Sarah Palin and the Long, Shiny Road to Irrelevance
Sarah Palin is not running for the presidency. I’d been waiting to hear that since the day after the 2008 presidential election, which is ostensibly when she began running for the presidency. From the moment she “went rogue” on the campaign trail, calling out then-candidate Obama for “pallin’ around with terrorists,” and contemplating an unauthorized [...]
Weekend Round Up
Palm Pilot to Nowhere Palin’s still on the palm thing. At a speech in Orlando, she referenced yet again the infamous palm writing incident where she had to write the words “Energy, Tax Cuts, and Lift America’s Spirits” on her hand so she’d remember the three things she’d do if she were President of the [...]
Chapter Six – The Way Forward (and The END!)
(Cracks knuckles and rubs palms together briskly) We are about to knock off the last agonizing chapter of the hardcover $19.97 bologna sandwich that some rogue calls a book. Ready? Let’s go. Page 383 The drive to Fairbanks for the abdication ceremony was “magical”. The motor home was “filled with coffee.” A bunch of local [...]
Boots on the Ground – Palin in Rochester, NY
Here’s a quick “boots on the ground” report from Mudflatter barracuda78 who attended the demonstration outside the Sarah Palin book signing event in Rochester, NY. Anyone else out there attending an event, don’t forget to email pictures and write-ups! Thanks barracuda78! Now that’s a barracuda we can believe in! *wink* More to come soon. ********************* [...]
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 [...]
Boots on the Ground – Palin Book Signing in Washington, PA.
Here is our first “Boots on the Ground” report from the Going Rogue book tour! Thanks so much to Mudflatter 10cats4me who took one for the team and got up before dawn to be there and share the experience with the Mudflats community! There will be more Boots on the Ground reports coming so stay [...]
Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 3 of 3)
Page 292 Before the debate a campaign consultant made a comment about her weird vocal inflections. She’s been talkin’ the same way for 44 years and she’s not going to change now. “Besides, I thought of all the money Tina Fey was making imitating me; I didn’t want to screw up her SNL thing by [...]
Sunday Funnies – Moore Up North!
For those of you who missed Moore Up North on KYES Channel 5 yesterday, here is the hilarious intro with the incomparable Alice Welling in the role of Sarah Palin, and the “effete young chap” Andrew Halcro who was first introduced to the world on page 116 of Going Rogue. The rest of the show’s [...]
Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 2 of 3)
Page 254 (Posted previously in sneak peek) A TV station in Alaska was willing to spend any amount to get a local reporter on the scene of the nomination to ask “simple, softball scripted questions,” but the campaign wouldn’t allow it. She was hoping the national media would pick up on the simple softball scripted [...]
Meet Sarah Palin’s Death Panel.
(L-R) John Bitney, Shannyn Moore, Anne Kilkenny, Andrew Halcro Tonight I attended the taping of Moore Up North, and what an interesting evening it was. All I have to say is tune in on Saturday (KYES Channel 5 at 4pm) and buckle your seat belts. If your couch did not come with seat belts you [...]
Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part 2 of 2)
Pages 153-164 AGIA and ACES (Alaska Gasline Inducement Act and Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share) I’m going to let this one lie, because you could basically write a book about it all on its own. It’s particular to Alaska, and it’s wonky. Good people fall on both sides of this issue. Some people I know [...]
Join the Conversation at TPM Cafe – Palin’s Blame Game
Sarah Palin did not write Going Rogue. And neither did her ghost writer, evangelical author Lynn Vincent. They may have put the words on the page, but they did not control the message of the book. It’s obvious to anyone who has been following Palin since before her VP pick that what she has done [...]
Chapter Two – Kitchen Table Politics
Here we go with chapter two. (Deep breath) Page 63 First sentence – “When I first got into Wasilla city politics, I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce the mayor’s name.” So, what do you suppose the mayor’s name was? Wojciechowski? Finnbogadottir? No, actually it was Stein. Pronounced the regular way. John Stein. You know… [...]
Chapter One – The Last Frontier
God is mentioned twice before the first word of the first chapter. Once in the dedication and once in a quote. Page 1 The second sentence of the book is a rollicking good piece of prose for William Shatner! “With the grey Talkeetna Mountains in the distance and the first light covering of snow about [...]
Palin to Media – “Quit Findin’ Things Out!”
Well Palin’s book is not even out yet, but the dam has burst. The floodgates are open. The rogue has hit the fan. Why? Because something has happened that Sarah Palin, her ghostwriter Lynn Vincent and her editor never anticipated. That darn media is at it again, only this time they’ve sunk to a new [...]
