Meghan McCain asked if her father's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate led to Donald Trump.

(Interesting part shows up at the 1:50 mark.) Courtesy of Mediaite:  

“One thing your dad got criticized for is picking Sarah Palin,” Jones said. “Maybe he was ahead of his time.” 

“Isn’t this the party of Sarah Palin?” Jones asked. “How well do you think Sarah Palin would do in the modern Republican party?” 

“I still think President Trump is lightning in a bottle,” McCain responded. “I don’t think he’s going to be emulated very easily. 

“I think it’s a very specific man and a very specific moment,” she added. 

“The question of Sarah Palin — because I’ve heard it argued to me before, that she was sort of the opening of the populist movement within the Republican party — I’m mixed on it, because part of me thinks, yes that could be true. The other part of me thinks it was just the wave where the party was going.”

I would disagree with that last part.

I think that Palin gave voice to the very people that the Republican party had relied upon for decades but did not ever want to have their picture taken with at any events.

These were the great unwashed racists, xenophobes, and Christo-fascists who could be relied upon to vote GOP, but never felt that there were any candidates that truly represented them.

Sarah Palin did, and she demonstrated to Donald Trump that these people were the easiest to manipulate, agitate, and turn out to vote.

That is why Trump tapped Palin early on to present him to HER people, after which he summarily dismissed her and cast her back into the wilds of Wasilla.

Which is why we now find her showing up to give a speech in some bodunk county in Texas:Sarah Palin, the ninth governor of Alaska, levied accusations against the press, attacked “fake feminists” and called Texas to “revitalize our identity” during Saturday night’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner, hosted by the Denton County GOP.

The speech, which also saw a raffling off of a AR-15 shaped guitar autographed by Ted Nugent, had all of the red meat we would expect from Palin:  

Palin called the area's climate “cute,” adding, “It's Texas, and there are a lot of snowflakes surviving in Texas.” In her speech, she berated news reporters for perpetuating “press propaganda.” 

Addressing the “state of the news media,” she said, “It's tragic because America's finest are fighting, and even dying, for those freedoms in the free press.”“What the press likes to focus on is labeling us 'conspiratorial,’” she said. 

She presented a motif of “identity” throughout her speech, emphasizing that the GOP ideology serves to uphold American values. 

“Leftists say the stupidest things,” Palin said before aiming an attack at “pink-pussy, fake feminists” — namely, actress, writer and director Lena Dunham. 

The crowd responded with enthusiastic applause and whistles when Palin condemned illegal immigration. People who have a problem with that, she said, can “take it up with Barack Hussein Obama and Chuck Schumer.”

Yep, these are Palin's people. The biologically dead end cousin fuckers, who demand that pro-wrestling be part of their cable package, and who eagerly fill the stands of monster truck rallies.

And now this is who also supports Donald Trump, even though he does not have a thing in common with them.

Well aside for abject racism and a disdain for liberals that is.

Let's end our day with a spoonful of Joe Biden, just to make us all feel a little better.

In emotional moment on @TheView, Joe Biden consoles Meghan McCain, whose father was diagnosed with same cancer Biden's late son Beau had. "There is hope. And if anybody can make it, your dad [can]." pic.twitter.com/tQUy11X5sV

— ABC News (@ABC) December 13, 2017

I am by no means a big fan of Meghan McCain, but she is a human being, and she is suffering.

Joe Biden demonstrates such abundant humanity in how he interacts with her, and his ability to even make her laugh while she is falling apart on national televisions speaks highly of the kind of heart our former Vice President possesses.

When Joe and Barack ran our country we were in many ways the best we have ever been.

They embodied the type of decency that we are sorely lacking these days. 

I miss them both, and know that whenever I share a story about what either one of them is up to these days that it will be both uplifting and hopeful.

This is a thing that Meghan McCain actually said.

I hope history remembers those who gave up their conservative principles for the cult of personality and celebrity. And those who didn't.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) May 3, 2016

Now most of you are undoubtedly already realizing how unbelievably ignorant this statement is, but for those among you who are a little slow off the mark let Salon point out the obvious:

The myopia here is staggering. Although she didn’t respond, I asked Meghan if she remembers an obscure, half-forgotten figure named Sarah Palin? I asked because, in so many ways, there is no Trump without Palin. Palin was Trump before Trump. The rambling incoherence, the vacuousness, the reality TV theatrics, the ghastly marriage of ignorance and confidence – Palin brought this to national politics long before Trump did. 

And it was Meghan’s father, John McCain, who foisted this catastrophe upon the country. 

It was the bottomless cynicism of McCain, the once serious Senator from Arizona, who helped pave the way for Trump. He sold his soul to the conservative media-industrial complex the day he choose that buffoonish celebrity as his running mate, a woman he knew was woefully unprepared for the job. And he choose her precisely because of her potential celebrity, because she polled well with evangelicals and because she was the darling of right-wing media. 

Like Trump, Palin had no governing philosophy, no vision, and lacked a basic understanding of political life. But she was greeted as a rock star by conservative pundits, who were convinced they could sell her to the base. Trump no doubt noticed this, and took from 2008 an obvious lesson: Win the headlines and Republican primary voters will follow.

Yep. "There is no Trump without Palin," that is the unavoidable truth.

And for the rest of his life John McCain will have to live with that simple fact.

Perhaps THAT is why Donald Trump gave a shout out to Palin during his Indiana victory speech. Because he was acknowledging that she blazed his pathway to the nomination.

And now I feel a little responsible.

Here I was so busy making sure that Palin herself would never be a viable candidate for the White House that I forgot to pay close enough attention to the Palin clones.

Oops?

Fox News kicks Sarah Palin to the curb, and then almost immediately offers Meghan McCain a new job. Probably just coincidental.

Courtesy of Variety: 

Meghan McCain, the political scion who has won public fame as a blogger, commentator and TV-show host, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor, Variety has learned. 

A representative for the network confirmed the hire. McCain is expected to contribute to the network’s primetime and daytime programming. 

Meghan McCain, who has identified as a Republican in the past, could well offer the viewpoint of a different member of that political party: one hailing from the millennial generation. She has in the past championed gay rights and come out against anti-immigration legislation, and has publicly challenged commentators like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. In her writings she’s expressed ambivalence about Sarah Palin, the former Fox News contributor who ran for U.S. vice president alongside her father, and admiration for Hillary Clinton, who is now vying for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president.

For those who don't remember McCain wrote a book in which she referred to Palin as a "time bomb" and called her selection as a vice presidential candidate the "line between genius and insanity."

She also expressed confusion over Palin's internet "channel:"  

“I don’t know how this is different than a blog with video posts,” McCain said. “It didn’t look like a video channel.

Hang on I'm going to turn down my TV to listen for cans bouncing off refrigerators in Wasilla. 

Betty Bowers, America's best Christian ever, sets Meghan McCain straight.

You really should never leave an opening like this.

See?

(H/T to Joe My God.)

Meghan McCain regrets comparing Michele Bachmann to Sarah Palin. Insulting Sarah Palin, not so much.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Meghan McCain, always outspoken, says she’s got one big regret — calling Rep. Michele Bachmann a “poor man’s Sarah Palin.” 

“That’s the one if I could take it back I would, because I just think it’s so linear and so nasty,” McCain said in an interview with POLITICO. “And I’m not a big fan of attacking another woman anymore.” 

But McCain said she doesn’t regret the comments she’s made about Sarah Palin herself. McCain’s lamented the fact that she’s still connected to her father’s former running mate and recently referred to her as a kind of “crazy aunt.” In her book “Dirty Sexy Politics,” McCain slammed Palin for bringing so much drama and stress to the campaign, noting she may have been one of the reasons her father lost. 

“You know Sarah Palin, some of the stuff I said, again I would maybe term differently,” McCain told POLITICO. “But I think the criticism I have said of her is fair. I’m surprised how much attention it still gets, just because people still talk about her all the time and I understand the curiosity, but at a certain point I wish it wouldn’t make as much news as it does, but I guess people will always love to hear about it.” 

Yeah I have NO idea why McCain would regret insulting Bachmann (I guess they're friends now or something.), but I totally agree that the best use of Sarah Palin's name these days is to be used to  as a measuring tool to determine the ignorance or incompetence of other people in the world.

And yes people will never tire of hearing people say negative things about Sarah Palin.

Why do you think IM is as popular as it is?

Some may have moved on to other stories, but the National Enquirer believes there is more to know about the Throwdown at the Hoedown. And I agree.

Courtesy of the National Enquirer:  

You’re all headed to the drunk tank!” That’s what an enraged Sarah Palin is telling her three eldest kids – Track, 25, Bristol, 24, and Willow, 20 – after a police report reveals they were boozed up at a party that turned into a headline-making brawl. 

Cops in Alaska released the report Oct. 9 after prosecutors said no charges would be filed related to the Sept. 6 incident. The former Alaska governor was at the party with her hubby Todd and their brood when the fight broke out. 

“Sarah is livid that her kids have been called ‘belligerent and intoxicated,’” a friend said. 

“It’s a real embarrassment. In a fury, she told them, ‘You’re all headed to the drunk tank!’ She’s not sending them off to rehab, but it’s a clear warning they better clean up their acts.” 

According to the report, obtained by The National ENQUIRER, at least two dust-ups broke out during the incident – one involving Track and Todd, and another involving Bristol. One officer wrote that Track “was angry, heavily intoxicated and acted belligerent.”

Sadly that is the last of the Enquirer's accuracy in reporting this story, because after that they pass on the false information, as reported in other news sources, that Track jumped in to help his dad who was under attack, and that Bristol was dragged around by her feet.

I was actually contacted by the Enquirer last week for more information, and an attempt to get me to reveal my source. However I gave them nothing new, and my sources have no interest in talking to the Enquirer at this time.

So I do not know who this "friend" might be. Though to be honest this certainly sounds like something Palin might say.

And besides anything that keeps the brawl in the spotlight makes me happy.

Which is why I was tickled that it came up while Meghan McCain was making an appearance on the Howard Stern Show: 

“When I first met her, I really liked her because I thought she was a politician like I’d never seen,” said McCain. “She was beautiful, she had children, she had a newborn baby. And, you know, most politicians aren’t like that. They’re much older, and I didn’t have a lot to relate to them about.” 

Since then, McCain’s opinion has changed. 

“And now, it’s very awkward because everybody asks me and, you know, she’s getting arrested or her children are getting arrested, whatever, for brawling and bar fights,” McCain said, referring to a reportedly booze-tinged family brawl Palin was a part of. 

“When people ask me about it,” McCain said, “it’s like my crazy aunt or something that people all want to tell me about.”

Okay that just makes me smile. 

Speaking of smiling I think you will all enjoy Jezebel's comparison of the accomplishments of Bristol Palin to those of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai:  

Two bright young women dominated headlines late last week. On the same day that Malala Yousafzai, 17, won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, Bristol Palin, 23, was cited in an Alaska police report for getting drunk at a party and punching her host "multiple times." 

Bristol Palin's "heavily intoxicated" behavior had already prompted her famous mother to release a statement describing her daughter as "one of the strongest young women you'll ever meet." Sarah Palin went on to praise Bristol's "work ethic and heart for those less fortunate." 

Sounds like the Nobel Committee gave that Peace Prize to the wrong gal.

Seriously you have to read the side by side comparisons that Jezebel lays out. But I caution against having in liquid in your mouth while doing so.  

Rosie O'Donnell to return to The View. Sarah Palin's head to explode in 3..2..1

Courtesy of ABC News:  

It's official -- Rosie O'Donnell is returning as a host for "The View." 

The show tweeted out the news today saying, "ABC confirms Rosie O'Donnell returns as co-host of #TheView w/ moderator Whoopi Goldberg for Season 18." 

The host is back after being on the show before from 2006 to 2007. While on the show, she famously clashed with Donald Trump and even some former "View" co-hosts like Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

I don't usually cover this kind of thing on IM, however since Palin set tongues a wagging about the possibility that SHE might like to join the show it made this news just too delicious not to share.

Not only is Rosie back on for sure, there is also talk that Meghan McCain might be offered a slot.

Now there is a truly evil side of me that wants desperately for Sarah Palin to feel the need to promote something that convinces her to be a guest on The View.

Simply the idea of Palin being interviewed by the likes of Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, and Meghan McCain is the kind of thing that liberal bloggers can only dream of having the opportunity to watch.

In the category of "Seriously who did not see this coming," Meghan McCain to get her own reality show.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Meghan McCain is getting her own show on a new TV network targeting the generation of Americans known as millennials. 

"Raising McCain" will debut on Pivot, a general entertainment network that launches Aug. 1. It's described as a documentary-talk series for viewers ages 15 to 34. McCain will star and serve as executive producer. 

The 28-year-old author and blogger told the Television Critics Association on Friday that the show lets her "be crazy, be myself and talk about issues." 

"I came to Pivot because I think there has to be some sort of middle ground between the Kardashians and C-SPAN," McCain said. "I want to give people information but not talk down to them. I am so excited. This is the best thing I've ever done."

The BEST thing she's ever done? Wow I had no idea her life was so empty.

So once again Sarah Palin blazes a trail, once there fails in her endeavor, and then the Republican politicians and their children follow in her wake.

Gee maybe Meghan can reach out to her old chum Bristol for advice on how to be a reality star.

Ann Coulter suggests murder of Meghan McCain, after MSNBC's Martin Bashir asks if it takes gun violence in the family to persuade lawmakers to support new gun laws.

 Courtesy of Raw Story:
In a column published on Thursday, conservative pundit Ann Coulter joked that the killing of politicians’ children should “start with Meghan McCain.” 

Earlier this week, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MA) told MSNBC host Martin Bashir that he was sensitive to the need for more gun control because his nephew had been shot and killed several years ago. 

Bashir suggested that members of Congress should not have to experience the death of a family member to understand that gun violence was a problem. 

“But Congressman, is that what needs to happen to move these senators to stop threatening a filibuster?” Bashir asked. “Is that really what needs to happen? That you need to have a member of your family killed in order for you to do what the American people want you to do?” 

Conservative websites interpreted Bashir’s statement to mean that he was advocating the murder of politicians’ family members. And on Thursday, Coulter decided it would be funny to suggest the daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) should be the first to die. 

“MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats’ gun proposals,” Coulter wrote. “Let’s start with Meghan McCain!”

This one is almost too over the top to believe. WTF?

You know the ironic thing is that the Right Wing news outlets tried to smear the Left Wing by totally misrepresenting Bashir's statement  in order to infer that he was making a threat against the children of lawmaker's and then Coulter just comes right out and does that very thing.

Not only does she identify herself as a truly disgusting human being (She IS still considered a human right?), but she also destroys the poorly constructed argument being made by her side of the aisle.

And this did not escape her target's attention either.

Apparently Ann Coulter made a joke about me being killed in a recent column. I should expect nothing less but disgusted regardless.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) April 11, 2013

My father is a very famous politician. My family gets a lot of threats. Joking about me being killed really isn't funny or appropriate.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) April 11, 2013

A little perspective this morning. People like ann coulter are part of the past and only live to spread hate and negativity. I literally
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) April 11, 2013

Ann Coulter, just when you think the Right Wing has hit bottom, she always manages to dig at least one shovelful deeper.

In an attempt to differentiate herself from the OTHER children of the 2008 Republican candidates, Meghan McCain is launching a new reality show. Do you want to tell her, or should I?

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Meghan McCain will host her own show entitled "Raising McCain" on Pivot, a new cable channel launching in August. The show will follow McCain as she goes on the road, and film her interactions with guests. 

"I keep telling people it's like 'Meet the Press' meets 'Jackass,'" McCain, the daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain, described at Pivot's upfront on Wednesday.

Okay what is it with these Republicans wanting to get paid by having somebody film them while they do their laundry, get fat sucked out of their asses, and break up with their boyfriends?

Well to be fair it looks like McCain will have "guests" on her show, whatever that means,so maybe it will not fit the usual reality show formula. (Though I have to wonder if it will be like Bristol having her mother guest star on the show so that she could get paid as well? Couldn't you just see John McCain showing up to yell at kids walking across his daughter's lawn?)

But all kidding aside I am sure that McCain's show will have NOTHING in common with Bristol or Sarah's crappy reality shows which were filmed in Wasilla.

Wait, what's that you say?

She said that the show would be "uncensored" and "real." One example of an issue she would be interested in covering is the explosion of meth in her homestate of Arizona.

"The explosion of meth in her homestate of Arizona?" Sounds like Sarah and Bristol DID leave their mark on Arizona after all!

Meghan McCain calls Bristol Palin out for her book of lies in Playboy interview.

Now I am NOT one of those liberals who gives Meghan McCain a pass just because she is sometimes painfully honest, or writes for the Daily Beast, or because Rachel Maddow has a platonic girl crush on her.  However one of Meghan McCain's best features is that she does not have much of a filter, and sometimes she says very interesting things, that others (except of course Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace), refuse to say about their experiences with that crazy hillbilly family from Wasilla.

From McCain's Playboy interview:

PLAYBOY: Bristol Palin took shots at you and your mom in her memoir, saying, “I’ve never seen people with so much Louis Vuitton luggage, so many cell phones, and so many constant helpers to do hair and makeup.” What would you say if you bumped into her? 

MCCAIN: I did bump into her at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, actually. I saw her across the room. That girl biffed it fast, totally took off. All that stuff she wrote was a total lie. I have, like, one Louis Vuitton purse. She’s just young and confused and was thrust into all this. The media aren’t kind to her. But once someone signs up for Dancing With the Stars, it’s hard to sympathize.

Run away and hide behind ghostwritten books, carefully scripted favorable interviews, and now ghostwritten blog posts.  The acorn certainly does not fall far from the gnarled old tree now does it?

You know this suddenly reminds me that the Palins have a rather unfortunate history with Playboy magazine. That is where Sadie was also able to tell a couple of inconvenient truths about Bristol, Sarah, and the rest of the Palin clan. 

And considering the Grizzled Mama's response then, one can only imagine how she will respond to this latest perceived attack on the Palin mythology.

Republicans turn on Sarah Palin en masse after her disasterous political prick tease in Iowa.

After squeezing every last drop of her fifteen minutes of fame, like a milk-aholic at a cow's rapidly depleting udder, Sarah Palin seems to have FINALLY stepped over the invisible line from possible Presidential candidate to Republican laughingstock.

Courtesy of Meghan McCain:

Much of Sarah Palin’s allure seems to fade by each passing talking point of Michele Bachmann’s that goes viral. And with each passing day, Sarah Palin looks more and more like a confused woman who can’t decide which way to go. The last thing our country needs right now is a president who can’t make up her mind or make tough decisions. As Americans, we live in perilous times and what we need is real leadership. Republicans really have a chance to win the White House in 2012. We don’t need to be distracted by Sarah Palin’s attention-seeking antics anymore, unless of course she actually decides to stop flirting and finally make a move to announce her candidacy. Until then, the rest of the country is trying to decide between the candidates who are actually running.

Of course there was NEVER much love lost between the Palins and the daughter of the man responsible for plucking Caribou Barbie out of the wilds of Wasilla, but she is far from alone in her disgust with this endless charade.

As this biting opinion piece from Brad Schaeffer can attest:

So I must conclude that Sarah Palin has become a side-show who still clings to center stage. While rolling around in her tour bus crashing GOP events (while not a declared candidate for dog-catcher) she seems to be craving relevance that her fans in the media on both sides (the right loves her and the left loves to hate her) are more than happy to provide. Sarah sells. That cannot be denied. 

Her entertainment value aside, I cannot help but wonder if she is starting to do some damage to the GOP brand now that the hats are flying through the ring. Why was she in Iowa, for example, other than to steal the legitimate candidates’ thunder and continue to alienate the 58 percent of Americans who, according to Quinnipiac, would never vote for her under any circumstances — and thus reject the Republican ticket were she the nominee? Her Ames party crash has been labeled by some in the media as a “surprise trip to the Iowa state fair” (According to the Christian Science Monitor). A surprise to who exactly? The big unexpected would be if she turned down this chance to scoop up yet more of the limelight. 

Her attack on  conservative writer Alex Pappas over misunderstanding concerning a story that he wrote might have been the actual straw that broke the conservative camels' back.

In response many conservatives circled the wagons around Pappas and took aim at the woman they once adored.

Courtesy of FishBowl DC:

The American Spectator wasn’t alone in defending Pappas. A Daily Caller source who spoke anonymously told FishbowlDC, “If Sarah Palin wants to monitor the Caller that closely, but not so closely that she doesn’t take everything out of context, then maybe she could apply for a job at Media Matters. They’d get along famously.” 

Conservatives on Twitter, meanwhile, encircled the scribe and lashed out at Palin with a vengeance. Sonny Bunch, a former editor at The Weekly Standard , wrote, “Her refusal to personally apologize is just shitty.” But that was kind compared to what else he said. “That’s just a petty, dick move and, frankly, unpresidential,” he wrote. “What gets me about the @AlexPappasDC story is Palin’s refusal to apologize after calling him in front of a rival reporter to embarrass him.”

But perhaps the most telling example of the conservatives falling out of love with Klondike Kardashian, is this guy finally throwing up his hands in disgust.

By continuing to keep alive a tiny glimmering hope of her 2012 candidacy, long after the point when the whole “testing the waters” time-frame has passed its sell-by date, Palin is setting up her True Believers for a bitter disillusionment whenever the time comes for her to officially admit that she’s not running.

I would usually NEVER link to this disgusting excuse for a human being, and I certainly do not encourage any of you to visit the link this time. But because of the unique nature of his relationship with the Palins, and the terrible things he has done on their behalf,  I thought including him did much to prove the point of this post.

I am certainly no Nostradamus, but this has gone pretty much the way that I predicted it would over a year ago.

All you had to know to see this outcome on the horizon was to know WHO Sarah Palin was fundamentally.  And fundamentally she is a very immature, self aggrandizing, phony, who is completely addicted to the limelight and repulsed by hard work.

We Alaskans learned that hard truth about our half term Governor when she up and quit two years ago. We were just waiting for the rest of the country to get up to speed.

There was NEVER any doubt she would not REALLY campaign for the nomination.  The only question was how far could draw out this tease.

And I believe that question has now been answered.

By the way this does not mean that I don't believe that Palin will pop up again.

I have every confidence she will.

It just means that every new appearance is attracting less and less attention, and soon nobody will now, or care, where she turns up next.

I think it is very telling that Palin's next public appearance is alongside Glenn Beck, another disgraced ex-conservative superstar desperate to make a comeback.

Meghan McCain's response to Bristol the Pistol. And more lies are revealed about Sarah's little girl's book.

Courtesy of Meghan's Twitter account  McCainBlogette.

My response to Bristol Palin:



Update: The Daily Beast has more excerpts from Bristol's hit piece, and our instincts that this book was just a conduit for the things Sarah Palin was afraid to include in HER book are more accurate then we could have even imagined.

On her first time with Levi:

Despite being brought up in a Christian household determined to save herself until marriage, Bristol laments the fact that her virginity had been “stolen,” and as she surveys the evidence in the tent, soon realizes that “all of my plans, my promises, and my moral standards had disappeared in one awful night in a series of bad decisions.”

(By the way I have just learned that there was another couple in the tent during this incident of "stolen virginity" and that Bristol's story is pure bullshit.)

Attacking Mike Wooten, a family tradition:

First, back in 2003, Bristol witnessed Uncle Mike shoot a Taser gun at her cousin, Payton. As Payton was recovering from the shock, Uncle Mike looked over at Bristol and said, “Bristol, you’re next.” (Pg. 25) Bristol screams, and tells her mother about the incident. Later, it’s revealed that there were a bunch of citizen complaints against Mike, ranging from boozing in his patrol car to people claiming they witnessed him illegally killing an animal on a hunting trip. Later on, Uncle Mike carries out a very public affair with Bristol’s friend Jenna’s mother.

(If you want to learn the truth about What happened to Mike Wooten, just read Geoffrey Dunn's book.)

Covering for Sarah's lies about threats against the girls in Juneau.

They began by threatening Bristol and telling her to stay away from their boyfriends, and then, things got serious when some of Bristol’s classmates posted an Internet threat against Willow. “An eight-grade girl told twelve-year-old Willow that her Samoan brothers were going to gang-rape her,” said Bristol. (Pg. 67) Later, a boy posted on MySpace: “Bristol’s a slut when she’s drunk and a slut when she’s sober.” Bristol says these early bullying incidents helped her develop a tough exterior and handle all of the gossip about her family.

(We dispelled this bullshit lie way back in December 2009.)

On knocking boots with Levi:

When the school year ended in Juneau, Bristol returns to her hometown of Wasilla in the summer of 2007, and immediately reconnects with Levi. He treats her like a princess and showers her with gifts, including “Coach purses, nice rings, Abercrombie clothes, as well as Coach and Juicy rain boots.”  The two have sex again that summer, since she felt Levi had needs and, “If I wasn’t going to fill them, I feared he’d go back to his old ways.” The couple uses condoms. When summer ends, Bristol convinces her parents to let her stay in Wasilla, and despite Levi’s unfaithfulness—she witnesses his jacket on another girl—and is soon prescribed birth control, which “meant Levi and I could stop using condoms, and I could make sure I wouldn’t get pregnant.”

Not long after her mother gives birth to Trig Palin, a child diagnosed with Down syndrome—and a pregnancy she hid from the public until she was seven months pregnant—Bristol realizes that, despite being on birth control, she is over a month pregnant when she starts experiencing terrible cramps.

Okay seriously THIS is pathological!  Sarah is using her daughter to attack the people she hates on her behalf so that if anybody defends themselves she can claim they are attacking her children again.

She also has her pimping the family mythology to back up HER version of reality, so that folks will question the truthfulness of what Frank, Geoffrey, Joe, and Levi wrote in THEIR books. Not to mention what has been revealed in the blogs.

I cannot believe anybody would give her a pass on this transparent manipulation of her daughter.  Not anymore.

Speaking of Meghan McCain, here she is from yesterday's Lawrence O'Donnell show. Does anybody really think she cannot defend herself against criticism from the Palins?

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Not the MOST articulate young woman I have ever seen, but head and shoulders above any of the Palins.

Not to mention that SHE is not terrified to appear on MSNBC.

Levi Johnston is NOT the only person to receive the "Palin treatment" in Bristol's new book. This is going to get ugly.

Courtgesy of ABC News:

Palin writes that the first time she met the 26-year-old daughter of Sen. John McCain, she "ignored us during the entire visit." This was just before Senator McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin adds that she "had a sneaking suspicion I might need to watch my back."

"Every time we saw Meghan, she seemed to be constantly checking us out, comparing my family to hers and complaining," she writes. "Oh the complaining."

Cindy McCain, the senator's wife, also rubbed the eldest Palin daughter the wrong way.

"I'd never seen people with so much Louis Vuitton luggage, so many cell phones, and so many constant helpers to do hair and makeup," Palin writes, adding that the would-be first lady looked "like a queen" and held "herself like royalty."

Palin writes that she was shocked when the senator's wife offered to be a godmother to her unborn baby: "I had just met her and I wondered why she wanted any type of guardianship over my child."

Palin also shares not-so-fond memories of her 2010 stint on "Dancing With the Stars," where she and her professional partner, Mark Ballas, finished in third place.

"I noticed some of the contestants rolled their eyes when they realized we'd survived to dance another day," she writes, adding that some of the contenders voted off "literally would not speak to us or acknowledge our presence."

Holy crap!  This is another mean girl diatribe about ALL of the people the Palin family feel did them wrong.

I think that Bristol/Sarah is making a BIG mistake in going after Meghan McCain however,  That girl can write and does NOT turn the other cheek when she feels she has been wronged. 

I look forward to McCain's scathing response to these comments.

As for the cast of DWTS, come on guys you have a huge scandal to break about Bristol Palin.  Just contact the National Enquirer and unburden yourselves! Do it for you country.

For anybody who ever doubted that Bristol Palin was JUST like her mother, I think you can put those doubts to rest..

Geoffrey Dunn thinks perhaps Meghan McCain's criticism of the "Game Change" movie might be somewhat self serving.

From the Huffington Post:

Poor Meghan McCain. Daddy's little girl knows that the portrait of her and her family coming out in HBO's adaptation of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 2008 campaign chronicle Game Change isn't going to be pretty, given what's in the book.

In a posting for The Daily Beast this week, McCain expressed her concerns that her family and Sarah Palin will be "nothing short of crucified."

Ya think so? Maybe it's the passage on page 279 where her father, U.S. Senator and then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain, screams out angrily at her mother, Cindy McCain--and I quote precisely from the text:

"Fuck you! Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!!!"

Click the link to read more. Geoffrey certainly does NOT pull any punches in his condemnation of the platinum princess.

I almost cannot believe I am typing this but Meghan McCain may have just done the best job yet of explaining what is really wrong with the teabaggers.

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"Revolution starts with young people, not with 65 year old people talking about literacy tests and people who cannot say the word vote in English". Ms. McCain I bow to your insightful and eloquent dissection of the teabagger movement.

I could not have said it better myself.