Simple Sarah Palin studied in Moscow and the Mainstream Media seems asleep to this revelation. It is up to me to report this startling fact.
Yes, you read it correctly. Simple Sarah Palin studied for many months in Moscow, exposing herself to communistic, Anti-American rhetoric, socialist organizations and negative thoughts and deeds from disloyal sources. This is probably the first time you have heard of this, I would venture. The Mainstream Media has been asleep at the wheel on this shocking revelation and it appears that it is up to a simple blogger such as myself to inform all of you. But before I start, I must ask: Where are Keith Olbermann's special comments on this subject? Why hasn't Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews or Larry King covered this? I am shocked and chagrined. Thank, God, for the internet.
Well, big blogger guy, what makes you such an expert on the matter?
The answer is simple I live there.
You live in Russia?
Russia, or for Christ sakes, I'm not talking about that Moscow. I'm talking about Moscow, Idaho where the University of Idaho is located. Are you that dim?
But you said that she was exposed to communistic rhetoric, socialist organizations and disloyal Anti-American sources.
She was.
Excuse me but this is just a farce.
"Farce? I'll give you some information and let others decide if it is a farce. First, why would Simple Sarah pick of all places a town named for the Russian capital? She could have gone to school anywhere and picked this town. Very, very curious. Second, this town has a very big element of leftist thoughts, deeds and organizations. There is a huge Food Co-Op and what is more anti-capitalistic than that? There is a popular website called Auntie Establishment. Moscow is the seat of Latah county which was one of only three Idaho counties, out of 44, to vote for Obama. One group of radical leftist women caused a turmoil a few years ago when they had a series of Topless Car Washes as a fundraiser. And before you get smart,- Yes, my car was very, very clean during that time. I don't mean the kind of Topless that would ruin the interior of your car either. I'm talking Boobs, brother, wonderful, gorgeous boobs.
This is stupid, I thought you had something serious to say.
Oh, you want to get all serious, okay just shut the fuck up and listen. I heard Simple Sarah on the news two days ago saying and I am paraphrasing, that she was being assaulted by undisclosed sources and claimed that it was a sign of how much journalism had changed for the worse since her days as a journalism student. I heard this and thought, Oh, really?"
Here is what others around here remember about her time here. From an AP article published on KIDK.com-August 29,2008:
Shortly after Palin's birth, her parents moved to Skagway, Alaska, where her father taught school. She apparently didn't return to Idaho until her college years, and her time in the state seems to have largely faded from residents' memory.
Kenton Bird, director of the University of Idaho's School of Journalism and Mass Media, said Palin didn't write for the independent college newspaper, The Argonaut, and didn't do any work for the university television station KIUI while she was there.
Most of her journalism professors have retired or died, he said. Bird worked at the local newspaper, The Moscow-Pullman Daily News (then called The Idahonian), during Palin's time at the University of Idaho and he doesn't remember her ever freelancing or interning for the paper.
Two of her past journalism professors don't remember her, either.
"I wish I could say that I knew something about her, but I just don't," said Roy Atwood, the former director of the journalism program and the faculty member who signed her application for graduation. Atwood was teaching large classes at the time, so Palin would have been one of roughly 120 students in his class.
Don Coombs also taught Palin while she was at the University of Idaho, but he doesn't remember her, either.
The University of Idaho was her longest stop as she worked toward a college degree. She started at Hawaii Pacific College in 1982, said Bird, and transferred to North Idaho College for the 1983-1984 school year. She transferred again to the University of Idaho in fall of 1984, and spent her final semester working as an intern for the NBC affiliate KTUU in Anchorage.
In an interview with the University of Idaho alumni magazine, "Here We Have Idaho," published earlier this year, Palin said she decided to pursue a journalism degree because it combined her curiosity with her love of writing. She didn't enter politics until she ran for city council in Wasilla, Alaska.
A social networking site for University of Idaho alumni — http://govandals.ning.com — apparently holds one reference to Palin, a photo posted by one of her employees on his personal page.
The University of Idaho issued a statement saying Palin was part of its "legacy of leaders."
"University of Idaho alumni are sizable in number, but remain a close-knit community," the statement said. "A large number of university alumni, such as Sarah, have gone on to distinguish themselves in public service."
Here's another-an excerpt from Robin Abacarian of the Los Angeles Times published on October 21, 2008 in the Times.
Reported from Moscow, Idaho -- What can we learn about our political stars from impressions they made in college?
Sen. John McCain is remembered as a passionate contrarian who won the hearts of his classmates at the Naval Academy. Sen. Barack Obama, who attended Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School, is remembered as a daunting scholar and calming influence. Sen. Joe Biden, who had a brush with plagiarism at Syracuse University College of Law, is remembered fondly by professors who found him charming.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, however, is barely remembered at all.
In the five years of her collegiate career, spanning four universities in three states, Palin left behind few traces.
"Looking at this dynamic personality now, it mystifies me that I wouldn't remember her," said Jim Fisher, Palin's journalism instructor at the University of Idaho, where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1987.
Palin, he said, took his public affairs reporting class, an upper-division course limited to 15 students. "It's the funniest damn thing," Fisher said. "No one can recall her."
"I don't remember her," said Roy Atwood, Palin's academic advisor at the university.
Indeed, interviews with a dozen professors yielded not a single snippet of a memory.
Most were perplexed and frustrated that they could offer no insight into a woman who has become their most famous former student. Only a few classmates recalled her, and those with the strongest memories were people she had grown up with in Alaska.
Some of her college anonymity is understandable. "She enrolled in and finished my class, American government, but I have had 12,000 students in my career, and maybe remember 400," said political scientist Tony Stewart, now retired from North Idaho College, which the future vice presidential candidate attended in 1983. Palin, he added, was not among them.
Until 1987, the Idaho drinking age was 19, and the university had a reputation as a top party school. Hagerty said Palin "was upbeat and fun but not a heavy partyer."
When she ran for Alaska governor in 2006, Palin admitted that she had smoked marijuana, but Hagerty said she never saw her friend do drugs.
Hagerty said Palin was good friends with Jill Loranger, their resident advisor for two years.
When reached at her home in Hailey, Idaho, Jill Loranger Clark was mystified.
"I can honestly tell you I have no idea who she was," said Clark, a middle school teacher. "If she had been a big party animal, I would have remembered her."
The is no record of her publishing even one piece in the quite good college weekly newspaper, The Argonaut. I guess that proves she never used undisclosed sources in the many unwritten articles she never published. This proves that she likes writing, which she gave as her reason for getting into Journalism, I guess. By the way, how do you get a journalism degree from a land grant college and are never required to publish anything? Could it be that this is an easy degree to earn?
The U of I is know as Beer U. We may not have Vodka flowing like the big Moscow but beer we have and we use it. The residents and students both beam with pride when repeating claims that Moscow leads the nation in per capita beer consumption. The school is known throughout the west as a great "party school" and came in fourth in the country in a recent survey of Top Schools Where Students Almost Never Study. This is a land grant college with it's latest claim to fame being the cloning of the mule: Idaho Gem, who has a face that looks remarkably like Pat Buchanan. These sound like jokes but are true. Well, I threw in the Buchanan thing.
Moscow is a little town of 30,000 with clean air, a simple small downtown area, two malls, and a couple of movie theaters. The town is surrounded by family owned and operated farms, mostly wheat, lentils and peas. The winters here are harsh with lots of snow, and last at least six months. Since entertainment opportunities are limited,drinking alcohol is the primary thing to do for most of the school year. Eight miles away is another college town, Pullman, Washington that houses the PAC-10 Washington State University. The area is filled and dominated by college students. WSU has 20,000 and U of I about 10,000.
The city of Moscow (MOS-co not Mos-COW remember we are not Russian here) is divided into three distinct groups. I have told you a little about our awesome, fun vibrant leftist part and the second part is the townspeople who have a love/hate relationship with the university. They claim to be independent but are mostly supportive of right wing politics. The third is very interesting.
It is a group of radical right wing nuts led by their chief nut, Doug Wilson who put Moscow on the map by becoming a leader in the homeschooling movement, and the writing of some severe, controversial articles on marriage roles. This religious group owns about a third of all businesses including a Christian college downtown, St. Andrews, and is always battling with us leftists about some issue. Dougie really got some attention when he published his views on slavery in 2004. Here is an excerpt from U of I assistant Professor of History William L. Ramsey's article entitled: The Late Unpleasantness in Idaho: Southern Slavery and the Culture Wars written on December 20, 2004 on The History News Network that explains this:
But can such a shift in "worldview" lead rational adults to praise the institution of slavery as it existed in the antebellum South? And when professional historians point out that the experience of slavery was not generally a happy one for African Americans, are they merely blinded by "abolitionist propaganda" and knee-jerk liberalism?
Such questions brought the small college town of Moscow, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho, to the brink of open hostility during the past year. Previously friendly neighbors perfected outrageously inventive insults for one another and in some cases cut off communication altogether. Boycotts were threatened, Christmas lights pulled down, safes allegedly stolen, tires slashed, and soda cans thrown at "nigger lover" professors. At the center of the furor is a small thirty-nine page booklet entitled Southern Slavery: As It Was, co-authored by local pastor Douglas Wilson and League of the South co-founder Steve Wilkins, on the one hand, and an even shorter book review of it, on the other hand, by two University of Idaho history professors entitled Southern Slavery As It Wasn’t: Professional Historians Respond to Neo-Confederate Misinformation.
Wilson’s and Wilkins’ booklet, published by Wilson’s "Canon Press" in Moscow, argues that southern slavery was not only sanctioned by the Bible but, thanks to the patriarchal kindness of their wise evangelical masters, a positive, happy, and pleasant experience for the majority of southern blacks. Wilson and Wilkins are quite specific about the many benefits of slavery for African-Americans, and they conclude that southern slaves genuinely appreciated those benefits and supported the system that provided them. As such, they claim that "slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War [the Civil War] or since." (p. 38). Their praise of the institution is almost unbounded in places.
So, I am wondering which of these three parts of this small community did our hero Sarah seem most likely to become a part of from what we know? Hmmm...Could Doug Wilson's active church been a factor in her choosing Moscow of all places to go to school? I have tried to find out but have not received any cooperation from Wilson's people. I would love to see her reaction if someone asked her about Wilson on camera. I have no proof but I know this town better than anyone and if you have the religious beliefs the Palin has shared, then the Wilson people would have found her, that I know. She is a End of Times believer, against birth control and abortion and claims that faith will guide her in any future political decisions. These are all consistent with Wilson's talking points. She probably would not have been a part of us Food Co-Op shopping granola farting left and she would have been too young to be a townie so, hmmmm....Does that leave the Wilson cult? I'll drop it as accusations are not fair but if Barack was "paling around" with terrorists, as she claimed then perhaps it would be fair and balanced to find out who she was "paling around" with while in Moscow.
Sarah got a degree from an easy university in less than a rigorous department and discipline. No one remembers her and her claims that journalist standards are not up to what she experienced at the U of I are laughable because she didn't write anything. She didn't publish anything in a town where nearly everyone thinks he or she is the next Hemingway. Yet she claims she got into journalism because of her "curiosity and love of writing." She loves writing I guess but not publishing. I think I get it. She loves to write but doesn't want anyone to read it. Kind of like saying I love cooking, I just don't want anyone to eat the food I prepare. She has limited life experience, which could be forgiven if countered by a sterling academic background, like Condi Rice, for example, but that isn't the case here. We love our university but see it for what it is, a small cozy school that isn't too terribly tough and has terrible football teams. If Simple Sarah wants to remain in the spotlight I am going to be listening to her every word and when she lies, like she just did about her journalism training then I will write and inform. Is that enough seriousness for you?
Yeah, you kinda of lost me. Could you tell me more about the car washes?
Sure, let's grab a beer.