Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue' Touches on Couric, Gibson, Johnston, and McCain Aides
The book isn't scheduled for release until Tuesday, but already people are talking
Sarah Palin's long-awaited book rollout started yesterday as some of the more inflammatory passages of Going Rogue found their way into the media.
The book isn't scheduled for public release until Tuesday, but snippets of Palin's taped interview with Oprah Winfrey were released last night, and the Associated Press obtained a copy of the volume and began posting stories. Among Palin's points:
- Repeating now-familiar attacks on the news media, especially network news anchors Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, with whom she tangled in interviews last year.
- Resurrecting her feud with senior advisers to Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, over her campaign performance, which some of those advisers found lacking. Such an effort to settle old scores, by the way, is something that veteran Republican strategists in Washington have warned against, because it could make the former Alaska governor look petty and mean-spirited.
- Extending an olive branch to Levi Johnston, the former fiancé of her daughter Bristol and the father of Bristol's child. Johnston has harshly criticized Palin, and she has returned fire in the past. But in the Oprah Winfrey interview, she said he could still be "a part of the family" and she wants him to understand that "he is loved and he has the most beautiful child."
As part of her book tour, Palin is traveling to small and midsize cities in battleground states, including Michigan, Iowa, and Florida. Political strategists note that her tour will look much like a presidential campaign swing. She is considered a possible candidate in 2012.
Palin resigned as governor of Alaska several months ago partly, she said, because her adversaries were distracting her from official business by falsely alleging that she had committed ethical violations.
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Reader Comments
Sarah claimed on Oprah
that she's not retreating (by dumping the Gov gig) but rather re-loading. She's at war with reason and the American middle class, whether you know it or not. Shoot back---now, not later. Sarah is a dangerous woman----because half the people in our country are as stupid as rocks and just might vote for her schtick, or her figure, or the winking. Unless, of course, she keeps lying. You ought to have heard the line of bull when Oprah asked her if she is running for president.
Charles Gibson
I'm so sick of hearing how Gibson "peered condesendingly over his glasses" at Palin. She said it and I've heard right wing pundits say the same thing. They're called READING GLASSES! They are worn on the end of your nose so you can READ SOMETHING! You peer over the top of them becaue if you look THROUGH THE GLASSES at something further away, it's blurry. Are conservatives really that stupid?
And while I'm at it, Katie Couric was "BADGERING" her? Are you kidding me? Katie Couric from the morning "happy talk" program was "BADGERING" the vice presidential candidate? She asked her what newspapers and magazines she read! That's "BADGERING"? That's called lobbing her a softball that she can hit out of the park! What idiot can't answer that question? How hard is to just say what newspapers and magazines you read? "I read the Juneau Daily Messenger and the Anchorage Times and the Moose Hunter's Quarterly" or whatever. How is that Badgering? Sarah Palin is a moron. Of course that never bothers Republicans (see G.W.Bush)
Palin not snow white
I prefer Tina Fay to Palin but both look the same. Maybe both should be together on Saturaday Night live. But after reading American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips one gets the problem that Palin would come up short in dealing with Joe the Plumber problem and the increasing gap between rich and poor. The middle class seems to getting smaller as more jobs are outsourced. The fact of the matter is the average worker has been put in a bad situation while the big banks and financial firms have been bailed out. For a number of years restriction on financial firm have been disappearing with the changing ot the laws. I can't even understand the accounting which presently exists even if I was to take a updated course in the subject. Everything seem to be hidden including taxic assets.
Then there is the matter of debt. It use to be something that in time was supposed to be paid. I wonder how in the world the government is going to pay for things without losing the value of currency. And it keeps adding benefits on top of debt. It seem like we have free lunch for all. But wait I see the waiter coming with the bill, so I need to go to the bathroom. Hopefully the bathroom has a window in which to exist.
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