The real Sarah Palin: An Apostle of Alaska

Newsweek by Jeffrey Bartholet, Karen Breslau, Andrew Murr, Mark Hosenball, Suzanne Smalley, Michael Isikoff, Michael Hirsh, Daniel Stone, Holly Bailey, Lisa Miller, Sarah Kliff, Katie Paul | Sep. 7, 2008 (Special Report)
We know the outlines--the moose-hunting mom who juggles BlackBerrys and kids. But what does she believe? The real Sarah Palin.

John McCain was not her dream pick. Only a year ago, when the republican primaries were just beginning, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Newsweek that she wasn't enthusiastic about anyone in the GOP field. McCain was languishing at 7 percent in the polls. Mike Huckabee was reduced to playing his electric bass to get attention. Palin, driving with a Newsweek reporter along the highway from Anchorage to Wasilla, said she could understand why the country was ... Full Story »

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Tom Grey
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 by Tom Grey - Oct. 1, 2008

While it seems to have attempted to be balanced, there is a clear error on the $27 million in earmarks for Wasilla --if it's part of a railroad enhancement from Anchorage, it's not an earmark, but the article doesn't say what it is. There's no mention of the fact that she ran against an incumbent Rep. Governor, nor are there any decisions by Governor Palin discussed in the last 2 years except firing the police chief. Surely there was a budget battle? Focus on the less important, but more easily ridiculed, Assembly of God church results in a failure to discuss her religion since 2002 in any detail--more important than the media-beloved 'speaking in tongues'.

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