Leaked Emails: Sarah Palin Doesn't Give Out Endorsements for Nothing
Some testy emails between the camps of Sarah Palin and Alaskan Senate candidate Joe Miller, whom she endorsed, have leaked, and yikes! Basically, when Miller refused to directly answer a televised question regarding Palin's presidential qualifications, Todd Palin was... unhappy.
The Alaskan politics blog Mudlfats obtained these suckers. The first message shows Miller's surprise upon finding Todd Palin's nasty message in his inbox. The second is Todd Palin's original email, addressed to both Miller and SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford. He instructs Crawford to withhold further support for Miller in the wake of his ambiguous response to a Fox News question about Sarah Palin's qualifications for president. Then he turns to Miller and writes, "Joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works, is it to be completely one sided." (That's a question.)
Leaked Emails: Sarah Palin Doesn't Give Out Endorsements for Nothing
Leaked Emails: Sarah Palin Doesn't Give Out Endorsements for Nothing
Todd Palin probably would have preferred for these emails to stay private, obviously, but he's not breaking new, cynical ground here. Sarah Palin doesn't give out endorsements for fun. She's trying to build a power base in the next Congress should she decide to run for president — something she's clearly thinking about, and building the structure for, but not necessarily decided on.
But it's not surprising that Sarah Palin hasn't said much about Joe Miller in public recently. And so far, they're not challenging the veracity of this exchange.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
3 Oct, 2010: Toronto Star: Sarah Palin's defence of Alaskan mine threatens Canadian fish
Sarah Palin's defence of Alaskan mine threatens Canadian fish
The Dolly Varden carp isn't much of a looker except, perhaps, to the opposite sex of the same scaly species. What is exceptional (other than a name from Dickens) is how the impending death of about a thousand of these duller members of the salmon family changed Sarah Palin's life and influenced the fate of fish across Canada.
Of course, they're not the only factor. Still, their role is impressive, considering these particular fish in southeastern Alaska's Lower Slate Lake are, in all likelihood, quite dead.
It's a sprawling story that begins with fish and grows to include mining conglomerates, politicians, lobbyists, promoters, environmental activists and, in Canada, lakes with names like Bucko, Bamoos, Fish (Teztan Biny to the Tsilhqot'in people), Sandy Pond and Ruby Creek.
Already, there are winners and losers; there will undoubtedly be more.
Let me explain.
In June, 2007, Palin was governor of Alaska with political ambitions as vast as the northern sky. She'd already hired a savvy East Coast PR firm to promote Alaska (and herself) but she needed serendipity. And that's exactly what pulled into Juneau in the form of a luxury cruise, sponsored by the conservative magazines The Weekly Standard and National Review. On board were elite American journalists, including William Kristol, Fred Barnes and Michael Gerson.
Palin hosted a lunch at the governor's mansion and, when her guests wanted to do something “touristy,” according to a 2008 story in The New Yorker, she had them ferried by helicopter some 70 kilometres to the proposed site of the Kensington gold mine. She gave a barnburner speech about the benefits of the mine — owned by Coeur Alaska, itself part the Coeur D'Alene empire — and the folly of environmentalists, who opposed dumping millions of tons of mining waste into the Lower Slate. Apparently, she knocked everybody's socks off.
Barnes was “dazzled” by Palin's handling of the mineworkers who met the group, wrote the magazine's Jane Mayer, quoting him as saying: “She's got real star quality.” Long before John McCain announced Palin as his GOP running mate in August 2008, Kristol predicted it on Fox News Sunday.
Alaska mine promoter Randy Wanamaker, a Tlingit tribal elder and consultant for Kensington deeply involved in the regulatory process to launch the project, wasn't surprised. As one of those who briefed Palin on the importance of the Kensington mine during her successful run for governor in 2006, he knew she had the gumption to sell it. As he explained from Juneau: “She got it. She got it right away.”
Before long, Alaska's doomed carp were before the U.S. Supreme Court, after a lower court ruled that dumping mine waste in the lake violated the Clean Water Act.
The stakes couldn't have been higher. Regulatory changes to the Fisheries Act in Canada in 2002 already allowed such dumping in Canada, but this was the American test case, the first since regulatory changes in that country opened the way to depositing toxic waste in pristine waters.
Coeur hired Ted Olson, who made history by winning the Bush v Gore case before the Supreme Court, which ended the vote count in Florida after the 2000 election (remember hanging chads?), and put George W. Bush in the White House. Olson was Bush's first solicitor-general. With Palin as governor, Alaska intervened in support of the mine, and Wanamaker is proud to have contributed to the environmental case for Kensington.
“This is a muskeg lake, very sterile,” he said. “The fish don't live in it, they just pass through it.”
Environmentalists urged the Supreme Court not to follow Canada's example. “Canada is a cautionary tale,” Catherine Coumans, of MiningWatch Canada and a contributor to a court brief by Canadian and U.S. scientists, told Canadian Press in 2009. “What I'm hoping is that the Americans won't make the same mistake we've made.”
In June 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Kensington in a 6-3 decision, and soon thereafter, the mine opened. Tom Waldo, the Earthjustice lawyer who represented the environmental coalition that won the lower court decision, told the Star: “Look, it's not like they are destroying an incredibly productive lake.
“But it's the precedent it sets. If they can destroy Lower Slate Lake, they can do it do it to any lake, stream or river in the country . . . We fear it's just the beginning.”
While disappointed to lose in the Supreme Court, he's “cautiously optimistic” the Obama administration will reverse the regulation.
The ruling has no legal clout in Canada. But activists here are worried. Says Ramsey Hart, an environmental scientist with MiningWatch in Ottawa: “It gives the industry more backing for its claim this is an acceptable practice. It's the ability of the government to make regulatory change and have it justified. It means Canada doesn't stand alone in dumping mine waste into lakes.”
It's been a long struggle. While both countries amended regulations in 2002 after intense lobbying efforts, the U.S. did so by changing the definition of “fill” under the Clean Water Act to include waste, and Canada rewrote the Fisheries Act to, in essence, allow lakes to be reclassified as “tailings impoundment areas.”
The list of threatened Canadian lakes appears fluid. By MiningWatch Canada's count, there are 13 lakes potentially on the chopping block, with another six grandfathered in under the 2002 regulations.
To date, the most contentious cases are Vale Inco's iron ore project at Sandy Pond in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Fish Lake in B.C. A Sandy Pond environmental coalition has challenged the legality of the Fisheries Act “loophole” in federal court, and awaits a verdict. B.C.'s Tsilhqot'in First Nation, at the forefront of the fight against the plan to dump gold and copper tailings in Fish Lake by Taseko Mines of Vancouver, expects a final decision by the federal cabinet.
Gordon Peeling, chief executive of the Mining Association of Canada, says his association has sought intervenor status in the Sandy Pond case because there are potentially “serious implications” for his membership. (Officials with the Canadian organization and its sister in the U.S., the National Mining Association, claim their lobbying campaigns were spontaneous and independent, with no consultation.)
“You do realize that . . . (waste dumping) permits were allowed prior to 2002?” Peeling asked in a telephone interview from Ottawa. “The change was made to bring clarity to the process and provide more public input.” He calls it “the rare and exceptional circumstance” that a company opts to deposit waste in freshwater.
Hart disagrees: “Before, there had to be a ministerial order. You had to go to the minister to overwrite the existing provisions of the Fisheries Act.” Although cabinet approval is ultimately required on any project, he argues, “the process has been normalized. There are formal steps to take, a way to reclassify lakes and, for the most part, they go ahead and do it. . . . It's hardly a robust consultation process.
“It's the taking of a public trust — a lake — and handing it over to a company to use for its private benefit.”
Environmentalists say they don't indiscriminately oppose mining, but insist companies should handle the cost of environmentally sound waste disposal. Still, he believes the government has already made up its mind - and he may be right.
“Natural lakes can provide a long-term, stable environment for storing mine waste,” says the Fisheries Act website. “They have a small risk of failure when compared to artificial impoundment areas if no dams are required.”
Pushed at a public forum to close the loophole in 2008, then environment minister John Baird replied: “I'm not going to propose to change something I know we're not going to change.”
There's a similar sense of foreboding in B.C. Taseko recently appointed a director for its “Prosperity” project at Fish Lake. “What still has us puzzled is what the company thinks it has over the federal government that would allow it to act as if approval from Prime Minister Harper's cabinet is a foregone conclusion,” said Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Tsilhqot'in government, in a recent press release.
Her goal is to protect a lake long nurtured by her people and known for a unique species of rainbow trout, just as Sandy Pond activists hope to hold onto their own prize-winning catches. Meanwhile, these fish still swim, oblivious to the sad fate of their brethren, the Dolly Vardens, north in Alaska.
The Dolly Varden carp isn't much of a looker except, perhaps, to the opposite sex of the same scaly species. What is exceptional (other than a name from Dickens) is how the impending death of about a thousand of these duller members of the salmon family changed Sarah Palin's life and influenced the fate of fish across Canada.
Of course, they're not the only factor. Still, their role is impressive, considering these particular fish in southeastern Alaska's Lower Slate Lake are, in all likelihood, quite dead.
It's a sprawling story that begins with fish and grows to include mining conglomerates, politicians, lobbyists, promoters, environmental activists and, in Canada, lakes with names like Bucko, Bamoos, Fish (Teztan Biny to the Tsilhqot'in people), Sandy Pond and Ruby Creek.
Already, there are winners and losers; there will undoubtedly be more.
Let me explain.
In June, 2007, Palin was governor of Alaska with political ambitions as vast as the northern sky. She'd already hired a savvy East Coast PR firm to promote Alaska (and herself) but she needed serendipity. And that's exactly what pulled into Juneau in the form of a luxury cruise, sponsored by the conservative magazines The Weekly Standard and National Review. On board were elite American journalists, including William Kristol, Fred Barnes and Michael Gerson.
Palin hosted a lunch at the governor's mansion and, when her guests wanted to do something “touristy,” according to a 2008 story in The New Yorker, she had them ferried by helicopter some 70 kilometres to the proposed site of the Kensington gold mine. She gave a barnburner speech about the benefits of the mine — owned by Coeur Alaska, itself part the Coeur D'Alene empire — and the folly of environmentalists, who opposed dumping millions of tons of mining waste into the Lower Slate. Apparently, she knocked everybody's socks off.
Barnes was “dazzled” by Palin's handling of the mineworkers who met the group, wrote the magazine's Jane Mayer, quoting him as saying: “She's got real star quality.” Long before John McCain announced Palin as his GOP running mate in August 2008, Kristol predicted it on Fox News Sunday.
Alaska mine promoter Randy Wanamaker, a Tlingit tribal elder and consultant for Kensington deeply involved in the regulatory process to launch the project, wasn't surprised. As one of those who briefed Palin on the importance of the Kensington mine during her successful run for governor in 2006, he knew she had the gumption to sell it. As he explained from Juneau: “She got it. She got it right away.”
Before long, Alaska's doomed carp were before the U.S. Supreme Court, after a lower court ruled that dumping mine waste in the lake violated the Clean Water Act.
The stakes couldn't have been higher. Regulatory changes to the Fisheries Act in Canada in 2002 already allowed such dumping in Canada, but this was the American test case, the first since regulatory changes in that country opened the way to depositing toxic waste in pristine waters.
Coeur hired Ted Olson, who made history by winning the Bush v Gore case before the Supreme Court, which ended the vote count in Florida after the 2000 election (remember hanging chads?), and put George W. Bush in the White House. Olson was Bush's first solicitor-general. With Palin as governor, Alaska intervened in support of the mine, and Wanamaker is proud to have contributed to the environmental case for Kensington.
“This is a muskeg lake, very sterile,” he said. “The fish don't live in it, they just pass through it.”
Environmentalists urged the Supreme Court not to follow Canada's example. “Canada is a cautionary tale,” Catherine Coumans, of MiningWatch Canada and a contributor to a court brief by Canadian and U.S. scientists, told Canadian Press in 2009. “What I'm hoping is that the Americans won't make the same mistake we've made.”
In June 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Kensington in a 6-3 decision, and soon thereafter, the mine opened. Tom Waldo, the Earthjustice lawyer who represented the environmental coalition that won the lower court decision, told the Star: “Look, it's not like they are destroying an incredibly productive lake.
“But it's the precedent it sets. If they can destroy Lower Slate Lake, they can do it do it to any lake, stream or river in the country . . . We fear it's just the beginning.”
While disappointed to lose in the Supreme Court, he's “cautiously optimistic” the Obama administration will reverse the regulation.
The ruling has no legal clout in Canada. But activists here are worried. Says Ramsey Hart, an environmental scientist with MiningWatch in Ottawa: “It gives the industry more backing for its claim this is an acceptable practice. It's the ability of the government to make regulatory change and have it justified. It means Canada doesn't stand alone in dumping mine waste into lakes.”
It's been a long struggle. While both countries amended regulations in 2002 after intense lobbying efforts, the U.S. did so by changing the definition of “fill” under the Clean Water Act to include waste, and Canada rewrote the Fisheries Act to, in essence, allow lakes to be reclassified as “tailings impoundment areas.”
The list of threatened Canadian lakes appears fluid. By MiningWatch Canada's count, there are 13 lakes potentially on the chopping block, with another six grandfathered in under the 2002 regulations.
To date, the most contentious cases are Vale Inco's iron ore project at Sandy Pond in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Fish Lake in B.C. A Sandy Pond environmental coalition has challenged the legality of the Fisheries Act “loophole” in federal court, and awaits a verdict. B.C.'s Tsilhqot'in First Nation, at the forefront of the fight against the plan to dump gold and copper tailings in Fish Lake by Taseko Mines of Vancouver, expects a final decision by the federal cabinet.
Gordon Peeling, chief executive of the Mining Association of Canada, says his association has sought intervenor status in the Sandy Pond case because there are potentially “serious implications” for his membership. (Officials with the Canadian organization and its sister in the U.S., the National Mining Association, claim their lobbying campaigns were spontaneous and independent, with no consultation.)
“You do realize that . . . (waste dumping) permits were allowed prior to 2002?” Peeling asked in a telephone interview from Ottawa. “The change was made to bring clarity to the process and provide more public input.” He calls it “the rare and exceptional circumstance” that a company opts to deposit waste in freshwater.
Hart disagrees: “Before, there had to be a ministerial order. You had to go to the minister to overwrite the existing provisions of the Fisheries Act.” Although cabinet approval is ultimately required on any project, he argues, “the process has been normalized. There are formal steps to take, a way to reclassify lakes and, for the most part, they go ahead and do it. . . . It's hardly a robust consultation process.
“It's the taking of a public trust — a lake — and handing it over to a company to use for its private benefit.”
Environmentalists say they don't indiscriminately oppose mining, but insist companies should handle the cost of environmentally sound waste disposal. Still, he believes the government has already made up its mind - and he may be right.
“Natural lakes can provide a long-term, stable environment for storing mine waste,” says the Fisheries Act website. “They have a small risk of failure when compared to artificial impoundment areas if no dams are required.”
Pushed at a public forum to close the loophole in 2008, then environment minister John Baird replied: “I'm not going to propose to change something I know we're not going to change.”
There's a similar sense of foreboding in B.C. Taseko recently appointed a director for its “Prosperity” project at Fish Lake. “What still has us puzzled is what the company thinks it has over the federal government that would allow it to act as if approval from Prime Minister Harper's cabinet is a foregone conclusion,” said Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Tsilhqot'in government, in a recent press release.
Her goal is to protect a lake long nurtured by her people and known for a unique species of rainbow trout, just as Sandy Pond activists hope to hold onto their own prize-winning catches. Meanwhile, these fish still swim, oblivious to the sad fate of their brethren, the Dolly Vardens, north in Alaska.
3 Oct: WSFA News: Tickets to see Sarah Palin at Faulkner selling fast
Tickets to see Sarah Palin at Faulkner selling fast
MONTGOMERY, AL - The Faulkner University Benefit Dinner featuring Sarah Palin is nearing capacity. Tickets are selling fast, and seats are running out.
"This is the biggest dinner in our history," said Ben Bruce, vice president for advancement at Faulkner. "We are so excited to bring Gov. Palin to Montgomery, and it's obvious that Montgomery is excited to see her!"
Tickets are still available, but very few. Call 334-386-7257 or order online at faulkner.edu.
The event is this Thurs., Oct. 7 at 7:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Montgomery Convention Center.
MONTGOMERY, AL - The Faulkner University Benefit Dinner featuring Sarah Palin is nearing capacity. Tickets are selling fast, and seats are running out.
"This is the biggest dinner in our history," said Ben Bruce, vice president for advancement at Faulkner. "We are so excited to bring Gov. Palin to Montgomery, and it's obvious that Montgomery is excited to see her!"
Tickets are still available, but very few. Call 334-386-7257 or order online at faulkner.edu.
The event is this Thurs., Oct. 7 at 7:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Montgomery Convention Center.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
1 Oct, 2010: ABC News: Political Punch: New Chief of Staff, With Alaskan Roots, Not Liked by Sarah Palin
New Chief of Staff, With Alaskan Roots, Not Liked by Sarah Palin
The low-key Pete Rouse, whom President Obama will name chief of staff on an interim basis later this morning, has at least one high-profile detractor: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Palin has suggested that Rouse was one of the driving forces behind attacks against her.
In Palin’s Going Rogue, she writes on a period when “a group from the Republican Governors Association traveled north to warn us that I was being 'Emanuelized' or 'Thumped.' As evidence, they pointed to a book called The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. It's the story of how the Illinois congressman, now President Obama's chief of staff, had crafted and executed the ruthless 2006 campaign strategy that won back Congress for the Democrats. The RGA told us that Alaska was being given the 'Chicago treatment.'”
Continued Palin: "Their arguments fit the bill. Those who have seen this before traced the ethics attacks back to the period when I was being vetted for the vice presidential slot and also linked them to the partisan investigation known in the media as 'Troopergate.' Walt Monegan knew that I was well within my rights to remove him, and in normal times it would have been a nonissue, but a few days later, the troopers' union and a group of Democrats with close ties to a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, Pete Rouse, then Senator Obama's chief of staff, were demanding an investigation.”
Added the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, "Rouse had lived in Alaska many years before, returning only on a couple of occasions over the last decade. Yet, somehow, though he actually resides on the East Coast, and has for years, he still votes in Alaska through a voter registration address in Main Street in Juneau -- an address once shared by Alaska State Senator Kim Elton on voter rolls. Elton, who played a key role in advancing the Monegan issue as a ginned-up 'scandal,' has since moved to Washington and joined the Obama interior department as director of Alaska affairs.”
Palin also suggested that then-Sen. Obama lifted the incredibly common campaign theme of “change” from her gubernatorial campaign. “Every part of our campaign shouted 'Change!'” she wrote. “We were amused a couple of years later when Barack Obama, one of whose senior advisers (come to think of it) had roots in Alaska-- adopted the same theme.”
Rouse’s mother, the daughter of immigrants from Japan, grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1978, Rouse flew to the 49th state in 1978 to visit a friend, Terry Miller, a Republican who had just been elected lieutenant governor. Rouse became his chief of staff, returning to Washington, DC, in 1983, and working on the Hill for Democrats. Rouse kept many ties to the Land of the Midnight Sun, including his voter registration. The Anchorage Daily News notes that in 2008 Rouse voted absentee from Juneau.
Writes the Daily News: “There's no record now that he's still registered in the state. In 2008, he could have legally remained on Alaska's voter roles as long as he didn't vote elsewhere and intended to return someday. Voters also are allowed to remain registered in Alaska if they are working somewhere in civil service of the United States — a description that pretty much encapsulates Rouse's career. (He does not show up on Alaska Permanent Fund dividend records.)”
After Rouse was mentioned as a potential replacement for Emanuel, Palin tweeted: “Alaska's Pete Rouse (@ least he claims to be ‘Alaska’)finally comes out of the shadows; Obama looks to appt him COS;strange doings in the WH.”
She added: “(Rahm's the smart one...bailing before Nov) Now, check out possible COS Pete Rouse. His background, voter reg in AK,etc. It's a small world.”
After Palin resigned her governorship, Palin adviser Meg Stapleton told TIME that attacks against the governor and her family were from the White House.
"A lot of this comes from Washington, D.C. The trail is pretty direct and pretty obvious to us," Stapleton told the magazine, alluding to The Thumpin'. "It's the Sarah Palin playbook. It's how they operate.” The magazine wrote that “Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state's public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told TIME that “the charge is ridiculous. Obviously there is no effort ... From my vantage point, a lot of the criticism she is getting from others seems to be generated from self-inflicted wounds."
--Jake Tapper
The low-key Pete Rouse, whom President Obama will name chief of staff on an interim basis later this morning, has at least one high-profile detractor: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Palin has suggested that Rouse was one of the driving forces behind attacks against her.
In Palin’s Going Rogue, she writes on a period when “a group from the Republican Governors Association traveled north to warn us that I was being 'Emanuelized' or 'Thumped.' As evidence, they pointed to a book called The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. It's the story of how the Illinois congressman, now President Obama's chief of staff, had crafted and executed the ruthless 2006 campaign strategy that won back Congress for the Democrats. The RGA told us that Alaska was being given the 'Chicago treatment.'”
Continued Palin: "Their arguments fit the bill. Those who have seen this before traced the ethics attacks back to the period when I was being vetted for the vice presidential slot and also linked them to the partisan investigation known in the media as 'Troopergate.' Walt Monegan knew that I was well within my rights to remove him, and in normal times it would have been a nonissue, but a few days later, the troopers' union and a group of Democrats with close ties to a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, Pete Rouse, then Senator Obama's chief of staff, were demanding an investigation.”
Added the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, "Rouse had lived in Alaska many years before, returning only on a couple of occasions over the last decade. Yet, somehow, though he actually resides on the East Coast, and has for years, he still votes in Alaska through a voter registration address in Main Street in Juneau -- an address once shared by Alaska State Senator Kim Elton on voter rolls. Elton, who played a key role in advancing the Monegan issue as a ginned-up 'scandal,' has since moved to Washington and joined the Obama interior department as director of Alaska affairs.”
Palin also suggested that then-Sen. Obama lifted the incredibly common campaign theme of “change” from her gubernatorial campaign. “Every part of our campaign shouted 'Change!'” she wrote. “We were amused a couple of years later when Barack Obama, one of whose senior advisers (come to think of it) had roots in Alaska-- adopted the same theme.”
Rouse’s mother, the daughter of immigrants from Japan, grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1978, Rouse flew to the 49th state in 1978 to visit a friend, Terry Miller, a Republican who had just been elected lieutenant governor. Rouse became his chief of staff, returning to Washington, DC, in 1983, and working on the Hill for Democrats. Rouse kept many ties to the Land of the Midnight Sun, including his voter registration. The Anchorage Daily News notes that in 2008 Rouse voted absentee from Juneau.
Writes the Daily News: “There's no record now that he's still registered in the state. In 2008, he could have legally remained on Alaska's voter roles as long as he didn't vote elsewhere and intended to return someday. Voters also are allowed to remain registered in Alaska if they are working somewhere in civil service of the United States — a description that pretty much encapsulates Rouse's career. (He does not show up on Alaska Permanent Fund dividend records.)”
After Rouse was mentioned as a potential replacement for Emanuel, Palin tweeted: “Alaska's Pete Rouse (@ least he claims to be ‘Alaska’)finally comes out of the shadows; Obama looks to appt him COS;strange doings in the WH.”
She added: “(Rahm's the smart one...bailing before Nov) Now, check out possible COS Pete Rouse. His background, voter reg in AK,etc. It's a small world.”
After Palin resigned her governorship, Palin adviser Meg Stapleton told TIME that attacks against the governor and her family were from the White House.
"A lot of this comes from Washington, D.C. The trail is pretty direct and pretty obvious to us," Stapleton told the magazine, alluding to The Thumpin'. "It's the Sarah Palin playbook. It's how they operate.” The magazine wrote that “Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state's public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told TIME that “the charge is ridiculous. Obviously there is no effort ... From my vantage point, a lot of the criticism she is getting from others seems to be generated from self-inflicted wounds."
--Jake Tapper
Was Sarah Palin booed on Dancing with the Stars?
Hannity mentioned this yesterday. Apparently the cameras focused on Sarah Palin while the boos were going on, but actually the booing was for a dancer whom the audience didn't think got high enough marks.
From MetrowNY
Fans Booing Palin or Judges?
Was the audience booing Sarah Palin on Dancing with the Stars or not?
During Monday nights performance on Dancing with the Stars dancers Derek Hough and his partner Jennifer Grey were in the process of being interview while they began to hear booing. When the host and dancing asked why there was such a reaction the camera cut to Sarah Palin and host Tom Bergeron. It would seem that we had our answer as to why the crowd was booing.
The following night during the results show co-host Brooke Burke stated that the reason there was booing in the audience was because of Hough’s and Grey’s scores. I find that hard to believe since the pair scored the highest out of all the contenders, receiving eights from all the judges.
Bergeron went on listing the same reason during his appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show Monday evening. To give an answer the controversy the show has even produced unedited footage showing that the crowd was in fact booing the judges.
The footage showed exchanges between themselves and members of the audience. There is also a few screams for “nines” that are heard, which weren’t audible during Monday nights viewing.
I have to admit when I first watched Monday night, I was almost positive they were booing Palin. Both Bergeron, Palin and her youngest daughter had awkward looks on their faces, which showed discomfort, and gave audiences a reason to assume the booing was intended for the previous vice presidential candidate.
I was quite upset Monday, I am by no means a fan of, or support Sarah Palin, but left me feeling bad for Palin’s youngest daughter.
While Dancing with the Stars has answered the questions as to why the fans were booing, I am sure there will still be some who are doubtful about the explanation.
From MetrowNY
Fans Booing Palin or Judges?
Was the audience booing Sarah Palin on Dancing with the Stars or not?
During Monday nights performance on Dancing with the Stars dancers Derek Hough and his partner Jennifer Grey were in the process of being interview while they began to hear booing. When the host and dancing asked why there was such a reaction the camera cut to Sarah Palin and host Tom Bergeron. It would seem that we had our answer as to why the crowd was booing.
The following night during the results show co-host Brooke Burke stated that the reason there was booing in the audience was because of Hough’s and Grey’s scores. I find that hard to believe since the pair scored the highest out of all the contenders, receiving eights from all the judges.
Bergeron went on listing the same reason during his appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show Monday evening. To give an answer the controversy the show has even produced unedited footage showing that the crowd was in fact booing the judges.
The footage showed exchanges between themselves and members of the audience. There is also a few screams for “nines” that are heard, which weren’t audible during Monday nights viewing.
I have to admit when I first watched Monday night, I was almost positive they were booing Palin. Both Bergeron, Palin and her youngest daughter had awkward looks on their faces, which showed discomfort, and gave audiences a reason to assume the booing was intended for the previous vice presidential candidate.
I was quite upset Monday, I am by no means a fan of, or support Sarah Palin, but left me feeling bad for Palin’s youngest daughter.
While Dancing with the Stars has answered the questions as to why the fans were booing, I am sure there will still be some who are doubtful about the explanation.
2 Oct, 2010 - Saturday: Bristol Palin in the news
Here's the headlines of what Google News' site has on Bristol Palin today.
Bristol Gets Political -- Daily Beast (blog) - Mike Rhodes - 9 hours ago
As she waltzes into American living rooms on Dancing With the Stars, Sarah Palin's oldest daughter is also ramping up her public speaking. ...
Bristol Palin's Dancing Dedication-- The Gossip Girls
Was the audience booing Sarah Palin on Dancing with the Stars or not? -- Metrowny.com (blog)
Bristol Palin speaks at Visalia fundraiser -- ABC30.com
Bristol Gets Political -- Daily Beast (blog) - Mike Rhodes - 9 hours ago
As she waltzes into American living rooms on Dancing With the Stars, Sarah Palin's oldest daughter is also ramping up her public speaking. ...
Bristol Palin's Dancing Dedication-- The Gossip Girls
Was the audience booing Sarah Palin on Dancing with the Stars or not? -- Metrowny.com (blog)
Bristol Palin speaks at Visalia fundraiser -- ABC30.com
2 Oct, 2010 - Articles covering Sarah Palin's stalker
There are a lot of articles today covering the news of the teenage kid who has been stalking Palin for a while.
Sarah Palin takes legal action against teen stalker -- Hindustan Times - 2 hours ago
Sarah Palin has taken out a protective order against a teenage stalker, who claims to have had an affair with her. Shawn Christy, 18, has allegedly been ...
Mama Grizzly Restrains Distraught Pennsylvania Man I -- nternetbits
Sarah Palin Gets A Restraining Order! -- PerezHilton.com
Sarah Palin in fear: Files for restraining order -- Examiner.com
I shared an article about this yesterday, so I won't post it again.
Sarah Palin takes legal action against teen stalker -- Hindustan Times - 2 hours ago
Sarah Palin has taken out a protective order against a teenage stalker, who claims to have had an affair with her. Shawn Christy, 18, has allegedly been ...
Mama Grizzly Restrains Distraught Pennsylvania Man I -- nternetbits
Sarah Palin Gets A Restraining Order! -- PerezHilton.com
Sarah Palin in fear: Files for restraining order -- Examiner.com
I shared an article about this yesterday, so I won't post it again.
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