Palin blames her refusal to let staff know where she is during the day on, among others, me! WTF?

"It's all Gryphen's fault!"

This e-mail was sent on January 13, 2009, three days after Dennis and I interviewed Palin at the AT&T Sports Center.

From:Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) 
Sent:Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:49 AM 
To:Mason, Janice L (GOV)  
Cc:Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; McAllister, William D (GOV) ; Nizich, Michael A (GOV) ; Cockrell, Robert A (GOV) ; Hanson, Britta L (GOV) Subject:
Re: Palin on pre-filed bills 

Janice- after receiving another threatening email yesterday regarding shooting one of my kids, it was really confirmed for me that I have to keep a minimally filled in schedule on our daily schedule... I can’t afford to have a paper trail of my routine or activities because of security reasons. I will not jeapordize my family, my staff, or my own safety with these wackos out there, some who claim to know where and when I travel during the day. It scares me to have people know anymore where I am and/or where the family is. A blogger showed up at Willow’s youth basketball games this weekend and filmed for two hours - I asked him how he knew we’d be there and he didn’t have a clear answer.., it was one of the creepy incidents that, for security reasons, necessitates a calendar that does not show all my appointments/meetings/events throughout the days anymore. 

I know it makes your jobs that much more difficult and I thank you for understanding why we can’t have all activities reflected on the schedule. 

WTF? So apparently the Grizzled Mama is blaming her lack of organization, and refusal to maintain a schedule, on some anonymous kids sending prank e-mails and ME? (Those e-mailed threats are highly suspicious, and may not exist by the way. Let me know if any of you find one in the e-mail dump.)

That is ridiculous.

Once again let me reiterate that Dennis and I ACCIDENTALLY ran into her in Wasilla. 

And even if we had wanted to track her down, which we didn't, we could NOT have done so! Mostly because she NEVER told anybody what she was doing!

Joe McGinniss,  Geoffrey Dunn, and I have all interviewed Gary Wheeler, Palin's head of security. And what he told all of us is that Palin NEVER maintained a schedule, and that, unlike every other Governor he had worked for, she often went home halfway through the day without letting anybody in her office know. And that all happened well before she crossed paths with Dennis and I.

For her to blame the fact that people could not find her when they needed to speak to her on one harmless incident involving the two of us is absolutely one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard!

And just let me add that she absolutely knows that I did not present a threat to her in any way. I was as nonthreatening that day as I could possibly be, and even asked questions about how Trig was doing while explaining to her that I had experience working with special needs children.

I think we can say with very little equivocation that Sarah Palin is the absolute Queen of Paranoia.

Which I also think really goes a long way toward explaining why she stays in Wasilla instead of living someplace with better access to the media and opportunities to reinvent herself.

Simply put, this woman with a "steel spine" is too frightened to leave the safety of her cozy Wasilla womb, where she feels protected from the dark and scary world beyond.

From there she can lash out at President Obama and others from the safety of her home television studio, and then play the victim every time anybody dares to fight back. The vicious attack, and cowering retreat, is the tactic that she perfected growing up, and it is the one enabled by her family and few remaining friends in Wasilla.

Where else could she possibly go to find people who would let her get away with the kind of crap they let her get away with in her quiet little corner of the Mat-Su Valley?