Was Sarah Palin Really Booed at Dancing With the Stars?

 I watched Dancing With The Stars last night, but didn't hear any boo-ing, however I did note that the host did mention that someone had booed. According to the article below, the booing heard was a direct response from the audience to Jennifer [Grey] and Derek [Hough]'s scores which were perceived as relatively low for a dance that received a standing ovation. It wasn't for Sarah Palin? Whew!
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Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Was Sarah Palin Really Booed?
E! Online:

Sarah Palin stopped by Dancing With the Stars last night to give her 'expert ballroom commentary' that everyone and everything was 'amazing.'

But did she not receive the same amazing love in return from the audience?

'There's booing in the ballroom,' host Brooke Burke said right before Palin appeared on the live show. 'We don't know why.' Well, we do...

"The booing heard was a direct response from the audience to Jennifer [Grey] and Derek [Hough]'s scores which were perceived as relatively low for a dance that received a standing ovation," DWTS executive producer Conrad Green tells us.

Whatever the reason, even Sarah herself looked a bit stunned when the camera turned to her and the booing could be heard in the background. So will the Alaskan politician brave the fiesty crowd and come back to visit DWTS again? We spoke to Bristol Palin after the show, and she told us of Mommy Cheerest: "Hopefully she'll be able to make it, [but] who knows if it will be next week or whenever, I'm just happy she was able to see one of them."

And though some might argue that the elder Palin's visit was a bit of a distraction from the dancers, Bristol insists "it was comforting" having her mom there. "I was excited she was here and able to cheer us on," she said.

There is one family member Bristol is counting on for support week-to-week—and he's still in diapers!

"Tripp watches [DWTS] and he claps and cheers," Bristol told us. "I don't know if he can tell it's me but he likes the dancing."

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Will Sarah Palin be tea party candidate in 2012?

Sarah is certainly staying in the spotlight - and the writer of the following article is exactly correct in observing that she is part of everything "Tea Party". Apparently, Palin praises the movement as a "ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they are doing business," adding, "It is so inspiring to see real people, not politicos come out and stand up and speak out for commonsense conservative principles." So, does that mean that she is a TEA PARTY candidate wannabe?
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Sarah Palin, tea party candidate in 2012?
The Fix - By Chris Cillizza  | September 21, 2010; 1:22 PM ET 

"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) appears to be making a purposeful play in recent days to be the face of the 'tea party' movement, a strategy that suggests what sort of candidacy she would run if she enters the 2012 presidential contest.

Palin has largely demurred when asked about her 2012 ambitions (or lack thereof) -- choosing to steer the conversation to the importance of electing Republicans this fall.

But, in a speech to the Iowa Republican Party on Friday night and then again in a Web video released by her political action committee today, she seems to be sending clear hints about a national bid -- and laying claim to the mantle of the tea party candidate if she does run.

In the video -- titled "Tea Party" -- Palin praises the movement as a "ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they are doing business," adding, "It is so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, not inside-the-Beltway professionals, come out and stand up and speak out for commonsense conservative principles."

Palin sounded similar themes in her speech to the Iowa Republican party's Ronald Reagan dinner on Friday night -- repeatedly praising the candidacy of tea party insurgent Christine O'Donnell (R) in Delaware and castigating many of the GOP poobahs, most notably former Bush White House senior adviser Karl Rove.

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Sarah 's Iowa trip points to 2012 presidential run

 Sarah Palin is still going strong. She is fulfilling all the steps to keep herself in front of the media and the nation until the 2010 Presidential election. As the article below suggests, she is following all the critical steps. Who know? We may be calling her 'President Palin' one day. Ouch!
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Sarah Palin's Iowa trip points to 2012 presidential run
World news | The Guardian:

Attendance at Republican dinner in key state is seen as biggest sign yet that Sarah Palin aims to take on Obama in 2012

There are boxes that US presidential hopefuls have to tick early. They have to start building a campaign team, albeit discreetly. They have to set up a fundraising machine. And they have to visit Iowa, the small but politically crucial state that traditionally kicks off a White House run.

Sarah Palin has ticked the first two and on Friday will tick the third when she is the main speaker at a $100-a-seat Republican dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. The party's sole superstar has not yet said whether she will seek the nomination to take on Barack Obama in 2012. But all the indications point to a run, and Friday's visit is the biggest sign yet.

Democrats may detest her, and so does the Republican establishment, for her perceived lack of sophistication and polarising effect on the electorate. But neither will make the choice in the Iowa caucus. The party activists will, and they are shifting behind her. Long before the contest has formally begun, Palin is fast on the way to becoming unstoppable.

Marilea David, a lifelong Republican, is typical of the fan base, seeing in Palin an alternative to the old-boy network. "I think she is great. She is the only person I am excited about just now," David said over coffee in west Des Moines.

"She is fiscally conservative. She married her husband for love, not money. She does not have perfect kids, which is big for me. She has been totally vetted by the liberal media and they did not come up with anything other than she is a 'hick'.

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Tea Party favorite in Delaware Senate race gets Sarah Palin Endorsement

 Sarah Palin can't seem to stay out of the spotlight - or better still, she doesn't WANT to stay out of it. To be perfectly honest, the people she endorses do benefit from her ability to command attention. She draws large crowds and collects a lot of money for their campaigns. So why not?
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Sarah Palin endorsement: Palin endorses 'tea party' favorite in Delaware Senate race

by Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau   4:14 PM MDT, September 9, 2010

Christine O'Donnell's once-quixotic campaign against Rep. Michael N. Castle in Delaware's U.S. Senate race got another late boost with the endorsement Thursday of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Palin announced her support for O'Donnell during an appearance on Sean Hannity's syndicated radio program, five days before Delaware's Republican primary.

'She will support efforts for America's energy security, patient-centered healthcare reform, cutting government waste and letting the private sector thrive and prosper!' Palin later wrote on Facebook. 'We can't afford 'more of the same' in Washington.'

The endorsement by the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee comes weeks after the Tea Party Express organization committed to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of O'Donnell's low-budget effort to topple a Delaware political icon.

Through Aug. 25, Castle had more than $2.6 million on hand, compared with just $20,374 in O'Donnell's war chest, not including nearly $10,000 in debt.

There has not been reliable independent polling of the primary, though the Tea Party Express claimed its internal survey showed the race down to single digits.

That Castle, the state's lone congressman for 18 years and a former two-term governor, would struggle just to win his party's nomination was unthinkable even a month ago. The race was considered his to lose as soon as Beau Biden, the state attorney general, decided in January not to run for what was once his father's Senate seat.

But O'Donnell, the 2008 nominee against now-Vice President Biden, has emerged as a real threat by tapping in to conservative suspicion with the man she calls "King RINO" (Republican in Name Only).

"He's carrying the Obama-Reid-Pelosi water," she said in a recent interview, citing votes on issues such as a cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

She said her campaign drew inspiration from Joe Miller's surprise win over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska last week, rallying supporters with the idea "that we are not in this race to come close. We are in this to win."

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Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Reporter speaks about The Palin story

 Errors in a piece by Michael Joseph Gross, Vanity Fair writer are addressed in the article below. The reporter mistook another Down syndrome child for Trig. The child's mother says she tried to correct the error. Palin has called the article "yellow journalism." It relies heavily on unnamed sources and describes everything from stingy tips given to hotel staff to heated fights between Palin and her husband. Ho Hum!
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Vanity Fair reporter speaks out about Palin story:
KANSAS CITY, Mo.The Associated Press

The controversy over a Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin continued Wednesday with the reporter disputing a conservative activist's claim that she tried to prevent him from mistaking her child for Palin's.

Reporter Michael Joseph Gross acknowledged last week that he mistook a child with Down syndrome, named Samuel Loudon, for Palin's youngest son, Trig.

But on Wednesday, in a Vanity Fair blog post, he disputed claims that Samuel's mother, conservative activist Gina Loudon, stopped him during a May rally in Kansas City suburb of Independence and tried to clear up the confusion. She insists he ignored her.

Gross' article, which appears in the magazine's October issue, describes Palin's youngest son, Trig, being pushed in a stroller by his older sister, Piper, before the rally.

"When the girl, Piper Palin, turns around, she sees her parents thronged by admirers, and the crowd rolling toward her and the baby, her brother Trig, born with Down syndrome in 2008," according to the article. "Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, bend down and give a moment to the children; a woman, perhaps a nanny, whisks the boy away; and Todd hands Sarah her speech and walks her to the stage."

Gross said in his blog that he wasn't allowed backstage but saw what happened there from his seat in the audience.

But Loudon said Wednesday in a telephone interview that she stood by earlier remarks that she spoke to Gross during the rally and insisted it would have been impossible for him to witness what happened from the audience.

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Sarah Palin, Political Figure On the Road

 This article from Vanity Fair shows a very different picture of Sarah.On the road she has developed a persona.She manages to be at once a closed book and a constant noisemaker. Her press spokesperson, Pam Pryor, barely speaks to the press, and Palin shrewdly cultivates a real and rhetorical antagonism toward what she calls “the lamestream media.” Yet she certainly manages to stay right at the forefront of her political ambitions.
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Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury
By Michael Joseph Gross  October 2010

Politics | Vanity Fair: "Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits—a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family—and the sadness she has left in her wake.

Backstage in the arena, a little girl in Mary Janes pushes her brother in a baby carriage, stopping a few yards shy of a heavy, 100-foot-long black curtain. The curtain splits the arena in two, shielding the children from an audience of 4,000 people clapping their hands in time to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The music accompanies a video “Salute to Military Heroes” that plays above the stage where, in a few moments, the children’s mother will appear.

When the girl, Piper Palin, turns around, she sees her parents thronged by admirers, and the crowd rolling toward her and the baby, her brother Trig, born with Down syndrome in 2008. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, bend down and give a moment to the children; a woman, perhaps a nanny, whisks the boy away; and Todd hands Sarah her speech and walks her to the stage. He pokes the air with one finger. She mimes the gesture, whips around, strides on four-inch heels to stage center, and turns it on.

And how. Palin and the crowd might as well be one. She’s glad to be here with the people of Independence, Missouri, “where so many of you proudly cling to your guns and your religion”—the first laughline in a 40-minute stump speech that alludes to many of the perceived insults she and her audience have suffered together, and that transforms their resentments into badges of honor. Palin waves her scribbled-on palm to the crowd, proclaiming that she’s using “the poor man’s teleprompter.” Of the Obama administration, she says, “They talk down to us. Especially here in the heartland. Oh, man. They think that, if we were just smart enough, we’d be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell ’em, and I do tell ’em, Oh, we’re plenty smart, oh yeah—we know what’s goin’ on. And we don’t like what’s goin’ on. And we’re not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.”

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