Archive for April 2011
Fools Walk In…
April 10, 2011
Oh, my. Sarah went on Fox this weekend to praise Donald Trump (“more power to him”) for trying to prove that President Obama was not born in the U.S.
On the broadcast, she said Obama has “spent two million dollars to not show his birth certificate” and that his failure to produce it is “perplexing to a lot of people.”
Well, speaking of not producing birth certificates, where is Trig’s?
Of all the issues I would have thought Sarah would not have wanted to get involved in, I would have put “birth certificates” at the top of my list. Just shows that even I can underestimate her capacity for putting her foot in her mouth when she easily could keep it on the ground.
She wants to join Trump’s inane campaign to revive the issue of Obama’s U.S. citizenship?
Didn’t anyone teach her about Pandora’s Box?
Or does she think that’s a zone defense used in women’s basketball?
Posted in Fox, Obama, Sarah Palin, Trig Palin | 
Tags: birth certificate, birther, cover-up, fake pregnancy, Fox News, hoax, Obama, Sarah, Trig, Trump | 
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Ex-Palin spokesman says prof “in service of evil”
April 8, 2011
Not to mention that McAllister calls Professor Scharlott a “scumbag.”
Full email available here
What a classic example of Palinists turning a non-event (an unpublished academic paper not yet even in final form and sent to McAllister by Professor Scharlott only as a courtesy) into another colossal embarrassment.
Posted in Sarah Palin, Trig Palin | Tags: mcallister, Northern Kentucky University, politicalgates, professor, Sarah Palin, Sarah's pregnancy, Scharlott, Trig hoax | 12 Comments »
Professor asks: Trig hoax? Sarah Palin spokesman enraged
April 8, 2011
A journalism professor at Northern Kentucky University has written a research paper titled, “Palin, the Press, and the Fake Pregnancy Rumor.” The professor, Brad Scharlott, asserts that there was enough evidence of a possible hoax to have warranted closer scrutiny by mainstream media during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Sarah’s former spokesman, Bill McAllister, has gone ballistic in response, threatening to commit assault and battery on the professor and writing that he’d like to challenge him to a duel. Calling Scharlott “despicable” and “a scoundrel,” McAllister forwarded his response to faculty colleagues, saying, “he should be fired.”
Rest assured, the question of whether Sarah is really Trig’s mother, or whether she faked the pregnancy and lied about the birth is not an issue I ignore in The Rogue.
Posted in Sarah Palin, The Rogue, Trig Palin | Tags: Andrew Sullivan, fake pregnancy, hoax, journalism, mcallister, Northern Kentucky University, Sarah Palin, Sarah pregnancy hoax, Scharlott, the rogue, Trig Palin | 49 Comments »
Is Sarah Palin at the Tipping Point?
April 8, 2011
Chris Cilizza, who writes The Fix at the Washington Post, is one of the most reliable purveyors of the political conventional wisdom of the moment. He writes today that Sarah “may have peaked, politically speaking.” He cites recent polls as evidence of “Palin fatigue” among Republicans and says the most likely reason for the dimming of Sarah’s star was her churlish and ill-advised response to the Tuscon shootings in January.
Even my friend Geoffrey Dunn (his book, The Lies of Sarah Palin, will be published next month) now puts the likelihood of Sarah running for president at only fifty-fifty.
I disagree. There is a natural ebb and flow in the tides of politics, and not even Sarah (or maybe especially not Sarah) can always be at high tide. The primaries are still almost a year away. She stumbled badly with her needless–did I mention that it was also churlish and ill-advised?–response to the Gifford assassination attempt, and at the end of January another CW spinner, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, declared February a “Palin-free” month. Even Sarah could tell she was over-exposed.
So she’s retreated to the high grass temporarily. But let’s remember that it was only two months ago that her hiring of Michael Glassman to head Sarah PAC was seen as a strong indication that she was preparing to challenge Pres. Obama next year.
Then she went to India and Israel when she could have made just as much money closer to home.
So, no, I don’t think we can yet write her off as a fallen star. If nothing else, her old Wasilla High point guard instinct will not allow her to stay on the bench as Michelle Bachman becomes the Tea Party’s new darling.
One thing about tides: whatever direction they’re flowing in, they’ll soon move in the opposite direction.
Posted in Sarah Palin, The Rogue | Tags: 2012 campaign, Cilizza, Geoffrey Dunn, Glassman, GOP, Milbank, Palin fatigue, presidential campaign, Republican primary, Sarah PAC, Tea Party, The Fix, tipping pointl campaign, Washington Post | 24 Comments »
Momma Griz Coming out of Hibernation
April 7, 2011
Sarah tweets today about Obama’s “presidential nonsense,” and “petulant obstruction.”
I think we can view this as projection, defined by Brittanica thusly: “Projection is a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harbouring hostile thoughts.”
Sound familiar?
Todd’s Love Child?
April 6, 2011
National Enquirer out with a story about Todd’s “love child.” http://bit.ly/e1j9km
I heard the story from a number of people last summer. Basic version is that it’s a boy now in his late teens and that the mother is an old flame of Todd’s from his hometown of Dillingham. I haven’t yet been able to confirm this, but I won’t be delivering my final chapter until June.
