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Sarah Palin's father and brother set the record straight on the former governor and their family in new book
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Good to see you -- -- tiger -- I would be here.
I -- -- -- Krajicek junior and -- senior to make this easy to distinguish.
Give a brand new book out that you wrote -- let me start first to you that -- senior.
Why do you write the book our Sara.
Well.
We've been talking about a prolonged time and we wanted to uses spell a lot of myths -- that the press is written about Sarah.
This tells her true life story her ideals and lots of all -- stuff of water.
Check junior I imagine is very hard I talked a lot of candidates seven family and act I imagine it's been a bit hard to -- sit back and all these years listen to what the media says about your sister as it is of every every can of spam -- listen to what the media says.
But Duff -- family in particular would you not -- would you agree with.
Yeah -- totally agree with that it's been real tough over the years and and that's part of the reason that we did this book yeah it was our way of kind of setting the record straight.
We've got family and friends that have never talked from the media before and we think we put together something really nice.
Check junior and I ask you.
EO what do you think the media how has a media -- your sister and what do you think is the fair portrayal.
Big picture.
Well they've taken.
They've taken -- and basically.
Turner into a character -- a lot of the media not everyone.
That the real picture is.
One of the hardest working -- not one of the hardest working the hardest working person that I personally have ever met.
-- talked right up there where there -- but she's not only raising five children you know working.
1820 hours a day as you know.
But she's out there.
Running six miles every day two or however many miles she's doing she's just doing so many things in a day that she doesn't get credit for.
Check CN let me jump to that end of the book a certain interest -- because it's at the tail end of the Buccaneers starts talking about -- -- -- move to Alaska the but the tail end of the book you talk what how when she was governor -- gain bipartisan support -- -- Democrats to support her.
And she seemed very mean that's him -- I -- are workable political career she then gets on the national stage in Ellison becomes.
Highly partisan is that a fair description of it.
Exactly she had -- 88%.
And 89%.
Approval rating.
Before she got on national scene after she got -- -- national scene.
Came home.
She was torn apart by the Democrats and in in Alaska.
Why do you think what do you think that it happened that we knew what what's different about the national scene -- senior.
She abuse.
In the limelight.
-- a lot of jealousy.
A lot of envy.
I think.
She really is very devout Christian -- -- ostracized for that.
She was ostracized for so many different things it she stood up -- and she's still stands up for those things to.
What Tom.
MM checked him and us up by new announced it is tough on your father -- your mother but what about on her children amid this has been in their lives have been transformed -- just not result of this.
Well those poor kids have had to grow openness and and they developed some pretty tough skin as you see with with Bristol success than.
And willow thought the school now -- is represented our country and Afghanistan.
Piper is.
The spark plug of the family and and little little triggers light of everybody's life so -- Through all these experiences.
The kids that are you know their shining they're really doing morrow.
You can imagine we take -- admit he really doesn't quite get as low as the accusation that -- was not.
But -- -- governor Palin's.
Son.
Fact check senior -- next that's pretty buys pretty low as you can get.
We've seen.
People parading with signs stating triggers notes there is.
Child.
The news media in Anchorage.
Argued with me they said there's no way -- could be -- there is.
Sun has -- impossible for her to be in Texas her water.
Breaks and fly back to Anchorage.
They even went as far as to interviewed the doctor -- delivered trig that quieted them down a little bit.
Is she and I know that dead I can tell from reading the book and from knowing that should she makes decisions.
By herself I don't think it really tells her what to do that I'm curious Jimmy -- issue is is she gonna go back to politics and off.
You know that's one of there.
Main questions asked of us thousand times what's your game plan re truthfully don't know.
But don't don't underestimate -- she'll be back she'll be back in some category we don't know what.
We've seen this all -- life from the second third grade on she rises to the occasion.
But -- -- you back now to the beginning of the book and go to -- senior.
You -- -- growing up in that it was at Idaho Idaho are living there and then you after the family and move -- this wild front tier of the state of Alaska.
What prompted that.
Well I've always a hundred and fish in.
-- Participated in outdoor activities.
And I have heard Alaska was a step up from my idol I -- -- But.
That step up -- really got my attention I would ago come up earlier but it couldn't afford to move.
I thought three years in Idaho that I hear came to Alaska and talked several years -- -- bought 25 years in Alaska.
-- a lot of outdoor activity mining gold mining.
Hunting fishing trapping guiding so it's home.
We've been -- 48 years.
-- to hear you -- I mean you know I want to see in the book and -- -- see in the book but that is there is no picture of the -- tree -- if father's house.
-- and debt and their written there's no there are no pictures of the basement had actually been in the basement his father's house -- it's like a natural history museum down that basement.
I I have -- -- right for the pictures hoping to see it in your father and I just sitting there right here right but he is he's.
-- guy knows an awful lot about what's about the have been natural history of Alaska doesn't.
Well you you get those pitchers maybe in a second but but you're right and anybody that comes into that house is gonna get a history lesson for sheer.
It's it it was amazing growing up.
With all these experiences and with all debt stories and and that was the big reason for putting this book together too as we wanted to share that with the rest of the country.
You know those doubts were a hundred books written on Sarah -- we've we understand.
And only three have been totally fractional misses of fourth one -- be totally factual.
Through -- two before Sarah wrote herself.
Didn't seem that your book and I know that you wrote the forward but did she batted off.
Know all she said have mattered to me -- precedence he said -- you're in your words your book.
You go forward.
You know it's so -- -- an amended the Agassi on the next book headlights a little bit about the history of Alaska because -- senior says I noted by your basement.
That basement and it SA it's extraordinary out how you how you track history through all the artifacts you that you have collected over the years in the mountains in the tundra and everything else of Alaska -- just fasting hound when he did do that buck.
Well let's go up to chuck junior he's due for retirement.
This year next year.
He's already started to another another book so you'll see some of those stories there whether way to last time I saw you was a little village of -- -- worth.
You -- going to North Korea over the Franklin Graham and I was going beach combing the on the peninsula and -- -- to bump into each other.
And we brought back fire Boris is such a walrus tusks and hundreds of glass ball fishing balls from Japan.
And is it too weird place to -- because I think it's about a 115 miles out west of Anchorage job in the middle of nowhere but daily access -- these very small planes that you fly this -- areas and and running into -- was so I think he's actually sort of desire run into anyone at off.
Let alone someone I know you know what that's something there that.
That was if you book about -- about the family going to North Carolina and Demi with reverend Billy Graham that was a high point dip menace of the mentioned but.
That was a high point of my wife's life I'd say having dinner and conversing with.
Billy Graham she's -- been a fan of Billy Graham quite thoroughly enjoyed it to -- -- it was something else.
-- -- if my brother and sister run TV talking about me out I feel extremely nervous and her because the other the other always -- and they have a serve a different view of view than the outside world I'm curious if others some stories of Houston you threatened to put in the book and -- -- did.
Not that there's probably sitting on the couch to her fingernails right now.
And yeah I mean it's here and there's brother sister stories that -- you don't want to rest the world you know but.
I know I I pretty much shared everything in and and I was happy to do it and I'm sure she'll be fine with -- Well it's a fun book and that I know -- having met your -- Manning met.
Sam is a lot in the last forty years doing this is that how the media sometimes portrays families -- things.
So vastly different than what it is from the inside and so I hope people read this book that.
And a thank you both for joining me and -- -- and her pleasure.
