Love this transcript of women who discuss about Palin's book - how they like her personally but think that she's full of contradictions and inconsistencies.
"Ms. CARY: Well, as a speechwriter [a former speechwriter for the first President Bush, George H. W. Bush, a Republican a mom of two.], over the years I have been involved in similar political biographies and autobiographies, and one of the things I do regularly for people is read their books at the manuscript level. Does this make sense? Did you catch anything?
And if you flip through, you know, the version I read here, I just feel like all I was doing was circling paragraphs and putting question marks next to them. And as the book went on, there were more and more inconsistencies and contradictions of herself.
MARTIN: Can you give us an example? And I just want to mention, for those who are interested, that Mary Kate will have a review of the book for the U.S. News & World Report Web site where she regularly blogs and she also writes a column.
So give us an example of where you felt that she kind of contradicted herself and not just in what she wrote about, but in the way she behaves.
Ms. CARY: One example is when Trig is born. You know, the story during the campaign was that her water broke when she was in Texas at the end of the pregnancy and then she got on a plane and flew back to Alaska and had Trig in Alaska.
So at the time, I remember thinking well, I wasn't allowed to travel that close to my due date and how did she do that? She doesn't say that her water broke. She says there was a strange sensation. After five kids, I'm thinking, hmm, she gets on the plane. She gets all the way to Wasilla and she has the baby. She says Todd's with her the whole time and some of her children made it in time to the hospital.
And 200 pages later, during the campaign when this is getting questioned, her father comes out and her father says I know that Trig is her baby because I was there. I saw him pop out. And I flip back 200 pages which, of course, is a problem because there's no index, and flip through, find it, and I think she doesn't say her father was there."
Ms. STEINER: I happen to agree with that and I have another example of some kind of hypocrisy or contradiction that I saw as really hurting women who believe in her - and all women, really. During the vice presidential campaign, she or some people in the McCain campaign were very careful to stress over and over again that even though she had five children and she was a working mom, she never used any babysitters, which made me feel so terrible, because I know you can't work without childcare.
It's just a fundamental tenant of working motherhood and we're always made to feel bad about sending our kids to day care or hiring too many babysitters or whatever. But then yet, in her book, in the acknowledgments, she thanked nine different paid babysitters."
"And all of a sudden it became clear to me. And I thought, she really has moved way over through this book. She could have been inclusive and the unifier like you're saying like what we were all hoping, and instead, she's urging people to go out to those tea parties and hit the town hall meetings and shout outs to the far right media. And I thought that's not what I was looking for."
NPR.org Does Sarah Palin's Journey Contradict Her Politics?
"Ms. CARY: Well, as a speechwriter [a former speechwriter for the first President Bush, George H. W. Bush, a Republican a mom of two.], over the years I have been involved in similar political biographies and autobiographies, and one of the things I do regularly for people is read their books at the manuscript level. Does this make sense? Did you catch anything?
And if you flip through, you know, the version I read here, I just feel like all I was doing was circling paragraphs and putting question marks next to them. And as the book went on, there were more and more inconsistencies and contradictions of herself.
MARTIN: Can you give us an example? And I just want to mention, for those who are interested, that Mary Kate will have a review of the book for the U.S. News & World Report Web site where she regularly blogs and she also writes a column.
So give us an example of where you felt that she kind of contradicted herself and not just in what she wrote about, but in the way she behaves.
Ms. CARY: One example is when Trig is born. You know, the story during the campaign was that her water broke when she was in Texas at the end of the pregnancy and then she got on a plane and flew back to Alaska and had Trig in Alaska.
So at the time, I remember thinking well, I wasn't allowed to travel that close to my due date and how did she do that? She doesn't say that her water broke. She says there was a strange sensation. After five kids, I'm thinking, hmm, she gets on the plane. She gets all the way to Wasilla and she has the baby. She says Todd's with her the whole time and some of her children made it in time to the hospital.
And 200 pages later, during the campaign when this is getting questioned, her father comes out and her father says I know that Trig is her baby because I was there. I saw him pop out. And I flip back 200 pages which, of course, is a problem because there's no index, and flip through, find it, and I think she doesn't say her father was there."
Ms. STEINER: I happen to agree with that and I have another example of some kind of hypocrisy or contradiction that I saw as really hurting women who believe in her - and all women, really. During the vice presidential campaign, she or some people in the McCain campaign were very careful to stress over and over again that even though she had five children and she was a working mom, she never used any babysitters, which made me feel so terrible, because I know you can't work without childcare.
It's just a fundamental tenant of working motherhood and we're always made to feel bad about sending our kids to day care or hiring too many babysitters or whatever. But then yet, in her book, in the acknowledgments, she thanked nine different paid babysitters."
"And all of a sudden it became clear to me. And I thought, she really has moved way over through this book. She could have been inclusive and the unifier like you're saying like what we were all hoping, and instead, she's urging people to go out to those tea parties and hit the town hall meetings and shout outs to the far right media. And I thought that's not what I was looking for."
NPR.org Does Sarah Palin's Journey Contradict Her Politics?