The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

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Posted: November 13, 2009 12:08 AM

The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from Palin's memoirs:

1. The Cover Byline: Palin didn't write the book by herself. Most books with known ghostwriters list their co-author's name on the cover. In this case it was Lynn Vincent. Going Rogue does not.

2. The Sub le: An American Life. Aside from her infancy, Palin has really spent very little time outside of Alaska, and according to John McCain's campaign advisors, was shockingly unfamiliar with American geography and American history. "Alaska," as John McPhee noted in his resplendent Coming Into the Country, "is a foreign country...Its nature is its own."


3.Going Rogue features Palin's obsession with Katie Couric and chacterizes the CBS anchor as "badgering." Palin refused to prep for the Couric interview because she was more concerned about her popularity in Alaska than about what was best for the campaign. Was it really badgering to ask what books or periodicals Palin read? Palin further claims that Couric suffered from low self-esteem. In fact, according to those close to Palin, it's the former governor who suffers from low self-esteem and frequently projects that onto other women.

4. Palin asserts that there was a "jaded aura" around McCain's political advisors once she entered the campaign. In fact, McCain's aides bent over backwards to protect Palin and to try to get her up to speed on international affairs. In addition to not knowing whether or not Africa was a continent, according to sources in the McCain campaign, Palin also didn't understand the difference between England and Great Britain. And much, much more.

5. Palin contends to have been saddled with legal bills of more than $500,000 resulting from what she calls "frivolous" ethics complaints filed against her. The lion's share of those bills resulted from the ethics complaint she filed against herself in a legal maneuver to sidestep the Troopergate charges being brought against her by the bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council.

6. Palin rather astonishingly claims that she was saddled with $50,000 in bills for the legal fees associated with her vice-presidential vetting. A) She was not vetted; B) A McCain campaign advisor says this is "categorically untrue."

7. Palin states that she found out only "minutes" before John McCain's concession speech that she would not be allowed to make remarks of her own introducing McCain. In fact, she had been told at least three times that she would not be allowed to give the speech and kept lying about it in the hopes of creating some last-minute chaos that would allow her to assume the dais.

8. Palin asserts that her effort to award a license for a natural gas transmission line was turning a "pipe dream" into a pipeline. Although she claimed otherwise in her speech at the GOP convention, there is no pipeline. It remains a pipe dream.

9. Palin implies that the McCain campaign intentionally bungled the release of information regarding her daughter Bristol's pregnancy and refused to let her rewrite it. In fact, the McCain campaign allowed her to rework the draft, but the original version went out accidentally. Palin reportedly accepted the recalcitrant staff member's apology for the mistake, then when she left, ordered her immediately dismissed of her duties.

10. Palin complains that McCain's senior advisors, most notably Steve Schmidt, forced her to "stick with the script" they provided her. In fact, Schmidt & Co. were en bered with the task of keeping Palin from lying and misleading people throughout the campaign, from her well-do ented lies about the "Bridge to Nowhere" to her duplicities about her husband Todd's assocation with the Alaska Independence Party. Palin's lying to those in the McCain campaign was so troubling to them that they cringed every time she went "off script."

And that's just for starters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffr...tml?view=print

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The fun is only beginning.

[DarrinS]

1. The Cover Byline: Palin didn't write the book by herself. Most books with known ghostwriters list their co-author's name on the cover. In this case it was Lynn Vincent. Going Rogue does not.

And Dreams of my Father doesn't list the name of Bill Ayers.

2. The Sub le: An American Life. Aside from her infancy, Palin has really spent very little time outside of Alaska, and according to John McCain's campaign advisors, was shockingly unfamiliar with American geography and American history. "Alaska," as John McPhee noted in his resplendent Coming Into the Country, "is a foreign country...Its nature is its own."

Is Alaska any less American than Hawaii? Or Jakarta?

[Supergirl]

And Dreams of my Father doesn't list the name of Bill Ayers.



Is Alaska any less American than Hawaii? Or Jakarta?

WTF does the first comment mean? Bill Ayers didn't help Obama write his book, you're just trying to be inflammatory. But Palin is incapable of putting together a coherent sentence, so it's pretty ridiculous and unethical to not credit the person who actually wrote her book.

I suspect Barack Obama in high school had a better knowledge of American history and geography than Palin does TODAY. And he's certainly much more familiar with America and America's problems than Palin is.

[Ignignokt]

WTF does the first comment mean? Bill Ayers didn't help Obama write his book, you're just trying to be inflammatory. But Palin is incapable of putting together a coherent sentence, so it's pretty ridiculous and unethical to not credit the person who actually wrote her book.

I suspect Barack Obama in high school had a better knowledge of American history and geography than Palin does TODAY. And he's certainly much more familiar with America and America's problems than Palin is.

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[DarrinS]

WTF does the first comment mean? Bill Ayers didn't help Obama write his book, you're just trying to be inflammatory. But Palin is incapable of putting together a coherent sentence, so it's pretty ridiculous and unethical to not credit the person who actually wrote her book.

In this book, Barack and Mic e: Portrait of an American Marriage, author Christopher Anderson notes:

"In the end, Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams from My Father would be significant--so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."

I suspect Barack Obama in high school had a better knowledge of American history and geography than Palin does TODAY. And he's certainly much more familiar with America and America's problems than Palin is.

I'm sure Obama has a higher IQ than Palin.

BTW, why are you so angry?

[ChumpDumper]

In this book, Barack and Mic e: Portrait of an American Marriage, author Christopher Anderson notes:

"In the end, Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams from My Father would be significant--so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."

So, no proof.

[Ignignokt]

So, no proof.

Ayers writing, if true.

[DarrinS]

So, no proof.

How do you prove a particular person wrote a book?

[Ignignokt]

How are any of those lies?

It's only lies if you choose to pick McCain's aide's side of the story. There are no proof of lies, and i find it quite funny a liberal outfit finally finds it fit to side with McCain when it suits them.

[ElNono]

Who cares?

[ChumpDumper]

How do you prove a particular person wrote a book?

You're serious?

[DarrinS]

You're serious?

Other than videotaping the person writing the book, how would you prove it? Comparison with other writings?

[ChumpDumper]

Other than videotaping the person writing the book, how would you prove it? Comparison with other writings?

Ghost writers are paid, and usually in close contact with the purported author for an extended period of time during the writing process. Is that true of Obama and Ayers?

[ChumpDumper]

And I'm not sure if a couple of similarities in writing would qualify as proof that a certain person wrote a book.

For example, John McCain and/or his collaborator on his autobiographies, Mark Slater, simply plagiarized the text of a speech made by Jeane Kirkpatrick.

It was his faith, in the United States and in the world, in the human capacity, that Scoop Jackson centrally placed in the major debates of American political life for forty years... Some people trace the origins of that faith in the quiet dignity of his Norwegian immigrant parents. Some people see the solidification of the faith they gave their son when, as a young Congressman from the State of Washington, he witnessed the inhumanity of the Third Reich at a Nazi concentration camp and reflected the rest of his life on that terrible experience. At Buchenwald, he saw the measure of evil in human nature and the terrible power that intolerance and hate wields when it is sanctioned in a political system. For the rest of his life, he sought to establish realistic means by which the dread effects of governments that lend legitimacy to the worst impulses of mankind can be restrained.

Scoop had faith. He had faith in his country, faith in the rightness of her causes. He had faith that our founding ideals were universal... Until the day he died, he never wavered in his faith, not once. Henry Martin Jackson was the son of Norwegian immigrants... In his third term in Congress, he traveled to Germany at the end of the war. He visited Buchenwald eleven days after the concentration camp had been liberated. There he saw the measure of evil in human nature and the terrible power hate and intolerance wield when sanctioned by a political system. He left Buchenwald having gained a great moral clarity... He became an unyielding opponent to governments that gave legitimacy to the worst impulses of man.

http://mccain.voterfactcheck.com/fac...k_347912.shtml

Does that mean that it was actually Kirkpatrick that wrote Worth Fighting For?

No.

[DarrinS]

Ghost writers are paid, and usually in close contact with the purported author for an extended period of time during the writing process. Is that true of Obama and Ayers?

Jack Cashill, a PhD in American Studies at Purdue, suspects Ayers has written Dreams from my Father. He has some pretty compelling blogs about it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...yers_cove.html

[ChumpDumper]

Jack Cashill, a PhD in American Studies at Purdue, suspects Ayers has written Dreams from my Father. He has some pretty compelling blogs about it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...yers_cove.html

He seems pretty bitter that no one agrees with him or really cares for that matter.

[jack sommerset]

I love how people beat this woman down anytime she has anything to say or anyone has anything good to say about her. I remember when they called her a "Rockstar". Some idiot actually wrote this article about her. So obvious the left is scared to death of this girl.

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.p...lin-rock-star/

[Supergirl]

Jack Cashill, a PhD in American Studies at Purdue, suspects Ayers has written Dreams from my Father. He has some pretty compelling blogs about it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...yers_cove.html

He makes a really good case for Ayers mentoring Obama in the writing process, but even goes on to say quite explicitly the ways in which Ayers' writing is very different from Obama's.

It's not cleae to me how what Ayers did (if in fact he did it) is any different from a thesis advisor working with a thesis student. Writers frequently have mentors to help them craft their narrative along the way. A ghost writer is someone who writes the thing for you. Even this guy's own blog doesn't make much a case for that, other than saying that was his "first thought" when he was reading Obama and Ayers. But his associations are so loose I could imagine a lot of his "first thoughts" are not all that grounded in reality...

[Wild Cobra]

WTF does the first comment mean? Bill Ayers didn't help Obama write his book, you're just trying to be inflammatory.

There is very strong evidence that he did!

[Wild Cobra]

The very most stupid think I find about this thread is that it relies on the words of a Huffington Post article.

They don't have a very good accuracy you know. They are far left in their bias.

[ChumpDumper]

The very most stupid think I find about this thread is that it relies on the words of a Huffington Post article.

They don't have a very good accuracy you know. They are far left in their bias.

Do you think Cashill might have a bias?

[TheProfessor]

Who cares?

Evidently, quite a few people.

[boutons_deux]

"beat this woman down anytime she has anything to say or anyone has anything good to say about her"

Because she very little to say of any value, and there's really nothing to say good about her as a politician.

The right wing gave an ignorant, incompetent, superficial, trashy asshole with dubya, who gaves us two permanent wars, one mismanged, the other bogus. That's why McLiar coudn't and didn't run the Repug record.

A large majority of America doesn't want another ignorant, incompetent, superficial, trashy asshole.

[DarrinS]

"beat this woman down anytime she has anything to say or anyone has anything good to say about her"

Because she very little to say of any value, and there's really nothing to say good about her as a politician.

The right wing gave an ignorant, incompetent, superficial, trashy asshole with dubya, who gaves us two permanent wars, one mismanged, the other bogus. That's why McLiar coudn't and didn't run the Repug record.

A large majority of America doesn't want another ignorant, incompetent, superficial, trashy asshole.

Why are you so angry?

[Crookshanks]

Why are you so angry?

I've been asking him that question for at least a year now. Something really bad must've happened to him to make him such a mean, hateful and angry person. Anything having anything to do with God, conservatives, George W. Bush, the war, or the Republican party just sends him into a foaming-at-the-mouth rage.