Sarah Palin does a 'Tonight' monologue (NBC video-THR)

REVEALED: See Going Rogue Event 'Banned List' Drawn Up By Todd Palin (TPM)

By Justin Elliott
TalkingPointsMemo.com
December 30, 2009, 6:23PM

We've just gotten our hands on the so-called "banned list" that was responsible for two journalists getting booted from a Sarah Palin book event in Wasilla last week. Check it out right here.

And we've got new details that shed light on Todd Palin's role as his wife's chief enforcer.

The "coordinating instructions" document, whose authenticity was confirmed by James Hastings, the Wasilla official who runs the arena and who wrote the instructions, refers to a "DENIED ACCESS LIST PER TODD PALIN." And, after listing three names, continues:

"Coordination with Todd will be required to identify those folks in the event they present themselves NOT as media reps. They are not welcome by the family and this is a private rental of the facility with a public invite and access limited list provided by renters."

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PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Friday, December 18th, 2009 

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest.
"Death panels."

The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of government in health care to the bounds of acceptable political discussion. In a nod to the way technology has transformed politics, the statement wasn't made in an interview or a television ad. Sarah Palin posted it on her Facebook page.

Her assertion — that the government would set up boards to determine whether seniors and the disabled were worthy of care — spread through newscasts, talk shows, blogs and town hall meetings. Opponents of health care legislation said it revealed the real goals of the Democratic proposals.

Advocates for health reform said it showed the depths to which their opponents would sink. Still others scratched their heads and said, "Death panels? Really?"

The editors of PolitiFact.com, the fact-checking Web site of the St. Petersburg Times, have chosen it as our inaugural "Lie of the Year."

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Going Rogue Without a Condom (Margaret and Helen)

Margaret.  Chapter One of Going Rogue by Sarah Palin ends on page 62.  That’s about 61 pages after it should have ended.  It  has approximately 19,500 words to it, but not one of them was worth reading. It’s all pure crap.   If this chapter is any indication of what’s ahead, then it appears Mrs. Palin plans to spend the rest of her life getting even with the world by rewriting history.

The very first page of the book is a map of the globe as seen from the North Pole – I guess to emphasize the proximity of Alaska to Russia.  Honestly honey, when is she going to learn that dog don’t hunt?  Her defending us from Russia would be about as effective as Todd Palin’s preferred brand of condoms.   Oh yes –  Track arrived not quite 8 months after they sprinted to the courthouse to elope.  I guess Sarah’s ghost writer didn’t think anyone who reads this book could count.

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(Thanks Sean Wood for pointing this out!)

FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll (SwampPolitics.com)

by Mark Silva

FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake.

Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing at the start of it - no small turnout, with some 1,500 people lining up early this morning for a chance to get into this evening's premier book-signing for Going Rogue in Grand Rapids.

"Sarah Palin continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book,'' FOX's Jarrett told his viewers. "Take a look at -- these are some of the pictures just coming into us... The lines earlier had formed this morning.''

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Oprah Winfrey-Sarah Palin interview for 'Going Rogue' shows TV hostess who's a master of her craft (NYDailyNews.com)

David Hinckley
New York Daily News
Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 5:21 AM

It’s never been clearer how Oprah Winfrey got to be America’s First Hostess of Television than it was when she chatted with Sarah Palin yesterday.


For Palin, this was the start of a week-long mission behind enemy lines. She’s talking with people, like Oprah, who mostly didn’t want her to become vice president. She’s in a forum, the “liberal media,” that she needs her supporters to keep mistrusting.

Oprah, in turn, played the good hostess. She tried to make her guest comfortable. She kept the conversation focused mostly on “Going Rogue,” the new book Palin is promoting. She steered away from areas of potential personal disagreement.

All that meant she also steered away from news, and she didn’t end up with any.

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Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign (NYTimes.com)

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Published: November 14, 2009

“Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin’s erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: among other things, for breaking with the campaign over its media strategy and its decision to pull out of Michigan, and for speaking out about reports that the Republican Party had spent more than $150,000 on fancy designer duds for her and her family. In fact, the most sustained and vehement barbs in this book are directed not at Democrats or liberals or the press, but at the McCain campaign. The very campaign that plucked her out of Alaska, anointed her the Republican vice-presidential nominee and made her one of the most talked about women on the planet — someone who could command a reported $5 million for writing this book.

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Sarah Palin in 'Going Rogue': John McCain camp set me up for disaster in Katie Couric interviews (NYDailyNews.com)

By David Saltonstall
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

Friday, November 13th 2009, 9:42 AM

Sarah Palin says she was blindsided by Katie Couric's devastating interviews last year because John McCain's aides lulled her into thinking the CBS anchorwoman was a fan.

In Palin's new book, "Going Rogue," the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee reveals that her handlers talked up Couric as a working mom - just like her - who was struggling with low self-esteem and even lower ratings.

Couric liked and admired her, advised campaign media honcho Nicolle Wallace. The interviews would be a nice favor.

The scouting reports were so sympathetic, Palin writes, that that she almost began to "feel sorry" for Couric.


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William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin Farewell Speech (The Tonight Show via YouTube)

Sarah Palin's final speech as Governor of Alaska baffled many. Conan O'Brien realized it was a poem and asked William Shatner to recite it verbatim. Hilarity ensues.

John McCain on Sarah Palin's resignation

Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press (PoliticsDaily.com)

By Carl Cannon
July 8, 2009

Sarah Palin's rambling abdication speech was hard to follow, let alone acclaim, but in her abrupt announcement that she is withdrawing from public office, the Republican governor of Alaska was hardly the only player in a 10-month drama who demonstrated a lack of self-awareness. Democrats scoffed at her "politics of personal destruction" line, but it's a maxim they originally popularized, and one they will undoubtedly trot out again the next time it happens to one of their own. But the true villains in this political morality play may have been the press.

The mainstream media is undergoing its demise, drip by drip, day by day, and its practitioners, which include most of my friends in life, are under considerable pressure. In my opinion, however, these pressures do not excuse the treatment accorded Sarah Palin. On the contrary, to me the entire Sarah saga revealed that it wasn't only the traditional media's business model that is broken. Our journalism model is busted, too.

In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race. I don't know that we played a decisive role in that campaign, and I'm not saying the better side lost. What I am saying is that we simply didn't hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.

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Satirist John Breneman Delves Deep into Cyberspace (BlogTalkRadio)

What’s in store for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after she resigns her seat on July 26?

“She plans to take a brief vacation, shooting media jackals from an airplane.

John: He reports, he derides.

“Then she may hit the paid-speaker circuit with her inane ability to spout random strings of words that underscore her refreshing lack of knowledge and experience.”

The according to “Fox News anchor puppet Deuce Murdoch,” the latest incarnation of BlogTalkRadio’s resident humorist John Breneman.

The Boston Herald blogger, who, as primary alter ego Reid Page, anchor of the 13 O’Clock News, contributes weekly reports to BTR’s Game On!, recently launched a stand-alone Humor Gazette report here on the network.

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Sarah Palin Is a Hit for Vanity Fair. But She’s No Jessica Simpson–Or Miley Cyrus! (D)

by Peter Kafka
Posted on July 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM PT

The punditocracy is still trying to figure out why Sarah Palin is bailing on her day job. But over at Condé Nast’s Vanity Fair, they’ve got better things to do–like tallying page views for Todd Purdum’s buzzy feature story on the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska.

The story went up on VF.com six days ago and has generated just under two million page views since then, says executive online editor Michael Hogan. (Disclosure: I’ve been a free-lance contributor to Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” list in the past and will be again this year). Had Palin not made her blockbuster announcement on the Friday before the Fourth of July, the piece would be doing even better: Vanity Fair generated more traffic on the Tuesday the story was posted than the day after Palin made her news.

Still, it’s a big coup for the magazine’s site. The only way to generate more attention would be to run a slideshow featuring young attractive women.

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Sarah Palin on her resignation: 'Politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it' (AP)

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 8:04 AM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin says she's not a quitter, she's a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, "if I die, I die. So be it."

The Alaska governor spoke in taped interviews on ABC, NBC and CNN broadcast Tuesday morning.

She told CNN that "all options are on the table" for her future.

But told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she recognizes she might not have political staying power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 Republican presidential run.

"I said before ... 'You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said.

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Cousin Martin Andelman's 2008 Political Year-in-Review

(Sung to the tune of "T'was the Night Before Christmas".)

T’was the night before Christmas 2008,
And as I relaxed by the fire to contemplate,
What a remarkable year this past one had been,
So I poured a nice pinot, and dove right in.

When it started we all wondered just whom we’d be electing,
As to which one would win, there appeared no detecting.
But we knew one thing for sure, and for this we were happy,
Compared to Bush our next pres couldn’t be half as crappy.

Most thought Hillary would be our first presidential Mama,
Back then we weren’t quite sure that we’d all love Obama.

Of course, Edwards was running but we didn’t much care,
We were still talking about his fabulous hair.

There was Richardson too, and ole’ Tail Gunner Joe
And Kucinich whose wife looks like a very high priced ho.
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Copyright 2008 Bob Andelman. Click here for copyright permissions!

Hear The Masked Avengers Prank Sarah Palin (Funny or Die)

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Is Sarah Palin Flirting With Craig Ferguson?

"Is it just me or do you get a naughty librarian vibe from the Governor of Alaska?.. I think she was coming on to me a bit!"
— "The Late Late Show" CBS-TV host Craig Ferguson on Sarah Palin after she sent him a video granting him honorary citizenship of her state...on June 25, 2007. For a good time, watch this:

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Blazing McCombat: John McCain, Sarah Palin Go Wild! (Capitol Hell)

Blazing McCombat with Senator John McCain
and Governor Sarah Palin!
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Tales from the Crypt presents... Sarah Palin? (ICV2.com)

When Comics Attack!

'Tales from the Crypt's' Sarah Palin Cover

Published: 10/02/2008 08:40pm

Can anyone remember an election year in which presidential politics intruded any more obviously into the insular world of comic books than it has in 2008? Presidential (and now Vice-Presidential) candidates have increasingly graced the covers of comics and since IDW’s even-handed McCain and Obama biographical comics (see “IDW’s Comic Book Bios”), the depiction of these political figures has become increasingly controversial with Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon endorsing Obama (see “Endorsement Gets Noticed”), and the cover of Bluewater’s Hillary Clinton comic drawing criticism for its similarity to IDW’s McCain and Obama covers (see "Hillary Clinton Comic").

Now along comes news that Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be depicted on the cover of half of the copies of Papercutz’ Tales from the Crypt #8, which ships to retailers later this month. Governor Palin is shown brandishing a hockey stick and asking, “Didn’t we get rid of you guys in the 1950s” as the traditional narrators of EC Horror comics, the Crypt Keeper, the Old Witch, and the Vault-Keeper, flee in panic.

The issue will include a special editorial by Cathy Gaines Mifsud, the daughter of William Gaines, the original publisher of EC Comics and Mad Magazine. Gaines Mifsud’s editorial links the cover image to the controversy surrounding Governor Palin’s queries (while Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska) to a librarian about the possibility of removing controversial books from the public library (no books were actually removed from the library, see “Palin Library Censorship Issue Raised”).

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Presidential Debates: Play the Home Game!

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Debate This! Sarah Palin! (Capitol Hell)

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Even Wolf Blitzer is Laughing (CNN)

Oh, Wolf Blitzer, you say the funniest things!

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Fun with Twitter, John McCain and Barack Obama? Pour a Debate Shot!

Looking for new ways to enjoy your Twitter account? Planning to watch the on-again/off-again/on-again presidential debates?

Click here for John McCain drinking games! (Example: Take a shot every time McCain says, "My friends...")

Click here for Barack Obama drinking games! (Example: Take a shot every time Obama says, "Change...")

But please, no drinks for Sarah Palin's underage, pregnant daughter, please.

And don't forget to follow It's Political Bullshit! and Mr. Media on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andelman.

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Hey, Sarah Palin! Take a Hint from TV Producer Chuck Lorre! (The Big Bang Theory)

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #215
*Mr. Misogyny's
Tips For Breaking Through
the Glass Ceiling

SHRILL BAD, DUSKY GOOD: No man can happily work or vote for a woman whose voice sounds like a mom or wife yelling at him. Whether running a Fortune Five Hundred company or running for office, women should practice speaking like Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. (If you have small children present, rent Who Framed Roger Rabbit and check out Jessica Rabbit.) POWER WORDS: Down through the ages there have been secret words and phrases that a select group of women have known and used to give them control over men. Use them wisely and you'll be on the other side of that glass ceiling before you know it. A short list includes: panties, huge, amazing and "anything you want, just hurry." For increased effectiveness, say these power words like Kathleen Turner. BOOBS: If you got' em, flaunt' em. If you don't got' em, buy' em. (CAUTION: This will cause other women to hate you. Do not despair. Once you and your terrific rack are running things, you can fire the jealous bitches.) POLITICALLY CORRECT FLIRTING: There is no such thing. That being said, if, by subtle words or actions, you can make a man feel sexually viable, he will act like a fool and you can steal his job. If you think that's cruel, you're not ready to break through the glass ceiling and should instead consider marrying a fat guy with hedge fund money and a history of confusing his erection pills with his heart medication.

* The views and opinions of Mr. Misogyny are not endorsed, held, or shared by Chuck Lorre Productions, Chuck Lorre, anyone who works for Chuck Lorre, or any of his friends, neighbors and relatives.

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1st Aired: 22 September 2008; "The Big Bang Theory"

How Palin Will Beat the Press (Slate)

"She'll run as the new Spiro Agnew."

— Subtitle on Jack Shafer's post.