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Limbaugh, Fox News at odds over whether Palin memoir is focused on policy

November 13, 2009 8:37 pm ET — 9 Comments

On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Experience, is "one of the most substantive policy books I've read." By contrast, later that night, Fox News' Carl Cameron stated that the book "largely steers clear of politics and policy" and that the chapter in which Palin "discusses her brand of populist conservatism" covers "only 13 pages out of more than 400."

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Limbaugh: Palin memoir "one of the most substantive policy books I've read"

Limbaugh claimed book shows Palin "clearly is jazzed by policy." During the November 13 broadcast of his show, Limbaugh said of Palin:

LIMBAUGH: I talked to her yesterday -- I've got the book. I have it right over here on the left. And I've had a chance -- I just got it a couple of days ago, three days ago -- and I've had a chance to go through it, and I was -- I made a prediction to her when I talked to her yesterday. I said, "You've got enough in here that people who get hold of this, like the AP or any of the state-controlled media, they're going to focus on what they think -- the soap-opera aspects of your book, and they're going to ignore what is truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read."

This woman, Governor Palin, clearly is jazzed by policy, particularly environmental policy and energy policy, as well as taxes and so forth.

Fox News: Book "largely steers clear of ... policy"

Cameron: Chapter on Palin's political philosophy "only 13 pages out of more than 400." On the November 13 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, Cameron stated during a report about Palin's memoir: "As for her future, the book largely steers clear of politics and policy. Most of it's about her life before the presidential campaign. The chapter called "The Way Forward" discusses her brand of populist conservatism, but it's only 13 pages out of more than 400."

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    • Author by bigbee (November 13, 2009 10:53 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh is such a fawning, lying doofus. When I'm in the car, I'll tune in his show for kicks, and I am almost instantly bombarded by distortion after distortion and a total lack of coherent, logical thought.

      Now, we learn he wants to sleep with Palin. Tell us something we didn't know.
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      • Author by sambo (November 14, 2009 9:28 am ET)
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        Your first sentence is right on target, but I don't tune him in
        for ANYTHING, nor Hannity ,Beck,Coulter,O'Reilly,Savage,Cavuto,or a few others that are really an insult to ones intelligence
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    • Author by open_mind (November 13, 2009 11:07 pm ET)
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      I'm going with Campaign Carl on this one. I think you can make a stronger case that he can read.
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    • Author by Publius39 (November 14, 2009 12:06 am ET)
         
      Well, the newly minted "Conservative" movement needs to protect each other from the moderate republican base, so I'm not at all surprised that Faux and Rush are at odds on Palin's drink coaster of a book.
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    • Author by gg (November 14, 2009 9:16 am ET)
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      I do believe it is one of the most substantive policy books HE has read but it is not one of the most substantive policy books ever written. And therein lies the difference.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 14, 2009 11:00 am ET)
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      "The chapter called "The Way Forward" discusses her brand of populist conservatism, but it's only 13 pages out of more than 400"

      Now, now, lets give credit where credit is due. El-Rushbo read 13 pages of a book, without pictures, or funny captions above the person talking.

      Now doesn't everyone here think that's astonishing for the drugster.
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    • Author by TuckerCarlsonSucks (November 14, 2009 3:58 pm ET)
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      I just got a copy of Sarah Palin's book and it is excellent. The wobbly leg of my dinner table no longer moves!

      I wonder if Rush Limbaugh sees the irony of referring to the media as 'state run.' If the executive branch of government exercised control over all of the media content from 2000 - 2008, would Rush's show have been any different?

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    • Author by fantagor (November 14, 2009 5:01 pm ET)
         
      One picks up Palin's book for a refreshing taste of WHINE, but you stay for the deep policy discussions of why women are broodmares for the state, why Christianity should be taught in schools, and why gays are just icky.

      Shouldn't that chapter be titled, "Policy for Reactionary Dufuses and Extreme Dummies"?

      Rand
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