Topic: Newsmax
Here's a fun piece of desperate Palin puffery, courtesy of James Hirsen in his Sept. 2 Newsmax column:
Sarah Palin's Reporter Experience Gives Mainstream Media the Jitters
Prior to serving in elective office, Sarah Palin, John McCain's pick for his running mate, was a sports reporter.
Known by her maiden name, Sarah Heath, she worked for KTUU, an affiliate of NBC in Anchorage, Alaska.
Having been a point guard in high school basketball, Palin was able to handle play-by-play analysis of college basketball games. She also reported on other sports including the Iditarod dog sled race.
According to People magazine, she once admonished former L.A. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda to relax more.
Palin's experience as a journalist should really come in handy when the mainstream press start brandishing their long knives, hoping for the Alaska governor to make a geographic error or mispronounce the name of an obscure world leader.
So, Palin's couple years of work 20 years back as a sports reader for a local TV station in Alaska is supposed to give "the mainstream press" and longtime reporters for national news organizations the "jitters" ... how, exactly?
