corner.nationalreview.com - 7/1/2009
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The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain's loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press?
After being ...
weeklystandard.com - 6/30/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
Lefty journalist Todd Purdum has a hit piece
in the new Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. You...
don’t have to be a big Palin fan to recognize the article is full of dubious claims, and is dependent on self-serving stories provided on background by some of ...
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Kristol: Liberal Media and GOP Hacks vs. Palin
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 6/30/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Todd recounts it: But there were ominous signs—indications
of an erratic nature. This is the third thing...
McCain could have discovered about Palin—a woman, after all, who kept a pregnancy secret for seven months, flew all the way home from Texas to ...
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And The Story The MSM Still Won't Touch
dyn.politico.com - 7/1/2009
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dyn.politico.com —
A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the
new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange...
of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year s GOP ticket tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first ...
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Palin story sparks GOP family feud - Politico.com Print View
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Hot Air » Top Picks —
... is getting all the buzz but you need to read it in the context of Mark Hemingway’s dirt-dishing post at NRO. Someone forwarded him a couple of key e-mail exchanges from during the campaign, one between Bill Kristol and stalwart Palin defender Randy Scheunemann and the other between a NYT reporter and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. The upshot: Fingers a-pointin’ at Steve Schmidt, Nicolle Wallace, and her husband, all three of whom have been prime suspects in the Palin sniping since the campaign ended. It would appear that Schmidt and Nicolle were the source for Bumiller ...
The mother of all personnel disputes
Power Line —
... has a good summary of the dispute. And if you really want to get into the weeds, Mark Hemmingway will take you there. Hemmingway's post contains some juicy email correspondence that deals mainly with issues surrounding the attempt to fire Schuenemann. Hemmigway finds that, at a minimum, "Schmidt is not above anonymously leaking damaging information about the campaign" ...
The mother of all personnel disputes, Part Two
Power Line —
... Was it Schmidt, as Kristol and Randy Scheunemann allege? I don't know. But, as I noted, Mark Hemmingway presents good reason to believe that "Schmidt is not above anonymously leaking damaging information about the campaign." And Schmidt's silly, irrelevant attacks on Kristol (e.g., Kristol's from Washington, I'm from Northern Calfornia and Kristol was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff) cast him in a poor light. ...
What Does the McCain Campaign Infighting Say About Our Political Leadership?
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Nicole Wallace: Scorched Earth Policy-- What Scorched Earth Policy?
Crooks and Liars —
... I think Nicole Wallace is more concerned about her own wingnut welfare than telling the truth about anything. Otherwise she'd have quit the McCain campaign when they enlisted Palin as the VP. ...
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