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15th September 2011, 03:35
Palin future clouded by Sex, Drugs claims
The Times September 15, 2011
SARAH Palin's political future was thrown into jeopardy last night after claims that she had a one-night stand with a basketball star shortly before her marriage and snorted cocaine with her husband while on a snowmobiling trip.
Reports based on a new book about her by Joe McGinniss allege that she also smoked marijuana with one of her college professors and had a six-month affair with Brad Hanson, one of her husband's former business associates.
Mrs Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, has not ruled out a White House campaign next year but the new allegations, based on interviews with about 200 of her present and former associates, could be devastating for her political ambitions, given her carefully constructed image as a model working mother and defender of homespun family values.
Ms Palin has not formally entered the Republican race for 2012, being a notable omission from the series of GOP debates, but has visited a number of primary states over recent months.
She had been tipped to make an attention-grabbing, last-minute entry into the Republican battle to take on President Barack Obama at next year's election.
McGinniss, an established non-fiction author since his bestselling account of Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential run, spent four months last year in a rented cabin a few metres from the Palin residence on the shore of Lake Lucille in Alaska.
His book is to be published in the US next week but a copy has been obtained by Garry Trudeau, the Doonesbury cartoonist, who has devoted several of his recent strips to its disclosures. Trudeau cites named sources including Gary Wheeler, Mrs Palin's former head of security, describing her as "a housewife who happened to be a governor" and would regularly leave work at 3pm for shopping trips.
In another strip a source recalls her saying before a meeting: "I got on my biggest push-up bra. I'm gonna get what I want."
In yet another her former chief of staff, Mike Tibbles, alleges that as Governor she ordered that 20 staff from ethnic minority backgrounds be fired because "Sarah just isn't comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people".
That image is belied by another startling claim in the book - that, in private at least, Mrs Palin had a "fetish" for black men. Nine months before her marriage to Todd Palin, when they were already a couple, she is said to have spent a night with the basketball player Glen Rice, in her sister's dorm room at the University of Alaska.
Mrs Palin was a local sports reporter at the time. Rice, who went on to play for the Miami Heat, is said to be quoted by McGinniss confirming that the tryst took place.
A publishing source close to the book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, said yesterday: "Glen Rice is the hottest piece in the book."
The account of the youthful Sarah Palin's alleged encounter with a 6ft 8in sports star will add texture to the deeply traditional persona she has cultivated for her Tea Party followers. But it is the claim that she snorted cocaine off an upturned 55-gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with friends that has the most potential to derail her Republican career. McGinniss also reports that Mrs Palin smoked marijuana with a professor who was also the father of a friend while she was a journalism student at Mat-Su College in Anchorage.
President George W. Bush pre-empted investigation into his past drug use by owning up to it before running for President. Until now, Mrs Palin has not needed to address such allegations, and she did not respond yesterday to a request for comment.
The book is being released by Crown Publishing, an imprint of Random House, which stood by its claims yesterday.
"It's based on extensive reporting by Joe McGinniss in Alaska and on interviews with 200 people who have known Sarah Palin very well at different stages of her life and career," David Drake, Crown's publicity director, told The Times.
"The book has been very carefully examined for factual accuracy. People will see that it is a very revelatory portrait of Mrs Palin. It looks closely at her entire life and political career and will reveal some previously unknown aspects of her story."
Asked whether a story on the book published yesterday (Wednesday) by The National Enquirer accurately reflected its contents, Mr Drake said: "They have a history of often getting stories right."
Mrs Palin has created a unique and lucrative niche for herself in American political life since running as John McCain's vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and resigning as Governor of Alaska in 2009. Her stature as a Republican kingmaker collapsed after her ill-judged response to the shooting of the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January, but she has continued to flirt with the idea of a presidential run.
She made no secret of her loathing for McGinniss when he rented the house neighbouring her compound in May last year, and erected a tall wooden fence between them to deny him a view of her daughter's bedroom and the family swimming hole.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/palin-future-clouded-by-racy-claims-including-drug-use/story-e6frg6so-1226137717552
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The Times September 15, 2011
SARAH Palin's political future was thrown into jeopardy last night after claims that she had a one-night stand with a basketball star shortly before her marriage and snorted cocaine with her husband while on a snowmobiling trip.
Reports based on a new book about her by Joe McGinniss allege that she also smoked marijuana with one of her college professors and had a six-month affair with Brad Hanson, one of her husband's former business associates.
Mrs Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, has not ruled out a White House campaign next year but the new allegations, based on interviews with about 200 of her present and former associates, could be devastating for her political ambitions, given her carefully constructed image as a model working mother and defender of homespun family values.
Ms Palin has not formally entered the Republican race for 2012, being a notable omission from the series of GOP debates, but has visited a number of primary states over recent months.
She had been tipped to make an attention-grabbing, last-minute entry into the Republican battle to take on President Barack Obama at next year's election.
McGinniss, an established non-fiction author since his bestselling account of Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential run, spent four months last year in a rented cabin a few metres from the Palin residence on the shore of Lake Lucille in Alaska.
His book is to be published in the US next week but a copy has been obtained by Garry Trudeau, the Doonesbury cartoonist, who has devoted several of his recent strips to its disclosures. Trudeau cites named sources including Gary Wheeler, Mrs Palin's former head of security, describing her as "a housewife who happened to be a governor" and would regularly leave work at 3pm for shopping trips.
In another strip a source recalls her saying before a meeting: "I got on my biggest push-up bra. I'm gonna get what I want."
In yet another her former chief of staff, Mike Tibbles, alleges that as Governor she ordered that 20 staff from ethnic minority backgrounds be fired because "Sarah just isn't comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people".
That image is belied by another startling claim in the book - that, in private at least, Mrs Palin had a "fetish" for black men. Nine months before her marriage to Todd Palin, when they were already a couple, she is said to have spent a night with the basketball player Glen Rice, in her sister's dorm room at the University of Alaska.
Mrs Palin was a local sports reporter at the time. Rice, who went on to play for the Miami Heat, is said to be quoted by McGinniss confirming that the tryst took place.
A publishing source close to the book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, said yesterday: "Glen Rice is the hottest piece in the book."
The account of the youthful Sarah Palin's alleged encounter with a 6ft 8in sports star will add texture to the deeply traditional persona she has cultivated for her Tea Party followers. But it is the claim that she snorted cocaine off an upturned 55-gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with friends that has the most potential to derail her Republican career. McGinniss also reports that Mrs Palin smoked marijuana with a professor who was also the father of a friend while she was a journalism student at Mat-Su College in Anchorage.
President George W. Bush pre-empted investigation into his past drug use by owning up to it before running for President. Until now, Mrs Palin has not needed to address such allegations, and she did not respond yesterday to a request for comment.
The book is being released by Crown Publishing, an imprint of Random House, which stood by its claims yesterday.
"It's based on extensive reporting by Joe McGinniss in Alaska and on interviews with 200 people who have known Sarah Palin very well at different stages of her life and career," David Drake, Crown's publicity director, told The Times.
"The book has been very carefully examined for factual accuracy. People will see that it is a very revelatory portrait of Mrs Palin. It looks closely at her entire life and political career and will reveal some previously unknown aspects of her story."
Asked whether a story on the book published yesterday (Wednesday) by The National Enquirer accurately reflected its contents, Mr Drake said: "They have a history of often getting stories right."
Mrs Palin has created a unique and lucrative niche for herself in American political life since running as John McCain's vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and resigning as Governor of Alaska in 2009. Her stature as a Republican kingmaker collapsed after her ill-judged response to the shooting of the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January, but she has continued to flirt with the idea of a presidential run.
She made no secret of her loathing for McGinniss when he rented the house neighbouring her compound in May last year, and erected a tall wooden fence between them to deny him a view of her daughter's bedroom and the family swimming hole.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/palin-future-clouded-by-racy-claims-including-drug-use/story-e6frg6so-1226137717552
PS - 1 by 1 they Fall..!
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