Unmasking Palin's mini-me, Rebecca Mansour. Update!



Is this Rebecca Mansour? Maybe.

 From Politics Daily:

Less than a year ago Mansour did not even rate inclusion in analyses of Palin's brain trust by the New York Times nor by award-winning investigative political blog, TPM Muckraker. But this week, after Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot at a constituent event, Mansour could be heard on a special edition of conservative talk show host Tammy Bruce's podcast, addressing claims that Palin had helped to foment the attack.

A Lexis/Nexis search of news articles reveals the earliest mention of a Mansour-Palin connection at about the same time: On April 29, 2009, a McClatchy-Tribune article about grassroots groups supporting Palin quoted Mansour as saying the group was separate from Palin.

"She has nothing at all, whatsoever, to do with any of what we're doing here, that's what's rather funny about it," Mansour said. "We have no idea if she knows we exist. We hope she does, but we have no idea. We don't take our cues from her. We interpret what we see as happening. We just speculate."

Soon after that AP story, a Palin aide asked Mansour to help with "Going Rogue," Palin's biography. Mansour told the New York Times that she met with Palin in Southern California and the two bonded like kindred spirits. She then decided to turn the Conservatives4Palin blog over to other Palinistas and Palin hired her as a "speechwriter, researcher, online communications coordinator and all-purpose advisor."

Since that time of course RAM's voice has been omnipresent in almost everything that Palin says on camera, "writes" on Facebook, or even tweets to her followers.  I have long felt that the vast majority of what people think they know about Sarah Palin from her various posts, articles, and tweets is really what they know about Mansour and not necessary Sarah herself.

Finding where Sarah ends, and the RAM begins is an almost impossible undertaking.

As it is RAM is a virtual ghost on the internet, at least visually.  Though her words, most often attributed to Palin, are impossible to avoid, her physical self is cloaked in mystery. (However I am pretty sure the picture I attached is indeed her.)

Do you want to know something kind of funny?

Back at the beginning of July 2009, right about at the time that Palin was telling Alaska to "take this job and shove it," I was supposed to have dinner with RAM.  I kid you not.

You see Mansour went on the Eddie Burke show (where else?) on July 6th right after Palin had resigned, and essentially called the Alaska bloggers "pathetic." Can you believe the gall?

So my friend Phil Munger called into the show and invited her to have dinner with us and judge how pathetic we were for herself.

RAM was kind of cornered so she agreed.

Phil then sent all of us an e-mail to invite us to dinner. So many of us, myself included, agreed to meet with Sarah Palin's #1 fan. (If nothing else I figured it might be an interesting blog post.)

Less than two days later RAM, who must have though better of it, sent Phil an e-mail in the middle of the night cancelling the get together.

Gee that kind of sounds...what's the word for it.....oh yeah....pathetic.

Apparently in the e-mail Becky assured Phil that she would try to meet with us the next time she was in Alaska. Guess how that turned out.

One can hardly blame RAM for cancelling.  She would have been in a room filled with the smartest people in Alaska, and EVERY one of them knew he idol was a fucking idiot.  She would have had to defend Palin face to face, without having the ability to hide behind Twitter or Facebook.  Of course we would have been cordial but she would still have felt overwhelmed by the large personalities and intellects in the room.  No way she could hold her own with even one of us, much less all of us.

You know looking back it is too bad that the dinner never took place.  I think it would have proved informative to have met this shadowy figure in person.  Besides knowing my friends I bet there would be TONS of pictures of RAM for people to see.

Hey, maybe THAT is why she ran away with her tail between her knees.

Update:  Okay I am going to have to wade in here and say that I agree that we should not be picking on RAM simply because her face could curdle milk and sterilize chickens.  After all the poor woman does not appear to be wearing any makeup.

As I am sure most of us realize without the help of strategically applied makeup LOT'S of people might not be nearly as attractive as they appear WITH makeup.  Take this picture of Sarah Palin sans makeup for instance:

See my point?