What is abundantly clear is that Palin is terrible in interview situations. Unfortunately, the really interesting stuff will never be verifiable. On their own, some factual errors aren't the end of the world (although the sheer number here are concerning). What was most concerning to me was the leak that she refused to be prepped for Couric interview. We'll never know if it was true or a smear, but to my mind, if true, that would be the most daming thing. Incurious, ignorant, and unadvisable. We'll never know I guess.

http://counterpunch.org/rampton11142008.html

"The hoax in this case is Eisenstadt's claim that he was the source for Carl Cameron's report on Fox News. Cameron never spoke to Eisenstadt and did not use Eisenstadt as the basis for his reporting.

Got it? If you're still confused, read the above paragraph a second time, or a third time if you need it. If you still have any doubts, read the New York Times story carefully. Its wording is a little less clear than it ought to be, but it also makes the point I just emphasized. Carl Cameron is standing by his story, and apparently Sarah Palin really was confused about Africa."

Palin thinks that there's no such thing global warming, that dinosaur bones w/ human footprints in them have been found and that seeing Russia from her house is a foreign policy attribute, so why is being confused about Africa's designation such a stretch? Really, how do you think she'd have done if someone would have said, "To continue to run as VP you have to name three African nations."?

I could careless about any unsubstansiated quotes, or leaks from un-named sources. What i find most disturbing about this woman is what ive heard come directly from her, which amounts to about ZERO when it comes to anything intelligent. Her inablity to answer questions when asked, she goes round and round with one sentence She never fully answers anything at all.She says word after word of not commiting to anythng in her answers with alot of also's. too's thrown for good measure. The one thing she is good at, is being totally negative. Her hate spewing, fear mongering rallies were the lowest form of politics we've seen in 40 years. She did it on her own and without John McCain's permission. He was the name on top of the ticket, not hers, but she thought she was running the show......well im glad to say she ran the show right into the ground with hyper-partisan politics and her narrow mindedness.

Umm, no.

Kate Harding, she does look willing, possibly even eager, but not like she has just gotten some.

My first thought was, how much was she paid for the modeling job, or is it possible she posed pro-bono for a good cause?

Personally I have no problem with an obviously adult woman posing provocatively, as long as she was well treated by the agency that marketed her, and by the people that hired her. And I have even less of a problem with a woman posing provocatively for a good cause.

Why be “weirded out” by this?

The woman in the ad doesn’t at all appear to be oppressed, or as if she is being exploited, and one would feel confident that she will in fact encourage people to be donors.

Simply because the woman is sexy doesn’t at all diminish the message, or even detract from it (yes, some very sexy people out there are on donor waiting list, and it might be possible that the model is) .

After reading your article, Kate Harding, one would think that you were “weirded out” by sexiness.

Wrong thread.

My bad.

Greetings from MN where we count s-l-o-w-l-y:

Sarah Caribou Barbie is a HATER!!!

She is an evangelical right winger who will drive her religion right down your throat. She like to play "them and us" and she is greedy and power hungry and willfully ignorant about Africa and dozens of issues that affect us all right now!

Catch a clue the little monkees at the Pahlin White Power rally's that she loved so much, the cries of traitor and terrorist the death threats - she lapped it up like cream....

Lets not cry about how unfair life was to poor little pooh Sarah, lets remember how awful life would be if she ever gets her manicured nails wrapped around the levers of power

She is past her "sell-by" but a clueless rightwing still in love with culture wars will bring her back along with many versions of prop 8 until we bury her skanky ass back in Wasilia

Haven't we heard those words before about a story targeting people so gauche as to be conservatives that rested on somewhat shaky journalistic standards?

But, as the other posts show, bad journalism is always OK as long as someone you don't like is on the business end of it.

Hotter than ever. After her sex tape comes out on YouTube she'll be able to call the shots and be President in 2012.

can't we all agree on the future?

The blog name is based on Team Silverback, the motorcycle endurance road racing team, and my sprint number. Slow-fisted Ernie Hemingway would have wetted his severe woolen shorts trying to keep up, and could not have understood that Jessica Paris, in her pink leathers, would have smoked him worse than she smoked me at Daytona in October.

The best thing that could happen for what we call western civilization would be for that Palin thing to be the Republican nominee in 2012.

Can we all not just shut up and hope?

By succumbing to the transparent hoax, mainstream journalists have called legitimate negative information about Palin's anti-intellectualism into question. It's much the same as Rather's uncritical acceptance of the "Killian" documents that caused the both the stories about Bush's preferential treatment that allowed him to avoid Viet Nam service and his year spent AWOL on a bender in Alabama to be dismissed. When the fake papers were debunked, the issues quickly faded from public consciousness. (I wonder if Karl Rove might not have been behind the forgeries?)

In truth though, Palin is every bit as dumb as became apparent during the campaign. In a story today about Ted Stevens, the Seattle Times chief editorialist offhandedly remarked it caused Alaska a "...national unveiling of its governor," a remark obviously not meant as a compliment.

When she was asked what periodicals she read, she was unable to answer. She has a hometown Wasilla paper, the Frontiersman, an Anchorage-based statewide daily, the Daily News, an indy paper there, and the Juneau Empire for those rare occasions when she goes to the capitol to work. One should be reminded of Bush's remark that his staff told him the news and he sometimes read headlines. Two days after her implicit admission of incuriousity, she claimed she read the Economist. I'd give odds that, had she been asked, she couldn't name the country in which it is published.

This is a woman who is so thick she believes there are no consequences attendant to lying. Personal accountability does not exist for her. But her ticket will end up with a shade less than 60% in the final vote count in Alaska, in a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats five to three. It would appear that she may well have been a drag on the ticket even in her home state, as more constituents have caught on to her. She has been hugely padding her expense accounts as if no one might ever notice, and "amending" travel authorizations long after the fact to make it appear that her children's travel at state expense was justified.

One of her post election lies was regarding the wardrobe expenditures. All those clothes belonged to the RNC, she now claims and their purchase had nothing to do with her. But she had her aides buying her clothes for tens of thousands of dollars on their own credit cards. She then charged those purchases to the RNC. Why indeed would the campaign be buying Todd silk underwear and jewelry? She says she'll return them all to the RNC. Except for the underwear. Maybe she'll sell that on eBay.