Posted on 11/10/2008 1:47:10 PM PST by unspun
By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.
So yes, to be clear, last week I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.
As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.
The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.
No tar, feathers, rail; everyone leave his house and cars alone, etc.
Keep your heart pure and justice should be appropriate.
Notice, he effectively admits that he lied about the Africa charge, while trying to throw more feces against the wall.
Git a rope.
Me thinks there is more to this than protecting his insider credentials.
And we are all celebrating that fact.
I jusy read on Lucianne.com that this is a hoax.
Search is your friend
I searched for "Eisenstadt" and did not find the article. Did my friend fail me?
And Hillary Clinton would have been lost in the details of how you actually RUN anything. So tit for tat. And, no, I don’t think it’s that much of an advantage that you’ve been in Washington for 100 years and know every diplomat by his first name. That’s part of the problem!
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Excellent summation. “Right” on target.
And this guy was a staffer for a Republican candidate. Unbelievable.
Notice, he effectively admits that he lied about the Africa charge, while trying to throw more feces against the wall.
if I was jousting with someone who was coaching me, I would have been dumber than Sarah sounded... Gov’s just don’t care about that stuff unless they’re NOT doing their job and looking for a new one.
I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News
I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah
Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably.
So, basically he lied that she was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and didn't know which countries were in NAFTA.
Hey EisenNut,
It’s ***your job*** to brief nominees on the nuances among shia, sunni, Hamas and Hexbollah, 99.9% of the electorate are unware too.
And then to blab to Cameron about this tripe shows you need to hit the pavement looking for a new job!@
What has HE ever done in his life?
Please explicate.
We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.<<
Let him use that line. This is a guy who spent over 30 years in the Senate and was best known for plagiarizing a British politician. Sarah could have creamed him on that one.
My guess is to cover the abysmal performance of the McCain campaign.
What a loser.
Hot air is claiming this is a hoax, I looked at McCains staff on Wikipedia and this guy doesn’t show up on it.
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