EPIC FAIL: Anti-Palin author faces O'Reilly, strikes out

"But people aren't -- with all due respect -- that interested in you..."
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Disgruntled ex-employee FAIL:


- JP

Dana Loesch: Frank Bailey Grinds An Axe with Palin Book

People worried about ethics aren’t silent for years and then suddenly try to cash in
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Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch interviewed disgruntled former Palin aide Frank Bailey (video here) and concludes:

I still question how one can be viewed as objective when your claims are easily disproved, when former associates allege that you are simply disgruntled, and your co-authors are known far-left bloggers who:

a) are married to and helped petition for Alaskans for Truth, the group which helped petition for ethical charges (repeatedly dismissed) and who are quite cozy with the elected official who brought the tossed charges in the beginning.

b) are tight with a known (Peter Rouse) top aide to President Obama, a figure that also reportedly conducted regular mind-meld calls with said co-authors.

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Loesch wonders why anyone would waste good money on Bailey's bogus book, when the propaganda on its pages has already been published and is available for free on the blogs of Alaska's Palin-deranged Democrat operatives. The simple answer is that leftists aren't exactly paragons of common sense. They are willing to spend no small sums of money to feed the habitual and mentally debilitating sickness that is PDS.

Poor Bailey had that deer in the headlights look on his face when Hannity challenged him in another recent interview. It's apparent to all who bother to look beneath the surface here that Morris and Devon are pulling his strings, while far away in the White House, Pete Rouse is pulling theirs.

- JP

Hannity calls out traitor Frank Bailey: ‘You're full of crap!’

"The conversation got so heated that it continued after the show."
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More at Fox News Insider

- JP

Palin aides set the record straight on Bailey's bogus book

“Mr. Bailey has an axe to grind and abandoned truth in his book.”
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Gov. Palin’s team is responding to allegations made in former aide Frank Bailey’s book Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin. Though the book will not be officially released until tomorrow, portion of it have been getting considerable exposure on left wing blogs for months. Politico's Andy Barr reports that Palin aides have commented that the purported tell-all “belongs on the fiction shelves”:

In their first comments about the book since several media outlets obtained a leaked manuscript in February, two sources close to Palin disputed several of the anecdotes in the book, including his claims of illegal coordination with the Republican Governors Association and that he has seen Palin’s deposition in the so-called “Troopergate” case, which is sealed. Palin’s camp also insists that some of the Palin emails printed in the manuscript are framed to distort events...

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Palin aides also pointed to previous ethics charges against Bailey during his service to the ex-governor’s administration, as well as an ongoing investigation by the state attorney general’s office over the emails Bailey included in the book. Additionally, SarahPAC spokesman Tim Crawford highlighted Bailey’s book cover, which is a modified image. The original photo was of Palin standing next to other governors at an RGA event, not next to Bailey.

“Frank Bailey was the only member of the Palin administration to be forced to [receive ethics training after being found to] have acted unethically – twice,” Crawford said. “He is currently under investigation again by the state attorney general. Then, as the administrator of certain email accounts, he acted unethically by appropriating account information he was entrusted to protect.”

“Gov. Palin suspended Bailey and refused to hire Bailey when he sought a position on her vice presidential campaign staff and later with SarahPAC. Mr. Bailey has an axe to grind and abandoned truth in his book. The cover of the book tells this story, two completely different photos twisted and Photoshopped to create a fraudulent image. The book belongs on the fiction shelves.”

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- JP

Quote of the Day (February 22, 2011)

Cashing In
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Stacy McCain at The Other McCain:

"Must be nice to get your book proposal promoted by Politico, you worthless two-faced backstabbing crapweasel."

- JP

Frank Bailey swings at Sarah Palin, misses

As he shops a made-up, mendacious manuscript
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In an unpublished manuscript by former Palin aide Frank Bailey, the false claim is made that while Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin named Morgan Christen to the state Supreme Court because Judge Christen had taken the sided of Palin's sister Molly in a custody dispute with her husband at the time, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten. Bailey appears to be shopping to find a publisher for his manuscript, in which he writes that he had warned Palin that naming Christen would be a conflict of interest, but she allegedly ignored the advice.

Unfortunately for Bailey, what he contends just isn't so:

But a spokeswoman for the Alaska Court System said Bailey got his facts wrong. Christen was never the assigned judge in the Wooten custody case, didn't make any rulings in favor of either party, and played a "very limited role," according to Christine Johnson, administrative director for the court system.

Johnson said prior to applying for the Supreme Court Christen conducted a conference in the case, where both sides agreed to a settlement. Wooten and Palin's sister later had a dispute over what they'd agreed upon in the settlement and asked Christen to resolve it, Johnson said. But Christen sent it to another judge because she'd applied to the Supreme Court and had a conflict.

Under the state Constitution, Gov. Palin had to select from among the nominees sent to her by the seven-member Alaska Judicial Council, made up of lawyers, public members appointed by governors and the Supreme Court chief justice. Christen and Palmer Superior Court Judge Eric Smith were the two finalists. Both had been appointed as judges by her predecessor Democrat Tony Knowles. Both had past connections to left of center organizations.

The Council performs a bar poll of all applicants for Supreme Court justice positions by interviewing Alaskan attorneys about various qualities of the applicants, and rates them on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest. Gov. Palin asked the council to send her all information it had on the two, reviewed the data, and made her choice.


Here's how the council scored Smith:

Professional Competence	Integrity	Fairness	Judicial Temperament	Suitability of Experience	Overall Professional Performance
4.2	4.3	4.1	4.0	4.1	4.0

And here are its ratings for Christen:

Professional Competence	Integrity	Fairness	Judicial Temperament	Suitability of Experience	Overall Professional Performance
4.5	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5

As is clearly evident, Christen bettered Smith in every category. In our opinion, these ratings provide a much more reasonable answer to the question of why Gov. Palin picked Christen over Smith. But Bailey is trying to get a book deal, and in a crowded field of volumes already published about Sarah Palin, obviously has to float bogus charges that were long ago debunked and make things up to make his manuscript appeal to publishers. He should contact the Huffington Post, which is flush with millions of AOL's cash and has a history of printing lies about Gov. Palin. Arianna and her crew would likely jump at the chance to smear Sarah Palin in hardcover and paperback.

h/t: Free Republic

- JP

Bailey's Co-Authors Go Rogue, Andrew Halcro Will Have to Wait

- By Thomas Lamb

Let the conspiracies fly from the left and Andrew Halcro, wannabe U.S. Congressman who thinks the Hatchet Man Cometh.

Co-authors end book deal with ex-Palin aide:

Christiana Grace, company co-owner and one of the co-authors, says she can't elaborate on the reasons for the termination. But she adds it was not a falling out with Bailey, her close friend since college.

Bailey could not be reached for comment.

Bailey was embroiled in Troopergate, the investigation of Palin's firing of her police commissioner over allegations he wouldn't fire a trooper who went through a contentious divorce from Palin's sister.

And you have to feel sad for Andrew Halcro, his little inspiration will have to wait:

According to the co-author Morgan, the title of the book was inspired by a blog I wrote where I labeled Bailey the governor's hatchet man.

This is one book I'd buy just to reconcile all of my blogs with the truth.

(violins playing)

- Tom