Chris Matthews Indicts Sarah Palin: Silent, On The Lam

This clip from "Hardball" is from yesterday, before Sarah Palin's statement of this morning. Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had some valulable insights into Palin's problem. Did Palin do what Tucker suggested?

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Palin Family Circus News - Friday, September 3, 2010

The Hollywood Gossip writes:

The author of a blistering Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin says his attempt at a positive piece went so awry, he couldn't even include all the bad stuff he found out.

"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Michael Joseph Gross said on MSNBC.

"I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman." ...

... You can read the Vanity Fair article yourself and draw your own conclusions, but he paints Palin as an abusive, combative figure with an extreme ability to lie.

"This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about," he said of the ex-Alaska Governor and mother of Bristol Palin. "She lies about everything."

Meghan McCain has nothing on this. As for Palin's political future?

"If we decide to let her keep lying and getting away with it, she's gonna still be around," he said. "But if we start returning to the standard that a politician has to talk with people, and a politician has to tell the truth, then she's outta here."

"Because she can't stand up to that." ...


This must be the msnbc video THG referred to:

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While looking for that video, an interview with Gross on "Hardball" was found:

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In The Washington Post's "A limp response from Palin," Ruth Marcus, while she says, "As it happens, I think Palin had a legitimate beef with the Vanity Fair piece. It was very short on identified sources. You could hear a lot of axes being ground in the background," criticizes Palin's response:

... There are sexist aspects to the commentary about Palin, as with other female politicians. Sometimes sexism is imagined or overplayed; sometimes it is real and deserves to be called out. A new campaign, Name It, Change It, has been launched to expose such episodes.

Fine, but women politicians have to keep to the high road if they don't want men making fun of their high heels. Impotent and limp? No male politician accused a female reporter of being hormonal or frigid.

Governor, there were any number of other adjectives you could have used. You didn't need to go there -- and you shouldn't have.

Doesn't Palin's response to the article confirm one of the article's major points? That Sarah Palin has a foul temper?


Hey! These guys understand Sarah Palin:

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msnbc's First Read blog has adopted a new policy on reporting Palin's Facebook posts and Twitterings.


A Jay Leno tweet has Bristol on his show tonight.


People magazine has the before and after pictures (of Bristol Palin's dance practice).


And, dont miss "Bristle Dance."

California Schemin' - The Rise of The Know Nothings

Yesterday, Chris Matthews talked with California Attorney General Jerry Brown about his opponent, Meg Whitman, and the current Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the problems the State of California is facing. Brown and Whitman are vying to be California's next Governor, an office Brown has held before. About the 1:50 mark, Matthews asks Brown:

"What is it in the American psyche or character that says, if you don't know anything, you're somehow an average person or average guy and you have horse sense? What is it about people that keep picking people like George W. Bush to be president? And you see these people like Sarah Palin out there with fans. Why would anybody like somebody who the campaign manager for John McCain said, "She doesn`t know anything?" Why is not knowing anything — why does the know-nothing candidate, like Meg Whitman, a person who doesn't have any government experience, have the appeal to be even with you in the polls? The know — the person that doesn`t know anything about government."

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It's an interesting interview. Jerry Brown is confident that the voters won't be bamboozled by Meg Whitman's repetitive ads and mailings (she has spent about $100 Million already), that by election day they'll have enough information to pick the best candidate to serve as Governor.

During the interview, Jerry Brown is seated in front of a background picturing U.C. Berkeley's campanile.