Palin vs. McCain sniping gets comical
We’ll soon have a much deeper look into the startlingly vicious blood feud that was exploded into the media between the McCain and Palin camps after their humiliating loss on Tuesday. Until then, the various reports leaked and then counter-leaked by the two sides are just too juicy and too entertaining to pass up.
Must-see TV was the spot done by Carl Cameron of Fox News last night on the O’Reilly Factor, where he relayed information given to him by anonymous McCain loyalists that just savaged Palin and her intelligence, saying that she did not know Africa was a continent - not a country - and that she failed to name the signatories to NAFTA - that would be the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Cameron’s reporting on this has been just terrific, with his inside sources in the McCain camp cracking like iced glass over Palin’s supposed antics. Did we mention that she once met campaign strategists for a prep meeting wearing nothing more than a bath towel?
A New York Times article goes further into the sizzling fight. It details the long-running animosity between Palin and her confidantes against the inner circle of John McCain himself. It also sheds more light on what was possibly the most bizarre moment in the presidential campaign…
PHOENIX — As a top adviser in Senator John McCain’s now-imploded campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France. Far worse, the adviser said, she failed to inform her ticketmate about her rogue diplomacy.
As a senior adviser in the Palin campaign tells the story, the charge is absurd. The call had been on Ms. Palin’s schedule for three days and she should not have been faulted if the McCain campaign was too clueless to notice.
Whatever the truth, one thing is certain. Ms. Palin, who laughingly told the prankster that she could be president “maybe in eight years,” was the catalyst for a civil war between her campaign and Mr. McCain’s that raged from mid-September up until moments before Mr. McCain’s concession speech on Tuesday night. By then, Ms. Palin was in only infrequent contact with Mr. McCain, top advisers said.
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically each day to your feed reader.
Don’t ask me to locate the country of France on a map, okay but ….here is my shout-out and daily affirmation from Alaska to my friend in Minnesota - I know myself, I like myself, and DOGGONE IT, I AM SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER!