Nicolle Wallace: She is who we thought she was.

Drudge ^ | 11/17/2009 | Sarah Palin

[AdamBomb]

Nicolle Wallace: She is who we thought she was.

Nicolle Wallace: She is who we thought she was.

HER TURN! Fri Nov 13 2009 07:27:12 ET

Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257

By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is with a major party candidate.

From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign’s general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn’t have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.

“Katie really likes you,” she said to me one day. “she’s a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you,” Nicolle said. “believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her.” Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had. But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of President George W. Bush. She didn't have much to say that was positive about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11, we were told we couldn’t do it. I didn’t know if that was Nicolle’s call.

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,” Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.”

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain’s campaign how?

[AdamBomb]

Nicolle Wallace: She is who we thought she was - a f!@#$!@#$ snake in the grass.

[ClearCase_guy]

It seems to me that Gov Palin is a smart lady and has learned a very valuable lesson. As her political career moves forward, the Liberal media will find it very difficult to trick her, back her into a corner, or put her in a position where they have all the control. Been there, done that — she’s on to them. 2012 approaches and she will not view the media the way any other candidate has ever viewed the media.

[hobson]

Good grief! Nicole sounds like a teenager.

[avacado]

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,”

LOL!!! That ought to get little Katie in a wad.

[getitright]

Did John McCain try to win this election?
Or was winning not the role that he was assigned.

[Talisker]

I disagree with the general consensus that the Couric interview went badly for Palin. Even after the hideously unfair and slanted editing process, the slights against Sarah are more rude insults than anything else. To even remotely consider that a governor of a state doesn't read or understand the workings of the world is just slander - and perverse, schoolyard slander at that. Couric has made a career of pandering to the absolute lowest, crudest, nastiest level of liberal female bitchiness - to judge Palin's accomplishments by her crude insults, and her grotesquely obvious and openly malicious bias, is absurd. Palin’s only real mistake was deigning to talk to the conniving bitch in the first place.

[RobaWho]

Nicole, you truly aren’t worthy enough to be Sarah’s dog washer. You worked for CBS & John McCain, for God’s sake. The fact that you respect Katie Couric and John McCain, as two examples of excellent “professionals”, while at the same time, bashing Sarah, exposes you as a total nitwit.

[kcvl]

Wallace received her BA in Mass Communications from UC Berkeley in 1994

married to Mark Wallace, who had been Bush's deputy campaign manager in 2004. She now uses her married name, Nicolle Wallace

A political analyst for the CBS Evening News until May 2008

Fox News contributor Fred Barnes, who recently interviewed Palin, said that Wallace deserved the blame for the $150,000 the Republican National Campaign spent to outfit Palin and her family. "The person who went and bought the clothes and, as I understand it, put the clothes on her credit card, went to Saks and Neiman Marcus... the staffer who did that has been a coward," Barnes said, identifying Wallace as the aide responsible for the shopping expedition.

[AdamBomb]

I was surprised that Hannity had this cockroach (wallace) on his show last week.

BEWARE to Republicans and Conservatives - you do not want this cockroach working for you.

[nickcarraway]

Isn't Nicole Wallace he evil "Dr. Moriarty" character on Law & Order Criminal Intent?

[Ann Archy]

Wallace and that Odious Steve Schmidt and Mark McKinnon should NEVER RUN ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN!!

ANYONE who uses these people should be SHUNNED.

[Night Hides Not]

The next time I see her picture, I’m betting it will be on a milk carton.

[kcvl]

After reading this I despise John McCain even more than I did and didn’t think that was possible! He deserved to lose the campaign. He was just jealous that Sarah could bring in huge crowds and he couldn’t.

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Meanwhile, the media blackout continued. It got so bad that a couple of times I had a friend in Anchorage track down phone numbers for me, and then I snuck in calls to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and someone I thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neil Cavuto’s producer. I had a friend call Bill O’Reilly after I was inundated with supporters in Alaska asking why the campaign was “ignoring” his on-air requests for a McCain campaign interview. I had another friend scrambling to find Mark Levin’s number. Aboard the campaign plane I was within twenty-five feet of reporters for hours on end. Headquarters’ strategy was that I should not go to the back of the aircraft and talk to the press. At first this was subtle, but as the campaign wore on, Tracey or Tucker would call headquarters to request permission, and someone in DC would respond, “No! Absolutely not- block her if she tries to go back.”

[AdamBomb]

Nicole, you truly aren’t worthy enough to be Sarah’s dog washer.

Nicolle isn't worthy enough to wash Sarah's dog's balls.

[McGruff]

Et tu Nicolle?

[swain_forkbeard]

Amazingly, many people think and talk like that well into adulthood, apparently.

[Spunky]

"I disagree with the general consensus that the Couric interview went badly for Palin."

I agree with you. I thought Palin did a good job answering the stupid questions Katie asked.

[Lancey Howard]

Huh... I saw the title and immediately thought of my favorite serial killer:

So who is this other "Nicolle Wallace", this scumbag who spells her own first name wrong?

[tiki]

I’m with you on that suspicion and I think he almost failed in his role. I think he chose Sarah because he thought conservatives would hate her, I think the people pulling the strings were shocked and then had to scurry to ruin her.

[BibChr]

Did John McCain try to win this election?
Or was winning not the role that he was assigned.

Oh, my.