Sarah Palin today released a video on Facebook expressing her grief and outrage over Saturday’s shootings in Tucson. She also explained her rhetoric and hit back at those who have suggested that the level of political discourse in the country is, in part, to blame for Jared Lee Loughner’s unhinged rampage. “We know violence …
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Morning Must Reads: “Libel”
–Sarah Palin breaks her silence on the Arizona shootings, issuing a long, unapolagetic response from her social media perch that accuses the media of trying to “manufacture a blood libel” against her.
–”Blood libel” historically refers to the powerful anti-semitic falsehood that Jews use the blood of Christian children in …
Time for a New Era of Political Correctness?
Aren’t we all responsible for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? Parents worry about the effect on children of violent movies and bloody video games. But what about violence in our public discourse?
On both sides of the aisle, civility has become the latchkey kid of politics.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a …
Serious Sarah
Even though Sarah Palin could start her own Oprah book club — the book she recommended in an interview with Barbara Walters last night, Confessions of an All-Night Runner, went from No. 13,086 to No. 4,764 on Amazon’s most read list overnight — she’s clearly switching gears to focus on her more serious side.
Her reality show is …
President Palin?
This week I have a cover story on Sarah Palin: is she running for President or to become a right wing Oprah? Certainly, celebrity is a major part of her persona – much as it was with Barack Obama early on. Time was politicians ran for higher office to get famous. Now, fame is a momentum-building tool that greases the tracks to the …
Morning Must Reads: Sunny
Defense Secretary Robert Gates boards a C-17 after visiting U.S. troops at Forward Operating Base Howz-E-Madad in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan December 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Win McNamee)
–The Senate begins debate on Obama’s tax compromise today and Dems there are beginning to thaw. House Dems not so much; some
Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month
Sarah Palin raised $469,000 between Oct. 13 and Nov. 22 bringing her total for the year to over $3 million, Tim Crawford, SarahPAC’s treasurer, told TIME exclusively. Crawford attributed the surge of funds to energy surrounding the midterm elections, Palin’s endorsements and her TLC reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” Her …
Morning Must Reads: 2012 Checkup
(White House Photo by Pete Souza)
–Mike Huckabee tells the Iowa Family Policy Center the state supreme court ousters “may have been singularly the most important election that happened in America.” Back story here.
–New York Magazine‘s Jason Zengerle details how Chris Christie
Iowa Judges, Political Whim and 2012
TIME’s legal columnist Adam Cohen writes this week that voters’ decision to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices whose ruling paved the way for gay marriage in the state is a cautionary tale against electoral tests for judicial appointee:
The Iowa vote is just the latest evidence that elections are a terrible way of choosing judges
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Morning Must Reads: Showdown
That picture (Reuters/Jason Reed) is from the incident Scherer described.
–The Des Moines Register weighs how the conservative mojo this cycle may translate to the Iowa caucuses.
–The Boston Herald really thinks it’s Scott Brown’s time.
–Politico likes Marco Rubio for veep.
–Tim Pawlenty wants to make things all …
Sarah Palin’s Morning In America Is A Sunset In Reverse
These are the hazards of buying public stock footage. Here is Sarah Palin’s new pat-on-the-back election video. At 36 seconds, she says, “This is our morning in America,” as an apparent orange sunrise is shown behind the Statue of Liberty.
That stock footage is for sale here, for $45. It is called “Time Lapse–Sunset behind Statue …
Election Eve Stunner: Sarah Palin Endorses Tom Tancredo
This is change you can believe in. Just two years ago, Tom Tancredo was a veritable outcast of the Republican Party. Karl Rove was screaming at him, John McCain scoffed at him, GOP pollsters viewed him as a saboteur within their midst. Tancredo’s one issue–a near-apocalyptic warning about immigrant-driven dilution of American …
Palin’s FEC Disclosures
Diving through the 600+ pages of Sarah Palins two most recent Federal Election Commission disclosures – the October Quarterly report filed Oct. 12 and the Pre-General report filed Oct. 17 – has been fascinating. While most of the media attention has been paid to what she brought in, $1.2 million, I focused on her disbursements. For …
