73wire presents “In the News:” Sarah Palin

Today 73wire spotlights Sarah Palin “In the News.” Love her, hate her, or indifferent Sarah Palin is the most exciting and polarizing political figure in America today!

Sarah-mania!

Today the Most Hated Woman in (Liberal) America begins her book tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I describe the reaction in my latest contribution to The American Spectator:

Sarah Palin coy about 2012 run, but door is open

Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is “not on my radar,” but wouldn’t rule out playing some role in the next presidential election.

“My ambition, if you will, my desire is to help our country in whatever role that may be, and I cannot predict what that will be, what doors will be open in the year 2012,” she told Barbara Walters.

When asked whether she’d play a major role, the former Republican vice presidential candidate replied that “if people will have me, I will.”

Palin is making the rounds to promote her new book, “Going Rogue,” which came out Tuesday. On Monday, she appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Palin said she’s gotten plenty of offers during the past few months, including to open up her family for a reality show, that she has rejected. She also said she wasn’t sure whether a talk show would be best for her family.

Going Rogue: Guide to who gets whacked

Sarah Palin may claim to scorn elites, but her new book will ring familiar to its Beltway readers.

Getting even with those who crossed her, praising her allies and generally putting a self-serving sheen on last year’s presidential campaign, “Going Rogue” is typical of the political memoir genre of recent vintage. It’s the sort of book that will send the political class scurrying to bookstores, eager to see how they fared in what’s known as “the Washington read.”

With no index, though, Palin’s book has made that ritual more difficult.

So POLITICO, having obtained a copy of the book before its Tuesday release, has created a reader’s guide to “Going Rogue,” grouping the many characters into three categories, based upon that familiar question insiders are already whispering to those who managed to snag a copy of the book: How did I come out?

TiVo-blogging Sarah Palin on “Oprah.”

0:01 — Oprah is incredulous that Sarah Palin hadn’t paid any attention — back during the campaign — to the talk about how Oprah had snubbed her. Palin was focused on the campaign. Oprah cannot believe it: “You didn’t even know about it?!” — as if Palin is a complete ignoramus not to have been all Oprah-focused. “No offense to you, but it wasn’t the center of my universe.” Oprah looks away. Jeez. Does Oprah have self-esteem issues like Katie Couric? I’m going to give Oprah the benefit of the doubt and say she’s trying to play Palin — stir up that female empathy. And either she’ll rope in Palin or she’ll somehow get the female audience thinking Oprah good, Palin bad.

Alaskans eager for Sarah Palin book release

Sarah Palin’s book is highly anticipated in her home state — but she’s no Harry Potter.David Cheezem, co-owner of Fireside Books in Palmer, said people have been calling to make sure they’ll be able to get the former GOP vice presidential candidate’s memoir, “Going Rogue.” He’s opening early with coffee and doughnuts to celebrate the Tuesday release.

“I’m excited about the event,” he said. “Am I as excited as I was for Harry Potter? No. That was huge.”

When the last three Potter books were released, the entire downtown area became a virtual Hogwarts, the boarding school for witches and wizards attended by the boy wizard. Merchants, including Cheezem, held trivia contests, and shoppers dressed up in character.

Palmer is adjacent to Wasilla, the hometown of Palin, who resigned as Alaska governor in July. Cheezem said he’s hoping some of that regional connection spills over to people buying the book from his store — at the full $28.99 price. So far, 23 of his 100-book shipment are spoken for.

Sarah Palin says presidency “not on my radar screen”

Sarah Palin said a run for the White House in 2012 is “not on my radar screen right now” as the Republican carefully did not close the door to a possible candidacy in an interview that launched her big book tour.Palin spoke to TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey as she began the roll-out to her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Palin made clear she wanted to concentrate on the 2010 congressional elections in which Republicans hope to make inroads into Democratic majorities in the U.S. Congress.

“I’m concentrating on 2010 and making sure that we have issues to tackle,” Palin said in the interview taped last week and broadcast on Monday. “I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in 2012. (Running for president is) not on my radar screen right now.”

Payback Time: Why Right-Wing Men Rush to Palin’s Defense

It’s nothing new when liberal women complain about sexism, but when conservative men take up the banner, calling NEWSWEEK sexist for portraying Sarah Palin on the cover in her jogging clothes, that catches my attention. Why do right-wing men rush to Sarah’s side to defend her? My theory is that this is payback time. They’ve been called sexist and racist, and subjected to media ridicule of their allegedly retro views. Palin is their way to push back against the elites that have marginalized them.

Going berserk over ‘Going Rogue;’ Democrats’ reaction to Sarah Palin book and publicity

Wow, for somebody who’s supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.

The launch of her “Going Rogue” interviews Monday on “Oprah,” of her book today, of her on-air chat today with Rush Limbaugh at 10 a.m. Pacific and of her mid-America bus book tour Wednesday ignited a surprisingly large blizzard of derogatory Democrat dis-missives.

Every few minutes another note from Democratic National Committee operatives and others dropped into electronic mailboxes across the media-verse, helpfully passing on even the tiniest tidbit of negative news about Palin.

You know how sometimes a friend tells you how much he/she doesn’t really care about….

…someone else. Really doesn’t! And repeats it a sufficient number of times that you become convinced of precisely the opposite?

So maybe she does matter after all.

Sarah Palin Goes Rogue– Slams Newsweek For Their Sexist Hit Piece

From her Facebook page:

The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness – a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context.

- Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Tanking Among Moderates, Independents

This isn’t terribly surprising but it’s noteworthy: Whatever successes Sarah Palin is having among Republicans, she’s absolutely tanking among independents and moderates.

The internals of the new ABC News/Washington Post poll find:

* Only 37% of independents think she’s qualified for the presidency, barely more than a third.

* Only 30% of self-described moderates think she’s qualified, less than a third.

* Only 38% of moderates view her favorably, versus 58% who view her unfavorably.

Meanwhile, the new CNN poll finds that only 29% of independents think she’s qualified.

Levi: I Look at Palin with “Disgust”

Sarah Palin talked tough about the father of her grandson on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired Monday — and Levi Johnston is giving it right back.

Johnston watched with cameras from “The Insider” rolling as Palin was interviewed by Winfrey and, says “The Insider” ’s Chris Johnson, took exception again and again to things Palin was saying about him:

Palin to Limbaugh: No, America’s not ready for a third party

Her interview with Barbara Walters had more memorable lines — calling the tea-party movement “beautiful,” declining Letterman’s invite because “I don’t think that I’d want to boost his ratings” — but I’m giving you the Limbaugh clip because, well, meat this red simply must be served. If you can’t spare 20 minutes, skip ahead to 6:55 and listen for five as Rush prods her on whether she fancies herself an “unanointed” outsider in the Doug Hoffman mold. This seems like his way of enlisting her to help tamp down the potentially destructive third-party fever being stirred by Beck and other members of the “we can’t trust either party anymore” school. She’s on Limbaugh’s side here, which is all to the good, although she qualifies her answer by emphasizing how she’s a fan of spirited primary battles. Unasked by Rush: Whether a particularly “spirited,” a.k.a. bruising, fight between Crist and Rubio will leave enough Republicans so disgruntled as to suppress GOP turnout in the general election.

A Study in Character Assassination: How the TV

Networks Have Portrayed Sarah Palin as Dunce or Demon

percentage of the public that sees Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin unfavorably shot up from 32 percent to 49 percent in just one month.Why have so many Americans turned against Palin, who made such a strong impression on the public when John McCain introduced her as his running mate at the Republican convention in September?  Most likely, it’s because the few good reports they’ve heard about the Alaska governor have been overwhelmed by a blizzard of bad reports. ABC, NBC and CBS news shows are covering Palin intensively, and they are running 18 negative stories for every positive one.

Network coverage of Palin has moved beyond criticism to outright ridicule.  Strikingly, all three networks have repeatedly aired clips of Palin being parodied by a comedy show, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, leading to concerns that many Americans are confusing the real Palin with SNL’s figure of fun.  When have comic impressions of a political figure ever qualified as hard news?

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