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Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak… and proud of it.
By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox ...
Palin and Africa, Etc.
corner.nationalreview.com — I talked to Steve Biegun, the former Bush NSC aid who briefed Sarah Palin on foreign policy, and he considers the leaks against her on the international stuff "absurd." He says there's no way she didn't know Africa was a continent, and whoever is ... (more) Palin and Africa, Etc.
Palin reflects on her run
Palin reflects on her run
adn.com — Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called "Troopergate" controversy and has no regrets about accepting state per diem cash for time spent at her home in ... (more) Palin reflects on her run
 Palin Aide Fires Back at Reported McCain Camp Slams
Palin Aide Fires Back at Reported McCain Camp Slams
abcnews.go.com — Now that the defeated Republican presidential team of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have gone their separate ways, the knives are out and Palin is the one who is getting filleted. But longtime Palin staffer Meg Stapleton is lashing ... (more) Palin Aide Fires Back at Reported McCain Camp Slams
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O'Reilly, Van Susteren debate Fox report
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... UPDATE: Well, now it's no longer anonymous. Martin Eisenstadt has come forward as a source on the Africa and NAFTA leaks to Cameron.  (h/t FishbowlDC) ...

Even More Palin Cluelessness
The Stump — ... Martin Eisenstadt outs himself as Carl Cameron's source for some recent Palin-mockery and delivers yet more fodder (emphasis added): ...

We Know Who The Leaker Is
Politics Daily — ... "For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah... careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal," the self-proclaimed founder of the Eisenstadt Group wrote on his blog today. "Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps." ...

Martin Eisenstadt, Non-Existent McCain Adviser, Spills On Palin Dirt
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... A former campaign adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt has outed himself as the proud source of the Sarah Palin "doesn't know Africa is a continent" story. ...

Martin Eisenstadt, Non-Existent McCain Adviser, Spills On Palin Dirt
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... A former campaign adviser to John McCain named Martin Eisenstadt has outed himself as the proud source of the Sarah Palin "doesn't know Africa is a continent" story. ...

Martin Eisenstadt Admits He's One of Palin-Smear Leakers; Threatens to "Reveal" More
Ace of Spades HQ — Martin Eisenstadt Admits He's One of Palin-Smear Leakers; Threatens to "Reveal" More Leper. Now go write your Soros-funded book and never darken our doors again. By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then ...

Sarah Palin Leaker Outs Himself
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... First of all the leaker turned out not to be Mitt Romney nor one of his associates as some have suspected. More importantly, the leaker's own revelation does not show that Sarah Palin didn't know that Africa was a continent nor that she didn't know which countries were in the NAFTA. Okay, so who is the leaker? Drum roll please, maestro! And the leaker is....Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain campaign adviser. Eisenstadt revealed himself to be the leaker and his reasons for leaking in his blog: ...

Video: MSNBC falls for Palin/Eisenstadt hoax
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: MSNBC falls for Palin/Eisenstadt hoax posted at 6:00 pm on November 10, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Specifically, this hoax . I’d love to throw stones at them and TNR , but people on our own side were taken in too. Guys? The post at Shakespeare’s Sister revealing the hoax is linked on the first page of the Google results for “Martin Eisenstadt.” Remember these goofball viral “ads” for Giuliani? Anything look familiar ? The “Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy” ? ...

circular firing squad identifies self
skippy the bush kangaroo — remember those "unnamed sources" that gossipped about how maggie o'connell didn't know africa was a continent? well, one "unnamed source" is naming himself: ...

Wanting to Believe the Worst About Sarah Palin
PoliGazette — ... In what can be considered a sign that some members of the mainstream media want to believe everything bad about Governor Sarah Palin, regardless of the idiocy of the accusation, MSNBC and The New Republic, among others, took a satirical post published at a blog yesterday serious. ...

Matt Lewis: Phony 'Adviser' Fools Bloggers, MSM
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall BlogAs you may have heard, several bloggers -- and even the MSM -- was "taken" by a phony McCain adviser (a senior fellow at a nonexistent think tank) ...

No one could have ever anticipated that Martin Eisenstadt was a hoax
Shakesville — ... A few days ago, my one-time nemesis Martin Eisenstadt finally stumbled upon the perfect hoax. It went down something like this: Carl Cameron of Fox News told Bill O'Reilly that "anonymous campaign sources" had told him that Sarah Palin didn't know whether Africa was a country or a continent among other things, including that she once greeted McCain campaign workers while wearing a bathrobe or towel (the horror!) when they met her in her hotel room to talk shop. After a couple of days, Eisenstadt took credit for being that source and all hell promptly broke lose as several ...

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