GOP Palin-Basher Liz Trotta: Palin Is Inarticulate and Undereducated-- Maureen Dowd is Smart & Funny
Sick. Liz Trotta, an east coast Palin-hater, attacked Sarah Palin again today. Trotta said Palin Palin has given them lots of raw meat and is "inarticulate and undereducated" and hadn't accomplished anything. Trotta said Palin "brought the attacks on herself." And, to top it off, Trotta said Maureen Dowd's latest hit piece on Palin was well written, smart and funny. Liz Trotter, please go away:

Back Home in Alaska, Palin Faces Scrutiny and Second-Guessing From All Sides
JUNEAU, Alaska -- A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them. Accompanied by a retinue of advisers, she took a seat at one end of a conference table and...

Palin resigns as governor, leaves plans secret - Yahoo! News
WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012. Palin, 45, and her staff kept her future plans shrouded in mystery, and it was unclear if the controversial hockey mom would quietly return to private life or begin laying the foundation for a presidential bid. Palin's spokesman, David...

Richard Cohen - Sarah Palin: An Alaskan Bullet, Dodged
Consider how close we all came to the utter disaster of a Palin presidency.

Sarah Palin's Resignation In A Minute...And A Half (VIDEO)
Watching Sarah Palin's press conference on Friday was like watching a drunk seal trying to land a plane, or in basketball terms (which Sarah prefers) like watching a grade-schooler try to score on Kobe while jabbering inanely. As Gail Collins put it: "When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too." There was something about a fish and sports and a lot about politics and not...

Why Sarah Palin Quit: The Five Best Explanations
Her unhappiness in the job came as no surprise in Alaska. In fact, given her history — and how miserable the past eight months have been for her — perhaps the surprise is that more people didn't see it coming. Here are the most important factors that Alaska insiders say went into Palin's sudden decision. (See pictures of Sarah Palin.) 1. If It Worked Before, Why Not Try It Again? Palin's 2004 protest resignation from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) catapulted her...

Giving A Fond Farewell To Sarah Palin [Crappy Hour]
In this edition of Crappy Hour, the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman and I pull Sarah Palin in for an awkward farewell embrace for all that she's done for us, as though we expect never to talk about her again.

The Real Meaning Of Sarah Palin
The Real Meaning Of Sarah Palin

Palin's Soliloquy: A Textual Analysis Of Sarah's Resignation Speech [Palinology]
Sarah Palin's farewell speech to Alaska/her senses on Friday seemed poorly thought-out and confusing. After three days and an exhaustive treatment by our crack team of elitist, unreal American textual analysts, it's — still poorly thought-out and confusing.

Monday Weird News Roundup: Ramen Robots, Glucose Games, and Goldman Codes
• Is the world’s most valuable source code currently out in the open ? And has anyone told Goldman Sachs? • A ramen-making robot lets Japanese customers choose the flavoring they want. So where’s the cheesecake robot? • Who says gaming has no value? BigPharma firm Bayer has created a DS plugin to let diabetic kids turn monitoring their glucose levels into a game. • An amazing spider builds life-size decoys of itself to distract hungry predators. Sarah Palin is reported to be...

Sarah Palin's TV prospects
In the days since she announced her resignation as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin's decision has remained a source of mystery, speculation and debate. But there's little doubt that she'll have a future in the cable news universe, if that's what she desires. Even before last year's presidential election, TV producers and packagers speculated that, should she be freed from the constraints of elective office, she'd be a big "get" as the host of a Fox News show or even a daytime syndicated yakker....

Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home
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Sarah Palin's Lawyers Threaten To Sue Media!
You best stop talkin' shit about Sexy Sarah ! Bitch is threatening to sue! Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein , released a four-page letter (!) as a warning to all the media outlets that ran (or thought about running) with the "defamatory" story that Sexy Sarah "embezzled funds in the construction of a Wasilla, Alaska, sports arena" back in 2002. Sketch! Wrote Flein: This is to provide notice to [Alaskan blogger] Ms. Moore, and those who republish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC,...

Alaskans Consider Palin's Legacy As She Prepares to Leave Office
ANCHORAGE -- In November 2006, as Sarah Palin celebrated her gubernatorial victory at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, she told the crowd she would bring a "new energy" to the governor's office, stand up to "Big Oil" and Usher in a new era of ethical reforms.

Fox News Contributor Rips Into Palin: "The Woman Is Inarticulate, Undereducated" (VIDEO)
Even Fox News has started to turn on Sarah Palin. In the midst of a segment about the Alaska Governor's battle against "liberal" attacks, Liz Trotta went off-message . Frankly, "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated," Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was "well-deserved." "I think all the liberal stylists ... really have a case. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky." When pressed, she added, "We're talking about somebody who, right from the get-go, has been a...

Sarah Palin Tweets Out About her Resignation
Although Sarah Palin isn't technically an actress, singer, or random hot chick who got busted with a sex tape, she is still a celebrity. So that's she's still blogworthy. People has an article about her recent Twitter tweets: "Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr (sic) in office to not run again," Palin, whose future political plans, if any, have yet to be announced, wrote on her Twitter page Sunday — one of 10 messages she...

'Gone Fishin': What's Next for a Withdrawing Sarah Palin?
Except for a brief stop at the Fourth of July parade in Juneau Saturday, Sarah Palin has been out of public view since her surprise announcement Friday to say she is stepping down as governor of Alaska. But the why is at the heart of the lingering questions about Palin. Why did she make the decision to leave her position before her first term is complete and what will she do next?

Sarah Palin Kill Of The Day: Shannyn Moore
Sarah Palin resigns as Alaskan Governor, and the nodding heads mock her disabled child and spit out opinion in the hope that somewhere in the vitriol one speck of phelgm sticks to the truth . So what about Palin being done for embezzelment? Palin’s lawyer Thomas Van Flein responds: To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore , are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement...

Levi Johnston Auditioning To Be Someone Else's Leading Man [Brunette Ambition]
In case you believe the more salacious rumors that Levi Johnston has something to do with Sarah Palin's resignation, believe not: he seems to be too intent on pursuing an unlikely movie and television career to care. [New York Magazine]

Sarah Palin is a Hit for Vanity Fair. But She's No Jessica Simpson (or Miley Cyrus!)
The punditocracy is still trying to figure out why Sarah Palin is bailing on her day job. But over at Conde Nast’s Vanity Fair, they’ve got better things to do — like tallying page views for Todd Purdum’s buzzy feature story on the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska. The story went up on VF.com six days ago, and has generated just under 2 million page views since then, says executive online editor Michael Hogan. (Disclosure: I’ve been a freelance contributor to...

Hardball Panel Debates Palin's Presidential Ambitions: "She Thinks She's Got A Shot... But She Needs An Education" (VIDEO)
Pat Buchanan and Newsweek's Howard Fineman joined Lawrence O'Donnell (filling in for Chris Matthews) on "Hardball" tonight to discuss Sarah Palin's presidential ambitions. Both think she has her sights trained on the Oval Office, however it's unclear if that means 2012 or beyond. Unsurprisingly, Buchanan, a staunch supporter of Palin, is a bit more bullish on her prospects than Fineman. Fineman returned to a theme that has dogged Palin ever since she first stepped onto the national stage: her...

Watch Dog Catches Kathy Griffin in Cash Lie
Filed under: Wacky & Weird Kathy Griffin's life on the D.C.-List consisted of riffing on Sarah Palin and the "fat cows" of "90210" -- but when she started complaining about the economy, our photog just needed one look at her Chanel watch to know she wasn't hurtin'. See Also ...Permalink

Kristen Stewart Pregnancy Rumors; Michael's Star-Studded Memorial [Dirt Bag]
Oy (Oi?): An Australian tabloid is claiming that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are "in turmoil" because Kristen is pregnant with the sparkle vamp's spawn.