Room With A View: Sarah Palin Is Reportedly Office-Hunting In Iowa (Update)

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by Ray Rahman | 10:45 am, November 22nd, 2010

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Presidential contenders know that the journey to the Oval Office begins with an Iowa office. As such, the fact that Sarah Palin is now searching for an office in Des Moines, IA, has people raising their eyebrows right off of their foreheads. People like The Guardian, who report that two of Palin’s aides are “looking into office space and other logistical needs for the coming year.” Let the horror and/or some amusement begin! (Update Jim Geraghty is now reporting that this is not true.)

Palin will be in Iowa this Saturday to promote her new book. But even Iowans can access Gawker, so that’s not what people are buzzing about. The Guardian produces some pretty convincing proof as to Palin’ actual intentions for Iowa and for 2012:

Some of her staff now appear to be putting the pieces in place in case Palin does decide to run. One of the aides, who only eats kosher food, told a local rabbi he was looking into longer term arrangements in Iowa.

“He was looking to be able to accommodate the needs of those coming down looking to set up shop here for campaigning in the coming years,” said Yossi Jacobson of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Des Moines.

Palin’s 16-stop schedule, unusually for a book tour, includes no readings in Los Angeles, New York or Washington DC, but has Palin spending time in states such as Iowa, Ohio and South Carolina.

Swooping in from Alaska to promote your book in swing-state Ohio and influential caucus and primary states like Iowa and South Carolina, while ignoring lucrative yet solidly blue California and New York, eh? Undecided, schmundecided.

(Update Jim Geraghty is now reporting that this is not true.

UPDATE: Shortly after posting this, I reached out to SarahPAC to see if there was any response. It turns out there’s a big one. Mark Young of Physicians for Palin throws cold water on the whole story:

The story published in the London Guardian (“Sarah Palin drops 2012 presidency hint with staff visit to Iowa”) took me utterly by surprise because although it is a pleasant story, it appears to be a factual exaggeration of the true story.

I spoke with the Rabbi on Thursday. On Friday morning when the Rabbi went to the synagogue, he told a couple of people that I had called him up to discuss arranging a Sabbath in Iowa to promote Palin. Well, the next thing the Rabbi knows, he received a phone call from a reporter at the Washington bureau of the London Guardian newspaper asking him questions. The Rabbi was kind of amused, but wasn’t sure what they wanted because he had never had a reporter call him before. He told the reporter what he knew, but then the reporter began speculating about the meaning of what the Rabbi told him, to which the Rabbi kept saying, “maybe, I don’t know.” The reporter took those maybes as affirmatives, and that was the basis of the story in the Guardian.

As Geraghty points out, Palin and her people may one day look for office space in Iowa, but that doesn’t hasn’t come…yet.

2012, Iowa, Palin 2012, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin 2012

stoogedudes

Is there seriously a Palinwatch on this site?

Obsessed much, Mediaite?
skyfet

Another Sarah’s story. I think running her stories creates a lot of buzz on your site. By the way, Run Sarah Run.
ROCKSTEADY

.” Let the horror and/or some amusement begin!
The_Reasonable_Lib

ROCKSTEADY said:
.” Let the horror and/or some amusement begin!

This would truly be “sending in the clowns” as Matt Drudge put it.
marcoesquondolas

hey everybody…guess what?? Seems The Guardian jumped the gun a bit. here is the so called “aides” in his own words…

http://physicians4palin.com/2010/11/22/london-guardians-palin-in-iowa-article-factually-incorrect/

i’m not saying that this won’t happen but it seems that this story as written is ……bogus
Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

Sarah Palin represents the best of the nothing and the worst of everything. May she win the Republican nomination, because she has as much chance as Bob Dole had when he won the nomination.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Let the horror and/or some amusement begin!

Way to be objective, Ray. You fit in great here at Mediaite!
Just4thefax

Fact: Palin hides that she owns 75% stake in Mediate!
TangledThorns

President Sarah Palin, the leader we need to fix Obama’s mistakes! Say bye bye to Obama in 2012.
The_Reasonable_Lib

TangledThorns said:
President Sarah Palin, the leader we need to fix Obama’s mistakes! Say bye bye to Obama in 2012.

Not if Palin runs lol
Just4thefax

Fact: This story a hoax!
http://physicians4palin.com/2010/11/22/london-guardians-palin-in-iowa-article-factually-incorrect/
BlackWidow

TangledThorns said:
President Sarah Palin, the leader we need to fix Obama’s mistakes! Say bye bye to Obama in 2012.

Who is going to fix hers????
BlackWidow

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Let the horror and/or some amusement begin! Way to be objective, Ray. You fit in great here at Mediaite!

Complaining as usual. Have you ever had anything positive to say? You are a bad example of that church you apparently attend.
BlackWidow

skyfet said:
Another Sarah’s story. I think running her stories creates a lot of buzz on your site. By the way, Run Sarah Run.

Sarah blames everthing on the lamestream media. She should be glad they keep her in the limelight. The more we talk about her the more money she makes. Who is she kidding?
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Black Widow says:

Complaining as usual. Have you ever had anything positive to say? You are a bad example of that church you apparently attend.

Well, based on your statements, I’m going to assume that you don’t even go to church.
skyfet

@Seeing 2012 From My Window
By you going to church, does that makes you a better person?
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Hey Sky, i was responding to Black Widow, so why don’t you direct your question to her.
Big Eddie

Now , who will be the Democrat candidate ? Still very much up in the air .
More Liberty

LOL…freakin Mediaite. This has already been debunked.
ROCKSTEADY

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey Sky, i was responding to Black Widow, so why don’t you direct your question to her.

Go look out your window.
DonnaK

seeing 2012/MichelleF–If going to your church makes you the hateful person you are, then that is a place I wouldn’t want to attend!! Like I’ve said before, if the “lamestream media” took a pass on Palin for a couple of weeks, she would eventually fade into obscurity like the other people that were classifed as “phenomanons”!! By the way, can she ever write a book or give a speech, where she doesn’t extract revenge from someone? Is everything always someones else’s fault? Man up, Sarah, like you tell the guys!!
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Hey Donna,
If I’m so hateful, how come no lefty has ever been able to point to one hateful post from me, the numerous times I’ve asked? Hey if you have one, let me have it!
More Liberty

LOL….man Mediaite. You sure took this off your front page quick. After you were reporting stuff that had been debunked, you kind of have egg on your face.
More Liberty

More Liberty said:
LOL….man Mediaite. You sure took this off your front page quick. After you were reporting stuff that had been debunked, you kind of have egg on your face.

Belay my last, looks like you put it back up on the front page as of this time stamp.
More Liberty

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
If I’m so hateful, how come no lefty has ever been able to point to one hateful post from me, the numerous times I’ve asked? Hey if you have one, let me have it!

Don’t bother. Instead of using facts, many of those partisans just scream and repeat the “RACISM” talking point. But as we’ve seen, that little tactic is slowly losing its teeth as more and more people realize it is a lie. The sad part is that when an actual racist incident does occur, it wont be taken as serious as it should be. It’s the whole “the sky is falling” routine.
DonnaK

I’d have to go back through your posts to pick out the most hateful, but if being a chritian is calling people liars all the time just because you disagree with them, that doesn’t seem very christian to me!! I guess you take your christian values from Mrs. Pay-lin because that seems to be her idea!!
RazorsEdge

Imagine that! A reporter reaches out to the Palin camp for a confirmation and/or statement on another reporter’s speculation to write the initial story as fact..

Since Mediate covers the Media, would it be relevant for Mediate to cover the laziness of the media they cover? Instead of just an “Update”?
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Memo, to Donna, calling you out on your blatant hypocrisy isn’t considered hatred in my book. But I can see how it’s embarrassing for you.
DonnaK

MichelleF–I don’t find it embarrassing at all, because you do it to anyone that you perceive as being a liberal, with the same language. I don’t find liberal a bad thing to be, but as I’ve said many times, I consider myself an independent, but you just can’t seem to accept that someone is not as far to one side or the other as you are. Some of you rightwingers, which you claim to be, need to get a prospective about the real world, not just the perfect world you people live in!!
TfT

Mediaite staff have a horrible case of PDS and end up with egg on their face.

Gawker is in trouble for violating copywrite laws…..ace has an interesting story on that. Perhaps mediaite could go after gawker with as much enthusiasm as they go after Sarah. Then the lefties can claim that mediaite suffers from GDS too.

Really mediaite, get a grip. The gawker in trouble story is a lot bigger than this false story you put up here.
More Liberty

TfT said:
Mediaite staff have a horrible case of PDS and end up with egg on their face.

Gawker is in trouble for violating copywrite laws…..ace has an interesting story on that. Perhaps mediaite could go after gawker with as much enthusiasm as they go after Sarah. Then the lefties can claim that mediaite suffers from GDS too.

Really mediaite, get a grip. The gawker in trouble story is a lot bigger than this false story you put up here.

That’s a good point. Mediaite is very quick to just repeat some claim, as if it is the truth. Yet they also “update” the posts when it has been shown to be wrong/ half-truth. In this case though, they quickly put the whole article off the main page. I noticed this, made a reply – they quickly put it back on the front page.
More Liberty

On a side note, Mediaite is, and has been, infected with the odd Palin fixation. It’s as if every other post is about Palin, Palin and Palin. Damn it’s annoying. Now they go to calling it “PALINWATCH.” Funny
CosmosDan

again WGAF?
Just4thefax

Fact: Mediaite has a swing and a miss on Sarah Palin Iowa story.
PBerg

“Physicians for Palin????” I think now, I have seen it all !

Don’t they realize we would be back to paying with chickens, that half their procedures would be deemed to be not necessary—all we need is a Witch doctor. That Sarah’s own break down in Fall 2008, where McCain had to take her off the trail to his ranch and have Doctors tend to her fragile mental condition indicates a deeply neurotic condition.

I guess they do not take their Creed “Do No Harm” very seriously ! LMAO!
njoy-d-ride

PALINWATCH? A new catagory for Mediaite???
This is too much!!!
SarahP

If there is a God in Heaven, she will find one.
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