AP Gives 24-Graf Story Promoting Book by Bitter Ex-Palin Staffer
The Associated Press today offered readers a 24-paragraph exclusive that practically promoted Frank Bailey's anti-Palin tell-all book that hits bookstores on May 24. While the AP noted that “Palin’s attorney did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story,” it appears the news wire did nothing further to provide balance to its May 23 story, which chiefly conveys the former staffer's perspective on Palin's tenure in office as Alaska governor. The AP certainly did its part to pick juicy-sounding excerpts from Bailey's book, while at the same time carrying Bailey's insistence that he's disappointed, not bitter, in how Palin has gone from governor to private citizen-cum-itinerant conservative activist: “Getting Sarah to meetings and events was like nailing Jell-O to a tree,” Bailey wrote. On the campaign trail and as governor, Sarah went through at least ten schedulers, with few lasting more than months. Nobody wanted the job because Sarah might fail to honor, at the last minute, the smallest commitments, and making excuses for her became a painful burden.”
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