Ever since John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his Hail Mary running mate, she’s been a treasure chest of entertainment inspiration, comedic relief and controversy. When their ride to the White House crashed, she stuck to her personal maverickness—burning bridges and blazing her own path in the pursuit of attention. Her new ghostwritten bestseller, Going Rogue, digs its literary nails into all her perceived enemies like an insecure disgraced cheerleader enraged at her ex-teammates.

Surely, most politicians possess a level of egotistical self-importance, but Palin displays a unique disregard for public service, her family and former colleagues. Her willingness to blurt out whatever talking point is politically advantageous shades any minuscule shred of credibility she retained following the election. She’s just trying to get paid. To zero in on her leadership style, here’s some of her most rogue moments…  

Resigns As Governor
• With over a year left in her first term as Alaska’s Governor, Palin spontaneously resigned and gave up her only remote qualification for seeking higher office. The former point guard compared her decision to making a pass in a basketball game, but it was more like faking an injury in the playoffs. Deep down, she wanted to play one-on-one in the rogue league.

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Claims Aids Forbid Her From SNL
• Palin devotes considerable time in her book trashing her former colleagues. One of the many accusations surrounded SNL and its infamous mockery of the self-proclaimed hockey mom. In Going Rogue, she accuses campaign aides of dissuading her from appearing on the show to display her mature sense of humor. Campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, who looks like Dr. Evil, responded with emails that claim the exact opposite was true. *Yawn* I mean, despite Palin’s penchant for pathological lying, it’s equally ridiculous to accept information from McCain’s cronies as truthful.

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Attacks Katie Couric
• If there was a watershed moment that exposed Palin’s lack of education, it was hands-down the Katie Couric interview. Bad blood lingered between the two ever since, with both consistently taking shots at one another. So it’s no surprise that Palin’s book continues assaulting the CBS anchor and the rest of the “lamestream media”. While sitting down with Oprah, she whines for sympathy while bashing Couric for having the nerve to ask her what newspapers she reads. It’s pretty obvious that the experience left an indelible humiliation, if one reads between the lines.  

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Recants Family Vote Story
• When she’s not stabbing old colleagues in the back or lambasting “gotcha” journalists, the mother of five admits that she doesn’t really listen to her family. Even more disturbing, she apparently flat-out lied during the campaign about holding a good ‘ol fashioned family vote to decide if she should accept the VP nomination. It’s all about Sarah. For whatever reason, Palin now claims that her kids had no voice in the decision to be paraded on TV as the folksy American family. Oops, too late guys.

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Supports Racial Profiling
• Many pundits clearly speculate that Palin’s rogue campaign is foreshadowing her possible run in 2012. Despite obvious hurdles, it would be naive to dismiss her potential appeal considering that Americans elected Bush twice. To get an idea of what sort of policies she would condone, Palin gives a revealing interview to Sean “I’d leave my wife for you, Sarah” Hannity. While discussing the Fort Hood massacre, Palin goes rogue on civil rights, throwing her full support behind outright profiling. But, fortunately, it’ll take a lot more than book sales to implement Sarah Palin’s creepy America.

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The prospect of her holding higher office still scares the shit out of us, but we’ll always love SP for giving us unlimited fodder for hilarious blog posts. Yesterday, Palin officially stepped down from her Governorship (a move which is no doubt a part of her greater world domination scheme), so we started getting nostalgic—take a look back at some of Our Favorite Sarah Palin x Complex Moments below…

#5: The Complex Readers Say Sarah Palin Deserves Trifey Status
Original Post: Wifey Or Trifey: Sarah Palin (11/3/08)
• The day before the election, Complex held their own vote with a special Palin edition of our regular “Wifey or Trifey?” feature. After examining the evidence, you the Complex readers came down firmly on the side of Trifey (Sorry, Todd). Rumor has it she was so upset about these results that she didn’t realize she had lost the national election until Thanksgiving.

#4: John Brown’s Sarah Palin Love Song
Original Post: John Brown Lays Pipe To Sarah Palin (9/12/08)
• Fresh off her coming out party at the Republican Convention, White Rapper Show alumni John Brown releases his hilarious love song “Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Pipe),” complete with a music video. We loved it so much that we asked JB to be Complex.com’s regular political columnist.

#2: Complex Gives The Governor Career Counseling
Original Post: 5 New Career Choices for Sarah Palin (7/6/09)
• Upon seeing Palin’s nonsensical (even for her) press conference earlier this month, where she announced her resignation from Alaska’s Governorship, we were left with a buring question: what’s next? To help her out in the transition, we whipped up this list of potential new gigs that would keep the hockey mom busy.

#2: Palin Family Streetwear
Original Post: Streetwear For The McCain Campaign (9/26/08)
• When the campaign was raging, all the cool-guy clothing companies were churning out t-shirt designs in support of Obama. But what if things were the other way around? Complex created some McCain/Palin-themed parodies of famous streetwear t-shirt designs, including this classic.

#1: Sarah Palin…The Rapper?
Original Post: Vice President Rap Battle: Sarah Palin Vs. Joe Biden (9/30/08)
• On the eve of the Vice Presidential Debate, Complex imagined what might happen if they decided to face off in an MC battle instead. Sample lyric: “Ask Todd, you gettin’ sodomized with this Idita-rod / I drop them dogs, now you lookin’ like Mike Vick’s backyard / Straight mauled by a pit bull in high heels and Revlon / Giuliani’s wet dream, I’m right-wing, you dead wrong.” Fiyahhh!.

More Palin-Related Posts From Complex:
• 5 Political Pornos We’d Vote For (10/14/09)
• History’s Most Infamous Shotgun Weddings (9/4/08)
• Politicans’ Daughters Gone Wild! (9/2/08)
• Great Moments In Celebrity Hacking History (9/18/09)
• 5 Ways For Sarah Palin To Kill Time Before 2012 (11/5/08)
• 6 Memorable Public Apologies Made Under Pressure (6/16/09)

Which is where we come in. Sarah, we love you. We rooted for you in your classic rap battle against Joe Biden, we defended your honor in our Wifey-Trifey showdown—and now, we’re ready to be your career counselor. The world is your oyster, baby, now go out there and find the pearl…

JOIN THE CAST OF DEADLIEST CATCH
• She’s already an experienced commercial fisherperson (she just Tweeted that she’d be joining her husband for a day of “picking fish” in Bristol Bay), so why not combine her native skills with her love of being on TV? Sure, it’s no Sean Hannity lovefest, and we might not be able see her compulsive winking with all that salty spray in her face, but at least we’d tune in every week hoping to see her get washed overboard.
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BECOME TINA FEY’S STAND-IN ON 30 ROCK
• That big ol’ meanie Tina Fey already cashed in on her myopia and mousy hair to dramatically improve her national visibility–and now that Tina’s a big star and Sarah’s got some time on her hands, we think it’s time for the old-lady glasses to go on the other face (if you’ll pardon the clumsy new figure of speech). This way, Tina’s free to go off her limousine liberal friends and do new fancy-pants “hilarious and incisive” movie projects, and Sarah can deign to appear alongside filthy heathen actors like Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan–all to show the world that comedy doesn’t have to be clever to be funny, it just has to be morally hypocritical!
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BECOME A VIDEO DANCER
• Being selectively oblivious is kind of a thing for our girl. Either she’s making a big deal about pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey while other turkeys are getting slaughtered in the background, or she’s raising the roof while someone is ripping her a new one on SNL, or she’s trumpeting family values while tacitly allowing her high-school daughter to get knocked up in her own home. Blind to contradictions? Sounds like it’s time for someone to learn the Stanky Legg and clomp around in the background for a misogynist c-list rapper.
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BECOME CHANCELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
• Six years and four colleges just to get an undergraduate degree doesn’t mean she’s stupid or undisciplined, it means she’s intellectually restless! And by now, she’s clearly an expert in non-competitive institutions of higher-ish learning-related things. That being said, Internet schools are the wave of the future for the kinds of people who think Sarah Palin is someone to be looked up to. And what Internet school is more worthy of a Palin chancellorship than University of Phoenix, the “college” that’s been accused of religious discrimination (against non-Mormon employees) and hiring ex-cons to be ethics professors?
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BECOME A HIGH-SCHOOL DEBATE COACH
• What qualifies as a complete sentence? What counts as foreign policy experience? What consitutes wrongful termination of state employees? WHO CARES? Debate is like Sarah Palin’s version of politics–it doesn’t matter what skills or intelligence you actually have, as long as you can convince people that you’re right! And we know a few young men and women who could learn from the master’s process: wink, give venomous ghostwritten speech, profit!

In today’s age of political correctness, making a joke in public is like farting on the subway–it might feel good, but it’s going to offend at least a few people. Read on to watch the clips of television and radio show hosts whose inappropriate commentary led to begrudging public apologies…

Don Imus says sorry to the Rutgers woman’s basketball team: This is the most heartfelt apology we’ve ever heard read off of a cue card. Way to go Imus, we almost believed you’re not a grumpy old racist. Well, that’s not exactly true; we almost believed you’re a carbon-based life form. Close enough, though.

E.D. Hill of Fox News apologizes for her ‘terrorist fist-jab’ comment: Before accepting the Democratic nomination, Barack greeted his wife on-stage with a pound. This of course prompted Fox News Anchor E.D. Hill to lead a segment on how to interpret the gesture: was it a just a friendly greeting or, more likely, an al Qaeda fist-jab of death? Which leads us to wonder how to interpret Fox News employees’ utter absence of cross-cultural awareness.

Jamie Foxx tries to settle the score with Miley Cyrus: On his Sirius Satellite Radio show The Foxxhole, host Jamie Foxx told Miley Cyrus she should “grow up,” and start doing drugs like Britney, become a lesbian like Lohan, and catch chlamydia from her bicycle seat… Man, it’s hard to figure out where that joke went wrong.

Russel Brand offers an apology to Manuel of Fawlty Towers: British comedian and BBC radio host, Russel Brand, released this cheeky apology video after leaving a series of messages on Fawlty Tower’s star Andrew Sachs’ answering machine about having sex with Sachs’ granddaughter. Sarah Palin sure would have been outraged, if only she knew what language they spoke in the UK.

Fox’s America’s Newsroom Host Greg Jarrett’s transgendered snafu: Yet another apology from a Fox News host. Jarrett ruffled GLAAD’s feathers when he joked about the first-ever transgender contestant, Isis, on America’s Next Top Model, making “crude comments about her genitalia and the pitch of her voice.” Which actually counts as “classing it up” for that group of mouth-breathing troglodytes.

Fox’s Red Eye hosts say sorry for teasing Canadians: In what is beginning to seem like a trend, another Fox News apology comes from the hosts of Fox’s 3 a.m. show Red Eye. The cast joked at length about the effeminate qualities of the Canadian military, implying they aren’t making any difference in the war effort. You gotta give it up to Fox’s dedication–even when we’re sleeping, Fox is wide-awake and broadcasting hate speech. USA! USA!

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Which is the fate that’s befallen our homegirl Sarah Palin this morning. Yeah, technically she’s still governor of Alaska, but really, how hard can that be? So until she fires up her 2012 presidential bid, Ess to the Pee’s gotta find a day job. And as the ever-helpful foot soldiers for the less fortunate that we are, Complex has five ideas for things she can do with her downtime…

JOIN A JAZZ BAND

Sure, SP’s about as jazzy as she is classy, but she’s a mean flutist. And, as you can see in this clip, she can play the flute pretty well too.

JOIN THE ARMY

Sarah got hammered in the campaign for her lack of foreign policy experience. The best way to turn that around? Pick up a gun and shoot some terrorists!

GIVE TOURS OF RUSSIA

Everybody wants to work from home, right?

FILM A PORNO

a) She’s hot. b) Hustler’s already got “Who’s Nailin’ Palin,” but just in case Sarah wants to go gonzo herself, here are a few words that rhyme with “Palin”: bailin,’ hailin,’ flailin,’ grailin,’ wailin,’ impalin.’ c) She definitely tried to fuck us so we’d like to see somebody return the favor.

CRAWL UNDER A ROCK AND HIDE

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And of course there’s a big question facing both Complex staffers and readers alike: is this chick a base-energizing wifey or a triflin’ hockey MILF?

Click here to see the evidence and cast your vote…

You already know everything there is to know about Presidential Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and their VeePeez Sarah Palin and Joe Biden (seriously, you’ve watched almost every episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report AND Saturday Night Live for like the past two weeks). Reading a few more propagandist leaflets while you wait on an historically long line to cast your vote will do you no good, so why not take the opportunity to pick up chicks?

With this in mind, Complex presents an analysis of all different types of female voters, from the far right to the far left, and how you can stuff their ballot box on Election Day. Fuck politics, it’s time to poll-a-trick!

Click here to find out about each type of girl you’ll encounter at the polls.

With that in mind, Complex brings to you one big blowout party hosted by renowned journalist Kevin Powell (former Real World: New York cast member). The festivities will go down at club Element in New York’s Lower East Side with music provided by DJ Beverly Bond, and DJ Misbehaviour. Until the biggest Super Tuesday ever, get hyped on the full flyer below…

Back in 1982, designer Malcolm Wallhead created the round, alien-like pod for the Australian Antarctic Division. The fiberglass construction and polyurethane insulation can protect you not only from polar ice caps, but the searing heat from tropical climates as well. Multiple igloos can be linked together via tunnels, making a perfect haven for your whole team. See more photos below…

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SARAH PALIN’S VERSE:
Ask Todd, you gettin’ sodomized with this Idita-rod
I drop them dogs, now you lookin’ like Mike Vick’s backyard
Straight mauled by a pit bull in high heels and Revlon
Giuliani’s wet dream, I’m right-wing, you dead wrong
Made a move for the Senate, threw Delaware all on your back
But your chances be slimmer than Selma Blair when I attack
The GOP love me, they say I energize the base
But I give senators a taste of how I genocide their race
You ran in ‘88 and you went out like Nino Brown
Stole a keynote speech, that how you actin’ so flagrino now?
You the gaffe machine, I’m Governor No-Vaseline
You comin’ off the dome? You might just need an aspirine to match the queen
I’ll smash your dreams, filibuster your plans, this filly crush your demands,
You’re like a fucking hazelnut with a tan
You on some Reach-toothbrush-ad-fliptop-jaw type of horseshit,
Wooden teeth, lookin’ like a George Washington portrait
But I don’t see you on no ones, I make it rain with oil money
'Fore I see you with this gun you better keep it loyal, dunny
Your son worked for a bank that lobbied you, you ho for profits
I’m your favorite topic, but you’ll never taste this Oval Office
In a battle you’re Vanilla Ice, but I’m Wasilla Spice,
I forgot your name quicker than I forgot the Bill of Rights
Sarah Nightmare came near and you got scared and ran clear
Believe I rep for mavericks like I was Erick Dampier
As for Kidds, why you think I named ‘em Trig, Track and Bristol?
Miss Big pack the pistol, push wigs back, won’t miss you
I click-clack, no issue, blow your nose off, no tissue
If you front like J’s hood you gonna make me Jadakiss you
Get in you quick like Inuits when guttin’ tuna fish
Believe me, slick, this barracuda’s kiss is somethin ruinous
Got the religious right screamin’ “Glory Be!” and “Hallelujah!”
Want some jewels? I’m gonna go ahead and GET THOSE TO YAH!

JOE BIDEN’S VERSE:
The great debate: world leader or cheerleader?
Sharpest thing 'bout you's the razor that shaved your bare beaver
I have to drop you for the good of the kids
Smartest thing to come out your mouth shoulda been Trig
Bible-beating, hockey-cheering, rifle-toting moron
Thought you bore arms cause you got fisted to the forearm
Not all there, though you are quite a looker
Tried to walk to your neighbor's in Russia to ask for sugar
Dumb as can be and this country don't need
A backwards-ass W.T. bumpkin V.P.
Especially not one who believes the Bush Doctrine
Is get a Brazilian and put cock in
Tell me, how exactly would you fix this shit economy?
You'll solve something when Trig gets trigonometry
Your only policy's vagina or dome
I'll bury you in debate like God did dinosaur bones
You'd sully the flag if you governed on the rag
But your overactive vag never touches maxi-pads
That pussycat sees more spilled milk than saucers
Every 9 months, spawn's pawned off on your daughters
You talk conservative, clutching on your Bible
But hubby's hockey stick ain't the one flicking in your five-hole (nice goal)
Whore for Cleetus, every day you're more egregious
If you won't walk with Jesus, at least abort the fetus
Think you got chick votes, you ain't Hilary Rodham
It's not birth control, so what pills are you popping?
Come the debate, I'll have you slain in a flash
Biden riding Amtrak, running train on that ass
Only on the ticket cause you look like Tina Fey
And dudes wanna blast DNA on your TNA
Semen spray! Duck! Paramedics have you rushed off
The first politrick assassinated by bust-off!

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Yep, the Republican Vice Presidential hopeful joined the list of celebrities who’ve been exposed through cyber crimes when her personal Yahoo! email account was hacked by the infamous Anonymous group. Even though they didn’t uncover anything too damaging while pillaging her inbox, the McCain camp is rightfully pissed. But maybe they should consider themselves lucky after looking at these other celebrities who’ve had their privacy invaded…

PARIS HILTON’S SIDEKICK

Remember when Paris Hilton was actually popular? Like, before she became a caricature of herself and all the other Hollywood trust fund debutantes who were famous for being famous? Back in ‘04 and ‘05, Paris was actually the envy of many. She was everywhere'every party, every opening, every premiere, always with her trusty Sidekick. No, not Nicole or Kim, her actual T-Mobile Sidekick. It was that Sidekick that got hacked in early 2005 by Nicolas Jacobsen, who plead guilty to intentionally breaking into T-Mobiles databases. But not before he posted all the contents, which included her entire phonebook and photos, online for the world to see, which led to mad Anna Kournikova prank calls.

LINDSAY LOHAN’S GMAIL & MYSPACE PAGE

Lindsay Lohan’s had a hell of a whirlwind ride since she’s been in Hollywood. One of the lows, though, had to be when her Myspace, Blackberry and GMail accounts were hacked last year. The hacker, who was never revealed, posted dozens of messages and conversations between Lohan and Paris Hilton, Travis Barker’s baby mother Shanna Moakler, and Paris’ ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos. Let’s just say the convos weren’t pretty. Two memorable ones include her telling Paris to “go suck elliot’s dick” and Shanna telling her to stay the fuck away from Travis: “I know you and your whore crew think fucking other people’s men is a game and fun but I have two kids who don’t have a proper family now.”

TRU LIFE’S MYSPACE

If you wanna see e-thuggin’ at its finest, all you gotta do is hit up a hip hop video site. But what happened to Roberto Guzman Rosado b.k.a Tru Life was worse than a low-budget video diss. Last winter, Dipset Capo Jim Jones got a bunch of young computer wizards to hack into Tru Life’s Myspace page, change all his music to Dipset songs, change his Top 8 to Dipset members and alter all the images, including his “Tru York” mixtape cover, to Dipset friendly images. They even sent out an email from Tru Life’s profile saying:

“I want to apologize for disrespecting The Whole Dipset especially Jim “capo” Jones. I’m just a tad upset with my situation over at rocafella, Jay Z spends all his money on Beyonce, and doesn’t leave much for any of his broke Rocafella artist Like me Young Gunners, Memphis Bleek and Peedi Crakk; especially for his dust smoking habits.. I’m driving around the lower eastside in my 96 Windstar Caravan with my broke friends not really doing much.

I don’t know when my album gonna drop, I’m still living off the Jewelry I stole from Mobb deep and I’m down to my last dollars. I really want to say thank you to Geno, end of the day I know he is my muscle, and the only reason n****s aint swerve on me yet. Let The People know! I’m a liar and a hasbeen.”

- Tru Life aka never selling a record

VANESSA HUDGENS’ EMAIL

Poor Vanessa. All she wanted to do was send her man, Zac Efron, some sexy pictures and they wound up on the ‘net for the world to see. Her camp never really came out and blamed hackers, but they claimed they didn’t know how the photos got out and that hackers were a likely cause. Zac’s people said the same. We think Zac probably just sent them to a couple friends and those dumb-asses passed ‘em along to some friends and so on and so fourth until they wound up online.

ROBERT GATES, THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE’S EMAIL

The Pentagon is Department of Defense headquarters, therefore it should be impossible to break into, right? Nah, apparently not, ’cause last year the computer system that serves over 1,500 Pentagon employees including Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. The attack was so bad, they had to take it offline for a week until the botnet attacks stopped. After some investigating, DOD officials accused the People’s Liberation Army of China for the incursion.

Watch the video for John Brown’s “Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Pipe)” below…

John Brown “Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Pipe)”

Should we be shocked that young Bristol Palin, daughter of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, is preggers at 17? History has shown that powerful people'whether they be performers, preachers, or, in this case, politicians'end up with daughters who become either total prudes or total party animals.

All those hours of hard work leaves little time for proper parenting, which is why Bristol isn’t the first high-profile politician’s daughter to engage in scandalous behavior. With our exclusive Joe Francis meter, we decided to rate the misdeeds of political daughters, past and present.

Click here to see the dirty daughters…