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Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

True/Slant - By Matt Taibbi - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Is the media out to get Sarah Palin? It seems like most of the letters I get are insisting that I admit it. “Surely you can’t deny,” writes one woman from Florida, “that no political figure in American history has had to put up with what Sarah Palin has had to put up with from the mainstream media.” Now, this is the part of this red-blue schtick where I’m supposed to strike back without thinking and re-hash the history of, say, the Monica Lewinsky scandal in rebuttal and then, as the argument progresses, do the whole “I know you are but what am I?” thing until the end of time. I’ve decided from now on that I’m just not going to go there with any of this culture-war bullshit. It’s exhausting. I mean, hell, if you want to argue over who’s more justified in wallowing in media victimhood, that’s not a fight I mind losing. Mazel tov!

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Sarah Palin's Going Rogue going great guns at the tills

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alison Flood - Nov. 23 (Other) - Former vice-presidential candidate?s memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shops Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale. Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved so popular it has been forced to print an extra 300,000 books after an initial print run of 1.5m, with about 300,000 sold on 17 November – its day of publication – alone. Going Rogue is currently sitting at the top of Amazon.com?s bestseller list, ahead of Stephenie Meyer, Dan Brown and Stephen King. Palin's first-day sales are behind Bill Clinton?s, whose 2004 memoir My Life sold 400,000 in its first 24 hours, but ahead of Hillary Clinton's, whose autobiography Living History broke records when it was published in 2003, selling 200,000 copies on publication day. The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales

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Sarah Palin, WWE Star

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TrueSlant - By Matt Taibbi - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - Obama knows the long odds against a right-wing populist winning the presidency, no matter how good she looks in a skirt or running clothes, brandishing a gun. He shouldn’t be too cocky, however, because the death of the center is ultimately a problem

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Easy Choices

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

OurFuture.org - By Terrance Heath - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - I'll say it again. Whether it's Sarah Palin's self-serving contradictions, or Democrats' and Republicans' cynical political compromises, in the realm of politics, the choices we make for others are the truly easy choices.

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Palin agonistes

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.

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AP First to Fact-Check Sarah Palin Book--Finds That She Goes 'Adrift'

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 13 (News Report) - WASHINGTON Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the

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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:04 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - If the G.O.P. essentially shrinks down to a rump party across America, the country could become ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

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AKMuckraker: The Real Story of the "Rogue" in Sarah Palin's New Book Title.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By AKMuckraker - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - "Going Rogue," is the title of Sarah Palin's soon-to-be released memoir. It's cute, it's catchy and it will sell some books. The 400-page tome will hit the shelves on November 17th, with a massive first printing of 1.5 million copies. And each one of those book jackets is another jab at two of the many casualties of the Palin administration in Alaska...But those of us who live in Alaska, and who have been following this story from the beginning, know the real root of that phrase, and will understand the ugly irony of Palin's title. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/the-real-story-of-the-rog_b_302369.html

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The Revenge of Levi - NYTimes.com

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gail Collins - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In an article for Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston shares his view on the Palin home life. It’s too bad he is untrustworthy about every subject not covered by Field & Stream.

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Business owners, fishermen want better health coverage

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

thecordovatimes.com - By Dimitra Lavrakas - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Mark Vinsel, executive director of the United Fishermen of Alaska, says 32 percent of fishermen in Alaska are not covered by health insurance. Alaska small-business owners and representatives of fishing organizations expressed support of a new approach to health insurance on Aug. 6 in a telephone conference held by Small Business Majority, a national small-business advocacy organization that focuses on health care reform. They also spoke to their concerns of what may happen if health insurance reform is not dealt with in the near future.

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Sarah Palin falsely claims Barack Obama runs a 'death panel'

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Aug. 11 (News Analysis) - We have read all 1,000-plus pages of the Democratic bill and examined versions in various committees. There is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's "level of productivity in society" to determine whether they are "worthy" of health care.

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Palin Paints Picture of 'Obama Death Panel' Giving Thumbs Down to Trig

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Jake Tapper - Aug. 10 (News Analysis) - When we last heard from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin she was -- not without some justification -- beseeching some members of the media to "quit making things up." But in a post on her Facebook page today, the 2008 vice presidential nominee seemed to take some liberties of her own.

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Exiting the Sarahsphere

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Daniel Libit - Jul. 24 (News Analysis) - With Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor of Alaska coming to a self-determined close, there’s one group facing some major change: the bloggers. Palin — the object of their attention for the past 11 months, the person who gave them unfathomable readerships and platforms — is departing the local Alaska scene. And the occasion will be marked by many.

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Ethics investigator rules against Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Rachel D'oro - Jul. 21 (News Report) - An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - Jul. 20 (Comedy News) - If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

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The Most Important Number in Politics Today

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Chris Cillizza - Jul. 16 (News Analysis) - 33 -- That's the percentage of Republicans who said that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the ability to be an "effective" president in a new CBS News survey in the field earlier this month.

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Sarah, Inc.

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By David S. Bernstein - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - When earlier this month Sarah Palin abruptly announced her intention to resign as governor of Alaska — barely midway through her four-year term — the political punditry was left puzzling over what she could possibly do next. If Palin was not in office, nor actively campaigning for election, how could she remain relevant, influential, and, of course, paid?

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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Robert Shrum - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin is the bright red thread in the dull grey fabric of the Republican Party. She is charismatic, quirky, melodramatic, and fervently anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-Obama. But there's one thing she'll never be—the GOP nominee for President in 2012.

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Even out of office, Palin is her party’s leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Daniel Finkelstein - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give lectures about being a governor than actually be a governor. And her party has made the same choice.

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Palin's Resignation Leaves GOP Searching for New Leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Kenneth T. Walsh - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation as governor of Alaska has set off a new round of soul searching and hair pulling in the Republican Party.

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Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Clarke - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - If you're wondering what Sarah Palin will do after leaving the Alaska governor's office, look no further than her op-ed in the this morning's Washington Post. She writes, "at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be: I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy." As a card-carrying member of the chattering class, let me say that I am in indeed disappointed by this development. Not because Palin is showing a greater interest in policy, or because she'll be focusing on an issue that's near and dear to my heart. I'm disappointed because Palin's op-ed displays an ignorance for the subject so profound it's almost gutsy. Almost.

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Sarah Palin's Constitutional Train Wreck

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Shannyn Moore - Jul. 13 (News Analysis) - When Senator Bill Wielechowski came on my radio program this week, he dropped a bomb I wasn't ready for; in order for Alaska to avoid...

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Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Mark Z. Barabak - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Since announcing her resignation, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been pummeled by critics who have called her incoherent, a quitter, a joke and a "political train wreck." And those were fellow Republicans talking.

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Have Palin and Sanford damaged the GOP brand?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Katherine Mangu-Ward, Glenn Reynolds - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - You'd think Americans would be jaded about political scandals by now. Any voter still surprised to discover feet of clay (creeping out from under the partition of a bathroom stall, for instance) should seem impossibly naive. But instead we collectively thrill to revelations of salacious secrets about our leaders.

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Palin Hints At Third Party To Save Republican Party From — Liberal Control (?)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Moderate Voice - By Joe Gandelman - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - within the GOP there really will be a battle royal between those who feel the party must become a bigger umbrella and appeal to moderate and progressive Republicans, independents and some Democrats, and those who want the GOP to become conservative — but with a conservatism that is not the same as Barry Goldwater’s or even Ronald Reagan’s.

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