Sarah Palin’s Blog Team Includes A Writer Who Doesn’t Love Sarah Palin

by Hillary Busis | 3:44 pm, November 3rd, 2010

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Yesterday, we told you about SPALASKA, Sarah Palin’s Alaska‘s official site. (Its name is so fantastic that we think it should always be written in capital letters only.) Today, we learned a little more about the people that make SPALASKA tick—and found out that one of its bloggers, Danielle Johnsen, has written some pretty negative things about her new boss.

Brian Ries at The Daily Beast reports that surprisingly enough, Palin’s new media blogger—David Wm. Murray—is an Obama-supporting, NPR-listening “Democracy Now!”-lover, according to his Facebook page. Her head strategist and political blogger, Brian Reich, is a former Clinton White House staffer. But the strangest pick of all is Johnsen, who has a history of writing disparaging things about Palin on her personal blog:

“If it’s not obvious to you yet the destruction Sarah ‘Hockey Mom’ Palin can cause to the United States, maybe the below interview can clue you in,” Johnsen wrote about Palin’s disastrous interview with Katie Couric in an old post on her personal website. “McCain either made a more dangerous move than picking Sarah Palin as his running mate or he staged the most perfect photo op and won the election yesterday.”

She also wrote: “I would assume that since America has grown accustomed to pathetic leaders who just barely make sense when speaking and fuck up 75% of the time as adequate enough that this somehow gives Palin even more traction.”

And: “Why did the RNC see it fit to dress up Gov. Palin in the way that they did, basically making her Cindy McCain 2.0?”

And, finally, on McCain naming Palin as his VP pick, Johnsen wrote it was “the nail in the coffin for McCain with me and my friends.”

“The fact that he chose someone so close minded, judgemental [sic], and lacking in experience was shocking to me, but that he used it to grab Hillary Clinton supporters was even more offensive,” she wrote, adding, “While I can respect Gov. Palin for the job she has done in Alaska, she is not ready for the world stage.”

The good people of SPALASKA say that their political affiliations shouldn’t matter, since their job is to promote the show rather than to promote some sort of partisan agenda. After Glynnis MacNicol‘s initial post about SPALASKA went up yesterday afternoon, Johnsen tweeted a thank-you and included this vow: “And we promise it [the website] isn’t political. At all.” (We can’t include a link because Johnsen, whose Twitter handle is @spielster, protects her tweets).

Reich expressed a similar sentiment to The Daily Beast. When Ries asked him about Johnsen’s hiring, here’s how the blogger responded “In fact, having a strong opinion about Sarah Palin, but being willing and able to see the broader appeal of the show and options for creating content and promoting opportunities for engagement to different groups was a key reason we hired her. Whatever political views she, or anyone else, might have won’t be present in our efforts. That’s a big part of this.”

It’s nice to know bipartisanship exists somewhere…even (or especially?) if that somewhere is SPALASKA!

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philipjames

What liberals keep forgetting because they believed the Democrat bull crap that was thrown at Sarah Palin is this…
Alaska has a large Democrat and Independent voter population, it is larger combined than the Republican one.
Sarah Palin worked with the Democrats in Alaska, even against a corrupt Republican Party establishment, until earmarks came up and the Democrats wanted more, she didn’t, and then she became the VP pick and that was the end of that.
So, it might be useful for liberals to take a look at how she governed… even though she would rather people not have abortions, even though she is a religious person, even though she believes government must get smaller and taxes lower, etc.
She is pragmatic if the outcome is the best for the voters. Believe it or not, she actually tries to stick to her principles. I think that she would end up being more effective for minorities, the gay/lesbian crowd and a number of other not usually thought of as friendly to conservatives groups.
But, of course, hatred for anything to the right will probably stop liberals from even trying to find out.
hgovernick

philipjames said:
What liberals keep forgetting because they believed the Democrat bull crap that was thrown at Sarah Palin is this… Alaska has a large Democrat and Independent voter population, it is larger combined than the Republican one.

=> Alaska Population: 698,473 – smaller than the city I live in. Keep that in mind. I’ve lived in Alaska twice. Fairbanks and Juneau. Who do you think you are telling liberals what they keep forgetting, and what they “believed” about what was “thrown” (by anybody) at Sarah Mascara? I’ll tell you who you are, in case you are still searching: You’re an idiot who thinks it’s smart.

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So, it might be useful for liberals to take a look at how she governed… even though she would rather people not have abortions, even though she is a religious person, even though she believes government must get smaller and taxes lower, etc.

=> It’s not necessary to dig into Sarah Mascara’s rewritten history to take a look at how she governed. You must think everyone else in the world is as stupid as you are. Just watching Sarah Mascara open her mouth on Fox Network and regurgitate in her whiny, falsetto, ex-beauty pageant contestant, young girl wannabe, fingernails against a blackboard voice, and the words of nonsense which emanate with every syllable is enough for any thinking man or woman to understand how she will govern.

Because she claims she is a “religious” person does not make her a “spiritual” person, nor does it make her a true Christian. Her actions do not parallel those of Jesus. She’s been baptized by a witch doctor who practices voodoo – the video is on the web for all to see.

“Smaller Government” is just Republican CODE WORDS for “Bigger Business” – in other words, less regulation and interference with business by government. The battle for our Flag is a battle between the Government and Big Business. Who would I rather have governing me? NOT Big Business, thanks anyway.

“Taxes lower” is just Republican CODE WORDS for “keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich”, which mean more than a trillion dollars added to the deficit. Taxes are already lower for the middle class since Obama has been in office.

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She is pragmatic if the outcome is the best for the voters.

=> She is only interested in herself. Abandoning her office as Governor was not “best for the voters” – it was turning her back on the voters so that she could go Capitalize on her popularity – she sold out for money.

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Believe it or not, she actually tries to stick to her principles.

=> So what? I can list dozens of dictators and fascist totalitarians who stuck to their principles. Hitler stuck to his principles. I repeat: SO WHAT? Her principles are not MY PRINCIPLES, and not the principles of the majority of thinking Americans.

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I think that she would end up being more effective for minorities, the gay/lesbian crowd and a number of other not usually thought of as friendly to conservatives groups.

=> Now you’ve really done it. You’ve exposed yourself as knowing NOTHING about Sarah Mascara. She hates gays, and would have everyone who looks Spanish deported to Mexico without a hearing. I’m not interested in a conservative who is “more friendly than other conservatives” regarding minorities, etc. I’m more interested in exposing the conservative movement for what they are – phony, self-centered liars.

But, of course, hatred for anything to the right will probably stop liberals from even trying to find out.