Sarah’s tour has made a premature stop. It’s pretty unclear exactly why. There she was, soaking up the national spotlight, making moves to make herself a top contender for the GOP’s presidential nomination. Then, after getting some facts wrong about Paul Revere, she vanished from the spotlight. Now, she’s back in Alaska, and her plans for the rest of her road trip are on hold. She never did get a chance to meet up with prominent people in those always-important early voting states, and heading home early could cost her a lot of the momentum she’d built thus far. She’s doing a few other things — namely, she has a documentary coming out — but other than that, she’s left her followers wondering what she’s doing. Frankly, we are too. source
To the Sunlight Foundation: This idea (Sarah’s Inbox) is incredibly inspired and you should be proud of each other. However, didn’t Palin use a Yahoo account, not Gmail? By the way, the explanation for how they came up with this idea to present Sarah Palin’s e-mails is over here.
Explore the E-mailsJoin The New York Times in examining Sarah Palin’s e-mail records by identifying messages you think deserve a closer look.
If you find something of interest, summarize what you see and tell us the e-mail date and page number. Include your name and e-mail address so we can notify you if we include your observation in an article.
Why merely give it to the NYTimes? Why not publish it yourself?
735 pages of Sarah Palin’s e-mails on Scribd: We know how we’re spending our afternoon. (via huffpo)
Palin releases a YouTube video summing up her big One Nation bus tour.
A dramatic clip that surprisingly doesn’t mention Paul Revere at all.
In response to Sarah Palin’s misstatements about Paul Revere’s ride, Stephen Colbert challenged his viewers to change the Wikipedia entry for “Bells” to include the statement “Used by Paul Revere to warn the British that hey, you’re not going to succeed in taking our guns. USA! USA!” (It took someone less than a minute to do it.)
In which Stephen Colbert once again proves his dominance over Wikipedia.
I apologize if I stepped on any of that PR that Mitt Romney needed or wanted that day.Sarah Palin on “Fox News Sunday” • Suggesting that she sort of stole Romney’s thunder because her bus tour stopped in a town near to where Romney was announcing his candidacy — on a farm in New Hampshire. She’s also said that her much-publicized bus tour hasn’t moved her any closer to a decision on whether she’s running for president. Here’s a tip, Sarah — until you make up your mind, don’t screw over the people from your party. source (via • follow)
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Thanks for ruining our vacation.Piper Palin (daughter of Sarah, age 9) • Making a comment to a photographer during Sarah Palin’s massive bus tour. This strikes a rather awkward contrast, because media attention is precisely the intended effect of this tour as far as Mama Palin is concerned. (Seriously, did she not tell her what was going on?!?) Though we hope it’s obvious, we’ll strenuously make it clear that this isn’t intended as yukking it up at the expense of a young, innocent girl — we frankly can’t imagine what it would be like growing up in such a publicly prominent family, and one that does have its share of disgusting things written about it on the internet. There is something very emotionally evocative, rather, at the thought that the media attention which is basically the lifeblood of Sarah Palin’s career, political or otherwise, seems to be rankling her daughter, who just wants a nice vacation. source (via • follow)
In which Jon Stewart gets a lot of mileage out of Donald Trump’s “doing-it-wrongness” of his pizza summit with Sarah Palin.
We have now polled on Palin’s favorability in 31 states. Voters in all 31 of those states have a negative opinion of her.Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen • Palin’s support has always been miles deep but inches wide; even so, the results of PPP’s polling really paint a dire picture of her electoral prospects. Alaskans disapprove of her by a twenty five-point margin; not a huge surprise, as constituents generally don’t like when their governors quit mid-term for no good reason. But in McCain states, she faces a sixteen point deficit, and West Virginia, which “likes” her the most, still dislikes her by six percent. If she runs, it’ll be a really steep climb. source (via • follow)
We’re friends. And I don’t consider her a competitor … I think there’s enough room for a lot of contenders. And I think there’s no question in 2012, the Republicans will field a wide bench of contenders against President Obama. And I think the comparison will be very favorable.Rep. Michele Bachmann • Trying to offer a retort to the idea that she wouldn’t be able to run for president if Sarah Palin were to run, presumably because the politicians are so similar that they’d hurt one another’s chances in 2012 (though Bachmann, let’s be honest, has a lower profile). “I compare myself to Barack Obama. Not to any of the other Republican candidates,” she claimed. Bachmann, who benefited in her 2010 run from a Palin endorsement, was on various news programs this morning. source (via • follow)
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