Anniversary of Shame
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | December 12th at 04:40 PM |
It was one year ago, on December 12, 2008, that the church Sarah Palin’s family attends was torched: WASILLA — Whoever torched Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church tried to start fires in several places around the building, the federal agency assisting in the investigation said Monday. Accelerants were found in multiple locations on the outside of Wasilla Bible Church, including around entrances and exits, according | Read More »
Palin-hatin’ bloggers and the Wyle E. Coyote Effect
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | August 4th at 12:55 AM |
We don’t subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran in “Did Sarah Palin just ‘Pwn’ the media with divorce rumors?” The theory holds that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian-style setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin: It’s too pat, the pieces fit too nicely together (an “explanation” for why she resigned) not to raise | Read More »
You must see this Bill Whittle video
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 27th at 06:55 PM |
This isn’t a diary; this is a call to action. Bill Whittle has made a video in which he explains why the left, the media and Vichy Republicans joined in a de facto Axis of Elites to try to destroy Sarah Palin. This is must-see PJTV, and it’s made out of pure 100% awesome. But it’s about much more than Sarah Palin. It’s about a | Read More »
Memo to Linda Kellen Biegel
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 15th at 06:32 PM |
To: Linda Kellen Biegel, a.k.a “Celtic Diva” Re: Ethics Violation As you can see from the attached photograph, this federal employee is in clear violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive Branch, Subpart A, “General Provisions” – which states: (8) Employees shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual. Millions of | Read More »
SarahPAC raised $733,000 in five months
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 13th at 06:46 PM |
That’s right, five months — not six — bacause as Allah notes at Hot Air — SarahPAC wasn’t fully operational until the end of January: “By comparison, Romney’s PAC raised $1.4 million through the end of May, but then fundraising is pretty much Mitt’s full-time gig these days and he already has a polished team around him left over from the primaries. Let’s see what | Read More »
Flea Fly Foe Frum
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 11th at 12:50 PM |
David Frum has now pontificated on the Palin resignation, so the Vichy wing of the Republican Party can stop holding its collective breath and exhale. “On reflection” Frum has it all figured out. It’s all about the money: “2009-2011 will be her peak years for speaking fees. If she runs for president in 2012, she’ll be obliged to cut back her paid speeches in the | Read More »
You can still call her ‘governor’ after July 26
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 8th at 07:39 PM |
Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles, so Sarah Palin will still be addressed as “Governor Palin” after she officially turns the reigns of her office over to Sean Parnell July 26. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has never been much of a stickler for that kind of thing, though, as she signs “Sarah” to her non-official correspondence. So what will | Read More »
Palin to Andrea Mitchell: ‘You’re not listening to me’
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 7th at 04:48 PM |
Gov. Sarah Palin granted interviews to the legacy media yesterday, and each outlet added its own spin to its presentation of the story. One thing is obvious from watching the various videos and reading the stories: they don’t get it. Palin had to scold NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, for instance. “You’re not listening to me,” she admonished the ditzy reporter after Mitchell asked the governor a | Read More »
Exploding the ‘she abandoned her post’ meme
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 6th at 11:57 PM |
In the wake of Gov. Sarah Palin’s announcement that she will resign her office before the end of the month, she has been the target of considerable crtiticism from the punditocracy on both the left and the right who sneer that “she abandoned her post.” John Podhoretz says the charge is disengenuous: Strangely, neither of these commentators, nor anybody else for that matter, accused, say, | Read More »
Why she’s resigning: A warrior must be mobile
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 5th at 12:37 PM |
From Gov. Palin via Twitter: See letter from my attorney on baseless allegations of past 24hrs @ http://tinyurl.com/l4ct5n(excerpt) The Palin-hating left has been salivating this weekend over lies that began at an Alaska ankle biter website, percolated up to the national nutroots and got mentioned on several major liberal media outlets.
Sarah’s Satisfaction
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 3rd at 11:51 PM |
If Sarah Palin had intended to make media heads collectively explode, she couldn’t have planned it better. She called a press conference on short notice, then announced that not only would she not seek a second term as Alaska’s governor, but she intended to resign later this month. All that would remain for her to do is pop some Orville’s, sit back and enjoy the | Read More »
Sarah Palin will resign as Alaska governor
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 3rd at 03:12 PM |
From anchorage television station KTUU: WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. The governor gave no reason why she will resign, but there has been much speculation that she intends to run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Update: A tweet from the governor: “We’ll soon attach | Read More »
Frum demonstrates why Vichy Republicans will kill the GOP
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 2nd at 10:12 PM |
David Frum has done conservatives a great favor, and we should be thankful. The favor is not that he has written another negative piece about Gov. Palin. No, that’s nothing new for Frum, who has been bashing the governor since she stepped up onto the national stage. Frum’s gift to conservatives is that in the article, he clearly demonstrates why Vichy Republicans cannot be trusted | Read More »
Poor Joe Biden can’t even fill a room
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 1st at 08:25 PM |
Back in December at a meeting with the nation’s governors, then vice President-Elect Joe Biden asked Governor Sarah Palin for help in attracting some attention:
There they go again
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | July 1st at 02:34 AM |
The NY Daily News is promoting the August edition of Vanity Fair, in which a vicious hit piece full of lies, distortions and innuendo savagely attacks everything about Sarah Palin, not the least of which is her character. The author is the liberal magazine’s national editor Todd Purdum. If you don’t know where he’s coming from, consider that Purdum formerly hacked for the New York Times, | Read More »
Suppressed reports vindicate Palin polar bear policy
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 29th at 12:29 AM |
Early in January, a Sarah Palin op-ed appeared in the NY Times in which she argued against adding the Polar Bear to the list of endangered species because the polar bear populations in the Arctic were healthy: “…polar bears are more numerous now than they were 40 years ago. The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s North Slope has been relatively stable | Read More »
Spokesperson: Kerry didn’t mean what he said
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 27th at 05:04 PM |
Senator John Kerry has thrown the joke he told Tuesday about Governor Sarah Palin under the bus. Or in Kerryspeak, he obviously voted for the joke before he voted against it. Just one day after Gov. Palin stood up to the liberal Senator and returned fire, he has apparently calculated that his joke went too far, not to mention that he has lousy timing.
Does Kerry moonlight as a writer for Letterman?
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 26th at 12:16 AM |
One would think Sen. John Kerry (D-Cambodia) would have realized by now that his idea of humor doesn’t go over very well. It must be because he’s a nasty person, and his pathetic attempts at being funny just turn out to be… well, nasty.
Gov. Palin headed for Europe to visit troops
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 24th at 10:23 AM |
From the governor via Twitter: “Travel now to bring appreciation from their Alaska family & Natl Guard leadership to heroes in US European Command’s area of responsibility” We had wondered if Gov. Palin was going to return to the Middle East to visit her state’s Guard troops deployed there after she tweeted: “Got Fed ok for Adjutant Gen Campbell, Command Sgt Major Choate and me | Read More »
Is Palin going back to the Middle East?
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | June 24th at 12:07 AM |
Governor Sarah Palin recently tweeted: “Got Fed ok for Adjutant Gen Campbell, Command Sgt Major Choate and me to travel to our Ak Army Natl Guard troops on Wed. Glad to go to them” The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate’s tweet didn’t say exactly where she would travel to visit the toops. But one has to wonder why she would need permission from the Feds | Read More »