Okay, I am NO fan of the media darling, Sarah Palin….I have written about her and her lack of knowledge….about her use of slogans instead of facts…..about her ego-centric personality….all in all I am NO fan! I have read her two books and found them to be…….a yawn…..(and I paused to find the right word so not to be crude)…….but now all the predictions and accusations seem to be close to reality…..
It seems that an adviser to Palin has written a tell all book about the half governor because he thought we needed to know…… (more like he wants lots of bucks for the read)…..
A copy of a tell-all book by Frank Bailey, “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years,” has been leaked to members of the media. In the book, Palin’s former chief of staff gives an unflattering view inside the former governor’s rise to fame.
In the foreword of his 456-page manuscript, originally titled “Renegade: Sarah Palin’s Hatchet Man,” Bailey says Palin e-mailed him, “I hate this damn job” days before she quit in July 2009. The book goes on to describe Palin’s staff targeting political opponents for personal retribution, through a variety of public channels.
“We set our sights and went after opponents in coordinated attacks, utilizing what we called ‘Fox News surrogates’, friendly blogs, ghost-written op eds, media opinion polls (that we often rigged), letters to editors, and carefully edited speeches,” Bailey wrote. “Nobody needed to be told what to do; we understood Sarah’s silent mandate to do something now.”
I guess I feel pretty good….from her introduction to the nation as the running mate of McCain….I have said that she is a hollow shell whose only concern was the fame and the cash….so far NOTHING said or done has changed my mind…..I await this book’s publish date….I need a good bit of humor since politics offers nothing but aggravation….
A side note from political wire:
The company that produced Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the TLC show starring the former vice presidential nominee, is set to receive $1.2 million in state subsidies, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
The funding has led to criticism that then-Gov. Palin may have approved of tax credits for programs filmed in Alaska as a way of boosting her profile in the future. The subsidies under the law run until 2013.
And there is a story flying around that Palin had Lasik for her eyes and only wears glasses to appear smarter than she really is…..that I can buy……
“I have said that she is a hollow shell whose only concern was the fame and the cash”…
Yup, sounds about right… but how, I ask (yet again) does that differ from 99% of your politicians and political wannabees? Your electoral system and particularly your way of campaign funding almost guarantees this result.
The eyes thing? In these days of TV driven everything, EVERYONE who is not stupid pays attention to the impression they create – on TV, substance is NO substitute for public perception!
That is true..our system is broken….but at least most of the others give some air of knowledge….this broad does not…….so true on the TV thing……why can’t we as a race search for truth and ignore the fact-less twits in the media?
Ah, THAT is the million dollar question for all of us…
I guess it goes back to the rational ignorance effect then…….