It's What's On The Inside ...

As heard on Relevant Radio’s “Glen’s Story Corner” and retrieved from http://fhfnela.org/images/OND%2009.pdf on 3/17/10

On the Inside

I look like a monster. During a routine root canal last week, the dentist accidentally tore a blood vessel in my face, and the result is that the left side of my face is black and purple and swollen from eyebrow to throat.

While painful, the worst part of this mishap is the deep embarrassment at having my face look so monstrous. I hadn't realized the shock of my bruises until my neighbor dropped by and literally jumped off my porch at the sight of my face, clutching her heart and shrieking involuntarily.

"It's not even a good story," I told her, and explained about the dentist and the torn blood vessel. After a brief visit, I said good-bye to her, knowing she had never paid attention to our conversation because my face was so distracting. I was disheartened and embarrassed.

The embarrassment grew more deeply rooted when I took my son to kindergarten the next day. Upon seeing my face (which I thought was cleverly concealed by my hair swept over my face and the sunglasses I wore indoors), Noah's teacher gasped. Expletives spewed forth, causing me to laugh, and she to slap her hand over her mouth. "I'm sorry," she apologized for her involuntary cursing. "You look like someone beat the life out of you!" I explained what had happened and literally ran to my car, heading home to hide from all human contact.

For several days, I avoided contact with people other than my family. My first foray into public in search of a video lead to new humiliation and had me determined not to leave home again.

Palin on Leno Transcript w/Stand Up Comedy Routine from 3/2/10

Retrieved from http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/03/palin-discusses-press-leno-mainstream-media-quite-broken on 3/9/10.

Transcript of 3/2/10 appearance -

JAY LENO, HOST: Now, the media has been critical of you. Now you are a member, you have joined the other side.

SARAH PALIN: It's kind of full circle for me. I studied journalism. My college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think that the mainstream media is quite broken. And I think that there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there. That's why I joined Fox.

[ Cheers and applause ]