USA Today Puts Picture of Palin-Hating Book in Article About Ex-Gov
UPDATES AT END OF POST: Picture has been changed!USA Today's Oval blog Monday used a picture of a Sarah Palin-hating book called "Going Rouge, An American Nightmare" instead of the former Alaska Governor's "Going Rogue."This despite the opening paragraph of the piece actually referring to Palin's book:In her much-discussed new book, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin…
Naomi Wolf Says Sarah Palin Is Part Of A Rove-Cheney-Bush Cabal
Naomi Wolf on Monday accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of being part of a "cabal" involving George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.The feminist author and political consultant made this accusation on CNN's "Larry King Live."Fortunately, former Bush adviser Mary Matalin was there to contest Wolf's absurdities:[T]his is why people think liberals are such fringies. I mean you -- you run…
Palin Admits Annoyance in 2008 Interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, 'T
Sarah Palin, in an interview that is a part of the lead up to the Nov. 17 release of her new book "Going Rogue," appeared on Oprah Winfrey's TV show on Nov. 16. Aside from the questions about the campaign, she expressed her irritation with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, or as she referred to her - "the perky one." "Now, obviously, you've why didn't you just name some books or…
NYT: Palin Had Image of 'Easily Caricatured Ignoramus,' No Political E
New York Times lead book critic (and avowed political liberal) Michiko Kakutani does the expected demolition job on Sarah Palin's new memoir, "Going Rogue." But in her rush to bash Palin as having an image of "an easily caricatured ignoramus" (a caricature in itself), Kakutani unwittingly made an anti-Obama argument."Going Rogue," the title of Sarah Palin's erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase…
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Apologizes for Using Faked Photos of Sarah Pal
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan apologized on Monday for using photoshopped images of Sarah Palin firing a gun while wearing a bikini. The pictures, which were first brought to light on NewsBusters, appeared during a November 13 segment on the former governor and also included a doctored photo of the Republican in a black mini-skirt. The Morning Meeting host explained, "I want to apologize to Governor…
CBS’s Schieffer: Sarah Palin ‘An Amusement;’ No Political Future
Appearing on Monday’s CBS Early Show to discuss Sarah Palin’s upcoming book tour, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer dismissed the former vice presidential candidate’s political ambitions: “I think she’s going to sell a lot of books. I think she’ll be a great attraction out, you know, as an amusement....But I can’t imagine that she has much future in politics. I really don’t.”Early Show co-host…
Scarborough: Comparing Palin To Howard Dean 'Insult To Dean's Intellig
Joe Scarborough was surely right about one thing . . . when he warned that his pronouncement would "enrage conservatives."The Morning Joe host today proclaimed that comparing Sarah Palin to Howard Dean was an insult . . . to Dean's intelligence.Joe's jab came in response to an analogy Time's Mark Halperin drew between the excitement Palin creates and that drummed up by Dean's presidential…
Palin Regrets – 'Dang It' – Journalists Didn't Get 'Fish-Slimed
Looking at Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught a passage about herself in which Palin recalled that when she invited some reporters to go fishing with her this past July that “I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud,” but, she regretted, the weather was too good so “dang it…
Eleven AP Reporters Turn Up Little in Palin 'Fact Check
The Associated Press recently assigned eleven of its writers to fact-check Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue." AP's team of truth-seekers only found six errors the former Alaska Governor's book, most of which were trivial and presumably not worth the time of a team of reporters."AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard,…
David Brooks Derides Palin as a 'Joke' and 'Talk Show Host'; Only Ifil
The roundtable members on Sunday's This Week derided or dismissed Sarah Palin, with David Brooks, the putative conservative columnist for the New York Times, declaring “she's a joke” and insisting “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host” -- leaving it to PBS's Gwen Ifill, of all people, to come to her defense as a fellow woman.[MP3 audio available here]Left-winger…
Al Gore's Current TV Calls Sarah Palin a 'Gun-Ho' and a 'TWILF
Days after announcing another huge layoff, Al Gore's Current TV referred to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "Gun-Ho" and a "TWILF."These disgraceful, sexually-charged epithets were part of an attack on prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and came in the form of a cartoon ironically titled "The Stupid Virus":When a lab-monkey declares that President Obama wasn't…
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton: The Coffee Summit
Barack Obama had his Beer Summit.Will they call a meeting between former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Coffee Summit?Such seems possible after Clinton's discussion about Palin with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday's "This Week." In fact, the following exchange seems destined to be quite the water cooler subject in newsrooms all over America in the…
