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Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain's staff, as Newsweek's treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.

However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html

Kind of reflects badly on her alma mater, the University of Idaho. I couldn't stop laughing when I heard her degree was in journalism.





The Base is KILLING Carl Cameron on the Fox blogs!!





They complain he's no longer fair and balanced.


"Carl Cameron is moving to MSNBC."

"Carl at Fox should shut his pie-hole…what kind of psuedo reporting is he doing? If he is allowed to continue Im turning off Fox."

"I feel this report on Sarah Palin by Carl Cameron is a discrace to Fox News. We can get this type of slime from Daily Kos, if we didn’t feel dirty going there. I have lost all respect for Carl Cameron and will soon stop watching Fox if this type of journalism continues. We expect more from you!"

"YESTERDAY, I COMMENDED YOU FOR A FAIR COVERAGE…..THEN YOU JOINED THE CIRUS. THAT CLOWN CARL COULD HAVE A FUTURE WITH NATIONAL ENQUIRE."

According to this article, the mishap about not being able to find Africa on a map was a "miscommunication" - LOL. Even funnier is she had a concession speech prepared for after McCain's but was told STFU because the VP candidates don't give one.


McCain sources gripe about Palin Posted: 07:04 PM ET
From CNN Correspondent Dana Bash

(CNN) — Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin had prepared to deliver a concession speech before John McCain’s Tuesday night — and brought her remarks with her to his Phoenix concession — but senior McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt told her she could not. Two McCain sources say Palin clearly did not understand the protocol of a concession speech, and expected she would have the chance to deliver one of her own.

McCain advisers were also upset with the Alaska governor for setting up what she thought was a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The call, which turned out to be a prank from Quebec radio hosts, was not cleared with the McCain campaign and some saw the effort to set it up as evidence of her future presidential ambitions. A Palin ally involved in setting up the call, however, suggests McCain advisers had ample time to object given the call was on her schedule for three days.

Two McCain sources also say Palin did not know Africa was a continent and could not find it on a map. A third source, a Palin ally, says that was a miscommunication.

A lot of you idiots felt she was the second fucking coming hahaha

Palin was full of the Holy spirit, apparently. I guess that means a lot of hot air and lots of bullshit.

Wow, even I knew that, and we all know I'm not smarter than a 5th grader. I think Im going to run for Governor of Cali next term...

And always keep it mavericky!

I heard it's just Romney operatives casting aspersions on potential competitors for the 2012 Repug nom.

Palin's the first to be "eliminated."

Also, the Mormon's massive funding for Prop 8 in California was an effort to get in good with the evangelical base who have always been suspicious of those wearing temple garments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment), but now, finding unified ground in hating the gays, perhaps Romney will BE THE ONE to run against THE ONE in an apocalyptic showdown (Tuesday. Tuesday! TUESDAY!) in 2012.

Or not.

saw an interesting piece on tv discussing why gay marriage was struck down in cali. they reasoned that the increased black voter turnout for obama in cali that voted something like 70/30 against gay marriage was the reason for it not getting passed.

Perhaps. I don't see the 'base' ever being thrilled with a guy from a religion they don't understand who, apparently, was pro-choice just to get elected Governor .... or maybe still is and is just saying he isn't just to get elected President.

It's a hoax. Pretty good one, at that:

A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence

It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.

Now a pair of obscure filmmakers say they created Martin Eisenstadt to help them pitch a TV show based on the character. But under the circumstances, why should anyone believe a word they say?

“That’s a really good question,” one of the two, Eitan Gorlin, said with a laugh.

(For what it’s worth, another reporter for The New York Times is an acquaintance of Mr. Gorlin and vouches for his identity, and Mr. Gorlin is indeed “Mr. Eisenstadt” in those videos. He and his partner in deception,Dan Mirvish, have entries on the Internet Movie Database, imdb.com. But still. ...)

They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.

“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.

Mr. Gorlin, 39, argued that Eisenstadt was no more of a joke than half the bloggers or political commentators on the Internet or television.

An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.”


Full Story -- The New York Times

FWIW: I believed it. I mean, with Obama thinking there's 57 States and McCain not knowing where Spain is, why not?

And with you and Moxie pretending to be lawyers ::slaps knee:: Harrr....

Hey, I fell for it too.

what's the deal with Greta Van Susteren