January 13, 2009 2:00 PM

Palin Discusses Bloggers, Mockery

By
Brian Montopoli
Topics
Republicans
(AP)
Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sat down for an interview with Esquire magazine, a portion of which is now online.

"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me," Palin told the magazine. She then went on to discuss a traditional news outlet, the Anchorage Daily News.

"I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom," Palin said. "And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."

Speaking of the Daily News, they yesterday posted an email exchange between Palin and the newspaper that serves as a public response to Palin's complaints about its coverage. It's impossible to summarize here, so I'd encourage you to click over; Palin writes that "You're stripping me of even a shred of faith in your reporting if any of the recent aforementioned strange and untrue reports were taken seriously by the ADN."

Back to Esquire, where Palin addressed mockery of her comment that one can see Russia from Alaska.

"You have to let it go," she said. "Even hard news sources, credible news sources — the comment about, you can see Russia from Alaska. You can! You can see Russia from Alaska. Something like that — a factual statement that was taken out of context and mocked — what you have to do is let that go."

Palin also repeated her complaint that she did not have enough autonomy during the campaign.

"If I were giving advice to myself back on the day my candidacy was announced, I'd say, Tell the campaign that you'll be callin' some of the shots," she said. "Don't just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya. Let them know that you're the CEO of a state, you're forty-four years old, you've got a lot of great life experience that can be put to good use as a candidate."

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by andie52 January 16, 2009 12:24 PM EST
"Palin: Alaska Will Sue to Prevent Protection of Beluga Whales" after she gets done shooting wolves from planes you betcha
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by Sharkdog2000 January 15, 2009 3:39 AM EST
Elitist: "someone who believes in rule by an elite group"

Elite: "a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status"

I am so tired of this word being thrown around like it''s a bad thing. So we should NOT try to find leaders of superior intellect? Yeah, that really paid off the last 8 years...

And if you don''t believe the Bushes qualify as "elitist" for their social and economic status, you''re kidding yourself. They define the word. I mean, come on - George even attended Harvard!
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by clifton-b January 15, 2009 12:44 AM EST
The real question is--how many of those posters would be crass, arrogant or stupid enough to run for office with their he11 spawn and family foilibles in tow?

Posted by harbinger09 at 06:27 PM : Jan 14, 2009

1. You obviously never heard the saying "you can choose your friends but not your family"!

2. You are buying into some phony elitist arguement that you must have a perfect petigree to be president. If this were true, neither Bill Clinton or Barak Obama would be president.

3. In case you were not aware, you proving my example of snarky wannabe elitists.
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by harbinger09 January 14, 2009 9:27 PM EST
Meanwhile, were these people to post pictures of their family we would find that not a one of them would be a suitable candidate for a Norman Rockwell portrait. Nevertheless on they go, throwing boulders inside their little glass houses. The sheer irony about it is real elitist would sneer, scorn and condescend these elitist wannabes just like the do to Gov. Palin. These people are exactly what Lenin had in mind when he coined the term "useful idiots".

Posted by Clifton-B at 04:28 PM : Jan 14, 2009


The real question is--how many of those posters would be crass, arrogant or stupid enough to run for office with their he11 spawn and family foilibles in tow? It looks like Sarah is an idiot--not for having a less than stellar family, but by even remotely thinking we wanted such a family as an example of high office and one therefore, we and our children and the world should look up to. Her daughter is a Highschool drop out (taking correspondence courses) and so is Levi--and Sarah Palin can''t speak English correctly to save herself--and she''s a certified airhead--they are losers with a huge "L".
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by harbinger09 January 14, 2009 9:24 PM EST
There appears to be something really, really wrong with that woman.
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by harbinger09 January 14, 2009 9:22 PM EST
"I''''ll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask %u2014 double-, triple-, quadruple-check %u2014 who is Trig''''s real mom," Palin said. "And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We''''re gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it''''s been quite cryptic the way that my son''''s birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."

-Wake up people, this is ridiculous and Sarah Palin has every right to say so. Don''''t agree with her politically, that is fine, but this over zealous prosecution of her family is pathetic.

Also, the media is chasing Sarah and I''''ve seen several stories of her on this outlet, why the fascination if she''''s such a loser. Joe Biden''''s story about going to Iraq had ZERO postings for it for along time. I skipped it and went back later, crickets were chirping.

Posted by promaclaura at 03:54 PM : Jan 13, 2009

All Palin has to do is produce a birth certificate or DNA evidence which she has NEVER done. Even Obama (according to the right) has produced a "fake" birth cert. (Which would be fraud) what is Sarah afraid of?

Why throw her daughter under a bus and discuss her and Levi''s sexual results, instead of just producing that one little paper? Maybe because on the birth cert--it does not say, SArah Palin? LOL
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by harbinger09 January 14, 2009 9:15 PM EST
Hey Sarah: We''ll let it go...when you go--*****--and STAY GONE!!!!
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by hexsins January 14, 2009 8:04 PM EST
Please keep Sarah Palin out there so everyone can keep seeing how ignorant see is, and how the republicans actually value ignorance as "good American values/"
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by clifton-b January 14, 2009 7:28 PM EST
Here we go again. An article about Gov. Palin come out and like flies to poo, the elitist wannabe come out to post snarky comments about the Governor and her family. Meanwhile, were these people to post pictures of their family we would find that not a one of them would be a suitable candidate for a Norman Rockwell portrait. Nevertheless on they go, throwing boulders inside their little glass houses. The sheer irony about it is real elitist would sneer, scorn and condescend these elitist wannabes just like the do to Gov. Palin. These people are exactly what Lenin had in mind when he coined the term "useful idiots".
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by lucasnico January 14, 2009 3:30 PM EST
hey truthmatter......if the truth REALLY matters, hit this link, and then shut the hell up!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
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