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Cindy Adams Saw A Lot Of Sarah Palin's Legs
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 23, 2011
Modified Feb 23, 2011
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Nearly a week after former Alaska Governor and possible 2012 contender Sarah Palin's Q&A with the Long Island Association, the Post's Cindy Adams offers up her observations: "Her advance team had pre-prepped everything ... except maybe for the fact that she'd be seated on a raised platform. The short, tight skirt crept up. Nice knees up to nice thighs smack at our eyeball height."
Adams continued, "No chair pillow to propel her forward. She perched near the edge, back ramrod-straight, uncrossed legs straight down, glued to one another, for over an hour. Lucky she could even walk to that SUV afterward." Yeah, and she was wearing those leopard print strappy heels! She also says that Palin told the crowd, "Americans are independent. I can't even get my husband to vote straight Republican." And the gossip columnist had this insight, "I only know even those who don't love her, liked her. Magnetic, without notes on her hand, she was engaging, amusing, good-looking. The self-important audience laughed, applauded, wasn't bored, never stirred." Yeah, and now that she's out of town, the self-important can wonder more about the tell-all memoir being shopped around to publishers by a former Palin insider and the gossip around the manuscript's leaks.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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