Sarah Palin morphs from politician and partisan attack dog, to movie and book critic?

So yesterday Palin posted her personal review of a movie she watched on a plane, and pimped a book from Chris Kyle's widow.

Courtesy of Facebook: 

A COACH WITH INFLUENTIAL INTEGRITY  

If you need some spirit-lifting all-American true story telling, watch the great new movie “McFarland, USA”! Granted, my favorite movies are sports related (it's all about the underdog, the unconventional, the character revealed in overcomers), and I found this one on an Alaskan redeye flight to be one of the best. Rarely do I want to sit long enough to watch a movie (though I could recline for days with a good book – in the sun, toes in the sand – that'd be my heaven on earth!), but I’m thankful Disney made this one. 

Perhaps this cross-country themed film resonated because sweat is my sanity. (Well then lady you are not sweating nearly enough.) I've been a (slow, dogged) distance runner for more miles than my enduring knees owe me. I'm not good, but I know the guts it takes to run. (No folks it's not your imagination, Palin is definitely leaving little, not so subtle, hints that she might run for office in order to excite the five people who still want her to do so.) Additionally, attribute my enthusiasm here to personal connectivity to the inspiring film because every day I get to witness the positive influence my dad, Coach Heath, has had on his students and athletes. Without a doubt the life lessons Dad taught on the court, the field, and in the classroom changed lives for the better. Filmmakers and the actor Kevin Costner grandly captured the same in McFarland's Coach White. White and his teams' stories exemplify what coaching with integrity is all about. 

You don't have to be a sweat-obsessed sports nut to love this movie. It's all good with virtuous tenacity woven through a plot that's applicable to all our lives. Loved it! Makes me want to run. 

- Sarah Palin

But of course not for office.

This is Palin so she cannot pass up an opportunity to interject the fact that she was a runner, and to show a picture of her dad as a coach.

I have no idea if this movie is any good, though it does have a 79% over at Rotten Tomatoes, however I know that Palin likes this movie mostly because it gives her yet another opportunity to polish up the old family mythology.

And speaking of mythology she also does book reviews:

For a very good summer read, please get Taya Kyle’s wonderful book “American Wife.” Her personal story connects deeply with the experiences of many military families. It puts things in perspective and reminds us of the enormous sacrifices made for our freedom. The book powerfully combines tragedy that touched a nation with an ongoing personal, hope-filled outcome based on Taya's faith. And, bluntly, the beautiful widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle also awakens us to the lessons in the adage "Don't sweat the small stuff." Great job, Taya; we love you!

This one is a no brainer, and I mean that in every sense of the word. 

Palin has been worshiping at the feet of Chris Kyle ever since he worked on that "Stars Earn Stripes" show with Todd.

We remember Todd doing that show right?

Besides the book not only has all kinds of rooting tooting military anecdotes in it, but also contains references to religion and faith, which Palin needs to keep associating with in order to convince the fundamentalists that she is one of them.

So to be clear Sarah Palin will support any movie or book that allows her to polish her image as a former athlete or help to convince people that even though her daughter moves in with a man before marriage, her family cusses like a boatload of sailors on leave and picks fights at birthday parties, and she dresses like a aged hooker at a Vegas convention, she is STILL a good Christian woman despite all evidence to the contrary.

Did Paul Ryan pull a "Sarah Palin?" Update!

Courtesy of Runner's World:

In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said he's run a sub-3:00 marathon. 

In the interview, after Ryan told Hewitt that he ran in high school, Hewitt asked if Ryan still runs. Ryan replied, "Yeah, I hurt a disc in my back, so I don't run marathons anymore. I just run ten miles or less." When Hewitt asked Ryan what his personal best is, Ryan replied, "Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something." 

Runner's World has been unable to find any marathon results by Ryan. Requests for more information from Ryan's Washington and Wisconsin offices, and from the Romney-Ryan campaign, have so far gone unanswered. 

If Ryan has broken 3:00, he'd be the fastest marathoner to be on a national ticket. John Edwards has run 3:30; George W. Bush has run 3:44; Sarah Palin has run 3:59; (Still in dispute) and Al Gore has run 4:58.

Okay now I know that many politicians run more than just for political office.

But most of them, like Bill Clinton, just do it for exercise and without the need to make themselves seem like they are super athletes or anything.

However some, like Sarah Palin, have to create this ridiculous mythology about themselves, their families, and their athletic prowess.

Now did Ryan lie about his fleet feet? Well Runner's World dug a little further:

We have some new information on Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's claim in a radio interview of a sub-3:00 marathon. 

A spokesman for the Romney-Ryan campaign e-mailed Runner's World today to say Ryan ran Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, while a college student in 1991. 

When asked about Ryan’s finishing time, the spokesman said, "His comments on the [radio] show were the best of his recollection." 

Ryan's name does not show up in the 1991 race results provided by Grandma's. Runner's World checked 11 years of results for Grandma's Marathon, from 1988 through 1998, and found a finisher in the 1990 race by the name of Paul D. Ryan, 20, of Minneapolis. 

Ryan's middle name is Davis, and he was 20 in 1990. The finishing time listed was 4 hours, 1 minute and 25 seconds. 

We are awaiting confirmation from the Ryan camp that the vice presidential nominee is the Paul D. Ryan listed in the race results – and, if he is, whether he ran any other marathons faster than 4:01:25. 

What? Paul Ryan might be lying about his time? Who would do such a thing?

You know BESIDES a Republican whose convention speech was so full of lies that even Fox News could not let him get away with it.

Gee perhaps soon we will see a magical picture of Paul Ryan defying gravity as he runs in an out of the way foot race to prove HIS running bonafides.

Hey, it almost worked once before.

Update: Paul Ryan comes clean.

This according to the New Yorker:  

I contacted the campaign this evening about the discrepancy. Ryan, through a spokesman, responded that he’d just mixed things up: “The race was more than 20 years ago, but my brother Tobin—who ran Boston last year—reminds me that he is the owner of the fastest marathon in the family and has never himself ran a sub-three. If I were to do any rounding, it would certainly be to four hours, not three. He gave me a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight.”

Yeah, he forgot. I would be willing to bet that Ryan has been giving that "I ran a marathon under 3:00" his entire life. This is just the first time that he ever got called out on it.

From what we have learned about Paul Ryan since he was introduced as Romney's VP is that lying come very easily to him. (Indeed to the ENTIRE Republican party it seems.)

I think from this day forward I believe it is more than appropriate that we simply refer to the VP candidate as "Lyin Ryan."  And literally EVERYTHING that he and Mitt Romney needs to be fact checked up one side, and down the other.

Is the picture of Sarah Palin running in Iowa the worst job of photoshop EVER? Update!

"I'm hovering above the grass because I don't want to stain my shoes."

(H/T to Gretawire.)

This is such an amateurish job that I CANNOT believe that Van Susteren thought anybody would take it seriously.

So we all make noise about Palin looking sickly and possibly drugged yesterday and the day before, and then THIS picture suddenly shows up?

Didn't I have this effect on her once before when she was in Hawaii? Why yes I did!

Can somebody please ask Joe McGinniss if he is SURE that Sarah Palin does not read the blogs? Cause it kind of looks like she does!

I'm just saying.

Update:  Another picture and eyewitness account suddenly appears to prove that we bloggers are "just makin stuff up."

Okay gang, what do we think?

NOT the legs of a runner.

I got into a very civil disagreement (argument) not too long ago with a fellow blogger about whether or not Sarah was still a runner.

I was told that indeed she DID run, only now she did so indoors at a gym.

I beg to differ, I said, but I have a number of friends who are runners, and I sometimes train people to get back into shape, and SHE does not have a runners body.

I also pointed to her pictures in Runner's World, and said her legs were too thin and shapeless to be doing much running, and that the nylons she was wearing were undoubtedly hiding something.

So, Ta-Da! I think we can put that whole "I am a runner" B.S. to rest now. She has no defined hamstring muscle in the back of her legs, no shape to her quadriceps in the front, and a virtually non-existent gastrocnemius (calf muscle). Those are the legs of somebody who does a hell of a lot of sitting and not much else.

I would like my apology in writing please. And you know who you are.