If you're following my earlier thread about the Frank Bailey Palin memoir

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=449942&mesg_id=449942

you will be interested in Jeanne Devon's comments at The Mudflats: http://www.themudflats.net/2011/02/18/frank-baileys-memoir-leaked-to-press-and-a-surprise/

As many of you are now discovering, there’s been a reason I haven’t been as prolific on the blog as usual over these past months.

There’s not a lot I can tell you now, but I’ve been collaborating with former Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey, and former Wall Street Exec and author Ken Morris on a little project. You’ll all remember Ken Morris as the one who was offering to donate $200,000 to a veterans charity if Sarah Palin would have dinner with himself, me, Shannyn Moore, Rachel Maddow and a couple other progressives to talk about issues. As you can imagine, that never materialized.

Frank Bailey was one of the few true Palin “insiders.” He and a circle of half a dozen people were there in the Palin campaign from day one, until the end of her administration. He’s the kind of guy you’d pick to write an insider memoir, if you could choose. He was working on a book almost two years ago which was tentatively titled “Renegade – Sarah Palin’s Hatchetman.” That particular project fell through, and this one was born. One of the things that makes this project really interesting is that Frank retained tens of thousands of emails between Palin and her confidantes, which were sent to him over the years, beginning in 2005, and going through the end of his relationship with Palin in the summer of 2009.

Frank has kept pretty quiet over the last couple years, and has not granted a single interview. This is part of the reason that people may not have heard of him until now. Frank moved up the ranks from campaign volunteer, to the Director of Boards and Commissions in the Palin administration. He was also the aide who placed the infamous taped “Troopergate” phone call to the Alaska State Troopers asking why Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten hadn’t been fired. Like many, Frank became increasingly disillusioned over the years and is ready to tell his story about his years in the inner circle.

It would have been nice to personally tell the news about the project to all of you, and friends ourselves, when we were ready. But as often happens in life, things tend to turn out in completely unexpected ways. The draft manuscript has apparently been leaked to the media without the knowledge or permission of any of the authors, or the literary agents. We on this end are shocked and horrified that this has happened, but the toothpaste is out of the tube as they say. So, now there’s a little intrigue added to this story, which we certainly would not have chosen, and the consequences of which are yet to be known.

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This is going to get very interesting. Who leaked this manuscript and why? Much speculation in the comments.

[Warpy]

1. That might be a Palin book that people will actually buy and read

instead of getting it as a premium from some wingnut website to sit unread on the coffee table for a couple of years.

Palin shits on everybody sooner or later. She's a user. I think a lot of those people will be speaking and writing in the not too distant future.

Obviously, this was leaked to depress book sales. It's not going to work.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Here's more from The Alaska Dispatch

I'm really curious how it is this book got leaked.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/blogs/palin-watch/8847-who-leaked-ex-palin-aide-frank-baileys-memoir

Even before an ex-aide to former Gov. Sarah Palin had sold his memoir, the book -- "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years" -- has now been leaked to the media, including to a reporter at Alaska Dispatch on Thursday night.

"Blind Allegiance" is the story of Palin aide and confidant Frank Bailey's time spent working for the governor, from when she announced she was running for governor until her abrupt resignation in 2009. Heavily relying on e-mails between Bailey, Sarah and ex-First Dude Todd Palin, his memoir begins near the end of Palin's governorship with the following line:

On April 28, 2009, Sarah wrote a simple, but frequently repeated message: I hate this damn job...


Among other things, the book alleges illegal coordination between Palin and the Republican Governors Association during her 2006 governor's race, something that she denied at the time. Although Bailey knew that such coordination violated campaign laws, he writes:

As far as dealing with a guilty conscience, I'd suffer that collateral damage in silence, not daring to even discuss this with my wife.

The book ends with the following epiphany:

I will never, ever, surrender blind allegiance to anyone again, save God and family.

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[Hissyspit]

3. "I hate this job."

What a whiny assed, self-absorbed shit.