Posted on 09/16/2011 7:06:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve this. Neither does any other similarly situated public figure, whether on the political right, left or in the middle. But worthiness has nothing to do with this, not when there’s a chance of driving up book sales and bringing down the celebrity you despise at the same time.
Enter Joe McGinniss.
His new book, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” claims that the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate had a tryst in 1987 with basketball star Glen Rice when he was in Alaska to play in a tournament with his University of Michigan team. Whether it’s true or false, the story is making the rounds. It’s a shame.
If the book was supposed to be about Sarah Palin, then it should have been about Palin.
This episode isn’t. There was no Sarah Palin in 1987. At the time of the Thanksgiving Great Alaska Shootout basketball tournament at the University of Alaska in Anchorage nearly 25 years ago, the 23-year-old woman who allegedly hooked up with Rice was an unmarried TV sports reporter named Sarah Heath.
This has nothing to do with today’s Sarah Palin. It’s irrelevant and none of our business.
To justify McGinniss’s prying eyes, my Post colleague Erik Wemple, who blogs on the media, noted that Palin had indicated in a 2006 Eagle Forum questionnaire that she supported funding abstinence-only education programs instead of teaching sex-education programs. “Explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support,” Palin reportedly wrote in the conservative group’s questionnaire.....
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Which speaks volumes about your logical and analytical abilites, which is probably why you think slime attacks are a good thing.
Toodles, dimbulb.
Which speaks volumes about your logical and analytical abilites, which is probably why you think slime attacks are a good thing.
Toodles, dimbulb.
“I’m not the one telling other posters that they should prove a negative.
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No, you’re the one who couldn’t read a full sentence. Guess that comes when most get to first grade. Oops, there’s the recess bell - you better run again!
If you want to pimp conservative-bashing trash, go to DU.
KNOCK IT OFF!
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