McCain campaign manager, and past Sarah Palin cheerleader, Steve Schmidt says "Going Rogue" is "total fiction".

Is Palin really going rogue? Hardly. Getting even is more like it.

Palin's biggest score to settle is with those senior advisers--Republicans all--in the John McCain campaign, on whose shoulders Palin lays the blame for her failed and tortured debut on the American political stage last fall. Most notable among them, of course, is "The Bullet," Steve Schmidt, who took over McCain's teetering campaign in July of 2008 and was a staunch advocate of Palin's selection as McCain's running mate.

He has told the Huffington Post that Palin's allegations against the McCain campaign are "total fiction."

Schmidt now joins a host of former McCain staffers, including Mark Salter and Nicolle Wallace, who have challenged the veracity of Palin's book even before it hits the streets on Tuesday. One McCain aide who worked closely with Palin and who "liked her personally" described Palin's account of the campaign as "blatantly and absolutely inaccurate."

Palin goes on to make allegations that Schmidt used profane language in front of Piper (Who should NEVER have been there in the first place), that he told her to get off of her diet, and that he called her stupid after she was pranked by two Canadian disc jockeys. (I actually would not have blamed him for that last one.)

It should come as no surprise to ANYBODY that Sarah Palin's version of events do not match up with Steve Schmidt's, or the rest of the McCain staffers, version of events.

You can read all about it from my friend Geoffrey Dunn by clicking the title and visiting the Huffington Post.

Update: Shannyn Moore has her own bone to pick with Sarah about another lie she told in her snotty little book.