What AKRNHSNC Said So Well Applies To Heather's 2007 Email

On the previous post Newsweek Magazine Proves Trig Is Still A PROP, our friend AKRNHSNC made a point so well, that I 'm repeating it word-for-word:


I was reading the above article [from October 2008] again and this paragraph really stands out in reference to Sarah's detachment from her family and how it's always about her. Just read what her sister says below and then remember she was saying this when her son was 13 yrs. old. Didn't Sarah have a clue as to what her sister was going through all those years? Why should she have to suddenly explain things to her now that she is Governor? I realize that Palin wasn't in a titled position prior to this where she could actually effect policy changes that might help her nephew but it's sad to see that she was blind to their troubles and unaware of what they actually were. She should have known what her sister was going through because she was her sister, no other reason. 

Of course, it's always all about Sarah and in trying to boost her sister's image, Heather made it quite clear that Sarah was far removed from what she went through in dealing with a special needs child. It's not surprising, though, considering she never met a relative of Todd's until her TV show and he had Down Syndrome. It was a first cousin of Todd's, you would think they would have crossed paths at some time during the years they had been married. Right? Wrong! It just gives more credence to all of the people who talk about Sarah and her incredibly selfish attitude. She uses people and then discards them. Obviously Todd's cousin or her nephew were not needed prior to her running for office or her TV show, depending on the situation.

Well stated, AKRNHSNC, I saw exactly the same thing. And I saw it last week, too. That was when I began preparing a post about  the November 2007 email Heather sent to her sister Sarah, the then- Governor of Alaska.  That post got set aside on Sunday when the Newsweek article came out. The timing actually couldn't have been better. These two fit together like...like pieces of the same puzzle.  Side by side the picture is bigger, and it is looks exactly like what we Truthers would expect.

Here is the Heather email, and some Sarah reactions (in reverse order, because it's an email chain):

.Thanks for caring?  Wishful thinking, Heather?

What I see in Sarah’s response is a concern for herself not “looking” concerned about the disabled. She doesn’t say “You know how important this is to me” but instead, admits “I don’t know much about this issue.”  And she wants to make a council member change (small) to have thing looked at differently “a bit.”  This is not a heartfelt response. It’s a cold political one. Even when she shows that people [taking care of persons with special needs] have daily challenges, her reasoning goes to what they think of her. Not what she can do to help them.  And she wouldn’t want to ask anyone to be inconvenienced by serving on this  board, she makes that clear: “Only 2 or 3 more meetings so it is only a small thing.”

Heather’s second paragraph sounds  as if she is telling her own sister these things for the first time, even though her son Karcher is 13years old.   :”Sarah, you can’t imagine the lack of support we parents are experiencing these days…”  Why would Sarah even have to imagine?  Why hasn’t Sally brought it up? And Chuck? And of course, Heather herself?  What gives? Why would Sarah already know that her nephew has been  on some lists for 8 years?  Didn’t she car at 7 years? Six years? Five? WTF?

Then she says nice things about Sarah, how when people tell her they are expecting Gov. Palin will be much better on the issues than Murkowski was, Heather assures them that her sister cares and has experience because of Karcher.  The one thing that rings true is that people told Heather that Sarah lets them take pictures, says she cares, and remembers names. No doubt those things are true. That’s Sarah’s public MO.  But look at the email if you want to see the real Sarah Palin. When there are no cameras, when she's in her office or home office, alone with her Blackberries, it’s “only 2 or 3 meetings,” a “small change” and the real purpose is to improve the image.
 

I find it curious that Sarah didn’t answer her sister. Very curious.  And I don’t see anything here that suggests Sarah and Heather were close. It suggests that Sarah has hardly learned anything about how difficult it was for Heather to have an autistic child of middle school age, or what might be done by the government to help. Heather even says she fears what will happen when he is an adult. What will become of him? That does NOT fit the “big, helpful, tight-knit, warm and loving” Palin family image we’ve been told about (yes troll, this is your cue).

Sarah is all about what this LOOKS LIKE to the public. How it plays out in politics.  “Man oh man oh man.”

The image she's worrying about. And image that's taking flak for being only an oil-and-gas governor and she says to Frank Bailey “We do need to do a better job in other areas…”  Sure, she had some real feelings about this, but I think the word “commitment” was a gross exaggeration.  If there had been a real heart-felt commitment , articles used in my previous post, the ones that caused AKRN to speak out so clearly, wouldn't have ever been written. But a whole year after Heather said to Sarah "you wouldn't believe" and a whole year after Sarah said she wanted to "show" she cared Sarah Palin hadn't done or learned diddley-squat.

Thanks AKRNHSNC!