The Alaska governor & former GOP VP candidate e-mails the Anchorage Daily News, & its editor prints her full e-mail & his response, in a classic case study in the ’sausage-making’ that goes behind proper journalism:
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SARAH FOR SENATE? WILL SHE LOSE IT OR WIN IT?
January 8th, 2009, 11:09 am by Dan Lehr
Two vastly different polls (1st one here, 2nd one here) present an emphatic (& thus enigmatic) ‘yes’ to the question in the headline.
But Nate Silver bursts the bubbles of both the pro- & anti- Palin camps:
“Alaska is perhaps the most difficult state in the country to poll. Its residents are in a strange time zone and keep strange schedules; it has very high rates of cellphone usage; it has highly unusual demographics.”
&
“Actually, I’m not sure that this one is too hard to adjudicate. The Alaska Standard is an attractive and engaging blog, but its lead author, talk show host Dan Fagan, is most definitely not a fan of Mrs. Palin. In fact, although Fagan is a staunch conservative, virtually all of his posts are anti-Palin in some way, most recently regarding some controversy surrounding Levi Johnston.
Fagan very much is a fan, however, of Lisa Murkowski. Not only that, but Murkowski has written an article for this website, and is listed as one of its contributors along the side panel. The pollster, David Dittman, is also listed as a contributor.
So you’ll excuse me if I don’t find it terribly shocking that when this website decided to conduct a poll, it contained GREAT NEWS!!! FOR LISA MURKOWSKI!!!”
So which poll should we believe?
HIGH & LOW WATER MARKS: SARAH PALIN
December 31st, 2008, 11:58 am by Dan LehrHIGH WATER MARK
Her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.
LOW WATER MARK
MEMO TO SARAH: SURROUND YOURSELF WITH BETTER SPELLERS
December 22nd, 2008, 5:21 pm by Dan Lehr
Case #1. This calendar, on sale now (sorry, Dad, I didn’t spot in time to fill your stocking). Note how the year is spelled out at the bottom.
Case #2: This interview with Human Events, which ends:
CAROLINE KENNEDY & SARAH PALIN
December 16th, 2008, 9:28 am by Dan Lehr
Ms. Kennedy says she wants Hillary Clinton’s seat.
Steve Clemons encapsulates my thoughts pitch-perfectly:
PALIN IN THE PEACH STATE
December 1st, 2008, 8:22 am by Dan Lehr
UPDATE: scroll down for a clip.
You still have time (though it’s running out) to RSVP to see her in metro Atlanta. Click here to find out details on Saxby Chambliss’ website.
Palin’s hometown newspaper is puzzled as to why she’s campaigning for Chambliss.
& Donald Craig Mitchell of the Alaskan Dispatch blog says she doesn’t seem to be ready to settle back down into the Alaska governor’s mansion anytime soon:
“My prediction is that for at least the next two years Sarah is going to keep her show on the road because that will be a lot more fun than being Governor of a backwater state that spends most of its time as far out of the limelight in which Sarah has been basking as North and South Dakota do. During the almost fifty years it has been a state Alaska has had nine governors. Other than Sarah Palin, how many people who do not live in Alaska can name one of them? And why should they be able to? Because who cares who the Governor of Alaska is?
That is the obscurity to which Sarah will return if she goes back to her day job. In addition to being no fun, for presidential candidate wannabe Palin, that also is the rub.”
UPDATE: The 1st reports are coming in, read more after the jump (I’ll post clips of her stump speech here once they’re available).
HERE SHE COMES!
November 25th, 2008, 2:55 pm by Dan Lehr
From the NewsChannel9 e-mail inbox:
ATLANTA—U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) today confirmed that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will campaign in Georgia with him on Monday, December 1st.
PARTY WARS: ARE ANTI-ABORTIONISTS THE PROBLEM?
November 25th, 2008, 12:58 pm by Dan Lehr
The latest installment of our listening in to the discussions among conservatives about the future of the conservative movement, after the jump.
THANK YOU, SARAH PALIN & WHAT’S-HIS-FACE
November 24th, 2008, 1:34 pm by Dan Lehr
Above: the “Our Country Deserves Better” PAC thanks Sarah Palin for doing such a great job running against Barack Obama.
Pity that her running mate was such a drag on the ticket.
Let’s see.. what was his name again?
Hm…
ABC ‘DESPERATE’ FOR SARAH?
November 19th, 2008, 10:41 am by Dan Lehr
Wouldn’t you be?
“Is Governor Sarah Palin headed to television’s Wisteria Lane?
Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry is reportedly courting the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate for a cameo appearance on the fifth season finale of the ABC dramedy, airing in May.
Marc is “very hot to trot to have her appear on the season-five finale,” an inside source revealed to the New York Post on Thursday.
“Marc is highly enamored of Sarah and sees her as the ultimate guest star [playing] a similar version of herself. The idea has gone over surprisingly well with execs at Disney, who see it as a blockbuster based on Sarah’s huge ratings on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ “
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THIS IS ONLY A RUMOR.
I’ll let you know if it pans out.
ALSO: There is a new ethics complaint filed against the Alaska governor that charges she used state property to promote her national image.
THE LONG-AWAITED 1st SARAH PALIN NEWS CONFERENCE
November 13th, 2008, 4:14 pm by Dan Lehr
Well, this is new. Sarah Palin answering questions from a gaggle of reporters.
Do you realize she didn’t do this once during the campaign?
What if Joe Biden was as unknown on the national stage & had tried to do that?
Palin’s part in the conference lasted about three & a half minutes.. & she answered four (4) questions before being whisked offstage.
FAILING THE ‘SMELL TEST’
November 13th, 2008, 9:45 am by Dan Lehr
My suspicion that a rumor out there about Sarah Palin not being able to tell if Africa was a country or continent has proved correct.
PALIN’S 1st POST-ELECTION INTERVIEW
November 11th, 2008, 11:23 am by Dan Lehr
PLAYING THE BLAME GAME
November 10th, 2008, 1:57 pm by Dan Lehr
“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a 10 trillion dollar debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing. So people desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It’s amazing that we did as well as we did.”
-Sarah Palin, to the Anchorage Daily News
That’s her take. I’m more in the school of these essential reads:
- Broadcast Services
- TV Listings
- Public EEO Report
- WTVC DTV Report
- Science Theatre
- Online Services
- RSS Feeds
- Advertiser Index
- Yellow Pages
- Related Sites
- Total Visual Concepts
FLOGGING THE CULTURE WAR CORPSE
January 9th, 2009, 10:17 am by Dan Lehr(Illustration credit here)
One of the great things about Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog is he often makes a great point using a minimum of sentences, as he does here:
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