February 6, 2009
Posted: February 6th, 2009 03:24 PM ET
Sarah Palin’s media blitz continues in a new, expansive interview with Esquire magazine, in which the Alaska governor reflects on the presidential race, her favorite lip balm, and how her ESPN motivated her to name her daughter Bristol.
Sarah Palin’s media blitz continues in a new, expansive interview with Esquire magazine, in which the Alaska governor reflects on the presidential race, her favorite lip balm, and how her ESPN motivated her to name her daughter Bristol.

(CNN) – Sarah Palin’s media blitz continues in a new, expansive interview with Esquire magazine, in which the Alaska governor reflects on the presidential race, her favorite lip balm, and how her ESPN motivated her to name her daughter Bristol.

Palin told the magazine the inspiration for her oldest daughter’s name had a few sources. She once worked at a Dillingham hotel called the Bristol Inn, and her husband Todd grew up in Bristol Bay.

“But also, Bristol, Connecticut, is the home of ESPN,” she explained. “And when I was in high school, my desire was to be a sportscaster. ESPN was just kicking off, just getting off the ground, and I thought that's what I was going to do in life, is be one of the first woman sportscasters. Until I learned that you'd have to move to Bristol, Connecticut. It was far away. So instead, I had a daughter and named her Bristol.”

Esquire published online excerpts of the interview last month, including one in which Palin bashed “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.” But on Friday, the magazine released a miscellany of nearly two dozen quotes from the interview, which covered everything from moose chili to Saturday Night Live.

Looking back on the campaign, Palin reiterated her disappointment with the McCain campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan early.

“We pulled out of some states that I believe we should have continued to campaign in and sent a stronger message that those states really mattered, regardless of the number of electoral votes there,” she said. “The people mattered. I would have loved to have had more influence on where it was that we campaigned.”

As she said in the earlier excerpts, Palin said she wished she could have called “some of the shots” in the race. “Don't just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya,” she said.

The governor noted that she’s a big fan of a certain lip ointment. “I'm addicted to Carmex,” she said. “I don't go anywhere without Carmex.”

She also said: “Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.”

At the end of a long day, she said, she likes to take a bath with her son Trig, and then fall asleep listening her daughter Piper read aloud.

“She's learning to read and she'll read for hours on end,” she said. “It's idyllic. It's amazing.”

Filed under: Sarah Palin


thomas   February 6th, 2009 1:51 pm ET

CNN, please stop parading this woman around in front of us. This is not news.

AP in Illinois   February 6th, 2009 1:51 pm ET

The Environmental Terrorist continues to stay in the news. The problem with America is not Sarah Palin. It is that people actually think she is a qualified candidate for anything. P.T. Barnum said it best..."There is a sucker born every minute"

Phillip   February 6th, 2009 1:51 pm ET

This is the sorry state of media news in the US in 2009. The economy is imploding, joblessness soars, hunger increases and this is the pablum that is given to the people. Cultures and nations don't fail due so often due to outside influences but rather from the rot within.

Me   February 6th, 2009 1:50 pm ET

Boy, after reading all your comments, it's obvious liberals are STILL so affraid of Palin. Too funny :)

Flo - Rida   February 6th, 2009 1:50 pm ET

Hopefully Bristol won't grow up to shoot wolves from helicopters like her mom. I think young republicans are a dieing breed, just like Alaskian wolves. Our country is shifting to the left as it ages.

Obama for Prime Minister   February 6th, 2009 1:49 pm ET

I wonder how people would have reacted to the Obama's if they had kids named Trig and Track?

Al, NY NY   February 6th, 2009 1:49 pm ET

She should name her kid Hustler 'cause although she may not read it, it's a perfect description of this dimwit. I'm so glad she is talking to people now, albeit about THE most inane subjects. By the way, has she spent any time lately actually doing her job in the Yukon? Her grand tour to try to keep herself relevant is most likely at the expense of her true occupation...serving the dopes that elected the Lipstick Fido into office. I guess the First Dude is running things back home

Angie in Pa   February 6th, 2009 1:49 pm ET

Just when I thought She is an airhead and clueless HERE YOU GO!

Brian   February 6th, 2009 1:49 pm ET

just because i speak the truth about the hatred still coming from the left...CNN will not post it! Cnn, you are so biased!!

mary   February 6th, 2009 1:49 pm ET

Thank God this woman did not get into the white house. All she would have promised to have done was that every American household had a 4 year supply of Carmex in their bathrooms. She is absolutely sickening.

Michael   February 6th, 2009 1:48 pm ET

First of all, to 'hello' who complained that Palin is not "well read" ; "Well read" has a hyphen. (well-read)
Secondly, what's probably happened with this ESPN, and then CNN report, is that the actual quotes that Sarah Palin had to say about governing were omitted for more sensational fluff like what happened in the Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson interviews.
Thirdly, we've already seen Obama be involved in two "pay to play" scandals as well as try to put in two cabinet members who are guilty of tax evasion...and he's not even been in a month. Juxtapose this with Sarah Palin being the highest rated governor in the U.S. who has not been found guilty of any of the accusations that the liberal media/democrats tried to pin on her.
I hope she is around in four years.

r sisk, nevada   February 6th, 2009 1:48 pm ET

Wow, this is news!!!! This will bring jobs to millions and help restore our economy. Go Palin!!!! And Bristol.

LOL

NEL E BELL   February 6th, 2009 1:48 pm ET

I'VE FINALLY FIGURED THIS CHICK OUT. SHE'S A NARSISTIC LOUD MOUTH. AT FIRST I THOUGHT SHE WAS REFRESHING, NOW SHE IS A MEDIA JUNKIE. ONCE ALASKANS VOTE HER OUT YOU CAN BET SHE WILL BE THE RUSH LIMPBISCUIT OF THE GREAT WHITE NORTH. SARAH, YOU AND YOUR CREEPY OLD MAN NEED TO GET HONEST WORK AND QUITE USING THE TAXPAYERS FOR YOUR MEAL TICKETS.

Ruby   February 6th, 2009 1:48 pm ET

Here she is Ms. Beauty Queen with no brain.

Christy   February 6th, 2009 1:48 pm ET

It's great that she's encouraging her children to read, but doesn't the mom usualy put the child to bed?

DR   February 6th, 2009 1:47 pm ET

I'm not a Palin supporter, but to those of you who are grossed out about the thought of taking a bath with your child....Trig is a baby, for cripe's sake! I guess breastfeeding past age 1 week also grosses you out? Get your minds out of the gutter, people.

And to Steve in Las Vegas: What is a "normal name"?

Again, I'll choose not to vote for Sarah Palin if she ever runs in a national election, but as a mom (and a working mom), I know things like taking a bath with your infant is a wonderful way to continue bonding with your child.

P. Mathew   February 6th, 2009 1:47 pm ET

And CNN considers this is vital news? Now I know why I get my news from other sources.

Faray   February 6th, 2009 1:47 pm ET

If I could just get my hands around John McCain' neck, for bringing this nitwit into the spot light!

Shawn Coggins   February 6th, 2009 1:46 pm ET

How can we ever expect for things to get better when the elected officials in congress are entrenched in party lines and start very comment or speech by placing blame. Democrats make comments blaming Present Bush for everything going on limiting all the trouble to just the last 8 years when we know that the seeds were planted long before he took office, along with the war that started and continues. A lot of those members in congress were there during the whole 8 years and if there blame to be places they share equally. Republicans are standing fast on their own party lines, saying the democrats are spending money that I children will have to pay back and at the same time they are putting their own pork spending into the bill. It is time to put the blame aside and for the Present to Stand Up and put forward to the people the package for everyone eyes to see, it would be nice to see all the bull that our elected official are trying to put into this bill before it gets past, instead of finding out about it after its passed. Let the People be the judge and see what they support

Oh Heck No!   February 6th, 2009 1:46 pm ET

Another reason I'm glad she isn't in line to be President. What an airhead.

Mary   February 6th, 2009 1:46 pm ET

Just go away and stay away

Sue   February 6th, 2009 1:46 pm ET

Yeap, she should stick to interiews with light-weight media instead of political media. Reflects well on her light-weight political career. Anything media news about Palin should be categorised under Entertainment, NOT politics.

Brian   February 6th, 2009 1:45 pm ET

Here we go again with the bashing of a human being!!! You liberals are totally sick in the head!!! LEAVE HER ALONE!!! Where is your compassion for love thy neighbor, and to quote what most of you liberals now say.... "there is not time for hatred now" Does this only apply to President Obama or any of your fellow dems??? You people are worse than the devil!!!!

Dionne   February 6th, 2009 1:45 pm ET

Sarah honey......please leave us alone!

T F   February 6th, 2009 1:44 pm ET

To those who are whining, if you don't care about the story, you shouldn't have continued reading the article ;-) , and you probably shouldn't even bother posting a note related to palin. it's a waste of your life ;) .

Me   February 6th, 2009 1:44 pm ET

Palin bashers here are mostly paid liberal bloggers.

BTW, Judd needs an education. Why does she personally go after only Palin? She should include EVERY governor, plus the President in her rantings. They ALL look over and control the wildlife management decisions that are in EVERY SINGLE STATE, not just Alaska...remember the POISONED BIRD story last week???? Where is her outcry for the pain and suffering of those poor poisoned birds???....sorry, but feeding the people of Alaska (who MANY rely on Carribou to eat) IS more important than the wolf population dessimating the Carribou population, (and thus starving themselves after they would have totally wiped out their own food source – if Palin AND the wildlife EXPERTS hadn't done something about it)....Hollywood, get a clue.

BJ in Nc   February 6th, 2009 1:44 pm ET

And, the importance or relevence of naming her kids has WHAT to do with the state of the country???

I'm just saying......

Kevin Johnson   February 6th, 2009 1:44 pm ET

Why is this considered news? Who cares about the inspiration for her daugther's name? This article belongs in the gossip rags. This is a new low for CNN.

arc, Lugano CH   February 6th, 2009 1:44 pm ET

Why exactly are many Conservatives and Right leaning Republicans so enamored with this woman? Surely there is a stronger and more intelligent individual who embodies their views, yet who doesn’t feed off the fear of their supporters to better their own position.

Richard   February 6th, 2009 1:43 pm ET

As long a democrats keep blaming other people for their problems, and failed policys. I will keep voting Republican. It seems the lesser of two evils. If democrats want my vote then clean up your own party, you don't get it by pointing fingers at others.

robert   February 6th, 2009 1:43 pm ET

As a die hard republican, I feel completely embarrassed. This woman is a cancer. We need to hear about are true party leaders, not a moronic wanabee with the intellect of a ten year old.

Mish   February 6th, 2009 1:43 pm ET

And this is news LOL
Give me a break
people could care less what she named her kids or who they were named after
this woman is in love with HERSELF
there are far more important issues to focus on
she should go back to school and educate herself

Boston Irish   February 6th, 2009 1:42 pm ET

To all of you posters who can't stand Sarah Palin and never want to read another thing about her – WHY DO YOU READ EVERY ARTICLE WORD FOR WORD REGARDING HER??????

Who forced you to? I think deep down you enjoy reading about her a lot and you just don't want to admit it. You come on here and spew hate regarding her, but you really don't mean it. Just a cover for how you really feel. You think maybe if you spew garbage about her long enough, people might not notice how many times your name is on posts regarding her when you have already stated you don't want to read anymore about her. WELL THEN DON'T, but please shut up after you go ahead and read about her anyway.

Sharon   February 6th, 2009 1:41 pm ET

Please, I am tired of hearing about Sarah Palin. Her continued negativity and harsh criticism of campaign/news organizations/politicans/people are boring. Lady needs to realize she is to blame for her problems too!! Her whole political history reveals she reveal she has always been incapable of admitting her own faults. Attacking has always been her self chosen position/direction. 2008 Presidential Campaign is over!

Cathy   February 6th, 2009 1:41 pm ET

now that that's cleared up,GO AWAY!!!!

Irma in North Carolina   February 6th, 2009 1:41 pm ET

Is this only way this woman can get in the spot light by going on a national news site and telling who she named her children after. And that her daughter can read. Hope this daughter will get a high school diploma, as I dont think any of the rest of her kids will get one. She should of named her last son Rush, Beings him and Sarah are both alike. I see some of her competition is out Mitt there for 2012. Wonder what hateful words she will use to tear him apart.

She Has The IQ of A Paper Clip   February 6th, 2009 1:40 pm ET

Pailin loves money, not America. If she really wanted to help the country, she would not have procreated. Now we have her dimwitted seeds all over the place.

Lame   February 6th, 2009 1:40 pm ET

ugh! We don't CARE! please...no more gossip!

Ambrose Smith, Borrego Springs, California   February 6th, 2009 1:40 pm ET

Wow! She is really answering the TOUGH questions isn't she?

What hard hitting journalism!

Baaaa... Baaaa... Baaaa ......   February 6th, 2009 1:39 pm ET

It is so funny watching CNN play you sheep....

Do you not see a pattern. Fluff pieces about your hero (BO), then something critical about him, then a piece about Palin to really stir you mindless sheep up..... then start it all over the next day, then the next day, then the next day....etc.

All this to keep their "hit" count up and allow them to sell advertisements.

You've already let the Democratic party herd you, now you're letting CNN do the same.

Eric   February 6th, 2009 1:39 pm ET

So, because she was too weak to move away from home to follow her dream, she just had a kid instead.

What the heck is wrong with this woman. "I'm afraid to move to Bristol so i named my kid Bristol...."

She Has The IQ of A Doorknob   February 6th, 2009 1:38 pm ET

Note to Kids: We forgot to tell you that you actually have to know something by educating yourself before you can become president. Don't look to Pailin as a role model, she doesn't know anything.

See why Geography and English comes in handy? Think about it.

kelly_vt   February 6th, 2009 1:38 pm ET

CNN...please STOP already with insignificant (and embarrassing) details on this woman's life - THIS is news????

J   February 6th, 2009 1:38 pm ET

She`s soooo puuuurrrrrty !!!! Dumb like a fox, just not intellectually gifted----- If she wasn`t pretty, she would be a nobody.

brown eyes   February 6th, 2009 1:38 pm ET

I find her interesting and personable.

BRUTIS   February 6th, 2009 1:37 pm ET

She says she like to play the FLUTE......I bet Todd enjoys that to...A good skin FLUTE player is hard to fine these days.

FAYE, NV   February 6th, 2009 1:36 pm ET

Please learn for books, like how to complete a sentence, what makes an expert on foreign policy.

Let us see your medical records on the birth of your last child. Sara is a fake and snake.

Texas   February 6th, 2009 1:36 pm ET

What does "ya" mean? Still have taken that English class I see.

Jesi Turner   February 6th, 2009 1:34 pm ET

All Leonard Peltier Supporter are currently jamming the White House phone lines demanding the release of Leonard Peltier. Today marks the 33 anniversary of his incarceration for a crime he never committed. A crime in which the others involved in this case we're found innocent by reason of self defense. FREE LOENARD PELTIER NOW!!!!!

JD   February 6th, 2009 1:34 pm ET

GO AWAY. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE GO AWAY.

Joel Miller   February 6th, 2009 1:34 pm ET

Palin's publicist is doing a great job keeping this irrelevancy in the lime light. Which CNN reporters has he or she taken to lunch recently. Everything in this article (and probably in the Esquire piece) is old, old news. Don't waste time and energy on dead stories. There's a whole ecoomic crisis and two wars plus all kinds of other news good and bad to report on.

obama-mama   February 6th, 2009 1:33 pm ET

Beverly, NYC...you are hilarious....I can't stop laughing.

Vegas Barbie the Paralegal for Obama   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

"As she said in the earlier excerpts, Palin said she wished she could have called “some of the shots” in the race. “Don't just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya,” she said."–Make it stop, please. She really doesn't get it that the VP is the SECOND in command. SHE doesn't think they should have pulled out of Michigan, SHE should have called some of the shots...fact is, that SHE is in large part the reason that the McCain campaign went down...then again, perhaps they SHOULD have put her "in charge" earlier and thus brought the thing to a merciful, if not annoying, end that much more quickly.

Dallas TX   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

This woman is truly an idiot. She will talk about anything that will get her in the media. This is the person that the GOP wants to represent them in 2012. What is it??? Is there no governing business for her to take care of in Alaska. We the people who don't see America as she does are SICK of her. The GOP is pathetic now.... Joe the Plummer giving economic advice to Republicans and Sarah Palin trying to be in the media everyday. Why don't she and Joe the Plummer go crawl under a rock..... FOREVER! Republicans are a joke. They just don't get it.

Dave   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

So I guess he next child will be named Plumber?

Thomas   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

CNN,
WHY ? Who Cares !
Leave this high standard of journalism to the National Inquirer or Soap Opera Digest !

PLEASE !

sherry   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

Did this revelation come to her while she was taking a hit on the bong?

Cincy Voter   February 6th, 2009 1:32 pm ET

Boston Irish:

Get over it, no one cares.

Dontthinkso, Trenton, Indiana   February 6th, 2009 1:31 pm ET

I wonder why she wanted the VP job, did she not understand she'd have to move EVEN FARTHER away?

Jean   February 6th, 2009 1:31 pm ET

Why did you close this ticker "Polls show support for stimulus has slipped" but you have no problem leaving the Palin comment open for days. Scumbags.
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Polls show support for stimulus

What did you expect? The corrupt MSM elected the most inexperience man to be president in our history.

Obama has never Gov anything in his life. His whole campaign was a well rehearsed movie script.

He looks weak and confused. He is playing the fear card just like Bush.

The next four years will rest on the shoulders of the corrupt MSM.

Phillip Bunn   February 6th, 2009 1:31 pm ET

If a moose farts in Alaska, and Sarah Palin doesn't hear it, does it really make a sound?

indiana voter   February 6th, 2009 1:30 pm ET

It is amazing that so many people on this blog feel intimidated by Palin that they have to try and discredit her. Apparently CNN recognizes that she is going to be a strong GOP candidate in the future and that is why they continue to cover her. The "left" is scared by this as evidenced in the comments made about her on this board.

C Squared   February 6th, 2009 1:30 pm ET

Amber February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

OK, let's not get hypocritical here folks. Remember that a lot of famous progressives name their kids Kal-EL, Apple, Moon Unit, Wolfgang, Pilot, etc.

______________________________________________________

Let's not forget my favorite...Blanket. Wolfgang was also Mozart's first name (It's German/Austrian)

But on the actual story...honestly, why is this news? And I'm not saying that because it is a Palin story. I would say the same thing about the President's children. My mother doesn't go around telling people how she was inspired for my name. Granted Bristol is a better name than Trigg. But seriously CNN?

–C Squared (forever lost in moderation)

Greg in Colorado   February 6th, 2009 1:30 pm ET

Big deal... please go away you ingrate!!

James   February 6th, 2009 1:29 pm ET

Learning everything from sports would certainly explain a whole lot, a real lot....thats all id criticize here..just another dumb comment, not to mention she didnt give a damn about other states if she did she wouldnt resort to stereotypes and generalizations when blaming people for something as simple as an interview, unfortunately, the mtv environment in politics that exists lately, i see this happening more and more, i mean look at all these comments already, and they are right, we dont care what lip crap she uses, or why she named her kid that, we care about your intelligence, and there seems to not be any, end of story. We arent helping by commenting wildly on her everytime shes on here obviously, although with her constant mouth dropping comments its hard not to. =/

John   February 6th, 2009 1:29 pm ET

Find it funny that the only insult you can say about Sarah is that "shes stupid." Why dont you do a little reasearch on her political stances instead of calling her 3rd grade names.

Alaskan   February 6th, 2009 1:29 pm ET

PLEASE stop indulging the Palin media blitz. Who cares that this bimbo named her poor daughter after ESPN. We already know Palin is an idiot. Stop confirming it for us, let her sink into obscurity already!

Timmay   February 6th, 2009 1:28 pm ET

“Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.” What Special Olympics?

john   February 6th, 2009 1:28 pm ET

I just assumed she was named after the NASCAR track. I could picture rednecks everywhere saying, "Dadgummit! I didn't know we were allowed to name our kids after racin' tracks! I'm changing my daughter's name to Talladega!!!"

Dave   February 6th, 2009 1:28 pm ET

IT'S STILL A PIG!!!

Jean from Belgium   February 6th, 2009 1:28 pm ET

To Ray Ray, bring change and hope in your own mind!
Maybe and hopely y'll understand what life is all about?

obama-mama   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

She likes to take a bath with her son Trig? Who needs to know that.....Wow...What a nut.

Sniffit   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

She was so busy "reading everything" that she didn't have time to thumb thru a baby name book? ha...she probably tries to read the toilet paper.

kyle   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

people relax...she show some self respect and don't criticize everything she does.

SOUTHERN HOTTIE   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

CNN = COMPLETE NON NEWS

mary, colorado   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

This woman's oratory has all the substance of a soap bubble, and just
about as empty. Why does the media insist on printing ANYTHING she does or says. WHO CARES?????? Give her a 1-ticket home and let her run Alaska and stay out of the Lower 48.

Richard   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

Why couldn't they have asked her about all the things she said that had no truth?

Kim   February 6th, 2009 1:27 pm ET

One more time... WE. DON'T. CARE.

Farrell, Houston, Tx   February 6th, 2009 1:26 pm ET

OKAY, ALL TOGETHER NOW. THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT PALIN IS A BORN AGAIN IDIOT.

Sniffit   February 6th, 2009 1:26 pm ET

That's just a cover-up. What really happened is this illiterate dullard picked up an atlas and thought it was a baby name book.

AndyL   February 6th, 2009 1:26 pm ET

Wow, the dumbmocrats are about to throw away 1 trillion dollars in tax payers money, but they are still worried about this woman and her kin.

dotjet   February 6th, 2009 1:26 pm ET

@ Cynthia in MI:

That's hysterical! I laughed out loud and almost choked on my lunch!

She Has The IQ of Lint   February 6th, 2009 1:26 pm ET

Let's see Bristol for ESPN, Track because she and her husband ran track....what next. Why not "idiot" because that's what she and her husband are...two idiots procreating. And she has the nerve to want to run for a national office. The thought makes me puke.

We hit the jackpot with Barack Obama, and thank goodness. McCain picked this lame Caribou Doll who butchers her state image and makes a mockery of everything. I want these people to go away now.

Why haven't we picked anyone from Alaska for president–because if they're anything like Sarah, they're wackos.

Go away Palin, you make me puke.

obambi   February 6th, 2009 1:25 pm ET

Palin and her supporters will be ready for you vicious libs next time. Ashley Judd and Tina Fey have had their day. The so-called "elites" can have fun trying to remake Obama after his true self came out with these post-campaign clueless speeches. Tell him to stop smoking–might cost us money for his extra health care.

Rick   February 6th, 2009 1:25 pm ET

"...and I thought that's what I was going to do in life, is be one of the first woman sportscasters. Until I learned that you'd have to move to Bristol, Connecticut. It was far away. So instead, I had a daughter and named her Bristol.”

What else do you need to know about Sarah Palin?

joeb   February 6th, 2009 1:24 pm ET

CNN keeps running stories about this dullard simply to attract viewers; no more, no less.

Lisa   February 6th, 2009 1:24 pm ET

All you mean people must be interested in Sara Why else would you all read and comment???
She is a real women. Great mom and wife.

obama-mama   February 6th, 2009 1:24 pm ET

Peter piper pick a pepper?

are you surprised   February 6th, 2009 1:23 pm ET

that there are so many crooks and thieves around you,

beside yourself?

well, how else can you make zillions

without honestly laboring and creating value?

cheating is the name of the capitalist game.

enjoy betting against your own intersts!

and good luck with that!

Sniffit   February 6th, 2009 1:23 pm ET

Hey, I love a good morning constitutional...maybe I'll name my first kid Dump. For real, this woman is a troglodyte.

Royd   February 6th, 2009 1:23 pm ET

Oh, that faraway, magical land called... Connecticut.

No wonder she hadn't traveled out of the country before 2008.

Dawn   February 6th, 2009 1:23 pm ET

Oh dear, Sarah Palin is what comic relief for us. Who really cares about a name, what I care about is JOBS BABY JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CNN she is not news worthy. She has the intelligence of an snail. If she would be faced with this deficit, how would she handle it? Oh yeah she would have her true neo-cons to kill the Democrats.

Hearing John McCain today and his so-called knowledge of economics et. "I am suspending my campaigning to head back to D.C. to be the leader and hero of the TARP. It back fired.

Gov. Palin stay in Alaska and deal with Mt. Redoubt.

Sonny   February 6th, 2009 1:22 pm ET

I have to wonder if the loons who post on this web site get up in the morning looking for the first Palin news article of the day to get their kicks.

All I ever see from them is the same old tired expressions from the same people.

Pathetic!!!

Tulsa L   February 6th, 2009 1:22 pm ET

Everything she has ever needed to know she learned from sports!!!!!! Explains why her intelligence is limited........... McCain pulled out of Michigan early because at that point he realized he had made a fatal mistake in taking Palin on a VP........ I lived in Alaska and I know the trash on Palin and you don't want her anywhere in our Goverment. The trash will all come out when she runs for her next election, she wasn't completely vetted by the GOP and she didn't give herself to many of the reportpers, this next run she will be facing a more aggressive media and she will show you what she really is made of.

Spencer/Virginia   February 6th, 2009 1:22 pm ET

I'd like to see the cat fight between Ashley Judd and Palin.

Soccer Nana   February 6th, 2009 1:21 pm ET

A sweaty grown woman taking a bath with an infant; an eight year old reading to the grown up who just finished a bath with an infant; the grown admits to falling asleep while the eight year old reads to her. My question is, who puts the infant and the eight year old to bed after the grown up falls asleep?

Lou in Iowa   February 6th, 2009 1:21 pm ET

She regularly goes to bed before her 8-year-old daughter? How strange.

Republicans = window lickers   February 6th, 2009 1:21 pm ET

Oh my GOD!!!!! This has to be the silliest thing I have ever heard. Typical posturing forthe next election cycle. This witch needs to get on her broom and fly away. Palin just go and lick your window.

Jen   February 6th, 2009 1:21 pm ET

Esquire magazine? I can't wait to read the article. She certianly calls it like it is...isn't that refreshing.

I am so tired of Washington telling people what they want them to think, what they think we should know and like last night, telling us from his cushy position at the lux hotel, our president tells us we should approve for congress to pass a trillion dollar bill because the tab is a trillion dollars...

gee, if i just gave money to every person that said they needed money without serious evaluation of whether it was going to actually help them or if they were going to spend it wisely I would be stupid. I guess Washington is stupid.

They are if they think I and other americans will follow blindly along....regardless of who we voted for. Citizens have woken up.

Spencer/Virginia   February 6th, 2009 1:21 pm ET

Stop killing animals from helicopters Sarah. If you're so pro-life, then stop killing the defenseless wolves.

Venia   February 6th, 2009 1:20 pm ET

And her parents named her after a clueless pathological liar they once knew.

Chuck   February 6th, 2009 1:19 pm ET

Does anyone in this country really give a rat's behind where she got her names for her children. I wonder if any of them are biblical. They sound more like names of famous television horses.

John   February 6th, 2009 1:19 pm ET

This is the kind of lightweight fluff Palin seems to excel at.

She'd make a great president, no?

/sarcasm

Michelle   February 6th, 2009 1:18 pm ET

"She also said: “Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.” "

Well that explains a lot.

gabe   February 6th, 2009 1:18 pm ET

I love you Sarah. Can't wait to see you in '12 when Barak's name is mud.

kayla   February 6th, 2009 1:18 pm ET

AND?

hello   February 6th, 2009 1:17 pm ET

STOP GIVING PLATFORM TO THIS LADY.
SHE IS AS UNEDUCATED AS OUR LAST PRSIDENT.
NOT A WELL READ PERSON.

George W. Bush   February 6th, 2009 1:16 pm ET

Can't she just go away!!

greed is not good   February 6th, 2009 1:16 pm ET

Oh please...enough already of Palin it's like reading the National Enquirer or gossip daytime television shows.

Dana from NY   February 6th, 2009 1:15 pm ET

Someone please tell me how any reputable news organization can call this "news"??
NO ONE CARES about how Palin's daughter got her name- someone managed to write paragraphs about this topic?
What is next.... How Palin came up with her pets name?? Or maybe it will be a exclusive interview about her new book "The joys of shooting helpless animals from airplanes"- or "Hunting- run fast or be shot".... I mean really CNN- this is news??

Elspeth   February 6th, 2009 1:15 pm ET

I don't think we can have a president, a vice-president or ANY significant elected official who says "Ya"–dodged a bullet with Palin, for sure–and her career aspiration to be a sportscaster says a lot. Hmm.. Glorified gym teacher? Those who can't teach, teach gym!

ac   February 6th, 2009 1:15 pm ET

This is NEWS? Political NEWS? You've got to be kidding!

Funmi   February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

It nice to hear Palin speaks like this. I love women who speak idyllically unlike the time of campaign, they made her talk very aggresively. More grease to your elbow and I love to see more of your real self like today's

Tina, NC   February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

Once again we are forced to ask WHO CARES??

Amber   February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

OK, let's not get hypocritical here folks. Remember that a lot of famous progressives name their kids Kal-EL, Apple, Moon Unit, Wolfgang, Pilot, etc.

Just adding a little un-biased perspective.
I'm trying to wean myself off of being a snark about this lady because honestly, who does it help?

Steve in Las Vegas,NV   February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

I would hate to be given some goofy name like she has come up with.
Why not normal names?, but of course she is not from this planet.

Maybe she thinks this a cute thing. Hopefully their names can be changed in court if they don't like them. How would she like a name like Moose, or Caribou Barbie,or Killer of wolves Mooseburger..... The list goes on.

Feel free to add your suggestions to the list of really goofy names!

Spencer MC Alpine   February 6th, 2009 1:14 pm ET

The woman is a idiot!!!

Pete   February 6th, 2009 1:13 pm ET

I'm sure this is yet another not-exactly true not-exactly a lie from Ms. Palin. So, her fear of "moving far away" caused her to abandon her career ambitions? Funny that this is literally the first time we've heard this story. My guess is that her broadcast career fizzled out because she simply wasn't good enough to make it to Bristol.

As for "learning everything she's ever needed to know she learned from sports", how exactly does her knowledge of UConn basketball help her understand the delicate situation in Pakistan?

cool onlooker   February 6th, 2009 1:13 pm ET

THAT IS NEWS!
SHE IS A GRANDMO NOW, DON'T YOU KNOW?

Beverly, NYC   February 6th, 2009 1:12 pm ET

Where to begin so many pearls of insight:

She also said: “Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.” Now I know why someone with a journalism degree sounds like an illerate jock who play without a helmet.

At the end of a long day, she said, she likes to take a bath with her son Trig, and then fall asleep listening her daughter Piper read aloud.
I'm going to let the whole grown woman bathing with a child go, I'm sure that image will make Sean & Rush willing to trade places. It's just nice to know someone in that family reads.

Obama Mama in Seattle   February 6th, 2009 1:12 pm ET

Sara Palin – can you imagine if she and McCain had gotten in the white house – OMG, what a scary thought – I wish she would just go away. She's an embarrasement to herself and Alaska.

Chuck   February 6th, 2009 1:12 pm ET

Enough of Sarah Palin. She is about as deep as a mud puddle.

Katie   February 6th, 2009 1:11 pm ET

Hahahaha..... McCain/Palin would have NEVER taken Michigan. Who does she think she is? It's one of the most Democratic states in the nation.

cancer   February 6th, 2009 1:11 pm ET

No one is interested in what Sara Palin named her kids.

Frozen Alaskan   February 6th, 2009 1:11 pm ET

Okay enough about her already! Why is she in the news EVERY DAY, and you report on things that are not even news! For instance, who cares where Bristol got her name? Also notice how she loves media coverage, just not the negative.

I wish instead of yapping to the news media all day every day, that she'd actually do her job in Alaska, for Alaskans. I think she has the idea she's too cool or important to be doing her job now. So many Alaskans are upset at her lack of work ethic now that she's popular. I can't imagine her as president (thank God she isn't), she'd do what she's doing now for Alaska: pretty much nothing.

Perhaps she should leave politics altogether and be a sportswriter. That way I can at least ignore her when I don't read Sports.

john   February 6th, 2009 1:11 pm ET

CNN loves Palin. The rest of America, not so much.

Ron   February 6th, 2009 1:11 pm ET

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....thanks for the daily laugh, Palin..........I wanted to name my daughter after something ties to ESPN? For the love of God, doesn't this woman have any sense?????

Doug - Dallas   February 6th, 2009 1:10 pm ET

Who cares!!!

Kay   February 6th, 2009 1:10 pm ET

This kind of "inside information" is so..."People Magazine". Not what you'd expect from Esquire. Maybe the same megacorporation owns both of them, I don't know...

Some of her opinions are so vapid, they're what you'd expect to get from those ex-teeny-bopper warblers like Britney Spears or friend-to-Paris Nicole Richey.

She didn't happen to impart her feelings about men who wear Carhartts, did she?

She probably needs the Carmex because she habitually wears her lipstick about 1/8" beyond her lip line. Helps prevent those age lines that so many ex-beauty-queen contestants abhor...

Meow.

yeah   February 6th, 2009 1:10 pm ET

“Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports.”

That's the problem Sarah, that's the problem.

Ken   February 6th, 2009 1:10 pm ET

“She's learning to read and she'll read for hours on end,” she said. “It's idyllic. It's amazing.”

Is this quote really from Sarah talking about Piper?... I think it is Piper talking about Sarah. I certainly hope Piper doesn't grow up to be as dumb as a toothless billboard for the rightwing.

Robin   February 6th, 2009 1:09 pm ET

Oh, good Lord, here come the Hate filled Libs out from under their rock. (I don't mean all Democrats).

Ray Ray   February 6th, 2009 1:09 pm ET

LOL – thank you CNN for the extra attention being paid to Gov Palin!

With Obama pushing the Pork-ulus Bill, nominating tax-cheats and lobbyists' with conflicts of interest.... I can understand why the folks at CNN are now having buyers-remorse. Don't feel too badly.... many Americans were duped by Obama's "Change" and "Hope" which really turned out to be just words.

KimD   February 6th, 2009 1:09 pm ET

Too bad she didn't pursue a career as a sportscaster. I never watch ESPN...

tim   February 6th, 2009 1:09 pm ET

nice nonsense story, CNN.

shoegazer   February 6th, 2009 1:08 pm ET

Another insignificant story about an insignificant political"wanna-be".
Again,if this woman is to be the face of the GOP for the foreseeable future,enjoy your time in the hinterlands Repubs'.

Simmy   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

I don't whether to be annoyed with her or the writer. Sick.

Sheryl   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

CNN are you for real ? I love watching you but this is JUST NOT news, Who Gives a Rat's A$$, I mean really. Just looking to fire People up today or what ? Or economy is in the toilet and this is what you want to report about ?

Use your Media input for educating the ignorant out there that have no clue about why what is happening is happening, and what will happen if nothing is done NOW. Not later but NOW.

I love President Obama and would hope that you report on more of what he is saying about the World, and i am sure he also would want you to put your Media Input to better use than pisses off those igonrant people by reporting every little personal thing he does...taking off his jacket in the Oval Office, or taking his First Ride on Air Force One... I think President Obama and the rest of his supporters would like you to report on MORE PRESSING matters.

Your not the Enquire for Christ sakes, Act Like The Professional that you are.

Seattle   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

Iso its a good thing she never went to Conn. am sure that state never wanted a moose,bear,wolf destroyer either

chuck   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

Bye the way the name of her next child will be FOX .

Barbara Middletown NY   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

Why is this stupid story necessary? Who cares!

Kim, Charlotte, NC   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

Next..............

MrReality   February 6th, 2009 1:07 pm ET

Washington DC is a long way away from Alaska too and you'd have to move there to be Veep. I would be pleased as punch (don'tcha know!) if any additional children born to the Palins were named "Washington".

Andrew   February 6th, 2009 1:06 pm ET

And this woman wanted to be vice president....

obama-mama   February 6th, 2009 1:05 pm ET

Who gives a rat's behind......

Nonconformist   February 6th, 2009 1:05 pm ET

I love Sarah Palin.

chuck   February 6th, 2009 1:05 pm ET

Sarah Palin hasn't woken up to reality as yet. Her rise to Governor was the biggest FLUKE in American history. When Palin wakes up out of her dream she would realise how stupid she really is. Sarah Palin might be the Governor but she acts like a house wife trying to grab every penny she could get. People don't be fooled by this idiot,everywhere she goes money is demanded and every interview she does is money driven.

Boston Irish   February 6th, 2009 1:05 pm ET

I like all the names Sarah Palin picked for her children. I like names you don't see everyday. I'm very disappointed at the people who have posted being so hateful regarding her children's names. They are just names and simply because you've never heard of them or maybe they are a name you wouldn't choose for your child, doesn' mean you have to be so hateful and call her children horrible names. A lot of people might not like the names Sasha and Malia, but I don't see anyone ridiculing the Obama daughters simply because you don't like their names. They are only names and they are only children.

Karen P.   February 6th, 2009 1:04 pm ET

Good for Sarah! She's much more intelligent than Nancy Pelosi, who thinks we are losing 500 million jobs each month. Quite a feat for a country who's population is only about 300 million.

Approve My Comments CNN!   February 6th, 2009 1:04 pm ET

Here comes the raging mouth foaming Democraps in 3,2,1......

Snake eyes   February 6th, 2009 1:04 pm ET

And she wonders why she's not taken seriously....

nate   February 6th, 2009 1:04 pm ET

She named her kid after a town where a tv station is. Enough said

Ken in NC   February 6th, 2009 1:03 pm ET

OK So Gov. Palin wanted to work for ESPN until she found that she would have to move to Bristol, Connecticut so she did the next best thing. She got pregnant and named the baby Bristol. I'm sure that really makes her daughter, Bristol, feel great. This woman is still talking about the McCain campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan early. Maybe by this time next year, time will have caught up with her and she will realize that they lost the election. Then maybe she will be able to move on.

She says everything she ever needed to know she learned through sports. Now that explaines her limited knowledge and taking a bath with her son is just a bit to much information. I'm not even going to go there. You can tell she has listened to lots of commercials to because she loves her Carmex Lip Ointment and "NEVERS LEAVES HOME WITHOUT IT" I thought that was the AMEX Card.

This woman is going to keep people like Jay Leno in business for years.

does that answer your question?   February 6th, 2009 1:03 pm ET

Is anyone out there still wondering why we love to make fun of this woman?

zaphod2000   February 6th, 2009 1:03 pm ET

WHO GIVES A FLYING FREAK!!! FIRST WOMAN SPORTSCASTER? DOES SHE LISTEN TO HERSELF WHEN SHE TALKS???
BREAKING NEWS, BREAKING NEWS – the Alaska beauty queen woke up this morning, she let one rip on her way to the bathroom and as she was brushing her teeth she looked out her window and saw Russia.
PLEASE STOP REPORTING ON THIS TRAILER TRASH BIMBO.
WHERE DID SHE PICK THOSE OTHER DUMB NAMES FOR HER KIDS?

nadine   February 6th, 2009 1:03 pm ET

It does matter if you went to Michigan or not, you would not have won anyways. There are only a handful of people who would vote for you as a Vice President or a President. Even if President Obama didn't win, you never stood a chance and still will never be elected for any political position other than being the Gov. of Alaska. As a American with free will, I will never, ever vote for you. Just go away already.

Thumb   February 6th, 2009 1:02 pm ET

Outstanding

PATTY, KENTUCKY   February 6th, 2009 1:01 pm ET

PLEASE, ENOUGH OF HER....SHE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO ALASKA & GOVERN HER 3K+ PEOPLE....SHE'S A JOKE & AN INSULT TO THE REAL WORKING MOMS OF AMERICA....

Here in AZ   February 6th, 2009 1:00 pm ET

Oh jeez, here we go again. Another story about the Palin brain trust. Why can't she just go away and stay there? What a waste of an interview too. Sarah never mentioned Esquire as one of the magazines she reads.

Esther Johanssen   February 6th, 2009 1:00 pm ET

The title of this article on the main page reads "Obama gets bad early review."

not

"Obama STIMULUS gets bad early review."

The polls were not a judge of Obama's approval rating but his stimulus package. This are two completely different things that have been scrambled together. Please address this. Thankyou.

Morgan, Colorado   February 6th, 2009 1:00 pm ET

This is Alaska news at most stop putting it up as National news. You lost, we rejected you, go away Palin.

- 49 other states.

Venia   February 6th, 2009 12:59 pm ET

And this is the clown you rethuglicans wanted to be second in command?? Wow, just wow.

rml   February 6th, 2009 12:59 pm ET

Why does the press continues to give this moron time?
I am beginning to lose my fiath in the credibility of CNN..Thought they were a news network, not a sounding board for publicity seeking wannabes......

GOPer   February 6th, 2009 12:59 pm ET

A politician naming a child after a fantasy. Is this really worthy of global news coverage while millions of Americans are slipping deeper into poverty?

Stewie   February 6th, 2009 12:58 pm ET

It's such a shame that she didn't become an ESPN anchor. She and Keith Olberman could've been best friends.

Jason   February 6th, 2009 12:57 pm ET

Are you kidding me? So her great – grandkids we be called what, ESPN, ESPNU? NO, FOXSPORTS PALIN!!!
Guarentee none of tem will be call PBS Palin

Russ   February 6th, 2009 12:57 pm ET

Again, Why do we care about Palin and her life? And I sure as hell don't care about her lip balm. If she didn't put out so much lip service she wouldn't need it.

Bill A   February 6th, 2009 12:56 pm ET

How clever......God will she just go away......

PHS in RI   February 6th, 2009 12:56 pm ET

who cares

a true american   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

why is the media focusing on that puppet. jesus!!!!!!!!

ConsiderThis, FL   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

wHAT A DUNCE.

Jeff Brown   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

And she is on here because?

Cynthia in MI   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

Well, my parents grew up in and worked in Hamtramck . . . but fortunately they both had common sense.

Joan   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

She needs to take a lesson from our FORMER president and disappear.

Tank Engine   February 6th, 2009 12:55 pm ET

With this on the ticker, how come the main ticker does not say "Palin still an idiot"?

weird   February 6th, 2009 12:54 pm ET

She takes a bath WITH her son? I have two little boys, but I wouldn't climb naked into the tub with them, even as babies!

And doesn't the CHILD usually fall asleep while the PARENT reads?

Louis   February 6th, 2009 12:54 pm ET

Now that she's had a couple of months to think about it, maybe she can name some publications that she reads.

Ted   February 6th, 2009 12:54 pm ET

What is with Sarah Palin? Can't she figure out that she is irrevelant? Is the GOP in such shape that it keeps putting her out there? Every time I think of Palin, I think of her being spoofed on SNL or better yet, standing in front of the turkey slaughtering place in Alaska. I know the GOP has better women such as Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe and others.

teach her, Piper   February 6th, 2009 12:52 pm ET

Now maybe Piper can teach Sarah to read.

Mittohead   February 6th, 2009 12:52 pm ET

i don't want to know these things

S.B. Stein E.B. NJ   February 6th, 2009 12:52 pm ET

And this is news why? I only want to hear when this woman say something stupid or ideological (that's often). If this woman is running for a national office (member of the Senate or House or president), that I would like to hear as well. Otherwise, I don't want to hear from an ideologue unless I went looking for one.

one down, four to go   February 6th, 2009 12:51 pm ET

Oooookkkkaaaaayy.

Now she just needs to explain "Track", "Piper", "Willow", and "Trigg".

Mark in Atlanta   February 6th, 2009 12:51 pm ET

Wow. What a thinker.

Len in Washington   February 6th, 2009 12:50 pm ET

STOP, STOP, STOP!!!!!!
We're sick of hearing about her, CNN.

gag!   February 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

Just when I thought my opinion of her couldn't possibly get lower...

BB   February 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

**** chirp chirp chirp ****

STOP IT   February 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

CNN CAN YOU PLEASE KEEP THIS WOMAN OUT OF THE HEADLINES! NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS WHACKJOB!

It's all so clear now   February 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

"Everything I've ever needed to know I learned through sports." – Sarah Palin

Well, that explains it all.

Obama Victim   February 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

I am looking forward to when we call Sarah...............Madam President

Shari, NY   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

With all due respect hy is this on a political ticker?

Boston Neutral   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

Who really cares what Mitt Romney said. I'm neither a democrat nor a republican. Mitt Romney has more grease on him than a mechanic and will waffle, flip flop and change his views based on what "he deems" popular at the moment. Mitt Romney DID NOTHING for Massachusetts other than use it for his self serving interests.

The solution: deport him to Utah and leave him there for good.

bob in LA   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

Stop listening to this woman- no one cares!

AEK   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

I'm sorry, who's this story about? I thought I recognized the name for a moment but then...nope, got nothin'!

Cincy Voter   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

I'm just leaving a comment to say; who cares about this garbage? I mean really???

Sniffit   February 6th, 2009 12:48 pm ET

And her love of shooting things inspired her newest son's name.

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