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A Note To Our Readers

by Tim F|  November 18, 20091:39 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Teabagger Stupidity

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Using my amazing powers of predicting things that a particle board desk could see coming, I expect Sarah Palin to blame the lies in her book on her ghostwriter. Points will also be awarded for the book editor, fact-checking team (I honestly want to know who served on that chain gang) and her moron-to-English translator.

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  1. 1.

    Col. Klink

    November 18, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Can we consider this an Open Sully Thread?

  2. 2.

    Tim F.

    November 18, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    @Col. Klink: I might as well say yes.

  3. 3.

    cleek

    November 18, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    my vote’s on this:

    “The term I used to describe ______ should not be taken literally,” says Palin. The phrase is “a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire.’ He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite effective. Same thing with ______ I would characterize it like that again, in a heartbeat.”

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    November 18, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    So, basically Andrew Sullivan is curled up in a ball whispering “the horror, the horror”.

    -dms

  5. 5.

    forked tongue

    November 18, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Uh, when is she going to acknowledge that there are lies in her book to blame on anyone?

    Dead Jesus on a stick, I am sick of this beeeeyatch.

  6. 6.

    SpotWeld

    November 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    … why wouldn’t she blame the liberal media?

  7. 7.

    Crashman06

    November 18, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    Boy I hope this is some juicy stuff.

    @dmsilev: Dave Weigel compared Sullivan’s post to Nicholson finally snapping in The Shining.

    All work and no play makes Sully a dull boy.

  8. 8.

    dr. bloor

    November 18, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    fact-checking team (I honestly want to know who served on that chain gang)

    Stephen Glass, James Frey and Jayson Blair. Supervised by Judith Miller.

  9. 9.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 18, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    As an editor/copy editor/proofreader/occasional fact-checker (you’ve gotta wear a lot of hats to keep an editorial job in this day and age), I can’t even imagine the hell that working on this book must’ve been. And after all that hard work, you know damn well your reward is going to be getting demonized by St. Sarah of Mooseville.

    The best analog I can think of offhand is when the highly untalented Ashlee Simpson fucked up royally on SNL, then tried to blame it on her band–you know, the people with actual talent.

  10. 10.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    November 18, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    This is certainly good news for McCain!

  11. 11.

    Stooleo

    November 18, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Sully sounds like one of those characters in an H.P. Lovecraft story. You know, the one who saw Cthulhu and is now in the mental asylum.

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    November 18, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    @Crashman06: The other movie reference that came to mind is _A Clockwork Orange_. Visualize Andrew Sullivan tied to a chair with his eyelids strapped open, Beethoven’s Ninth blaring, and a continuous stream of text from the book scrolling across the screen…

    -dms

  13. 13.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 18, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    And of course, it goes without saying that pointing out the lies in her book qualifies as that darn gotcha media hatin’ regular ol’ people like her.

  14. 14.

    Scribbs

    November 18, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    So he says

    “There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.”

    Could he have definitive proof that trigg isnt her son? Maybe he’ll have evidence that the photo on the cover of the book was taken 8 1/2 months into her “pregnancy”. You never know!

  15. 15.

    beltane

    November 18, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Sully has been keeping me in suspense. I can’t stand it. Has he scooped an exclusive interview with Levi?

  16. 16.

    Dreggas

    November 18, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    @Col. Klink:

    Let’s face it, Sulli has gone all bruce campbell on us and locked himself in a small cabin in the woods to study the necronomicon…errr Going Rogue and will unlock it’s mysteries with the saying “Klatu-Verata-Nickto”

  17. 17.

    Dreggas

    November 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Oh and the LGM take about this not being a book on building an effective rogue was great.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    November 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Well, of course. Why else do you think she didn’t write her book?

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    November 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    @beltane: Trig.

  20. 20.

    Leelee for Obama

    November 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    @Stooleo: I keep picturing Renfield in the Gary Oldman Dracula! From a life sustaining perspective, I think Sarahcuda qualifies, non? The GOP may never recover from the blood-sucking she performed on it.

  21. 21.

    Zifnab

    November 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    I’m waiting for her to blame any misinterpretations of her book currently being forwarded by the liberal media on Newsweek, for falsely portraying her as a leggy ski bunny.

    If you would just read the book ($27.99 at your local retail store!) you’d be able to see that all of these statements were taken out of context. The coverage of her book is just the continuation of persecution by a group of liberal media actors that want to destroy Sarah Palin before she can officially start the run for President that she may or may not be planning.

    I can’t wait for the made-for-TV-movie. Also.

  22. 22.

    Martin

    November 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    There are no lies. Truth has a liberal media bias.

    Nothing will get blamed on the ghostwriter – just on the media. That’s the heart of the GOP narrative and it’s tried and true. It’s the outward equivalent of ‘I can’t recall’.

  23. 23.

    Robin G.

    November 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    I doubt she’s even read the damn book. I’m not positive she can read at all.

    (Low blow?)

  24. 24.

    Col. Klink

    November 18, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    I see Sully as somewhere half-way between Col. Kurtz and Winston Churchill at this juncture.

    On the one hand, should the Daily Dish last a 1000 blog years they may say this was his finest hour.

    On the other hand, he may have the heads of his staff stuck on poles at Meridian Hill park as he stalks U street with an elephant gun.

    It’s bound to be one of the two.

  25. 25.

    BeccaM

    November 18, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Pathological Narcissm

    An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:

    Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
    Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
    Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
    Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)
    Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations
    Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
    Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
    Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
    Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted

    Some of the language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from: American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (DSM IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. The text in italics is based on: Sam Vaknin. (2003). Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, fourth, revised, printing. Prague and Skopje: Narcissus Publication.

  26. 26.

    eemom

    November 18, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    sooner or later the toddleresque attention span of the emmessemm is going to move on to something besides this “book,” and the circus will be OVER.

    That is what I keep telling myself. It’s the only way I can get through this.

  27. 27.

    BeccaM

    November 18, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Narcissistic Personality Disorder
    An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:

    Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

    Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion

    Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)

    Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)

    Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations

    Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends

    Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others

    Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her

    Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted

    Some of the language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from: American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (DSM IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association and Sam Vaknin. (2003). Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, fourth, revised, printing. Prague and Skopje: Narcissus Publication.

  28. 28.

    Crashman06

    November 18, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    @Col. Klink: I don’t want to get too excited. It’s probably the second option.

  29. 29.

    R-Jud

    November 18, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    @eemom:

    It’s the only way I can get through this.

    Haven’t you heard of rum?

  30. 30.

    BeccaM

    November 18, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Narcissistic Personality Disorder
    An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:

    Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

    Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion

    Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions)

    Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply)

    Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations

    Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends

    Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others

    Constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her

    Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted

    Some of the language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from: American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (DSM IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association and Sam Vaknin. (2003). Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, fourth, revised, printing. Prague and Skopje: Narcissus Publication.

  31. 31.

    Bill Arnold

    November 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Sully sounds like one of those characters in an H.P. Lovecraft story. You know, the one who saw Cthulhu and is now in the mental asylum.

    LOL. Read that way, it’s uncanny.

  32. 32.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    November 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    It takes a brave man to put himself in the crosshairs of Sarah’s mighty Facebook howitzer. I hope Sully knows what he’s getting into.

  33. 33.

    Demo Woman

    November 18, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Sully is reading Sarah’s book looking for errors. The AP already did a pretty good analysis and that got very little traction with MSM. I’m not sure what Sully hopes to accomplish. If he is in touch with Levi, then I’ll change my mind.

  34. 34.

    Col. Klink

    November 18, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    I think the Renfield analogy @ 20 by Leelee likely applies to Rich Lowry. I see him cramped up in a corner office at the National Review muttering ‘starbursts’ and ‘the blood is the life’ awaiting for Palin to come and make him immortal not a virgin.

  35. 35.

    SpotWeld

    November 18, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Of course there will be the Blogs *cough*redstate*cougH* that will take this text to be divinely inspired and therefor infallable.

    Anything that looks like a “lie” will simply be a “Wasilla-Truth” that is too moosemeaty-truth-laden for veggie eatin liberals to comprehend.

    And then Palin shall wink apon them and like tounges of (oil fueled) flame the manly fever of wingnuttism shall be apong them, and they shall go forth to spread the (rogue) Truth. (The kerning falling before them like trees)

    You’betcha (otherwise known as an “Alaskan amen”)

  36. 36.

    SpotWeld

    November 18, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    You know, I just realized..

    This opens the door to Palin/Twilight crossover fan fic.

  37. 37.

    dmsilev

    November 18, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    @Stooleo:

    Sully sounds like one of those characters in an H.P. Lovecraft story. You know, the one who saw Cthulhu and is now in the mental asylum.

    Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Sarah W’sila wgah’nagl fhtagn,

    -dms

  38. 38.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 18, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    TNR helpfully made an index for this word pile. It’s pretty good. I think this is the best entry:

    Good deeds of Sarah Palin 1-403

  39. 39.

    Mark S.

    November 18, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    fact-checking team

    You honestly think that she had one?

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 18, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    @SpotWeld:

    This opens the door to Palin/Twilight crossover fan fic.

    Just kill me now.

  41. 41.

    SpotWeld

    November 18, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    @Mark S.: You have to assume that “fact-checking” is being used in a more Orwellian sense here.

  42. 42.

    Jamey

    November 18, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Who are you referring to, Becca, Sully, Palin, or both?

  43. 43.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    November 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    The thing is, I don’t want the scandal to be anything about her personal life; whether she’s really Trig’s mother, or whether she and Levi did a little of the Mrs. Robinson, or anything like that. If that’s Andrew’s bombshell, then a) it’s really nobody else’s business, and b) throwing it will only emphasize her victimhood by the nasty liberal media.

    Now, if he has evidence of official malfeasance by her as either mayor or governor (such as new information on the whole state trooper investigation, or maybe just old-fashioned embezzling), bring it on.

  44. 44.

    Xenos

    November 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    I am thinking of putting together an annotated version of Palin’s convention speech, with endnotes written in the narrative voice of her speechwriter, with the long sordid tale of her lies and craziness overwhelming the already unreliable narrator until he sinks into the delusion that he is the king of some remote arctic kingdom. Eventually, the narrator will be driven to admit he has tried to kill her, and then will commit suicide.

    What, it has been done already? Does that mean I can’t get an advance?

    /Palin Fire

  45. 45.

    joes527

    November 18, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    @dmsilev: Just went over to the ‘Dish. Sully is focusing on the pregnancy (as always) ….. No good can come of this.

    It is amazing. He has been the source of some of the most fact based reporting about Palin. He has also been the source of the longest running PDS based spew in history. I’m thinking it is a plot to discredit fact based reporting on Palin by linking it to his ab-so-fucking-lutlely batshit insane drivel.

  46. 46.

    BeccaM

    November 18, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    @Jamey:
    Sarah, of course. Only one or two of the indicators on that NPD list are even questionable, given her behavior.

  47. 47.

    Alex S.

    November 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    @Stooleo:

    Great post, I really fear for his mental health. He strikes me as an obsessive blogger already. And Palin is literally driving him crazy.

  48. 48.

    valdivia

    November 18, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    @Crashman06:

    where did Wiegel say this?

    I am sure she will find someone to blame for the ‘inaccuracies’ in the book.

  49. 49.

    Alex S.

    November 18, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    By the way, I love that singled out sentence:

    “There are only three of us.”

  50. 50.

    JGabriel

    November 18, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    John Cole @ Top:

    Using my amazing powers of predicting things that a particle board desk could see coming, I expect Sarah Palin to blame the lies in her book on her ghostwriter.

    Yes. Great (or middling) minds think alike — I had the same thought this morning.

    OTOH, it’s possible that Palin will never concede that there are any factual errors in her book. It’s not as if she’s ever done it before.

    .

  51. 51.

    camchuck

    November 18, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    re: Sully
    I’m picturing Frost/Nixon.
    Sully finding out that Palin monitors his blog was akin to Nixon’s drunk call to Frost. He realizes the stakes and has a renewed sense of purpose.
    Now Sully’s hunkered down with his team combing all available information for the missing piece that will finally sink her.

  52. 52.

    WereBear

    November 18, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Is Sully a conservative scorned, or what?

    A mass of lies is a mass of lies. It doesn’t make any sense. It was never meant to make any sense.

  53. 53.

    shpx.ohfu

    November 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    official malfeasance by her as either mayor or governor

    She really wasn’t either one of these long enough to do much malfeasin’ that we don’t already know about.

  54. 54.

    kay

    November 18, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    @eemom:

    sooner or later the toddleresque attention span of the emmessemm is going to move on to something besides this “book,” and the circus will be OVER.

    This is different, because it’s a long term obsession.

    Andrew Sullivan doesn’t just dabble in Palin. He’s really going to be the Palin Expert, whether he intended that or not.

    It’s probably useful to have one, just in case.

  55. 55.

    Robin G.

    November 18, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    @SpotWeld:

    This opens the door to Palin/Twilight crossover fan fic.

    I just threw up so hard I saw starbursts.

  56. 56.

    greennotGreen

    November 18, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Although I suspect that BeccaM @28 is spot-on, there is another possibility. Palin is a member of an evangelical subculture that eschews rational examination of reality. Therefore, the events that we the reality-based consider to be observable phenomena are unimportant to her. The fact that in one interview she says, for example, that a particular person made a particular phone call and in another interview she says the phone call never took place is beneath consideration, no more important than if you insisted upon knowing what I ate for breakfast June 6, 2003 and I told you “cereal” because it did not and does not matter.

    So, she may not be terribly disturbed, or at least no more than a member of a non-technological tribe who kills a chicken to drive out the demons that are causing his toothache. I accept that both of them are sane, but I don’t want either of them to be President.

  57. 57.

    Crashman06

    November 18, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    @valdivia: It was on his twitter feed a couple hours ago.

  58. 58.

    gex

    November 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    @BeccaM: Is this posted as a commentary on Palin, Sullivan, or both?

  59. 59.

    woody

    November 18, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    Surprise surprise surprise…

    The book is published by HarperCollins, which is owned by

    wait for it…

    Rupert Murdoch!

  60. 60.

    McGeorge Bundy

    November 18, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Sully’s gone off the deep end. Hope he finds something interesting there.

  61. 61.

    Elie

    November 18, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Becca@27

    I agree that she is a narcissist. She is also not very bright, and like most narcissists, she has a big blind spot for her own vulnerabilities – which leaves her open to damage, which of course she never anticipates and is never her fault.

    Most narcissists run out of runway, sooner or later. She got close with quiting the Governorship – and it damaged her more than even her most ardent supporters will acknowledge..but she has no internal censors about when to stop, so she will go and go until…

    Its always fascinating what does these folks in…. many times a banal oversight due to just not caring about anyone else on any level deeply. Would not be surprised at all if it were from within the ol family circle…

  62. 62.

    woody

    November 18, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Probabbly the BEST thing about Sully’s taking a predatory interest in La Palin (anagram: Lapin, ‘rabbit’ in French) is that he assuredly will NOT be beguiled by her gams or her come-hither smiles…

  63. 63.

    Why oh why

    November 18, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    This thread is hilarious.

    I can’t wait to read the apoplectic explosion of outrage that Sullivan is now writing as his next post.

  64. 64.

    Comrade Jake

    November 18, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    I love this blog. Did anyone say that yet?

    Sully’s post today really did make me laugh. Then I come here, read the comments, and can’t stop laughing.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    @Robin G.:

    I’m not positive she can read at all.

    (Low blow?)

    Well, she can, but her lips get really tired.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 18, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    FYWP

  67. 67.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    @woody:

    La Palin (anagram: Lapin, ‘rabbit’ in French)

    Hence “ski bunny,” yes?

  68. 68.

    cleek

    November 18, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    when can we stop talking about Palin?

  69. 69.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 18, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    fact-checking team (I honestly want to know who served on that chain gang)

    When your other options are pushing a large boulder uphill for all eternity or having your liver torn out by a giant eagle every morning, you take what you can get…

  70. 70.

    Paul in KY

    November 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Great thread guys n gals. Gotta disagree with the esteemed poster up above who wanted the uberscandal to be about something official & not her personal life.

    I think the really juicy personal life scandal (boffing whathisname, etc.) could be the thing that turns her into a pariah among those who are currently infatuated with her.

    They think she is goodness & wholsomeness & light & seeing that she is just another run-of-the-mill molesting Republican will just crush them (rubbing hands together & cackling with glee).

  71. 71.

    Stooleo

    November 18, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    So, does anyone have any theories as to what information that Levi Johnston is holding back? My own personal one is that he is not only the father of Bristol’s child, but also the father of Sarah’s child Trig. That would be awesome.

  72. 72.

    Jeff

    November 18, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    I’m sorry. It’ll come out sooner or later.
    I did it. Also. too.

  73. 73.

    Deborah

    November 18, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    @Grumpy Code Monkey: Yeah, I’m worried that he no longer sees a distinction between telling tall tales about her pregnancy and, say, embezzling.
    @Alex S.: One of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ commenters had a great analogy, that Andrew has become like his beagles. He gets hold of something (Thatcher, Iraq War, Obama, Palin) and then he keeps hold and digs and digs and digs and finds out every possible thing. Palin had the misfortune to be more like the Iraq War, in which the more you learn the more you realize you were conned.

  74. 74.

    Crashman06

    November 18, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    @Stooleo:

    My own personal one is that he is not only the father of Bristol’s child, but also the father of Sarah’s child Trig. That would be awesome.

    If this happens, my head would explode in a moment of unmatched schadenfreudistic ecstasy. It’d be a good way to go out.

  75. 75.

    Elie

    November 18, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    cleek:

    You know the game: Kick the Dummy and kick the dummy hard again…

    The answer is: not for a long time

  76. 76.

    Midnight Marauder

    November 18, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    @cleek:

    when can we stop talking about Palin?

    Do you want us to stop breathing, cleek? Also? DO YOU WANT THAT?!

  77. 77.

    cleek

    November 18, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    OK, fine. let’s talk about Palin.

    a bit more from that Lowry interview:

    “Heaven forbid” her kids get on it, though. She says, “I forbid them from getting on Facebook for now. There’s just too much negativity out there, unfortunately.”

    Sarah Death Panel complains that there’s too much negativity on the internet.

    whew.

    time for more vicodin.

  78. 78.

    Deborah

    November 18, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    @Stooleo: That she took the name of the Lord in vain. I really think Andrew is way, way off in his assessment of Levi as critical linchpin to some tyrranical scheme to defraud the Alaskan state government. What could he know? (If Trig is not her kid and she covered up for some female relative–don’t know how to break it to Andrew, but it doesn’t make her look that bad. Anyone still a fan will not leave the fanclub.)

  79. 79.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    November 18, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    @Stooleo:

    Hahaha )

  80. 80.

    Deborah

    November 18, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    Cleek, we’ll stop talking about Palin when Mark Sanford does something sufficiently embarrassing to distract us.

  81. 81.

    Andre

    November 18, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I think we’re going to see a whole lot of fudgery and not much debate. Sully will dig up random, possibly misread or misinterpreted factoids and spin an enormous conspiracy out of it that completely backs up his previous convictions.

    Meanwhile, other fact checkers will identify “problematic” statements in the book, ask for clarification from SarPalz, and get a whole lot of windbaggery.

  82. 82.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    November 18, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Here’s some of the “mistakes” from her book. Anyone else know of others, please post them also:

    news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_palin_book_fact_check

  83. 83.

    Jeff

    November 18, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Palin had the misfortune to be more like the Iraq War, in which the more you learn the more you realize you were conned.

    @Deborah:

    The misfortune isn’t hers, but ours.

  84. 84.

    Dreggas

    November 18, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    even better (and more of a springer episode) it was a menage-e-trois.

  85. 85.

    truculent and unreliable

    November 18, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    @Bubblegum Tate: Holy crap: “Baby shower at a shooting range 76”

    HA HA HA HA.

    When I heard it didn’t have an index, I wasn’t surprised. Most of those folks are freelancers and probably refused to take the job unless they were paid eleventy-million dollars for the brain damage that they would suffer.

  86. 86.

    EconWatcher

    November 18, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    I’m not saying Sully’s got it, but something tells me she does have a skeleton in the closet big enough to bring this charade to an end.

  87. 87.

    truculent and unreliable

    November 18, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    @EconWatcher: I’m not sure Sully has it, either, but I still think there was something really fishy about her resignation speech. She seemed terrified and/or speeded out.

    There’s something, and she’s trying to cash in before her adoring fans find out.

  88. 88.

    Pasquinade

    November 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    @Grumpy Code Monkey

    Now, if he has evidence of official malfeasance by her as either mayor or governor (such as new information on the whole state trooper investigation, or maybe just old-fashioned embezzling), bring it on.

    Palin still hasn’t released those emails that she has/had on her Yahoo account, has she?

  89. 89.

    Randy P

    November 18, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.

    Could there be any clearer evidence that Sully is not a card-carrying neocon?

    Sarah would insist that they all are true.

  90. 90.

    RememberNovember

    November 18, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    @dmsilev: Sully is an alum from Miskatonic U.

  91. 91.

    Pangloss

    November 18, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    I blame the Germanic invaders of Britain in the 8th and 9th that brought with them the Anglo-Frisian dialects that later became the language that Sarah Palin uses to lie.

  92. 92.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    @cleek:

    when can we stop talking about Palin?

    I think they’ll have to dig up Michael Jackson and let him die again.

  93. 93.

    Xenos

    November 18, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    @truculent and unreliable:

    She seemed terrified and/or speeded out.

    I would have guessed prescription drugs, but which? I agree there is definitely a Lady Dedlock air to her.

  94. 94.

    Peter J

    November 18, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Using my amazing powers of predicting things that a particle board desk could see coming, I expect Sarah Palin to blame the lies in her book on her ghostwriter.

    Peter J:

    Palin will continue to blame other people. She’ll blame Lynn Vincent for the bit in the book about Couric’s low self-esteem.

    My powers are super duper amazing. ;)

    (Obviously, she could ignore the facts and in that case my powers are super duper worthless.)

  95. 95.

    The Moar You Know

    November 18, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    I hate to break it to everyone, but Sullivan is a paranoiac drama queen whose obsession with Sarah Palin can be most easily explained that he is almost exactly like her. Bitchy, vengeful, nitpicky and obsessive.

    There is no “there” there. Sullivan isn’t going to find out anything we don’t already know.

  96. 96.

    Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)

    November 18, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    There is no “there” there. Sullivan isn’t going to find out anything we don’t already know.

    I think you’re way off. Say what you will about Sully, but of this I’m sure: her closet has skeletons.

  97. 97.

    robertdsc

    November 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    If only he’d been as rigorous for Iraqi WMD. Shame on you, Sully.

  98. 98.

    EconWatcher

    November 18, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    Look, this kid Levi says he’s got something. He could just be bluffing. But I don’t think so.

    I used to do white-collar criminal defense. You know what brings most of those guys down? You can rarely pull stuff without some of your employees finding out about it. And that means they have something on you. Always. They have the power. You can’t fire them. You have to keep them happy. They can turn any minute.

    Doesn’t this Sarah-Levi feud have that feel to you? She didn’t keep him in the fold, and now she’s running scared. It’s just a matter of time.

  99. 99.

    truculent and unreliable

    November 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    @EconWatcher: Yeah, I mean, Levi’s a bit of a douche, but I don’t think he’s fucking around.

  100. 100.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 18, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Prepare for your head to go all ‘splodey:

    Media discusses media coverage of Palin’s scrawlings: Is the media being too unfair?

    Fuck you, media.

  101. 101.

    Comrade Darkness

    November 18, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: It would be kind of appropriate to dig him up and auction his bones off though…

  102. 102.

    Stooleo

    November 18, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Awesome quote from Steve Benen.
    .

    I can think of plenty of politicians who are genuinely, unambiguously dumb. I’ve even met a few, and marveled at how they were able to attain any kind of political responsibilities, given their limited intellectual prowess. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician as conspicuously unintelligent as Sarah Palin gain national prominence. She represents the very worst American politics has to offer, and the embarrassment she brings to the political system is severe.

  103. 103.

    The Moar You Know

    November 18, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Doesn’t this Sarah-Levi feud have that feel to you?

    @EconWatcher: No, it doesn’t. They’re both grifters, that’s all.

  104. 104.

    AlanDean

    November 18, 2009 at 6:12 pm

  105. 105.

    Donald G

    November 18, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    My wife thought last night that perhaps Sully’s interns staged an intervention. Reading today’s post, I’m wondering if The Atlantic’s lawyers have said that he’d better be able to back up his speculations, so he’s gone all radio-silence for the nonce.

    Then again, he may actually be on to something and he’s waiting til he’s got all his ducks in a row before shooting.

  106. 106.

    JackHughes

    November 18, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Using my amazing powers of predicting things that a particle board desk could see coming, I expect Sarah Palin to blame the lies in her book on her ghostwriter. Points will also be awarded for the book editor, fact-checking team (I honestly want to know who served on that chain gang) and her moron-to-English translator.

    I’m waiting for Katie Couric to roll the outtakes of her interview with Sarah Palin — destroying Palin’s claims about “Couric’s hatchet job.”

  107. 107.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    November 18, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Someone here was spot on when he (?) compared Prejean to SheBilly. Of course, hypoChristians who can’t open their mouths without lying have never been what you’d call rare, but I can’t recall a time when it was so frequent and blatant.

    moron-to-English translator

    Lexiconable Phrase o’ the Day. It doesn’t even need a definition.

  108. 108.

    Chaz

    November 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    The idea that Levi’s got something amazing on Sarah sounds kind of hollow to me. I want it to be true, but suspect that his handlers are just working to crank up that publicity. Any really juicy stuff would be in the political sphere of her life and Levi’s window into that had to have been pretty slim.

  109. 109.

    mandarama

    November 18, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    @Robin G.:

    I just threw up so hard I saw starbursts.

    Yeah, I just threw up so hard I saw vampire sparkles.

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