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CNN
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Oct 22, 08 7:10 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin apologized last night for any misunderstandings created by her remarks about "pro-America areas of this great nation." The candidate told a CNN interviewer she hadn't meant to imply that parts of the country are unpatriotic. "If that's the way it came across, I apologize," she said. She promised to tackle energy independence and government reform if elected.
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Slate
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Oct 21, 08 4:38 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin has publicly disagreed with John McCain on several issues, from giving up in Michigan, to the gay marriage ban, to attacking Barack Obama’s connection to Rev. Wright. A VP hopeful’s job main job is to agree with the ticket, notes John Dickerson for Slate, so why is Palin so frequently off-message? A degree of her roguishness is probably campaign strategy—so McCain can appear above the fray of, say, Ayers-themed mudslinging.
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CNN
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Oct 21, 08 1:12 PM CDT
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Police dragged away a group of protesters who were attempting to block Sarah Palin’s motorcade today in Colorado, and tackled at least two of them, CNN reports. A group of eight to 10 protesters broke from a larger group to stand in front of Palin’s car, holding up a large banner. Officers hauled them out of the way, forcing at least two to the ground; one officer was nearly run over.
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New York Daily News
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Oct 21, 08 9:11 AM CDT
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Pop culture can’t get enough of Sarah Palin right now: The vice-presidential candidate will grace the cover of Tales From the Crypt ’s next issue, reports the New York Daily News . In a swipe at Palin's book-banning inquiries as Wasilla mayor, she brandishes a hockey stick at three of the horror comic's ghoulish regulars, saying "Didn't we get rid of you guys in the '50s?"
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New Yorker
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Oct 20, 08 4:23 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin likes to play up her outsider credentials while decrying the media elite, but she’s relied on both throughout her career. Belying her mockery of the “mainstream media,” Palin hired a well-connected PR firm to target East Coast journalists and courted conservative media insiders who eventually championed her VP candidacy. Jane Mayer of the New Yorker looks at a "surprise" nomination that was months, if not years, in the making.
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Salon
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Oct 20, 08 1:17 PM CDT
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If being mayor of a town of 6,000 puts you on course for the vice presidency, then Mark Friedman, former mayor of El Cerrito, Calif., is ready for Washington, he writes in Salon. “I have proved I have the inspirational qualities required to say a few words at the annual Little League pancake breakfast,” he points out. And his view of Berkeley from his house amounts to sturdy foreign policy experience.
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Associated Press
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Oct 20, 08 4:23 AM CDT
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The largest audience in 14 years tuned in to Saturday Night Live to watch Sarah Palin come face-to-face with doppleganger Tina Fey, reports AP. Actually, it wasn't quite face-to-face as Fey skirted past the candidate after skewering her yet again at a faux press conference on the comedy show. The audience was estimated to be close to 14 million, a level it hasn't reach since 1994, when assaulted skater Nancy Kerrigan was guest host.
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New York Times
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Oct 19, 08 7:04 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin may have been picked in part to appeal to women, but her rallies are dominated by enthusiastic dudes, the New York Times reports. The vocal guys in the Joe Six-Pack crowd—bikers, high schoolers, bearded veterans—admire her for being “real” and “like us,” they say. And some, like the self-identified “John Deere,” come “just to look at her.”
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New York Times
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Oct 18, 08 3:29 PM CDT
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The beluga whales living in Alaska’s Cook Inlet were declared an endangered species yesterday over Sarah Palin’s vehement objections, the New York Times reports. The beluga population was cut almost in half during the late '90s, and hasn’t recovered despite a wave of new protections. But Palin campaigned hard against declaring them endangered, because it might restrict coastal oil and gas development.
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Anchorage Daily News
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Oct 17, 08 3:51 PM CDT
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Will America’s favorite moose-field-dressing expert draw more visitors to her wintry home state? Alaska’s sudden burst of Palin-centric publicity has some travel agents salivating, the Anchorage Daily News reports; every misty mountain vista that shows up on CNN is a win. But others worry that the increasingly controversial governor is hurting her state’s image.
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MSNBC
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Oct 17, 08 1:20 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin ran on a platform of transparent government, but it seems that Alaskan transparency has a price: $15 million. That’s how much the governor’s office wants from news organizations for copies of official email, MSNBC reports. Even if organizations are willing to pay up, the email will be censored, and won’t come until well after Election Day.
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Wall Street Journal
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Oct 17, 08 11:20 AM CDT
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For seven weeks, Peggy Noonan has really, really tried to find Sarah Palin worthy of the role she's running for. She's scrutinized every appearance for signs the Alaska governor could turn out to be the next Harry Truman. Unfortunately, she writes in the Wall Street Journal , "there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office," and it's time for the right to admit it.
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CNN
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Oct 17, 08 3:38 AM CDT
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Viewers awaiting the next impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live may be stunned to see the real thing. Palin plans to make a cameo appearance on tomorrow's show, sources tell CNN. No word yet on whether champion Palin-impersonator Tina Fey will be joining the vice-presidential candidate for her SNL debut—or on how viewers are expected to tell them apart if she does.
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 16, 08 12:40 PM CDT
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It’s been a fun time for liberals, writes Rosa Brooks in the LA Times . Though initially worried about the boost Sarah Palin gave to John McCain’s polling numbers, Dems were then treated to the defections of some of the GOP’s brightest thinkers. Columnists David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, and former Bush speechwriter David Frum all backed away from McCain, charging that the Alaska governor was out of her league.
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Mother Jones
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Oct 15, 08 3:00 AM CDT
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Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin might be able to see Russia from her home state, but her actual foreign policy experience boils down to about 20 meetings and just 12 hours, according to the governor’s official calendar obtained by Mother Jones . Most of the Alaska governor’s interactions with foreign officials came during talks about a Canadian company involved in building a natural-gas pipeline.
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Spiked
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Oct 14, 08 10:34 PM CDT
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It's been hard to miss the spate of reports about ugly anti-Obama incidents at McCain/Palin events—a crowd member calling him a “terrorist,” for instance. The media is now playing a game of "find a freak" at GOP rallies and grossly distorting the notion of genuine harm coming Obama's way, writes Sean Collins in Spiked. That these fears have gained traction underscores just how alienated Democrats have become from white, working-class voters.
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Politico
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Oct 14, 08 2:42 PM CDT
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These days, John McCain is more concerned with calming down his crowds than riling them up, writes Roger Simon in Politico, which “may not be a winning thing to do. But it is honorable.” The problem is that Sarah Palin “is running a separate—and scary—campaign,” depicting Barack Obama as an outsider and a terrorist sympathizer. And no one, it seems, is controlling her.
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CNN
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Oct 14, 08 5:19 AM CDT
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Todd Palin and other aides were warned by state police officials that their push to have a state trooper fired could come back to haunt them, CNN reports. Deputy commissioner of public safety John Glass told a persistent Palin that the trooper had already been disciplined and "discomfort and embarrassment for the governor" could ensue if he refused to cease and desist.
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Los Angeles Times
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Oct 14, 08 2:34 AM CDT
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In Latin America, it's an unmistakable come-on. In much of Asia, it's offensive. In a vice-presidential debate, the meaning of a wink is sparking plenty of controversy, writes Faye Fiore in the Los Angeles Times . Sarah Palin winks more often than any politician experts can remember, and it has "left some voters smitten, some confused and others nauseated," Fiore writes.
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Baltimore Sun
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Oct 13, 08 5:01 PM CDT
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John McCain must not understand affirmative action. “You don’t run out and hire the first woman you find on the sidewalk and call it a day,” writes Susan Reimer in the Baltimore Sun —you take the time to find someone qualified. But it’s painfully clear McCain didn’t do that when he picked Palin, and now women of all political persuasions are cringing as she stumbles.
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