Did the authors of "Sarah from Alaska", who investigated the behind the scenes drama of the McCain campaign, find the real dirt?

No I don't think so.

However they DID discover Sarah Palin's total disregard for the truth.

Just minutes before the candidates shook hands on stage in St. Louis, Palin collected her thoughts in a room as she was joined by three top McCain advisers and her longtime Alaska aide Kris Perry. "Be still in the presence of the Lord!" Perry called out, as Palin bowed her head and prayed.

Palin would give her own version of this event several months later in a speech at a Republican Party dinner in Alaska. "So, I'm looking around for somebody to pray with. I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra," she said. "And the McCain campaign, love 'em, you know-there are a lot of people around me, but nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray."

The remark drew laughter at the dinner but consternation among some former campaign aides, especially the ones who recalled that she had, in fact, deemed them worthy enough companions with whom to pray. On the surface, Palin's remark seemed like a harmless, humorous aside. But to some of the staffers who had spent two months of their lives working around the clock to try to get her elected, it was hurtful. The comment marked a turning point for several campaign operatives who had defended her up to that point but began to wonder about her willingness to exploit their relationship for political gain. "I was initially upset. I think a lot of people were," said one former senior aide who still speaks frequently to other staffers who continued to support Palin through difficult times. "I think that somebody in the group spoke up and said, 'It's not directed at us.'" Still, the aide wondered how the comment could have been allowed to run wild in the news cycle without any clarification from Palin. "Why are people letting her go out and give speeches like this? And why are people not getting ahead of this when she says something like this?"

"Be still in the presence of the Lord!" Knowing Kris Perry's total idolatry of Sarah Palin I could not help wondering if she was talking about the "Lord" they were bowing their heads to, or the one about to mount the stage and debate Joe Biden.

Of course the thing that most Alaskans know about Sarah Palin is that she lies easily, and often. Here Andrew Sullivan lists twelve of the most famous ones. However I can think of at least that many more just off of the top of my head.

This book sounds like it might just make it to my Sarah Palin reading list. It sounds like they did some very thorough research. Yet it also seems that they missed the biggest scandal perpetrated by Sarah Palin on the American people. That makes me wonder just how many people on the campaign even knew?

(Click the title to read more of this excerpt.)

Update: Did you ever want to get a look at the speech Sarah Palin wanted to deliver before McCain's concession speech? Well the Daily Beast has both her concession speech and, if God had a sense of humor, her victory speech.