Guess who has a copy of the book "Game Change"!

Okay so I broke my usual rule of ALWAYS reading a book from front to back without jumping ahead to the really juicy parts. This time I did just that.

And damn are they juicy!

Oh trust me I will go back and read the entire thing eventually. Even the especially painful parts about John Edwards.

I was HUGE John Edwards fan during the early part of the 2008 campaign, and was very upset when he dropped out, and MUCH more upset to find out that he was not the man that I thought he was. (Just a note to any Palin-bots who are visiting today. I know exactly what it feels like to have somebody you idolize turn out to be a fraud and a liar. In that regard I can feel your pain.)

So with no further ado let's jump to one of the juiciest parts of Game Change. Sarah's over the top reaction to the media response to her Katie Couric interview.

A snippet from the interviews aired on CBS that night, but in the clamor of McCain's campaign suspension, nobody noticed. The next morning, Couric went on the network's Early Show to promote her exclusive, commenting mildly that Palin wasn't always responsive in replying to certain questions.

At that moment, Wallace was in the middle of an appearance on Today and felt her cell phone vibrate madly. As she left NBC, she checked and saw that Palin had been calling nonstop. Soon enough, the governor called again.

Katie said I struggled to answer questions! Palin shouted.

Wallace held her tongue.

Palin shouted again, Are you listening?

I''m listening, said Wallace. You did struggle to answer a lot of questions.

I don't know what you guys are trying to do to me, Palin fumed. Why did you make me do Katie?

For the next twenty minutes, as Wallace walked the thirteen blocks back to her apartment, Palin screamed and Wallace yelled back. The reason the interview sucked was because you did not try, Wallace said. You didn't show up and you didn't fight. The reason Gibson worked out is because even if you didn't know every answer, you clawed your way through the whole thing.

Wallace could barely fathom Palin's hissy fit and her attempt to blame others for her failure to prepare. Wallace had been Palin's closest confidante in McCainworld, but now Nicolle was through with her--and the feeling was mutual.

Palin thought Wallace and McCainworld had tossed her into the lioness's mouth, that Couric had been bound and determined to devour her. She wanted nothing more to do with network anchors, especially since they got in the way of her talking to Alaska reporters. "I want to do what I want to do," Palin stubbornly to Wallace, "Now I know what Hillary meant when she said she had to find her voice." (PP 399-400)

Okay you may want to read that excerpt a few times to really absorb just how incredibly unprofessional, unsophisticated, and unhinged Sarah Palin really was on the campaign trail.

The woman is such a disaster that she cannot answer the simplest of questions and she blames the McCain campaign! Amazing

Personally I have a theory as to why Plain did better with the Gibson interview, and also why she did her most recent interview with Oprah by satellite.

Palin only really feels safe when she is in her home surrounded by her family. Even on the relatively welcoming Fox News set, Palin looks on edge and skittish. She is a person who wants desperately to be in control and who can never quite attain it.

As one of my sources, who had been close to the Palin administration, said just recently, "She NEVER listens to anybody!" And yet when things go wrong she quickly looks outward for somebody to blame.

And that is also why Palin preferred to talk to the Alaska press, who had long ago traded their journalistic ethics for Palin idolatry. At that time Palin could almost guarantee a favorable interview from any of our newspapers or television news programs.

But not form the Alaska blogs which, by the way, comes up later in this book.

Oooh I can hardly wait to get to THAT part!