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NEWS ABOUT: Sarah Palin

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 Letterman Pans 
 Palin Memoir 
 —in Advance 

Hint: Dave would rather do pretty much anything than read Sarah's book

Oct 13, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whatever you do, don’t buy David Letterman a copy of Going Rogue for Christmas. As part of his ongoing feud with Sarah Palin, Letterman unveiled a new ongoing Late Show segment: “Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir.” The Huffington Post compiles a... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • late night talk show • David Letterman • Sarah Palin • Late Show • Going Rogue • Sarah Palin Going Rogue

ANALYSIS

 GOP Gov 
 Candidates 
 Shun Palin 
 as Polarizing 

She's too much herself to do anything but harm in NJ, Virginia

Oct 9, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tough-fought GOP gubernatorial campaigns in New Jersey and Virginia have politely declined Sarah Palin’s offer of help. The political calculus is simple in New Jersey, where President Obama won by 15 points last November. The campaign is “not about the 2012 presidential race,” a Chris Christie adviser... More »

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New Jersey • GOP • Virginia • Republican Party • stump speech • Sarah Palin • gubernatorial races • political campaign • Christopher Christie • Bob McDonnell • Election 09

Alaska Democrats Complain of Palin Email Cover-Up

Year-old requests still unfilled

Oct 8, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have been waiting more than a year for officials to release the thousands of Sarah Palin’s emails, and they’re starting to get suspicious. “I think they’re hiding something, I think this is a travesty of justice,” says the state’s Democratic Party chairwoman. “... More »

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Alaska • email • cover up • Sarah Palin • public records

GLOSSIES



 Fey: Palin Wig 
 'Will Come Out 
 of the Closet' 

Tina Fey on her Sarah Palin impersonation, Steve Carell, and being a workaholic

Oct 8, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tina Fey talks about many things in her interview with Laura Brown for Harper’s Bazaar—her “Halloween wig”-like hair, her “Tootsie”-like glasses—but the most important news? The resurrection of her Sarah Palin impersonation. “I feel like I've probably not worn that wig... More »

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Saturday Night Live • entertainment • Steve Carell • Tina Fey • celebrity • 30 Rock • Sarah Palin • celebrity interview

X-Box Signed by Sarah Palin on EBay for $1.1M

Man tries for third time to unload weird, expensive souvenir

Oct 7, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - In what can only be described as the deal of the century, eBay user dmorrill321, aka David Morrill, is currently selling an actual “60GB, perfect-condition” X-Box 360, signed by actual unemployed person Sarah Palin, for the low-low opening bid of $1,100,000—plus shipping and handling. It’s... More »

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eBay • Xbox 360 • memorabilia • Sarah Palin • souvenir

 Todd Palin Quits Oil Job 


Oct 3, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(AP) - Another Palin calls it quits: Two months after Sarah stepped down as governor of Alaska, Todd has resigned from his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC was apparently effective September 18. As Palin fans await the release... More »

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Palin 2012 'Catastrophic' for GOP:
McCain Insider

Ex-gov has no centrist appeal: strategist

Oct 2, 09 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Sarah Palin is the 2012 presidential nominee, the Republican Party "would have a catastrophic election result,” the top strategist for the McCain campaign said today. Steve Schmidt foresees the 2012 election being won by the party that can sway the independents who backed Barack Obama in 2008.... More »

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John McCain • GOP • Sarah Palin • Steve Schmidt • 2010 election • McCain-Palin • 2010 • 2012

VIDEO

 Coulter, Behar Spar Over Palin 

On Joy's new show, pundit is still defending ex-gov and railing on Obama

Oct 1, 09 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joy Behar broke out the big guns for the premiere of her new CNN interview show: Ann Coulter. The two sparred over the so-called “death panels” and Sarah Palin’s level of coherence before finding common ground: The UN should be moved to Libya. Highlights:
  • Sarah Palin “
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Ann Coulter • The View • conservative • talk show • Joy Behar • liberal • Sarah Palin • death panel

Palin Writing
Pal Hails From Partisan Fringe

Co-author Vincent's earlier books skew religious, conservative

Oct 1, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman who co-wrote Sarah Palin's bestseller-before-it's-published memoir Going Rogue has been palling around with some pretty roguish types herself. Lynn Vincent has co-authored books with a journalist with a penchant for racist rhetoric and a disgraced general, and has herself written that Barack Obama is the "minority survivor"... More »

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memoir • ghostwrite • Sarah Palin • Going Rogue • Lynn Vincent

Palin Memoir a Top Seller Before Release

Memoir is #1 on B&N, #2 on Amazon

Sep 30, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pre-orders have pushed Sarah Palin’s memoir to the No. 1 spot on Barnes and Noble’s website—though it won’t be out until mid-November. On Amazon, Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life is at No. 2, trailing Dan Brown but trumping Glenn Beck’s latest. Harper has... More »

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Lecture Circuit to Palin: Thanks, But No Thanks

Venues afraid ex-gov
is a 'blithering idiot,' industry insider says

Sep 30, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The lecture circuit isn’t sold on Sarah Palin. Though the ex-governor signed on with the prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau, which is hawking her services to the tune of $100,000 a speech, lecture buyers “are paralyzed with fear about booking her,” an industry insider tells the More »

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 Outside DC, Palin's Still a Star 

VP candidate popular, but she may have goofed with resignation

Sep 29, 09 5:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Call her a quitter or a laughingstock, but Sarah Palin is still one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party—as admired by local leaders as she is doubted in Washington. A Politico survey of grassroots GOP members nationwide found particular support for her among Westerners, many of... More »

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Republican Party • grassroots • presidential candidates • Sarah Palin • Election 2012 • Republicans

Palin's Book, Going Rogue,
Will Be Out by Thanksgiving

Ex-candidate borrows phrase used on her during '08 campaign

Sep 28, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Trading on a phrase often used to describe her actions in the final weeks of last year’s presidential campaign, Sarah Palin’s memoir will be called Going Rogue—and you’ll be able to get it for all the Mama Grizzlies on your holiday shopping list, too. Palin beat... More »

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political comedy


 Thank (or Blame) 
 Bush for Dave's 
 Left Turn 

Letterman veers from apolitical-leaning-right to full-on liberal

Sep 27, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The most telling thing David Letterman has said in a while may have been a brief comment he made last Monday, as he wrapped up an hour with President Obama: "I can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch you work," the famously crotchety Late Night ... More »

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John McCain • CBS • late night talk show • late night host • Bob Dole • David Letterman • Late Night • Election 2008 • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin • President Obama

 Paper Sorry for 
 Calling Palin 
 a 'Broad' 

Alaska newspaper editor admits it was a pun, not a typo

Sep 25, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alaska’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has apologized for Wednesday’s front-page headline about Sarah Palin. Above a small picture of the ex-governor, who had spoken at a Hong Kong investors conference, the paper ran the headline, “A Broad in Asia.” The paper’s managing editor says it... More »

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media • newspaper • Alaska • apology • Sarah Palin

 In Hong Kong, 
 Palin Blames 
 Big Gov't 
 for Crisis 

Former Alaska governor tries to burnish foreign credentials

Sep 23, 09 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global financial crisis was the fault of governments, not corporations, Sarah Palin told investors today at a closed-door talk in Hong Kong. In her first speaking engagement outside North America, the former Alaska governor said that "we got into this mess because of government interference in the first... More »

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China • Hong Kong • Sarah Palin • deregulation • financial crisis • CLSA

Obama's Guest Spot Points to Newly Political Letterman

Lineup coup as Dave veers toward politics

Sep 21, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - With President Obama tonight and Bill Clinton tomorrow, David Letterman is starting his new season with a bang—and a marked shift toward politics, the New York Times reports. Letterman, who chose to lay low in repeats last week as NBC trotted out big guests for Jay Leno's primetime debut,... More »

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John McCain • Bill Clinton • Jay Leno • Conan O'Brien • David Letterman • Sarah Palin • President Obama

 Facebook Queen 
 Palin Grabs 
 Headlines, 
 Ducks Press 

Sarah avoids traditional media with social networking sites

Sep 20, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - By remaining at the forefront of various political arguments while avoiding interviews and traditional politicking, Sarah Palin has boldly mastered a new political trick, reports Politico. The former Alaskan governor has relied almost solely on social networking new media, such as Facebook, to spread her message about "death panels"... More »

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Facebook • Sarah Palin

Huckabee Wins Conservative Straw Poll

Palin lags behind
with Pawlenty,
Romney, Pence

Sep 19, 09 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee easily won a presidential straw poll today at a conference for social conservatives, Politico reports. The former Arkansas governor garnered 28% of 597 votes at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC. Tying for second, each with about 12% of the vote, were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt... More »

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Mitt Romney • Mike Pence • conservative • Mike Huckabee • straw poll • Tim Pawlenty • Family Research Council • Sarah Palin

Palin Won't Dine With Journo— Even for $60,000

Ex-governor nixes critical writer's bid
in charity auction

Sep 19, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A journalist willing to fork over $60,000 for a dinner with Sarah Palin found himself frozen out of a charity auction at the last minute, the Huffington Post reports. Joe McGinnis, a Palin critic who wrote a piece last fall slamming her handling of Alaska's gasline, slipped through the... More »

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Alaska • author • Sarah Palin • charity auction • Joe McGinnis

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