Martin Eisenstadt’s Blog

On Thursday night, I was at Lou Dobbs’ going away party and snagged his advance copy of Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue. The book may have a lot going for it, but an index apparently isn’t one of them. Now I don’t like to be meanspirited, but despite Sarah’s school-marmish good looks, I can tell you she does not have the library science or alphabetizing skills of say, Laura Bush. This is one of many issues I address in a video I shot in Georgetown with my assistant Danny Sadler.  Maybe in Alaska with those long winter nights, people have time to read books, Sarah, but not here in Washington.

I also responds to her claims in the book that the rumor about her not knowing Africa was a continent was taken out of context and leaked by McCain loyalists (”I never said you said Africa was a country not a continent; I said you said Africa SHOULD be a country not a continent”).  And yes, I reveal that the reason the RNC paid for silk boxer shorts for Todd Palin during the Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree is because he’s “hung like a walrus” and needed the extra wiggle room.  For those of you who have already read my book, I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man’s (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans which just came out from Farrar, Straus, Giroux, you’ll agree that much of what I say is alluded to in my book (which does have an index).