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this is 3 pages?
what is it, a pop up book?
HER TURN!
Fri Nov 13 2009 07:27:12 ET
Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257
By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is with a major party candidate.
From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign’s general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn’t have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.
“Katie really likes you,” she said to me one day. “she’s a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you,” Nicolle said. “believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her.” Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had. But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of President George W. Bush. She didn't have much to say that was positive about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11, we were told we couldn’t do it. I didn’t know if that was Nicolle’s call.
Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,” Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.”
I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain’s campaign how?
Nicolle said. “She wants you to like her.”
Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn’t going very well.
“You know what? We’ll schedule a segment with her,” Nicolle said. “If it doesn’t go well, if there’s no chemistry, we won’t do any others.”
Meanwhile, the media blackout continued. It got so bad that a couple of times I had a friend in Anchorage track down phone numbers for me, and then I snuck in calls to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and someone I thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neil Cavuto’s producer. I had a friend call Bill O’Reilly after I was inundated with supporters in Alaska asking why the campaign was “ignoring” his on-air requests for a McCain campaign interview. I had another friend scrambling to find Mark Levin’s number. Aboard the campaign plane I was within twenty-five feet of reporters for hours on end. Headquarters’ strategy was that I should not go to the back of the aircraft and talk to the press. At first this was subtle, but as the campaign wore on, Tracey or Tucker would call headquarters to request permission, and someone in DC would respond, “No! Absolutely not- block her if she tries to go back.”
this is 3 pages?
what is it, a pop up book?
oh god, sarah palin.
He would probably like to also.
I can't answer questions that are easy so its someone elses fault. I didn't need to have her write a book to hear this again.
Those were tough questions I don't think any Palin supporter could possibly answer.
I sense a post concerning the number of states will quickly follow.
This isn't very supportive in the arguement that Palin was qualified to be on the ticket. And I liked Palin's thoughts when not subdued by McCain's camp. You could tell there wasn't harmony between the two during the election.I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had
Of course...what does that say about the McCain camp in selecting someone who might not have been ready for the job?
Palin is rogue. Not a yes person to the ticket. I admire her for that. Will she ever live up to being someone truely "qualified" for the office of president? Well that question begs this question...Who has?
Face it: electability often trumps ability. There is no qualification to be President besides being 35 and native born. All complaining about qualifications at this point is both tedious and beyond stale; there's three more years in Obama's term, and it's by no means clear that Sarah Palin will run in 2012.
Until she does run for president again, Palin won't be any more or less capable of doing the job than she is right now. More electable, maybe.
Bailing out of her bothersome obligations as Alaska governor turned out to be a great move for her. Palin is banking hard on her notoriety right now. She could easily choose to put her fortune and the media scrum that buzzes around her in harness to another run for high office at any convenient future moment.
Time to move on to criticism, guys. That fight is lost. Losers dwell on qualifications.
All complaining about qualifications at this point is both tedious and beyond staleSo has the state and legitimacy of our political affairs become. We as trifle don't make a difference any more. We as indentured servants to the political elite do. And so we become numb to our own views and carry their flag of truth.Time to move on to criticism, guys. That fight is lost. Losers dwell on qualifications.
The font size and margins are going to be mind blowing.
palin is a hottie. i'd do her.
So do I and I think that's why people fear her.
I think she has the heart to rise to the challenge, unlike Obama, who has proven to be a "girly-man."
Who is truly ready for any major job change? What is important is having someone who has the capacity to take on the challenge. She is one of the few presidential candidates who actually has executive experience. I think that is far more important than most people seem to think. I don't care how short or long a time a person is in politics. A legislative position and an executive position are enough different, it is wrong to seek the presidency without executive experience. I will likely never vote for a candidate for governor or president who has no executive experience. I don't care how much I like them otherwise.
You'll have to wait. Apparently God has dibs.
Oh brother...
He really thinks people fear her.. he's dumb but harmless... unless of course your an illegal immigrant crossing the borderOh brother...
"why people fear her"
WC believes his own self-created myths, like "Christians" believing the fairy tales in the Bible.
pitbull , Hannity/FPC, Repug spokesman Limbaugh, assorted "Christian/values" assholes and their astroturfer/tea-bagging rabid fringe are splitting the Repug party into extreme-right and not- extreme-right, neither faction electorally winnable.
Fear pitbull ?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE run her on the national ticket 2012.
Fear?
Some down-home, Real America crudeness:
“As every Iditarod musher knows,” she writes of the famous Alaska dog-sled race, “if you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.”
The men supporting her are mostly men dreaming of getting a view of and sniffing her lead-dog ass.
If pitbull were ugly (rather than manly girly), she'd be stuck in Wasilla banning books, giving tax dollars to friends to build yet-another hockey rink, fleecing resource extractors for more per-capita royalties (she's spawned plenty of capita), and communing with African witch doctors and weird "Christian" cultists.
haha. A second Palins new book thread..classic.
Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11,
Part of me wants to read it.
I watched Sarah Palin's interview on Oprah. I thought Oprah asked good questions and Sarah gave candid and interesting answers. Good show.
do yall think Palin is smarter than your mother?
i mean yalls moms are really smart so...
I thought Vanna Whites book Vanna Speaks was more insightful….
Are you saying you read both books?
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