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firstthings.com - 11/16/2009

Sarah Palin on Oprah

— firstthings.com — Okay, I broke down and watched Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin. Color me underwhelmed. By both women.... It was like watching two lightly muzzled Doberman Pinschers, behaving because they have to, but with an undergrowl that translates, roughly, ... (more) Sarah Palin on Oprah

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blogs.abcnews.com - 11/16/2009

Palin to Oprah: Levi Johnston Pursuing 'Porn' Career; 'I Pray for Levi'

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: We wrote last week that, based on the initial clip distributed by... Oprah Winfrey's shop, Sarah Palin seemed to be seeking a ceasefire with the father of her grandson. Now that the full Oprah interview is out -- not ... (more) Palin to Oprah: Levi Johnston Pursuing 'Porn' Career; 'I ...

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/17/2009

John McCain: The Reason For All Of This - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — The View From Your Window | Main | The Center Of Attention 17 Nov 2009 02:58 pm... John McCain: The Reason For All Of This Richard Coen convenes a meeting: The Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin might conclude that she represents the exact moment ... (more) John McCain: The Reason For All Of This - The Daily ...

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The Reaction:  Palinio ad absurdum

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RT @jonathanbrink: Andrew Sullivan asks, "Does Sara Palin want to be a celebrity or a politician?" http://bit.ly/33u0Bl 11/19/2009

@HTownChowDown I'd imagine. I was at work, so I followed Sullivan's live-blogging: http://tinyurl.com/yks5vxn 11/17/2009

RT @ndcollierLol @ AndrewSullivan"There is no journalism being committed here. As I suspected."He live-blogged Oprah: http://bit.ly/3sd24g 11/17/2009

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Palinio ad absurdum
The Reaction — ... If you still can't get enough, check out Andrew Sullivan's courageous live-blogging of Palin's appearance on Oprah. I say "courageous" because it no doubt took a certain self-sacrifice to sit through it all. Sullivan does stellar work peeling back the layers of bullshit that thinly disguises the real Sarah Palin, and his post is worth reading -- it's certainly more enjoyable, I can only imagine, than actually watching the interview, and many of his points only further discredit a woman who, to me, has no credibility at all. ...

Obligatory Sarah Palin
Balloon Juice — ... Andrew Sullivan complains “She wants to be a celebrity, not a politician. And if she could get to be a politician using the prerogatives of a celebrity – and a propaganda channel like Fox News – she would be happy. That’s what’s at stake here – beneath this farce.” Which is a pretty good summary, assuming that the nouns in the second sentence got swapped in the heat of live-blogging: Palin wants to be a celebrity, and was willing to act out what she understood to be a politician’s role to get the prerogatives of ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — Max Blumenthal: Palin's Literary Klavern Newsbroke: Has Sarah Palin become the 'community organizer' she once disdained? The Washington Note: Not Supposed to Happen in Obama Land: Intrigue behind Gregory Craig's resignation 43-Ideas-Per-Minute: Their intellectual honesty has bowed out again Submitted to a Candid World: National Review: Where the Supreme Court is an afterthought Economist's View: The Fed "refused to use its considerable leverage" ...

Maybe, But Why’s Everyone Talking About Her?
Jules Crittenden — ... . Tour de force from Andrew Sullivan , in full froth as he liveblogs the Oprah interview. Extra weirdness points for comparing Palin’s love of drama to Oprah’s love of food to his love of beards. Topics: ...

Bringing Out the Big Sticks
Neptunus Lex — ... of collegiate adventures in places no one in Manhattan had ever heard of, young Sarah Palin finally got her degree from the University of Idaho. In the minds of the J-School jollies, this puts her in the category of people who one should not have to look upon at all unless with pity, and yet the media can’t take their eyes off of her. In a kind of vicious and self reinforcing circle  – best personified by the more spettle-flecked inventions of a once interesting pundit – they hate themselves for looking at her, and hate her even more for making ...