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Palin vindicated

posted 9 years ago by tedmccarron
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In the movie Nicole Wallace is portrayed as a woman who tried so hard to work with a flighty, irrational Sarah Palin until she finally couldn't take it anymore and quit. Palin is portrayed as being paranoid and making unfounded accusations against Wallace for no apparent reason.

In Palin's book Going Rouge, however, a far different story emerges. She talked of Wallace setting her up with Katie Couric interviews at the worst possible times after an already bad interview with her. Couric had an agenda to smear Palin so that Obama could win and would use lowball techniques to irritate Palin until she got a bad response, which would be edited and shown on television.

On May 6, 2015 Wallace admitted on the O'Reilly Factor that she screwed up badly as a handler and that Palin was "rightfully" be angry with her. She said she should never have set up those sabotaging interviews to begin with. In the end Palin was right and this movie was wrong.

[–] Niv-1 9 years ago

You are not saying why Wallace thinks palin is Right. It's not favorable to palin. I refer to the letterman appearance where she said the same thing. She is still filled with palin hate. Why she worked for her though and didn't resign is not something she's asked! There was no such thing as only working for McCain. She was working for McCain palin!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhet8xsTU

She says she should have given palin a list of newspapers or magazine names

In going rogue palin is right to be angry at courics question! It's all about Alaska being isolated and news doesn't travel there!! Read courics question! It's absurd!

[–] climbingivy 9 years ago

And your point that you missed is?

[–] Niv-1 9 years ago

The op is misunderstanding Wallace

[–] balthazar_bee 8 years ago

Sorry, I just had to bump this thread, if only to give other readers the positive jolt I got when I saw the title. Certainly two unlikely words to pair up.

I have yet to see a satisfying explanation (or "refudiation") of the baffling behaviour her character displays in this film.

[–] wvsarafan 8 years ago

by tedmccarron » Sat May 9 2015 03:24:20
In the movie Nicole Wallace is portrayed as a woman who tried so hard to work with a flighty, irrational Sarah Palin until she finally couldn't take it anymore and quit. Palin is portrayed as being paranoid and making unfounded accusations against Wallace for no apparent reason.

In Palin's book Going Rouge, however, a far different story emerges. She talked of Wallace setting her up with Katie Couric interviews at the worst possible times after an already bad interview with her. Couric had an agenda to smear Palin so that Obama could win and would use lowball techniques to irritate Palin until she got a bad response, which would be edited and shown on television.

On May 6, 2015 Wallace admitted on the O'Reilly Factor that she screwed up badly as a handler and that Palin was "rightfully" be angry with her. She said she should never have set up those sabotaging interviews to begin with. In the end Palin was right and this movie was wrong.

You're a liar. The only thing true about what you said is the first sentence.

[–] GhostRiver 8 years ago

Wow, you totally missed the point--Palin is a simpleton and you can't coach it out of her.

And I didn't need Game Change to teach us that. Pathetic. You assuredly back Trump.

[–] larpine-225-371665 8 years ago

Couric had an agenda to smear Palin so that Obama could win and would use lowball techniques to irritate Palin until she got a bad response

Or maybe, just maybe, you moron, she was doing her job as a journalist and wanted the country to witness what was one heartbeat away from becoming President had McCain been elected.

As a Democrat, I consider Wallace and Steve Schmidt good Republicans, for they're both incredibly smart, objective, and neither put party ahead of the country, as least not after the 2008 election.

If anything, Nicole over the years has not vindicated, but labeled Palin as someone who is likely Bi-polar, (without ever using the term), and that she was highly protected during the campaign.

Wallace was also quite prophetic that this story would out three years before the film was made and that if she did attempt to re-seek office, there was a great deal more known regarding Palin that would emerge against her.