I see that the Chicago Tribune refused to run the Doonesbury comic strip for at least part of this week. Doonesbury's Fox reporter Roland Hedley is reading an advance copy of The Rogue, the forthcoming Palin biography by Joe McGin­niss. Hedley is doing his best to sanitize the book's contents to make it palatable to his FoxNews audience.

In the book excerpt published September 13

"About 20 minority (state) employees....worked as campaign volunteers for Sarah.....Almost as soon as she was elected, she ordered them all fired.
"Her chief of staff, Mike Tibbles, came in one day and said, 'They're all fired. That's what she wants...Sarah just isn't comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people.'"

I don't have a very high opinion of Sarah Palin, but I'm having a hard time believing this. I can't find any verification of this from a source other than the McGinness book excerpt in Doonesbruy. It will be interesting to see reaction to the book once it comes out September 20.

For more, see The Washington Post.

-Joe-