2008-11-07 Insiders spill beans on Palin

2008-11-07 Leesha McKenny and Peter Hawkins theage.com.au \Sarah Palin http://www.theage.com.au/world/insiders-spill-beans-on-palin-20081107-5jk0.html?page=-1 Insiders spill beans on Palin Insiders spill beans on Palin  2008-11-12 update: Apparently the "didn't know Africa was a continent" leak was a hoax. Weeks after Sarah Palin was lampooned by the country's comedians, her own party is catching up. Aides to the Republican presidential candidate John McCain told US television network FOX News that their vice-presidential candidate did not know Africa was a continent and in fact thought it was a country. ... The Alaskan Governor's big spend on clothes emerged publicly last month, but McCain's aides also said that she spent "thousands more" than the reported $US150,000 on clothes during the campaign, much to the shock of the donor that footed the bill, the US magazine Newsweek reported. An angry aide, quoted in Newsweek, described the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast", and predicted that the truth would eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books. Newsweek reported that Palin was told she could buy three suits and hire a stylist, but that she instead started shopping for her family at top clothing stores, and also used the credit cards of low-level staffers to do some of the shopping. ... Cameron also said the Alaskan Governor started to "go rogue" early on, as shown by her first disastrous CBS interview with Katie Couric in September. "She got very angry at staff, thought that she was mishandled, was particularly angry about the way the Katie Couric interview went," he said. ... "She didn't accept preparation for that interview and the aides say that that was part of the problem. And there were times that she was hard to control emotionally - there's talk of temper tantrums at bad news clippings," he said. The fact that Palin is a power-tripping ditz was apparently obvious to everyone except her supporters.

&ldquo;[Sarah Palin]'s big spend on clothes emerged publicly last month, but McCain's aides also said that she spent "thousands more" than the reported $US150,000 on clothes during the campaign,&rdquo;   