Here is a portion courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:
We’re all deeply concerned about the revelations of wrong-doing coming from the guard -- for the victims, for the men and women of the rank-and-file, and for our state. The terrible actions of a few, with the failure we’ve seen within the guard’s top ranks, are unforgivable. Our guard members and their families do incredible work on behalf of Alaskans, and they deserve better.
I was with my husband, Sean, when he got the call in February with concrete information that called the Alaska guard command into question. Sean immediately called the National Guard Bureau’s Office of Complex Investigations (OCI).
Sean was very frustrated, but I saw grim determination, too. The report he received on the phone that day was in sharp contrast to what he was being told by guard leadership, and my husband was committed to getting to the bottom of this.
I am thankful that the bureau’s OCI responded so quickly and so professionally when my husband called for this independent, outside investigation. The insinuation by some that Sean would not take action is wrong. That is not who my husband is, and that’s not what I have seen him do. He took action, immediately, every time. When he got the facts, he acted. With every specific allegation of assault, he followed up personally.
Sadly that does not line up with what we have been told about Parnell's response to this crisis.
Earlier this month the Dispatch reported that:
The record shows that Parnell took nearly his entire four-year term to remove officials at the top of the guard and its related civilian department.
Parnell, officially the guard’s civilian commander, has acknowledged receiving complaints about deeply entrenched problems within guard leadership starting in 2010, but he said they lacked specifics.
The problems didn’t go away. More than three years later, on Feb. 28, Parnell called for help from the Pentagon.
Nor does it line up with statements made by State Senator Fred Dyson who said the following:“I three times went to Sean and said: "You need to get on top of this and do something,’ and his response was, ‘I’ve done everything asked of me and every charge that has been brought has been referred to law enforcement. What more should I do?’ I said, ‘You need to be in charge of this and there’s more stuff, including an atmosphere that allows this stuff to go forward.”
No as much as Sandy Parnell might want to rescue her husband from his lack of leadership and inability to protect the soldiers under his command, this is a crisis of his own creation.
And having your wife come out to defend you and claim you were doing your job, how pathetic is that?
No wonder even Sarah Palin has endorsed his opponent.
Sandy Parnell. Right out of the Ann Romney playbook.
ReplyDeleteOnly not as polished! But, neither is her husband!
DeleteThey are such absolute gross little fundie pricks.
DeleteSpeaking of scumbags and assholes:
ReplyDeleteSarah's pig lady is getting nervous she's gonna lose. She's going into 'recount' gear, already!
GOPer Ernst Appears To Be Gearing Up For A Recount In Senate Race
Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R) this week requested materials on recount procedures, signaling that she might be gearing up for a recount request in the Iowa Senate race against Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA).
Ernst filed open records requests in multiple counties for training materials, satellite voting locations, names of ballot counters, recount procedures and any thing also sent to Braley, The Gazette reported.
Such a large record request so close to an election is unusual for candidates, multiple Iowa auditors told The Gazette.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ernst-requests-recount-procedures
And she's running away from the local media that want to interview her:
Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, has reportedly canceled meetings with major editorial boards in the state.
The cancelation was made public by The Des Moines Register's Rekha Basu, a columnist for the paper in a Facebook post:
Is Joni Ernst afraid of newspaper editorial boards? After much negotiating, she was scheduled to meet his morning with writers and editors at The Des Moines Register, but last night her people called to unilaterally cancel. She has also begged off meetings with The Cedar Rapids Gazette and The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.
Is Ernst that sensitive to the kinds of criticisms that invariably will come in such a high profile U.S. Senate race? Is she afraid of the scrutiny? Sure, it's stressful, but all the other candidates for Congress are doing it to get their messages out, including Steven King, the target of frequent editorial criticism. Would Ernst similarly thumb her nose at the press while serving in the Senate?
The Des Moines Register's Randy Evans tweet something similar to Basu's post.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joni-ernst-editorial-board-meetings
She is showing herself to be as poor a politician as her friend and endorser, Sarah Palin. The 'kiss of death' has befallen her which was to be expected.
DeleteShe knows she is going to lose!!!
Hey hey! The Pig Nut Cutter can hire the Chris McDaniel for Senate recount crew from Mississippi! Just pick a courthouse to have them locked into, maybe be sure and stay out of the nursing homes this time too! That Charles Johnson twitter twit, what's he been up to? Nut Cutter can hire him too.
DeleteHe, and his 'use to be buddy', Sarah Palin, are both slimy and corrupt! As I've said before, they are like two "P's" in a pod. Time for him to go!
ReplyDeleteAlong with the likes of Don Young and Parnell's running mate, Mayor of Anchorage, Dan Sullivan (who is keeping quiet and not campaigning!)!
Bristol and Sarah have taken up the call to support victims of abuse and assault. Most of all women. They will be all over the National Guard scandal and doing all they can to bring attention to these important matters. Bristol knows first hand how it feels to be called slut and to be assaulted in public on your father's birthday. That is trauma that will remain with her for life and there is only one way to fight back. Help others.
ReplyDeleteMr. Parnell will always have his friends.
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>>Bristol knows first hand how it feels to be called slut and to be assaulted in public on your father's birthday. That is trauma that will remain with her for life
DeleteOh give me a fucking break! If you think being called a slut is a trauma, you know nothing about true trauma. And she was NOT assaulted, she did the assaulting. She's such a crybaby victim. It was very clearly communicated that she was picked up and removed from the property due to her out of control drunken behavior. Take a listen to the tapes and stop making excuses for her horrific behavior. And go speak to women who have TRULY experienced traumas that remain with them for life, you fool.
Granny Grifter and Captain Zero shackled together for a court appearance would be entertaining.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work, Gryphen! Alaska is still in the union, so with enough fire and facts, we can hope the USDOJ won't ignore this corruption much longer.
I'm thinking tag team cage match! Captain Zero and the Queen of Babbleon against Lesil McGuire and Don Young!
DeleteJust put the Palin klan in the front row to git everyone wound up!
Bet it would make the Beatdown at the Hoedown seem like a PTA fundraiser!
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Isn't Lesil McGuire (R) one of the legislators that has a major drinking problem? And, isn't she one that was pro Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) that Sarah Palin nominated for the post of AG? The Alaska citizens knocked down the nomination in force and he was not appointed (Eagle River guy - very nasty personality as well as being anti women (proven)!
DeleteOh look, Sully is calling out the lying, skank Bristol!
ReplyDeleteThe Odd Lies Of Bristol Palin
Well, she couldn’t help herself, could she? Maybe Charles Cooke will ask Bristol Palin why she is spilling so much ink on the topic. But today she brings us her deliciously hathetic view of the past couple of months, including her account of the brawl she was in. She might have given just her side of the story. But, of course, she also had to go there didn’t she, with the usual Palinite victimology and press-bashing. So let’s fisk it a little, shall we?
First, the media said Trig was not really my mom’s kid.
Untrue. No mainstream outlet touched the question of her mother’s bizarre account of her last pregnancy, let alone stated that Trig was not her son. And the few of us who merely asked for a simple verification of the alleged improbable facts – including me and the Anchorage Daily News – were vilified by the rest of the press, treated as pariahs, and told to jump off a cliff by the Palins. There must be a mountain of medical records that could easily have verified Palin’s own bizarre “I was only pregnant a month” account of her last pregnancy – including a wild plane ride from Texas to Alaska, with one stop-over, while in labor with a child with Down Syndrome – but none was forthcoming. I begged her to make a fool out of me for merely asking. Instead, she released a reclusive doctor’s letter about her medical history just hours before the polls opened.
I don’t know the truth about this and never claimed I did. But the only reason why any doubt exists at all is because of Palin’s refusal to dispel it (even after the campaign to a news source offering to debunk the conspiracy tales). That’s not on me; it’s on her. And still is.
After a month and a half of hearing rumors about myself and family, I’ve finally decided to comment about the situation. Instead of listening to all the people who weren’t there — people who claim they heard this from their cousin/brother/sister-in-law/step-daughter/long lost little brother – let me tell you what actually happened.
“People who weren’t there?” “Rumors”? We’re talking about a public police report detailing the views of the people, on both sides, in the middle of the melee. Then Bristol gives an account of the incident in which she simply dismisses the eye-witness accounts of all the non-Palins there that she confronted the owner of the house and repeatedly punched him in the face until he finally stopped her. The incident has now become a very disturbing and unprovoked – “scary and awful” – assault on a vulnerable woman whose only crime was acting in self-defense. Which begs the question: if this is true, why on earth did she not press charges? If it’s that serious, she surely should have. Which is why CNN anchors should not be intimidated by the rightwing noise machine.
Then this:
I have mostly stayed out of the public eye for the past few years.
Oookaaay: two appearances on Dancing With The Stars in 2010 and 2012, one of the highest-rated shows in network TV; appearing on the ABC show, My Secret Life As A Teenager, in 2010; appearing on Sarah Palin’s Alaska reality TV show; her own reality-show, Life’s A Tripp, in 2012; and a memoir, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, in 2011. Apart from that, she was a fucking recluse.
I’ll ignore her assertion that she is just another middle-class mother – because it’s such self-serving bullshit one doesn’t know where to start. And give me a break on reporting about Palin’s children. Bristol Palin is an adult and a public figure, making charges about the media. Of course we have the right to push back. And if you still harbor any faint sympathy for her, at this point, she should dispel that with the following classy questions:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/23/the-odd-lies-of-bristol-palin/
Is there anything these people do that doesn't end with them whipping about the "liberal" bogeyman and how they're always being persecuted by "the liberal media," aka playing the victim card? They're obsessed. Then she manages to ram the Clinton women into the whole thing? These people are unhinged. If I had to guess as to the real author, I'd say look no further than Sarah herself, who talks like this all the time while the daughter never struck me as overtly political. Sarah to this day believes her White House ambitions were thwarted by the evil liberal media, and not the fact that she is a lunatic and an idiot. That would certainly explain why she never stops whining about her liberal conspiracy.
DeleteThe "hypocrisy of the media" is not "laid bare", you little party-crashing moron. No one other than you is to blame for this mess, not liberals, not the media, and not the McKenna brothers. You fools showed up intoxicated, uninvited, and looking for trouble. You found it. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are LUCKY, you little puke, that the worst you got was the bum's rush. Now go cry to FAUX where you'll find a more receptive, fact-challenged audience.
DeleteDamn Sully. Why do you keep neglecting to put the nail in the coffin fact that CBJ was not a high risk ob and MatSu does NOT INDUCE high risk births. This would get attention. Why not put it in there???
DeleteWhy do the captcha words have to be so blurry. Does it matter to a robot? it matters to a human!!!
DeleteThe Right’s Lingering Palin Problem
ReplyDeleteI guess this was inevitable, if hilarious. After the Palin family got itself into a drunken brawl at someone else’s house, in which Bristol Palin is alleged to have punched the owner in the face multiple times – partly confirmed, by the way, by her own sister Willow (“She missed every fucking time!“) – a post simply pointing out the sheer vulgarity of the event is roundly criticized because it somehow diminishes the plight of Bristol who presents herself as purely a victim of the event.
Look: I abhor violence of all kind, especially against women, and have written that that was the furthest from my mind when selecting that colorful quote. But seriously: anyone reviewing the entire event who thinks that‘s what this was about is smoking something really good. To infer from the police report that the Palins were entirely the victims here is, well, bonkers, not least because it requires believing a single word any Palin family-member says. Track even gave a false name to the cops at first, the usual Palin reflex.
As for Charles Cooke’s point: “Why are we spilling so much ink on this topic at all?” allow me to point out that I’ve barely expended any. Two short posts and a paragraph in The Best of the Dish Today over nearly two months. But isn’t it obvious why there has been so much press? This is an amazingly lurid, tabloid story and it gains traction because it contrasts this trashy, violent Jerry Springer behavior with someone who actually ran for vice-president of the United States six years ago. Of course the press will cover this. It’s irresistible and further proof that what John McCain did in 2008 disqualified him from any serious, subsequent role in our public life. And that was my only point. If McCain were retired or had the good sense to leave public life after that fiasco, it would be another thing entirely. But he carries on, never publicly acknowledging the greatest fuck-up (of so many) in his public life.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/23/the-rights-lingering-palin-problem/
WHOO HOO!
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As I look at his lovely wife ,I detect some regret and maybe some
ReplyDeleteDespair. Maybe some disgust.
I wish her well..Him not so much.
You know, that's really pathetic and sad that a politician would have his wife come out and cover for him by giving a prepared speech that was probably written for her in advance. But the sadist part is that he would even stoop that low to have his wife come out of obscurity to defend him. She obviously must like her privacy and is only doing this to try to save her husbands butt. I hope the Alaskan voters sees through this.
ReplyDeletelol. He hides behind her for the real problems, but when they were both on Top Chef a few seasons ago in the finale part one episode, she sat there like a rock and he took the spotlight.
ReplyDeleteLoooooser.
Sandy is a nice person. Sean used to be. I never voted for him, but given what I knew about him socially, I didn't think he'd end up to be as poor a governor as he has been. Big disappointment. Really hoping IM'ers won't be too brutal to Sandy. I wish she hadn't written the piece, but I can understand her wanting to defend her husband who she must truly believe is a good man.
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