Sarah Palin Thanks "Fair And Balanced Media Folks" In Book Acknowledgments

In the acknowledgments section of her book "Going Rogue", obtained by the Huffington Post on Friday, Sarah Palin thanks her friends in the media — by first name only:

To some media professionals whom I admire because you don't let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots' heads spin. Thanks for not taking our Freedom of the Press for granted, you bold and patriotic, fair and balanced media folks. Keep calling it like you see it: Amanda, Andrew, Ann, Bill(s), Bob, Cal, Dennis, Dick, Eddie, Fred, Glenn, Greta, Hugh, Joey, John, Jonah, Larry, Laura, Lou, Mark, Mary, Michael, Michelle, R.A.M., Rich, Rush, S.E., Sean, Tammy, Walter.... And there are more. I join you in standing up for what is right. Remember that as your voice is heard and your spine is stiffened, the spines of others are stiffened, too.

Some of the first names seem easily attached to last names — Ann Coulter, Bill(s) O'Reilly & Kristol, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, for instance — while others aren't quite as clear.

Who do you think Palin is thanking? Leave your guesses in the comments below, e-mail them to [e-mail], or tweet them using the hashtag #PalinMediaNames.

First Names
Amanda
Andrew
Ann
Bill(s)
Bob
Cal
Dennis
Dick
Eddie
Fred
Glenn
Greta
Hugh
Joey
John
Jonah
Larry
Laura
Lou
Mark
Mary
Michael
Michelle
R.A.M.
Rich
Rush
S.E.
Sean
Tammy
Walter

Comments

[DSOTM]

Hi Sarah,

From me and all of the Huff Post readers, you are quite welcome, us Fair and Balanced people accept your gratitude.

[Bill Swadley - Huffpost Blogger]

I guess she didn't want to piss-off Ann Coulter & Michelle Malkin by thanking Rachel Anne Maddow (R.A.M.) too directly.

[Traveller]

the names are associated with the figures in her head that she dreams up while she is in the toilet.

[GrammieJ]

actually, i don't care who she thanks in the media
everyone one knows who her media "friends" were, only FIX news was allowed to interview her after the disasters of the first few interviews­,,,,,,nice to be able to "control" the media, huh?

wonder why she did not agree to interviews by Rachal M or Keith O? they certainly asked and invited

she is a joke, look at the world today, folks, is she capable of handling all the important issues or does she think a "wink" and a "u betcha" will solve everything

it is like she is living in a bewildered world and thinks she is Samantha!!!

[hischagal]

Yes and "Vanity Fair" was the most fair and balanced. It ripped Palin to shreds. That was the best part. I can't wait to read the backlash from her fiction that's pawned off as non-fiction.

I don't think that she has even a remote idea of how discredited she will be. Additionally, she may be sued for millions of dollars by any number of people for slander and libel. By the time they're finished, her 1.25 million dollar book advance will be gone.

[GirlsRule]

Wink Wink, Tease Tease, Oh I Love You!......­...Please, that B S is so obvious.

[EndTheEcho]

My guesses

Amanda Carpenter
Fred Barnes
Michelle Malkin
Jonah Goldberg
Dick Morris
Hugh Hewitt
Laura Ingraham

And I feel dirty being able to match that many names.

[sbhudson]

I second all of the ones you've stated and have a couple to add:
Cal Thomas (of Fox "News")
Dick Morris (of being a massive tool)
Michael Savage (of his eponymous talk radio show)
Rich Lowry (of the National Review)
Tammy Bruce (Laura Inghram cohort)

[harriettubman]

LOL, only Fair, Balanced and Ask Me the Questions I Know About journalists..

[LinaLein]

I can't believe she thanked Rush... that takes chutzpah.

[gettingood]

of course she thanked fox. they allow her li.es because they li.e so she is thanking them for allowing the dec.eit to continue.

[jimmygee]

I say it's her family that we're yet to learn about.

[TominSD]

You can tell Sarah is a big fan of FOC (Fox Opinion Channel). I mean, the guys drooled all over her - and the women drolled all over Todd (remember Greta grabbing on to Todd's ah, well, chest on the snowmobile?)

[CollegeConservative86]

Would you rather Greta have fallen off the snowmobile? Oh wait you probably would.

[ashtray]

Guilty as charged!

[joyce2]

You have to be kidding fair and balanced don't make me laugh Look at this and read them tell me Faux is a news station,
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html about faux noise and how they can embellish about any news they want to.Fox claims not to be a news station but an infotainment station only

[stagebandman]

And now she has taken to insulting Katie Couric's looks. This woman has real problems with the truth. And yet, the right continues to accuse the left of lying. Amazing.

[kdlaiusa]

The phrase "fair and balanced" is itself a perpectual LIE for Fox News.