Wall Street Journal has more excerpts from "Going Rogue". Guess who gets a mention?

The book seems almost exclusively made up of Palin taking time to even the score with those she feels hurt her feelings, damaged her career, or both.

She attacks Katie Couric for being unfair, blames the McCain campaign for the scandal about the clothes, talks about her "nice mom moment" with Tina Fey (I am dying to get Fey's take on that meeting.), and of course complains that $50,000 of the $500,000 debt she accrued was the cost that McCain campaign acquired for vetting her. (If they paid THAT much, and found out so little, they got ripped off big time! I would have done it for a fraction of that money, and actually I ended up doing it for free anyhow.)

But, bar none, THIS is my favorite part thus far:

After the election, Sarah Palin writes, she found herself “inundated with frivolous ethics complaints” that would require enormous time and energy to address. (Hey Linda, this is for you!)

Worse still, she writes, the media began to treat her in a tabloid fashion, rather than reporting actual news. Lawsuits and legal bills began to mount, and all in all her family began to take what she describes as a “beating.”

The irony is that she’d assumed that once the election was over, she would “go back to the job I loved. But what a difference ten weeks can make. Before my plane even touched down in Anchorage, shocking character assassinations of those I love had begun.”

Virtually everything that she had once been able to count on was now turned upside down, she says. Her friendly relations with the local media? Over and out. Relationships that had once been civil and fair, were now being used to attack her and make her appear inept, she wrote.

And the national media was unrelenting, she says. They continued to work in Alaska, “sniffing for tabloid stuff.” Reporters, she writes, camped out at the end of her family’s driveway in Wasilla, while others badgered her parents and siblings.

If anything, she writes, the attacks were even worse on the Internet, where bloggers felt free to write whatever they wanted. “When the bloggers weren’t busy pushing fairy tales, they would post threatening stories about any number of looming scandals that would drive me out of office,” she writes.

Eventually, she writes, it seemed that virtually every thing she did or didn’t do became grist for the national media, an experience she found “pathetic and chilling.”

Particularly distasteful, she writes, was an off-color joke told by David Letterman about her 14-year-old daughter Willow. It was also painful to read that she and her husband Todd were divorcing. This was a surprise, particularly since Palin writes that she considers her husband to be a hunk.

“Dang, I thought. Divorce Todd? Have you seen Todd?”

So, according to her, she was not about to divorce Todd, because of his looks?

Hmm I guess attractive people like Kim Basinger, Tom Cruise, or Michael Jordan, NEVER get divorced because they are much too good looking.

She also fails to mention all of the times since my post that Levi, Mercede, and others have ALSO mentioned the talk of divorce and that Todd is no longer welcome in the marriage bed. Did that "surprise" Sarah as well? Or was she simply taken by surprise the FIRST time that she realized people knew?

I am kind of shocked to see such a direct reference to my "Splitsville" post. I think personally I would have avoided mentioning it at all.

But then again there is not a whole lot that we have in common.

Except of course the amount of time we both spend on the Alaska blogs. Hi Sarah!