Sarah Palin on Glenn Beck's show, explaining why George Washington is her favorite founding father: “That is who you need to find to serve in government, in a bureaucracy,” Palin said. “Those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for … Read More
Sarah Palin To Contribute To Fox News
Like she doesn't already? Details: Ms. Palin will not have her own regular program, one person with knowledge of the deal said, though she will host a series that will run on the network from time to time. This person would not elaborate, but the network does have a precedent for such a series. Host a series. Presumably, with a … Read More
Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please
Sarah Palin weighed in on climate change this week in a painfully bland op-ed in the Washington Post. (No, of course she didn't actually write it — Bill Kristol, I'm guessing, did). It was largely a rehash of one of her Facebook posts on the subject, where words like "science" and "experts" were put in scare quotes. On Laura Ingraham’s radio … Read More
Margaret and Helen Review “Going Rogue”
One of the most enchanting blogs on the intertubes is Margaret and Helen, a joint blog by two octogenarian women who have been friends for 60 years (one lives in Texas, the other in Maine). Grandson Matthew designed the blog; Margaret and Helen provide the content — well, Helen mostly. They're very witty (Below the fold, I've posted Helen's Thanksgiving … Read More
Palin Left College In Hawaii Because Of The Slighty-Eyed People
Seriously…. what would cause a young woman to quit college in Hawaii? In The New Yorker review of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, Sam Tanenhaus touched on the reason, as re-reported here in The Huffington Post: Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a … Read More
Sarah Palin: Model Of Constistency
Sarah Palin, during her resignation speech, on the silly accusations/ethics complaints against her: And this political absurdity, the “politics of personal destruction” … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them … Read More
Bad News For Huckabee 2012 Campaign
That shooter (still on the loose) who shot and killed four cops in Tacoma? The suspect's name is Maurice Clemmons and: Nine years ago in Arkansas, The Seattle Times reported, Mr. Clemmons was released from prison after Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his lengthy prison sentence, over the protests of prosecutors. Late Sunday night, Mr. Huckabee’s political action committee released a … Read More
President Lou Dobbs?
Yup, he's mulling a White House run in 2012. He's smarter than Palin; I'll give him that. And caters to the same crowd. He'll probably run as an independent third party candidate though. He doesn't stand a chance, especially in a country with 25% non-white voters. I think 2012 is going to be interesting in a popcorn eating kind of … Read More
Sarah Palin On Whether She Thinks She’s Qualified To Be President
Bill O'Reilly asked her if she thinks she's qualified to handle "the most powerful job in the world", and Palin offered up this bowl of word salad : O'REILLY: Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world? PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common … Read More
Real Americans Speak At Palin Book Signing
This speaks for itself… Nice people. They don't strike me as the teabagger type, and probably aren't (most of them). What concerns me is how massively un- or under-informed they are…. and how unconcerned they are about how un or under-informed they are.
Stumping A Palin Supporter
Norah O'Donnell of MSNBC talks to a 17 year old girl in line at a Sarah Palin book-signing. The girl is whereing a tee-shirt saying "The U.S. Government handed out $700 billion in bailouts and all I got was this lusy T-shirt". O'Donnell asks the girl if she was aware that Sarah Palin supported the bailouts (which is true). The … Read More
Is The Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover “Sexist”?
From Sarah Palin's Facebook page, posted last night: The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness — a … Read More
This Week’s Newsweek Covers
U.S Edition: International Edition: Says it all. By the way, Christopher Hitchens nails Sarah Palin Bible Spice in Newsweek. An excerpt: The Palin problem, then, might be that she cynically incites a crowd that she has no real intention of pleasing. If she were ever to get herself to the nation's capital, the teabaggers would be just as much … Read More
Quote Of The Day
Sarah's got a book coming out soon called "Goin' Rogue" (I guess "maverick" was taken). She reportedly got a $7 million advance on the book, which is good for her, because she's not exactly taking the lecture circuit by storm: Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big … Read More
Palin Memoir Due In November; English Translation To Follow
HuffPo: NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – A memoir by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be published this November, with an English translation due shortly thereafter, her publisher confirmed today. According to Carol Foyler, a spokesperson for the publisher, translators are working "around the clock" to translate Ms. Palin's text into English. "We have hired the best linguists in … Read More