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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John McCain on Sarah Palin's resignation

David Letterman: Top Ten Messages On Sarah Palin's Answering Machine

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Top Ten

"Hi, It's George W. Bush. Why didn't anyone tell me resigning was an option?" "It's John McCain -- why did I call?" "Mark Sanford here. Ever been to Argentina?" "I'm calling from Geico to see if you want to renew your dogsled insurance" "It's Letterman -- we still cool?" "McCain again. Still no idea why I called" "Hi, it's the dry cleaner. Having trouble getting caribou blood out of your Prada jacket" "Hi, it's Sarah...oops...dialed my own number" "Schwarzenegger here. If you want a job, California could use a new governor" "Hey, it's McCain. Who would've thought you'd retire before I did?"

Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08 (USA Today)

By Brad Heath
USA TODAY
July 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year's presidential election.

That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration's massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.

STIMULUS FUNDS: States aren't using money as intended

"There's no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.

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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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There will never be another gaffer like W.--We hope! (YouTube)

You probably used to think Will Ferrell made up this stuff on President George W. Bush. But the truth is always funnier than fiction.

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Watch Barack Obama's Election Day Speech (ABC News)

Barack Obama by jmtimages via FlickrHere's the link to Barack Obama's Nov. 4, 2008 acceptance speech!

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Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate (Arianna Huffington)

Arianna HuffingtonBy Arianna Huffington
The Huffington Post
November 4, 2008 | 10:23 PM (EST)

Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do.

Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real tonight. What I wrote then about one state is now true for the whole country:

Barack Obama's impressive victory says a lot about America, and also about the current mindset of the American voter.

Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to step into the future -- as if a country exhausted by the last seven-plus years wanted to recapture its youth.

And they turned out in unprecedented numbers today to make sure that no amount of scrubbed rolls, malfunctioning machines, endless lines, or polling places running out of ballots would block the way.

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A Job in His Future? John McCain Sells Stuff on QVC (SNL)

John and Cindy McCain joined Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin) to hawk campaign geegaws on QVC, thanks to "Saturday Night Live." He could have a future at this.

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Paris Hilton for Commander-in-Bikini (SwagHouse Media)

Paris Hilton for President.

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Ron Clark Academy Sing about Obama and McCain (CNN)

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Students of the Ron Clark Academy perform a political song supporting both presidential candidates.

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