Palin e-mails revealed in former aide's upcoming memoir
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during a public appearance in New York on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011.
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The manuscript, penned by former Palin aide Frank Bailey with the help of Jeanne Devon and Ken Morris (both Palin critics), was compiled based on a trove of more than more than 60,000 e-mails Bailey sent or received during his tenure working for Palin, reports the Anchorage Daily News.
According to the Daily News, the 456-page document, entitled "In Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years," is an unfinished draft with no set release date.
In some of the e-mails published in the manuscript - copies of which were obtained by Politico and the Anchorage Daily News - Palin allegedly expresses negativity about her duties as Alaska governor, and vows not to participate with any television networks other than Fox News.
"I hate this damn job," Bailey says Palin wrote in an e-mail on April 28, 2009, just months before she resigned her post as Alaska governor.
Palin is also portrayed as holding a grudge against CBS News' Katie Couric, who interviewed Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign - to what many viewed as devastating effect.
"She SUCKED in ratings before she stumbled upon her little gig mocking me," Palin wrote, according to Bailey. "She did almost lose her job before that VP interview..."
She also criticized NBC's Ann Curry for having conducted what she described as a "sickening, sickening" interview with Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Palin's oldest daughter, Bristol.
The book reports that Palin, as a result, vowed to limit her appearances to Fox News - and to steer clear of the "bad guys."
"Every time we participate with the bad guys we are telling viewers/readers: 'go watch them! Tune in to what they have to say to bash us today!' I can't do that anymore," Palin reportedly wrote. "I am through with the idiots who use and abuse us--we can NOT win them over, I hate giving them ratings boosts."
Bailey, a former Alaska Airlines manager who joined Palin's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, describes the former vice presidential candidate as someone who was obsessed with maintaining her public image closely - and who was determined to avenge bad publicity whenever possible.
"We set our sights and went after opponents in coordinated attacks, utilizing what we called 'Fox News surrogates,' friendly blogs, ghost-written op-eds, media opinion polls (that we often rigged), letters to editors, and carefully edited speeches," Bailey wrote, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Bailey also wrote about Palin staffers' difficulty in pinning down her schedule.
"As mentioned in an earlier chapter, getting Sarah to meetings and events was like nailing Jell-O to a tree," Bailey wrote, as Politico reports. "On the campaign trail and as governor, Sarah went through at least ten schedulers, with few lasting more than months. Nobody wanted the job because Sarah might fail to honor, at the last minute, the smallest commitments, and making excuses for her became a painful burden. In at least one instance, a scheduler quit after breaking down in tears; another left after being accidentally copied on an email from Sarah trashing her."
And in one e-mail, from Jan. 2008, Palin allegedly expresses support for Republican Mike Huckabee in the 2008 presidential campaign - despite the fact that she ended up on the ticket with Arizona Republican John McCain.
"Huck's a good pick for me, just fyi," she wrote, according to Bailey.
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I shared it with some friends and one of them pointed out that if Paul wanted to attend he most likely lived in the state he couldn't spell. Priceless
Whines.
I just cannot visualize her doing what Obama does, such as fielding questions from reporters with President Hu of China. She can't handle the least bit of criticism and hides behind tweets, Facebook, and Fox News. As President she would have to be able to take a lot of heat, and to date in every single case, she reverts to her defensive "victimization" persona.
We have every right to be concerned about the mental health of our Presidents. The job requires a person with strong mental faculties that can withstand enormous stress.
It is widely believed that Palin suffers from "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" which is defined as a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6. Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Note that Palin exhibits all these characteristics, and more. She should definitely have a psychiatric evaluation if she has any serious aspirations to be President.