Palin Takes Shots at the Media on Her Way Out
BY David Saltonstall
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
The pit bull in lipstick has hung up her collar—for now.
Sarah Palin quit her job as governor of Alaska on Sunday, leaving behind a trail of ethics investigations, legal bills and unanswered questions about her future.
She went out swinging against the reporters she thinks undermined her.
"You represent what could and should be a respected and honored profession," Palin said in her farewell speech. "How about, in honor of the American soldier, ya quit making things up?"
As she officially handed over the gubernatorial reins to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, Palin said, "I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical, politics-as-usual, lame duck session in one's last year in office."
"With this decision, I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right and for truth," she said.
Bizarrely, Palin warned Alaskans to beware of "delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets" coming to battle gun rights. "Hollywood needs to know: We eat, therefore we hunt," she declared.
If Palin has a plan, she and her family were keeping mum yesterday. "We'll play it by ear," ex-First Dude Todd Palin told Politico.com. "We'll take a little breather and go from there."
What's known is that the former Republican vice presidential nominee - who remains deeply popular in many conservative circles - is expected to speak at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California next month.
She has said she plans to write a book, and she has vowed to campaign for political candidates from coast to coast and build a right-of-center coalition to "effect change."
- More coverage from the New York Daily News.
Reader Comments
sarah
I think Sarah Palin is great. She has more guts then the entire Obama organization. She tells it like it is and she dosen't give a damn if you like it or her or not. She was thrown into the ring without a lot of knowledge and now she has the knowledge and you haven't heard the end of her yet thats for sure. GO SARAH
That's Right, Sarah
The media has been assailing her with negativity ever since she was nominated vice presidential candidate, and even now, they can't let her alone. Why? Tell me one thing that LEGITIMATELY qualifies her as the stupid bimbo that people think she is. Tell me. Bush was dumb; Bush was a "C" student whose daddy paid his way through university and whose name led him to the presidency. John Kerry was a "D" student -- dumber than BUSH -- although the media never paraded -that- fact around. But Palin is a bright woman. She switched between colleges for awhile, bearing the uncertainty that all teens have, and then proceeded to work her way up to the position of STATE GOVERNOR. The news would lavish praise on Sotomayor (who will be a fine justice) and Pelosi (who lies so obviously that it's sickening), but not Palin? Really.
Palin is brave to stand up to the BLATANTLY left-leaning media (and that includes this article, which obviously tries to spin the story in a condescending and negative light -- fail). She is right to step out of their line of fire, because if they attack her now, they are just targeting a normal woman for no reason whatsoever.
BITE ME, you corrupted media.
Bizarre Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin has played her role of Pit bull with lipstick very well. It seems it is alright for her to criticize, demean and denigrate everyone else, but she is appalled when the favor is returned. As far as her children, she was the one who paraded them all around where ever she went. If she did not want the media to scrutinize her children she should have done what others do and left them home where they belonged. She may disdane the media and call them names but when she wants free publicity she calls press conferences "like quick." Sarah is shameless and bizarre---she hates the media but loves being in the public eye---what she lacks is credibility. The media should do her a favor and ignore her in the future.
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