Going Rogue...From The Facts
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 15, 2009 11:00amRuh roh. It looks like the political soulmates of the 2008 election have lost that lovin' feeling:
In what reads like payback for McCain aides’ disparaging comments about her in the wake of the ticket’s loss to Barack Obama, Ms. Palin depicts the McCain campaign as overscripted, defeatist, disorganized and dunder-headed — slow to shift focus from the Iraq war to the cratering economy, insufficiently tough on Mr. Obama and contradictory in its media strategy. She also claims that the campaign billed her nearly $50,000 for “having been vetted.” The vetting, which was widely criticized in the press as being cursory and rushed, was, she insists, “thorough”: they knew “exactly what they’re getting.”
Some of Ms. Palin’s loudest complaints in this volume are directed at the McCain campaign’s chief strategist, Steve Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt, ironically enough, was one of the aides to most forcefully make the case for putting her on the ticket in the first place, arguing to his boss, as Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson reported in their recent book “The Battle for America,” that she would shake up the race and help him get his “reform mojo back.” Robert Draper reported in The New York Times Magazine that neither Mr. Schmidt nor Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, apparently saw Ms. Palin’s “lack of familiarity with major national or international issues as a serious liability,” and that Mr. McCain, a former Navy pilot, saw the idea of upending the chessboard as a maverick kind of move.
All in all, Ms. Palin emerges from “Going Rogue” as an eager player in the blame game, thoroughly ungrateful toward the McCain campaign for putting her on the national stage. As for the McCain campaign, it often feels like a desperate and cynical operation, willing to make a risky Hail Mary pass in order to try to score a tactical win, instead of making a considered judgment as to who might be genuinely qualified to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office
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I'm not sure that "going rogue" is going to endear Palin to the party elders, from whom she must receive support if she does want to pursue a national office. Unless, of course, her plan is to dump the GOP and run like the Palin-endorsed Doug Hoffmann in NY-23 as a Conservative Party member. But then again, being politically astute was never part of Palin's appeal.
Sour grapes between the Palin and McCain factions aside, Palin's book appears to be a little on the factually-light side. Our friends at Media Matters have been reading through the book (better them than me) and have compiled a very interesting list of moments where Palin has gone rogue from the truth:
Rogue Fact: Palin misleads on aerial hunting
Rogue Fact: Palin falsely suggests poor "hit hardest" by cap-and-trade
Rogue Fact: Palin attacks "Democrat lawmaker" who's actually a Republican
And they keep coming... Check Media Matters for updates.
Max Blumenthal: Sarah Palin, the GOP's blessing and curse.
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Color me surprised. Next we'll find out that Joe LIEberman is a warmongering chickenhawk...
Booby-doo?
I think she really does believe her own hype - and there are certainly parties with interests beyond hers who are probably actively encouraging that delusion. She probably believes she can pull an Obama and swing around the old boy party machinery, forcing them to accept her as she wins the nomination [/palin delusion].
She has one thing going against her, Sarah is destined to always be a runner-up. I think it's some sort of karmic payback from a previous life. Or something.
to miss her on Oprah...
GOING ROUGE
Sarah Palin – An American Nightmare
Edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
Publication: November 16th, 2009
Price: $16 paperback; $10 e-book
336 pages
“A superb collection . . . an engaging read from start to finish. . . . You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs.” — Geoffrey Dunn, The Huffington Post
Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol, Republican ideologue, fashion icon, “maverick” populist. But, above all, Palin has become one thing: an American obsession that just won’t go away. Edited by two senior editors at The Nation magazine, this sharp, smart, up-to-the-minute book examines Palin’s quirky origins in Wasilla, Alaska, her spectacular rise to the effective leadership of the Republican Party, and the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation’s political scene.
With contributions by: Amy Alexander, Max Blumenthal, Juan Cole, Joe Conason, Jeanne Devon, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Mark Hertsgaard, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Naomi Klein, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Shannyn Moore, John Nichols, Rick Perlstein, Tom Perrotta, Katha Pollitt, Robert Reich, Frank Rich, Hanna Rosin, Jeff Sharlet, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski and Gary Younge among others.
Introduction
Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
1/Picking Palin
The GOP’s Gift to America
Beauty and the Beast
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin
Jane Mayer
Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message
Gloria Steinem
2/Half-Baked Alaska
Palin’s Real Record
Meet Sarah Palin’s Radical Right-Wing Pals
Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert
Palin’s Party: Her Religious Right Roots
Michelle Goldberg
Our Polar Bears, Ourselves
Mark Hertsgaard
Palin’s Petropolitics
Michael T. Klare
Northern Exposure: Sarah Palin’s Toxic Paradise
Sheila Kaplan and Marilyn Berlin Snell
Why Troopergate Matters
John Nichols
Examining Palin’s Record on Violence Against Women
Brentin Mock
Palin Enthusiastically Practices Socialism, Alaska-Style
Elstun Lauesen
Letter from the Other Alaska
Shannyn Moore
The Ugly Irony of Going Rogue
Jeanne Devon
3/Palintology
Selected Palinisms
Compiled by Sebastian Jones
Palin’s Prevarications
Compiled by Sebastian Jones
Palin’s Top 25 Tweets
Buyer’s Remorse
The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Hart Seely
4/Lipstick on a Faux Feminist
Palin and Women
Sarah Palin, Affirmative Action Babe
Katha Pollitt
The F-Card Won’t Wash: Sarah Palin Is Disastrous for Women’s RightsJessica Valenti
Sarah’s Steel Ones
Amy Alexander
Sarah Palin, Mean Girl
Linda Hirshman
The “Bitch” and the “Ditz”Amanda Fortini
5/The Palin Pageant
Sex, God, and Country First
The Elephant in the Room
Dana Goldstein
What Scarlet Letter?
Hanna Rosin
Sarah Palin’s Shotgun Politics
Gary Younge
Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice
Patricia J. Williams
The Sexy Puritan
Tom Perrotta
The Witch-Hunter Anoints Sarah Palin
Max Blumenthal
Sarah Palin, American
Jeff Sharlet
Mad Dog Palin
Matt Taibbi
Sarah Palin’s Faux Populism
Jim Hightower
The Sarah Palin Smoke Screen
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The GOP Loves the Heartland to Death
Thomas Frank
6/Unpacking Palinism
The World According to Sarah
Capitalism, Sarah Palin–Style
Naomi Klein
Drill, Drill, Drill
Eve Ensler
Sarah Palin, Meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Juan Cole
Sarah Palin’s Nine Most Disturbing Beliefs
AlterNet Staff
7/Going Rogue
A Woman’s Right to Lose
The Sarah Palin Pity Party
Rebecca Traister
The Un-Hillary: Why Watching Sarah Palin Is Agony for Women
Emily Bazelon
Flirting Her Way to Victory
Michelle Goldberg
Sayonara, Sarah
Katha Pollitt
Lost in Translation: Why Sarah Palin Really Quit Us
Dahlia Lithwick
8/Palin’s Poison
Lingering in the Body Politic
She Broke the GOP and Now She Owns It
Frank Rich
The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin
Joe Conason
Beyond the Palin
Rick Perlstein
Sarah Palin’s Death Panels
Robert Reich
How Sarah Palin Renewed American Socialism
John Nichols
Forum: What Is Sarah Palin’s Future in American Politics?
Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Amanda Marcotte, Michael Tomasky
Does her name begin with an "S" or a dollar sign?
that SP will be the first former VP and possibly Presidential candidate to wind up hosting on the Home Shopping Network.
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What amazes me about Palin is that she's so scornful of the McCain staffers. Without them, she'd have no national exposure, no book, no imminent talk show. She'd just be a lame duck governor of Alaska with a dysfunctional family.
Righteous.
and apropos, fiver!
;)
Like Moses she can see her burning bush from her front-porch.
They eat their own you know. You might find yourself trussed up like this years Christmas goose.
Miss sarah could sell that video online.
Ultimately, it isn't the number of lies Sarah Palin writes in her "Going Rogue" book that's important. It's the Bible-like references on nearly every page to "God", and how important that is to the folks who worship Sarah Palin, who love her, who'd do anything for her including send every spare penny they have to her.
Sarah Palin said on her Facebook page after the NY-23 election for US Rep went to the Democratic candidate instead of the guy she backed: "The cause goes on." Don't think that she means backing conservative candidates to supercede moderate GOP candidates in upcoming elections.
Sarah Palin's very psyche is steeped in the evangelical theocratic movement, as countless previous commentaries have noted. Nearly every page of her book refers in some way to God. The book is now in its second printing, there are so many people buying it.
"Gryphen", an Alaskan blogger who knows the Palin Saga about as well as anyone can, just wrote an eyeopening blog entry that clarifies what Palin's real goal may be, and it's a bit scary. If you've ever read Leah Burton's "God's Own Party" blogspot, you know both of them have "nailed it", and that national pundits like David Brooks and comedians such as the SNL bunch should not be so dismissive of the Palin movement.
For more, read http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/1...
It's the entire "evangelical and biblical purist" segment of our society, as Gryphen puts it, who will put Sarah Palin's book on the same bookshelf as their Bible, and they will refer to it every time they are looking for inspiration to tackle the difficulties in their life.
To which I would add, the US government is the greatest terrorist of the post WWII world.
The Pentagon bars release of Torture photos here.
Reality check with John Pilger, Obama and Empire here
the Repuke side of our politics - she's a sociopath and a liar, with a narcissistic gawd-complex!! LOL
I don't blame the folks on the McCain campaign for dissing her, I still think the 'Powers that Be' are the ones who told McCain that she would be his VP candidate. I never thought he had any say in the matter - which was clear on the very first day if you watched his body language.
They PtB only 'allowed' McCain to be their nominee this time around 'cause they knew Obama was scheduled to win...and that Johnny would be losing. And, they knew that Miss Sarah's ego is so freakin' large that they could set her up to be a useful distraction for the next few years. We'll all be jawin' about Sarah, and governtment-sacks will continue to rob us blind.
I've been reading some of Pilger's stuff on ICH (I think that's where anyway) for a couple years. He and Chomsky and Sy Hersh all seem to be cut from the same fabric - I wish more people would pay attention to them. And, I wish more people (like them) would tell the Truth!!
I saw an article on Co, Dreams earlier about the torture photos ,and commented there:
'It's not these photos that put our soldiers at risk,
it's the oligarchs who keep sending them off to foreign countries to steal, pillage and murder in the name of profits for the MIC.
Shame on all of them!! - the entire Bush administration for sanctioning torture; the generals and CIA gooks for directing the torture; and the Congress for sitting on it's collective thumbs and covering it up."
>>> this was supposed to be a reply to your comment above>>
I'm completely with Levi Johnston...Palin's simply whoring for money and notoriety. This miserably unqualified worthless no-talent is milking this incidentally star crossed spotlight(and for what she knows will be short lived attention) for her personal coffers.
... there are people who support this nitwit out there. It was an "interesting" experience. And I have now come to the conclusion, that Idiocracy was not a Comedy, but a documentary.
I weep for this country.
she's going to ride this nag, Going Rogue, right into the Whitehouse. It worked for Obama didn't it? Write a book, become president. This is Political Calculus for Dummies. There was more truth in the alternative title, "The Audacity of a Dope" but the publishers apparently felt there was a little too much truth.
As far as Cap and Trade goes, it IS a travesty.
Not for the reasons that Palin cites.
Ultimately the poor, which will include most of us by then, ARE going to be impacted the most.
That is because as a climate change measure, Cap and Trade is a fraud. It is a market based, entirely corporate friendly, hoax. The Europeans have already demonstrated that it will not work.
Except to cause market speculation by the likes of Goldman Sachs et al. They will love it.
We will keep burning fossil fuels until they are depleted by which time the ecology will be destroyed.
We need a carbon tax immediately.
be any different? Corporations do not pay taxes except on profits but they collect a lot of taxes for the government like sales and excise taxes. Any carbon tax that is imposed will merely be passed on to the ultimate consumer of whatever goods or services are provided. Naturally it will hit those on the low end of the economic spectrum the hardest.
Corporations pay taxes according to the tax code.
You need political leadership to establish a code that does what you want.
You give the low income people a rebate to help them. For everyone else there is going to be a cost.
The purpose must be to STOP burning fossil fuels, that is the cause of climate change. Cap and Trade encourages us to CONTINUE to burn fossil fuels.
The Carbon tax encourages us to stop and disappears with the advent of alternative energy.
We have two roads we can follow.
We can continue burning fossil fuel and head straight into complete catastrophe OR we can move away from fossil fuel.
That may mean only a near miss of disaster, but it is still better than the other.
The fact that we have had no political leadership makes it more costly to save the ecology every minute that we delay.
This culture is incredibly wasteful, that is the first thing to change, a tax does that.
We may fail on both fronts, the economy and the ecology.
But let us understand ONE thing, if nothing else.
The economy and everything else on this planet is a subset of the ecology.
Lose the ecology and we have lost everything.
... on just how easily the Cap and Trade system can be gamed.
Thank you, I have seen that, it is very good.
I put this on another thread, but it seems more appropriate in this current context:
Actually last night while soaking in my tub of Radox, Pears and Pinaud, and worrying about my job, I read a section from Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics concerning justice, and he went into economic theory from there. It was really prescient about today's situation. To him justice was a scale, if too many benefits are on one side, and too much pain on another, was essentially unjust, so he would alleviate those with too much money, and give to those with too little, and share sacrifices for their country more equitably, and restore balance to the scales of justice.
Money for him was not a primary motivation but a way of measuring demand (he was already arguing supply and demand). And without some kind of balance between supply and demand (money), costs and benefits, the "associaton" as he called it ceases to exist. It then becomes the job of the government to restore balance to supply and demand, to encourage justice.
That would seem to be our case too since our money is not only no longer pressed on precious metal, it's not even based on precious metal but on GDP. And the value of money is presumably in Congress's hands since they have the sole power of minting, weights and scales, according to Article I, Section 8.
So the idea that redistribution is bad, was refuted over 2,300 years ago.
It's simple really.
was the final indication that the GOPukes were throwing the election.
Which was actually a brilliant strategy.
The walked away from their crises: the wars, the economy, the climate, health care, energy, etc, none of which are amenable to solution, certainly not to any easy, politically palatable solutions, probably ever. They left 'em for the Dims to tke the blame for, and pave the way for the next recrudescence of Murkin Fascism, in 2012...
Because, when the Owners selected Obama, they made sure there would be someone in the WhiteHouse that 'independent'/'white' voters would blame for everything that does NOT get fixed, and would then come to loathe even more than the Busheviks...
Brilliant!
... or is Sarah's hair starting to take on 'I Dream of Jeannie' proportions? She's certainly got the magic blink down.
In this rather astounding interview, Matt Continetti defends his book, The Persecution of Sara Palin. As Cenk Uygur probes this intellectual giant, his thesis is revealed to be as follows:
But the best part of the interview occurs when Continetti attempts to argue that Palin did not literally mean that the health care plan being offered contained clauses on Death Panels. It was, he maintains, merely a descriptive argument about the potential dangers of decades of government-run health care. In the course of this ridiculous spin, his final admission is breathtaking:
Continetti: [T]he Facebook message in which the phrase, "Death Panels" was used was [just] an argument extrapolating on the possible, unintended consequences of passing the Democrats' health care legislation. What Sara Palin was arguing is that such legislation may lead to technocratic rationing of medical care down the line. And as she raised the specter, well, who would be affected in order to control costs? It's a simple fact that the people who will most be affected by any attempt to control costs through medical rationing would be the old, because--- [continues talking, hard to hear]
Uygur: That's a simple fact? Is that in the bill?
Continetti: ----the government to pay for it---
Uygur: Matt, is that in the bill? Or is that an extrapolation you're calling a fact?
Continetti: It's an extrapolation. She never-- she never said it was in the bill. She said it was an extrapolation based on what a government takeover of health care---
Uygur: So, you think that's a responsible thing to do for a politician to say -- it's not really in the bill, which she didn't make clear, but [cross talk], but I'm going to extrapolate that it would affect the poor-- uh-- the elderly, and then I'm going to extrapolate further that if it affects the elderly, that they're going to set up death panels.
Continetti: Well, apparently this argument is too complex for you, but any [Cenk laughs] politician is going to make arguments about the intended and/or unintended consequences of legislation, and that's exactly what Sara Palin was doing when she brought this up--- [continues talking, hard to hear]
Uygur: Matt, do you believe there's going to be death panels? Do you agree with her? Do you think there's going to be death panels, and Obama's gonna say, all right, look, let's get the grim reaper and Senator X and Congressman Y and they'll decide who we'll kill of the elderly. Do you believe that?
Continetti: [laughs] I think it is a fact that should legislation like this pass that Congress--- that we will have rationing down the line. It may not be this year. It may not be a decade from now, but when costs get out of control, and the government cannot pay for medical care, they're going to start rationing treatment. This is what other countries do with the veterans and the VA--- [continues talking, hard to hear]
Uygur: Oh, there are death panels in other countries? Which country has a death panel?
Continetti: ---a very effective way to describe that, the bureaucrats, the [IMAC ?], which is actually included in this legislation to determine what Medicare will pay for and what it won't, the way to describe that, a very effective way, is a death panel. I have no problem with that argument.
Uygur: Real quick, you said other countries do it. What other country has a death panel?
Continetti: [laughs] Other western government controlled countries ration care, such as the United Kingdom---
Uygur: And which one of them have death panels? Because you said it's a fact that it will lead, you know, one to the other to the other.
Continetti: People die! People, people die when treatments are refused.
Uygur: [Continetti talks over this] Well, isn't that ironic? Because right now private insurers make those decisions, and they deny care all the time, and people die! So, do you think private insurance has death panels? The insurance companies?
Continetti: As long--- [laughs] Uh, no. A death panel is a government---
Uygur: Oh, it has to be a government thing. Because when the insurance company says, I deny you coverage, and hence, you're dead, that's not really a "death panel" because they're not the government?
Continetti: Correct!
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A time out from the day job of running Alaska and into a pot of money. She is only a whore.
It is WE the PEOPLE that extend the exsistence of the Corporation to do business, and it is WE the PEOPLE that are suppose to receive a benifit from this (some how forgotten), Now why not start loking into the Corporate laws that these CLOWNS so cherish.
Remember the Founding Father deliberated long and hrad about TWO great fears one was Corporations and the other Religion, it was after much arguing that they claimed us a DEMOCRACY and even thought they feared it they allowed it. Now we have the Scum Trash and Garbage hiding behind foornotes Twisted Truth and Bent Fact to make Anti American Corporations like they Insurance Industry claim they are a living being (BULLSHIT) trying to dictate Policy and Law for THEIR advantage, with Morons Clowns and Idiots like Palin who spouse all their religious Fairy Tale Hate Mongering Truth and Fact Twisting into some make believe god, having NO consideration for any that worship or do not worship as she does.
This Bitch lives in denial wraps her self in Lies Half truths and get Functional Educated Ilterates like continetti to praise her denying the facts and Twisting to better serve their Twist sense of reality.
Can we finally put this bitch to bed and forget her and the clowns, morons idiots hate mongers fear mongers that supoort her because they are to stupid to do their own research.
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