Posted by
Defend America on Friday, November 13, 2009 9:18:09 AM
Drudge got an early copy of the book:
Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257
By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way
and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain
camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my
governor’s staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news
outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is
with a major party candidate.
From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric
and the CBS Evening News. The campaign’s general strategy involved
coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John
well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent
with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall
Street Journal. I really didn’t have a say in which press I was going
to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on
the Katie bandwagon.
“Katie really likes you,” she said to me one day. “she’s a working mom
and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you.
She just relates to you,” Nicolle said. “believe me, I know her very
well. I’ve worked with her.” Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few
months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her
experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had.
But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled
her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of
President George W. Bush. She didn't have much to say that was positive
about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give
a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11,
we were told we couldn’t do it. I didn’t know if that was Nicolle’s
call.
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