Oyster Roundup!
~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! Time? Late. Time Magazine is a tad late to the party on this one. At Techpresident, Nancy Scola dives into the numbers from Palin’s political action committee, Sarah PAC. Among the expenses? $22,000 to the firm Aries Petra Consulting, including $10,000 in June for “Grassroots/Communication Consulting” and $6,000 a month in April in May for “Consulting Internet, Message.” “Aries Petra is helmed by Rebecca Mansour, described by Politico’s Ken Vogel as ‘a Los Angeles screenwriter and political neophyte whose creation of the popular cheerleading blog Conservatives4Palin endeared…
Open Thread – Alaska Women Not for Sarah Palin, Part 7
Alaskans for Truth Rally, September 2006, downtown Anchorage
Open Thread – Alaska Women Not for Sarah Palin, Part 6
Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin Rally, September 2008
Palin Climbs Non-Existent Peak in Failed Attempt to Look Like Mountain Woman
Coffee spit warning! Put down your drinks. This was a great Twitter exchange between Sarah Palin and Linda Kellen Biegel. Sarah and family are going to do a little mountain climbing on the highest pieak in North America, it seems. Not sure where Palin actually meant because “Sweettooth” does not come up on any searches of Denali, and climbers in the know shrug their shoulders. Surely she can’t mean Sweet Tooth Spire? That’s not its official name, but its basically an unclimbable sheer rock face. And the better known and officially named Sugartooth is… how shall I say… a bit…
Bristol Votes for Reconciliation – Goes Rogue
Oy. Bristol “abstinence” Palin and Levi “Playgirl” Johnston have apparently buried the hatchet, and plan to start a new life together. The young sweethearts announced their reconciliation, and engagement to be wed on the pages of US Weekly Magazine. And no, they didn’t tell the ex-half-governor before hand. She learned it from the newsstand, unless she has a subscription. Awkward… Ah, to have been a fly on the wall in Wasilla today. Now comes the hard part: Getting the blessing of Sarah Palin, who has made no secret of her feelings for Levi. He provoked her fury last fall when…
Open Thread – Alaska Women Not for Sarah Palin, Part 4
Alaskans for Truth Rally, September 2008 Downtown Anchorage, Alaska
Voices from the Flats – Sarah Palin’s Oil Regulation Lies
By Geoffrey Dunn Sarah Palin has been busted for so many lies in the past year and a half, it’s become nearly impossible to keep track of them all. Whenever she opens her mouth, she simply cannot stop herself from engaging in duplicities, exaggerations and half-truths that not-so-coincidentally always distort the political record in her favor. It’s a pathology. She did it again this week during a somewhat contentious interview with Bill O’Reilly in which she chastised her Fox News host out the gate: “I kind of have a big beef with you too though, Bill, if you don’t acknowledge…
Fran Ulmer Named to Gulf Oil Disaster Commission
(Grabbing a bull horn and facing south) Attention! Attention! Can I have your attention…. please! Is everyone paying attention? Hey you in North Dakota! Up here! Thank you. You’ll see before you a woman – an Alaskan woman – a smart, talented, savvy, skilled, competent, innovative Alaskan woman with…. leadership skills! THIS is the kind of Alaskan woman we all wish had been monopolizing media coverage for the past two years. Just wanted to get on the record with that. Fran Ulmer, Chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage has been named by President Obama to be one of the…