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The Times (sigh) on Palin. She reminds me of a young George Bush, except more vicious and without the coke habit. Here's my favorite vignette, and there are many:
And, [Palin's] supporters say, she cleaned out the municipal closet, firing veteran officials to make way for her own team. “She had an agenda for change [alrighty then] and for doing things differently,” said Judy Patrick, a City Council member at the time.
But careers were turned upside down. The mayor quickly fired the town’s museum director, John Cooper. Later, she sent an aide to the museum to talk to the three remaining employees. “He told us they only wanted two,” recalled Esther West, one of the three, “and we had to pick who was going to be laid off.” The three quit as one.
Nice!
Didn't concentration camp guards play similar games? Too bad that in our new post-partisan era the fact that Palin is a Republican isn't relevant any more...
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Sounds Like My City's Mayor
Sounds like politics. Sounds like change. Change, indeed. But, sometimes, change can hurt...
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a gang war.
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If local Wasilla politics is like a gang war, than every city in the country should pray that their gang wars look like local Wasilla politics. lol
Purely fact-based
One of MY favorite parts:
Would this be like one of those novelizations Somerby always talks about? Don't you just love a good read? I hope the Sara Palin serial is as good as the ones the Times ran on Whitewater and WMDs. Was it Mark Penn who recently said the media have lost all credibility? Boy, what was he smoking?
Since we're discussing
media credibility (well, I was, anyway) ... This full transcript of the Charlie Gibson interview with Sarah Palin on ABC shows that it was shamelessly edited to severely alter the impression one would gather from watching it. The interview shown on TV was absolutely fraudulent. A total hatchet job.
I am stunned that a major television network would not only do this, but that there wasn't even an outcry from the McCain campaign. There is NO truth in news today. I guess it's no big deal anymore. In this environment Dan Rather would still have his job. The InstaPundit dude says you gotta bring your own camera to every interview. Like yeah.
We're living in a hall of twisted mirrors, a perverted echo chamber. Left, right it doesn't matter anymore. It's all fucked up. Facts no longer exist. Reality has been Photoshopped into oblivion.
PB 2.0? How about Reality-Based Community 2.0? A place where you can say fuck as much as want so long as it's the truth. Do you think we've lost the ability to observe and simply report without editorializing? That used to be called journalism.
Jeez
I'm in a different time zone than most any of you, so I'm moving this thread along all by my lonesome. Usually you're almost done by the time I get here.
I've just reread that NYT story and there ain't scratch there on Sarah Palin. If this is the worst they can do (and they were obviously looking for the dirt) she's pretty awesome. Has anyone ever mentioned that of the 50 state Governors, she has the highest approval rating of all of them? Something ridiculous, like 80%. Obama and his campaign ought to tell their minions to let this one go, because it's only going to come back and bite their butts bad and the harder they try the worse it's going to get. Try running against McCain. He's old. Maybe they'll get some traction there.
She plays hardball
This is the way you proceed if your goal is to get things accomplished, not if your goal is political influence. You sweep out the folks with strong allegiances to the guy you defeated. The Wasilla department heads, including the museum guy, signed a letter to the local paper urging people not to vote for her, according to the CNN profile of her last night.
It's not the wisest way to proceed and it's certainly not compassionate, but it's not corrupt cronyism, either.
She also, btw, officially opposed her own mother-in-law when she ran to succeed her as mayor, supposedly, reportedly, allegedly because she's not as hard-line on abortion, though I don't know what relationship that has to being mayor of Wasilla.