While EW’s official take on Joe McGinnis’ The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin is forthcoming, much of what’s been made public about the book has come from Doonesbury comics and the National Enquirer. Until you can read Rogue itself — it hits bookstores Sept. 20 — here are some of the book’s more salacious claims:
- Palin snorted cocaine off an overturned oil drum while snowmobiling.
- Said a member of Palin’s security detail, allegedly: “You know what she was? A housewife who happened to be governor. I’d fly cross-country with her so many times and she’d spend the whole time looking at People magazine.”
- Â In 1987, Palin engaged in a “steamy” hook-up with up-and-coming basketball star Glen Rice. (In the book, McGinnis quotes Rice as having confirmed the incident.)
- Palin ordered about 20 minority employees fired because she isn’t comfortable with “dark-skinned people.”
- “On her first day of office, Sarah changed the screensaver on the mayor’s official computer to read, ‘GOD LOVES YOU, SARAH PALIN’”
- Palin doesn’t cook, so when Todd wasn’t around, the kids subsisted on “burnt” pots of Kraft macaroni and cheese.
Now you have something to talk about at your parties tonight, Shelf Lifers. Will you pick up Rogue?
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What a contradiction, she was willing to have sex with a black basketball player but she was uncomfortable with dark skinned people and had them fired.
Yep. It called bad fiction. The author is the creepy guy who has been stalking her for awhile. Remember the news articles back awhile about the guy who rented the house next to the Palin house? This is that guy. The Palins had to build a high fence to prevent him from peeping.
I’m no Palin fan, but the author of this book IS a creepy stalker. Most of the quotes so far are sexual comments which reveal less about Palin than they do about the author who sounds like a horny old guy. I read the author claims Palin’s a racist and yet had affairs with black men because she had a “fetish”. Sounds like Palin’s less a racist than the creepy old author. For the first time ever I think I have sympathy for Sarah Palin.
Sarah may be racist towards blacks – but definitely save for those who go inside her! Perhaps the only blacks she wanted around her where those she wanted to bed!
And speaking of the firing bit, I think she only did that cuz she’s afraid she might get tempted and it might force the husband (who’s obviously of good use to her) to dump her…
I think I’ll wait for Lisa Ann’s book instead.
There is nebociatly a bunch to identify about this. I consider you made various good points in features also.
She doesn’t like to cook but that didn’t stop her from having a tall order of Rice for dinner.
the only thing to discuss is a “reputable” mag like EW quoting the national enquirer. really ew? really?
This “guy who stalked her” has been a respected author for over 40 years. He’s not some nut case. So suck it up tea-baggers!
He’s not a respected author – he’s been done for plagiarism and I’m no teabagger but I’m fed up with any female politician (Hillary’s cankles, anyone?) getting treated in such a misogynistic way – and this guy’s seems to be getting his rocks off too – gross.
“Fatal Vision” was also a creepy stalker book – the author sucked up to Macdonald to better stab him in the back.
This attempt by the right-wing to portray Joe McGinnis as some kind of crazy stalker is truly hilarious. This is the same man who authored “The Selling of the President 1968,” “Fatal Vision,” “Blind Faith,” and “Cruel Doubt” among many other titles. Palin is a tawdry hypocrite and McGinnis has finally, and thankfully, put the last nail in her coffin.
You got that right, Johh. Don’t look for any real denial of facts by Palinistas….just them trying to make McGinnis look like a creepy peeping tom…that appears to be their narrative now.
Cinnabon,I’ve been dleiang with these people for at least 4 weeks, why I continue is something for a psychologist to study.
This is why I no longer subscribe to EW. The magazine was fun until the staff started carrying water for Obama. Now it seems to be run by snarky, meanspirited children. I miss the enormously talented Dalton Ross, who knew a thing or two about tone, but I will never give EW another dime.
yet i will come here and read everything online, and even take time to post a comment about how i will never support EW. nice. spoken like a truly self-unaware individual.
LOL, indeed.
Whoops. Just saw that the New York Times trashed both the book and McGinnis. There ya go!
Don’t kill the messenger! Palin and her sheep are trying to paint McGinniss as a peeping Tom and they are the victims. His reputation for honesty is certainly better than Sarah Palin’s. If you don’t want people to know all your family secrets, you don’t do the reality shows and beg to be on all the talk shows. You don’t trademark your name and criticize everyone else. The Palins just love all the money and attention they have gotten and they do nothing to keep their personal life private. Every family member on the Heath side just begged to get on her show about Alaska. They jump at every chance to be in the public’s eye and then they whine about what is written about them. No other celebrity has trademarked their names and tried to cash in on all of their public appearances. Just show me the money.
Red Hot Sarah
There once was a news girl named Sarah
Whose loins were a burning caldera
‘Til a black guy named Rice
Was able to advise
Her to let him hose off her Sahara.
Then Sarah grew fond of Glen’s juice,
But it certainly made her flower loose
So they went back and forth
Until Sarah went north
And, true to form, started dating a moose!
Later Sarah decided to marry
Her sweetheart, who’s white ordinary
Now “Once you go black,
You never go back”
Is liable to give Todd his first coronary!
So Sarah, the political over achiever
Cooled off her hot Alaskan beaver
But now we all know
That there’s more to her show
‘Cause this candidate once had Jungle Fever!
Sarah, the InfoBabe, didn’t think twice
When she got her first chance to entice
A black basketball star
‘Cause she wanted that coal tar
So she hit it like she was White on Rice!
Once again, thank you McCain for this woman being relevant.
It’s sad how people lable McGinniss a stalker without knowing the whole story. According to the author, Palin distorted the truth so that people would get that impression. You ought to read the book before you pass judgement. Wouldn’t that be the Christian thing to do?
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