Showing posts with label Ex-Governor Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ex-Governor Sarah Palin. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Friday, January 8, 2010

"Can I call you Joe?" - an excerpt from Going Rogue

Numerous media outlets are reporting than an upcoming 60 Minutes feature promises "revelations" from the 2008 presidential campaign. This feature includes a segment with erstwhile McCain campaign flack Steve Schmidt. Yeah, these guys don't seem to hesitate to pile on Sarah Palin (and let's face it these limp McCain staffers have spent the last 14 months trying to slough off blame for their election loss onto Sarah). Don't listen to those brain-damaged ex-McCain staffers. . . read what Sarah Palin wrote in her biography instead.

"During [debate] rehearsals, I accidentally called Randy [Scheunemann who was playing the part of Senator Biden] "Senator O'Biden" -- a slip-of-the-lip combination of Obama and Biden. The blunder struck too often, even tripping up campaign staffers. (Jay Leno later made the same slip on his new talk show, so we were in good company.) We laughed about it but knew that if I said it even once during the debate, it would be disastrous.

Then somebody said, "You ought to just call him Joe."

"Oh, I can't just call him Joe!" I said. Senator Biden was a senior statesman. He'd been sitting in a U.S. Senate seat since I was nine years old. I believed calling him by his first name without his permission would be disrespectful.

Randy seemed to read my thoughts and offered a solution. "In every debate, you cross the stage and shake hands with your opponent," he said. "When you shake hands, just ask him for permission to call him Joe. He's certainly going to say yes, because he's a gentleman."

So that's what we decided I would do. We had no idea my mic would already be hot when I walked onstage, crossed over to his turf, and said, "Can I call you Joe?"

The "expert" postdebate analysis was that my question was a cleverly devised strategy to disarm my opponent. Yeah, right. [Going Rogue page 289]"

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Congressman says Palin will run and win Iowa Caucuses!



According to an article in The Huffington Post, Sarah Palin will run!

An Iowa congressman, U.S. Rep. Steve King, says he "thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 and that she's among a few people who could win the state's leadoff caucuses." King even went on to mention that he thought she was now in a much stronger position to run than had she remained as Governor of Alaska.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Sarah on the Tonight Show

As you probably know, Sarah Palin recently skewered William Shatner on the Tonight Show. The former Captain Kirk has been reading excerpts from her book Going Rogue (out of context of course), and the Ex-Governor evened the score.



Gov. Sarah Palin, with her son, Trig, by her side meets Conan O’Brien before her appearance in a skit on that show.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Going Rogue, not Going Rouge!!!


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Going Rouge is a shamelessly slanted liberal assemblage of half-baked essays and thinly veiled, libelous attacks on that great American, Sarah Palin. It is laughably described in the Huffington Post as "An alternative, liberal judgment of Sarah Palin's legacy."

"Going Rouge: An American Nightmare" was conceived by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, liberal editors at the progressive (!!) magazine The Nation. The books have nearly similar titles, and similar covers, both showing the Ex-Governor smiling into the distance.

"The cover is a parody of hers and it certainly takes some shots and mocks Sarah Palin, but it is a very serious book and the book itself is not a parody," Kim told POLITICO.



I agree with them on that point. This is not a parody at all, but a book of cheap shots, personal attacks, and hysterical caterwauling by the high-strung liberal press. As Going Rogue surfs along the best-seller lists, Going Rouge is, of course, languishing in well-deserved obscurity.

In a better world, the authors would be jailed, and just maybe sent to Guantanamo.
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