And so I have. I think you will be very pleased with what he has to share with you.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me present Fred (Last name withheld to keep the flying monkeys at bay for the time being.).
I'd like to thank everyone who responded to Gryphen's post about titles. For everyone who is curious about the progress of the project, I can tell you this: the deadline for having the book to the publisher's legal department is July 1, and I'm hoping it will be available within 6 weeks after that. Yes, it will be available in hardback, paperback, and on all the various eBook services (such as Kindle.) The publisher has already hired a professional publicist and the legwork is being done for the media blitz.
Overall, reading your responses carefully, I see that "The Wild Ride" or some variation of it is the clear winner. Believe it or not, that had not been seriously considered before now, simply because I felt that the reference to the book "The Wind in the Willows" (and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride) was obscure and many people wouldn't get it. People who have followed Babygate for years are cognizant of the reference (I'm fairly sure this was originally one of Audrey of Palin Deception's themes), but this book's title has to be clear and catchy to the general public who have never heard of either Babygate or Mr. Toad. Still, at this point, it's clear that that phrase (or some variation of it) will need to get a much closer look. Rest assured, however, if "The Wild Ride" is not in the actual title, that phrase will be used prominently in the book and will probably be the title of a whole subsection.
The starting point of the book is the pregnancy (of course) but I am delving deeply into the media's handling of the controversy, particularly in the critical early days and weeks after she was tapped for the McCain ticket. A title that refers to the media is important. I agree wholeheartedly also that somehow Palin's name needs to be brought into it. The person who commented contrasting the titles "Blind Allegiance" with "The Lies of Sarah Palin" was spot-on.
Trig's name will not be in the title, nor will there be any reference to "daughter's shame" or anything of that nature. This is Sarah Palin's scam, her lie, her deception, in which she was aided and abetted by both an American media system that failed to do its job and a broken political machine. As much as humanly possible, her children will be left out of the story.
The title is very important and there is a lot to accomplish in ten words or less!
As much as we might all enjoy the inside jokes of some of the snarky titles, we can't go there. Still here are some of my very favorites that unfortunately will not be used (though for some of them you don't know how much I wish!):
"Thanks But No Thanks: The Fallopian Tube to Nowhere" (I truly love this.)
"The Lion, The Witch, and the Fake Pregnancy Wardrobe."
"Instatot: How To Have a Six Pound Baby in Six Easy Weeks"
"Spongetrig Squarepillow"
... and too many more to list.
Thanks again for the all the thoughtful replies.
Fred
 |
| This can't be flippin' happening! I'm trying to start a fake political campaign here! |
G,
ReplyDeleteXOXOXOX
Choosing to Deceive: How the Media enabled the biggest hoax in history.
ReplyDeleteMy reading selection this summer is first rate. A comfortable chair, a truthful book about Sarah, pleasant breezes, and iced tea. Heaven.
ReplyDeleteWhat's great about The Wild Ride are all its meanings, figuratively and literally. It's also what I've been on since the day Palin announced Bristol's pregnancy. I pray, Mr. Fred, your book will end The Wild Ride for me. Finally.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thank you, Fred!
ReplyDeleteI have to say, my absolute favorite funny "title" was, "Behind the Scarf'.
LOL!
Well, this is a nice surprise. Go Fred! I agree, no children in the title, they have been irreparably harmed as it is, which is the saddest part of the whole Palin charade.
ReplyDeleteThank, thank you for highlighting the media and their willingness to ignore the fraud. Wouldn't want a scandal as big as this to stop their money train, or bus as the case may be. You have picked an excellent ally in Gryph - his information (and his snark) has kept me sane. Woohoo!
Good Luck with this endeavor. We're behind you all the way!
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy And The Media's Deliberate Blindfold.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palins Biggest Hoax And The Media's Refusal To Be Real Journalist!
Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy And The Dance Of The Media For Ratings!
Media Dances For Ratings, While Sarah Palin Pulls Off The Biggest Hoax In America!
Is Prof. Brad Scharlott the author of this book?
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for the book!!
ReplyDeleteVery interested.
Hi Fred -
ReplyDeleteI missed the post asking for title suggestions. After reading your post I have to say its great you are considering this carefully but I think you are completely missing the boat. Here's why:
The most important thing about this topic is that it is the biggest election fraud ever perpetuated on the American public in US history. Period.
"Palin's Babygate - America's Greatest Political Hoax" or some version thereof is what needs to be said by talking heads on TV, by people talking to each other, and is what will sell books.
Please reconsider "Sarah Palin's Wild Ride" or similar. That title will get lost in the news cycle and disappear. I promise. It just sounds like another of her regular scandals and people have Palin fatigue already.
With this topic, you are not just dealing with scandal or a failed media. You are dealing with an epic moment in modern HISTORY. Just like 9/11 forever changed us, America and the world will never be quite the same once this level of public fraud is finally unmasked. Don't forget this.
Thanks and good luck.
Fred, we IM'ers don't know you, but in your very short guest post you've already impressed me with your writing.
ReplyDeleteI wish you luck and safety - and in the spirit of famous or known titles : [Don't] Drop Dead Fred.
I kinda like " Sarah Palin's Immaculate Deception" ~ and hope the "story" gets the massive attention if deserves.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fred, Gryph, and all the contributors along the way . . .
Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
:")
Welcome and thanks for the post. So in taking into consideration your point of view here are a few suggestions
ReplyDeleteThe Palin Agenda and the blind allegiance by the media.
The Palin myth:Ruthless ambition enabled by a complicit media.
How the media enabled Palin in fooling America.
Palin Lies and the medias code of silence
Fred..We love you!
ReplyDeleteThank you for highlighting the media's role in this whole fiasco. Sarah Palin's bizarre pregnancy hoax is a blinking neon arrow pointing to her unfitness for any office and the media had turned a blind eye to it for almost three years.
ReplyDeleteAuthor Fred,
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your book. Hoping it will contain hard evidence exposing the scam and bring the perpetraitors into the courts with justice for all.
I hope this book exonerates fair people who pursued, investigated the obvious nonsense culminating with the wild ride. I was stunned listening to the tape in which Palin gives details of the wild ride. I hope to hear her audio played repeatedly in the news. It would make Tiger Woods secret life pale in comparison.
ReplyDeletewe have all been waiting for tooo long. thank you so much fred and unca' g.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Fred. Choosing a title is a serious proposition and I urge you to give it a lot of thought, and perhaps a bit of "focus grouping," once you've narrowed it down. We want you to succeed, so you won't find a friendlier audience than here, however, you may want to check it with abstainers and uninformed folks as well. See if the title would draw them in. Anyway, you know the business better than we do, so I'm sure you'll do it right. Here's hoping that you truly have the goods to prove the hoax exists. We need to get this woman out of political discourse as soon as possible, especially with the election coming up. Thanks Gryph for your continuing advocacy of this cause.
ReplyDelete~physicsmom
I am so glad this book will explore the media's role in the fraud. Palin may eventually go away, but it could happen again if the media doesn't change it's ways.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to you, Fred. I look forward to 8/15.
Fred, you are my hero. Thank you for tackling something no one before Brad Scharlot (and Andrew Sullivan as a trignostic) in the media had the nerve to touch. Other than the blogs who did SOOOO much research, they deserve kudos for service beyond the call of duty.
ReplyDeleteTaking down the Tundra Turd is of prime importance, but so glad you are going to give the media the thrashing they so richly deserve as well.
"Fred," I echo Helen. I have been against "The WIld Ride" as a book title or meme for a long time. This hoax was a pre-mediated scheme; it is shocking in its audacity and mendacity. "The Wild Ride" sounds like a children's book or something to do at Disneyland. It's dismissable. It's one reason the case has not been cracked or taken seriously by international press. Helen's got it right.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Fred. The availability of this book unfortunately can't happen yesterday ... but late summer might be soon enough.
ReplyDelete-----------------
Shall we all participate in a game, guessing what shiny new one/two/three object(s) the Palins will cook up to try to distract from the publication of Fred'ds book?
They've done their darnedest to deflect the effect of Frank Bailey's book:
1) Bristol & Kyle
2) the Scottsdale dry-heat-mummification mauseoleum
3) the shrink-wrapped recycled reality-show RV
4) the tour/vacation, paid for by her adoring and gullible thousands
of fans
5) horning on a true remembrance of our military who've lost their lives with her false claims of being the mother of a "combat vet"
------------------
Her façade can't be more obvious to US. I hope all these books strip it away for the heretofore blissfully unaware.
Although I personally do not favor "The Wild Ride" in the title, I will just point out that it is more familiar to Americans than you might think, thanks to the "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" attraction at Disneyland and DisneyWorld.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Fred, and thank you, Gryphen.
I agree with Helen. This has to be presented as a serious fraud upon America, not some Palin -hating conspiracy theory. I have to comment that your book available date is a bit ambitious - it has to be printed and shipped to distributors. Best wishes to you and I hope it's a success. Personally, I would love it if the tile included "Rogue," like "Heart of a Rogue" or something along that line to mock her book titles a bit.
ReplyDeletemark me on the side of against "The Wide Ride". I personally prefer "The Reckless Ride" because, if her account is indeed true, she did everything to try to ensure that the pregnancy would end in a tragedy. That "ride" indicates an extreme indifference to common sense.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your book. It can't be out soon enough. And what a good idea to hide your identity for now and protect yourself against the backlash from the Palins Floyd.
ReplyDeleteNot a serious title suggestion, but I would love for this book to be known as "Audrey's Revenge" to those of us who've been following this since the beginning.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I love the caption under the photo.
ReplyDeleteMy contribution to naming book, better late than never:
ReplyDeleteThe Palin Family Code of Omerta: A Political Morally Corrupt Hoax
The Fall of Political Journalism:
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin’s Phantom Pregnancy
Media Malfunction:
The truth about Sarah Palin
Palin Phantom Pregnancy:
Media manipulation in politics
BABY SCAM
ReplyDeletePalin's Magical Mystery Pregnancy
I have died and gone to HEAVEN! Gryph? Fred? Others involved? I can NEVER repay you. HEART!
ReplyDeleteWhy would one consider referencing the other kids for a babygate book? Trig has nothing to do with any of them.
ReplyDeleteBiggest hoax in history? IN HISTORY?????????
ReplyDeleteYeah ok guys. You keep thinking that.
Methinks "Fred" is one Jesse Griffin.
ReplyDeleteWho's with me?
Welcome Fred, very intriguing post! Personally, I don't care what the title will be, as long as the contents signal the end of Sarah Palin's very dangerous influence in the political arena.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with your book.
I agree with Helen @ 6:28 - the Sarah Palin pregnancy hoax WAS election fraud on the American public. To me, that is the reason why it matters! If Sarah Palin were just the town freak who faked a pregnancy I would leave her alone. She is not just the town freak. She used and continues to use her fake pregnancy to attempt to become Vice-President and/or President of this country!
ReplyDeleteCan it be?
ReplyDeleteCan it TRULY be?
Fred, my darling PATRIOT Fred...we have been hoping for something like this for years. So many times there has been something seemingly "major" which we have felt would certainly blow the lid off babygate- the "nail in the coffin" photo, Bristol testifying in Tennessee that photos of "her baby" were leaked- months before the birth Tripp-her only acknowledged child, Sarah saying in her book that Trig was born in Palmer but in recorded speech saying he was born in Anchorage, Sarah stating in her book that Trig was born at 35 weeks then saying in a video recorded speech in October 2010 that he was born at "seven and a half" months...and on and on ad nauseam. SO many times, we've had a feeling of absolute certainty, we KNEW this was IT- NOW people will finally see, KNOW the truth.
And then our hopes have been dashed. Again and again.
If you follow through with this, if you put the real truth between the covers of your book...you will rise to the ranks of true American patriot.
I can't thank you enough. You are well on your way to becoming the personal hero of many, many people here.
I always liked the title "From Here to Maternity"
ReplyDeleteMoreover, it is important to highlight/recount how "media manipulation" was an essential strategy of the McCain campaign to mask the ignorance of the newly tapped VP candidate.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do hope that you'll also investigate the vastly different images of the two (maybe three) infants that have been publicly presented as Trig V.P.Palin . . . particularly, the alleged newborn photo and the "official announcement" photo.
Muchas Gracias!
G, it's obvious to me that *someone* is trying to ride your coat tails by co-opting this story. He's acting like he's "in the know" when in truth the only thing he is "in the know" about is his constant attempts to make people think he does something besides grift off blog readers and pretend he is the king of all Palin dirt.
ReplyDeleteAnd since I know he reads here, I'll go ahead and say:
Despite your roving band of sycophants, everyone can see through you.
Mediagate: Sarah palin's Fallopian Tube to Nowhere and the Media Scandal that followed
ReplyDeleteThat's 12 words. But that is a title that'll get you on the daily show...
Yes, the Wild Ride sounds too much like a Disney ride, which it is. But perhaps it could work as: Palin's Hoax: Taking the Gullible American Media for a Wild Ride
ReplyDeleteI agree with some here; the title should say, "The Biggest Hoax of the Political World: SP Fake Birth Story" or make the statement that SP created a hoax of mammot proportions.
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn't have a clever title, because it will be seen as too cynical and not a serious effort.
Why would a babygate author even consider referencing the other Palin kids? This has nothing to do with them, other than the book is about their dear, beloved brother who will ALWAYS be a part of their family.
ReplyDeleteIt's very nice that Fred doesn't want to involve Bristol in his narrative. However, there is the question of Sarah's incentive to go to such extremes as to fake a pregnancy. I wonder if she would fake a pregnancy to adopt any DS child, like the conservative radio hostess did earlier. Even adopting would be a good message for the religious right and the right to life crowd.
ReplyDeleteThere have been other mothers who have covered up the pregnancy of their unwed teen aged daughter, claiming the child as her own. The singer, Bobby Darin, didn't find out that his mother was really his grandmother until he was an adult. He also learned that his older sister was really his mother. It is not an unusual story, and it speaks about motive.
Levi hinted that when he and Bristol were expecting a child, Sarah kept nagging him that she wanted to adopt the child and raise him as her own. She was persistent, asking Levi over and over.
It is my guess that as soon as John McCain was chosen as the GOP nominee, Sarah saw her VP chances rise, and while the premature DS child was recovering in the hospital, she just announced her pregnancy, (meaning that she was taking Trig), whether Bristol and Levi liked it or not. (Levi's statement makes no sense in terms of Tripp. What mother with a DS baby and her eye on the White House would take on another baby? Especially under intense media scrutiny? No, Levi meant Trig).
One part of the media coverage has to also include the way that Daily Kos tried to report this story when Sarah was first chosen to run as VP with McCain. They were forced to take down the post, and it only exists where people were able to save it.
There was also a well orchestrated effort to erase photographs of Palin taken in 2008 that would correspond to a time when she was supposed to be pregnant. Palin was a much photographed governor, with her picture in the Anchorage Daily News on a daily basis, yet their photo archives were wiped as clean as the Johnston Family computers. I smell coverup. In addition to the media not wanting to cover the story, I think that some of the media were badgered and threatened not to cover the story. Audrey and her dedicated readers found alternate websites where the photos had not been scrubbed, which accounts for photos of Sarah well into her "pregnancy" with a perfectly flat abdomen. They also rescued MySpace comments from the Wasilla teens, including Bristol.
There have been other cases of the media being intimidated. For example, there was going to be a truthful depiction of sainted Ronald Reagan which was not allowed to be aired on TV, due to organized efforts by those who cherish his memory.
There are many interesting aspects to Palin's Pregnancy, including comments from Gryphen's readers claiming that Sarah had a tubal ligation and required weeks of recovery (and escaped the car pool). Sarah must have some kind of power to keep Alaska and the media silent. It will be an interesting story. Wishing Fred the best of luck!
I hope that Audrey and Palin's Deceptions will rate a mention in the acknowledgments. If it wasn't for Audrey, this story would have died a long time ago.
"Fred", if there is room in your book for one more thing, please mention that she has done nothing, nothing at all, for Special Needs kids or Groups AND she charges them for her speeches.
ReplyDeleteIf Trig really were hers, I think she might act differently.
I like the suggestion at 6:31pm referring to the Palin myth. Leaves out the somewhat silly "wild ride" and incorporates the complicity of the media in this foul caper.
ReplyDeleteJust a suggestion, Fred, but I wonder if you might not want to investigate what was going on in Alaska in the weeks leading up to the 2008 GOP convention. I saw a picture on another site today of Bristol at the convention, and the way she looked like she might be wearing the "empathy belly"
I know the GOP wants us to believe $arah was unvetted, but I don't buy it. Someone did some work to get these people ready, hers was to be a big rollout, and fire up the voters. They did not just hop on a plane and go to the convention. What if $arah never had the empathy belly during her "pregnancy", but put it on for the Gusty photo after it was purchased for Bristol to wear to the convention? Just a thought.
To Paige and all commenters everywhere, before you spout off stuff, get the facts correct. Bristol didn't actually say "her baby". That was a media error. Read the transcript.
ReplyDeleteI have been very reticent to butter up the popcorn or pop the cork (too many disappointments since 2008), but I am encouraged by this.
ReplyDeleteChoosing to Deceive: How the Media enabled the biggest hoax in history.
ReplyDeletegood one
choosing to Deceive: How the Media refused to investigate Palin's pregnancy hoax.
Subtitle suggestion: How a Pregnancy Hoax (almost) Fooled a Nation
ReplyDeleteAs for the title: Sarah Palin's Immaculate Deception and Phony 'Motherhood' Tour
Election fraud??? Really? Dude, no one votes or doesnt vote for someone based on one of their kids. Dont be delusional.
ReplyDeleteReally Anonymous 7:05? I had hoped for more imagination than that.
ReplyDeleteNo Fred is not me. Nor is he Professor Scharlott, who I imagine would probably go ahead and put his name out there if it were.
Fred is an actual published author, who is taking this project on because he is as frustrated by the lack of professionalism from the MSM as the rest of us.
He has a publisher, plenty of research associates, and a plan for publicizing this book so that it CAN'T be ignored by the media.
IIRC, Shannyn Moore was the first to use the term "Wild Ride" to describe Palin's description of TriG's birth.
ReplyDeleteGryph & Fred,
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us up to speed. Fred will certainly be BUSY for the next month.
Helen:
Surprised you missed Gryph's request for book titles; the post is still on IM's front page & has over 450 responses!
The "Wild Ride" is just one aspect of Palin's lies & manipulations, so I don't think that it should be the title of the book (included in the sub-title is fine).
Gonna plug my earlier suggestion:
Enduring Truth
A slap directly in Palin's face (based on her new SarahPac video that Gryph posted yesterday) & more likely to picked up by mainstream media who won't touch "babygate" with a 10-foot pole. A book title with any pre-judgmental words would surely be squashed by MSM editors before it makes it out the gate.
All her lies will now be her ENDURING TRUTH that she will have to live with for her remaining days.
Possible Title: Choosing to Deceive: How Sarah Palin's Pregnancy Hoax (almost) Fooled a Nation
ReplyDeleteI wondered if the book would take an Andrew Sullivan/McGinniss Trignostic approach or report that a hoax did, indeed, occur. I believe I've got my answer. I'm stunned, excited, nervous, thrilled!
ReplyDeleteSarah's 'wild ride' is so much more than the AK-Dallas-AK trip, encompassing her VP candidacy and everything that has followed. She's THE anti-choice hero, recounting the tale of her 'pregnancy' to paying crowds, calling for an end to women's reproductive freedom. The media is mostly responsible for failing to hold her accountable but I also fault the religious leaders, political operatives, Right to Life groups, and more.
How about something like:
'Because I say so': Sarah Palin's standard of truth
or
Hands Off: The media's approach to vetting Sarah Palin
Many, many thanks Fred and G!
"The Wild Ride" could be a children's book about the Toad and the Badger, or a biker gang's adventures.
ReplyDeleteSarah has spent so much time making working on her "brand" and name recognition that Fred should take advantage of her pre-publicity work. Sarah Palin's name means ratings and book sales, and I like Helen's suggestion, "Sarah Palin's Wild Ride."
There can be a subtitle about how a fake pregnancy launched a political candidate, but it's important to cash in on all of the hard work Sarah did getting people to pay attention to her....for better or for worse.
I also like Sarah Palin's Babygate, a great American political hoax. (Sorry, Helen, I don't know if it's the greatest political hoax, but it must rank up there with the top 3 or 5. In fact, there's a snappy title for another book, Greatest American Political Hoaxes. William Randolph Hearst, "You give me the photographs and I'll give you the war." We never knew that presidents like FDR or JKF had affairs. Yes, there's another book there.)
Hello Fred! It's impossible to overstate how important your project is, or how grateful we all are that someone is taking the time to write and publish an examination of this outrageous moment in our nation's history - as others have pointed out.
ReplyDeleteI must also agree with others that while I enjoy talking about Sarah's Wild Ride, I do not think it a good phrase for the title of your book. It honestly doesn't have enough gravitas from simply a superficial impression standpoint, and the Wind in the Willows reference may honestly not resonate with many. It's a bit too breezy, too whimsical, given the seriousness of the topic.
One person said something like Inconceivable:...then some words about the press's total abdication of its responsibility in thoroughly vetting Ms. Palin once she was announced. (Obviously if the photo of Andrea Gusty and Palin w/pregnancy prosthesis is right beneath, you will have made your point and the pun would work quite well.) Perhaps you wouldn't include Gusty, but if you did it would drive home the point of a complicit or negligent media.
I understand when people say this is beyond the press issue, but then again if they had done their job - as the Fourth Estate of our democracy - we would not have a crazy woman attempting to run for the highest office in the land, once again. To me the media aspect it absolutely critical. We so desperately need a press that understands its true purpose. With FOX and other MSM, we have lost our way completely in this regard.
Thanks again, and thanks for taking a moment to speak with us. It sounds like this may be a legit deal and one that could finally get the whole topic the attention it deserves. Thrilling to think this might be something the MSM would actually have to cover! (I am sure there are many in that business who know darn well about all of this, but they are all too chicken-@#&! to do anything about it.)
@Anonymous 7:04
ReplyDeleteYes I stand by my statement, it is definitely The Biggest Election Hoax in modern history, although Bush's coup in 2000 could be argued to trump it. However, I think it could be argued to be The Biggest Political Hoax EVER. IN HISTORY. (caps for emphasis, as you seemed to wonder if I was serious previously). That is because it was a constant and ongoing lie that encompassed every single thing this candidate said or did, for months. The actual physical presence of the candidate and her son was a lie wherever she went. Also because the GOP party enabled this hoax on many levels. Because it was a historic election with the first conservative woman running for high office. I could go on but I won't at this time.
In fact, I challenge you to find a bigger political hoax in history. If you are a history buff as I am, you will take that as a pleasant challenge and come up with some interesting events. In fact, the biggest political hoaxes in all of history could make an interesting book unto itself. Palin's Babygate would definitely have a place in that book.
Media Fail: How Sarah Palin got away with it.
ReplyDeleteSimple. True.
I also like that Choosing to Deceive title upthread. Certainly the lying aspect needs to be highlighted!
ReplyDeleteWonderful you are clear about leaving the kids out of it. It would be so easy for her to say it was an attack on her family.
This is about her, her aspirations, and her behavior. Nothing else. She's all alone on this one.
Media Madonna : The untouchable story
ReplyDeletemommom
Wait!!
ReplyDeleteMedia Madonna:The greatest story never told
mommom
I take it you have definitive proof the insufferable bitch wasn't pregnant with trig.
ReplyDeleteI hope you touch on the quack doctor cbj.
This is going to be good.
GoL
Wow! I wasn't sure there was anything more to find out about that bitch! This is unreal!!
ReplyDeleteIf it's not too late I nominate NATAL VISION.
ReplyDeleteSo glad someone is finally coming forward. Long overdue. This better be the bombshell. "Too toxic for the Media: Sarah Palin's Pregnancy Hoax".Why hasn't the mental health groups stepped forward to tell what a fraud and narcissistic she is and how close she came to ruining our country. The religious right have used her to get their foot in that crack in the door she is clawing her way through. This was a set-up from the word go. She loves the money they are showering upon her and she jumps every time they beckon. Find out who "they" are and the puzzle is solved.
ReplyDeleteMrs G
The Wild Ride
ReplyDeleteHow Sarah Palin Fooled John McCain, the Lame Stream Media, and the American Public.
Sarah Palin's Wild Ride
How She Took The Lame Stream Media For A Ride, And America Went Along.
Keep it simple, The Wild Ride and Sarah Palin will become synonymous. Plus it's a short title, so it makes a great movie title, too (Oh yeah, if you've really got the goods on this con job, there will be a movie). The fact that this title has grown within the blogosphere tells you that it has legs, run with it.
Good luck Fred and Gryphen. Please adhere to one rule: be honest.
"Election fraud??? Really? Dude, no one votes or doesnt vote for someone based on one of their kids. Dont be delusional."
ReplyDelete@7:24, really, dude? You think that Republicans don't vote for candidates that "walk the talk" and "choose life"? Please. Trig is Sarah Palin's living Street Cred with the culture warriors of the Republican party. But you knew that, didn't you?
I appreciate how challenging it is to choose a title for this book, because it must get serious attention.
ReplyDeleteI don't like "The Wild Ride" for a few reasons, but right now I think it's bad timing; two "serious" journalists have just used that phrase to "debunk" the baby-hoax "rumor".
I think that the unbelieving public is sick of this phrase and now that it has been referred to snarkily by those journalists, it will turn off the people who need to read it.
Good luck and thank you.
It would be hard to write a book about the wild ride without mentioning one of Sarah's children, Bristol. Perhaps you have uncovered information that proves she is not Trig's mother. At this point in time his mother's origins are up in the air. The only thing that is clear is that SP is not his mother despite what Frank Bailey says in his book. He claims to have seen the evidence despite having had no clue she was pregnant until she told him she was at seven months. He also makes it very clear that he was and still is under her influence and her suggestions about what he should see as the truth certainly controlled his actions. This was and is true of many people. BTW, I don't think people have to know who Mr. Toad is to get what Sarah's Wild Ride is all about. I was so happy to find out about your book and I am dying to find out who you are. This subject is interesting from a psychological standpoint due to the news media relinquishing their responsibility to the truth. It is amazing that so many who even though they see the pictures of a woman who is clearly not pregnant believed she was because people said so. This story demonstrates how easily Americans can be manipulated by propaganda.
ReplyDeleteHelen, and when you think about the "what if" that could have resulted. What if this woman had become VP to McCain's President? I can't even contemplate it, it makes me shudder with fear. Such an incompetent, such an unstable individual - one heartbeat from leader of the free world....
ReplyDeleteThe fact of the matter is, if the media or some whistleblower had simply held her story up to the light during those few months, in the larger American public arena, I doubt she would have made it to election day. It's astounding.
Think of how many male politician's careers have been destroyed for far less. This woman thought nothing of perpetuating her lie. She must, somewhere deep down beyond all her pathology, have known it was WRONG. You can't be a liar to that degree, and have the privilege of running for the American presidency, in our era at least. Someone will find out, someone will uncover it, and someone will let the public know. Because it's the right thing to do.
(I know, I realize some things never do come to light.)
I am sure the GOP knew full well about the rumors, and perhaps the facts, and yet they assisted her in her cover up. I hope that is an integral part of the Babygate book, as well.
Gryphen, This is wonderful news and hearing from Fred makes the possibility of her deception to finally hit the MSM and keep her away from the White House. Please keep this post very visible and updates on the status of the book would be appreciated as so many have waited so long for this day. Thank you Fred! and Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Babygate back on the front burner, with new blogger interest and books being written? It's in the state emails isn't it? Hence the opportunity to eviscerate the media - the truth will be out there. And the talking heads will spend the summer saying "I had no idea". Haha. Thanks again for a great end to my day, Gryph and Fred!
ReplyDeleteFred you are a REAL PATRIOT! I will be buying your book.
ReplyDelete7:05 thinks Fred is "one" Jesse Griffin.
ReplyDeleteI think 7:05 is "one" Sarah Palin.
WHO's WITH ME???
To everyone who has mentioned it...I REALLY think "Immaculate Deception" is just perfect.
ReplyDeleteIt covers so many things, not least of which is the stunningly small chance Palin had of becoming pregnant at her age.
I don't know how to express this, succinctly, in a title, but I feel that the reason that Sarah Palin has - thus far - got away with her hoax is that sane people cannot conceive (he he) of a faked pregnancy. HOW could a sitting Governor FAKE a pregnancy?! No way! It just wouldn't happen. It would be found out.
ReplyDeleteNO. In reality, we have photos of a flat-stomached Sarah Palin juxtaposed with photos of her with a ballooned out stomach. 5 days passed in between the photos being taken.
So - bizarro world. Obviously fake pregnancy meets oblivious world that won't wake up until MSM presents the info on Dateline NBC or similar. It will equal BIG ratings, MSM. I assume you know this and are just biding your time. You naughty monkeys!
If you're still looking for titles, how about "He's my baby and I'll lie if I want to"
ReplyDeleteJessi
Political Breach: A Deception Born
ReplyDeleteGP
The Curious Gestation of Sarah Palin or How the GOP Conned America
ReplyDeletePhil mentions "IIRC, Shannyn Moore was the first to use the term "Wild Ride" to describe Palin's description of TriG's birth" which is reason enough to select a different title altogether.
ReplyDeleteJMO
After reading the post, I'm getting the distinct feeling Trig is Todd's child (love or otherwise)with another woman, and Sarah faked the pregnancy to protect her political career and made hay by it.
ReplyDeleteHOODWINKED: How Sarah Palin manipulates the media for personal gain.
ReplyDeletePOWER GRAB: How John McCain and Sarah Palin almost got away with it.
THE PREPOSTEROUS PREGNANCY: What would you be willing to do for a quick $10 million? (Sarah Palin fools media with faked pregnancy.)
FREE PASS: Media blackout continues to pay off for Sarah.
FAKED PREGNANCY BILKS MILLIONS WHILE MEDIA LOOKS THE OTHER WAY
Sarah Palin could not have pulled this off without John McCain's staffers scrubbing personal computers and pulling down web pages that had truthful information posted and stored. He is just as complicit in this scam as Sarah in manipulating the press.
-OzMud
Amber 7:24 please...don't be so ignorant.
ReplyDeleteWell, this is certainly welcome news! I like a combination of a few things I've seen here (so they are not original):
ReplyDeletePalin's Deception: How Sarah's election pregnancy hoax (almost) fooled a nation
Or
Inconceivable: How Sarah Palin's election pregnancy hoax (almost) fooled a nation
Or
Inconceivable: How the media enabled Palin's pregnancy hoax
What a horribly ugly woman in that photo..evil looking!
ReplyDeleteThe Empty Womb- Sarah Palin's Hoax and the Media's Complicity
ReplyDeleteRemember, Trig could Track's, or Todd's, or who knows which relative's. Bristol is still a possibility, but there are many others.
ReplyDeleteI just know Trig is a biological member of that family.
I just hope you delve into the fact that a relatively small regional hospital, an hour's drive from a large urban hospital staffed and equipped to receive high risk deliveries, somehow, apparently, admitted an over 40 mother in premature labor with a predetermined Down Syndrome baby, who just flew over 1000 miles on commercial carriers, in the dead of night, after having driven past a hospital in Anchorage with a NICU.
ReplyDeleteWe all know Sarah is crazy. But hospitals have predetermined protocol and medical standards in an instance such as this.
Either MatSu threw these to the winds, or Trig Palin was never born there at all. Which makes more sense to you?
MatSu needs to be questioned regarding the credentials of the staff on hand, and the decision making process, on April 18. I don't think Trig was born there, on that day, because I don't think MatSu would have allowed such a delivery to take place.
Some hard questions need be posed to MatSu regarding its medical protocol. ADN nor anyone else in the MSM has yet to hold their feet to the fire on this issue. It's a matter of public information, to my mind. Someone should put the squeeze to them and make them choose between Sarah Palin's political and personal reputation, and their own hospital's reputation.
MicMac
I am absolutely thrilled, Fred!
ReplyDeleteHow about:
The Mystique of Sarah Palin
Unveiled.
(What did the U.S. Media Create?)
One question still hasn't been answered... does this new book reveal without equivocation that Sarah Palin lied about giving birth to Trig and that she faked the pregnancy?
ReplyDeleteOr is it jut a rehash of all the existing speculation?
Because if it's the latter and not the former, I don't really see any point to this book. The same media outlets that have been ignoring the story and disallowing discussion of it in their comments sections will go right on ignoring it.
Griffin, can you tell us whether this book blows baby-gate wide open by revealing the truth about it for once and for all?
Or is it only something that, in the end, Sarah Palin will simply be able to embellish her victim cred with even further.
Yeah, I know, you can't say. And I guess I just can't get excited about it without knowing if there's any real point TO getting excited.
Well, here's one more vote for Helen's title. That nails it! I hope you'll choose it over The Wild Ride.
ReplyDeleteMy title idea is; Indifferent to Inspection: How a sitting Governor was able to fake a pregnancy and birth, in order to improve her credentials.
ReplyDelete- newmeciman
If babygate were mentioned in state emails, state employees would all know the truth. Most do not. Frank of all people still wholeheartedly believes Trig is Sarahs biological child.
ReplyDeleteUnvetted: Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy and a Stymied Press
ReplyDeleteUnvetted: Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy and the Silent Media
Epic Fail: How Journalism Collapsed as Sarah Palin Lied
ReplyDeleteI agree with the "no Wild Ride" crowd. That phrase belongs to the smallish group of people who have been following this from the beginning, but the book needs to attract a wider audience.
I still like one of these:
ReplyDeleteFalse Labor
The Unvetted
False Prophet
with subtitle as fits the focus of the book. All of these titles have multiple dimensions. False Prophet is a new suggestion and yet it might open the book for her religious base - she truly does not walk the walk she professes.
I am so glad this will be published.
Love the caption under Sarah's picture.
ReplyDeleteBrainstorming here. Thinking about how the Palins like to be in control & damn the truth.
Here's my brainstorming:
American media Dazzled & Obscured
Dazzled & Obscured.
Glittering Generalities and Selective Journalism
Glittering Generalities and a Failed Media
Glittering Generalities and Media Failure
Glittering Generalities and a Lost Media
Glittering Generalities and a Lost Passion for Truth
Glittering Generalities and the Lost Guardian of Truth
Glittering Generalities and a Sleeping Media
Glittering Generalities and a Bullied Media
Glittering Generalities and Its Media Side-Show
Looking forward to reading no matter what it's called. :)
anon at 7:14
ReplyDeletei know of whom you speak.
despicable person he is.
A faked pregnancy is a hoax.
ReplyDeleteBut it doesn't begin to compare to the Bush / Cheney song and dance to pretend Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and lead the US into war. Thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqis died, only because Bush wanted the war. The toll of US deaths in Iraq is greater than US deaths in the terrorist attacks, only because Bush wanted the war. And lied about why. Bastard.
didn't shannyn moore coin the term
ReplyDeleteWILD RIDE ???
Way to go Gryphen & Fred!! I will be buying the book. I hope your researchers have combed through all the audio interviews with Palin that are out there. I myself couldn't stand to do that job! Her voice just makes me cringe.
ReplyDeleteSomething feels too amateurish about this. A legitimate publisher does not put ideas for possible titles out to the public. I sure hope this isn't a big disappointment, after all the hype.
ReplyDeleteI vote for Helen's suggestion:
ReplyDelete"Palin's Babygate - America's Greatest Political Hoax"
$arah has so many 'gates'.
{sigh}
Yeah!! Good luck Mr Fred! It's about time!
ReplyDeleteThat scammer is off on a money collection tour right now. What is pathetic is her scams are supported by her family and her cult fans. They are being " boldly" lied to and Sarah is laughing all the way to the bank. But God called her so that must her justification.
Good luck, there are MANY people wanting this hoax to be brought to light. It's about time. Our media reports on her every move but fails to do it's job.
"Fred"-- please consider what Helen said @ 6:28-- she has hit on a point that hasn't been emphasized enough. A modern celebritician created a hoax that the media bought into, all to get elected. Perhaps if her heart was pure or just less tainted she'd be the chosen one, but she could compare herself to other biblical heroes who failed because they got too full of themselves. (This would be great way for her to step out.)
ReplyDeleteI'm naive to the political workings, I admit, but I wonder if Steve Schmidt or any of the other top McCain campaign staff will go on record about the fake pregnancy. PLEASE!
ReplyDelete"Sarah Palin and the American Media; The Perfect Deception"
ReplyDeleteAnon # 8:54, what a letdown when everybody finds out it's him who's writing the book.
ReplyDeleteOh Happy Day!
ReplyDeleteFred,
I am thrilled that you are taking on the media and exposing their failure to do their job. I am so looking forward to finally being vindicated about babygate. My friends and family will be quite surprised when I ship your book directly to their doorsteps.
Also, too, it would be awesome if your media tour included The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Gryphen, I much appreciate your dedication, perseverance and sense of humor! Thank You.
How about
ReplyDeleteSarah's Secret
Little Rabbit
Sarah Palin's Deception and the Media's Complicity
ReplyDelete#8:54 yes shannyn we know. But guess what? You don't own it. You really need to get over yourself. Sorry gryphen but its too much. You know shamnyn follows people on twitter to tell them that only Alaskans know about Sarah Palin? Now that Sarah lives on Arizona.
ReplyDeleteBut Fred would be wise to steer clear. SM thinks she owns words now.
Oh no the Palinbots are out in full force.
ReplyDeleteI think people are referring to this as a big political hoax and yes it is. It's huge and if you don't understand why now I doubt you ever will.
Fred is not Jessie. He told us several times it is a well respected, well known and published author.
As far as the kids, he said he is leaving them out as much as humanely possible. But how do YOU know that none of the kids have nothing to do with it?
As far as the other site trying to horn in or take credit, it's obvious what they are doing and they are starting to loss a lot of credibility because of it. This isn't a contest- it's far to serious for that. To the other site, CUT IT OUT. You aren't in the know or involved and you know that. Stop acting like Sarah and get past petty self-centered activity.
Go Jessie! Go Fred! Stand strong. There will be a lot of attacks and people trying to discredit you or take credit it threaten you. Stick to the facts and all will be fine.
In Plain View - Political Fraud and Media Nonfeasance
ReplyDeleteBig Lies, Baby Lies - Political Fraud and Media Complicity
Fundamentally Flawed - Palin's Political Deception and the Media's Complicity
The Baby Dance - Political Deception and Media Complicity
Shapeshifting - The Gestation of a Lie
In Plain View - The Gestation of a Political Lie
Palin's Baby Lie - The Big Deception
Risking the Big Lie - Palin's Deception
Pregnancy, Politics, and Media Taboos _Palin's Baby Hoax
Birth, Lies and Taboos
Birth, Lies and Political Props The Palin/Media Baby Hoax
Just thinking out loud....I am thrilled about the promise of this book. The truth about Sarah Palin must be revealed.
Immaculate Deception:
ReplyDeleteSt Sarah's just-in-time delivery
Immaculate Deception:
media and the hagiography of sarah palin
INCONCEIVABLE!
How the Media Madonna fooled a nation
COMPLICITY
Palin and the Corruption of the Media
SARAH'S BLUFF
and how journalism covered her crimes
It will interesting to see who in the media will touch this geoffrey Dunn did not get interviews
ReplyDeleteGullible America: How Sarah Palin Lied to the Nation While the Media Looked Away
ReplyDeleteI got here from Democratic Underground, where the general consensus is that this bullshit is about as stupid as the Obama Birther crap. And I totally agree. Thanks for making us sane progressives look stupid by association. You Bizarro Birthers will only serve to help Palin.
ReplyDeleteWell said Helen (6:28)!! I totally agree.
ReplyDeleteAnother title idea:"Inconceivable Deception"
ReplyDeleteHow about "Media Fail: Sarah Palin's Greatest Deception"
ReplyDeleteOr, "Media Fail: Sarah Palin's Wild Deception"
Or "Media Fail: How Sarah Palin and the GOP Deceived the Electorate"
Or "Sarah Palin Deceived the Nation"
Or, "Media Fail: The Babygate Affair"
Question: Is the author's first name really Fred or is that a nom de plume for the blog?
Plain and simple - "Babygate".
ReplyDelete"Have Gun - Will Travel"
"The adventures of "Paladin", a gentleman gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence; yet when forced to fight, excelled.
Paladin lived in the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, where he dressed in formal attire, ate gourmet food, and attended the opera. In fact, many who met him initially mistook him for a dandy from the East.
The knight symbol refers to his occupation as a champion-for-hire.
Paladin's routine switch from the expensive light-colored suit of his genteel urbane persona in San Francisco to his alter ego who wears all-black attire for quests into the lawless and barren Western frontier is also a chess reference.
He had a thorough knowledge of ancient history and classical literature, and he exhibited a strong passion for legal principles and the rule of law. Paladin was also a world traveler. His exploits had included an 1857 visit to India, where he had won the respect of the natives as a hunter of man-eating tigers.
To pay off a gambling IOU, he had been forced to hunt down and kill a mysterious gunman called Smoke.
Smoke had given the Paladin character his nickname, facetiously calling him "a noble paladin." The question had turned out to be doubly ironic, as Smoke had revealed in his death scene that he had not been a criminal gunfighter, but instead had protected the nearby town from the man who had sent Paladin.
Paladin charged steep fees for his services — typically a thousand dollars a job. His primary weapon was a custom-made .45 caliber Colt Single Action Army revolver.
Paladin's intuitive sense of chesslike strategy—often anticipating moves ahead of his adversary, and backing it up with formidable skills in all areas of personal combat—plus his epicurean tastes and implied lust for women (when relaxing in San Francisco) made him very much a "James Bond" of the old West. Ever a man of refinement, Paladin even carried a few expensive cigars in his boot when out on adventure.
Paladin's great advantage over adversaries was not his impressive equipment, or his ability as a marksman, superior as this was; Paladin's edge was his rich education. He had an infallible ability to relate ancient antecedents to his current situations. When the enemy was surrounding him, Paladin could usually make some insightful quip about General Marcellus and the siege of Syracuse or something similar, and then use this insight to his advantage. Burying a rancher killed by Indians, he recited John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" above the grave. In other episodes he quoted lengthy Shakespearean passages from memory."
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BooneAsPaladin.jpg
Is it Rapture yet?
ReplyDeleteHaven't read all the posts yet- but here goes...
ReplyDeleteFred,
Thanks in advance. I want to say to you that I agree with the post by Helen (6:28 P.M.)
I spent years in top Ad Agencies in Chicago, another lifetime, and we all knew that the best way to get attention and interest was to include the word "YOU" whenever possible. OR, to imply the word 'YOU.'
I am agreeing with Helen, and adding that if there is some way to directly address the American people -if not a title, a subtitle of some sort - something like YOU'VE BEEN PUNKED - BY PALIN'S FAKED PREGNANCY or
"PUNKED BY PALIN - How many Americans believed in Sarah's fake pregnancy?"
Cover art - the title could be superimposed over a large soft photo (smoke and mirrors effect) of the empathy belly. Or the Elan shot of Sarah slapping the square pillow belly with that sly look in her eyes.
Thanks. I'm having fun imagining all the possibilities.
@ 9:22 re Shannyn Moore -
ReplyDeleteMoore isn't claiming she owns the term "Wild Ride." Earlier in this comment thread I wrote that the way I remember it, she used the term first, either on radio or in a blog entry.
When it comes to subjects like the one introduced here with Jesse's introduction of this person supposedly writing a book about Palin, who isn't willing to let us know who she or he really is, frankly (no pun intended) this is getting to be one dysfunctional commenting community.
Glad it's Jesse's and not mine.
I just hope that there is solid first hand accounts of Palin not being pregnant. I'm talking no "lightened photos" no"blurry photos" but actually human first hand interviewed accounts of this pregnancy being a hoax. If it is same old same old photos and no other new evidence there is no reason to publish a story. If this will not be an actual "nail in the coffin" it is not worth the time for anyone to peruse. There is nothing less that a credible person going on record to put this to bed. Everything else has already been tried to no avail. Good luck Fred, I for one hope you have the good to convince the "believers" that she is a fraud.
ReplyDeletecuriouser's comment at 7:27 about "because I say so" prompted me to remember that shockingly arrogant and sneering retort Sarah Palin made to Nick Carney: "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't." -- and she's been doing it ever since.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor
If that comment is not part of at least one of these About/Not-By/Palin books this year, it should be.
--------------
I would suggest that references to anything "Immaculate" or anything referring to "Madonna" be avoided, because those references imply the purity of Mary, Christ's mother.
Sarah Palin is the antithesis of Mary.
Palin's Pregnancy Hoax:
ReplyDeleteHow Media Covered up her Shameful Fraud
Gullible America: How Sarah Palin Lied to the Nation While the Media Looked Away
ReplyDelete9:54 PM
Well said! Better than anything I suggested. That's what I was getting at. The phrase "Gullible America" says 'YOU.' Perfect!.
Enjoying all of the suggestions but really like the following five:
ReplyDeleteHelen said…
Palin's Babygate - America's Greatest Political Hoax
Ripley said...
Media Fail: How Sarah Palin got away with it.
lbts said... (slight variation)
Sarah Palin's Wild Ride: How She Took America For A Ride, And The Lame Stream Media Went Along.
Inconceivable: How the media enabled Palin's pregnancy hoax
Unvetted: Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy and the Silent Media
Other variations of previous suggestions:
Palin's Reckless Ride: Pro-Life Politics and How the Media enabled America's Greatest Political Hoax
The Media's Palin Deception: How a Pregnancy Hoax (almost) Fooled a Nation
Palin’s Propaganda Pregnancy
@ Pickering
ReplyDeleteYou might try to pass yourself off as more "sane" but we are definitely more fun.
Sorry but lulz beats your attitude fail.
In honour of Audrey I'd like to include the word 'deception':
ReplyDeleteConception Deception: How the Media enabled Sarah Palin's big lie.
"A Leak Too Far -- The Media and the Palin Pregnancy Hoax"
ReplyDelete"Leak," of course, referring to the supposed leak of amniotic fluid that transformed a planned trip from Dallas to Anchorage into the "wild ride," incredible to anyone with common sense and a knowledge of the basics of labor and delivery.
I haven't been this sure of another colossal miscalculation by Gryphen since he assured his fans that The Palins were absolutely, positively looking at an imminent divorce.
ReplyDeleteOr was it when he vowed Levi Johnson had the key to the closet where Palin kept the skeletons that would
putPalin (politically) away.
For those keeping score at home: Geoffrey Dunne's book never cracked Amazon's "Top 100" and this latest shill--the guy with the devastating e-mails: in less than a week his book slid from #45 to #75.
"Choosing to Deceive...", huh?
Yeah, that sounds like it's going to cause a stampede at Barnes and Noble.
Let's see, if this guy is right than "Choosing to Deceive" will leapfrog The Cottingley Fairies hoax of 1917, the Alien Autopsy hoax of 1995, The Piltdown Man hoax of 1912, the Feejee mermaid hoax of 1842, The Priory of Scion Hoax of 1956, The Turk Hoax of 1717, The Loch Ness Monster Photo Hoax of 1934, The War of Worlds Hoax of 1938, The Cardiff Giant Hoax of 1869, and the Supper at Emmhaus Hoax of 1937.
Yep! This could be unprecedented--the over-the-top title, that is.
So, let me get this straight: a guy finally has the goods
ReplyDeleteon Palin and all you're giving is his first name, "Fred".
Well, that's an interesting strategy for creating instant credibility.
Thank you Fred, and thank you Gryphen! After three years of studying this for hours per day, I'm rejoicing in hopeful and appreciative relief.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the "Wild Ride" verbiage is far too frivolous for a book of this historical gravity. And the mere fact that Shannon Moore coined the phrase should automatically preclude its use in the title; she and Mudflats' Devon have inexplicably refused to allow discussion of the obvious.
Trying to 'back into' a good title, please consider a few of my thoughts: Without a doubt, the title needs to have the name "Sarah Palin" in it. "Babygate" will be understood by all, hence Helen's idea (@6:28) is excellent, as I purloined below. The word "pregnancy" will probably give males the willies, as we've surely seen, so I would nix that. The word "fake" is too colloquial.
I'm partial to title eyeball- grabbers with gravitas (and Amazon-friendly), as in "Blind Allegiance" (Bailey), "The Lies of Sarah Palin" (Dunn) or "The Rogue" (McGinniss). How about some combination of this:
"BABYGATE - SARAH PALIN'S DELIBERATE DECEPTION"
Subtitle:
"America's Greatest Political Hoax and Media Failure"
Author Fred, I hope the cadence of your book starts out slooowly...for the eyes of non-believers or incredulous first-time readers of this tale. You have to admit, the concept of a sitting governor (and the GOP machine behind her) actually thinking that they could pull off a hoax of this magnitude on the American political system is patently absurd and vastly dangerous. And of course, as you bring more and more into play, the conclusion is a given.
I agree with those who plead with you to delve into the complicity of the McCain campaign, re the scrubbing of all pertinent photos. This was a huge coverup of Watergate proportions. Thank you for what you're doing, and hopefully you can shine the light on Prof. Scharlott's "spiral of silence". As our media utterly fails us (with monied backing!), we creep ever closer to 1939 Germany.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Fred," I echo Helen. I have been against "The WIld Ride" as a book title or meme for a long time. This hoax was a pre-mediated scheme; it is shocking in its audacity and mendacity. "The Wild Ride" sounds like a children's book or something to do at Disneyland. It's dismissable. It's one reason the case has not been cracked or taken seriously by international press. Helen's got it right.
6:51 PM
Fred, First of all, I'm glad you wrote here on IM. I'm sure looking forward to reading your book.
Secondly, I am one that agrees with this post and Helen's as well. Please, I beg of you do not put the words, "Wild Ride" in the title. Many thanks and blessings.
Media Miscarriage : Sarah Palin's Election Hoax
ReplyDeleteor
Media Miscarriage : Sarah Palin's Successful Election Hoax
-When The Governor Wasn't Pregnant.
ReplyDelete-The Media That Delivered Palin's Pregnancy Hoax.
-Palin's Babygate: An Unprecedented Political Hoax.
-Nursing Palin's pregnancy lie.
I see the inclusion of the media on the title, or premise, as a deflection from Palin's deception. The media role is secondary and will be self evident when Babygate can be effectively exposed to a larger audience. Plus, if the media is at fault, what about the Christian Right, the prolifers and her accomplices?
-Palin's Babygate Trilogy: The Lie, The Right and The Media.
-NOT PREGNANT!The Alaskan Governor and a Silent Media.
To Anonymous @9:09 -
ReplyDeleteIf you think the idea of putting this book's title up for suggestions is 'amateurish', I'd like to kindly refer you to Joe McGinniss's blog, "The Rogue".
In the past week or two, the world-renowned, best-selling author Joe McGinniss ("Fatal Vision", "The Selling of a President", among many others) asked his readers for suggestions as to the possible content of his final chapter, which is due to the publisher in early June. He values his readers' opinions, and we appreciate him all the more for that. This is no different.
Hi Sarah,
ReplyDeleteYou are nothing but a pathetic, mentally unbalanced fraud, liar, hypocrite and coward.
You'll go down as the biggest hoax in American political history.
Nice legacy for your family, you selfish sociopath. Get professional help. You need it.
Love you Gryphen but the phony pregnancy story I have never bought. That's Sarah's baby. Too many moving parts, too many people to depend on to keep the secret.
ReplyDeleteTitle:
ReplyDeleteSpecial Delivery?
Silence In The Womb: Sarah Palin's Reenactment of a Pregnancy for political profit.
ReplyDeleteSilence in the womb: The non pregnant GOP candidate of election 2008.
How about: Hiding in Plain Sight: Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy and the Media That Fell for It.
ReplyDeleteI hope the cover has the two photos taken 5 days apart to drive home the message!
ReplyDeleteFred, thank you, thank you, thank you!! Can't wait to buy your book.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, ginormous hugs & thanks!
I think any title must reflect the media's failure. What better way to get the media to talk about this story than to openly blame them for ignoring it?
ReplyDeleteI like 6:31's suggestion but would add to it: "Sarah Palin's Immaculate Deception and How the MSM allowed her to get away with it."
Sarah Palin's Political, Medical, Media Hoax
ReplyDelete(The Immaculate Deception)
VHTG
title idea - The Media Myths About Sarah Palin
ReplyDeleteThe Media, McCain Cover up Of Sarah Palin's Biggest Hoax (or Lie)
ReplyDeletesleuth1 said..."an extreme indifference to common sense" there's the subtitle
ReplyDeleteAs a woman who actually raced to a neonatal hospital while in labor, I call BS on Palin. Her story is ridiculous. But I hope you all aren't pinning your hopes on Palin's lies. She lies about everything. Whatever the truth is, it is not what you expected.
ReplyDeleteThe Inconceivable Journey of Sarah Palin:
ReplyDeleteA Media Wake-Up Call
An Inconceivable Truth:
How the Media Abetted Sarah Palin's Deception
Sarah Palin's Inconceivable Journey:
How the Media Surrendered
I had no idea that The Wild Ride has some other reference (and I was an English major--do not remember if I read Wind in the Willows as a kid..if I did, the reference still escaped me).
ReplyDeleteThe only thing about the wild ride is that it's short and perhaps catchy--but not sure it's the best--it's just the easiest and most familiar to those in the know, thus far. Good luck!
Have no idea what the truth is. Just know that the "wild ride" is fiction, as every birth mom knows as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Helen--highlighting that Palin pulled a political lie and the media let her is what should come across in the title--that's the thing that is most important to point out--especially to those who are dismissive of the family/gossipy nature of the tale. The Wild Ride might still be too cutesy, it's not just the story of her birth, it's really more the story of her lying and the the media ignoring the bald-faced lying...so the title should reflect that.
ReplyDeleteThe Political Snowjob of Sarah Palin
or
FOOLED: How Sarah Palin and the Lamestream Media conspired to con the American people
or
COVER-UP: How Sarah Palin conned American with the help of the 'lamestream' media
or
Snow-covered Snake Oil: How Sarah Palin conned real Americans with the help o the media
I don't have a catchy title for your book, but I think you should focus on the negligence of the media. If it's an indictment of the "lamestream media", perhaps the Palinbots will actually buy it and hopefully read it.
ReplyDeleteinside the beltway
Title suggestion:
ReplyDelete"Reckless indifference: How the media helped Sarah Palin fleece America"
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThe Fall of Political Journalism:
Sarah Palin’s Phantom Pregnancy
Media Malfunction:
The truth about Sarah Palin
Palin Phantom Pregnancy:
Media manipulation in politics
6:58 PM
---------------------------------
Excellent titles as they encompass the complicity of the press in this hoax.
Fred, it is essential that this book be taken seriously by the MSM and not dismissed by them as just one more Anti-Palin rant as other books trying to expose her have been.
The frustration we all feel in seeing this fraudulent person continue to be considered a legitimate political enity is immeasurable.
Here's hoping that your book will have a different fate and be the one that will bring her down.
I have followed this blog, The Daily Dish, Palingates, and several other Palin-related blogs and sites for a long time. I am not absolutely, completely sure she is not Trig's biological mother (I'm a little skeptical of everything). However, I do believe the following clip deserves to be seen by far more people:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaXa0WCcHQ&feature=related
The way Palin stresses the word "hid" in the clause "I hid it" (around the 8 to 10 second mark) seems to be damning evidence. She seems to be lying right there. She looks away from the camera at that very moment, with a smug, self-satisfied look on her face.
More people need to see this video. Her arrogant, smug tone is typical Palin.
Reconcile Differences - How the msm manipulates the news.
ReplyDeleteGoL
I've had such a fun laugh reading through everyone's title suggestions this morning...I've had to watch myself to not spray coffee on my iPad! I know many of them are offered tongue in cheek if still slightly 'serious', but they are absolutely hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI have a thought concerning content of the title if not the actual words...perhaps one of you clever cosmos can figure something out.
The theme is sacrifice, or motherly sacrifice. We all know Sarah wants us to leave her chirruns aloooooone!!!!! (and also too please watch their reality shows and buy their magazine covers, kthanx!!!)
In all seriousness, Sarah HAS said she wants to keep her children's lives as "normal" as possible.
Why then did she serve this teenager up on a media frenzied platter right before the RNC in 2008? The McCain campaign released a statement, something akin to "in order to counteract these ridiculous rumors concerning Governor Palin's fifth child Trig, we are announcing that Bristol Palin, eldest daughter of the governor, is five months pregnant and therefore cannot be the mother of four month old Trig".
Of course, NOW we know this statement was crafted by Palin herself despite the McCain staff wanting to take a few hours more crafting a better statement but you know Sarah- she "went rogue" and released her own statement.
Here's the rub: if the campaign and even Sarah herself admit this statement was produced to directly shut down the rumors about Trig being Bristol's biological child...why go to such an extreme, one which harms the child you are supposedly protecting...?
If you really wanted to counteract those rumors AND protect your firstborn daughter...wouldn't you just SHOW the birth certificate for Trig?
Yes, you would.
Unless...you were simply not ABLE to.
This was when we saw that Sarah would sell out anyone, even her own child.
I would love to see a title reflective of how Palin serves up her children on platters, simply to avoid producing what should be simplest of "proof"- a statement from the hospital, a hospital bracelet from mother & child...a birth certificate...
I've had such a fun laugh reading through everyone's title suggestions this morning...I've had to watch myself to not spray coffee on my iPad! I know many of them are offered tongue in cheek if still slightly 'serious', but they are absolutely hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI have a thought concerning content of the title if not the actual words...perhaps one of you clever cosmos can figure something out.
The theme is sacrifice, or motherly sacrifice. We all know Sarah wants us to leave her chirruns aloooooone!!!!! (and also too please watch their reality shows and buy their magazine covers, kthanx!!!)
In all seriousness, Sarah HAS said she wants to keep her children's lives as "normal" as possible.
Why then did she serve this teenager up on a media frenzied platter right before the RNC in 2008? The McCain campaign released a statement, something akin to "in order to counteract these ridiculous rumors concerning Governor Palin's fifth child Trig, we are announcing that Bristol Palin, eldest daughter of the governor, is five months pregnant and therefore cannot be the mother of four month old Trig".
Of course, NOW we know this statement was crafted by Palin herself despite the McCain staff wanting to take a few hours more crafting a better statement but you know Sarah- she "went rogue" and released her own statement.
Here's the rub: if the campaign and even Sarah herself admit this statement was produced to directly shut down the rumors about Trig being Bristol's biological child...why go to such an extreme, one which harms the child you are supposedly protecting...?
If you really wanted to counteract those rumors AND protect your firstborn daughter...wouldn't you just SHOW the birth certificate for Trig?
Yes, you would.
Unless...you were simply not ABLE to.
This was when we saw that Sarah would sell out anyone, even her own child.
I would love to see a title reflective of how Palin serves up her children on platters, simply to avoid producing what should be simplest of "proof"- a statement from the hospital, a hospital bracelet from mother & child...a birth certificate...
Sarah winked, LSM blinked & Ignored Her huge political Hoax!
ReplyDeleteHow is this one Fred?
For the title, a graphic; picture the words 'Cover Up' overlaid with the universal red circle and slash. Beneath it the sub-title 'Stripping Sarah Palin'.
ReplyDeleteI like it because it illuminates the cover up and uses Sarah's tendency to hypersexualize events, against her.
Just ask Palin what Trig scored on his APGAR. That's a test most (if not all) mother's of high risk babies will ask their Pediatricians right after birth. I asked. I gave birth to a 4 lb. pre-eclampsia baby boy who was born at 36 weeks and 2 days, induced. And his lungs were fully developed and he scored a 9 out of 10 on the APGAR. Excellent. Even then, the doctors still kept him in NICU for observation for about 5 days. Sarah Palin is a F"""in liar. She has no idea what her little Trig scored on the APGAR, and even if she did, there is no way the doctors would have let her take her Down's Syndrome baby to work 3 days after the birth. What a F"""in Biatch and Liar.
ReplyDeleteA good title "The Media takes a hike on Sarah Palin's wild ride"
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the book.
Phil mentions "IIRC, Shannyn Moore was the first to use the term "Wild Ride" to describe Palin's description of TriG's birth" which is reason enough to select a different title altogether.
ReplyDeleteMs Moore has refused to publicly discuss, or consider "Babygate," so she could be published on Huffington Post, etc. She is as complicite as the rest of the MSM who looked the other way. I implore you, do not use "The Wild Ride" as a title, because Ms Moore abandoned all of us who have tirelessly persued this hoax for almost three years. I also agree with Helen, that it will not draw in the masses.
Long ago, when Gryphen first said that this was one of the biggest political hoaxes in history, I was impossibly inTRIGued. I knew, he would not say this, unless he knew it to be true. The complcity of the MSM with powerful people, is the story.
Just reading the great comments here and thought of the magazine cover with palin & brisdull and the Title was: We chose Life or something like that.
ReplyDeletePalins chose a scam!
Mr. Fred: I fervently hope the media will not put a blackout on publicity for this book.
ReplyDeleteIf your writings and research is an indictment of the complicity of Palin/GOP and the media, they will fight to escape any blame in the coverup.
I am waiting impatiently for publication of your book!
Thank you.
I am worried. Donald Trump was making a big stink about Pres. Obama's birth cert, and some guy had a book about to come out titled "Wheres the Birth Certificate". So just then Pres. Obama arranges for release of his bc, cutting the legs off Trump and the birthers. So now that SP is making noise about running, and at the same time Babygate is getting more serious press, it would not surprise me if SP produces a bc for Trig, or Dr. J issues a statement, cutting the legs off the Babygate story. Of course, the bc or statement would be ambiguous and not really answer the question, but it would be enuf for the LSM. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI will anxiously await the publication of this book. I hope it's everything we want it to be: exposing the lies and deceptions of SP, so that she can't explain her way out of her "situation". I'm very interested in the potential tubal ligation story, discussed here a while back. That would be pretty definitive about who was not a mother. My question, which I hope a book like this would address is WHY go to all this trouble? Just because McCain got the nomination, there was no guarantee that SP would be considered as running mate. What are we missing here? There must be so much more that we don't know, but I really want to understand.
ReplyDeleteWomen are insulted by this lie which is why women like Audrey started this investigation.
ReplyDeleteWE know her story is BS, no matter what the truth, much of it is BS, whether she somehow had a preemie so early she didn't show, or faked it, something is OFF.
To those who think Fred can't be real, I would point out that engaging the anti-Palin blogs will help get attention for his book started and that is why McGuinness has a blog now...it is how one has to market a book now, by yourself.
"Not from these Loins" or "Sarah's Loin Issue"
ReplyDelete@ 9:59 this is not the same as the birther movement.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama provided his birth certificate and the "birthers" wanted to see the long form because they were certain there was some damaging information on the long form that didn't appear on the certificate of live birth issued by the state of Hawaii.
If Sarah Palin is Trig's biological mother why hasn't she released his birth certificate?
Sarah Palin knows about "Babygate" but hasn't done a thing to disprove rumors and debunk "conspiracies."
And please don't give me that she doesn't want to address this issue because she is way above all this crap, that woman is as thin-skinned and defensive as they come.
"...Serve to help Palin," I think not, Sarah Palin did this to herself. I would like to know what woman who has been in labor and has had contractions will drive to the airport instead of driving to the nearest hospital endangering her life or that of her unborn child?!?
Bottom line, either she lied about the "Wild Ride" and she's Trig's biological mother or she lied about the entire thing. Either way there is a whopper of a lie in this story and she's going to have to come clean and own it.
My title suggestion for the book:
"The Wild Lie."
Palin's Planned Pregnancy and the Media Legacy
ReplyDelete11:00 and 11:04? Hi RAM ... how's life treating you these days?
ReplyDeleteYou sound as mean as ever.
Palin's Planned Pregnancy!!!! hahaha
ReplyDelete"The Wild Ride: The Gestation, Birth, and Transmogrification of Sarah Palin In American Politics"
ReplyDeleteThe Wild Ride truly describes Palins entire public life.
Using Transmogrification, which I think is a top ten word, not a Palin mispronunciation would get everyone's attention.
Look it up!
http://tinyurl.com/3rc4b2r
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteBiggest hoax in history? IN HISTORY?????????
Yeah ok guys. You keep thinking that.
7:04 PM
Yeah anon &;04
This ranks up their with Diebold Bush elections.
Palin is a top political hoax in the US history.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteWhy would a babygate author even consider referencing the other Palin kids? This has nothing to do with them, other than the book is about their dear, beloved brother who will ALWAYS be a part of their family.
7:19 PM
PErhaps not in the title, but i'd be disappointed if the use of her children as props is neglected. She has a pattern of doing it, from the time she dragged them around in a wagon when running for mayor when they were toddlers. She uses her kids for her brand, although as her kids are not high achievers, she has to keep making stuff up. How she manipulates the media and us with her tales of her kids is FAIR GAME. I say go for it Fred, in this respect.
I like anon's:
ReplyDelete"Unvetted: Sarah Palin's Fake Pregnancy and the Silent Media"
Amber A said...
ReplyDeleteElection fraud??? Really? Dude, no one votes or doesnt vote for someone based on one of their kids. Dont be delusional.
7:24 PM
My dear then Why was Palin chosen over Joe Lieberman, who was McCain firstest and bestest choice??
Get real honey!!
I think the title should be:
ReplyDeleteLiar liar, Scarf on fire!
There is one solution to this whole story. All one woman has to do is stop all this nonsense and provide a birth certificate. It's that simple.
ReplyDeleteThe book title might get the attention it needs if needs if it challenged SP with "Why didn't SP Stop the Lamestream Media - Her Refusal to Provide a Birth Certificate" or "SP's Victimizing her Child by Not Providing a Birth Certificate"
Using Transmogrification, which I think is a top ten word, not a Palin mispronunciation would get everyone's attention.
ReplyDeleteAND: Every time Sarah sees the book or a reference to the book, it will remind her of Gryphen!!!!!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletedidn't shannyn moore coin the term
WILD RIDE ???
8:54 PM
Gee, then Shannon Moore should write a book. And when Shannon Moore as on Olbermann all those times she should have spoken about it.
Who Conceived Palin's Pregnancy?
ReplyDeleteHelp ... I can't stop .....
Let's say a nominated candidate for VP of the US deceptively portrayed him/herself as a cancer survivor (to gain voters sympathy) or falsely claimed they were the child of a great military leader, or falsely claimed they had achieved a great feat, like being one of the first test pilots having blasted through the sound barrier. Or falsely claimed they had a special needs child when that child wasn't special needs.. Any lie just to get elected.
ReplyDeleteAnd what if through the vetting process that these were highly questionnable. Wouldn't the people want to know the truth before they elected someone who could outrightly lie? What else would they lie about once in? If lying was second nature to get what they wanted, how could the nation trust that individual to make honest judgments and calls with Congress, the Senate, the body of officials he/she works with?
This subject needs to be revealed, in light of the fact that the Alaskan woman is teasing about running again, and uses her voice to divide.
Hey, Phil Munger - if you'd be willing to stop coming here with your schizophrenic attitude, I know I'd appreciate it. I can't speak for anyone else, but I find your comments to be all over the map. Obviously we may not speak ill of any of your buddies, that's clear. You, however, may say whatever you please (including stating that Palin is on medication). Do I have that right?
ReplyDeleteHere's a tip - if you don't like the comments section on Jesse's blog, go back to your own. You'll be done quickly, as you have very, very few comments, but maybe you have a book you can read afterwards?
Mr Munger,
ReplyDeleteTo claim you were just voicing a recollection is folly considering your last statement. Coming here to defend Ms Moore's honor, is also folly. Too many of us have seen her in action. Just like the C4Pers, you might be more content at Mudflats, orJAGFH, where Babygate silence is the rule. We don't go to those sites and slam those that have chosen silence, not worth our time, nor do we go to those sites and demean their readers. Please consider this before posting here again.
JMHO
London Bridge - Here's a comment from a Ph.D. I personally love the word "transmogrification," but it ain't gonna sell no books to the general populace, a.k.a. the electorate.
ReplyDeleteYes, but getting info from bloggers isnt exactly a science. Look at the lies Dunn printed regarding various things. As far as professional record, I believe him. However, all of the personal anecdotes about Sarah in Dunns book are basically not true or exaggerations.
ReplyDelete