page 237(previously posted)
On this page, Wasilla mayoral rival the unpronounceable “John Stein” (Is that jo-hun-stee-in?) gets slammed for telling Time Magazine that Palin sought to ban books in the Wasilla Library.
“It was one lie after another – from rape kits to Bridge to Nowhere. All easy enough to disprove if the press had done its job.” (WOW! Blames the Alaska GOP and Randy Ruedrich for not correcting it. Yes, it’s her lie and she’s stickin’ with it. Fortunately it remains easy to fact check HERE and HERE.)
Slams media and bloggers for saying that if she couldn’t control her own daughter how could she be president, and saying that her philosophy about teaching abstinence was hypocritical, and didn’t work just because… it’s hypocritical and it doesn’t work.
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She would rather have abstinence only sex education taught in schools than have kids putting condoms on bananas. Contraception is OK, though. (As long as you don’t learn how to use it?)
Another “bullcrap story entered the wider media bloodstream.” Who is Trig’s real mom? The Atlantic and the Anchorage Daily News asked questions and it damaged John McCain. Trig Truthers are still at it.
They made a bid deal about a video of her in church leading a prayer that included “Also, for this country, that our national leaders are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God.” What that actually meant is that we are hoping that it’s a task from God, not that we actually think it IS a task from God. We think.
Page 239
She was so insulted by all these lies.
The media was saying that Bristol’s pregnancy might affect the election. Bristol was stressed out. They just couldn’t believe that anyone would want to talk about that. Maybe they shouldn’t watch TV.
Matthew Scully the speechwriter is a “crunchy con” who is a “bunny hugging vegan” with conservative values. He would throw himself in front of a semi truck to save a squirrel. He walked around looking at the sky a lot.
Page 240
He wrote a speech and let her help. She practiced in front of a teleprompter which she found strange. Surely you should just know your speech and not need a teleprompter. (oh, puhleez) She had only used a teleprompter a handful of times in Alaska. The rest of the time she just got up there and talked. (Yes, we know.)
She didn’t know if she was going to be able to get through the John McCain POW part without choking up. (Hey, I thought she only choked up when she was alone in a closet listening to the Star Spangled Banner with a box of tissues…)
Before she went to deliver the convention speech, she actually had to change Trig’s diaper. It kept her “grounded.”
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Transcript of speech. I’ll spare you. You heard it once already.
Page 242
The teleprompter stopped working but it was OK because she didn’t need it anyway, the silly old thing.
She delivered the line, “I guess a small-town mayor is kind of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” The crowd went wild. She used that line as a “shout out to independent minded Americans who didn’t look to government for all the answers.” (But…but… isn’t the mayor the one who’s part of the government, and the community organizer who isn’t? *head bang*)
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The other side dismissed her mayor creds. Small town service shouldn’t be scorned. It’s what makes our country great. (Like all those scorned community organizers?)
But even more important than community involvement is “a personal commitment to one’s own business (so, I guess quitting is a bad thing) and family.” (So if something is going to be hard on your family that would be bad too. Just trying to clarify.)
Then she spotted a group of hockey moms and spontaneously ad-libbed the pitbull lipstick hockey mom joke. (Right.) She was having a ball, by God’s grace and it was really liberating because the teleprompter was broken.
Page 244-245
More speech. One of John McCain’s fellow POWs was there. She only made it through the rest of the speech “with the grace of God.” She was so overwhelmed with American pride that she got choked up. The speech was over and the family argued over who was going to get to carry Trig. Piper lost but it was OK because then she got to pump her fist in the air. The kids looked great “even in a bunch of borrowed clothes.” (WHAT?!?)
She went to join McCain on stage when he accepted the nomination and her “high-heeled shoe” fell off and the media didn’t show it “bless their hearts.”
Page 246-247
Addresses Troopergate, “or as those who knew the facts called it ‘Tasergate.’” (I have to stop here for a moment. This is where the ex-brother-in-law uses his taser on the test setting on his son because the kid said he wanted to see what it felt like. Very stupid imho. But nonetheless… So, supposedly the reason that Palin dismissed Monegan had nothing at all to do with Wooten, remember? It was all that other stuff. So, why is she calling it Tasergate? They used this term briefly and then abandoned it. I thought it was because it exactly proved the point that it DID have to do with Wooten and they realized how stupid they had been. Apparently I was incorrect.)
Copies an unbylined editorial from some business magazine to “prove her point.”
Page 248
Met Jeannie Etchart, one of the trip coordinators. She was beautiful and soft-spoken. She kept borrowing her four-year old black Theory pants. (Yes, she still remembers the age and brand name of the pants)
Went to Cedar Rapids Iowa where there were “people of every color.”
Page 249-250
Met special needs teenagers on the trail. Had worried about Trig’s “imperfection” but knew it would be OK after meeting others. In Fairfax Virginia she gave a speech in the pouring rain and her makeup was running down her face but she didn’t want to leave because people had showed up to listen.
Page 251
Enjoyed bringing special needs kids into the spotlight with her. Got a bumper sticker that says “My kid has more chromosomes than your kid.”
Page 252
Big shout out to local Alaska radio personalities Bob & Mark, and Eddie Burke. Eddie Burke, described as “another great host” is pictured here:
And here he is from the back:
He’s also the guy who called the organizers of the “Alaska Women Reject Palin” rally at the local library “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots” and gave out their phone numbers on the air so his listeners could call them up at home. He was suspended for five days. But, back to our story…
She punched up Bob & Mark on the speed dial on her cell phone and told them she had a “true American hero” sitting next to her and did they want to talk to him. Then she put John McCain on the phone for an on-the-spot interview. McCain was gracious but one of the campaign higher-ups said, “Don’t do that again.”
Gee, she guesses she went all rogue and violated some kind of “protocol.” Sheesh.
Perhaps if the campaign higher-up knew that this was the radio duo that had called State Senate President and cancer survivor Lyda Green a “bitch” and a “cancer” during an on-air chat with Sarah Palin who said nothing and just giggled, they might have thought it was a problem. You know…because then she could write about it in a book and some stupid blogger could link the stories together, and then they’d think about how she said that “associations” between people were fair game for the media. You know.
But they were all uptight and told her to knock off talking to the local hate mongering shock jocks back home.
No comment. Lots of fire. Charred legs. Black, charred legs. Liar liar!
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/19/f-rfa-macdonald.html
Excellent column on the book by one of the best journalists around.
Just so you don’t actually have to look it up here is the definition of “rogue”:
dishonest, unprincipled, thief, an inferior or defective specimen among many acceptable ones.
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Very good observation from one of the posters to the above book review by Neil MacDonald.
She told BillO that she had common sense, where is her common sense exposing trig to the flu on a book tour?
AKM – You must have a cast-iron stomach to survive this ordeal!
Thank goodness you also have a sense of humor and can laugh at some of the idiocy.
You’re a better (wo)man than me, Gunga Din!
AKM can I offer to send you pepcid, pepto bismol, a bottle of wine.. maybe a good bottle of Vodka… everclear? maybe some moonshine… boy kiddo you really are taking one for the team!!!
AlaskaDisasta @2 – Thanks for that link! He is a good writer – sure kept me chuckling – hope others read it also. Comments were less pleasant, obviously lots of Palinistas writing in.
Another excellent summary with great commentary! Thanks.
You are saving the eyesight and sanity of countless mudpuppies.
Palin is a lying, vindictive, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou ______! Fill in your own word, mine is unprintable.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey AKM, just reading through your post and when I got to your remarks about pg. 196 and how the vetting team had listened to sermons (and I quote) “They had transcripts of sermons that visiting pastors had preached at a church I had not attended regularly since I was a teenager.”
I live in this Valley. I know Sarah. Over the years I have visited WAG (Wasilla Assembly of God). In fact, one of my conversations a few years ago with Sarah was at WAG after a “visiting pastor” had spoken.
The only church in the Valley that Sarah “regularly” attended during her teenage years was WAG.
But, (and this should be a mighty big BUT to all Sarah’s supporters who claim her Christianity is the one thing they love the most about her) this was Sarah’s primary church up until 2001 or 2002 – right before she ran for Lt. Gov. This means Sarah’s church was WAG up until she was at least 37 years of age – almost 20 years past her “teenage” years.
Grrrrr…… this is what drives me positively mad about this woman – she lies and lies and lies, and her swooning supporters keep asking for refills on the Kool-Aid.
Over on Gryphen’s site (and maybe yours, too, AKM) there are people planning on attending her book signings in the upcoming days. I would SO LOVE for one of them to be able to sneak in a small camera and then cheerfully ask her where she attended church “as a teenager” – not in a threatening way, but more in an over-the-top chirpy, cheerful way. Hopefully they can get her saying some version of “Yes, WAG” on tape (in fact they should ask her saying WAG because she knows nobody outside of the Mat-Su knows Wasilla Assembly as WAG except people from around here).
Then, we’d have it on tape – and it wouldn’t be hard at all to get every one who currently goes to WAG to tell you she went there up through her late 30′s (it is a known fact in this Valley).
That would be one more utterly blatant lie she’d be caught it – and hopefully it would be a lie the “faithful” would be abhorred with (as they well should be).
My two cents.
Thanks for the additional input YS. An utterly blatant lie? I’m shocked! Shocked, I say. Appreciate the local insight! AKM
I love your comments…without I couldn’t stomach it.
oops, meant without it…getting tired.
Brilliant.
O/T Onthe ground in Wash PA. 5am EST. 300 here already in line.SP due here at 11am. Comfy and Warm in car. Will go to Starbucks for coffee when they open.
Crazy people. Good job AKM. I just do not have the heart to buy the book. Will try to get photos.
AKM, you forgot the pants on fire graphic after this:
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McCain introduces her to an adoring world.
Thanks to all the AK maniacal bloggers. That basement kid pushing her for VP, not so much.
10cats4me – What a trooper! (or is it trouper in this case?)
Stay warm and be safe. If you break down and buy a book, AND get it autographed, you can surely sell it on e-Bay and make a profit to make it worth your while. As for me, I doubt I could do it even for extra dollars. It’s a good thing AKM is heading to the finish line, and that Palin didn’t make it any longer – I doubt any of us could stomach a steady diet of her writings for much longer.
Have a double latte for me!
Can’t believe I find myself eagerly awaiting these installments. SNL couldn’t have done a better job of writing this book than Sarah did herself, apparently. But your commentary makes it worthwhile to read.
Hard to believe that even her supporters won’t notice that it would be kinda hard to actually hold a job if all you were focused on was all the people out to get you and lying about you and that you needed to
get even withstraighten the record about.AKM – The sidebar is way down at the very bottom and enlarged – at least on my screen – is that way for everyone else now?
Also, too – The graphic is funny and so appropriate.
LemonFair @17 – Funny you mentionSNL – apparently Tina Fey played her again at an Ad Council dinner.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/tina-fey-does-sarah-palin_n_366010.html
I’m very disappointed that Fort Bragg will allow the media into this book signing. She’s not supposed to turn it into a political event, but let’s see how long before she spouts something against POTUS. If she does, I hope sufficient protests will break out, and/or post officials immediately cancel it and send her on her way. I want to have faith in our military supporting our POTUS and CIC to the max.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/army-now-allowing-media-t_n_366199.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34064018#34073643
LMAO a classic
greatgranny: I don’t get why she is allowed on the military base in the first place, clearly she is a politician, and since they are allowing the “public” to enter the base to have a tea party for her, why don’t they just make her do it off base in the first place? Why unlimited entrance for the “public” but not for the press?
Wasn’t the teleprompter stopping at the speech a Pants on Fire too? I thought I read somewhere it worked just fine.
It is, however, known that Sarah ad libs even from a teleprompter. I think I saw a transcription somewhere that Ana Marie Cox and a colleague did comparing what she said to what was loaded on the ‘prompter’.
And she does it all the time, not just that once. Hence the campaign’s admonishment to just “stick to the script”.
Wish I had links but have the more important Senator calling/e-mailing to do this morning.
Just clarifying the math…..so, if for Sarah “life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it,” then 100% of life is All About Her?
Thank you, AKM, for losing your appetite so we don’t have to.
Thank you for your fabulous book report. Mudflats makes my day. Keep up the good work!
Good morning All !
Waving to 10Cats4Me – We’ll be looking forward to photos and maybe some snippets of chat with the adoring fans. After she leaves you she’s headed in my direction. I don’t have a way of getting to Rochester but I bet I’ll see her big ol’ mug passing by on the highway around 4pm. ( i figure that’s about when we’ll notice the animals acting oddly and a strange silence settling all around)
As I’ve been reading the excerpts here and elsewhere, it’s been nagging at me that the way she lies reminds me of something. This morning, it dawned on me – She sounds just like my son did as a teen. He was the WORST liar in the world. If he pulled a subject out of nowhere and in to a conversation, you just knew it was going to be a lie even before he got to the lying part. That’s just what she’s doing. There was no reason for her to mention that she hasn’t regularly attended the Wasilla church since she was a teen. No reason to mention the transcripts of visiting pastors. Served no purpose unless there was a lie to be defused. There was no reason to talk about borrowing a pair of 4 year old pants.
I finally convinced my son that he’s a horrible liar so he doesn’t even bother trying with me anymore. He knows I’ll just give him a half smile and “the look”. I doubt we’ll ever be that lucky with Palin.
I’ll be checking threads for good links to Palin coverage but for those who have an extra moment , if you could send articles, analysis and video links to my email, that’d be great. PalinNews at gmail.com The new site is coming along. You can see it at http://www.PalinDigest.presspublisher.us
For those of you on Twitter you’ll find me at PalinTruthWatch. If you post links from twitter, please add me so I can find you. Thanks!
Johnny @21 – Being a retired Army family, I know that it is really quite common for some of the PXs(Post Exchange aka Army department store, or BX – Base Exchange/Air Force) to hold book signings. More often than not, local authors are featured and it is a great way for the *small-timers* to get a little recognition and sales.
Palin’s PR team knew what they were doing in getting her onto a couple of military installations. I don’t expect great turn-outs, nor high sales. They are doing it purely for the publicity factor to prove how she REALLY supports the military.
The problem is there is no way that those posts/bases that offer book signings, could refuse her without it causing an even greater stir. Hence, their stating it must not turn into a political activity.
I’m (fairly) confident that if she pulls a Palin at Fort Bragg, that her appearance at Fort Hood will be cancelled. At least I hope so!!!
Great granny, thanks for the explanation. I read somewhere that “political” figures are banned from the bases, that only POTUS can give speeches on bases. As commander in Chief. I just think it’s pretty lax for the military to let her on base for a “book signing”, complete with bus with her face plastered all over it. And to allow the public in. Is this public required to buy the book on base? I wonder if they allow signs in the crowd? Chanting? Nasty pictures of Dachau victims in WW2? “Joker” pictures of Obama? all of this is part of the tea party mindset that is her base. So that’s why I support letting in as much press as wants to come. If the event is open to the public, it’s open to the press. IMO. If the country gets wind, via the press, of Palin-inspired demonstrations against Obama on the military bases she’ll be cut off from other bases, I’d think.
P248 – Went to Cedar Rapids Iowa where there were “people of every color.”
H/T to Cedar Rapids for cluing in the veep candidate.
There is no doubt she has a disconnect with reality and is a compulive liar.
The opening quote about attitude, and and she goes on to complain and blame?
Something is missing in her head.
Great graphic!!!! It’s awesome.
Regarding Palin on the base. It really angers me because she continues to attack the President.
I watched a clip of Palin on O’Riley (link was on last open post) and I’m pretty sure that, in the middle of a bunch of word salad, she called the President spineless.
I need to watch it again,but he asked her if she was intelligent enough to be president, and she went off on a whole thing about “elitists”,etc. and in the middle said something about people wanting more than a spinless…..bla,bla,bla (as Palin would say).
He actually gives her a jab when she says, “Well, the media NEVER went off on Biden questioning HIS experience (victim, again). O’Riley says, Well, he has lots of experience. Palin jets her jaw out. It’s classic.
I should probably try to go through that answer she gave and write it down. It’s classic Palin in a complete mumbo-jumbo of words.
Trisha, I just watched that too. IT is available on Fox videos, I think it is interview 4. She sounds like a composite of talking points from the blogs. She did say spineless, and then went off on the whole elite crap. BOR did question her more closely than anyone else has since Couric. But still was nearly as fawning as hannity. She sounded so silly when explaining to him that she quit as to not be a lame duck, but he let that go right on by. Also didn’t mention her experience with witch doctor hunters, just reverend wright. I did notice that she has been cautioned to back off the “socialist” label.
Oh ya, how does a quitter have the nerve to call the President spineless?
Only someone who is delusional would make such a claim. Palin couldn’t handle bloggers, so she quit. Then, she has the nerve to use the word, spineless.
She finished a half-a-term!!!!!!!!!
Trisha. she sounds like a jr high kid giving a book report that they threw together with pastings from internet. did you see this? get a hanky ready
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34064018#34073643
Johnny, I agree, he actually questioned her more than Oprah and Barbara, which is a huge disappointment. He still fawned, but he did throw out that Biden zinger….which was kind of funny to watch her face.
It’s so easy to see when she is displeased. She isn’t happy when she isn’t receiving all-the-love. That’s why she holds such a grudge against President Obama and bloggers.
OMG!!! I can’t stop laughing! I was just watching the morning news on ABC and they brought on a story about Pain’s book. It was hilarious!!!! I was laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes. I wish I could describe it but there is no way I could do it justice.
It touched on Going Rouge being shown on Pox in error, Going Nutz, having no index, Book having a romantic affair with Twilight: New Moon, (stripping, humping and Pain’s cover having a smoke afterwards). Readers using it for help sleeping, the book becoming a murderer, children being read the book (one child said he would rather kill himself)……………………..Those are just the ones I remember right off the top of my head.
ABC, WFAA was the channel. Jean Most (i think that is her name) was the reporter. News8 Daybreak was the show.
I had to rewind and watch it again, it was so much fun, LOL.
@trisha
He actually gives her a jab when she says, “Well, the media NEVER went off on Biden questioning HIS experience (victim, again). O’Riley says, Well, he has lots of experience. Palin jets her jaw out. It’s classic.
I’m still waiting for her to blame o’reilly for the ‘gotcha’ question …it WAS classic!
both billo & even hannity had that deer in the headlights look at some point…even tho they don’t pressure her, it’s good to have her on video…the more interviews she does, I think, the more she will hang herself…it’s her nature to be stupid!
OMG, that MSNBC piece is hilarious.
Review of the book, from a Canadian:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/19/f-rfa-macdonald.html
It’s almost10 o’clock here in PA. Had my coffee and strolled through Sam’s.
Scarah arrived in the middle of the night. There is a hotel nearby, bet she was there. It’s a short drive from Columbus OH.
Talked to a newsman. She is over at a hairdresser getting her hair done and will behere promptly at 11. Lots of wristbands and folks arriving with their little white bag wth book(s). Asked a couple of questions of fans and just got stared at. Odd assortment of people. Many women with young children in carriages have obviusly been here for awhile.
They have gathered every one in a group in the back. I took a few pics there. You guys are stronger than me cause, I feel so repulsed by this and by SP after reading the chapters and reviews by AKM and Gryphen. But I will do my best and get out there shortly.
She arrives by Bus promptly at 11and they will let people in one at a time–good luck on that.
More later.
Lainey, I agree. I don’t think she expected that zinger from him.
I still can’t get over the fact that Palin actually said, “Well, the media never questioned Biden’s experience”.
Say what? Has she been living in cave? She actually thinks her experience was on par with Biden*, and is angry at the media for questioning her lack of experience? Again, disconnect with reality.
* Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972. U.S. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, and is the 14th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
Palin….half-term governor of Alaska before she quit.
Her constant derogatory name-calling is so off-putting and juvenile. However, I notice that it is the MO of her followers to engage in the same childish behavior. They all call themselves Christians? I was always taught that Christ said that above all else we should love one another. I don’t see any wiggle room in that for name-calling. I think “falafel lady” is the worst. I guess Andrea McLeod really got under Sarah’s skin. I’m hearing a celestial call for a group hug and prayer that Christ will open Sarah’s heart and let some kindness in. Whaddaya think?
Woah, woah, woah! If Sarah’s husband and kids get free health care because they are part Alaskan native, then WHY would she be against the same thing for everyone else? Is this why she didn’t want to give birth outside of Alaska? Would she have actually had to pay for the delivery if she were out of state?
Johnny & Trish –
Certain political figures are allowed to make speeches at sanctioned events. We’ve attended countless dinners on post through the years. Most that have spoken were either part of the current administration, or closely connected. For instance, Cap Weinberger came to Fort Lewis some years ago, I think it was soon after he retired and was probably the most controversial that we ever experienced. He didn’t go on any negative rants during his speech, but there were protesters outside the post gates.
The topics are usually on the straight and narrow regarding current events and I’ve never heard any stray *off-message* and criticize any president, past or current. There used to be such a sense of honor and decency, and one didn’t have to fret that there would be the awful dialogue and criticism that passes for the norm nowadays.
Anyone who goes on post that doesn’t have military or dependent ID, would be subject to a search of their vehicle, and would also have to register, provide ID, get a temporary permit, park in a specific area. It is also possible that they may be required to leave their vehicles at a designated area and then be bussed (military bus) to the area of the event. That happens at most posts when there is any large activity where lots of civilians are permitted.
I’m not sure if they will actually allow Palin’s bus to go to the area where she is speaking…… sometimes the tour busses also must wait at a designated area away from the event – this has happened with various civilian bands through the years.
I am VERY confident that any evidence of signs, protesters, political materials, anti-Obama/government, etc. would immediately be banished. There are very strict rules about what is permitted on federal property and what is not.
I’m stymied on the buying of the book. Normally, no civilians can purchase ANYTHING at a PX. Until just a few short years ago, they were not even permitted in the PX without an ID. Now civilians are allowed in with a soldier or dependent that has an ID.
All I can figure is that the book seller would be one of the private vendors who rent space in the mall area just outside of the PX, and in that case, anyone that is on post can buy anything from the private vendors. There are a few other places where civilians can buy things, such as the fast food shops. No civilians can use Commissary, Gas stations, and others specifically set up for military only.
One thing to keep in mind about security on most posts/bases now is that they are civilian contracted security firms. This is due to so many of the MPs being deployed. Most of these are well-trained and as a rule, a bit older than many of the young soldier MPs. The younger MPs are polite to a fault and go by the rules, but they don’t have quite the *oomph* that these civilian security personnel do. As an example, should there be signs, protests, whatever, these private guards would probably give one warning only, then pull out the handcuffs, escort them to wherever, etc. Young MPs take diplomacy to the max and it has a tendency to backfire against them. Having lived 3 years in Germany when the Red Brigade was at its height of activity, I saw the difference between the military and civilian personnel, and the civilians made a big difference.
‘I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.’
OMG – I hoped I’d NEVER hear that quote again! I used to work for a government agency whose former commissioner used that quote at EVERY SINGLE opening ceremony for an annual event I used to run. She was commissioner for twelve loooong years so I got to hear this quote way too many times. The worst part was that, like our dear Miss Quittypants, she didn’t mean a word of what she said, and, while smiling for the cameras and tossing out all her pretty little platitudes, she did everything possible to destroy our program because it had a strong history with the opposing political party.
It finally became such a joke that the interpreters for the deaf on stage at the beginning of her speech would just sign ’10′ and ’90′ to each other and we’d all laugh, knowing that we would undoubtedly hear that quote somewhere in the speech.
Accckkk…I’m getting hives just thinking about it!!!
she can try to keep a straight face or emotionless face in interviews, but the eyes don’t lie…she fumes over criticism or any challenges over what she spews…waiting for her to quit this book tour…take the money and run, sarah…go away!!! …you’ve accomplished your riches, now let the grown-ups make the rules.
@Lainey, I agree. There is a lot of anger and hatred that spews from her eyes….also too, her chin. ha, ha! The chin don’t lie.
She has the emotional IQ of a junior-high girl. My apologies to junior-high girls everywhere.
41 formerwriter Says: November 21st, 2009 at 6:52 AM Woah, woah, woah! If Sarah’s husband and kids get free health care because they are part Alaskan native, then WHY would she be against the same thing for everyone else? Is this why she didn’t want to give birth outside of Alaska? Would she have actually had to pay for the delivery if she were out of state?
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Have you looked at the photos and does she really look pregnant? For me, yes, I’ve looked at the photos, and NO, I don’t think she was. Her shtick is preposterous, especially on THAT story.
Well Scarah has arrived. The fans were clustered and roped off on one side of the building and the bus came in on the other side. News folks were allowed over to take pics, so I missed that. Tried to get close enough to take pictures of the bus, but security kept me far, far away. Interesting that must be costing HC alot of cash;
Went back andf mingled with the trolls. Talked to a few. If your not with them then you are against; Was called a communist by a little white haired old lady distributing pamphlets for the 9/12 group. Supposedly started by Glenn Beck. Yuck, stomach grips when I type that name. She loves him and thinks he is the greatest gift. She reminded me of a cultured Edith Bunker. I think the security was upped since Indiana.
Trig was front and center. I saw him and took some pics, but will not post them out of respect for the little guy. He was carried by Sally and Kate whom I met outside with him, Sarah’s Mom and Aunt Kate. Chatted and got invited to Thanksgiving dinner. Thanked her and laughed it off.
Battery is dying. I will write a longer post and send some pics along.
Security is ineresting. Scarah is hidden from public view behind a curtain. Photographer with her taking pics. Individuals are passed through to have book signed and must leave purses, coats, etc, in basket like at airport security.
Previous long comment has gone into moderation. AKM, can yu check it out for me. Battery going. will post on IM also.
Anyone have any idea who paid for that bus with her face plastered all over it? Geez, it’s like announcing “the Sarah Circus has come to town”.
John McCain is “full of an inspiring inner joy” Are you sure it said joy AKM? Not boy? soy? toy? Anything thing would fit better than ‘joy’.
Good luck 10cats4me- take care!
I think I have spotted another lie! On page 230 she says she gave back a pearl necklace that the campaign gave her. However, I just spotted a picture of her (on Bree Palin’s latest post) from last autumn where she is wearing a pearl necklace.
Irishgirl @50 – Pearls rings a bell – I can’t remember where the photo might be found, but I’m 99.9% sure it was around convention time that Bristol had on a pearl necklace and my first thought was that most girls of that age just aren’t into classic jewelry. I’ll look around and see if I can find some photos.
Dang It! I wish I’d saved all of my Newsweek magazines from last year – so many stories I’d love to go back over now. Especially the one that went into depth about the TransCanada Gas Pipeline and how the Canadian tribes were refusing permission for it to cross their lands.
Laprofesora – As to the Palin Circus Bus, it probably was part of Harper Collin’s PR budget and when done with it, it would get a new paintjob for another *aspiring* author. Bits and pieces scattered around the ‘net keep mentioning the various costs associated with HC fees, agent’s fees, etc. but there is no one site that tallies them all. She’d better hope to sell lots and lots of books at a decent price if she wants any money left over. With her new construction, the $$ are probably running through her fingers like water. She was such a flake with the financial end of things in Alaska, makes me doubt her ability to be that good with her own money.
AKM, thanks for summarizing this book(?) for us. You’re a stronger woman than I am. Just reading the summary, I periodically want to run screaming from the room. SP gives new meaning to words like shallow and vindictive.
WakeUpAmerica
I’m hearing a celestial call for a group hug and prayer that Christ will open Sarah’s heart and let some kindness in. Whaddaya think?
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I’m flashing back to the scene in How The Grinch Stole Christmas where they’re trying to find the Grinch’s teeny, tiny, wee little heart.
Might need a microsurgeon for that assignment.
Geeeeeeeeeeezzzz, this is so painful, I can only graze the material. The latenight roundup was pretty fun, especially the Oprah is 35 seconds. And, of course, the video of her fans screaming “quitter.” LOL.
Today’s Whistle Stop in Rochester, NY
I am able to receive some upper NY TV coverage and this morning on one local coverage (NBC affiliate), they continue to announce that her Whistle Stop this evening in Rochester, NY at Barnes & Noble is 3 hours (as the others). They are announcing that it is limited to 1,000 wristbands!
Do we hear a repeat in the makings!! LOL
Some local affiliates are
WGRZ (Buffalo) (NBC). Last story early November
WKBW (Buffalo – ABC). No info found on Palin search!!
WHEC (Rochester NBC) (has a short video of people lining up)
WROC (Rochester CBS) (had to do Palin search on site!! Last story entry was 19th! LOL – that’s excitement for you!) (rochesterhomepage.net)
WHAM (Rochester ABC 13WHAM.com) According to their story people started lining up about 7 pm Friday night outside (this is not a mall). It too says 1,000. This story was updated at 11 am this morning. Appears to be most up to date story.
I noticed this written on the WGRZ site from a post in early November announcing the Whistle Stop is coming to Rochester (no date set at that time):
‘HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Wednesday that the tour will run through at least Dec. 6.’ DECEMBER 6th!! Therefore that would be returning to the tour after Thanksgiving. Be careful people as Turkey is gassy!! (No further info other than this early Nov story as I just looked at the site!)
Links to the local Rochester TV and newspapers are all at
http://www.thecityofrochester.org/rochester-local-news.html
In the Tian’anmen Square protests of 1989, one student stood in front of tanks. What a bunch of wusses go’in to get their fake book signed. At least one of them could have stood in front of her bus and demanded she sign their books. Or perhaps, a gun rights IRA members could have shot out a couple of tires. Bunch a pansies… sign my book, sign my book, please, Sarah.
“They don’t have these kinds of people in Alaska that are members of this “elite and highly specialized guild”. (That pesky ‘elite’ word keeps popping up!)
And on Page 22 you have Cindy McCain: “Because of her upmarket elegance, she’d almost been ostracized from working-class people.” But her dad was poor. And she does volunteer work and adopted a kid.
“UPMARKET ELEGANCE” – That must be what is considered the ‘politically correct’ reference for ‘ELITE’ from Sarah’s own ‘Opposition Research” team
“She didn’t know if she was going to be able to get through the John McCain POW part without choking up. (Hey, I thought she only choked up when she was alone in a closet listening to the Star Spangled Banner with a box of tissues…)”
But only if it’s played by a “military band”.
Aha, it was at the convention speech that she wore the pearls.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26525268/
Maybe they were her own, but I doubt it.
Why why why why why does she always refer to herself as “we”??????????? As in, we always allow everyone into our press conferences and we never used a teleprompter before?
I am sooooo hoping that my fellow Rochestarians will embarass the Palin ‘Magical History’ Tour and leave most of those 1,000 wristbands unclaimed, but I fear that I will have to hang my head in humiliation at the lemmings flocking to their queen. As strongly Democratic as the city is (and the county went for Obama despite being generally Republican), the more suburban and rural areas around us have a lot of people who think she’s just super. Oh the SHAME of it all !!!!!!
I must admit that I’m beginning to feel a strange queasy sensation in my gut and a painful buzzing in my head…the bus must be getting closer.
To whoever asked about who is paying for the bus – my guess is the publisher.
By the way AKM, I think you must have missed all that ‘substantive policy’ stuff that Rush was talking about. Did you skip those pages????
Maybe it was written in the margins and you didn’t see it the first time????
Maybe you have to show your RNC membership card to get the special invisible-ink-reading glasses that you need to see that part???
GreatGranny2C,
The fifteen year old was also sporting pearls the same night!
Wow, I’m feeling snarky today…must be the proximity to the bus with the giant head on it.
$arah throws Joe the Plumber under the bus. Eagerly reading $arah’s book, all Joe could find about his important role in the campaign, was one sentence, saying he was a nice guy.
Joe has withdrawn his support. If she runs in 2012, he will not support her. He states, that she would be more effective to the Party, not running.
Did or does Sarah not realize that insulting community organizers also insults Pres. Bush 1 and his 1000 points of light volunteer program?
Of course there is the reality that in the not really America, urban America, that a volunteer or professional community organizer can easily have more volunteers, more staff and a bigger budget that a rural hamlet of 5000?
4 mattie Says:
November 20th, 2009 at 11:22 PM
She told BillO that she had common sense, where is her common sense exposing trig to the flu on a book tour?
Yeah, I’ve wonder if the family got flu shots. And if they also got H1N1 and what strings got pulled to get them?
Either way that is a story worth some report’s time.
We’ve got phlebotomists (people that draw blood) in our hospital that haven’t gotten H1N1, and they’ve got people coughting all over their heads and faces every day.
One has already gotten H1N1, caught early so not really too sick with it, and taken it and the regular flu home to her children, who have now had both kinds, regular and H1N1.
HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Wednesday that the tour will run through at least Dec. 6.
at least, Dec 6? I just read in the Salt Lake Tribune last night that she will be in SLC on Dec 9. What up with dat? Why does she say, “at least”. Don’t they know they have SLC scheduled?
Maybe Sarah just found out that Mormon’s live her so she cancelled. The Evangelicals will be angry if she is pallin’ around with Mormon’s.
ha, ha!
““Because of her upmarket elegance, she’d almost been ostracized from working-class people.” But her dad was poor. And she does volunteer work and adopted a kid.”
HUH? I thought Cindy McCain’s father was loaded???
The D $P says she received in college(s) was in… economics. Given the numerous on-camera remarks that McCain had made about not being as up-to-the-mark as he should be on econ, and how he’d have to rely on the Veep choice, well…!!!
Since her home was in Wasill how did she get “used to” the Wasilla Best Western? Did Brad Hanson get “used to” the Wasilla Best Western ?
Mommom #71 Thanks for my chuckle of the day. Maybe they used the Wasilla Best Western “Honeymoon Suite” to get “used to” each other! LOL
Here is a great quote from the review by MacDonald, CBC
(link above on p. 1)
In one section, she compares political opponents to immature, tussling boys, and herself to a cool-headed mother, stepping in and quelling the spat.
She approvingly quotes the famous Margaret Thatcher utterance: “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” Imagine if Biden had said something like that in reverse
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Seriously, can you imagine if Biden (or any man) slammed a woman like that?
Palin cries sexism when it’s not to her advantage, but she uses sexism for her benefit. On another note, when has Palin “quelled the spat” by stepping in. She creates more division and dischord than anyone !!!!!!
Leenie #63 In Rush’s copy of Going Rogue, the pages with the “substantive policy” statements that so impressed him are the ones that are stuck together.
I’ll see your snark and raise you one!
About Cindy McCain…….And she does volunteer work and adopted a kid.”
Cindy adapted a baby goat?
Poor, poor Sarah, if she knew how to do something as simple as check Wikipedia, she’d know Cinday McCain “was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona as the daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley.”
As for Ms. McCain, it doesn’t look like the apple fell far from the tree:
James Willis “Jim” Hensley was in the war, blah, blah —->>>>> After the war he was convicted of illegal distribution of liquor and was also involved in a racetrack operation that was investigated by authorities.
He founded Hensley & Co. in 1955. Headquartered in Phoenix, it grew to be one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributorships in the nation. One of Arizona’s richest men at the time of his death, Hensley was the father of Cindy Hensley McCain and the father-in-law of United States Senator and 2000 and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain.
Oh, my, sounds like the man really stuggled. With crime and too much money! Boo hoo.
I don’t think Palin and Hillary will be having coffee together anytime soon. Is she not able to say anything nice about anyone? When Miller made his nasty about Hillary, she could have made some attempt to contradict him and support her fellow-woman.
Speaking with Palin, Dennis Miller transitions from calling Newsweek cover ’sexist’ to insulting Hillary Clinton.
Speaking with Palin, Dennis Miller transitions from calling Newsweek cover ’sexist’ to insulting Hillary Clinton.
Just read a report that Rochester decided to limit the wristbands to 500 instead of the 1000 initially planned. The story indicated that will be the number from here on at. Forgot to copy the link – will go back and look for it.
Here’s the piece on Joe the (non)plumber:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004044948
In her memoir “Going Rogue,” released Tuesday, Palin writes of Wurzelbacher, “Joe the Plumber reminded me personally of those Country Kitchen guys I’d sat with on Friday mornings in Wasilla when I was mayor. I liked him.”
Asked what he thought of the compliment, Wurzelbacher said, “That’s pretty cool. I’m glad she liked me because the feeling was very mutual.”
Poor Joe – I think she rejected him. We knew he didn’t like President Obama, but did anyone know he didn’t like McCain either?
Even in the Heartland:
http://voices.kansascity.com/node/6634
Ouch!
To ease your bleeding eyes,
Naked Levi here:
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4668036.html
Enjoy!
ADULT CONTENT WARNING!
great granny
there are two post exchanges on Fort Bragg. sarah palin will be at one of them. the Major i spoke to yesterday had fielded many calls about her visit. he was willing to chat with me a bit about military policy concerning celebrities on base. i.e. no personnel would be pressured to attend or to buy books. this Major was quite aware of who his boss is and did not seem likely to allow his Commander- in-Chief to be insulted by Palin or anyone else on Bragg or any other base anywhere else in this world. i believe him.
Adam Brickley wasn’t a nice guy because he was on her side. Oh, no. He was a nice guy because he wasn’t a pajama wearin’ blogger. He was wearing pants! Don’t you liberals ever learn how to tell the nice guys from the bad ones?
Only the first week into the ” Ghostwriters Book ” Tour and Sarah being the manager or CEO, ( The Buck Stops here ) decides to hightail it out of town before finishing her obligations to her ‘ cult’. The decision to leave falls on no one other than Sarah. She’s at the Top.
Maybe she should have hired a good ‘ community organizer ‘ to make sure things were done properly? just saying…..
And if you can’t handle running a 3 hour book signing…. How could you effectively run a Country…?
As said before….if you give her enough time and left to her own devices and decision making it all sort of starts to fall apart down the road. And they didn’t travel very far down THAT Road yet…. 1 week? She is her own worst enemy.
Good and brilliant Leaders in any sort of business ( or government ) attract and draw talent to them. They WANT TO work for that person…. sometimes even for less pay.
Time and time again we see the type of people/talent that is drawn to Sarah or are WILLING to ( or forced to ) work for her. Meg Simpleton, Lynn Vincent, Eddie Burke,Glenn Beck, Bachman, Hoffman…..etc. You earned them Sarah.
Has anybody seen any on-camera interviews from people after leaving the book signings. There must be some great Comedy material there.
Sarah Palin would not know the meaning of “protocol” even if Eddie Burke tattooed it across her butt cheeks.
76 Paula Says: November 21st, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Poor, poor Sarah, if she knew how to do something as simple as check Wikipedia, she’d know Cinday McCain “was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona as the daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley.”
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Come on, Paula… stop mixing facts with Palin’s fiction. However will all those crazies deal with Palin if they actually paid attention to the fact that she lies as easily and predictably as a dog pees on a fire hydrant?
You know, the woman just pisses me off. The more I read, the more annoyed, angry, irritated, and disgusted I am. I detest what she is doing. I hope she leaves Alaska because she’s just simply NOT what “folks” up here are all about; at least not those I live next door to, work with, and talk to. She’s devisive, insulting, two-faced, back-stabbing, petty, hurtful, immature….and in no way an inspiring example to any young person in this nation. What the do the people in this country find in her that makes them think she’s so great? I just don’t get it. I really don’t.
Yikes!
Just checked out the story on our 24-hour local cable news station and a woman waiting on line for today’s book signing said, “She’s all about integrity.” Obviously she uses a different dictionary than I do because the definition of integrity in mine has absolutely no connection with SP.
She then said that, other than her Bible, this was the book she was going to carry around with her. I wonder if putting the two of those books next to each other might be dangerous. A Bible in physical contact with Sarah’s Book of Lies just might cause spontaneous combustion.
I can’t imagine going anywhere near the bookstore and her adoring fans today…I would likely end up quivering in the fetal position muttering “She lies!” over and over again.
GreatGranny2C @77 –
Just read a report that Rochester decided to limit the wristbands to 500 instead of the 1000 initially planned.
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The reporter on the news I just heard is still saying 1,000 wristbands.
http://kdka.com/washington/sarah.palin.booksigning.2.1325956.html
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I didn’t go, the 45 min. drive wasn’t worth my time, they don’t say much in this article. Am waiting on more news.
the first one didn’t pass the spam filter, maybe it’ll show up later. She still has that lump by her ear.
http://kdka.com/washington/sarah.palin.booksigning.2.1325956.html
Jeanne… I could not go through this book myself. Thank you for doing the dirty work…
Maybe they will post video on the news later around 6pm. Not much yet on the tour here.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/21685368/detail.html
Has anyone thought to ask that Eddie guy what a “rascist” is?
So, if the Playgirl shoot was leaked, does Levi get to do another shoot and double his money? No hockey stick. D**n!
On NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me today, they asked their last question: “What will Sarah Palin’s next book be called?” The last answer, “Going Away”!!!!
Hey Check our the popcorns on this site.
Dead fish following the flow. Some smart citizens on this site interviewed the uninformed. It is sad.
http://www.plunderbund.com/2009/11/20/video-from-all-night-palin-booksigning-campout-in-dublin/
radishness Says:
November 21st, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Why why why why why does she always refer to herself as “we”??????????? As in, we always allow everyone into our press conferences and we never used a teleprompter before?
That one is easy. It’s the “royal we” — pluralis maiestatis.
If I haven’t said it before, I believe Palin continues to knock women back a notch or two every time she speaks/poses/winks. Like others have said, if HC couldn’t arrange to accommodate those who weren’t so privileged to meet her in person (oh, my) with pre-signed books … how lame is that?
Unless she gave more than one speech in Fairfax, VA, Sarah is lying again. The rally in Fairfax, which was very close to where I live was done on a beautiful sunny, warm early September week day. I remember it because I went to a nearby grocery store after work, and before school let out…the parking lot was jammed and tons of rally attendees in red shirts were streaming in from Van Dyke Park just about 2 miles down the road.
Maybe there was another rally somewhere in Fairfax? The only other one I remember was much later on in the campaign in Springfield, VA, but only John McCain was there, and it was held in the parking lot of an interstate trucking company.
Haven’t read all the comments yet, so maybe someone’s pointed this out already but “The teleprompter stopped working but it was OK…” needs a big ol’ PANTS ON FIRE graphic.
She’s trotted this one out before, but fact-checking and VIDEO of the teleprompter during the speech PROVE it did no such thing.
LIAR, LIAR, TELEPROMPTER (NOT) ON FIRE!
Check out the O’Reilley interview of Sarah on Immoral Minority. Methinks Bill has a loofa up his sleeve. Google “O’Reilley loofah” if you don’t get the joke.
@92 here_in_pa
I think that’s a stock photo from the Gov’s picnic
Fly – I totally forgot to give you the proper “booyah!” for this last graphic. Started my morning off on a fun note. Big laugh. One of your best, for sure. So good, in fact, that I could hear her voice on that talk show and it made me want to smack the screen. ( petty of me, yes. couldn’t help it tho. you’re just that good!)
Your cleverosity is much appreciated!!!
She seems to have the need to provide appearance descriptions, superficial names, labels, and snarky observations for about just about everyone. It really comes off bad, and you know the “worshipers” don’t even know who most of them are because they don’t go in for that much detail.
Steve Schmidt is my hero.
95 weaver57 Says: November 21st, 2009 at 11:47 AM
On NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me today, they asked their last question: “What will Sarah Palin’s next book be called?” The last answer, “Going Away”!!!!
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I’m thinking more along the lines of that classic Eagles tune… Already Gone Mentally, at least.
Okay folks, I have a rather curious tidbit for you…
On the 6 pm news a reporter covering the book signing here in Rochester interviewed someone from the Borders book store who said that they were given “many” wristbands by SP’s people. They had run out of wristbands but there was an “overflow line” for people who didn’t get one. If SP had time she would continue signing books for those extra people.
The odd thing was that the reporter said that SP’s reps wouldn’t say how many bands were given out “citing security reasons”.
Huh???
For days they’ve been telling everyone who would listen that they were giving out 1,000 wristbands and NOW, all of a sudden, there’s some kind of security threat???
Or perhaps there’s another explanation:
There have been stories floating around since last night that they were only giving out 500. Guess that would be a good plan…
1. give out HALF as many bands but keep the actual number a big secret
2. claim you have TWICE the crowd of previous book signings
3. still be able to sign books for all the wristbanded people so your adoring fans don’t yell at the departing bus
4. get to tell everyone how wonderful and kind and special and caring SP is because she stayed soooo long to sign all those extra books
Sounds like a win-win to me!
@leenie17
It seems to me that 500 people with wristbands doesn’t make as good a photo as filling the landscape with “overflow” people. Palin gets a keepsake photo of a mob of people waiting and gets to leave with no heckling. It’s a win-win for Palin.
A friend who lives in Rochester said that they were told that PRE SIGNED copies were the flower of the day…that she would sign a few as a photo op……
antiAnti – seems to me that she’s quitting early because the promised number (1,000) was too much work for her. She’s not about that American ideal – success by working hard for it – but more like continuing her quittypants behavior while mouthing exactly the opposite.
And that’s the type of person the republicans trot out as their last great white hope.
As Homer Simpson would say… dope!
AKM-
Bingo! on Tasergate.
And you were not incorrect…
One of palins followers on one of the earlier links said 11 people fact checked her book and found nothing wrong or that was a lie LOL that tells you for sure where they are coming from,The truth does not matter to them.I don’t think I have ever said I love my country out loud and the palin supporter said she didn’t think President Obama did because he never said I love my country, well I have never heard palin say it either.Not saying she never has but i have never heard her. .Some of palins supporters are way out there even they can’t defend her when asked outright.Boy the look on that womens face when the guy told her that she voted for Bush twice so it was her fault our country was in the mess it is in LOL
The “eleven people fact checked” story is referring to an article from the Associated Press that came out right around the book’s release date. They had an advanced copy. And they found quite a few inaccuracies. Truth, schmuth! AKM
I love the book review from Mudflats. I would not pay one cent of my hard earned money for a book on Bullsh**t. SP is such a liar. She is not smart enough to know everything that happened on the campaign trail before, during and after has been recorded somewhere. Duh!!!!!!!!!