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Newsweek Takes Another Shot at Palin on Cover: ‘Saint Sarah’; Palin Responds, Answers Breast Implant Charge

Not this again. There is obviously not enough going on in the world for Newsweek magazine this week because once again Sarah Palin is on the cover. Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee was also on the cover of Newsweek back in November 2009 , in running shorts. This time she is featured as “Saint Sarah: What’s Palin’s appeal to conservative Christian women says about feminism and the future of the religious right” in Newsweek’s June 21 issue. Palin is depicted with halo on the cover for the story written by Lisa Miller , which attempts to rationalize Palin’s convictions about the issue of abortion and her Christian faith. However, Palin didn’t think too highly of Newsweek’s gesture. She responded on Fox News’ June 11 broadcast of “On the Record with Greta van Sustren.” “Haven’t seen it, but if the title and what I hear about the content is any indication of where Newsweek is going, it is no wonder Newsweek is doing so poorly,” Palin said. “People are not reading that stuff. It is not relevant. It’s not interesting stuff that they are making up and writing and that’s why they are going down.” Video Below Fold Another incredible charge that has surfaced in left-wing media outlets as of late was that Palin had gotten breast implants . Palin responded to host Greta van Sustren, but not without first taking a few shots at those who propagated the rumor. “Well, first Greta, you know why we love you?” Palin said. “Because you’re not afraid to ask the questions and I got to respect you for asking that question because I know that Boob-gate is all over the Internet right now because there are a lot of, I guess bored idle bloggers and reporters with nothing else to talk about. And I think some of those folks, too – they need to perhaps grab a shovel, go down to the Gulf, volunteer to help cleanup and save a whale or something instead of reporting on such stupid things like that.” And as for the implants? She cleared that up with very implicit answer. “No, I have not had implants,” she said. “I can’t believe we are even talking this. I think a report like that is about as real and truthful as those reports that Todd and I are divorcing or that I bought a place in the Hamptons or that Trigg is not my own child. And we still put up with that kind of garbage, too – even the mainstream media, Greta. It is amazing.”

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Double The Oil, Double The Problems

It’s a doubly-bad day for news regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Scientists have doubled their estimates of the amount of barrels flowing into the Gulf every day, and BP announced it will not have the oil leak sealed before August. New estimates put the a mount of barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at 40,000, doubling previous estimates of 20,000, with the total now figuring between 42 million and 84 million barrels of oil leaked since the spill began on April 20th. —JCL The LA Times: Government scientists said Thursday that as many as 40,000 barrels of oil have been flowing daily from the blown-out BP well, doubling earlier estimates and greatly expanding the scope of what is already the largest spill in U.S. history. The new figures could mean 42 million to 84 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on the night of April 20 — with the lowest estimate nearly four times the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The flow estimates were released by Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and do not count any increases that may have occurred since the cutting of the well’s riser pipe, a step that was expected to boost the flow. Read more Related Entries June 10, 2010 Putting the ‘I’ in Environment June 10, 2010 Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

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Sarah Palin Shows Off New Breast Implants: Then and Now PHOTOS

Sarah Palin continues to ENHANCE her portfolio for the future. She was sporting evidence of that at the Belmont Stakes earlier this month. The before and after contrast is quite telling.

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High School Dropouts Aren’t Helping

A smaller percentage of American highschoolers is making it through all four years, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Lower graduation rates adds up to an economic loss of billions in wages and tax revenue and a gloomy future competing with those overachieving brainiacs in China and India. Extra credit: Read Mike Rose’s masterful assessment of the education reform hype machine here . Christian Science Monitor: The percent of students earning a standard diploma in four years shifted from 69.2 percent in 2006 to 68.8 percent in 2007, according to an analysis of the most recent data in “Diplomas Count 2010.” It was the second consecutive year of decline, says the report, which was released Thursday by Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center, a nonprofit in Bethesda, Md. That translates to 11,000 fewer graduates in 2007 than in 2006. At its peak in 1969, the national graduation rate was 77 percent. Read more Related Entries June 10, 2010 Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hard-Liners June 10, 2010 Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

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Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hardliners

By Juan Cole Juan Cole , who offers the single best running commentary on the Middle East available, considers the ways in which, on the first anniversary of the fraudulent Iranian elections and the rise of the Green Movement, both U.S. and Israeli policy moves have continued to backfire in Iran. Related Entries June 10, 2010 Sarah Palin: Competent Manager June 9, 2010 A Loss Won’t Silence the Democratic Left

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Springtime

By Mr. Fish Related Entries June 10, 2010 Sarah Palin: Competent Manager June 9, 2010 Senate Protester Gives Herself the Pelican Treatment

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Sarah Palin aide helped Nixon dump Jews from government

WASHINGTON – A top adviser to GOP star Sarah Palin was once dispatched by ex-President Richard Nixon to sweep Jews out of government service, newly released tapes show. Nixon aide Fred Malek's role as what Democrats call a “Jew counter” for the disgraced President was already well known, and he has spent decades apologizing for activities that later cost him a Republican National Committee job in the 1980s. But he remains a prominent GOP powerbroker. “The government is full of Jews,” Nixon griped to chief aide H.R. Haldeman in a July 1971 Oval Office recording released by the University of Virginia's Miller Center on Thursday. “Most Jews are disloyal.” The Republican President, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal in 1974, said he wanted Malek in charge of cleaning Jews out of “any sensitive areas.” “We've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish to control the Jewish – do you understand?” Nixon said. “I sure do,” Haldeman answered. Ultimately, Malek turned over a list of more than a dozen Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, files show. Most were fired. The Democratic Party fired off at least 13 e-mails to reporters blasting Malek – who ran George H.W. Bush's 1992 campaign – and forwarded unflattering stories about the new tape. Malek was recently named a budget adviser by Virginia's Republican governor, Robert McDonnell. “As Mr. Malek has said before, he has made mistakes in his life for which he has apologized, atoned and learned from,” Malek's spokesman Mark Corallo said. Back in 1971, Nixon only appeared dimly aware of the background of the West Pointer and Vietnam vet. “Malek is not Jewish?” he asked Haldeman, who replied that Malek was not. Many prominent Jews have rallied behind Malek, a successful GOP businessman and philanthropist, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), The Washington Post reported. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_sarah_palin_aide_… http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_sarah_palin_aide_… added by: cclark_productions

Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill" on Twitter

Image: Twitter, @SarahPalinUSA Palin’s Twisted Logic You have to give her that, it takes guts to seriously pretend that the BP oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico is evidence that “drill, baby, drill” was a more environmentally-friendly policy. Let’s start with the hypocrisy: Never at any time before the BP oil spill did the “drill, baby, drill” crowd advocate stopping offshore drilling and replacing it with onshore drilling…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sarah Palin to Joe McGinniss: Beat it, Stalker!

Sarah Palin is understandably far from pleased that writer Joe McGinniss rented the house next door to her while authoring a book about the former governor. But stalking allegations? Really, Sarah? That’s pretty low … but from someone who demands straws that bend at speaking engagements, are you shocked? McGinniss said on the Today show this morning that despite accusations from the political lightning rod, he’s not harassing them. Quite the opposite, in fact. “If I lived here and did something creepy, if I did what Sarah Palin is suggesting, that would be creepy,” McGinniss said. “I’m not observing them at all.” “I don’t care what they do in the privacy of their own home,” he continued. “I’m here to talk to people who have known them for 40 years in Wasilla.” McGinniss claims he got a good deal on a rental that happens to border the Palins’ property, and would have taken it if “Sarah Palin lived on the moon.” WELCOME TO WASILLA! Sarah Palin is far from pleased with her new neighbor . True or not, the 67-year-old writer is next door, leaving the maverick concerned for her privacy and questioning McGinniss’s motives … on Facebook, natch. “Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” Sarah Palin wrote online. McGinniss denies he did any of that, or that he is trying to drum up publicity for his book, claiming he told no one outside his family where he was living. “Then Sarah hysterically puts up this Facebook page with all sorts of ugly innuendo, which frankly is revolting,” he says. “She has created all the publicity.” McGinniss, known mostly as a true-crime writer, has reportedly received death threats thanks to Palin triggering outrage from right-wing media outlets. Palin “unleashed the hounds of hell,” he says, comparing her tactics to that of Nazi troopers in the ’30s. Maybe he should send over a nice fruit basket? NOTE : Become a fan of THG on Facebook and Twitter and we solemnly promise not to accuse you of spying on us … in fact, we welcome the attention.

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Sarah Palin’s Small-Town Demise Has Begun [Drama]

Sarah Palin has traded heavily on her Real America , small-town roots throughout her career. But this is also a great liability. The case of Sarah Palin’s nosy next-door neighbor shows Palin’s downfall at the hands of pissed-off provincials has begun. More