Palin’s Going Rogue

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 Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue is set to release November 17 but it is already causing quite a stir.  Will she unload on the McCain campaign? Will she give an honest behind the scenes look into the 2008 election?  Will she set herself up for a run in 2012?  Let the speculating begin!

Huffington Post | An associate of Sarah Palin tells Mark Halperin that her memoir, “Going Rogue,” will “include some score settling with McCain aides she believes ill-served her (names will be named).” But those aides will have to buy the book to find out what Palin has to say about them. One source tells Halperin the book does not include an index.

MSNBC | For now, the opening stops of her tour in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama and Florida, could be valuable if she later decides to run.

So far she is steering clear of major cities, going to smaller places like Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home of one of the biggest military bases in the country.

Christian Science Monitor | But Halperin, who saw her return to public speaking on Nov. 6 outside Milwaukee, say that two things are already clear: “Palin is now a thoroughly professional rogue — and she is going to sell a ton of books.”

Despite occasional instances of misspeaking, Halperin says that Palin was easily able to energize her audience with lines like: “Don’t let anyone ever tell you to sit down and shut up.”

Mediaite | We have entered the official Sarah Palin Going Rogue countdown. Come next week it is going to be all Sarah Palin, all the time, till at least Christmas. Probably more like 2012. So enjoy these last day’s of relative Palin calm before the storm while you can.

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2. No (out) black men

There wasn’t any gay representation on the panel.* This was ironic because the panel was held in Atlanta (which has a large, black gay population) at Morehouse College, of all places. The concentration of gay students at Morehouse is well-known and is partially why the the historic, black college created a new, controversial dress code.

Even worse, Bishop Eddie Long was among the panelist. His disrespect of non-heterosexuals is well-documented. Like the rest of the panel, his comments on black gay men included PC words like “respect” and”love” which failed to convince me of their acceptance.

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