Palins to Divorce?
The blogosphere in Alaska is on fire this morning after explosive new allegations about former governor Sarah Palin and ex-First Dude Todd. Reports say among other things, that divorce is in the air, although the Palin's continue to appear together in public.
The story, first reported by The Immoral Minority blog who claims sources close to the Palins has been picked up by many other blogs and local media including the Alaska Report, source of the infamous "Iceberg Scandal" reports that promised Palin's political demise just weeks before she stepped down as governor, 18 months before the end of her first term. Palin cited multiple ethics complaints, lame duck status, and mounting personal legal bills as the reasons she was resigning, and said she was doing so in the best interest of Alaskans.
Recent poll numbers released yesterday suggest that Alaskans may not be buying that line of reasoning, showing Palin's unfavorable ratings in the state surpassing her favorable ones for the first time since taking office back in 2006.
In addition to the divorce allegations, which state that Palin's wedding ring, conspicuously missing from her finger recently, now resides at the bottom of an unnamed Alaskan lake, IM reports that "explosive" news in the form of a recent Levi Johnston interview with Vanity Fair, is due out in October. Also reported is that Levi Johnston's mother Sherry Johnston, who stands accused of drug charges in Wasilla, had her sentencing moved forward from yesterday's scheduled date to August 19. Although attorney Rex Butler stated the delay was requested to allow for specialized medical treatment plan to manage Johnston's chronic pain from back surgery, the blogger claims the delay will allow negotiations which were not possible under the Palin administration. IM's sources say that Palin as governor was pushing for the maximum possible sentence, and that the new Parnell administration is not.
This is but the latest chapter in a contentious relationship between Palin and local bloggers. Within hours of the first blog post, the rapidly spreading story prompted a harsh response on Facebook from Palin's spokeswoman Meg Stapleton of SarahPAC denying at least some of the allegations in the story.
Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent "story" (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing. The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last week it was reported to be Long Island).Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to "quit making things up." We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story before repeating it.
A slow news day in Alaska? No such thing.
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"Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story." Would this be similiar to so-called "death panels".
Ah, well if the Republicans are also doing it, that clearly mitigates our culpability. It's all means and ends, right? The virtue of our goals will wash our sins away.
Is this really what we want? Doesn't anybody else miss firm footing on the moral high-ground?
Well we don't "know" Sarah Palin will get a divorce but we do know she told a "story" re death panels and her son being " offed". Off hand, I would say the "story" re the divorce isn't a thing to affect anyone other than the Palins and the story re the "death panels" is a deliberate, malicious lie which endangers the lives of tens of millions of people.
Huffpo readers seem so credulous in their responses to even the most bizarre rumors about this woman (eg. the Trig pregnancy scandal). I find it depressing that otherwise rational, thoughtful, relatively nonjudgmental liberals can be so easily manipulated by manufactured news. And the response to evidence the story was spun from whole cloth? "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Amazing what we can be induced to believe about people we don't like; makes me wonder about some of what we've come to believe about people we do.
Sort of like the stories the birthers have to say or the anti-abortionists or those who compare Obama's health care policy to the policies of Hitler or Stalin. Only difference is that the rumor of the divorce is not really important and the rumor of death panels and the president not having been born in America etc are dangerous and deliberately plying upon fears. Its amazing what people can be induced to believe.
Ah, now I get it. Spreading inflammatory propaganda is only acceptable on issues that aren't that important. I guess that's kind of like saying, "Oh, I don't see any problem with me shoplifting candybars and such, but I'd never steal anything really valuable!" I mean, it's only a minor vice, right?
Which is a fiction I could go along telling myself right up to the point I felt like I really wanted or needed something really valuable, and an opportunity presented itself.
I guess those of us on the political sidelines would currently be in the "suffering" stage then; we'll have to leave the pitying and embracing for later, I guess.
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." - Alexander Pope
Slowly but very slowly it has dawned on even obtuse Republican die hards that Palin was never ready for prime time and never will be. McCain's poor judgement sprung an over ambitious poorly prepared politician on the rest of us and for a time she got by, by clinging tightly to the McCain advisors talking points and giving very generic red meat speeches to her devoted followers. But no matter how closely McCain's advisor tried to shield the real Palin from us, her stupidity was revealed to the world when Katy Couic interviewed her. McCain's advisors knew right then and their the jig was up and tried mightily to still the guffaws coming from the media once they saw the truth, but to no avail. McCain not only sunk his own marginal campaign, he showed his disdain for America, by trying to win an election by counting on an American electorate too dumb to separate reality from fantasy. Palin realized her ability to fool the public was over for good. A pretty face and a script will only take you so far, even in politics.
I completely agree, Bob, except that McCain had nothing to do with her being selected as his running maate.
With no news in the last week, this looks like an attempt to get into the news again...so we will be talking about her, even though she has gone "dark."
Isn't her new Twitter account up and running yet where those flying fingers will be less politically correct? How much patience does she think her followers have?
I doubt it, but then again, why did Palin's lawyer tried to sue a blogger who had broke the news (or made it up) with libel? If you're happily married, then you don't sweat the "haters", though alas, I'm one of them.
Who will get custody of Greta?
I just shot milk from my nose!!!!!!!
Best Comment this year!!!!!!!!!!!
rofl (Todd gets alternate weekends and holidays.)
NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! If that chick moves to Montana I may be forced to move somewhere else. Stay in AK because MT doesn't want you!
All those big open spaces for her to run around in......and the fresh air will keep her coat nice and shiny!!!!
lol
What's the old saying?? Where there's smoke, there's usually fire? I bet the Palin's divorce before the end of the year.
I used to think it would be fun to keep Palin in the news for comedy sake. Now I'm just sick of her.
me too!!!!
Now why would a star like sarah leave someone with NO job, NO speaking skills, and that hair?
I believe she said. "Ya quit makin' things up"
and quit sayin anythin that isnt nice also you betcha!
Too...
Oh, let's not forget....
Sarah has quit two highly publicized speaking events recently,
Both where she was listed as a keynote speaker.
If the rumour is true, then this is just one more thing that she hasn't stuck out to the end.
Poor, poor Sarah. Always the victim. ALWAYS.
I'm tired of her being the little girl who cried wolf.
Why have one book when you can have two?
So should we expect more procreation or are they stopping with 5?
Newt, Vitter, Ensign, Pickering, Guiliani and Sanford all went through scandals of one kind or another and are totally shameless about it, so why not Palin?
Now she could move into C Street, where affairs are the norm, not the exception. Maybe Palin's goal is to be known as The First Cougar.
Hard not to feel sorry for her kids if any of this is true. They are the innocent victims of mom's ego and political obsessions.
Because a woman would be judged more harshly than a man on such things.
Hardly. What happened to the reports of Palin's affair? Three affidavits not enough for our national media? They didn't need any evidence in the Paula Jones matter. And that would not have stopped them from going after Edwards. Edwards, Spitzer, Gary Hart - all had their political careers destroyed by affairs. Not so most Republicans, except the outed gay ones.
IOKIYAR. She'll be fine. If the media didn't care that she jumped on a plane from Dallas for a 12 hour ride to a remote Alaskan clinic when her water broke with a 7 month old special needs child, they won't care about this.
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