Palin losing friends on the home front

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MICHAEL CAREY
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Published: September 29th, 2008 10:38 PM
Last Modified: September 29th, 2008 11:02 PM

Sarah Palin may be making new friends as she campaigns the nation, but at home, she's making new enemies. She better get elected vice president. If she returns to Alaska as governor, the reception will be frosty -- and not because winter has arrived.

In the last month, Palin has become something inconceivable during her first two years as the state's chief executive: A polarizing figure rapidly emptying the storehouse of good will she accumulated.

For starters, her relationship with the press has collapsed -- by her choice. She rarely talks to reporters. Her attack on the "media elite" at the Republican National Convention should have embarrassed her. There is no media elite in Alaska, and she generally received favorable press, except from a few conservative dissenters, as a candidate for governor and as governor.

You say she was unhappy with the eastern media, not the local scribes when she spoke to the convention. Well, during her recent visit to New York City she attended a dinner put together by Rupert Murdoch who, according to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, "piloted Sarah around" during the evening. Murdoch is one of the world's most influential media barons. Also present was Cathy Black, president of Hearst Magazines. Other VIPS on hand at Tao on 58th Street, where a Kobe rib eye steak costs $88, included Sarah Ferguson, Martha Stewart, designer Vera Wang and the Queen of Jordan. Not the media elite -- just the elite.



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comments

marshwren wrote on 10/01/2008 04:47:04 PM:
Alaska: bravo, and well done; you have in just one month replaced New Jersey as the 'joke state' of America, which is all the more remarkable given the centuries we on the (L)east Coast have proudly held the title. The moment Gov. Giget uncorked a ghost-written speech at the GOP's Nurenburg Rally, she cemented herself into political life for the next 30 years; and even if she never wins another election (outside of Alaska, at least), her adoring cohort of less-rational Christians and Big Oil connections (aka, the GOP base) will make her a cultural icon for decades to come--Ronald Reagan in a skirt and lipstick, as it were, only without the coherence, competence and fiscal responsibility. So, enjoy the 'honor' while it lasts, which may be quite a while--give y'all something else to do those long winter nights besides get drunk, do drugs, shoot things, have sex and go to church. Signed: a grateful Garden Stater