Pounding The Podium

What is with this guy?  Are there really that few news stories with Afghanistan, Climategate, The Harry & Nancy Show, etc., that he has to devout 2 shows in a week to an attempt to discredit Sarah Palin?

Newsbusters first reported on Olbermann’s fixation with Palin’s book in Brad Wilmouth’s column saying that “Twice in the past week, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has on his Countdown show tried to dismiss the popularity of Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue by mentioning discounts like Newsmax’s promotion that offers the book for $4.97 to new subscribers. Olbermann first raised the issue on the Thursday, November 19, show, as he mentioned rumors of high sales numbers. Olbermann: “Publishing industry rumors, first week sales more than half a million. No idea if any of them were not at these 50 to 75 percent discounts.”

No idea Keith?  As in “I did absolutely no research because I knew that I would be immediately discredited?”  It would have taken all of 30 seconds to verify that every one of the books sold on the tour were sold at list price (and the last I knew that was over 300,000).  So you are totally dishonest in this regard as you either never checked or choose not to report any news that made your ‘point’ irrelevant.  Let me see if I can find a correlation to your ‘brilliant’ analysis….Okay how about this, Sports Illustrated continually offers promotions around the start of the NFL season where you can receive various items like blankets, hoodies, etc. with your favorite teams logo on it.  Does this mean that the items have no value or that Sports Illustrated is offsetting the cost of the item with the subscription.  And why give a promotion on something that no one wants, like a Keith Olberman book?

In keeping with his theme that “hey, I’m an author too and a darn site better than Palin!!” Olberman says to his next guest ”

OLBERMANN: Millions, she got it upfront, right? Because she’s not going to get millions if they’re selling this book at Newsmax for $4.97. You and I, as authors, understand: Get it uprfront, right?

Keith continues in his totally incredulous way way as follows:

RICHARD WOLFFE: We would hope that Bob Barnett did his job in that way. But look, you know, she is turning out the crowds. This book is selling, and let’s hope people are reading it.

OLBERMANN: It’s $4.97! If we sold books for $4.97, they’d be stacked up out here and people would be taking them as they went home.

Well I don’t know Keith, that ‘used’ copy of your book on Ebay for $0.01 remains unsold.  But let’s see how you and your guest stack up to Palin and some of the conservatives.

Going Rogue: An American Life ~ Sarah Palin
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1 in Books

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government ~ Glenn Beck
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8 in Books

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (Hardcover) ~ Bill O’Reilly
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42 in Books

The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book (Hardcover) ~ Glenn Beck
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43 in Books

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50 in Books

Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis ~ ALGORE
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,092 in Books

Renegade: The Making of a President ~ Richard Wolffe
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,084 in Books

Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values ~ Keith Olbermann
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,084 in Books

The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders (Paperback) ~ Keith Olbermann
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #112,453 in Books

Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters (Paperback) ~ Nancy Pelosi
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #451,820 in Books

Wow, just think of how many really crappy books there must be between 50 and 3,092 and then 4,084 before we get to Keith Olberman’s stunning 85,084 topped by his 112,453 and yet still in front of Nancy Pelosi.  Your right Keith, in your case it makes every bit of sense to “get the money up front” let the publisher bear the burden of your flop.

Admittedly, I have never published a book, but I am encouraged by the fact that Keith Olberman has supposedly written at least two – I mean how hard can it be?

Next Mr. Olberman turns his attention to Sarah Palin’s planned visit to Fort Hood and expressing his ‘concerns’, really his ‘concerns’.  This from the same piece of brillance who said that nobody attacks military basis as all the soldiers carry ‘big guns’ – a remark for which he has never apologized, despite the horrors of Fort Hood.

“Olbermann brought up the possibility of “inappropriateness” of the visit to Fort Hood later in the show during a discussion with MSNBC political analyst Craig Crawford, who charged that the stop at Fort Hood “does look very opportunistic” and suggested it “could even backfire on the folks at Fort Hood in the end.” Right, opportunistic.  How anybody can listen to this guy let alone take him serious is beyond me.

The following sum’s up Olberman’s comments on the Fort Hood tour.

“KEITH OLBERMANN: Back to the book tour and this announcement that she`s going to go to Fort Hood. I mean, my instinct on this is if it will cheer somebody up there, I guess I`m for it. But politically, isn`t there an element of risk to doing this, a little sense of inappropriateness?

CRAIG CRAWFORD: Well, I mean, even giving the royalties to the victims doesn`t change the fact that it`s part of her book tour, and it does look very opportunistic. I just have a feeling that if Al Gore were to do this with a book, we`d be hearing a very different side of the story from places like Newsmax.

OLBERMANN: Yeah.

CRAWFORD: And if she goes there and, you know, talks to victims and tries to do something other than talk about her book, and if she gets very political, sure it can get backfire. It could even backfire on the folks at Fort Hood in the end.”

Apparently Olberman and Crawford have never viewed any of the footage of Palin visiting wounded soldiers and providing them comfort.

Inappropriate Keith?  I’d say you wrote the book on that.

We are admittedly far from the days when Virginia O’Hanlon inspired by her fathers admonition that you will “know it’s true if it is published in the New York Sun” sent her famous letter to the editor of that long gone periodical.   Now adays only the foolhardy regard any news paper’s opinion as factual without considering the political leanings of the paper.  Unfortunately very few papers, websites, books or other news sources are truly non-biased.

Keeping that in mind, I would like to discuss a stories that the media (especially the so called “new media”) considered  important that now is not, only because the story did not bear out the hopes and suspicions of the media source.

The media source in question in this story is the Huffington Post.  The subject of the story?  The death of census worker Bill Sparkman.

As the death occurred within a few weeks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tearful warning about violent rhetoric it was only natural for leftist journalists to attribute the death to Right Wing hate speech, some of them covered all their bases like Landon Ross who the Huffington Post describes as “A Los Angles Based Writer, Artist and progressive thinker”.  In his article of September 28, 2009 entitled “Census worker hanged – What Pelosi Warned?” he stated that “If it is revealed that his death was indeed a homicide (as an unnamed official has alleged) and not a suicide, then the media and the public have a very important challenge ahead.  Since polarizing political turmoil often leads to the level of crisis before the parties involved decide to moderate, the question is whether our nation can change course in time to avoid more bloodshed.”

The story on Harry Reid borrowing the Obama Bus was never really meant to be a story.  I was initially piqued about it when I heard Harry Reid lambasting David Broder.  As Broder is at BEST a Centralist and at worst way left, I was curious as to why Reid would bash him.  With so much else going on, it totally slipped my mind until I read the Jason Linkins article on Huffinton Post.

Still it was not going to be an article, just a quick little email to Listin giving him grief about his article.  And the following is the original email and Listins response.

On  Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Patrick Michael  wrote:
Hi Jason,

I just wanted to give you some feedback on your recent article on David Broder.  Now as a conservative, I am not a big David Broder fan, but I am not blind to his accomplishments.  The following is David Broder’s Biography from Wikipedia admitted a cheap, quick and easy research page, but one that is relatively factual and easy to use:

“David Broder Before joining the Post in 1966, he worked at the New York Times, Congressional Quarterly, the now defunct Washington Star and the Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois.
Today, the longtime columnist is informally known as the “Dean” of the Washington press corps and the “unofficial chairman of the board” by national political writers. For many years he has appeared on Washington Week, Meet the Press, and other current affairs television programs.^[3][4][5]
It was announced at the close of the August 10, 2008 broadcast of Meet the Press that Broder was celebrating his 400th appearance on that program, on which he first appeared July 7, 1963. He has appeared far more often than any other person. Excepting the program’s moderators, the person nearest to Broder in number of Meet the Press appearances is Bob Novak, who had over 120 fewer appearances.
Broder has been called “relentlessly centrist” by The New Yorker’s political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg.^[6]
Broder won his Pulitzer for commentary in 1973 and has been the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and since. He is the author of several books about contemporary politics.
In 1990, Broder received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
In 2001, Broder became a tenured, full professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism while continuing writing full time at The Washington Post. He generally teaches one class a year on politics and the press. This class meets at the Post. Merrill College Dean, Thomas Kunkel, described Broder as the nation’s “most respected political journalist” when he announced Broder’s hire. Broder has also taught at Duke University (1987-1988)”

In fairness, I also looked up your information on Wikipedia and you (much like I) don’t have one, or else you are using an assumed name.  Now I did find your bio posted above your articles on Huffington Post, it reads “Jason Linkins is a Political Reporter at the Huffington Post, covering media and politics. He’s based in Washington, DC. Previously, he wrote for HuffPo’s Eat The Press, and has also contributed to DCist and Wonkette.”  Okay, not 400 appearances on Meet the Press, but okay.

But now, since David Broder has dared to speak against health care being villified as you stated in your article “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — a man not known for his zingers — referring to his Excellency as “a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while?” Maybe because Reid’s had it with Broder’s walleyed Washington take and the way he never makes a lick of sense! In that regard, Broder’s got a tidy two-week nonsensical streak going, even by his own shockingly low standards!”

Yes Jason, that’s what they hand those pulitizer prizes out for “shockingly low standards” which explains the pletera of said awards that no doubt line the bookcases of the Linkins’ household.

Hopefully Jason they will develop a “Harry Reid – You got my back” award.  You appear to be a shoe in for that.

Sincerely,

Patrick Michael

To which Jason replied:

Re: David Broder article‏

From:	Jason Linkins (jason@huffingtonpost.com)
Sent:	Tue 11/24/09 6:38 PM
To:	Patrick Michael

Is your argument that David Broder’s long career entitles him to a pass when he’s demonstrably superficial on critical issues, or that my lack of a Wikipedia page forbids me from criticizing him?  Either way, it would appear to be you who’s not really heading in the direction of a distinguished career in letters.

Later, you can explain to me what “biograhy,” “pletera,” and “pulitizers” are!

Happy Thanksgiving!

In his defense, I did have the misspellings that he remarked on (shame on me) but my errors were in an email, not a nationally publicized article.  Other than that, hey – the guy wished me a Happy Thanksgiving!!

But, after that response which was no doubt intended to make me cry I had to write the story.  Hope you all liked it!!!

Remember when we were young and naive (me either) but I think that at one point in my life I used to believe that Politics made sense.  You know, if 51 % of Americans wanted traffic lights to go Green Red Yellow instead of Red Yellow Green, by God that’s the way it would be.  Sadly the truth is much stranger.  The truth is that if 95% of Americans wants Green Yellow Red and 4 Percent wants Red Yellow Green but 1% who happen to be lobbyists want their lights mounted sideways on telephone polls well…you know where to look for your traffic lights now don’t you?

How can this be fair?  I was reading a rant from some left wing blogger who was trying to convince me that “That’s how things are done in the big leagues”  Oh, Really? So that’s how it is?  Maybe that’s because we allow it to be that way.  And it is so easy to justify.  If you are a Republican or Conservative and ask a liberal or Progressive if the 300 Million dollars now included in “Special Language” in the Reid Bill for the State of Louisiana is a bribe  you’ll get an answer that is similar to the “That’s how the big league’s work” that I did.  Bob Beckel (everyone’s favorite liberal) said basically the same thing on Hannity.  And when pushed on the issue, what is the next line of defense that the left throws up?  No, it’s not the race card – the race card is their “game ender’, I’ve never had one honestly answer what was wrong with Republicans when Hillary care didn’t pass, we’re we prejudiced against women in pantsuits?  Surprisingly, I’ve never gotten an answer.  No, it’s not the race card it’s the Bush Card.

Yes, George Bush did it first, he was worse, that is the liberal answer to everything, I only hope that this card wears out quicker than the race card has.

Who remembers when Bush, Sr., said “Read my lips, no new taxes” he was villified by the left, how many times did we watch the enlargement of Bush’s lips saying this, time and time again.  But Obama has been the President with the free pass,the following list of the top ten broken promises is not from Fox News, Glenn Beck or even Sarah Palin, it is from that bastion of liberalism the Huffington Post:

1.  End the war in Iraq, troops home in 2009 – Nope

2.  Close Gitmo in first year of his presidency – Nope

3.  Immigration reform (substantial in 200) – Nope

4.  End Detainee Torture – I’m not going to say Nope on this, even though Huff Po does.  I’m not going to score this one as I do not know what critera Huffington Post was using to determine this.  But you can argue it anyway you want to.

5.  Break the cycle of Bush’s abuse of power – Nope Bush policies restored, and the administration as secretive or more than ever

6.  Pass Net Neutrality – Nope (PS:  Thank God)

7. No Earmarks in Stimulas Package – Actually I am laughing too hard over the thosands of earmarks in the Stimulas to type poperly

8.Dump The Patriot Act – Nope Apparently he found out why we have one, or just likes keeping secreats

9. Promised to redo NAFTA – Nope and has no known plans to

10. Promised no more Wall Street Bailouts – Well we all know how that turned out.

Please keep in mind, this is just the top ten, not an all exhaustive list, it does not even include my favorite “Lobbyists will not have a home in an Obama Whitehouse” I guess that means he makes them leave at night, because God knows that there are about 20 working there.

The bottom line is that Obama promised “No more business as usual” was it unrealistic to believe him?  Probably, but we (America) wanted so badly to believe in his “hope and change” message.  No one should feel more offended and more orphaned than the true believers who work hours and hours for this guy, just to see another Ivy League guy in a suit promising things.  And just think it is this loyal core of the Obama machine that falls into the 36%, and represents a number that shrinks each day as the Independent members of the 36% grow discouraged and leave.

Many of those on the right who voted for Obama were voting against McCain as much as voting for Obama, and many thought that he would rise to the job.  Well, if he made some effort to govern from the middle it would have provided the right with some hope.  But Obama was in a no win position between making his ‘friends’ or the nation happy.  He has choosen his friends more often than not.  Why do I say that?  Because it can’t be the nation.  Why would we possibly be attempting to raise taxes for a program that less than 1/2 of the country wants (actually 36%) when it will not generate jobs or even the health care benifits that it is supposed to for four more years?

If you COULD poll everyone in America right now, how would they rank the following problems?

Unemployment,  The economy, Health Care, Climate Change, Immigration, Afganistan

Would healthcare be on the top of the list of 50% (or more) of the country?

No, 36% regardless of where you went to school does not equal a majority.  It is not a mandate.  Repeating over and over again “America wants this bill” will never make it true.  Well, maybe it does in Obamaland, but no where else.

So, after my last article about “where do we go from here” I’ve been kind of called out.  I won’t mention the source by name,  but they felt that I was been a little disingenous about my reasons for leaving Gretawire and coming out here to the land of safe blogging (well apparently not too safe as I got called out).

Basically I was told “Well, I guess you are in the right place now, where you won’t be criticized or disagreed with, as this is your real comfort zone, however not very conducive to being the writer that you want to be.  Try not to fall into the trap of thinking that your political stand prevents you from standing up to those who exhibit PERSONAL traits that are distasteful and ignorant.”  Fair enough and well said.  I do however stand by my statement that I find blogging and arguing with individuals to be a total waste of time.  Liberals don’t come on to Gretawire to be converted anymore than conservatives do, and if anyone ever got their affilation changed from reading someone else’s view on GW it would be a first.

Regardless, the reasons that I choose not to be criticized or disagreed with are that my passions run deep when it comes to some things, and my health is very poor and very fragile.  It was for this reason (primarlly) that I left GW in the first place.

But I am not afraid of sticking up for my beliefs, and I am not afraid of sharing those beliefs.  I will just have to avoid as many pointless ‘he said she said’ arguments as possible.  I still have a tough week to go through medically, but I will take this weekend to rest up and get ready to battle some more.  I guess the best thing I can say is the old cliche “be careful what you wish for”

I’ve got to tell you that I am as frustrated tonight as I can ever remember being.  There is so much going on in the world today that needs good, dedicated, concerned and engaged individuals working on that it is difficult to keep track of it all.  Let me make a quick off the top of my head list:

Health Care

Cap & Trade

Union Card Check

Immigration Reform

2010 Elections

And on and on and on.  So what am I doing?  Writing articles about people writing articles about Sarah Palin because they make me mad.  That is in all likelyhood not helping the cause much.

This is why I quit blogging on places like Gretawire, not that I don’t think that there are some great conservative bloggers there, but because I was spending far to much time fighting with people with monikers like “Vixen, Robinhoodlum, Glenn Lachrymose, Obama Rocks, Zorra, etc.” and even though I would always tell myself what a waste of time that was, I would find myself doing it again next time.

Why?  Because I hate to see the left get away unchallenged.  I hate to see them look down their noses at people and treat them with their typical elitist snobbery.  I especially hate to see “men” or individuals who are supposed to be ‘men’ hiding behind a moniker and talking to women in ways that their mothers would have in all likelyhood slapped them silly for.

But as long as I spend time fighting that fight, no matter how personally satisfying, I won’t spend the time fighting the liberal agenda that I listed earlier.  Writing your Senators and Congressman (even the liberal ones) is more effective than arguing with some liberal loon.  I am also half convinced that more and more leftist bloggers are just employed to cloud the issues.

So I will continue to plug away sending letters, emails and op-eds anywhere that will accept them.  I can’t promise to eliminate my articles about liberals bashing Palin, but I promise to limit them somewhat.

Stay Free!!!

Does this look like the crowd at a Lady Gaga concert?

That stereotypical mush would be condescending, except for the fact that Sarah Palin is quite the looker. So therefore, anything (former) Gov. Gorgeous utters automatically comes off as genuine and dare I say, genius.”

Later on in the article Demis grudgingly remarks that Palin’s starting her tour in Michigan is no accident, but rather than giving the former Governor her due for keeping her word (something very rare in today’s political world) Demis snidely remarks “The Mitten State stop was intended to be the ultimate kiss-off to the John McCain campaign, as Palin made clear in her score-settling, factually challenged memoir. There’s no doubt that the operation blew Michigan, culminating with its bumbling pullout five weeks before Election Day. That’s when the veep-to-be “went rogue,” striking back at the McCain meanies.”

I think that “factually challenged” refers to the fact that the 11 (that’s right eleven) reporters that the AP assigned to ‘fact check’ her book found that Sarah Palin and her daughter actually stayed in an expensive hotel at one time.   As for the ‘ultimate kiss-off to the John McCain campaign why it must be, why else would a politician due something just because she said she would.  Remember Demis lives in the world of Jennifer Granholm.

It is also apparent that no one has ever treated Susan Demis in a sexist manner, or she would probably not be so quick to dismiss the treatment of Palin with remarks like “Why conservatives comically insist that Sarah’s sex appeal isn’t, well, part of her appeal, is beyond me, but it seems to be a fascinating psychological blend of cynicism and repression. Sorry, but it’s not her impressive reign as mayor of the Iditarod capital of the world (population 6,700) that lured screaming fans to a half-empty mall on a rainy weeknight.” I’ve posted a picture of the ’screaming sex crazed fans above and wasn’t Sarah Palin also Governor of Alaska and a former Vice Presidential candidate?   Neither of those accomplishments normally call for particularly sexy women.

It is really impressive that Susan was so able to so quickly forget her days of working for the Battle Creek Enquirer and become oh so far removed from the crowds at the Mall (who from all indications were typically Michiganders).  Sarah Palin is unlike Susan and her ilk at Huffington Post as she seems to remember where she comes from.

I was unable to make it to the signing last night, but two of my daughters attended for me in order to get some books signed.  Neither was a huge Palin fan upon going, they just wanted to get the books for their father because even if they don’t agree with me, they respect my opinion.  I’ve even posted a picture from inside the mall, is it just me or is the crowd of people waiting for an autograph not really typical of a crowd waiting to see some sexy women?  Both of my daughters left the booksigning being very impressed with the person that Sarah Palin portrayed.   Apparently I raised them with open minds, for which I am very grateful, too bad that practice is not more common.

Update:

Michelle Malkin posted this story about the much more offensive picture of Sarah Palin in Newsweek, no doubt our friends at Huff Po would have thought this was appropriate also:

The more offensive Newsweek photo of Sarah Palin

Everyone has commented on the cover photo of Sarah Palin that Newsweek editors used — a photo from a Runner’s World spread taken during the campaign.

Whatever the intentions of the left-wing Newsweek editors, I think Sarah looks fabulous.

The truly tasteless photo of Palin that no one is talking about is inside the magazine on p. 33, illustrating Christopher Hitchens’s broadside against Palin populism:

The dregs at MSNBC tried and failed to get away with faked photos of a sexualized Sarah Palin. Newsweek’s weasels found a way to evade responsibility for their rank sexism by using a photo of a real Palin doll in schoolgirl regalia.

Just another manifestation of Female Conservative Derangement Syndrome.

And no, it isn’t “playing the victim” to expose their bigotry.

It’s calling them out.

“Famous for Being famous:  The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air” is the latest rant from Bob Cesca – trust me he is a real person, he has even written a book called “One Nation Under Fear: Scaredy Cats and Fear-Mongers in the Home of the Brave’ what you never heard of it?  That’s okay it’s not a real book , it is a collection of  ‘blog like entrys’ in book form which contains some brilliant things he says about how unfair we are to suspected Muslim extremists.

Here is an example of the brilliant Mr. Cesca “Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.  All but one of these passengers were American citizens. And all they did was to comment about how close their parked airplane was to another airplane. It required FBI assistance in order to be booked onto another flight.  AirTran has since “apologized” and offered reimbursement for their missed flight and the cost to catch a flight on another carrier. I imagine that the lawsuits will fly soon despite their efforts. (oops, kind of made a pun there).   It really sounds like some folks just need to mellow out. I understand the need for vigilance, but it’s getting borderline retarded out there”  Wow Bob, that is freaking brilliant.  I can’t understand why you don’t have crowds of people waiting for copies of your book or why you are not #1 on Amazon (or anyplace else).  How do your comments play out now in light of Fort Hood?  Are you still prescribing unchecked Political Correctness?

Maybe that is Bob Cesca’s real problem.  No one takes him, his blog, or his little collection of essays seriously.  I can understand why that would cause him such frustration, and seeing the success of Sarah Palin must really irritate this guy.  But really Bob, let’s examine your article a little bit here.  First of all you start your rant, I mean ‘article’ by saying  “I’m not sure what I have more contempt for. Sarah Palin’s pathological lying or the people who can say with a straight face that Sarah Palin is qualified for anything other than a reality show contestant or the the Edie McClurg role in a remake of Planes, Trains & Automobiles.” and then continue “What’s even more alarming is the constant reporting from the cable news people this week: Sarah Palin is famous! Wow! But no one is digging into exactly why she’s famous.”

Well gee Mr. Journalist, beyond watching Tina Fey’s SNL  skits on YouTube, what kind of research did you do?  You called Sarah Palin a “pathological liar” without offering any examples (real classy guy) and apparently did zero research into what Sarah Palin is famous for.  What makes Sarah Palin special is that she started her political career by tackling corruption in her own party and took on the old-boy network in Alaska.  Something that requires a little more personal fortitude than simply calling someone names behind the dubious ’shield’ of the Huffington Post.

Your total ignorance of Sarah Palin’s background is manifested in your statements such as “Here’s how it works: Take a not unattractive rube with a screwy family and mix in some drama. Add cameras and POOF! We have a candidate/show.

Is there any other formula to explain the obsession with, say, Jon & Kate? Or the Balloon Boy family? The Sarah Palin Show is nothing more than a confessional interview with poorly articulated politics tossed into the mix.”

Does the fact that Sarah Palin has far more political experience than our President even counting his one year disaster of a Presidency count for anything?  I know that you didn’t do any research on this article Bob, but maybe you could have at least looked at the fact that President Obama did umpteen “Town Hall” meetings that were as scripted as an Episode of “Big Bang Theory” (just not as funny), were he was ever so fortunate to only have those who love him question him and he did that same phony “put my jacket over my arm and roll up my sleeves” move at every town hall less than 2 minutes into each speech.  he gave a speech a week, appeared on EVERY talk show with one notable exception and in 1 facebook post Sarah Palin changed the game.  Bet you wish you could do that with your little Wednesday article on Huffington Post.

So actually Bob, your literary effort consisted of seeing what Huffington Post was writing checks for this week, reading what the other ‘journalists’ had to say and putting your own little slant on it.  Great job.  But maybe if you are really after fame, you’ll learn that there is real work involved.  It’s not about kissing ass and saying what you are asked to say.  It’s not about acting like a wannabee rebel while spouting the party line (which is exactly what you are doing).

Ann Coulter has famously (and correctly) stated that “If you want to know what Liberals are up to, read what they accuse you of”.  Hmmm, sounds about right in this case.

Two of my daughters Carrie and Mary got up at 2:00 in the morning to stand in line at the Barnes & Noble in Grand Rapids, Michigan to get their dad a signed copy of Sarah Palin’s book.

I was unable to attend due to some medical testing that I could not reschedule.  So after the 2:00 in the morning line standing, my daughters went back to stand in line tonight and are just seconds away from getting into the bookstore!

UPDATE:  Here it is!!!