Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, doesn’t appreciate people guessing why she is resigning.
From the Associated Press via MSNBC:
The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.
“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 or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.”
Shannyn Moore maintains a blog over at WordPress.com, entitled “Shannyn Morre: Just a Girl from Homer“. On this blog she writes about politics in Alaska, including the soon-to-be former governor Sarah Palin. She also appears somewhat regularly on MSNBC. Evidently it was one of her TV appearances that raised the anger of Team Palin, not her actual blogging.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
Van Flein, asked why he singled out Moore, said it’s because she went on national television and talked about it. Moore was on with MSNBC’s David Shuster on Friday, the day Palin said she will resign.
“There is a scandal rumor here that there is a criminal investigation into some activities and that’s been rumored for about, I don’t know, probably six weeks or two months,” Moore told him.
She said she’s never seen Palin appear as nervous as she did at the press conference announcing her resignation and “I think she was actually doing damage control for news that’s coming up later.”
Moore said that there was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation into some activities involving the Palins. She did not say that there was a criminal investigation. She only said that was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation. She also followed this up with what she thought Palin was doing by resigning. She used the word “think” which means that it was merely her opinion.
You can’t sue people over their opinions. At least not successfully and not in the United States of America.
The problem with what Sarah Palin did by annoncing that she was resigning as governor of Alaska is that it makes absolutely no sense. A lot of people are trying to come up with a reason why she would do what she did.
I’m going to miss Sarah Palin.
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It seems like there were a lot of family trips charged to the taxpayers, just going from memory. And husband Todd did have a weird involvement- right down to being copied on all official government email.Some called him the shadow governor… This is just what was reported, so who knows? At the same same time, as a former Alaskan (three years) I think it’s great that a housewife from the small town of Wasilla got as far as she did. It’s way too hard for “little people” to go anywhere in politics these days- gotta be a rich lawyer or typically you ain’t shit, to use the vernacular.
Is she presidential material? Or Vice-presidential? No more than I am. But that doesn’t take anything away from how far she has come.
I hope very much that there isn’t scandal about to break, but I fear there is.
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Excuse me but we don’t want the ‘little people’ running our government!
“It’s way too hard for “little people” to go anywhere in politics these days”
The most disturbing thing about Palin is that she’s either one of the dumbest people ever to gain a foothold in national politics, or one of the most dishonest. Here’s a quote from her Facebook profile on July 4:
The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. . . . And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.
Most of the “countless others” she would be talking about have left for “higher callings” in the middle of terms because someone asked them to. They didn’t resign abruptly for no reason. Sarah Palin isn’t resigning her governorship to become an ambassador or a member of the president’s cabinet. She’s quitting and refusing to give a concrete reason. That amounts to giving the finger to the people who elected her to serve a four-year term.
I doubt anyone’s complaining. She sucks.