Former Campaign Advisor Nicolle Wallace Responds To Palin's Charges Via The Rachel Maddow Show

[Turborama]

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I've purposefully avoided posting anything about Palin but I'm intrigued that this latest case of Republican fratricide is now being taken directly to Rachel.



Nov. 17: Rachel Maddow discusses statements by former McCain campaign staffer Nicolle Wallace to The Rachel Maddow Show about Sarah Palin's new book with Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio.

Statements by Nicolle Wallace to TRMS

Former McCain adviser responds to charges in Sarah Palin's new book

The following quotes were made exclusively to a producer for The Rachel Maddow Show:

On how Couric was chosen to interview Palin:

"The whole notion there was a conversation where I tried to cajole her into a conversation with Katie is fiction.... I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. Katie Couric was selected because we did evening anchors.... I did not advocate an interview for anyone I am friends with."

On preparation and expectations for the Couric interview:

"We set up this interview on the day of the U.N. General Assembly, with a walk-and-talk in front of the U.N. It was never made as two working gals. It's either rationalization or justification or fiction. That was supposed to be to highlight her foreign policy savvy the U.N. General Assembly. The picture is in front of the U.N. to highlight her expertise and readiness to be Vice President -- it wasn't about two working gals."

On her overall reaction to Palin's book:

"I think she has probably a legitimate complaint that things could have been better conceived and executed. A book about that would have been painful but not entirely unfair. What she gets wrong is this personalization that Schmidt and I were these lone villains -- and that took place entirely in her imagination. Just like the Obama and Clinton campaigns, we were consensus driven.... I think she fixated on me from very early on. She hated me from the beginning. I try not to take it personally, the fact is that she wrote a book based on fabrications. She gave a brilliant convention speech -- other interviews that inspired support. But this book is a bizarre fixation on things that everyone else has moved on from."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34005388/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

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[maddezmom]

1. wow

being called out as a liar from your own party has to sting. :evilgrin:

[tomm2thumbs]

2. Palin apparently has so many lies in that book, it would TAKE a staff of AP writers to find them all

She is going to be digging ever deeper into the sands of time with this winner -

[stlsaxman]

3. Cox: "After this book- who would ever want to be a campaign staffer of hers?"

Answer: no one with a brain.

[curiousdemo]

4. Let's hook this book up to some....

polygraph wires, so we can see it blow up....Which is a good thing...Gabooom! :nuke:

[nyc 4 Biden]

5. I don't believe either one of them.

This Nicolle Wallace seems like a shifty character herself.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Support your statement with some examples or reasons so we can be

informed or persuaded.

[nyc 4 Biden]

10. The sole basis for my distrust of Wallace (founded or not) is...

...the fact that she worked as a spinmeister for the dirty McCain campaign. Don't get me wrong I despise caribou barbie as much as the next guy(or gal).

[hmorehead]

7. What don't you believe and how can you believe niether of then???

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Sarah is the proven fabricator. She is a total fool. It is sad and scary.

[lame54]

9. she is a professional victim