Early look at Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"
Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" will be released next week in a publicity blitz that includes an appearance on Oprah and a series of interviews by Barbara Walters on ABC. Then the Tina Fey look-alike will start her unorthodox tour of small town (real?) America. The Associated Press got an early look at her book, and here are highlights from the review:
Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. The vice presidential candidate confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.
Palin also writes harshly of CBS anchor Katie Couric, whom she describes as "badgering" and biased. Palin's series of interviews with Couric were widely regarded as disastrous, leaving the impression of an ill-informed candidate who was unsuited for the job. ...
Palin shares behind-the-scene moments when the nation learned her teen daughter Bristol was pregnant, how she rewrote the statement prepared on her behalf by the McCain campaign — only to watch in horror as a TV news anchor read the original McCain camp statement, which, in Palin's view, glarmorized and endorsed her daughter's situation.
Comments
Oh is the media going to have fun w this tomato of a book lobbed our way by the Alaskan (soon to b from L A) back woodswoman!!
I would have said that Katie the cutie Couric "racooned" Ms. Palin rather than badgered her (I've never got used to Ms. Courics hideous to me eye shadow). Why do women let themselves b dolled up in this way-
But is just the point- w Ms. Couric and Ms. Palin- Ms. Palin may complain about being "handled" but she has "handled" herself- she cannot be "real" any more than can Sheila Dixon or _________ fill in the blank- any # of men and women, who, in this society make money off of being "personalities". Neither one of them speaks the truth.
You want a truthful book by a woman? Try "Poems of Emily Dickinson" (I can't find the underline feature on these blogs, or "Diary of Anne Frank").
I think Ms. Palin should go on the stand up circuit rather than the "safe" little towns she is going to go to- where no questions of substance will be asked. In Baltimore, she'd be laughed or heckled off the stage.
The problem is with the policies she espouses.
As a reviewer, not having read it? I cannot recommend this book (this review dedicated to H L Mencken).
Posted by: david eberhardt | November 15, 2009 1:53 PM
I can't resist one other shot- heaving read in a review that Sarah finds her husband Todd, "quiet, strong, gruff, spiritual"- does he shoot wolves from an airplane?
Posted by: davideberhardt | November 16, 2009 9:47 AM