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Newsweek dishes new dirt on Palin and Nicolle Wallace
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Nothing too shocking , but useful background. Palin was being handled by Nicolle Wallace, a veteran of the hardball politics of the Bush-Cheney campaign (she had been a press-bashing director of communications). Recruited by Schmidt, Wallace had come from a stint as a commentator at CBS. She had the disastrous idea of making Palin available only for a series of high-profile media interviews, and then overprepared her with a cram course of talking points. It was embarrassing to watch Palin grope for answers to Katie Couric’s questions—and thanks to YouTube, more than 10 ...

Campbell Brown Defends Palin; Rips McCain Advisors (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — Embedded video from CNN Video Sarah Palin wasn't back in Alaska for a full day before her office was flooded with requests for interviews from people like Larry King, Barbara Walters and Oprah. Newsweek dishes new dirt on Palin A Few Things You'd Have to Believe to Believe What McCain Staffers Say About Sarah Palin Politics Gender News Sexist Republicans Male Dominated Culture Misogyny Sarah Palin

Is Sarah Palin Being Unfairly Scapegoated?
The Moderate Voice — ... In recent weeks, via leaks to the press and inside unnamed source material coming from Newsweek’s usual excellent comprehensive look at what really went on the campaign and some other reporters, lots of allegations have come out about Palin: that she didn’t know Africa was a continent, didn’t know the countries in North America, shocked McCain operatives by going on a spending spree, was a political diva who made her own staffers cry and that she wanted to give a speech on election night that had to be nixed by McCain’s staffers. Etc. ...

Palin and "Palling Around"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Newsweek reports that Palin jumped the gun and attacked Obama for his association with Ayers before the McCain campaign had decided to pull the trigger. But I was just talking to a former McCain aide who was absolutely adamant that the "palling around" line came from headquarters, as did her other material on Ayers. ...

The Real Highlights of the Article Are Telling, Hilarious
Debbie Schlussel — ... Schlussel Over the weekend, I read the Newsweek magazine extended set of articles that have been getting a lot of attention over the allegations about the intellect and behavior of Sarah Palin. But the Palin stuff--whether true or not--is not among the many highlights and notable item in the articles, seven chapters of what's called "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign". I've posted them for you below, since I find them hilarious, sad and telling, especially this one. Gee, I wonder why he lost: McCain had set firm boundaries: no ...

Something That Must Be Said
Rhymes With Right — ... for death threats against Barack Obama. Some are resurrecting discredited claims of “a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling ‘terrorist’ and ‘kill him’” as examples of her misdeeds – despite the fact that the original source about the connection between Palin and the threats seems to go nowhere near that conclusion and ...

Rousing the Rabble
The American Spectator — ... The Secret Service never said any such thing and the Telegraph's story didn't actually say that they had said it. Rather, Telegraph reporter Tim Shipman was paraphrasing a Newsweek account of the campaign that quoted Obama adviser Gregory Craig in mid-October expressing concern about "the frenzied atmosphere at the Palin rallies." The same paragraph of the Newsweek story asserted (without attribution) that the Obama campaign had been "provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in ...