Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from Palin's memoirs:
- The Cover Byline: Palin didn't write the book by herself. Most books with known ghostwriters list their co-author's name on the cover. In this case it was Lynn Vincent (a well-known homophobe). Going Rogue does not.
- The Subtitle: An American Life. Aside from her infancy, Palin has really spent very little time outside of Alaska, and according to John McCain's campaign advisors, was shockingly unfamiliar with American geography and American history. "Alaska," as John McPhee noted in his resplendent Coming Into the Country, "is a foreign country...Its nature is its own."
- Going Rogue features Palin's obsession with Katie Couric and characterizes the CBS anchor as "badgering." Palin refused to prep for the Couric interview because she was more concerned about her popularity in Alaska than about what was best for the campaign. Was it really badgering to ask what books or periodicals Palin read? Palin further claims that Couric suffered from low self-esteem. In fact, according to those close to Palin, it's the former governor who suffers from low self-esteem and frequently projects that onto other women.
- Palin asserts that there was a "jaded aura" around McCain's political advisors once she entered the campaign. In fact, McCain's aides bent over backwards to protect Palin and to try to get her up to speed on international affairs. In addition to not knowing whether or not Africa was a continent, according to sources in the McCain campaign, Palin also didn't understand the difference between England and Great Britain. And much, much more.
- Palin contends to have been saddled with legal bills of more than $500,000 resulting from what she calls "frivolous" ethics complaints filed against her. The lion's share of those bills resulted from the ethics complaint she filed against herself in a legal maneuver to sidestep the Troopergate charges being brought against her by the bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council.
- Palin rather astonishingly claims that she was saddled with $50,000 in bills for the legal fees associated with her vice-presidential vetting. A) She was not vetted; B) A McCain campaign advisor says this is "categorically untrue."
- Palin states that she found out only "minutes" before John McCain's concession speech that she would not be allowed to make remarks of her own introducing McCain. In fact, she had been told at least three times that she would not be allowed to give the speech and kept lying about it in the hopes of creating some last-minute chaos that would allow her to assume the dais.
- Palin asserts that her effort to award a license for a natural gas transmission line was turning a "pipe dream" into a pipeline. Although she claimed otherwise in her speech at the GOP convention, there is no pipeline. It remains a pipe dream.
- Palin implies that the McCain campaign intentionally bungled the release of information regarding her daughter Bristol's pregnancy and refused to let her rewrite it. In fact, the McCain campaign allowed her to rework the draft, but the original version went out accidentally. Palin reportedly accepted the recalcitrant staff member's apology for the mistake, then when she left, ordered her immediately dismissed of her duties.
- Palin complains that McCain's senior advisors, most notably Steve Schmidt, forced her to "stick with the script" they provided her. In fact, Schmidt & Co. were encumbered with the task of keeping Palin from lying and misleading people throughout the campaign, from her well-documented lies about the "Bridge to Nowhere" to her duplicities about her husband Todd's assocation with the Alaska Independence Party. Palin's lying to those in the McCain campaign was so troubling to them that they cringed every time she went "off script."
And that's just for starters.
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.
Read more from Huffington Post bloggers:
Geoffrey Dunn: Going Rouge Skewers Palin
One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by (who else?) Rupert Murdoch.
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Don't be the last one to come to your senses, Palinistas
I stood in line to get my copy of this book fearing it might be sold out. Hot chick on the cover, so far so good.
To my chagrin it didn't start out well. I thought at some point this has to get better. But guess what it doesn't! There's nothing about dex rolls, dps builds, searching for traps, sneak attacks, +4 daggers or anything!
All it is some woman whining about how everyone in her party wouldn't let her make any decisions, about how a Couric made her look like a complete idiot (I couldn't find it in the monster manual but, I'm guessing it must be like a Sphinx), and how her group leader wouldn't let her be rogue enough.
She doesn't even have any daggers! I mean, that's hardly the group leader's fault! She should have loaded out before the quest started!
Plus, on every single page she bemoans her 8 INT build and blames her horrible playing on everyone else! It's her fault for putting all her stat points into Charisma!
To sum up, this book is terrible. It's anti-rogue if anything. If you want a book on how not to be a rogue this has got to be the bible. I'm going back to the store now to see if I can get my hard earned cash back for this awful drek.
In order for Dps to survive they need a tank that can Hold aggro.
It is obvious that Sarah's dps build is equivelent to improperly distributi
By quitting as governor she can not hold the required threat needed. We havehave seen, in those that surrounded her during the elections, were nothing more then fodder under her succubus gaze.
I took a look at the book to verify this item, and in fact Palin doesn't acknowledg
I'm no fan of Palin, but I'm also not a publishing expert. Can anyone verify how much of the book was written by Vincent? Can Palin simply leave Vincent off the copyright page even if Vincent wrote enough of the text to be a co-author? If so, then there is really no telling how much (if any) of the book Palin wrote. But by the same token it would then appear to fall into the category of ghostwritt
I think the true test of Palin will continue to be how she behaves when off script, or when she is on live TV or otherwise has to think on her feet. On that score she has consistent
Word salad. Word salad, word salad, word salad.
Give the woman a teleprompt
What about being born in Hawaiii?
Sometimes journalist
So to your question about hawaiian..
But I don't believe it's a lie. (That's the point of the blog post, remember?)
Alaska is a frontier, which means it has more in common with the rugged individual
It's a matter of perspectiv
She claims the McCain camp "forced" her to sitck to the script, and you claim they "cringed" when she went off script.
So it's a lie because they didn't keep her on script at gunpoint?
Next thing you know, you'll tell me that Al Gore didn't really "take the intiative in creating the Internet."
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Palin built the pipeline the same way Gore created the Internet.
She rivals Reagan only in the manner of how she can make totally outrageous statements and flat out lies, and get away with it.
No longer. Looks and a narrow political agenda catering to religious extremists can only carry her so far. She's a one-trick pony. A cartoon. Kitsch.
She's not interested in governing, hence quitting her governorsh
For, if the comments - and number of articles - on this newspaper are anything to go by, I imagine that Mrs Palin must now be chortling with glee at the interest her book has generated in left-wing America.
As they say - "there is no such thing as bad publicity.
She can chuckle all she wants.....
Rage on, Sarah! Every TV show! Every magazine! Please!!
Boy you caught her red handed there.
This was something a couple of journaslis
Bottom line, the ppl on this board, if God Himself (do you folks believe in God? Ha, just kidding) came down and confirmed something she said, you would accuse God of being brainwashe
It's that elitist POV that turns the stomachs of many people, who are getting tired of being told they are too dumb to run their lives or spend their money, and that ppl like you have to do it for them. This is the greatest threat to your gov't (Lib) majority, and Palin's greatest advantage. Ignore that at your own peril.
And you claim that this proves that she wasn't in debt because of lawsuits?
Just because the money was spent on a legal maneuver, rather than an actual suit makes this is a lie?
Really?
The lie is that she's exaggerati
She wouldn't have done it if she hadn't been sued, so it WAS caused by the lawsuit.
Big stretch there Geoffrey..
If you can provide the ghostwrite
Anyway, yeah, middle America fell in love with Reagan, too, what's your point. Oh, wait, I get it. We in middle America aren't as smart or as qualified to vote - and certainly not smart enough to decide how we spend the money we earn or run for office... gotcha.
Yeah, I cling to my guns and my religion, too.