Palin's Bob & Mark Show Shame
As the inimitable Sarah Palin gets ready for the unleashing of her memoirs, Going Rogue, she announced on her Facebook page today that she's "very, very excited about the upcoming road trip for my book."
Of course she is. It will get her out of Alaska and all of the reminders of her failed governorship. Hopefully, she'll get more than a few reminders of her failed support of right-wing congressional candidate Doug "I Don't Live in the District" Hoffman, whose defeat yesterday can be directly linked to Palin's support. But that's another story.
Under a Facebook posting entitled "Road Trip!" Palin listed the "wide assortment" of interviews she's scheduling in a grueling engagement with the media elite.
We're in the process of arranging interviews with local and national media. An interview with Oprah Winfrey is already scheduled, and I'm also hoping to have the opportunity to talk with Bill O'Reilly, Barbara Walters, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Tammy Bruce, and others, including local Alaska personalities Bob & Mark and Eddie Burke. (Variety is the spice of life!)
Variety? Whew! You have got to be kidding. That sounds like the variety you'd find on the senior's menu at Appleby's.
But the mention of Alaska "personalities" Bob & Mark conjures up a truly shameless moment from Palin's past, and it will be interesting to see if she has the integrity to address it in her book.
Fortunately, there's an audio recording of Palin's memorable performance, otherwise she could deny the whole affair, as she does with virtually ever charge that's ever been leveled at her.
In January of 2008, Palin, while Governor, went on the Bob & Mark radio show with a pair of Anchorage-based shock jocks, Bob & Mark, who were belittling Palin's former mentor, the matriarch of Alaska's Republican Party, Lyda Green, by calling her a "bitch" and a "cancer." Palin actually giggled throughout their remarks (you can hear her sicko giddy response on the recording, including to a "fat" joke about Green) even though she knew full well that Green was a breast-cancer survivor. Palin then added ever-so-sincerely that "we'd be honored" to be visited by Bob and Mark in Juneau. She puts on that phony Palinspeak voice that she invokes when she tries to sound "official."
"She really has no moral compass," Green told me recently. "She uses people in a very un-Christian way. She only does what is best for Sarah."
Of course no one in the McCain campaign called Green or any other Republican leaders in Alaska before making the selection. And I wonder if she provided this tape to his fawning campaign manager Rick Davis before finalizing her selection as McCain's running mate? Let's see how she handles this shining moment from her life in Going Rogue.
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn's book The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power will be released by St. Martin's Press in spring 2010.
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I'm not sure why Dunn is expecting Palin to discuss the Bob&Mark radio show. She simply omits what she doesn't want to recall and then moves on. Selective memory distorts what her governance and personal life were/are really like.
God forbid that Palin gets anywhere near the Presidency. If she does she will use her position to go after her enemies. It is her trademark, so to speak.
An example of this is the current attempt by Harper Collins to silence two small anti palin bloggers who posted exerpts from her book. The publisher did not threaten big websites such as Wonkette, which had posted similar exerpts. Only the small voluntary, non profit making, yet highly critical ones. It's absolutely clear that Palin's hands are all over this intimidation.
You can read about it here
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/11/palingates-hit-nerve-letter-from-harper.html
This story should be taken up by the editors at Huffington Post - they should support the small bloggers in their attempts to expose Sarah Palin for the hypocrite that she is.
AP reported that Palin's "book" claims Couric was "badgering." Obviously, there will be no future interview with Katie who I thought asked pretty common sense questions, like "what newspapers do you read?" and had to follow up because quite frankly, I doubt $carah reads any. She wasn't playing ignorant, she IS ignorant.
I'm just waiting to see when Karma kicks in, although in so many ways it has - she just seems oblivious to it.
Lyda Green is my heroine. She has stayed classy through this whole mess, and said in one sentence
upon Miss Sarah's VP nomination what needed to be said without disparaging anyone :
"I wish the vetting process had been more thorough".
What kind of books does she read up there?
See Geoffrey Dunn's Profile
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Let's be fair here... Full Context
"A radio interview with Palin surfaced in which she discussed a petty, last-minute attempt by Lyda Green — the Republican state Senate leader and Palin’s political enemy — to change the time of this year’s state of the state address. The schedule had been set well in advance, but Green cited a transparently bogus scheduling conflict in an attempt to force the speech to a time that would have prevented Palin from attending her son’s graduation. In that context, Palin let loose a small giggle when the radio host called Green the "b word"
Nice try.
Laughing while a cancer survivor is called a cancer and a b****? Because of a scheduling discrepancy? Seriously, you're defending this?
Thought experiment: Obama is being interviewed. The host calls Palin a "cancer" and a "b***". Obama laughs. What would you say?
(PS it would never happen--the man's got class. But just saying...)
This book tour may very well be her last real moment in the spotlight. Pending some kind of frightfully surreal far-right revolution in the next year or two, she has no chance of being the GOP nominee in 2012. She'll pop up from time to time of course, but in the real scheme of things, she's meaningless.
Let us pray that, that is the case........Have thine own way lord
And don't you recognize a REAL Christian...
by theirs deeds and actions... not just their words. Sarah comes up wayyyyyy short there.
It's all ' words ' in Sarah's case. Like they say...Words are Cheap.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:19-21
They always ignore Matthew...
What no Katie or Charlie interviews lined up?
Nooooooooo!!!
wow! wonder if she'll book an appearance with Shannyn Moore?
Shannyn's radio show would be good, but Shannyn has a TV show now.
Decisions, decisions.....
inquiring minds want to know...
LOL! Now that would be a show I'd like to watch.
"It will get her out of Alaska and all of the reminders of her failed governorship."
Actually, she high-tailed it out of Alaska shortly after quitting her job, and has only been back briefly since then.
Don't know if this has been mentioned before but rogue is such an unusual word for anyone. According to the Webster's Dictionary a rogue is a scoundrel and isn't it used by police departments to depict criminals (Rogues Gallery), Guess she has been telling us all along the true nature of her soul.
You have obviously missed lots of postings of dictionary definitions of "rogue". Many of us have decided that she is very much a "rogue elephant".
The list of interviews, the majority of which she has appeared with numerous times have never had a hard hitting question within a thousand miles of said interview.
Guess they'll be pushing those free books when you sign up for a subscription!!
The same kind of interviews that Obama does.......ones that will not ask any hard questions. Please do not deny or make excuses for the man either!!
Hard question to you is "Do you consider yourself a Christian?" lol
Except that we're not talking about Obama. We're talking about Sarah Palin. Deflecting is not an actual debate tactic, sorry.
But who was the one who couldn't answer what kind of books do you read? Was that Barack hmmmmmmmm, unless he was wearing glasses and a skirt, I'd say it was your failin princess palin ! Also who was the one that said Africa, wasn't a continent? I guess that was Obama too huh?
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/sarahbook/?PROMO_CODE=8AEE-1&gclid=CNXS-bWV850CFRQpawodQ1VaMA
Too funny...Nexsmax does offer it for free with subscription or $4.97 if you are a current or former subscriber......$4.97!!!!
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