Top Palin Aide Mocks Bristol, Mitt Romney in Leaked Tweets
EmailABC News’ Sheila Marikar (@sheilaym) reports:
Leaked private messages from one of Sarah Palin’s top aides offer insight into how in people in Palin’s inner circle really feel about her, her family and fellow politicians.
Today, The Daily Caller published a series of inflammatory messages Palin’s speechwriter and domestic policy adviser Rebecca Mansour sent last year via Twitter. Mansour’s tweets were sent as “direct messages” – meaning they went to one party and were not disseminated publicly until today.
In one series of messages, Mansour belittles Palin’s eldest daughter, Bristol. Last July, After Bristol announced that she was planning to marry Levi Johnston, the father of her son, Mansour wrote, “I wish they were the Cleavers too. But it’s life.”
“Two words: Patti Davis. Okay three more: Ron Reagan Junior. Two more: Billy Carter. Doesn’t your family have one?,” Mansour wrote. “She (meaning Palin, presumably) will hold her at arm’s length. Even Thatcher was never able to disown her screw up son Mark. It’s a Mom thing.”
Contacted about the messages by The Daily Caller, Mansour said she was trying to “calm down” a Palin supporter and that the messages were her opinions, not those of the former Alaska governor. Mansour and other Palin aides did not immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.
In addition to mocking Bristol, Mansour reveals her true feelings about several people in Palin’s orbit. In one message, she called 2012 Republican presidential contender Mitt Romeny’s supporters “wacky as hell” and wrote “Would love to tell Mitt’s lackeys to stop backstabbing my boss anonymously.”
Mansour’s messages suggest that last summer, the former Alaska governor was plotting her political moves with a presidential run in mind. Mansour wrote that Palin (whom she refers to as “BigBoss”) “took a big risk in endorsing Nikki (Haley for South Carolina governor in her 2010 campaign). You don’t pick a loser in SC. Very important state. Mitt has no hope of winning it … SC is crucial to someone like the Gov. She took a risk.”
How Mansour’s tweets came out is a story in and of itself.
The Daily Caller said they received the tweets directly from Mansour’s recipient. Politico’s Ben Smith wrote today that someone tried to sell him the same messages last Fall. Smith added that The Daily Caller’s editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson told him in an email this morning “we don't pay for stories, and we didn't pay for this one,” and the person who initially tried to sell Smith messages confirmed that no money was exchanged.
Meanwhile, the pro-Palin Twitter account PalinTV has been firing off messages about Mansour’s tweets this morning, writing that Mansour was corresponding with “a friend of two years ‘She trusted’” and the release of the tweets “was intended to bring down Palin’s kids.” PalinTV also chastised The Daily Caller for not publishing “both sides of the conversation.”
The news of Mansour’s tweets comes the same day as the release of “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years," a book by ex-Palin aide Frank Bailey that is being billed as the first tell-all from a former Palin insider.
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Lamestream Media Rule #1 for writing about conservatives: Always begin the distortions in the lede, if possible.
The leaked PMs from ONE Palin aide does NOT “offer insight into how in people in Palin’s inner circle really feel about her, her family and fellow politicians.”
They only offer insight into how ONE PERSON in Palin’s inner circle really feel about her, her family and fellow politicians.
And you folks probably wonder why Bernie Goldberg coined and Gov. Palin popularized the term “lamestream media.”
Disgusting, ABC News
- JP
Posted by: Josh Painter | May 24, 2011, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
Not much to this one. People talk.
Posted by: MaeMobly | May 24, 2011, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
JOSH PAINTER | MAY 24, 2011 12:03:46 PM….Its just part of the liberal MSM agenda, only seems more overt now.
Posted by: deanbob | May 24, 2011, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
Josh wrote, “And you folks probably wonder why Bernie Goldberg coined and Gov. Palin popularized the term “lamestream media.”"
Well, when a story is about someone as lame as Palin, what other media should cover it…….?
Posted by: Searambler | May 24, 2011, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
For anyone who doesn’t know, Josh Painter is one of the few remaining regulars at Conservatives4Palin, the pro-Palin fawning blog that Rebecca Mansour herself started, and ruled with an iron fist until June 2009 when she was hired by Sarah Palin.
Another regular at C4P was someone with the username Toki de la Vega, who seems to be the Judas who betrayed Mansour.
Posted by: KarenJ | May 24, 2011, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
You would think the MSM would get a life now that palin is not running for President.
Posted by: billy bob | May 24, 2011, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Any excuse to attempt to attach a “negative” to Sarah Palin. Stupid story. Lame story. Non-news.
Posted by: n'erdowell | May 24, 2011, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
ABC how low and common will you go? No limits it seems. This is a trash tabloid story and you should be ashamed.
Posted by: Freedom | May 24, 2011, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm
All the little Palinbots come out as ordered to try and squash the story.
Mansour LIED initially and denied the tweets were hers. See the Daily Caller.
Typical Palinite, deny, lie, deny, lie and lie again.
p.s. No Sodachik yet?
Posted by: bellweather | May 24, 2011, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm
Get used to your heads exploding more every day Palin Granny worshipers. You’ll never be able to make it go away.
Posted by: jBlaney | May 24, 2011, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
Wake-up, Gas is 4 dollar a gallon,food prices
are rising daily, war in the middle east is
breaking the country, most news outlets do not report on soldiers being killed anymore.
Health care cost continue to rise while at last count 1370 waivers have been handed out
for Obamacare. The debt ceiling is being
asked to be raised and this President gives
3 billion of American taxpayers dollars to south american countries for oil drilling
and refinery production. And all this network is worried about demonizing
a possible presidential runner.
Posted by: deadwrestler | May 24, 2011, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
This seems to be an attempt to find anything, no matter how insugnificant, to keep sarah palins name in the news.
Come on, really. That woman has been old news for over a year.
Please sent these “news” items to The National Enquirer. That’s where they belong anyway.
Posted by: Wayne | May 24, 2011, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm
Show us the birth certificate, Mooselini! That’s next and this proud liberal can’t wait! This is soooo much fun! After all of the hyper-criticism, the hateful and very nasty words and acts, that she and those who support her have felt so free to put out in any venue available ever since McCain foisted her off on the lower 48 … yes indeed, this is very enjoyable!
I do feel kind of sad for Arizona, though. She is not going to do the folks of that state any favors by dragging her clan down there and making a public mess in what was once a very nice area of the state.
But then, that is what you get when you vote for Jan Brewer and John McCain!
There is more coming on this story … can’t wait!
Posted by: Fl Mom | May 24, 2011, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
Interesting that all those who blindly follow the “Quitter” governor ridicule ABC news for this story, but none of them can deny it’s authenticity. It might be the “lamestream” media, but it’s a lot more accurate than Phaux News. The Palinites probably also believe that Bristol’s plastic surgery was really to correct an overbite…..
Posted by: Al | May 24, 2011, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
I am not a fan of Palin but this sucks. Who can you trust? Although Mansour was just blowing off steam its dirty that someone she trusted would head to the media and try to sell it. Its just slimy!!!
Posted by: MyTakeOnThis61 | May 24, 2011, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm
I don’t think I would ever support Palin, but this article contains nothing of importance – politically or otherwise.
Posted by: MikeMo1947 | May 24, 2011, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
Nothing here but the usual Palin train wreck. Palin’s a loser and her far right hillbilly style took the McCain campaign straight to the gutter. She has NO original thoughts and uses “I’m being picked on” technique far too often. The best thing that could happen to the GOP is Palin and her family to stick to reality TV. Maybe she and Trump can strike a deal and move into Glen Becks spot on FOX. They would fill the opening for crazy nicely.
Posted by: dan | May 24, 2011, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
Whatever!
Posted by: Gerald | May 24, 2011, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
Palin seems to scare the you know what out of liberals…..
Palin 2012
Can’t freakin’ wait :)
Posted by: Me | May 24, 2011, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
Sarah Palin will continue to employ only clowns, amateurs and has-beens. It’s clear after all these years that nobody else will work with her.
Posted by: viva | May 24, 2011, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
what I find funny is whenever anyone publicizes anything negative about the Palins it’s automatically “liberal media”. Did you people read the same story I did? Do you have a clue who Tucker Carlson even is? It’s pretty obvious you don’t. U Palinites never cease to amaze me…..but then again, look who you choose to follow? Who should expect anything less from braindead inc!!!
Posted by: dk | May 25, 2011, 1:20 am 1:20 am
She obviously remains very relevant if this somehow made news and her followers – mostly those who despise her, are even commenting on such lame tabloid trash.
Posted by: gunner_1959 | May 25, 2011, 8:13 am 8:13 am
Mansour is correct about Bristol the Pistol being more interested in being a celebrity and getting rich than guarding her son’s privacy. She has learned from Sarah–children are to be exploited and considered to be a stage prop. Imagine someone who thinks that she is such a role model that she plans to go into politics and she calls up People and US Magazines and National Inquirer, trying to sell them pictures of herself and Trapper.
Posted by: Payola | June 9, 2011, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm