Chapter Five – The Thumpin’
The second-to-last chapter. There is light at the end of this long long tunnel. It reminds me of the escape scene from Shawshank Redemption. Only I’m not yet to the other end of the pipe…
Page 341
Everyone wanted her to run for Senate against Lisa Murkowski who was vulnerable because she got the job through nepotism because her father gave it to her when he left the seat to become governor before he lost to Palin. (Yes, the word “incestuous” comes to mind.)
“As always” she polled the family and everyone was on board except for Track who said no because he wanted to retain her as his team’s hockey manager. “At that point in his life, having an involved mom was more important to him – and to her – than having a mom with a powerful position in Washington D.C.” (So, what happened in 2008?)
Page 342
Some radio guy accused her of lying about Track telling her not to run. Why would she lie, because if anything, telling the truth would just invite even more criticism from the haters. He didn’t understand that “there is no greater service than mothering.” (Where the hell did I put that Pepto Bismol…)
The day she flew home to Alaska, everything was different. She was the same old gal, but everyone else had turned against her because she and John McCain had run against someone “who inspired worshipful loyalty from his supporters.”
This is a comment from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page.
[From Patricia B***] I finished reading your book last night. The way I see it is; this is a war between good & evil. Your an angel and Obama is the devil .
There were ethics complaints and record requests “that required hours of work to process.” (Surely not HOURS!?)
Page 343
Reporters decided to abandon journalism “in favor of tabloidizing my family, my record, and me.”
Once again, she asked Track what to do. He had been deployed in Iraq as an infantryman for nine months, but now he sounded beat. “My oldest son would once again weigh in on my political future.” (Coming later)
Anonymous McCain staffers were leaking lies to FOX News reporter Carl Cameron who repeated them without asking her for her side of the story. (A FOX reporter under the bus?! Wow.) There were stories that she had nabbed all the clothes and the RNC had to fly to Alaska to get them back. In reality she had been “ordered” (emphasis hers) to pack up the clothes, all fourteen suitcases of them and stuff them into the belly of the plane and fly it back to Wasilla. (And she’s such a good soldier, always taking orders and doing just what she’s told.)
Page 344
Then they flew people up to inventory it all. Then they Fedexed 30 boxes and 14 empty suitcases (why didn’t they just leave the clothes in the suitcases?) back to the RNC.
**********ALERT!! Mudflats Mention!!**********
I am delighted to tell you, that … yes, the name of this blog and no other was mentioned in Going Rogue, on page 344. Read it and believe.
“The media’s constant pelting reminded me of the time we kids used to go out in the canoe with Dad near the Knik mudflats early mornings before school.”
Yes, I know it’s not the blog itself, but it’s close. The way I figure it, she could have said “near the Knik River” or left that part out entirely, but perhaps…just perhaps…she had “mudlfats” on her mind for some reason… (raising one eyebrow and nodding at you in a knowing way)
Anyway, they went duck hunting…buckshot rained down on her head…bla bla bla.
The national people criticized her for not going to their fancy events. The locals criticized her for not being in Juneau. “There’s a pothole that needs repairing on the Seward Highway! If she’s gone, who will fix it?” (Raising hand “Ooo! Pick me! Pick me! The State Department of Transportation! … Was that a trick question?) Those DemocRAT lawmakers were just a bunch of whiners who wanted mama around. It was completely absurd.
Page 345
No matter how many times she told everyone that Alaska came first, nobody would believe her!
Turkey Gate – The local media had turned against her. The cameraman who had previously been friendly set up the camera to “capture turkeys being decapitated behind me.”
(The turkeys were NOT being decaptiated. They were being bled out into the cone of death. Get it straight.)
Her deputy press secretary was appalled! (Where were her press people when this was actually happening?)
Oh, what the heck. It’s almost Thanksgiving, so let’s travel back in time to last year….
(Wouldn’t you think that the ex-sport reporter/ex-journalist/ex-TV personality who reminds us about how journalism savvy she is at every turn, and was so careful about “hitting her mark” for the cameras during the VP debate would have noticed where she was standing? Just sayin.)
Page 346
Target – The Associated Press. A reporter said that she had to rely on notes and her commissioners to answer questions at a press conference. What a set up! And the same reporter asks her how she handled a tough week and Palin answered “A lousy week? Really?” Says Track got back from Iraq alive. Trig’s heart is doing well and the holes are closing up and he won’t need surgery, thank God. Todd is fine. Daughters are fine. Everything is fine! Life is rosy! Everything is wonderful. This lousy week was GREAT! Meanwhile the nasty fact-checkin’ national media were “sniffing around for tabloid stuff.” (You’ve been TABLOIDIZED! see page 343)
Page 347
Target – Authors of the book ‘Sarah from Alaska’. Talks about Piper getting ambushed on the way home from school by reporters. Remember those reporters from the plane Mommy? The ones that Nicolle Wallace said didn’t like us very much? They just interviewed me on the sidewalk. (This account was later refuted by Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy. Can you believe they accused her of making things up?)
Complains about reporters hanging out by her house. And then… “in addition there were the ‘new media’ – the left-wing bloggers. The lines between the two were often blurred, with stories starting in the blogosphere and leap-frogging to old media channels.” (There were lots of stories that started with the bloggers, but of course she doesn’t point out that the “old media” still has to fact check all those bloggers, or that they will probably be fact checking her book. Doh!)
Her Dad’s answer to “Trig Truthers” is “I know Trig is hers, dumbass. I was there when he popped out!” (ACK! I hope that doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means… “Hey, Dad! Check it out!”)
Page 348
When the bloggers weren’t busy makin’ stuff up, they talked about looming scandals that would ruin her political career. Like the rumors she had a sex tape. (I had to look that one up, because I had never heard that one. Sure enough there was a rumor…which was debunked on September 8, 2008, about a week after the nomination. It wasn’t started after she got back to Alaska post-election. So, you know what’s coming….)
Everything she did was scrutinized. It was “pathetic and chilling.”
And then we have, for my money, the best line in the whole book. Are you ready? Put your beverages down, and swallow your popcorn or you’re going to be wiping it off your monitor.
“I don’t like to hear people complain.”
She goes on to complain that the mainstream national media are pretty much worthless and don’t report the facts. They suffer from “the sin of omission.” (But of course, this book does not) “The time has come to acknowledge that it is counterfeit objectivity the liberal media try to sell consumers.” (Thank you Lynn Vincent.)
Page 349
Thank God there is still talk radio, and other objective sources. (Ha!)
She got grief from pro-life groups for appointing a Supreme Court Justice who wasn’t pro-life enough. She explained (after tip-toeing out of the room where Trig lay sleeping) that the system of judicial appointments in Alaska needs to be changed. She wanted them to put their energy into changing the law, so she wouldn’t ever have to nominate someone who wasn’t pro-life enough again.
Page 350
The Yankee Game
She, Todd and Willow were with Rudy Giuliani at a Yankees game. It was an unforgettable afternoon.
She went to Texas to crawl in bed with Exxon and give interviews.
Page 351
She did an interview. The stipulation was that they would ask her about the gas line first, and not tabloid stuff. She likes Matt Lauer. Wolf Blitzer? She likes his mom. (zing) David Letterman told a crude joke about Willow at the baseball game. John Ziegler asked her about the joke while she was on the air and she had not heard it, so she was unprepared to give an answer. She said something and the media criticized her for not being able to take a joke. Statutory rape is not funny.
Page 352
Gossipmongers began spreading rumors that she and Todd were going to divorce. They noticed she wasn’t wearing her wedding ring. But her wedding ring only cost $35 and she often didn’t wear any jewelry at all. Todd doesn’t wear a ring either.
She watched Todd in Texas all tanned and walking around with no shirt on. “Dang, I thought. Divorce Todd? Have you seen Todd?” (And her criteria for the continuation of a marriage is out there for all to see. Guess Todd better keep his boyish figure, or he’s outta there!)
Page 353
Her administration was hit with a paralyzing amount of FOIA requests. Instead of her staff doing their jobs, they spend “thousands of hours and wasted more than $2 million of public monies to sort through it all one sheet at a time.”
Most of the requests came from Andree McLeod who is again referred to as “the falafel lady” and the Associated Press. Andree also inspired a “group of co-belligerents” who filed complaints.
Page 354
They tried to keep a sense of humor especially when her chief of staff “received a fresh complaint” saying that women in state offices wore inappropriate clothing to work. “Breasts were apparently spilling from blouses all over the 49th State and Andree demanded I do something about it!” (Notice the skillful blending of official ethics complaints and a letter written via email to Mike Nizich and Commissioner of Administration Annette Kreitzer. This email about the inappropriate dress of some state workers somehow magically ended up in a gossip column at the Anchorage Daily News…wonder how THAT happened? I covered it in a daily wrap up post, which also featured some pretty inappropriate dress by the governor herself. Remember the skimpy skirt at the memorial service for fallen soldiers? Here it is, along with the info on “cleavage gate.” When McLeod tried to see what was in the internal emails that flew around, guess what? REDACTED. The great cleavage cover-up! And if you’ll notice, the email was not directed at Palin, but at the commissioner of Administration Annette Kreitzer, so as for demanding that Palin “do something about it….)
Page 354 (continued)
You can see what Andree McLeod’s attorney, Don Mitchell had to say about his paragraph HERE. To sum it up, he basically say that yes, he’s an attorney, but other than that:
Page 354 (still continued)
Someone (Linda Kellen-Biegel) complained that she was wearing a warm winter jacket with Todd’s Iron Dog sponsor’s logo. Someone complained about a picture of her holding a fish. (I STILL have no idea what that is.) She was served with a complaint from a fake British Soap Opera character. (For the record, the form wasn’t even filled out all the way and ended up in the round file immediately, taking NO state time but getting – to use a term of Palin’s – milked for all it was worth.)
Page 355
Instead of thinking about work, all she and her staff did was deal with ethics complaints. “I had to wonder. Will I be punished for wearing these clogs, or this label on my jeans today?” (Only if your husband is making a ton of money from the clog company and you wear the clogs at an official world famous clog event that you attend officially as the governor, and pose for pictures wearing a uniform with the clog logo all over it while you’re there for a national clog magazine, and dress your entire family up in clogs that are worth hundreds of dollars a piece and don’t declare the expensive clogs as a gift, and don’t disclose how many thousands of dollars worth of clogs you’ve got stashed in your closet, not to mention your twin pair of state-of-the art clog machines and the giant clog trailer you got as a perk to haul them all around.)
She and the whole family wore the offending team uniform at the event, “proudly in front of God and FOX and everybody, so what?” (So what? You can read about the Arctic Cat saga HERE, and at Blue Oasis in the future.)
Page 356
She wanted to just pay the ethics fine and get it over with, but no… her principled and idealistic lawyer, Snidely Whiplash Thomas Van Flein would have none of it, because she didn’t do anything wrong.
People are using the system against her. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
She was “handed a megaphone” during the campaign so how can she not use it to talk about the dangerous path our nation is on? It would be selfish of her to “zip her lips.” (No, not really…)
Page 357
The megaphone is used.
Obama is bad. Stimulus is bad.
She has a teachable moment with Bristol who gets up at 4am every day to work in a coffee shop and then takes classes and takes care of her baby. The lesson is about how we should not bail out businesses using the metaphor of a coffee shop that Bristol wants to own some day. She should call it “Bristol’s Beans.”
Page 358
She fears for the future because of the DemocRAT administration. She proceeds to scare the young entrepreneur in the car by asking her to imagine trying to start Bristol’s Beans with a Democrat-led congress telling her what color roof she has to have, and what car she can drive?
Page 359
Bristol says, “Pay attention to the tea parties, Mom. You’re not alone in this.”
She knew Bristol and Tripp would be just fine because Bristol was strong, and independent and loved to work.
On the campaign trail many people were hesitant to talk about Obama’s past associations with “anti-capitalist radicals.” The press tried to tell people that was the wrong thing to do. (Imagine!)
Page 360
When she answered questions about past associations of his on the trail, she was “going rogue.” (Flipping back to the part where she said that she was told to talk about “palling around with terrorists.”)
Wealth redistribution is bad. Margaret Thatcher was good.
Page 361
Stimulus money. Fat strings attached to the money. Still spouting all the crap about universal mandated building codes that we would have to accept.
Page 362
(Is it getting hot in here, or is it me?)
Gave a speech in Fairbanks. Government is not the answer. God is the answer. She got a standing ovation but some of the legislators didn’t stand because they don’t like her. Then the DemocrAT-controlled (have I been sleeping?) legislature overrode her veto. Teabaggers make her hopeful.
Page 363
She and Todd were going broke. The McCain campaign charged her $50,000 for being vetted. (After the fact? Maybe it was just for their pain and suffering…) They asked what was left of “Headquarters” to pay it, but they said NO because they didn’t win.
One of the left’s “favorite weapons” is frivolous ethics complaints.
Page 364
Democrats were mean to Newt Gingrich because he was a movement leader. Democrats have moved to the left. Some are good but most are bad. Democrats engage in the politics of personal destruction. Democrats target people, not ideas. Democrats lodged 74 charges against Gingrich and 65 were “laughed out of committee.” (Soooo…nine were valid?) Republicans didn’t stick by Newt.
Page 365
Travelgate.
A whole lot of rationalization about why the state should have paid for her children to travel all over creation. She got 2 choices, either pay for 8 or 9 trips that were ethically questionable, or she could present her case to the Personnel Board. She chose to reimburse the state for the trips as long as she didn’t have to say she did anything wrong. But she knew how the media would “spin it.”
Page 366
Now all you hear is that “most” of the ethics complaints have been dismissed, when in reality it was all of them as soon as she paid the state back for the 8 or 9 ethically questionable family travel incidents.
Just like Democrats “neutered their nemesis” Newt, they would do the same to her. (Spay Sarah?)
The “saddest part” about travelgate was that it kept her separated from her family. Todd wouldn’t even come around the office any more. Now they had to minimize their trips. She, Piper and Trig were in Juneau and the rest were in Wasilla. It wasn’t fair. (If I remember correctly, Juneau has been the capital for quite some time now, and I think that most governors know that when they take the job. But at least we get to hear this beautiful violin solo.)
Page 368
Then the insane ethics complainers started objecting to the state paying for her state staff to travel around the country with her on campaign events while she tried to run the state via Blackberry. (What DO we have a Lt. Governor for, anyway?) The lefties must be reading “Rules for Radicals.”
The “thumpin’” that she was getting was apparently coming from Rahm Emmanuel.
****uproarious laughter break*******
Page 369
Troopergate (even though it started well before she was tapped for VP spot) was orchestrated by Obama! (Oh, dear God. How many pages left??) The White House must have been whispering in Walt Monegan’s ear. The “Independent” investigator (who was chosen by a bipartisan committee and is NO liberal) came up with a “strained and nonsensical” decision. (read: guilty of abusing her power under the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act)
Page 370
It wasn’t until the day before the election (what timing!) that the Personnel Board “dismissed the ethics charges surrounding Troopergate. That circus was finally over.” (Actually, as you Mudflats faithful readers know, the 3-person governor appointed Personnel Board found her not guilty of the charges she filed against HERSELF. They in no way supercede the conclusion of the Legislative investigation that found her guilty. She just chooses to believe THAT one.)
She wonders aloud what former State Senator Kim Elton did “to earn his new job in Washington.” (Wow.)
***********break until hackles return to normal position**************
Todd said don’t let the bastards get you down (in Latin). If it were only her it would be one thing, but the media wouldn’t leave her kids alone.
[Ooo! Pictures! In color, no less. Blueberry picking, running with jogging stroller, Willow in fireweed, modeling fur hats, Iron Dog, Praying at Easter brunch, a moose sticking its head in the door (Don't go in!!!), Playing hockey with Piper, group shot in native garb, local parade, bar in Chicken, voting, first day in governor's office, inauguration ceremony, dancing at the governor's ball, reading to Trig, Track and Sarah, Piper's birthday in the capitol building, signing of AGIA, Chuck & Sally Heath in front of old log cabin that used to be a house of prostitution, Track and Todd at Ft. Benning, GOP convention in Minneapolis, Chuck & Sally with Henry Kissinger, Jim & Faye Palin at GOP convention, Chuck Heath talks to the press (THAT always goes well...), Anchorage Airport departure, Moose antlers in the cockpit of the campaign plane, Piper talking to George W. Bush on a cell phone, Ground Zero with firefighters, campaign bus, Mark Wallace yelling at her during debate prep, "Good laughs" with Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman and John McCain (I feel nauseous), heading to VP debate, Courageous American Hank Williams Jr. and Iditarod champ Martin Buser, She and Cindy and "band of merry followers," Piper talking into a microphone, Country First rally, 1-25th's deployment ceremony, rally in Missouri, voting in Wasilla, more voting, concession speech (no not HERS...), Lounging by the pool w/ napping Trig and Blackberry, She and Piper in full Arctic Cat regalia, and a totally adorable picture of Todd lying on the ground with Trig chewing on his head while Tripp grabs his face. That one actually makes me like Todd. They showed it during Oprah, and the whole audience went "Awwwwww!"]
Oh no….back to the words again.
Page 371 (previously posted)
Bristol was criticized for going on the abstinence tour and her “pragmatic” position that the only way to make sure you don’t get pregnant is not to have sex. She graduated high school with great grades, is taking college courses and works two part time jobs to pay for diapers and formula. But you don’t read about that. (Should I erase this then?) Partisan bloggers questioned Track’s enlistment in the army.
A fake Planned Parenthood ad was mean to Trig. So was someone who “Photoshopped distorted images over Trig’s pretty face in order to make him look monstrous.” (Err… that would be putting local radio shock jock Eddie Burke’s face on Trig’s body to show how cozy he and Palin are. Eddie Burke? Monstrous?? Well, Ok… You can see the original monstrous Burke photo and his shrunken monstrous tiny head HERE. How many people get mad when their body is put on someone else’s head, vs. their head getting put on someone else’s body. It isn’t about the body! It’s about the head! But that doesn’t make a good story.)
Page 372
Someone said she was using her baby as a prop. She was mortally offended. Other politicians have their children on stage. She’s a proud mom. Just because you’re running for office doesn’t mean you have to “switch off your maternal instincts.”
To answer your next question: 41 degrees.
Kris Perry wanted to quit because she got a FOIA request an hour after her father-in-law passed away. She didn’t want to deal with the “hit squad”.
Page 373
She felt like quitting too. Her approval ratings plummeted from nearly 90% to 56% during the “one-sided public discourse” about her ethics issues. (Hmm. I seem to remember lots of press releases coming from the governor’s office, and lots of press covering her side of the story. And it’s 48%.) Slowly everything was “shot to hell.”
The bloggers won. Everyone just assumed she was guilty because “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” But in her case there was lots of black billowing smoke, but no fire at all. The “liberal mentality” is that even if you’re innocent, it doesn’t matter, you’ll go broke eventually.
Page 374
She’s worried that the way things are set up, it will discourage good people from running for office. (Umm.. has any other Alaskan governor ever had this problem?)
Kristan Cole set up the Alaska Fund Trust (Legal Defense Fund) without any assistance or input from her. There is an ongoing investigation on the fund and she has gotten no money from it. (Even though its legality is in question, she still continues to accept donations which can be used for her OR any member of her family or her staff for anything.)
She can take anything – personal pain, loss of reputation, financial hardship, but she cannot take the harm to…. Alaska. Nobody had ever been able to tell her to sit down and shut up, but now it had happened. It would never stop. So, a hobbling lame duck that couldn’t take watching her precious Alaska suffer, she did the noble thing. She passed the ball, after she prayed about it.
Page 375
Enter Track, again.
Track knows all. He knows that she doesn’t want to put her family through this. Track knows she wants to protect them. Track knows she doesn’t want to let those idiots run her off. But Track has seen his sister be humiliated by…..her former boyfriend who went on a “fact-free kiss-and-tell media tour.” (And Levi finally makes an appearance on page 375. And he doesn’t even get a name mention. He must know something.) And Track knows he’s making things up.
She responds. But, Track… think of the troops! “The shots that really hurt are felt by people losing their livelihoods, losing a loved one in battle…”
But Track says you don’t quit. Don’t be a quitter! You only leave if you move up to something “more worthy.”
Page 376
But isn’t protecting your little brother and sister more worthy, Track? What about revealing truth? What about “breaking free of the bureaucratic shackles that are now paralyzing our state?” Isn’t that more worthy? (OMG…when will it be over?!? 5 more pages… I know I can make it. I’m not a quitter!)
I’m not a quitter Track, I’m not. (Yes you are.) But I know what I have to do. (Quit.)
Track says he’ll pray for her. She tells him to fast for a day. He says no. She says that he shouldn’t “cuss” for a day. Impossible. Finally, they settle on the holy act of no chew for a day. And that, apparently “was a big darn deal.” (A 24-hour chewing tobacco fast… Something we can all aspire to.)
She wasn’t sleeping well thinking about going with the flow and collecting a pay check, and padding her resume (with a full term?).
Page 377
A lame duck session would not help Alaska. “If I die, I die.” Doesn’t need a title to effect change…
On July 3, she quit. Beautiful day, shimmering lake. Family by her side (no Bristol). Her dad said, “She’s not retreating, she’s reloading.” She “wanted to leave no doubt that she wasn’t running from political shots.” (HUH? Isn’t that exactly what she just said she was running from?? Gah! 4 more pages…)
Page 378
When she took the job, she wanted to be held accountable for doing her job, not to have to prove that she is Trig’s mom. (Wouldn’t a birth certificate have done that in 5 seconds? While she’s at it, she can sign the Juneteenth proclamation governor’s must legally sign, and get rid of that complaint. She could kill 2 birds in 30 seconds.)
Her quitter speech was broadcast nationwide. She didn’t expect that. People speculated about why she quit. “What a bunch of buffoons.” She turned off the TV and ate cake.
The same people who wanted her out, were now outraged. (I ate cake.)
Page 379
Mainstream media stalked her parents and asked questions about why she quit and if there was an FBI investigation. The FBI said there wasn’t. “Poor press. At that moment the B in “FBI” stood for “Buzz kill.”
(Pleeeease, make it stop! 2 more pages…don’t….know..if I can…make it…)
She went to Dillingham to “slay salmon.”
Secretly (except in this best-selling book) she wanted to see “the likes of Andrea Mitchell” be forced to watch her being happy and content with her family.
Page 380
The last time she saw Mitchell it was with (name drop alert) Fred Malek, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Dianne Feinstein, Madeleine Albright, Walter Isaacson, Jeb Bush and John McCain. Now she wanted to see her covered in fish slime and “banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud, trying to pull themselves over the bow.” (Nice. Who would Jesus slime?)
They issued an open invitation to all the press except CBS. Whoever employs “the perky one” doesn’t even deserve the slime. Piper taught them how to drive a boat. They couldn’t believe there was no scandal and no “greedy grasp for money” (except the book deal). It was all for Alaska.
Page 381
But they didn’t believe her. Mary Matalin was the only one who got it right by saying she’d disarm her opponents and it would free her up to raise a lot of money “for worthy causes.” The water was calm and the day was sunny “so – dang it – none of them got slimed.”
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DONE WITH CHAPTER 5! That was the most painful one so far by a long shot. Oy. (rubbing temples in a circular motion) I literally have a twitch in my eye. I’m not kidding.
Remaining is a 12-page chapter called “The Way Forward.” That must be the brilliant policy pamphlet Rush Limbaugh talked about. Then there’s a 7 page epilogue. Then a 4-page thing about Alaska by some guy. Then 5 pages of acknowledgments. Then it’s over. Really and truly over. We should have this wrapped up in the next 24 hours.
Thank you for taking one for the team!
I’m pulling my hair out from reading your summary; I can’t imagine what condition I would be in if I actually read the book. I hope you do something nice for yourself today.
Damnit, AKM, you need to provide some warning before hitting us with stuff like your “clogs” commentary on page 355. Sam’s Diet Cola sprayed ALL over the keyboard! And I’m STILL laughing uncontrollably!
HOURS of work on the records requests and ethics complaints??? HOURS???
Andrew Halcro hit the nail on the head when he said about her gubernatorial run, that she wanted the campaigning and the “pep rallies”, but she didn’t want to do the actual work once she won.
Wow – that was one painful chapter. Thank you AKM for reading this so we don’t have to.
I’m still puzzled by the British Soap Opera character, perhaps it was someone from The Archers – the everyday story of country folk?
“Anyway, they went duck hunting…buckshot rained down on her head…bla bla bla.”
Why would life-long hunters use buckshot, which is intended for use in larger game animals, instead of birdshot which is intended for small game like duck and quail? You would think that people who “hunt because they eat” would know the difference.
So the RNC had to FedEx THIRTY BOXES of clothes from Alaska back to campaign headquarters??? Hahahaha!! (Oh, but you know she and Taaad still have some of those clothes tucked away somewhere.)
Ah, cake helps – who knew. Thank you, AKM.
I’m echoing Siren. Wow! What a load of balderdash.
I didn’t have my glasses on when I read it, and I couldn’t tell whether you were saying dogs or clogs. I have since put them on.
That has to be the most painful chapter yet. AKM, I hope you didn’t actually pay real money for that trash!
Still stuck on the deaf & visually impared DS baby with a bad heart outside in the middle of the night half naked at 41 degrees…
‘Nuff said.
Oh you poor poor thing, AKM you will be in need of some kind or several kinds of therapy when this is over and done with. Spiritual, Mystical, Pyschiatric, Massage, Aroma…………………………………………..etc…..
My admiration for you has grown by leaps and bounds. I have a copy of Going Rogue and I can barely stand to open the thing. Still on page 13 after a week. Don’t think I will ever actually finish cussing at the darn thing. Whenever I open it, I make it through a few sentences before I find my head shaking no, no, no in amazement at the things she has written and the way in which she wrote them.
I intend to take it to the annual New Year’s bonfire that I attend. Have never burned a book in my life, but as the saying goes, “there is a first time for everything.” I have doubts that the thing will actually burn.
Otherwise -the 24 hour chew fast… cannot help but wonder if all we pups abstain from cigs/booze/swearing for 24 hours, can we make her disappear?
“I’m melting, melting… Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little [mudpup] like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?” AAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
“I didn’t mean to kill her, I really didn’t, it’s just that [her pants] were on fire!”
Dear lord, the woman is delusional.
Not that we didn’t already know that, but…
Careful AKM. You might wear out that pants-on-fire icon.
If those pesky dang ethics complaints were so frivolous, why did it tie up her whole administration. Well, truth be told, she quit for the book deal. The lion’s share of cost and time concerning ethics complaints, was her own filed against herself in Troopergate. But as the book clearly proves, $arah always plays the victim.
Sheesh, just watched some of her Greta interview on IM, word salad galore. Need a drink, no make that 2. Egads she’s stupid.
It makes me fighting mad just to read your summary, I honestly have no idea how you have made it through the actual drivel itself. Big time kudos to you, AKM.
I’m with Paula – my first thought on seeing that baby was ‘What’s the temperature?’ Good lord.
Going through this book (albet vicariously) with you reminds me of a cartoon character my son loves – Cliffhanger. He dangles from a fragile twig barely rooted in the crumbling cliff face…..”Can’t – hold – on – much – longer!”.
Thanks for the narrative, I could never read it straight like you are.
Posted on HuffPo:
“She did not feel comfortable speaking about issues regarding Hispanics and Latin America,” GOP consultant Ana Navarro said. “Those are not topics that come up frequently in Alaska. So she asked to cancel the interview and, unfortunately, you were already there.”
Jason Recher, a senior campaign adviser to Palin now working on her book tour, dismissed the story and took a shot at Navarro for dwelling on last year’s news. According to Recher, Palin was ready to talk about Hispanic issues. But McCain’s advisers canceled the interview because she was not familiar with McCain’s complicated record in the area.
“Nobody’s sitting around talking about the 2008 campaign except for the people who lost it,” he said. {bold emphasis added. b.} http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/palin-univision-interview_n_368792.html
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Which begs the question: If no one is talking about it except those who lost, does that make Recher’s job working on her [mystical, magical, mystery] “book” tour a thing of beauty and a joy forever?
A couple of observations:
It would be selfish of her to “zip her lips.”
I wish she would be more selfish….
And pages 375-376.. where she is having this heavy conversation with her SON, Track, about quitting the governorship.. it seems that a conversation like that would more appropriately be had with one’s husband, No? Kinda weird, IMO, but no weirder than the rest of the book, I suppose.
pearl89 @ 11 said:
I intend to take it to the annual New Year’s bonfire that I attend. Have never burned a book in my life, but as the saying goes, “there is a first time for everything.” I have doubts that the thing will actually burn.
my comment: think of it as an EXORCISM! Burn, baby, burn….
So it’s not true that 41 F to Alaskans is actually toasty warm?
Who wants to bet the poor boy was napping and snatched out of his nice warm bed and handed to Sarah for the photo-op?
pearl89 @ 11—
I understand your desire to burn the thing, dear, but may I make a humble suggestion for you to recycle the thing instead?
Burning might add to your carbon footprint, whereas, tearing each and every page out of the spine of the book and relegating it to the recycle bin might just give you more satisfaction than the momentary blaze of a “pants on fire” book.
Or you could use the pages to make origami art.
Or wipe up spills in your kitchen.
Or pick up dog droppings on a walk.
Or tape the pages together for wrapping paper.
Or use them as Lining the bottom of the bird cage or kitty litter box.
Christmas is coming, use the pages as cushioning for shipping Christmas packages.
This is just a start…Perhaps there are other creative ideas out there for the use of the pages of the book?
Gave a speech in Fairbanks. Government is not the answer. God is the answer. She got a standing ovation but some of the legislators didn’t stand because they don’t like her. Then the DemocrAT-controlled (have I been sleeping?) legislature overrode her veto. Teabaggers make her hopeful.
Isn’t it still R controlled? Is she the biggest liar ever? And on Gryphen’s blog, it says she let it slip that she is running in 2012 in the GVS interview….I hope your AK compadres take her out well before then.
Just because you’re running for office doesn’t mean you have to “switch off your maternal instincts.”
Again, I have to take issue with her bizarre family tree approach to employment.
How is 30,000 State Employees sifting through thousands of FOIA requests more distracting than five generations of family members being a part of business hours everyday?
As a constituent, I would be horribly insulted by having to subject my critical concerns and issues to the Shadow Governor Todd and her father Heath while she was on one of her two blackberries anyway. Also.
Thank you for the turkey video — still fresh and bold after all this time — and the clogging. Sometimes you just gotta make stuff up to deal with all the stuff she makes up.
If I had an extra purple heart I would have sent it to you. Just what you have written is enough to make your head spin. No offense but I have a headache. I can believe people are falling for this book.
21 LibertyLover Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 11:59 AM
pearl89 @ 11—
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Or pick up dog droppings on a walk.
Or use them as Lining the bottom of the bird cage or kitty litter box.
That sh:tty book is only good for the two suggestions above.
We are used to celsius here. I just converted 41 F to C. 5 C and that is cold. Another five degrees and it is freezing. What is she thinking?
LIBERTY LOVER @ 21
“Or tape the pages together for wrapping paper”
uh…wouldn’t that make for a rather hostile gift?
having that baby dressed like that in the cold.
Sorry hit submit to early.
It’s hard to think of Trig being 5, or 10, with a mother who will have run out of events to drag him to, to prove she’s such a wonderful mother. Does she have any clue how much time she’ going to have to give this child?
I had a dream last night that George W. Bush was coming back to office next week for some reason. I had a real moment of despair in the dream. Was so glad to wake up and find it wasn’t true. Time for us to support Obama and the Democratic congress with all our energy. (I had an interesting dream about Obama the week before the election, too He was descending like an eagle on to the land.)
Sarah Palin is in a serious place spiritually. Ignoring the infuriating lies, and acknowledging this is, after all, an autobiography, I can’t remember a public figure so absorbed in herself. She apparently has no one who will/can call her to account and tell her “it’s not about you. get over yourself.” May we all be spared that level of self absorption.
Liberty Lover: It could be shredded and then used as packing material, but I would not want to use individual pages that might be smoothed out and read by innocent parties.
That’s funny. I just had a comment land in moderation, and I can’t figure out why – was on topic, no bad words. Anybody else have that happen? I’m sort of checking out to see if this will go through as usual.
And AKM – thank you so much for doing this. Can’t say it often enough. I would have been curious about the book, but I’m confident you’ve conveyed the reality and that I can spare myself the horror of reading it.
Sometimes that just happens and nobody can figure out why. I’ll go check, and fish it out. I usually do that multiple times a day. AKM
If anyone is going to destroy their book (I think this is in jest, but just in case)
Send it to me! I have a project! And my reputation will remain intact at my local Barnes & Noble!!
AKM — just reading your summary of this poor excuse for a book makes my hair hurt and my eyes roll around in my head. I can only imagine what it must be like for you — please enjoy lot of adult beverages and take a couple of days’ break. My seven year old son has been watching me read your posts over the past week and has asked lots of questions. Now he just looks at the screen and says “Wow — Sarah Palin tells a lot of lies in that chapter, doesn’t she?”.
I laughed out loud at that one! Too funny. AKM
Did Attorney Mitchell’s response to SP find it’s way to the Associated Press? I feel very sure they’d LOVE to read it! Or Greg Sargent at The Plum Line? He’s always been very responsive in the past (re Henkimaa’s posts on the true costs of the ethics complaints).
AKM – you bring tears to my eyes! LOL
“I had to wonder. Will I be punished for wearing these clogs, or this label on my jeans today?” (Only if your husband is making a ton of money from the clog company and you wear the clogs at an official world famous clog event that you attend officially as the governor, and pose for pictures wearing a uniform with the clog logo all over it while you’re there for a national clog magazine, and dress your entire family up in clogs that are worth hundreds of dollars a piece and don’t declare the expensive clogs as a gift, and don’t disclose how many thousands of dollars worth of clogs you’ve got stashed in your closet, not to mention your twin pair of state-of-the art clog machines and the giant clog trailer you got as a perk to haul them all around.
The clog parable is the best.
Thanks AKM
I feel like I am bleeding out of my eyes, ears, and nose after reading yor latest synopsis. I feel like Lord Peter Wimsey, shut up in the bell tower in “The Nine Tailors”. I really don’t know how you’ve stood it this long, AKM. I hope you have reservations at some Zen retreat center starting next week.
Besides being 41 degrees, it was 11:45 PM!!!
Piper and Trig both look exhausted!
fawnskin mudpuppy @ 28 — you might have a point there…
And a problem child @ 30 — hmmmm. Good point. I might get some enjoyment out of feeding it into the shredder.
Better idea then: Shred the pages, use them as packing material to send goodies to the Troops! It’s a win/win.
“the belly of the plane”,,,thats ME !!! yea ME!!!!!!
I was at Costco this morning and noticed that the prominently displayed carton of “Going Rogue” was still as full as it was three days ago….BUT today, there was a treat on top of this giant pile of b—s. The AUDIO version of the book, narrated my none other than the AUTHOR herself!
I nearly lost my breakfast just thinking about what I held in my hands. Sarah’s whiny voice whining. Thank goodness I thought of that, otherwise I would have left the store without buying what I went in for in the first place–Wine!
I have a true confession. Several months ago, I checked out the book on tape “Sarah” which was comprised of three CDs. Actually, I enjoyed the first CD which was about Sarah’s parents, her brother and sisters and Sarah’s early life in Alaska. The second CD started to get very boring. It was time to return the book to the library, so I renewed for another two weeks. I could not get through the third CD.
Guess I am just like Sarah I quit half through the project. I did make a copy of the third CD in case; I get the drive to finish the project.
At the start of the third CD, Sarah was just getting ready to run for Governor. Please don’t any of you ruin the suspense or spoil the ending and by telling me whether she wins or loses.
She didn’t say anything about Wayne Anthony Ross? Does she say anything about her games to appoint some Repub to finish Kim Elton’s term?
And wasn’t one of her flacks standing right there at Turkeygate, who could’ve stopped the interview at any time?
So, essentially the book is about a narcissistic sociopath who has a lying fetish.
There wouldn’t be much of a book if she hadn’t made all that stuff up; pecking amazing.
Pulling out the true parts would be a “piece of cake” if the lies were removed first..hahaha can you imagine? It would only be the size of my tide book!
AKM – Please know that I appreciate your effort even though I don’t have words to adequately express how much.
If I remember correctly, Sarah didn’t include Chuck Heath in the list of family present when Trig was born. So how could he make his crude statement about being there as proof that Sarah birthed Trig? Is this like the time he taped Sarah’s fingers so she could pretend she was injured and get out of playing her flute? Such inspiring values!
This has been the only way to read the book. The ONLY way! I only hope it has not done severe and permanent damage to AKM – if there is anything you need when you are finished – ANYTHING!!! — you just ask.
I think we need to start passing the hat for a full week at a spa for you.
Oh, and as far as creative ways to get rid of the book? I have a rescued crow, who has his own blog, and reviews books. He methodically shreds the ones he does not like. If anyone wants their copy out of the house, just send me an e-mail and I will tell you where to mail it. You will receive photos of Bobby D. the Crow shredding your copy.
Question: Does anyone think she will go away for a bit once the BIG BLUE BUS tour is over?
laffing at sjk @38!
oops! sjk has moved to @41.
AKM musta rescued some folks from the spam folder
These people remind me of the characters in the movie Idiocracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKuDYvM6Wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk
I know this has been mentioned several times but I can’t help it: forty one f***ing degrees??!! Are you kidding me???
Why hasn’t CPS been called in on this family?
#51 Kelly Mahan Jaramillo – I’m glad to oblige to your passing the hat! I’m on my way to ring that Mudflat bell! Got to giddy-up now!
“Yes, I know it’s not the blog itself, but it’s close. The way I figure it, she could have said “near the Knik River” or left that part out entirely, but perhaps…just perhaps…she had “mudlfats” on her mind for some reason… (raising one eyebrow and nodding at you in a knowing way)”
Aw comahn AKM! It’s a chance to wink at Sarah.
“Back atcha Winky.”
Don’t know if there are any Dickens fans out there, but Ms. Palin’s conversations with Track surely do put me in mind of Sairey Gamp.
Gee golly… what happens to Buttercup when she comes home??? Methinks the AK reception may be a little chillier than when she left… whoopsie. The old phrase “unintended consequences” comes to mind. Or karma, also, too.
Another small donation toward AKM’s day at the Spa.
I highly recommend a seaweed wrap and foot massage. Heaven.
If she attempts to run for office again – especially the White House – I recommend that Mudflatters show up with signs depicting the image of the pants on fire – no more, no less.
“Just like Democrats “neutered their nemesis” Newt, they would do the same to her. (Spay Sarah?)”
Oops. Too late.
Not only 5 kids too late but she has gotten so haggarad in the last year I’m willing to bet her ovaries gave it up after the last pregnancy.
I have Palin Fatigue Syndrome just skimming the summary of this book, so I can only imagine the tortures of reading the book.
Remember when you couldn’t open a paper or watch TV without coverage ad nauseum about Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan? Hopefully Sarah fatigue will set in and we will be mercifully spared from all Sarah all the time, soon.
58 CGinWI Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Don’t know if there are any Dickens fans out there, but Ms. Palin’s conversations with Track surely do put me in mind of Sairey Gamp.
And why does he have to fast when its her decision?
Kind of old Testament, sacrifice a child so the Gods will smile on Daddy Dearest. Let somebody suffer for my sake.
Sarah Palin is the “false prophet”that the evangelists have been waiting for.
“pages 375-376.. where she is having this heavy conversation with her SON, Track, about quitting the governorship.. it seems that a conversation like that would more appropriately be had with one’s husband, No?”
Yeah, wasn’t that AFTER Gryph posted about the failure of her marriage?
Why the heck was she so grievously separated from her family in Juneau? I thought there was a governor’s mansion there for her entire family to live in, just like male governors have had. Are we to assume that Todd et al refused to go to Juneau with her? Were they not as supportive as she claims they were?
The thought of Track fasting from “chew” cracks me up! Forty days and nights fasting in the wilderness, but Track can give up on tobacco products for 24 hours! Way to be spiritual!
Let’s just assume for a moment that Palin is totally right (go with me here).
Let’s believe that wherever she goes she polarises her opponents to the point where they successfully grind governance to a halt. Let’s believe that all her good work is undermined to the point where progress is not possible. Let’s believe that she would have been a great Governor if people didn’t keep trapping her into things that look bad.
Even if we believe all that, WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT HER ELECTED TO ANY POSITION OF INFLUENCE? What benefits does electing a professional martyr bring? Why wouldn’t people vote for someone who can rise above all that, or who welcomes scrutiny, or who can reform broken processes instead of running away crying “Poor me!!!”
Instead of voting for someone who communicates so badly that everyone takes what she says the wrong way (according to her), why wouldn’t people vote for someone who comes across as eloquent and intelligent? Oh wait, they did. People aren’t stupid, and Sarah’s done.
“Bristol’s Beans.” Is it just me, or does this somehow sound slightly obscene for some reason?
“Bristol’s independent.” Uh, isn’t she still living at home? Does someone still drive her to work? Doesn’t sound independent to me. Sounds remarkably dependent, which is OK, but it’s NOT “independent.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79383.html
“Palin’s former aide annoyed by portrayal in ‘Going Rogue”’
Comment from John Bitney.
Not to nitpic,… But that photo of Trig and Palin… I don’t know where she is, but if she’s anywhere other than Hawaii, or south America, it’s kinda cool at night. Too cool to have a baby outside without pants on.
“I don’t like to hear people complain.”
So she doesn’t like to listen to herself?
I can only read your synopsis for brief spells with sanity breaks in between.
OMG, now I know why the veterinarian near me has on their sign “Don’t go rogue. Spay or neuter your pet.”
per your quote ‘Just like Democrats “neutered their nemesis” Newt, they would do the same to her. (Spay Sarah?)’
Curiouser #50 asks,
“If I remember correctly, Sarah didn’t include Chuck Heath in the list of family present when Trig was born. So how could he make his crude statement about being there as proof that Sarah birthed Trig?”
You must not be a lawyer. Heath’s words were, “I was there when he [Trig] popped out.” Heath did not say out of whom, or what, Trig popped, or where the “there” was from whence Heath alleges he observed said popping out. Or maybe he was just lying. Understood as it was certainly intended to be understood, it is a very odd statement. If it’s true, it’s odd that a woman would want her father present when giving birth, and if it’s false, it’s odd that a father would think it appropriate for him to have been there.
when my family has a huge decision to make, we also fast. HOWEVER, no one outside the family, or our personal selves – if its a personal matter – knows we are fasting.
I am reminded of this bible passage. One Palin needs to actually LEARN:
Matthew 6:5-6
“And when thu prayest, though shalt not be as the hyporites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.”
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into they closet, and when though has shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret; and thy father which seeth in in secret shall reward thee openly.”
And continuing on…
Matthew 6: 16-18
“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they fisfigure their faces, that they may appear untio men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father, which is in secret; and thy father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”
By now I’m just skimming thru her moosecrap…and if it weren’t for your comments I wouldn’t be reading this at all. I’m beginning to wonder if the reason she hates Obama that much is because McCain and her “perky” self lost to a bi-racial man (with superior intellect) and how dare he win. What a whiner, liar, loser she is.
Oh Mudflats. You’re going to need a huge party over thanksgiving for taking that task on! I’ll bet your head hurts by now.
72 Mudbug Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 3:38 PM
when my family has a huge decision to make, we also fast. HOWEVER, no one outside the family, or our personal selves – if its a personal matter – knows we are fasting.
I am reminded of this bible passage. One Palin needs to actually LEARN:
Matthew 6:5-6
“And when thu prayest, though shalt not be as the hyporites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.”
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into they closet, and when though has shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret; and thy father which seeth in in secret shall reward thee openly.”
Isn’t it interesting how TV preachers and people like the holier than thou Sarah seem to forget those verses. As well as the one about difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Nasty restrictions only apply to other people.
Yeah. Right!
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
That thou appear not unto men to fast
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So the idea is to trick people into thinking you’re not fasting. Devious.
AKM, before you put away your “pants on fire” stickers, don’t forget to slap a couple on the cover. Sarah Palin did not write the book, nor is she an American Dream.
AKM I want to thank you for reading that awful book. I am getting a headache from reading your synopsis. I just don’t like that woman…As much as everyone focuses on Sarah’s treatment towards Trig, I am just as concern for Piper. Ever since the beginning of the campaign, Piper is always only a few feet away from Sarah in almost every photo that is taken. Piper is so used to the limelight that I feel it will be detrimental to her development, sorta like the child actors who find it hard to adjust once they get older and stop receiving the adulation and adoration. I observed this a long time ago, but I never commented because everyone says to leave the children out of it. I would love to leave them out but they are always at Sarah’s side. It will be interesting to watch Piper grow up. I hope I don’t get chastised for writing a post about the Palin young’uns.
OK, some of you are using too much critical thinking up there about the fasting, not fasting, hiding in the closet, giving up ‘”chew,” etc. You’re not good enough sheeple when you do stuff like that. She’s writing to the low-information voters, the ones that can’t read, remember? The ones who just look at the idol photo.
81 Colibrimoon, it’s too late for all of the kids in that family.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
– Sir William Osler
I saw this quote today and thought of this whole Sarah worship thing.
And no, Sarah, it doesn’t have anything to do with puppies!
Thanks AKM for the great comments about the book I would never touch. You are a true patriot!
“but perhaps…just perhaps…she had “mudlfats” on her mind for some reason… (raising one eyebrow and nodding at you in a knowing way)”
here’s raising an eyebrow back at’cha…….cause some of us STILL can raise our eyebrows. zing. badaboom.
end of snarky post.
(@55) TerryNY Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Why hasn’t CPS been called in on this family?
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Lots have folks here seem to be asking that question, lately. The *only* thing I can come up with is that people only see what they want to see.
For more than a year, now, we’ve all been told what a wonderful, thoughtful, caring, adoring, self-sacrificing, kind, loving, etc. (ad nauseum), mother SP is. Pictures of her ‘big happy family’, all smiling faces, all well- and fashionably- groomed, all ‘picture perfect’, (and with pinchably-adorable cheeks on the youngest members) are a confirmation of what we’ve heard: SP is a great mother of this great family.
When people get a [personally felt] hint that there’s something ‘off’ in what they’re seeing, though, they sometimes dismiss their feeling of ‘offness’ [hey, if , "tabloidizing" can be a word, so can "offness", by gum!] as a problem in/on their part. They dismiss the offness as an aberration ~ a fluke. And promptly forget about it. No action is taken ~ it’s just a one-time, isolated, will-never-be-repeated occurrence…
People WANT to see SP as a role-model for motherhood…or at least want to see her as a decent mother. People have expectations of what a ‘good’ mother is and how that ‘good’ mother behaves; they expect to see certain ‘good’ mothering traits in mothers – SP being no exception. When they’re confronted with anything that contradicts those expectations, though, they sometimes, inexplicably, simply dismiss the contradictions. They just don’t ‘compute.’
SP, with people *sure* about her wonderfulness as a mother, is getting a HUGE ‘pass’ on the way she treats those children of hers. All visions *contrary* to the mental image^^ are dismissed; her kids bear the relentless fallout from that ‘pass’, though. Much like the preacher’s wife’s black eye (“from running into the door”) is dismissed and she continues “running into the door,” “tripping on the bath mat,” “tumbling over the garden hose,” “sliding down a flight of stairs.” Or worse.
Any one else have any ideas for why ‘the authorities’ haven’t been called in to check [really check, not just fall for the mythology of SP] on those poor little ones? beth.
^^(seared there through words and images carefully and purposefully crafted to promote universal awareness of the multiple and outstanding mothering skills in SPs repertoire…)
page 353 — Andree also inspired a “group of co-belligerents” who filed complaints.
from wiki: Co-belligerence is waging the war in cooperation against a common enemy without the formal treaty of military alliance.
Co-belligerence is a broader and less precise status of wartime partnership as a formal military alliance. Co-belligerents may support each other materially, exchange intelligence and have limited operational coordination. The aims of war in which co-belligerents participate may differ considerably.
The term co-belligerence indicates remoteness between the co-belligerent parties, cultural, religious, ideological or otherwise, whereas alliance indicates a corresponding closeness.
comment: so very odd. there. also.
AKM, I have an idea! After a suitable period of rest and recovery from reading $arah’s book, you could serialize one of Barack Obama’s books on the blog. It would be very interesting to compare the writing style and tone of the books…and it would help you rebuild all those brain cells you lost reading GR.
page 354 – Someone complained about a picture of her holding a fish. (I STILL have no idea what that is.)
here is the pic:
http://www.alaskaseafood.org/industry/enews/092607govpalinfish.jpg
free her up to raise a lot of money “for worthy causes.”
And those worthy causes would be….Sarah Palin?
Because I’m not really aware of other causes she’s raising lots of money for. Once her speaking fees are covered, there’s not a lot left for whatever dumb, rightwing, conservative organization that meets Sarah’s approval for speechifying that was stupid enough to invite her to raise funds for whatever anal retentive control freak Talibangelical cause they’re attempting to foist on the rest of us.
Wasn’t there a discussion months ago when $arah used Thumpin in one of her twits? It was either about Rahm Emmanuel or a bible verse? Anyone remember?
AKM-
MY hackles don’t seem to be returning to normal…
What a snotty mean snarky sickening thing she wondered about our good and decent State Senator Elton! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for wading through this…
I’ll be back when I can compose myself…
Folks in the know inthe valley have said that Scarah and Track have had a nonexistent relationship for about 3 years now. He did not look too happy in Minneapolis, that is for sure.
I can’t see how she would be able to get any talented, experienced professional to help her run for any political office in the future. She has revealed that she does not want to follow the instructions of anyone else. She only just barely, sometimes did what she was told when McCain was on the top of the ticket.
Ok, these thoughts have been building up in me about SP as a mother and I want to share them here with a group of people who understands. I will try to be as objective as possible-just what I have observed from pictures, videos, and her comments. I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors…
First let me say I am a retired teacher of 30 years who has a masters in exceptional children and experience with special needs kids including Down’s Syndrome kids and adults ( I volunteered with Special Olympics for five years). I have also taught in an elementary school in a regular classroom.
Like I commented in another thread, my first red flag about SP was how she brought out Trig at the convention. A DS child is very susceptible to infection, especially upper respiratory problems. He also must have been very confused with all that stimulation-the lights and noise. I also wondered why a mother would carry her baby like a sack of potatoes.
This behavior of Mom doesn’t seem to have changed after seeing the pic of her carrying Trig around on the book tour. I remember too in an interview at her home how Piper carried him upstairs wearing high heels and Mom seemed oblivious.
Now maybe Trig is getting the physical and speech therapy he needs on the bus, so I won’t comment on that…
Piper: I have had a lot of experience with kids her age. From watching her on TV, I think she adores her mom. She is often looking at her with adoring eyes. However, I’ve seen that look many times before during parent conferences. It usually sends a message of a parent who doesn’t pay much attention to their child. I also worry about how much school she is missing, not only for knowledge, (maybe there’s a tutor?) but also for socialization with kids her own age. And it’s got to be boring most of the time on the bus tour. Piper may start acting out to get attention. There are signs ( make-up during BW interview). Sorry-a slip in my objectivity- did I tell you I have a minor in psychology??
Bristol: Teens do stupid things and I don’t fault her or the family for the pregnancy, BUT, having her be the poster girl for abstinance??? Who’s idea was that???
Willow and Track: Don’t really have anything to say-they have kept a low profile for whatever reason.
81 Colibrimoon Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
As much as everyone focuses on Sarah’s treatment towards Trig, I am just as concern for Piper.
Many of the mudpups have commented on this issue, especially as it related to Piper.
Piper the the seven year old who takes care of a special needs baby, who is constantly out of school, who is a human shield for Sarah, who is the adult one that points out to a person 40 years her senior that asking God to help her win the VP debate is cheating…..
Bristol lookin’ for love in the wrong places.
Track practically in jail.
These children have been so “bleped” over. It is heart breaking.
And why should we care more than her parents do?
[[ mlaiuppa @ 90. I'm thinking she doesn't have to be physically present to "raise money for worthy causes".
Actually, the first thing that came to my mind when I heard getting dough to "worthy causes" was her intent, was that she was going to be writing, phoning, and/or teleconferencing members of churches (from 5-worshipper membership churches to mega-churches) to get them to fund her 'christian vision' [lower-case "c" intentional] of the world.
Good christians supporting *well* a fellow christian’s ‘good works’ in recruiting the entire world for Jebus. (Donor’s belief in witchcraft: optional.)
For some odd reason, I can’t seem to shake the notion that that is a portion of what SP is doing daily when she’s not out (with young P and younger T in tow) having her every wink and smile covered by hordes of media. beth. ]]
Boo Boo (93) she does tend to overcompensate for shortcomings eh?
i didn’t realize the billy graham was an end times guy – actually, i never read his books or watched his teevee preaching shows…….but keith olberman had a short clip about palin visiting the elder graham and discussing israel and iran and iraq (does she know the difference now?).
is she getting tips on how to exploit teh feeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrr?
makes my skin crawl.
or maybe she is just an ardent fan and wanted to stop by for dinner. yeah that must be it.
and what happened to the christian version of her book?
Enough… I think that’s a salmon. Although I have never seen one out of the package. But then, again, some people have not seen cows.
http://www.csmonitor.com/commentary/
Fun and clean political cartoon about GR
Mudbug thank you I have been trying to remember were in the bible those qoutes were.I knew fro confirmation classes they were part and parcel and so many times have wanted to quote them so thanks for brings them forward
Matthew 6:5-6
“And when thu prayest, though shalt not be as the hyporites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.”
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into they closet, and when though has shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret; and thy father which seeth in in secret shall reward thee openly.”
talking about your faith and pushing it onto someone, anyone does not a christian make.
Oooo, President Obama’s in really hot water now, seems he was palin’ around with Katie Couric at tonight’s State Dinner.
I am going to try my musings in Yoda-like syntax tonight:
A-thumpin it was, my return to Alassssska. Off the plane I get, 14 suitcases I had. None did I want but take them they made me. Ethics complaints and records requests, frivolous they were. Out to get me they were. Complained about my “clogs” they did. To be worshipped I wanted but buckshot and turkey blood I got instead. Thousands of hours and dollars I spent but go away it did not. Out to get me they were. Yankees I saw, good tickets too were given to me but bad jokes they were made. Fight back I did. All Obama’s fault it is. Of Bristol’s Beans did I dream, enterprise so private it is. Consulted family I did. Sacrificed myself did I. Alasssska I love. Evil bloggers and Rahm Emmanuel I hate. Teabaggers….save me they will. Lies I will tell. Heads they will roll……bla, bla, bla.
AKM- taking one from the team you have….thank you I say.
oops. “for” the team.
My mother used to tell me that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Guess Sarah never heard that wisdom.
Secondly…. from a “Wiccan” point of view.. what you put out into the world comes back to you nine fold. Watch out Sarah. Karma is a bitch.
ack moderation I got.
I just saw clips of Palin fans and they are as clueless as she is on everything. When asked a direct question they have no answer but yet they mouth off the same talking points, government too big etc., etc. and one person said Obama didn’t love the country cause he didn’t say it. Can you believe that? What? you have to tell the country you love America like Sarah Palin? She loves the country cause only a LIAR like her can FOOL idiots into giving her money and buying into her bullcrap. Everyone here loves the country that’s why we are so dead set against the EVIL she is and represents. I have one thing to say to her and that is GOD IS WATCHING.
Don’t know how on earth you got through this chapter – it sounds mind-numbingly boring and pointless full of vapid cliches and vacuous nonsense (I mean even more so than the rest of the book, which is quite an achievement in itself). Her writing style even summarized sounds like nails on a chalkboard
Do yourself a favor when you finish reading this crap and either do some meditation/holistic therapy or take a holiday. Being exposed to so much toxic waste and poisonous garbage can be destructive to the soul
I’ve been sucked in to the vortex, reading your synopsis. My poor dogs have watched me read in the evenings all week, and they can’t wait for you to wade through the last dredges of this muck so we can get out in the fresh air again. Thanks for your fortitude.
I wish any Sarah supporter would read this so they could finally see what she really is. But, as proven a couple of times even when they are confronted with the real facts they chose not to believe, so guess it doesn’t matter. But, I do appreciate being able to read the enitre book here and did not have to buy it, so thank you for that.
Palin’s description’s of how she has consulted Track on all of her major political decisions remind me of the parents of Oedipus Rex consulting the Oracles at Delphi.
Oedipal complex anyone?
On page 377: “Doesn’t need a title to effect change…”
So why does she continue to have herself called “Governor” ????!!!!!
In Bugs Bunny’s immortal words, “WHAT A MAROON!!”
Mag the Mick @42
I feel like I am bleeding out of my eyes, ears, and nose after reading your latest synopsis. I feel like Lord Peter Wimsey, shut up in the bell tower in “The Nine Tailors”.
FOTFL, Mag – this is THE best description of my own reaction!
Thanks AKM for the book blog. I honestly don’t think I could stomach actually reading more than a page or two. GACK.
AKM, my hero. I am stunned at how much I have enjoyed the book! The entire blog post really needs to be widely published. A masterpiece!
Just a thought… for those who may shred this book… consider donating the shredded paper to local humane society for bedding… they generally are always in need of bedding. If your local society doesn’t need it, send the book to me and I’ll shred it for mine.
Also, I missed Alaska’s Annual Turkey Pardon, was that done in secret this year? If anyone has a link, could you provide it?
Thanks for the work in synopsis of the book!
Happy holiday to everyone!
@Jennywa #95
I agree about the DS child in public. Last year, at less than 6mo old (when immunity kicks in better) he was lugged across the country and exposed to millions of people during the begining of flu season. This year, with H1N1 (and the mutation) running around, he is again being lugged around the nation and exposed to thousands of people. Remember that H1N1 has proven especially deadly to those with pre-existing conditions and the mutation especially deadly to young children. The H1N1 has just peaked two weeks ago (aka maximum number of exposed contageous people around)
Yes, he may be vacinated, but vacine requies an immune system to build up the protection. Hence vacinated people still get ill.
I can only imagine the kind of martyre (sp?) she’d make of herself if he caught something and died. I can’t for the life of me understand why no parent is voicing concern about Piper and Trigg being hauled all over the country during flu season.
@ your perception of Piper… she always looks like she’s scowling to me. I see a very deep seated hate when I see her in videos. I think she has to potential to become far worse than her mother. Remember that the older kids had a form of life before Palin’s political aspirations… Piper has been a “poster child” since birth (worse, mama P has been reminding her of that fact as well). I’ve known children raised in those circumstances where just being a kid is forbidden. In the kids I’ve known, its created some serious resentments that always find an outlet and the child takes all of the parent’s bad habits and magnifies them exponentially. WHen I consider Palin’s willfullness and inability to tell the truth, I can’t even begin to imagine how bad Piper will be as a teen.