Sarah Palin's New Book: Leaked Excerpts

Highlights of Sarah Palin's 'America by Heart' Leaked Excerpts
(Nov. 18) -- The holidays have come early this year. Excerpts from Sarah Palin's new book, "America by Heart" -- scheduled to be released Nov. 23, just in time for the Black Friday holiday shopping spree -- leaked across the Internet this week. Now, with Bristol's "Dancing with the Stars" "Conspiracy," the Wisconsin senior citizen who shot his television because of Bristol's advancement on "DWTS," Willow's homophobic Facebook slurs, Sarah's New York Times Magazine profile and the leaked book exc...

Sarah Palin's new book: All the juicy parts
Take a Sarah Palin Stump Speech, expand it to 272 pages, and you've pretty much summed up "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag." Palin's latest tome officially comes out next Tuesday, but we snagged one of the copies that went rogue. There's a lot about faith and flag, not nearly enough about the Palin family -- but we mined a few Nuggets: Her pet peeve? Talentless wannabes: "Did you ever wonder where the producers of 'American Idol' come up with the seemingly endless suppl...

Sarah Palin's publisher sues Gawker for leaked book excerpts
Sarah Palin's new book hits stores in just a few days, but until then, she doesn't want anyone to read it. After pages of her book "America By Heart" leaked all over the Internet this week, ]Palin's publisher HarperCollins announced on Friday it is suing Gawker Media for posting the excerpt and refusing to take it down. The Lawsuit was filed Friday in New York, a HarperCollins spokeswoman confirmed to The Associated Press. On Wednesday, ]Gawker posted scanned images of 21 leaked pages from the b...

Analyzing their Facebook flame war.
By Emily BazelonPosted Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, at 4:53 PM ET Warning: This article contains Profanity as quoted from Willow and Bristol Palin's Facebook posts. Also in Slate, read the rest of Emily Bazelon's series on Cyberbullying . While the premiere of Sarah Palin's Reality show was pulling in record Ratings for TLC Sunday night, her daughters Willow and Bristol Palin were apparently going to the mat on Facebook. The girls, who are 16 and 19, were defending the show from posters who said t...

Sarah Palin: Obama To Blame for Bad Singing on "Idol"?
In Sarah Palin's new book, "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag," she cites "American Idol" as an example of what is wrong with America. It's not the show itself, but the contestants. According to a leaked copy obtained by the site Palingates, she writes that the contestants are suffer from the "cult of self esteem." She writes, "No one they have encountered in their Lives -- from their parents to their teachers to their president --...

Sarah Palin Says Daugher Bristol A Better Role Model Than Murphy Brown
According to her forthcoming book, parts of which are starting to leak like a BP Oil Spill, Sarah Palin puts her daughter Bristol’s morals against those of Murphy Brown, the fictional character once played by Candice Bergen. Which is the more courageous course for a young, Single Mother: to sit down and shut up and avoid the critics, or to speak out in a painfully honest way about how tough Single parenting is? I’m biased of course, but given a choice of role models between Bristol...

Palin Pans Levi Johnston in New Book
Former vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin goes after the father of her grandson in her new book and also makes surprising comments about why some contestants go on the hit TV]Reality show "American Idol." More Video The book, "America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag," is set to be released Tuesday. It's said to range widely over ]American history, culture and current affairs. But according to excerpts obtained by the website Palingates, the former Alaska Governor and 200...

Palin Pans Levi Johnston in New Book
Former vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin goes after the father of her grandson in her new book and also makes surprising comments about why some contestants go on the hit TV]Reality show "American Idol." More Video The book, "America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag," is set to be released Tuesday. It's said to range widely over ]American history, culture and current affairs. But according to excerpts obtained by the website Palingates, the former Alaska Governor and 200...

Sarah Palin Tells Barbara Walters She Can Beat Obama in 2012 (ContributorNetwork)
Sarah Palin says she can successfully take on President Obama in 2012. In a preview of an upcoming interview with Barbara Walters scheduled to air Dec. 9, Palin was asked the forthright question, "If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?" Palin said, "I believe so." In the meantime it is evident Palin is trying to remain fresh and relevant in the public eye regardless of the venue. Leading up to the Midterm Elections, Palin stumped for many Tea Party Candidate...

Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin keep it upbeat -- exasperating critics
Bristol Palin and her mom, Sarah Palin, have used their Reality TV shows - 'Dancing with the Stars' and 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' - to underscore a secret to their appeal: the disarming smile....

Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin keep it upbeat -- exasperating critics
Bristol Palin and her mom, Sarah Palin, have used their Reality TV shows - 'Dancing with the Stars' and 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' - to underscore a secret to their appeal: the disarming smile....

Will Sarah Palin Make My Day?
We can only hope she jumps into the race. Maybe TLC will carry Republican primaries too. What a great lineup they could have. They open up the evening with a new instalment of "Sister Wives" and then go right into a Reality show pitting Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee in a mock up version of Survivor along with Jimmy Johnson. Now that's entertainment! Remember when it stood for The Learning Channel? Now it's Trite, Lame Crap. It's become the carnival sideshow of televi...

Palin book takes aim at some new targets
NEW YORK – In her new book, Sarah Palin takes on everything from "American Idol" to "American Beauty" to "Murphy Brown," revives talk of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and takes issue with JFK's famous religion Speech, saying he "wanted to run away from religion." Who gets praise? Simon Cowell, for one. Barack Obama? Unsurprisingly, not so much — she accuses him of "a stark lack of faith in the American People," among many other things. "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith an...

The New York Times, Sarah Palin, and the ‘Gravitas Gap’
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy cover profile of Sarah Palin coming out Sunday, and already available online, titled “The Palin Network.” While its principal takeaway appears to be Palin’s admission she is seriously mulling a presidential run — an acknowledgment she has evidently also repeated to Barbara Walters on ABC — that was not what interested me in the article.  That Palin is at least considering a candidacy at this point should surprise no one...

FOX TV caught Reporters slamming Sarah Palin during commercial break (VIDEO)
You'd think people sitting in front of television cameras would be smarter than this!  Reporters Judith Miller and Liz Trotta, however, aren't.  In an 'anything but unbiased' display, the two are guffawing about Palin's TLC Reality show "Alaska". How much sense does it really take to realize that there are cameras in front of them in a television studio - even during the commercial breaks. Unfortunately for these reporters, the cameras were rolling during the commercial ...

Sarah Palin: A Product of American Society
Sarah Palin is on TV a lot these days. When she is not hocking her book, she is on her new Reality show on the Learning Channel, or she her daughter is on Dancing with the Stars. This is not to support or oppose her policies (although I think it is pretty clear where I fall on that front) this is simply to state how her rise does not speak good for American society. It used to be, that a person gained through experience, or through incredible ability, Now, it seems the quickest way to become fam...

Sarah Palin Mulls 2012 White House Run
(NewsCore) - “I am,” Sarah Palin says in a New York Times Magazine profile published Wednesday when asked if she is considering a 2012 run for the White House. “I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here,” the 2008 Republican vice Presidential Candidate told the Times. Later, in an interview excerpt released by ABC from an upcoming television special, Palin...

Sarah Palin Mulls 2012 White House Run
(NewsCore) - “I am,” Sarah Palin says in a New York Times Magazine profile published Wednesday when asked if she is considering a 2012 run for the White House. “I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here,” the 2008 Republican vice Presidential Candidate told the Times. Later, in an interview excerpt released by ABC from an upcoming television special, Palin...

Though 'always underestimated,' Sarah Palin would lose to President Obama in 2012, Joe Biden says
Reporting from Washington — Sarah Palin said this week she thinks she could defeat President Obama if she were to challenge him in 2012. Count Vice President Biden among those who aren't taking her for granted. "I don't think she could beat President Obama," Biden said in a Morning interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "But, you know, she's always underestimated." Biden called his Republican counterpart from the 2008 campaign a "real force in the Republican Party," one that would loom l...

The Common Thread Between Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Jimmy Fallon And Jersey Shore
In the 16 months since we launched Mediaite, there have been certain topics that we as a site (and me, in particular) have taken a major, sometimes obsessive, interest in. As I head out today, I want to connect what I see as the common thread between some of my favorite topics to cover. As we’ve written about the Media, and millions have made their way to Mediaite, it has been great to know the media world is reading too. Well… Yeah, sure, Keith. Anyway, here are four media figures I...

Fox News Hosts Mock Sarah Palin When Cameras Go Off
Certain Fox News commentators better hope they don't run into their co-worker Sarah Palin in the network cafeteria, after being caught on live mics mocking the former Alaska Governor's new Reality show. In a clip sure to make the Internet rounds, panelists Judith Miller and Liz Trotta are seen in a commercial break during the weekend program "FOX News Watch" giggling over negative reviews given the debut of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC. Trotta, a conservative commentator, refers to a Palin art...

Karl Rove Hopes Sarah Palin Has A Tougher Skin Than To Be Offended By Criticism Of Her Reality Show
A while ago, Karl Rove wondered whether Sarah Palin starring in her own Reality show was a wise idea for someone with lofty, and potentially presidential, ambitions. Palin fired back, and last night, Rove addressed the flap on Hannity - and clearly thought the reaction to his remarks was overblown. Rove stood by what he said, and still didn’t see what the fuss what about: “Guess what: I’m a commentator, and I’m sorry if she took offense at it - I hope every ca...

Sarah Palin Is Running for President
"I'm looking at the lay of the land now, and ... trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it's a good thing," Palin said in an interview scheduled to air in full Dec. 9 on ABC as part of Walters' "10 Most Fascinating People" of 2010. Asked Walters: "If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?" "I believe so," Palin said. The part of this interview that has created waves is the fact that Sarah Palin says she believes she ca...

Palin book knocks Levi Johnston, 'American Idol'
NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin isn't done with Levi Johnston. And she isn't crazy about "American Idol," either. Palin writes in her new book that it was "disgusting" to watch Johnston exploit his sudden fame after she was chosen as John McCain's Running Mate in 2008. She alleges that he was absent when her daughter Bristol Palin gave birth to Tripp and that he disgraced himself by repeatedly criticizing the Palins. Read more... ...

Sarah Palin says she could win in 2012; George Soros' support of Obama wavers
Two political grenades exploding today, one in each party. In an advance excerpt of a Barbara Walters ABC News exclusive interview on the year's most fascinating people, Sarah Palin says, yes, in fact, she does believe she could beat Barack Obama in a 2012 presidential race. It's the farthest Palin has gone yet in indicating her possible plans for 2012. Until now, she's just talked about being willing to run if no one else emerged or if the country needed her. Separately, Huffingto...