Oh sweet awesome day! Early excerpts from Sarah Palin’s memoir “Going Rogue” are leaking out, and they’re amazing! We’re still wading through the jibber-jabber, but what we’ve seen so far is making us want to go rogue right now! In our pants.
Naturally there’s stuff in there about Bristol, Trig and Todd, and of course there’s the part about McCain aides being all mean to poor Sarah. But the best stuff we’ve seen is about Katie Couric.
From the AP’s write-up:
[Palin] says that the idea to meet with Couric came from McCain campaign aide Nicolle Wallace, who told Palin that Couric — also a working mother — liked and admired her. It would be a favor to Couric, too, whom Palin notes had the lowest ratings of the network anchors. Wallace said Couric suffered from low self-esteem. And Palin replied that she almost began to “feel sorry” for Couric.
In other words, Palin saw Couric as the retard baby she never had.
Too bad she turned on unsuspecting benevolent Sarah!
She alleges that Couric and CBS left out her more “substantive” remarks and settled for “gotcha” moments. She writes that Couric had a “partisan agenda” and a condescending manner.
Aw! Sad!
Know who else was tough on Sarah? Mean Grandpa Charlie Gibson!
She writes that ABC newsman Charles Gibson, who had an early interview with her, seemed bored by “substantive issues” stemming from her time as governor and that while speaking with her he “peered skeptically” at her over his glasses like a disapproving principal.
For someone who claimed to consume literally all media, Palin somehow doesn’t know that’s how Charlie Gibson interviews every single person ever — by peering over his glasses. More importantly, what’s this bullshit about not talking about substantive issues? Maybe he didn’t ask about stupid Alaska issues that don’t affect anyone in the continental United States, but he did ask how she felt about the Bush Doctrine. And how did that go? Not well.
Give up the martyr complex, Sarah. You were a terrible vice presidential candidate, and now you’re just coming off as a whiny finger-pointer. The more we see of you and Carrie Prejean, the more we think there’s something uniquely terrible about beauty pageant contestants. Maybe instead of continuing with this silly book tour, you should take the advice Prejean’s handlers gave to her: get psychological help.
I’d say that pretty much sums up Palin’s ego—SHE feels sorry for Katie Couric. That’s rich.
How could Gibson be peering over his glasses at her? They’re practically on top of each other. Seriously, Charlie, get a rider or something that says you have to have at least 6 inches of space between you and whatever contradictory winking asshole (with lipstick!) ABC has you exclusively interviewing next.
Ah, don’t worry. As of January, he’ll just be a twinkle in David Westin’s underwear.