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Well, well, well. Like the old saying goes, “what’s done in the dark …
According to a tell-all book to be released this month, staunch Republican and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reportedly had a one-night stand with former Heat/Hornet/Laker brother Glenn Rice.
The book, entitled “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” by Joe McGinniss, said that Palin and Rice met when she was a sports reporter for Anchorage TV station KTVV and Rice was a 6 ft. 8 forward at the University of Michigan.
The tryst occurred in 1987, and Tea Party Palin was described by a friend as the aggressor, with a pal reporting “she hauled his a** down.”
The book also reports that Palin was once seen snorting cocaine off the top of a 55-gallon drum while snowmobiling with friends as well as smoking pot with a professor.
The 230-page book is due in stores next week.
Sarah Palin spoke Thursday at the Long Island Association, a business group in New York. The event was notable for the fact that Palin invited the press–something she does rarely. And it was newsworthy in that she gave another sign she might actually run for president: News reports say she hinted with a smile that someone who is good at multitasking (“a woman, a mom”), as well as someone who’s already run for something (“a vice-presidential candidate?”) would be most qualified for the job.
During the event, in which Palin was interviewed by the Long Island Association’s president, she sounded off about presidential things–the deficit, whether or not to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and President Obama’s health-care reform law. And she weighed in on the debate over Obama’s citizenship, reportedly saying it is “distracting. It gets annoying. Let’s stick to what really matters.”
But if that’s what she really wants people to do, why did she crack a joke about Michelle Obama’s campaign to make it easier for women to breastfeed? When the conversation turned to the escalating price of gas and groceries, Palin reportedly said, “It’s no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breastfeed your baby–yeah, you better–because the price of milk is so high right now!”
It may have just been an attempt to draw a laugh from the crowd over issues–childhood obesity and the medically proven benefits of breastfeeding–that are no laughing matter. But even though she followed up by saying “and may that not be the takeaway, please, of this speech,” it has become one of them. Headlines saying that Palin was mocking Michelle Obama’s attempt to make it easier for women to breastfeed have lead stories following the speech.
Who knows whether or not Palin will run for the nation’s highest office. But if she does, comments like this one do little to make her sound presidential. For one, even if it was a joke, Palin was making light of something that has to do with the future of this country–the health and well-being of its children. And even if Palin spent most of the talk discussing deficits, health-care reform and foreign affairs, it’s unnecessary side comments like these that will–whether she likes it or not–lead the news.
The instant Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were gunned down at a public meet-and-greet in Tucson, leaving six dead-including a federal judge, several retirees, and a 9-year-old student council representative-Tea Party grandmaster Sarah Palin and leaders of her movement swung into damage-control mode.
Palin offered condolences to the families of the shooting victims and called for prayers for peace and justice. Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer went further and condemned the shootings as “an attack on the democratic process.”
Palin’s and Kremer’s expressions of outrage are undoubtedly sincere and heartfelt. But those fine sentiments don’t absolve them of blame for helping to create the hyper-vicious, borderline-vigilante climate that has provoked more than one unbalanced kook -as the alleged shooter Jared Loughner clearly is-to blast away at innocents, under the guise of striking back at someone or something whose politics, ideas, religion, or race they hate.
That this country had entered a new era-where it was some thought it permissible to take the law into their own hands and bombard public officials with life-threatening letters, texts, phone calls, and in some cases physical attacks-was plainly evident during and after the health care reform debate last year.
Nearly a dozen Democrats and Republicans received threatening messages. Republican Rep. Eric Cantor got a bullet through his campaign-office window. Other legislators had their windows broken and their tires slashed. Palin didn’t help matters with her oft-quoted exhortation to conservatives to “reload”-complete with photos of her on hunting forays, gun in hand. Palin and GOP leaders drove home their message that political opponents-i.e. liberal and moderate Democrats-were ripe for attack when she plastered an image of crosshairs in a Facebook post listing 20 vulnerable House Democrats who had voted for health care reform. Giffords was one of them.
Palin sensed the dangerous line that she had edged up to with her depiction of Democrats in the GOP’s gun sights. She protested that she was not calling for anyone to slaughter them with weapons but to vote them out of office.
Sarah Palin took a shot at Michelle Obama during Sunday’s episode of her reality TV show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” alleging the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign attempts to deprive Americans of dessert.
While searching for s’mores ingredients on a family camping trip, Palin remarked: “Where are the s’mores ingredients? This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.”
Mrs. Obama has been a key proponent of an initiative to improve children’s health by encouraging better diets and sufficient exercise. In May she announced her “Let’s Move” program, which promoted dessert alternatives, among other dietary suggestions.
One in 3 American children is overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other illnesses. Obesity is even more prevalent among black and Hispanic children. Some public health experts say today’s children are on track to live shorter lives than their parents.
But Palin has maintained that Obama’s effort to combat child obesity — which was recently aided by the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — is one that seeks to take away “God-given rights to make our own decisions.”
During an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio program last month, Palin complained: “Instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician’s wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back.”
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SIDEBAR – Listen here missy, gun toting Mama,wannabe politician,ego tripping gal. Slow your damn roll!
Today is a new day. You may or may-not like or agree with President Obama decisions, but you should
respect him as your “President”. After all we put up with your GED mentality, I want to see the paper
work Sarah because I don’t believe you. Believe this everything happens for the good “PERIOD”. It takes
a person that forgives there self everyday, a person that loves themselves everyday, and a person that
thanks God daily for all. For we are all one, there is no separation. Get a grip Palin!
It seems that Sarah Palin had some of the pages leaked from her new book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag. The pages that just so happened to be “leaked,” were those of a racial tone…against the President and the First Lady. In her new book, she calls herself taking a stab at Michelle Obama over an old beaten up remark that was taken out of context during the elections.
In one excerpt she talks of President Obama’s views of racial inequality in America. She said that he believes that America — at least America as it currently exists — is a fundamentally unjust and unequal country. But, she goes too far saying:“Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn’t surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church listening to his rants against America and white people.”
Whooooaaa!! You best pump your breaks now country girl. Everyone knows, after Michelle Obama took her time to set the record straight, that what she really said was that she was “for the first time in her adult life, really proud of America” wanting to change. She was really proud of the young voters showing up at the polls and all of the effort we were putting in to really change the landscape of America.
Sarah Palin will get her G.E.D. one day. Until that magical moment though, we wish her luck out there…NOT! She is beggin’ for it!
Sarah Palin can take down the fence.
Palin’s neighbor of three months on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
His arrival in May made headlines and drew an indignant reaction from Palin and a visit from her husband, Todd. The Palins even tacked an extension onto an 8-foot board fence between the homes, leaving only a part of their second-story home visible from McGinniss’ driveway.
Peeping into windows or peering through knotholes was never part of his research, McGinniss said.
“I’ve been very busy but on Lake Lucille it’s been very quiet,” he said. “As I told Todd back in May – he came over to get in my face about moving in there – I said, ‘You’re not even going to know I’m there. A lot of the time, I’m not going to be here. And when I am, I mind my own business. I don’t care what happens on your side of the fence. That’s not why I’m here.’”
And that’s how it has played out, McGinniss said.
A Palin spokesman didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail Saturday seeking any comments from the governor on the author’s departure.
McGinniss has written best-selling books, including “The Selling of the President,” on the marketing of Richard Nixon, “Fatal Vision,” an account of the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, and “Blind Faith,” about a businessman’s contract killing of his wife.
He’s no newcomer to Alaska. Thirty-five years ago, McGinniss moved to the state to see how new oil money would affect Alaskans. He wrote a draft, returned for three months in 1977, and two years later completed “Going To Extremes.” The book has recently been reissued.
Sarah Palin and her supporters may think she’s hot stuff, but reality says different.
According to a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, 59 percent of Americans think Sarah Palin is not fit to be president of the United States
Meanwhile, 26 percent say they think she would be an effective commander-in-chief. The poll also shows Republicans splitting 47-40 on the question of whether Palin can lead the country.
Those numbers should be comforting to liberals, but on the other hand, 76 percent of respondents said Mel Gibson’s recent misogynistic and racist tirade won’t affect whether or not they’ll see his movies
Move over, Glenn Rice and Wyclef—apparently former 76er Charles Barkley has got a Sarah Palinjones as well.
On top of the recent bombshell revelation that Tea Party Palin allegedly had a one-night stand with former NBA player Glenn Rice, Barkley recently announced that he had been “crushin’” on Ms. Right Winger for quite a while.
Barkley appeared on ESPN’s “Waddle and Wally” radio show, where he gave kudos to Rice for allegedly sleeping with the former vice presidential candidate.
“If that story is true, more power to Glenn Rice. I would never vote for her, I’ll always vote Democratic. I think you’ve got a better chance of helping poor people if you vote Democratic…but I’ll always have a thing for Sarah Palin, and when I read that (about the Rice-Palin hookup), Glen Rice is my hero.”
Back in January, Barkley let loose about his attraction to Palin to “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan. Morgan responded, “Let me tell you something about Sarah Palin; She’s good masturbation material.”
Yes, unfortunately we remember that. Just like it was yesterday.