Is Dan Fagan Sincere? You Decide.
Yesterday C4P contributor Adrienne posted an article (see here) about Dan Fagan’s astonishing about-face on the subject of Governor Palin’s decision to stand down as Governor of Alaska.
Quite rightly, Adrienne exercised caution in her assessment, in stating:
“Previous conversations along these lines have opened up a sea of debate as to Mr. Fagan's sincerity, as to whether he's truly seen the light.”
In the interest of providing the readers of C4P with sufficient information to arrive at their own balanced judgement on the extent to which Mr Fagan has actually seen the light, here is an article posted by Dan Fagan just two weeks ago.
Extracts from the original article are presented here chiefly because it no longer seems to be available by link to The Alaska Standard website.
Sarah Palin: A Dark Soul
By Dan Fagan (11/18/09)
I will not buy Sarah Palin’s new book because I believe the governor who quit to be a fundamentally dishonest person. Why support the work of someone you can’t trust?
I have read some excerpts from the book and it is clearly a work of vengeance, revenge, and pure meanness. Palin comes across as the rotten on the inside, faultfinding, petty teenage girl we all hated in high school. If you’ve seen the movie “Heathers” or “Mean Girls” you know what I am talking about.
Palin, when writing Rogue, set herself on a course of smallness, triviality, quibbling, sophistry nothingness, and worthlessness. From the excerpts I’ve read, it is hard to draw any other conclusion than Sarah Palin is small in stature, character, and integrity.
Yes I do believe Sarah Palin has a dark soul. A soul obsessed with her image. A soul focused on hurting others. Sarah Palin’s book reveals her as someone unwilling, unable, incapable of living a life of forgiveness. She is a grudge carrier. Settling scores drive her and she is hell bent on revenge, payback, getting even.
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What crudeness, heartlessness, and pure ugliness. Palin can cut to the quick with the best of them. She knows how to enrage her enemies with a cut to the bone insult. It’s one of the things she’s best at.
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Did you see the Oprah interview when she asked Palin about Levi? Palin answered by saying she would not talk about on him on national TV. She then immediately proceeds to slam Levi over and over calling him a porn star and making fun of his new ambition to be a movie actor. It was overwhelming evidence Palin cannot help herself. She has no self-control when it comes to letting things go. She must settle the score. She must. She Will!
Revenge has become the work and calling of her life. Maybe it always has been. It’s clearly what drives her now. Her cutthroat attacks on others will be her downfall. Her inability to control her desire to hurt those who hurt her will end up in the end discrediting her as a leader, as a person.
It’s never too late to change. But time is running out on Palin’s political career. Her poll ratings drop every time she opens her spiteful mouth. Her book will not help.
As someone once said, "Nobody likes a naysayer, a critic, an obstructionist. You know the guy who is always trying to put a damper on things, slow down progress, refusing to get with the program. Nobody likes that guy."
Who said that?
Dan Fagan did.
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Fagan pulled that 'Dark Soul' article down after several commenters pointed out that in August, he wrote this:
Policy, not personality, will be new focus
I will tell you I am ashamed of the way I have conducted myself publicly in recent years and frankly I am embarrassed by it too.
When I criticize politicians for the policies they propose, I have no right to assume I know their motives. They may honestly believe they are doing the right thing.
When State Sen. Hollis French held up a parental consent bill in his committee it infuriated me and I attacked him personally. What I should have considered is that French may have honestly believed he was doing the right thing. I had no right to say the things I said about him.
The same is true for other politicians I have torn down simply because the policies they favor didn't line up with my worldview.
So where do we go from here? If after this column I still have my Daily News gig and radio show, I am going to change the way I critique our leaders. I'll focus on policy and not the personal. Yes, if I believe a politician is acting corruptly I will say so, but only if there is ample evidence. I will not speculate on the motive behind a politician promoting a policy.
Does this change mean I will lose many of my radio listeners? Perhaps. But recently I've lost the joy in my work. It has become a grind. I now know why. If my profession calls for tearing down others to be successful, then I'll just have to find another career.
In conclusion, I want to publicly apologize to Sarah Palin, Sean Parnell, Hollis French, Art Hackney, Mark Begich, Frank Murkowski, Matt Claman, Lisa Murkowski, Don Young, Ivan Moore and too many others that limited space won't allow me to name.
Over the coming weeks I will be reaching out to each of these leaders and others and apologizing in person. I also apologize to those of you who have followed my work. I have let you down and I am sorry.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/fagan/story/884846.html
Thanks to Google Cache, one can pull up 'Dark Soul' and see what a lying hypocrite Fagan is.
Every time his page views fall off, he runs a few anti-Palin columns, posts a few items from HuffPo and he is back in the swing of things.
remember the frog who asked the scorpion to help him swim across the river?
<span>One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"
"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.
"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"
"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the
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Fagan has had to many...as someone posted yesterday.."Come to Jesus" moments...only to turn right back around again and start the bashing all over again. I believe he has low self esteem, women issues, and is an all around highly distrubed self-important fool.
Poetry at Springfield signing. http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=VideoNetwork&pid=3e944957de2313079d0b256de6dd7da395ac4d75&videoid=1348718050
If you look like scum you are scum. It is in the eyes. Fagan is scum and will always be scum.
Fagan......you remind me a lot of the character with the same name in the Dicken's novel. He was also an evil man and sought to use others for his own gain.
Well...I am skeptical of you about face...but I might reconsider if you put your money where your mouth is.
Publically, donate the maximum amount allowed by law to SarahPac. No checks please....you haven't earned the publics trust enough.
He seems conflicted.
I get the impression that Dan still remembers those "mean girls" from high school, because that is still where his maturity level is.
Not surprising.
Wow, that Fagan piece reads like satire. No specifics, just long strings of insulting phrases.
Well, give Fagan credit, he at least knows how to use a thesaurus. /snark
As of now I wouldnt trust him if my life depended on it, he will have to rebuild his entire reputation to gain any credibility and that would take many years and deeds to back them up. So if this snake is truly remorseful as he claims then it's up to him to prove it and stick with it, otherwise give him a wide berth.
Still kind of glad I had him as a morsel in the Maneater video. ;)
What is this, Oliver Twist? How do you trust a guy named "Fagan". Where's Bill Sykes and the Artful Dodger?
You don't trust guys like this. What caused the 180? He's either a wingnut who'll turn again at the drop of a hat or "he's not retreating, he's reloading" in his own sleazy way.
"Dark soul". There's no darkness in that soul. Anyone who could see any "darkness" there for a second needs to increase his meds. Ignore the little fella.
So what?
One of the faults of George Bush was that he did not fight back to his domestic critics, and let the democratic congress run the show. He was a punching bag and that demoralized his whole administration and the country as well.
So, Palin fights back. So what? good for her.
So 'the political landscape is littered with the bodies of those who underestimated Palin'. good, that is what I look for.
So she fired several people in her adminsitration and got fired the assitant that leaked the news about her daughter's pregnancy during the campaign. Good.
I want a leader that can be ruthless when the situation demands it, that will have a steel spine and yes, that will inspire worry and fear on some of our enemies.
Does Obama have those qualities? I dont think so.
I say to Sarah: Bring it!
Bring it to the white house in 2012 and clean the place up.
Dan Fagot, (oops, sorry, typo); Fagan is only trying to save his job. He is no more important than a frea on the back of a moose. Same for the ADN, (Alaska Daily News) who has less and less circulation weekly. They are dying and are doing anything that they think might improve their image. Just ain't goin'a happen.
Last month a rep for ADN called my old phone number and spent a good 20 minutes trying to get me to re-buy the paper. I laughed and told her "There ain't no way," but she just kept on trying and I kept on laughing at her till the end. It was a lot of fun for me and my better half.
OK. Fagan has always and will always dislike Sarah. That said think about it. With all of his hate was he able to stop Sarah from becoming Governor in Alaska where his voice does carry some weight? No. Why should we suspect that he would have anymore influence at the National level? Remember in July Sarah crossed the Rubicon. She left behind the likes of Fagan. He is in the past.
O'Fagen speak with fork tongue...
Poor Dan is so inconsistent. With all of that inconsistency he certainly can't be taken seriously no matter what he says. Put me in the "I don't care what he says" mode.
It would settle some of the confusion if we knew if Fagan was on his meds when he wrote the Dark Soul article or the Gov. Palin Did right article.
Meanwhile, Huck has changed his tune, still going after the evangelical vote.
"Sarah has a very different political direction than I do."
But, but wait, I thought the only difference between them was that "she looks better in heels than I do" and "she's prettier than I am"?
Here's the original article in CT. I'm a subscriber but am a couple of issues behind - too much time on the Internet .... Oops, I see it's web only anyway.
Yeah, she's a conservative and you're not. After what just happened Sarah should send him a thank you note. Huck's history...and how does he know how he looks in heels anyway?? Kind of disturbing.
Off topic again but take alook at this man as a potential running mate for Sarah, or at the very least a strong leader in congress....I like him. http://www.youtube.com/user/DefCon1966#p/f/8/VP2p91dvm6M
It looks like Dan has the "dark soul."
Oops, let me try that again without it being on my channel, sorry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M
OT: The Mall of America has apologized to Sarah.
http://www.startribune.com/local/78370417.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ
I'm glad her publisher seems to be jumping on these nonstories. I hope it helps some. Even though the reporters are very dismissive of the publisher trying to change their narrative that Sarah Palin is evil personified and her tour is a vast conspiracy to ruin our country. Or something ...
You didnt really expect the lamestream media to otherwise did you hrh? The same ole' same ole with them, find some imagined dirt and discard the truth. They are fast becoming a non-player in people's minds for they are not true journalists but left-wing propagandists.
That column is bassackwards, first look at that picture, how could anyone see a dark soul there. If he had actually bothered to read the book, he would have known it's mostly an inspirational memoir with a lot of humor. I guess there is some score settling, it's called telling the truth. As for the Heathers and Mean Girls, he's got that wrong too. Sarah was a lot like Veronica the normal girl up against the crazy administration, the up tight heather clique and the crazy boy friend. As for Mean Girls, which Tina Fey adapted, she seems to have forgotten about how the home schooled outsider and the innocent math teacher were savaged by the Plastics.
Maybe when he wrote the "apology" bit he was hoping for an interview with Gov Palin?
I guess it is possible that in 2 weeks he has come to realize what an a$$ he was being - but it should take a period of not attacking her to equal the time he spent trying to bash her. I guess the clock is running.
Perhaps it's simpler than that. He has multiple personality disorder. The positive Palin articles are written by "Alicia" and then "Dan" reads "her" postings and goes off his rocker. *cough*
Just look at the date of the Dark Soul article and when Sarah's book came out. I'm thinking he is shocked at it's success and wants a piece of the action to repair the damage he's done to his rep. He is a bottom feeding oppertunist liberal and wants to get in her good graces so he can get in close to plunge the knife in her back and be the left's champion....sorry I ramble at times when irritated.
He was writing about himself . . .
MY cutthroat attacks on others will be MY downfall. MY inability to control MY desire to hurt those who SUPPORT her will end up in the end discrediting ME ... as a person.
OT: Here's some ammunition for people who use the "quitter" meme about Sarah:
http://www.redcounty.com/days-being-palinized-are-certainly-gone-governor-parnell-picks-a-supreme-court-justice/34470?taxonomy=1873
Parnell picks a conservative and even Les Gara is pleased. Barely any comments on the ADN story. No blog about it in their political blog.
Constrast Sarah's pick in the spring and dramatic, hand-wringing, bewailing coverage.
Constrast = Contrast
More coverage from Tom Lamb on this AP nonstory story:
http://thomasalamb.blogspot.com/2009/12/ap-throws-bogus-headline-on-palin-to.html
So Minnery got his choice of appointment, it just goes to show you the hypocrisy of the whole thing. What happened with the whole parental consent referendum
Obviously a huge case of projecting his own faults on Sarah
That is a great article. And spot on!!!
I read about him a few months ago in the Washington Times! His future is definately bright
OT: Get ready for stimulus package II, I am so comforted with today's job summit at the WH and news of a another Stimulus package our economy is surely on the road to recovery thanks to the power of Big Brother...sorry President Obama: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/03/get-ready-for-porkulus-ii/
Fagan seems to "have issues."
Dan is picking petals off a flower, this week he is on, "she loves me".
Much like Shannon Moore, Andre MCleod, Kim Chatman, Jessie Griffin, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Racheal Maddow, David Shuster, Norah O'Donnell, Joe Scarborough, David Brooks, David Frum, David Letterman, Joy Behar, Jack Cafferty, Rick Sanchez, Juan Williams, Sally Quinn, Rachael D'Oro, Ed Schultz, Eugene Robinson, Evan Thomas, Jon Meacham, Maureen Dowd, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, did I get them all?
God help us.
At least we can expect us Tea Partiers to grow even more.
O/T : Washington Times announces new structure, layoffs (up to 40% within 60 days)
FTA: All employees were handed letters advising them that at least 40 percent of the workforce will be laid off in the coming weeks. The cuts are necessary for the newspaper "to keep pace with the dynamically changing economics of the news business," Mr. Slevin said.
However, TWT has changed their business model to keep pace with the new media.
They have a great web site, they have radio, they have an online "print" version, it's an awesome paper / newsite.
But they got rid of the comics and the crossword puzzle !
I agree wholeheartedly, it will have the effect of spraying a hornet with water, it will only make the American people angrier than they already are, but it is sad that even more of our money will be thrown down the drain as an act of desperation
What? I love the comics! I get the Washington Times National Weekly edition from on old lady friend of tha family's after she is done reading them
OT: on Rush Limbaugh: Al Gore cancels Global Warming speech in Copenhagen on Dec 16 gee I wonder why?
The irony of course, is that she would gladly pray for Brother Fagan to see the error of his ways, I think she's kind of given up on the Marky Mark wannabe though.
You said David Frum twice but that's ok, he deserves it.
I guess he is such a forgettable person, probably had forgotten I already put him in
from the previous article on C4P
"while some in the media ponder whether Sarah Palin will ever get support from Washington's beltway"
Good news: Reagan's Army is about to cross the Rubicon. My friend has, and it is my goal to give him an autographed copy of Going Rogue this Saturday - during tea in the afternoon.
There is a class of punditry that feels this sort of work is their duty. I see similar pieces about Obama. Personally, I don't think there's anything evil about Obama. I just think he's immature and has a world view that I totally disagree with. About the only thing so far that I agreed with him on is strengthening charter schools and merit pay for teachers. But he already balked on the charter school thing in D.C.
I think Huck is basically a good guy whom I agree with on a lot of things.
I think McCain is a good guy whom I agree on quite a few things as well.
There are actually a few things I disagree with Gov. Palin about. For one, not supporting smoking bans in restaurants, etc.
Actually, I think these over the top pieces probaby help Gov Palin more than hurt her. They draw more attention to the writer's "dark soul" than anything.
another OT: Sarah Palin first person to make Barbara Walter's 10 most fascinating people list two years in a row: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tv_walters_fascinating_people
panchita- Your fable nails Fagan dead-on...Fagan's pulled so many phony millisecond 'Come-To-Jesus' moments that Alaskans just laugh and say: "Whatever Dan...Go stuff your face into another Double-BigMac with Cheese."
There's a new thread up about an article from Gen. Anthony Tat and he feels Sarah is ready to lead the USA.
Tat=Tata
He is impressive. I would like to learn more about him and hope he is successful in his run for congress.
Fagan says he "read excerpts of Sarah's book". I suspect he actually read false excerpts fed to him by Palin-haters. Guys like Fagan are really easy to "play like a fiddle". I suspect the same misinformation campaign was played on Levi as well.
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