Going Rogue: Page by Page (A Resource and Links)
28 12 2009Yes, I read Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue – An American Life. I read it from cover to cover, including all the words. Why would I do this? Am I an unabashed masochist? No. The answer, my friend, is that I did it so you didn’t have to.
My own copy is marked up in various colors of highlighter and Sharpie. I tore a page because I pushed to hard while I was making a big red circle with a line through it. I refer back now and then making more notations. I look at it like that girl in the “I made it through Marine boot camp” commercial. I tested myself, and I won. So, now you can look at me and say “Good morning, Marine!”
I’ve had a couple requests over these last weeks to compile the various posts into one place. So, I’ve created a category in the sidebar, and will now post this comprehensive linky list.
And while I’m at it, I thought I’d include some comments by various “debunkers.” Below, see links for articles that call Palin out on her lies, delusions, and exaggerations. I’ll just add to this as the list grows. And you know it will.
Chapter One – The Last Frontier
Chapter Two – Kitchen Table Politics
Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part One)
Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part Two)
Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part One)
Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part Two)
Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part Three)
Chapter Six – The Way Forward
(Including Epilogue, A View from Alaska, and Acknowledgments)
Indeces (unofficial, because the actual book didn’t have one)
Index: Famous People in Going Rogue
Index: Rose-colored Glasses Version From The New Republic
Index: Amusing Version from Slate.com
Rogue Links and Voices from Under the Bus:
John McCain Defends His Staff from Palin Barbs
Nicolle Wallace: Palin Just Made Things Up, ‘Bizarre Fixation’ on Campaign
Steve Schmidt Calls Palin’s Memoirs “Total Fiction”
Former friend and Legislative Director John Bitney talks about Palin’s Lies
Bitney calls Palin a “sociopath.” (Video)
Attorney Don Mitchell talks about Palin’s lies
Trooper Mike Wooten Breaks His Silence to talk about Palin’s lies
Andrew Halcro – Palin’s “Unmitigated Lies and Narcissistic Delusion”
A Scrabble Player Speaks Out About Palin’s Lies
Andrew Sullivan: The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin (Comprehensive List)
Levi Johnston Says Palin is “Full of It.”
Palin’s Book Goes Rogue on Facts – The Associated Press
Chief Wooden Legs Dissed – Coach Wooden Misquoted
Palin Throws the Bus Under the Bus!
An American Life or An American Lie? Richard Fineberg on ACES
Palin’s Former Ally Calls More Lies to Rogue – Andree McLeod on Palin’s lies
The New York Review of Books Tackles Going Rogue
December 28th, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Excellent! It’s a Palin Rogue-y Roundup! Yippeekaiyay! You can torture all of your friends and family for hours with this!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Voices Under the Bus… priceless!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
… FROM under…
December 28th, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Ha-ha-ha……….just forwarded this thread to a couple of sarah lovers.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Wow. You RULE. This is fantastic
Will definitely be sending this link around!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Granny Palin won’t like this roundup. Happy New Year, Twit – NOT!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Wow. This is awesome.
Another new lie uncovered??????? I just read on Palingates that Palin talks about Willow being born the day after the Fourth of July (she was trying to go into labor on July 4 but she said Willow didn’t arrive until a day later), but Willow’s birth date is July 7.
How is July 7th, one day after the Fourth?
Did Harper Collins even fact-check one thing in this book?
December 28th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
YOU, my friend, are a TRUE American!!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I wonder if this is no longer Maria’s Song (West Side Story) but has been taken over by Ms Palin as a comment on her book and life
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty, and witty and gay,
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me today.
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming–
It’s alarming how charming I feel,
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key.
A committee
Should be organized to honor me.
I feel dizzy,
I feel sunny,
I feel fizzy and funny and fine,
And so pretty,
Miss America can just resign!
I feel stunning
And entrancing–
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Some from the Stage Play and some from the Movie. But it seems to fit.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
I’m going to have to have a really good read of this later. (Irishgirl…hiding in Brazil). Do you think that will fool her?
December 28th, 2009 at 6:58 PM
What? It’s sort of like, I dunno, an index? How un-Roguey.
Seriously, this is very helpful and much appreciated.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Irishgirl -
Hold your “Brian” up in her face and she will squeal and run like the sissy bi^*h she is.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Irishgirl -
Come to Texas , we’ll protect ya. Bring your “Brian” also.too.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Oh thank you AKM!!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:13 PM
How many liar gates does Palin have now. And it looks like she’s add another rape gate lie again this week.
Reading Gryphen tonight and went to Google images to look at Track and Curtis Menard. All the Briston, Willow and Piper looke like the Palin’s children. Track really doesn’t so much but he does bear some resimblance to the senior Menard in the nose an mouth.
Hmm.
I still think Sarah and gates and doors confused and keeps rushing through gates that she thinks are the doors God is opening for her.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Spectacular one-stop debunkery! Woo Hoo!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Irishgirl -
If you get Brazil fatigue , come to Texas , we’ll hide ya. Brian also , too.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:20 PM
oops , couple of posts got hung up in the tubes.
December 28th, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Thanks! Bookmarked.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Make sure you read Gryphens story just posted.
I can’t give it away but ” Quittypants ” will NOT be pleased. Must read.
I hope Andrew Sullivan links to it quickly.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
December 28th, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Perfect. I have been thinking that there needs to be a “Fact check” site just for
Palin’s lies. This will be the “go to” place in the coming months whenever the mean quitter, twitter, sister opens her mouth to tell another tall tale. Do you think she will ever learn?
December 28th, 2009 at 9:53 PM
She has always been about herself and a media seeker who later found that her children could be used as props to garner attention and sympathy. Her children have never been her priority, so I believe she left them in the car while she did whatever she did in the house. She may not have been drinking but she was doing something inside that she did not want anyone to know about.
OT. There has been a question on my mind since I first ran into the this train-wreck during the Campaign. She keeps harping on the fact that everything she learned about life, she learned through basketball when she was a basketball point guard known as the “Barracuda”. If she was so good in basketball, why didnt the “Barracuda” receive a Basketball scholarship from any University? Just a query and a thought.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:29 PM
You really should publish all of your hard work in book form. People really need to know she is not what she tries to portray. Another good book would be a picture book to show what all of her supporters money is going towards, new house, Escalade, Hawaii, daughters legal fees, etc etc. They may not read much but maybe, just maybe if they saw it in pictures they might finally get it.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I don’t see that Andrew Sullivan has linked back to Gryphen on his most recent revelation about S’errors behavior ,BUT he has posted his own story post about the most recent Bristol/Levi Court situation. Some quotes by Rex Butler as well.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/palin-moves-in-on-tripp.html#more
December 28th, 2009 at 11:16 PM
LMAO!!!!!!!!!
Oh, AKM- I’m sorry, I don’t usually talk that way…
I’m SOOOO tired of the gone gov and I know we need to keep an eye on her and that you have done a heroic job of doing that and suffered through the rougerama or was it the roguerino(?) for all of us and kept watch when we flagged and …
But…
Do you see If you find , what?, 2 more ? cites of fire-y britches you will have gathered 3 times as many chapters on lies of the Really Odorous Ginormous Underbelly Extrusion which is our gone gov than she managed to yarf up herself?
Oh dear- I’m getting out of control here…
Better go…
December 28th, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Just dropping in for with a light hearted link on Palin’s Bus (NOT) Tour in case you hadn’t had your chuckles from this already from womanwithsardinecan’s blog:
http://walkaboutstory.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/a-preview-of-palins-book-tour/
http://walkaboutstory.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/for-the-newcomers/
December 28th, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Bless you AKM. What a handy resource.
I think, but could be wrong, that the quote Palin (and I guess quote garden) attributes to Plato was actually written by Marjorie Pay Hinckley in her book Small and Simple Things. Scroll down to see the quote.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/226482.Marjorie_Pay_Hinckley
December 29th, 2009 at 4:23 AM
About the comment from A Scrabble Player who says “…any good scrabble player knows that there’s only one K and one Q per set of tiles…”
Yeah but any good scrabble player with a Sharpie can hoard all the K’s and Q’s she wants.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:05 AM
In the immortal words of Conan the Barbarian (no relation to sea of pee-ers), “That which does not kill us, makes us strong!” and you, my dear AKM are TITANIUM. Bless you for this effort on our part.
And the circus continues. I’m heading out to buy peanuts.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:23 AM
Hmmm, strange at it may be to be siding with Sarah on anything, I think the Scrabble player whose critique is cited above was misreading that passage in the book. If members of her family tend to hold onto high-value letters – like Q and K – hoping to use them on a triple word score – well, that’s how most folks I know play (myself included); calling that strategy “hoarding” makes sense, especially if you are talking about a number of games over a period of time, even if you can only “hoard” one or two tiles in a particular game. Sure she just said “Ks and Qs” but I think it’s clear from the context that Zs and Js and Xs might just as well be “hoarded” too…
On the other hand, I wonder qualifies as a “long fancy word” in the Palin household – maybe quack?
And just to be clear, I think that like every sentence in her book, that one serves a purpose – to show her readers that she is too smart and knows long fancy words and stuff, all public evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
Now, putting on my nitpicker hat:
(Psssst, AKM, it’s spelled “indices” – with an i.)
December 29th, 2009 at 7:08 AM
So does anyone believe Scarah went kayaking when 9 months prego, while in labor? first of all would she fit in a kayak? would she be able to balance very well, especially while having contractions? and, would it be a wise or safe thing to do while in labor?
Inquiring minds just gotta know whether this could possibly actually happen or whether this is yet another big ol fabricated fib.
Any docs or kayakers out there that care to comment?
Any witnesses to this event? Mernards, Chucky, Sally, Toad, care to comment?
December 29th, 2009 at 7:11 AM
The New York Times review was the one I missed, and I’m glad you posted the link!
My favorite line so far in that it summarizes not only the book but Palin to a T:
December 29th, 2009 at 8:02 AM
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/going-rogue-without-a-condom/
Review by Margaret and Helen and that is only the first chapter…..
“Margaret, Chapter One of Going Rogue by Sarah Palin ends on page 62. That’s about 61 pages after it should have ended.”
December 29th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
karen marie @31 says******************************************************* “Going Rogue, in other words, is a four-hundred-page paean to virtuous ignorance.”
lovely
December 29th, 2009 at 12:46 PM
GREAT …. you did such an amazing job deconstructing the book, then assembling the debunkings by the named players.
HOWEVER …. now you need to add the comments from those who cast doubt on Sarah’s allegations of threats to Willow in Juneau!
I will take the easy job, Mudflats. I will compile a list of things that are TRUE in Sarah’s book!
……………………………
Name: Sarah Louise Heath Palin
……………………………….
OK well now THAT’s done!
Yep, my job was way easier than yours!