September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin News Coming Fast and Furious
So fast and so furious that it’s impossible to blog everything, or even one thing, in depth. And, believe me, there is nothing I’d like to do more right now than hit every single Palin story out there. But there are only 24 hours in a day, so I’ll contribute what I can to the truth effort by simply pointing out each new story as I find it, in the hope that folks with greater resources can put it all into perspective.
I’ll make just two remarks for now:
1. If somebody tells you “Family is off-limits,” you remind them that Palin brought her family into this.
2. I never thought I’d end up enjoying this election cycle 1/1000th as much as I am right now. I feel like I’m discovering George W. Bush all over again — only this time, the chucklehead in question isn’t going to hijack my country for the next four years.
With that, here are my Sarah Palin Bookmarks of the Moment, with many more to come:
Rank inexperience:
Choice stuns state politicians
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?” — Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green (R-Wasilla)
Anchorage Daily News, August 29, 2008
Palin On Iraq
“Palin: I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
Andrew Sullivan, August 29, 2008
Scholars question Palin credentials
David Mark, Fred Barbash, Politico, August 30, 2008
Vice in Go-Go Boots?
Maureen Dowd, August 31, 2008
Osmosis
“Sarah Palin learned foreign policy by osmosis? Really?”
Obsidian Wings, September 2, 2008
Impulse, Meet Experience
George F. Will, September 3, 2008
Palin traveled abroad rarely
“Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin got her first passport in 2006 and has visited just four countries, and she had little involvement in her state’s cross-border issues, raising questions about her supporters’ assertions that Alaska’s proximity to Russia has given her unique experience on foreign affairs. …”
Bryan Bender and Sasha Issenberg, Boston Globe, September 3, 2008
Anti-gay to the extreme, of course:
Palin no friend to gays and lesbians
The Real Spiel, August 31, 2008
Palin’s brand of crazy Christianity (yep, she believes in creationism and “ex-gay therapy”):
Sarah Palin on faith, life and creation
Michael Paulson, Boston Globe, August 29, 2008
Palin and Her Pastors: “Those that die without Christ have a horrible, horrible surprise”
Ken Silverstein and Sebastian Jones, Harper’s, August 30, 2008
Palin’s Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview
Nico Pitney and Sam Stein, HuffPo, September 2, 2008
Mayor Palin: A Rough Record
Nathan Thornburgh, Time, September 2, 2008
The Palin Church Video
Domenico Montanaro, MSNBC, September 2, 2008
Todd Palin, the Alaskan Independence Party, and secession:
Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic, September 1, 2008
Members of ‘Fringe’ Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s; McCain Camp and Alaska Division of Elections Deny Charge
Jake Tapper, ABC News, September 1, 2008
Todd Palin, Longtime Former AIP Member
Jake Tapper, ABC News, September 2, 2008
Palin Backed Alaska Independence and Called Shallow By Woman Claiming To Be the Real Miss Congeniality
Ron Chusid, Liberal Values, September 2, 2008
Todd Palin’s DUI:
Palin’s husband has DWI arrest
CNN, September 1, 2008
Todd Palin’s DUI
ABC News, September 1, 2008
Troopergate:
City of Kenai’s letter to woman accusing Chuck Kopp of sexual harassment (PDF)
October 10, 2005
Kopp to release personnel file
Anchorage Daily News, July 18, 2008
AK Gov. Says Staffer Pressed for Trooper’s Firing
Kate Klonick, TPM Muckracker, August 13, 2008
Investigators Are Looking at Governor About Firing
Michael Luo, New York Times, August 29, 2008
Monegan to Palin: ‘Ma’am, I Need to Keep You at Arm’s Length’
Washington Post, August 30, 2008
Sarah Palin poses ‘Troopergate’ risk to John McCain’s US election bid
Philip Sherwell and Tim Shipman, Telegraph, September 1, 2008
New Emails Suggest Holes in Palin’s Trooper-Gate Story
Zachary Roth, TPM Muckraker, September 3, 2008
Palin E-Mails Show Intense Interest in Trooper’s Penalty
James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick, Washington Post, September 4, 2008
Polar bears can
Bearing Up
Sarah Palin, January 5, 2008
Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections
Justin Rood, ABC News, August 31, 2008
Ted “Intertubes” Stevens, Bridge to Nowhere, and Alaska-style politics:
Vetting Sarah Palin: Irl Stambaugh, Walt Monegan and Cronyism
(She almost got recalled as the mayor of Wasilla for firing city officials who didn’t support her)
Hat Thief, August 29, 2008
Palin’s husband allegedly got advisor fired for dating the wrong woman
The People’s Forum, August 29, 2008
Palin Repeatedly Professed Desire To Renew Federal Funding For ‘Bridge To Nowhere’
ThinkProgress, August 30, 2008
Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens’s 527 Group
Matthew Mosk, Washington Post, September 1, 2008
Palin backed ‘bridge to nowhere’ in 2006
Ken Dilanian, USA Today, September 2, 2008
“Abortion, gun rights, term limits and the religious born-again thing,” book-banning, and earmarks McCain wouldn’t approve of:
As mayor, Palin brought culture wars to town
New York Times via News & Observer, September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin, Israel, and Jews for Jesus:
Palin on Israel
Ben Smith, Politico, August 29, 2008
Jewish voters may be wary of Palin
WFAA.com, September 2, 2008
Palin Meets with AIPAC
Matthew E. Berger, MSNBC, September 2, 2008
Palin’s baby’s baby and Palin’s baby’s baby daddy:
Palin’s teen daughter is pregnant
CNN, September 1, 2008
The Bristol Stomp
“Jake Tapper asks: ‘What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?’ I can answer that. Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat wings and fangs and start divebombing, Peggy Noonan would issue a pained sigh that would ruffle nun’s robes from here to Hoboken, Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett would engage in a finger-wagging contest to condemn our loose licentious liberal culture, and Jennifer Rubin at Commentary’s Contentions would crash into the wall doing cartwheels. …”
James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, September 1, 2008
Sarah Palin’s future son-in-law says he’s an Alaska ‘redneck’
“Here’s part of his entry before it was made private: ‘I’m a
Luisa Yanez, McClatchy, September 3, 2008
To know Sarah Palin is to not want her one heartbeat away from the presidency:
Alaska Pipeline
Deb Peterson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 30, 2008
Miscellaneous Sarah Palin lunacy:
Sarah Palin, Buchananite
Christopher Hayes, The Nation, August 29, 2008
The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central, September 1, 2008
Finally…
Is Track Palin the 16-year-old vandal in this story? Rumor has it…
Bus vandals charged
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, December 5, 2005
Why did Track Palin spend “most of his senior year in high school” in Portage, Michigan?
Palin’s oldest son has Michigan tie
Chris Christoff, Detroit Free Press, August 29, 2008
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