Rachel Maddow Plugs and Re-Plugs McCain Aide Smearing Palin as 'Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs'
While the “nonfiction” writers have clearly sharpened their knives for Sarah Palin (and put “writers” in quotes if we’re talking Levi Johnston), the liberal media also can’t help but publicize smear-fiction of Palin. Case in point: Nicolle Wallace, the Palin-hating McCain aide, whose new novel smears Palin with a plot about a vice president who isn’t vetted well who’s exposed after the election as mentally ill.
Wallace, who plays a Republican on TV, was featured and touted on two editions of the Rachel Maddow show (Tuesday and Wednesday). Maddow especially liked and reran Wallace suggesting with a smile, “Look, you know, I was inspired by her to write a book about someone who was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. So don’t ask me.”
On Tuesday, Wallace slashed at Palin as someone with “a whole nest of problems that would -- you know, that she’d have to confront. But the first one would be to resist her most partisan and most polarizing instincts because that would make her a bad candidate for the moment.” She’s saying this on MSNBC, one of the most partisan and polarizing channels on TV. Maddow asked: “And does she have anything to offer beyond that?” And Wallace called her a cuckoo.
On Wednesday, Maddow promptly reran that point into the ground, trying to make the smear stick:
Steve Schmidt who ran the McCain-Palin campaign saying that Sarah Palin`s selection as the vice presidential nominee in `08, as someone ostensibly qualified to be commander in chief was a failure of the vetting process. Is Sarah Palin thinking about running again this year? This seems about an important assertion from somebody who should be in a position to know.
Also who sat here last night with Steve Schmidt was Nicolle Wallace, another senior staffer to the McCain-Palin campaign, who worked closely and directly with Governor Palin on that campaign. Now, for context here, Nicolle has just published a book about someone very much like Sarah Palin who is elected vice president and who then turns out to be very seriously mentally ill... [Then, the cuckoo-clip rerun.]
Two of the most senior people from Sarah Palin’s vice presidential campaign in 2008 say she is the living proof that the vetting process sometimes doesn`t weed out people who aren`t qualified to be president and that she is the inspiration for a terrifying book of fiction about someone who gets all the way into the White House before they are revealed to be seriously mentally ill. We are not usually a show that breaks important political news about Sarah Palin, but that is important political news about Sarah Palin.
How is it “news” that someone who hates someone else is saying they’re insane? Didn’t Rachel Maddow join the other liberals in protesting Sen. Bill Frist for diagnosing Terri Schiavo’s brain activity from the Senate floor? But it’s apparently “news” that a non-psychiatrist can smear an enemy as insane and Maddow treated it like an expert science-based opinion.
Maddow likes Wallace as much as she likes RINO celebrity and Daily Beast pundit Meghan McCain, who's made repeated conservative-trashing appearances on the Maddow show. Wallace clearly hates Palin’s guts, and Maddow’s repeatedly used that. When Palin’s book Going Rogue came out in 2009, there was Maddow citing “exclusive” information that Nicolle Wallace called assertions about of how Wallace helped her CBS buddy Katie Couric with the Palin hatchet-job interview “fictional.” Overall, Wallace told Maddow the Palin memoir was “a bizarre fixation on things that everyone else has moved on from.”
That sounds a little tinny now that she’s written Palin-in-a-straitjacket fiction.
PS: Wallace was clearly pandering to Maddow. When asked to describe the plot in an interview on NBC's Today, Wallace merely said "Well, this novel really gets at one's fitness to serve. It's about a vice president, a female vice president who's hiding a debilitating mental illness from the White House staff and the president, and it's about really how Washington becomes engulfed in the hunt for the truth about this woman's fitness for office."
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"Aides"?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:56am.
Not to excuse the weak-kneed Republican politicians, but it makes one wonder how much undercutting of conservative philosophy is done by these "aides" like Nicole Wallace. It always seems like these aides are substantially more liberal than many of the politicians they supposedly serve.
So....
Submitted by BookinWeasel on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:11am.
Instead of a fictional VP with a mental illness, what we have in reality is an actualized doofus as VP who tells people in wheelchairs (Chuck) to stand up, says you have to have an Indian accent to go into DD, and tells us he doesn't know the Internet NUMBER for a website......why didn't Ms. Wallace just write a non-fiction book about the mental fitness of Plugs and call it a day??.......
Because she doesn't do Novels
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:16am.
I guess?
Have you?
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:13am.
Wallace told Maddow the Palin memoir was “a bizarre fixation on things that everyone else has moved on from.”
Nap, guess you haven't?
but that is important political news about Sarah Palin.
So,,,,,, tell us all again why this is so important, she running for office? Or does she simply have more influence from her home in Wasilla then Obama has from DC?
Libtard hyperventilating, is just about as much legal fun one can have.
Wouldn't you think?
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:17am.
Didn't Sarah Palin, as Governor, have an across the board 80% approval rating (can someone link this?) before the national spotlight was focused on her? Wouldn't she have had to be doing SOMETHING right to get such a high rating from R's D's and I's?
Hey lefties, stop your hatin' on her.
Palin Approval was in the 90s
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:38am.
It's in the link in my "signature". First paragraph. Approval in the 90s.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Steve Schmidt
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:23am.
. . . has a vested interest in distracting potential employers from the fact that HE RAN MCCAIN's LOSING CAMPAIGN.
You see, it's not *his* fault McCain lost. . .
&%$#@! you Schmidt!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I would love to know
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:26am.
How McCain feels about this guy now. Probably stands behind him 100%?
Madcow is running out of
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:46am.
Madcow is running out of material, especially now that Joe Biden said the barackster owns the country's finnancal problems. $5 says Joe bails out before the ship sinks.
I think the ship is almost
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:34pm.
I think the ship is almost sunk.
Nicole Wallace and the Couric Interview
Submitted by libBuster on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:54am.
Was Nicole Wallace responsible for setting up Palin's interview with Couric?
Yes. Back in 2009 Palin
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:29am.
Yes. Back in 2009 Palin said that Nicole Wallace had been pushing her to do the Couric interview.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
If Palin decides not to run
Submitted by katiejane on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:05am.
I really hope she has a list of names of people who she will be free to comment on. I would think that just as Wallace & Schmidt think they have such interesting dirt on Palin I wonder if she doesn't have some on them. If her political future is going down the drain I don't see any reason not to spread some gossip about those who've been doing that to her. Didn't the chubby McCain kid supposedly talk about "wild" behavior on the campaign?
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Submitted by Jack Bauer on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:26am.
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All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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Submitted by Jack Bauer on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:11am.
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All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Who' mentally ill? Sarah
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:27am.
Who' mentally ill? Sarah Palin, or one of the biggest jerks in the inept, losing, pathetic McCain campaign? And believe me, being the biggest jerk inn that campaign is a high bar.
Was it Wallace who advised McCain to "suspend his campaign", and run bleating back to Washington like a headless chick convinced that WITHOUT HIM, the Republic was about to fall..
THUS HANDING OBAMA THE ELECTION?
Was that WALLACE'S big idea?
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Practicing without a license will get you prosecuted, Rache.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:33am.
Take your pick as to which venue you would like the complaint to be filed, Rache. The Board of Medicine will come down on you like an anvil on Sylvester the Cat's head. The psychology board will do likewise. So will the other boards governing mental health professions in any state.
You can become a guest at a state correctional facility for a year or more and have to pay some very hefty fines.
Just give us the word, Rache.
And by the way, sweetums, "cuckoo" is not a psychiatric term and you have no idea what any of the psychobabble means.
I'll see your Dick Morris and raise you a Nicolle Wallace.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:36am.
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This Wallace babe almost
Submitted by inquiringmind on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:52am.
This Wallace babe almost sounds like she is in 8th grade and posting a fake FaceBook profile making fun of another girl. ( Palin)
This type of bullying is so junior high it's hard to believe and adult is doing it.
That also goes for ALL of the MSM who are making fun of Christy's weight. Again that is so Jr. High I am amazed they all think it is OK to do. And they are the PC crowd who go around telling the rest uf us not to make fun of others as it may hurt their feelings.
Oh, Really???
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:39pm.
"Two of the most senior people from Sarah Palin’s vice presidential campaign in 2008 say she is the living proof that the vetting process sometimes doesn`t weed out people who aren`t qualified to be president and that she is the inspiration for a terrifying book of fiction about someone who gets all the way into the White House before they are revealed to be seriously mentally ill. "
Oh,,,, SARAH PALIN!!! I thought you were talking about............ You know....... The current WH resident.... What's his name again?
Nicole Wallace was McCain's aid, you say? No wonder McCain lost the election. With people like that working for him, who needs enemies?
I've always wondered who was running that show, because at the time, I thought McCain's handlers were incompetent. Now I know why that is.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Vetting
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 2:14pm.
Yeah that's pretty hilarious coming from the same media who had absolutely no problem with the One only having two years in the US senate, virtually clueless on foreign policy and all his radical connections, but HE was qualified. All the handwringing over whether Sarah Palin was qualified for VP was ridiculous. Any breathing, conscious American 35 or older is qualified to be VP--just look at Biden.
Sarah Palin for AZ Senator
Submitted by Uruk Hai on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:09pm.
John Kyl (R, AZ) is retiring from the Senate. Sarah Palin bought a home in Arizona, to establish residency. I hope she runs for John Kyl's Senate seat. It would give her experience with the DC insanity and give her one more tick mark on her resume to be president.
Sarah didn't buy a home in
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:25pm.
Sarah didn't buy a home in AZ, Bristol did.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
According to the Arizona Republic (I know, be kind).....
Submitted by Uruk Hai on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 2:15pm.
According to the Arizona Republic, they both did. Sarah bought one in Scottsdale and Bristol in Maricopa.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/05/21/2...
And we would love to have her as our Senator.
Nicole Wallace: Then and Now
Submitted by MinneMike on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:19pm.
Nicole Wallace's words.....
“Sarah Palin reminds me a lot of Jeb Bush, who was very hands on... She gets on her email and deals directly with press and the staff and it's very, very impressive.”
"I worked for Jeb Bush. Sarah Palin reminds me a lot of Jeb Bush, who was very hands on. He was always in direct contact, email-wise, with reporters. He'd often get back to them before I'd get back to them. She's like that. She's very hands on. Reminds me of my time working for Jeb Bush. She doesn't like a lot of bureaucracy. She gets on her email and deals directly with press and the staff and it's very, very impressive. Very appealing."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/10/28/a-q-and-a-with-nicolle-...
Nicole Wallace is yet another flea riding the Palin notoriety for commercial gain. She joins such luminaries as Levi Johnson (aka "Ricky Hollywood"), Mercades Johnson, etc.