Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.

[kpete]

Martin Eisenstadt, Non-Existent McCain Adviser, Spills On Palin Dirt
HOAX?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/martin-eisenstadt-non-exi_n_142785.html

Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak… and proud of it.
November 10th, 2008 . by Marty

By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.

So yes, to be clear, last weekI was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.

As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.

The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.

http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/11/10/eisenstadt-the-source-for-sarah-palin-africa-leak-and-proud-of-it/

[blitzen]

1. This is a hoax, according to Shuster and MSBNC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7843723

[political_Dem]

2. I read the Huff Post material. I am saddened that this is a hoax.

They had me going there, but I followed the links. :(

Even with this news, I hope that there are truly people who will come forward.

But are there Republicans who have that kind of courage?

[Wapsie B]

3. More to reveal?

Spill it. All of it.

[louis-t]

4. I love it. I had sworn her off for good but

I love reading this and watching her political chances dwinle daily. I would love to see her and hubby knocked down a few notches. Leave office in disgrace, find menial work, have to pinch pennies like the rest of us.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Okay, then who revealed it? nt