Dancing Guv
Given this campaign's corrosive effect on our short-term memory, we've been digging through our own archives in search of overlooked nuggets of Sarah Palin coverage. Among the highlights to surface from Wake-Up Call!, Last Call! and the Hotline's People section:
"I can report to those of you who couldn't join us last night that Governor Palin was the first governor to dance, the only governor to do the Electric Slide" -- PA Gov. Ed Rendell (D), at the closing session of the NGA Conference in Philly (Last Call! sources, 7/14).
"And I asked her (for) her name and phone number and she started to say, 'Sarah,' and I was like, 'Oh, man, you are Sarah Palin, aren't you?'" -- an Anchorage man involved in a "four-car fender bender" with AK's gov (Anchorage Daily News, 7/10).
After her labor began at an RGA Governors Energy Forum in TX, Palin gave birth to her fifth child, Trig Paxson Van Palin, in AK on Friday (release, 4/21).
Palin "shocked and awed just about everybody" 3/5 when she announced she was seven months pregnant with Trig, given her "barely perceptible bulge." Palin also said she wouldn't take time off when the baby arrived, noting when she had daughter Piper, "the baby was born on a Monday and she returned to the office on Tuesday" (Anchorage Daily News, 3/6).
Palin is "pushing a bill to make it tougher for conservation groups" to sue her state for "gunning down wolves from planes" (Anchorage Daily News, 1/30).
The Hotline's Quote of the Day on 12/14/07: "Yes, it's humbling, but it's also a responsibility we've taken on: changing Alaska's image" -- Palin, on posing for Vogue, AP, 12/13.
More Palin, on modeling: "At first they had me in a bunch of furs. Yeah, I have furs on my wall, but I don't wear furs. I had to show them my bunny boots and my North Face clothing" (AP, 12/13/07).
Palin "called to congratulate" dog musher Lance Mackey after he won both the Yukon Quest and Iditarod, and, with "high emotions and little sleep," Mackey answered the phone with: "How you doing, sir?" (KTUU.com, 3/16/07).
(HOLLY NOE)