Kyla Grace Palin was born Saturday to Palin’s eldest son, 22-year-old Track Palin, and his new wife, 21-year-old Britta Hanson.

Hanson’s mother, Elizabeth Hanson, confirmed the birth and told The Associated Press that the baby girl is “exquisite.” At birth, the littlest Palin weighed in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces, according to the maternal grandmother.

“She’s adorable,” she said Wednesday, adding that the family is doing well. “We’re all extremely excited about her arrival.”

Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, is mulling a possible run for the presidency in 2012. She has not made a public comment about the new addition to the family.

Track Palin and Britta Hanson were high-school sweethearts. They married three months ago at Hatcher Pass, a scenic mountain pass not far from Sarah Palin’s Wasilla home.

“Yes, they did & we couldn’t be any more blessed!” Sarah Palin tweeted on May 19.

Britta Hanson’s father is the Rev. Duane Hanson, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Wasilla.

Track Palin is an Army reservist. He spent a year deployed in Iraq with the Army. When his mother was on the GOP ticket in 2008, she spoke at her son’s deployment ceremony in Fairbanks.

Track Palin joined the Army on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Hanson is a University of Alaska nursing students.

Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, have four other children. Their other grandchild is Tripp, who was born to then 18-year-old Bristol Palin, an unwed mother who launched an abstinence campaign soon after giving birth in December 2008.

Bristol Palin, now 20, and the boy’s father, Levi Johnston, are no longer together.

Her pregnancy at age 17 was announced days after Sen. John McCain picked her mother to be his running mate.

The public clash between conservative political superstar Sarah Palin and self-described “D-List” comedian Kathy Griffin gained momentum in recent days, with each taking verbal jabs at the other.

After Palin, a former Alaska governor and one-time Republican vice presidential candidate, called Griffin a “bully” over the weekend, the comedian’s publicist made a dig at Palin by highlighting her starring role on last year’s TV show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” rather than her political resume.

“As a fellow reality star, Kathy would like to extend free tickets to her upcoming Broadway show to reality star Sarah Palin and her reality TV crew,” the publicist told ABC News in an article posted online on Monday.

“Kathy supports all reality stars regardless of what they say about her,” the spokeswoman said.

Griffin’s reality show airs on cable TV network Bravo and is called “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,” a joke about her life on the fringes of fame.

Griffin’s publicist did not return calls about Palin.

The feud between the two women goes back months.

Aside from joking about Palin, Griffin has also made fun of the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate’s daughter Bristol, 20, for gaining weight on TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” and she slammed Palin’s other daughter Willow, 16, for anti-gay slurs the teen made on the website Facebook.

The feud picked up again this past Saturday when Palin, a politician-turned-pundit, appeared on Fox News and, in response to an anchor’s question, blasted Griffin.

“She’s a 50 year-old, adult bully, really, is what she is, kind of a has been comedienne, and she can (make jokes about) me, I would just ask for respect to my children,” Palin said.

Palin has broadly hinted she could run for president in 2012. Her feud with Griffin gives no sign of letting up, because the comedian is slated to appear on the hit Fox musical comedy show “Glee,” as a Palin-like Tea Party character.

One of Sarah Palin’s trusted advisers is planning a tell-all memoir, drawing upon thousands of personal e-mails during his time with the former Alaska governor to paint what his agent calls an expose of the inner workings of her operation.

Frank Bailey rose from a campaign volunteer to administration official and figure in the “Troopergate” scandal that fixated the public’s attention during Palin’s vice presidential bid in 2008. A preliminary draft of the unpublished book, tentatively called “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years,” was leaked to reporters, with excerpts making the rounds on the Internet.

Messages to a Palin aide and attorney weren’t immediately returned Friday.

Ken Morris, a California-based writer who worked with Bailey on the manuscript, said in an e-mail that the material is preliminary, subject to copyright protections and not authorized for use.

The New York-based Carol Mann Agency, in an e-mail promoting the manuscript, said the “revelations and insights” that Bailey offers “are more necessary than ever, as the public will seek to learn as much as possible about the woman who seems to have her sights set on the national stage.”

The agency referred calls to Morris, who said that he, Bailey and co-writer Jeanne Devon did “tons of research” for the book, which still has no publisher. Devon, an Alaska blogger, is a frequent critic of Palin.

Morris said he believes the manuscript paints an accurate portrait of Palin but declined to elaborate. “I think we should leave it at that,” he said.

The manuscript, which Morris said is subject to change and “may not materially reflect the eventual product,” states that Palin, before resigning partway through her first term, wrote to Bailey and another aide, “I hate this damn job.”

This isn’t Bailey’s first attempt at getting published. He has been working on a book since at least 2009, when Palin resigned. At least one previous effort fizzled. Bailey left state government shortly after Palin.

Bailey was embroiled in an investigation of Palin’s firing of her police commissioner over allegations he wouldn’t fire a trooper who had a bitter divorce with Palin’s sister. Bailey, in a recording made public, questioned a state trooper official about why Palin’s former brother-in-law was still employed.

Once Palin’s friend, Bailey is now among those criticizing her.

“Since leaving the Governor’s office, Frank has been forced to reconsider his actions on Palin’s behalf in terms of his deep Christian faith and his allegiance to her as the standard-bearer for the conservative causes he still champions,” Mann wrote in her e-mail.

Mann also describes the manuscript as “the story of one man’s slow drift from his most cherished beliefs and his ultimate redemption.”

Efforts to reach Bailey weren’t immediately successful.

Sarah Palin, the Republican politician who may go head-to-head with Barack Obama at the next presidential election, has taken aim at the current First Lady Michelle Obama during an episode of her reality show ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’, reports US Magazine.

On Sunday’s episode, the former Governor of Alaska was seen searching around in her kitchen cupboards for more ingredients as her youngest son Trig looked on. The 46-year-old then turned to the camera and said, “This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who thinks nobody in the land should have dessert”.

The jibe was in reference to the First Lady’s ‘Lets Move’ campaign which attempts to tackle the United States’ problem with childhood obesity, instead focusing attention on healthier foods and exercise. In a recent speech made in Kansas City, Obama said, “In my house…we ate what we were served. We ate what was there, or we didn’t eat, and there was always a vegetable on the plate”.

Palin’s reality show has come in for heavy criticism in recent weeks. Aaron Sorkin, the creator of hit political drama ‘The West Wing’, accused the former governor of killing an innocent animal for political gain after she was filmed hunting for caribou.

Kate Gosselin is not a happy camper.

On this week’s edition of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” she and her brood make a much-anticipated guest appearance. But don’t expect it to reveal her inner Daniel Boone.

“How would you like to go camping with Kate and her eight kids – that TV show you watch?” Sarah Palin asks her daughter, Piper, at the start of the episode.

Piper squeals with delight at the idea of hanging with these stars of another TLC series.

As things develop, the camping trip in the Alaskan wilds will be no day at the beach for Kate. But it makes for a hilarious hour of Palin’s show, which airs on TLC Sunday at 9 p.m. EST.

Read no further if you don’t want spoiler details of Kate’s stab at roughing it.

For a few fleeting moments, it seems she will savor her visit with the Palin family. She instantly bonds with Sarah, as they compare notes on the predatory nature of the media.

“There’s not a whole lot of people that I run into that can understand the scrutiny (by) the media and beyond,” says Kate, whose crumbling marriage to Jon was documented on “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ while it spurred a feeding frenzy from the tabloid press.

Now, single mom Kate and her kids just happened to be in Alaska taping one of her “Kate Plus 8″ specials, which occasioned their guest spot with the Palins.

The first stop: Sarah takes Kate to a bear safety class to prepare her for their camping expedition.

On the road from Wasilla to the class in Anchorage, Sarah sort-of jokes that, in case of a bear attack, “You need a partner with you who’s slower than you.”

“Oh, my gosh!” replies Kate, who already was spooked by the bear rug in the Palins’ home. “Sacrifice your friends?”

At the rifle range, she looks more miserable than she used to look with Jon.

And that’s only the beginning.

The day of the camping trip, it’s – wouldn’t you know? – pouring rain.

Out in the middle of nowhere by a stream and surrounded by mountains, Sarah is smiling, chipper and (literally) loaded for bear.

“Rain or shine, Alaskans still camp. We still find a way to have fun,” she chirps.

Then Kate and her kids land at the campsite. Quickly, Kate proves to be a bigger pill than a horse tranquilizer.

“I’m not worrying about bears right now,” she is soon grousing. “I’m just worried about keeping my toes wiggling ’cause they’re freezing.”

Sarah, daughters Piper and Willow, husband Todd and other family members seem to be having a blast. So, for that matter, are Kate’s youngsters.

“The kids are having fun, so I’m tolerating it, but this is my new home,” grumbles Kate, having sullenly planted herself, apart from the rest, beneath a tarp. “I am miserable, but, I mean, somebody’s got to be.”

Sarah, ever gung-ho, announces to the group, “This is the most luxurious camping spot I’ve ever seen!”

Cut to Kate, who tells the camera, “It just kills me that people, like, willingly do this.”

Soon everybody else is enjoying hamburgers, hot-dogs and s’mores from the camp fire.

Maybe it was finding out the hot-dogs are moose. About that time, Kate loses it.

“I don’t see a table, I don’t see utensils, I don’t see hand-cleansing materials,” she whimpers. “This is not ideal conditions. I am freezing to the bone, I have 19 layers on, my hands are frigid. I held it together as long as I could and I’m done now!”

She gathers up her children and, mere hours after their arrival, they have eaten and run.

Fortunately, Sarah knows the show must go on. Minus the Gosselins, she settles the crowd down for the night.

“Well, I thought we were gonna go camping with the Gosselins,” she says when it’s all over, full of glossy good cheer. “Turned out, we didn’t. We had lunch with them on a sand bar.”

The Mama Grizzly made another one of America’s most famous (and prolific) mamas break down in tears.

During an episode of Sarah Palin’s reality show on TLC, octomom Kate Gosselin wells up while on a camping trip with the outdoorsy ex-vice presidential candidate.

The entire show will air on Dec. 12.

“I have never camped for real,” Gosselin admits in the episode’s trailer, released on Saturday by UsMagazine.com.

Previews show the strange duo roughing it in Palin’s native Alaska. Gosselin is seen hiking with her eight children, crying for decent food and watching fearfully as Palin shoots a gun.

“She’s going to be relying on me to protect her, Palin says.

But after a mental breakdown, Gosselin decides she’s had enough of the great outdoors and storms off the campsite after just two hours, the National Enquirer reported. The trip was supposed to last two days.

Gosselin, who divorced her kids’ father Jon last year, initially agreed to come on the show for her TLC series “Kate Plus 8.

“Come on! It wasn’t that bad!” the former Alaska governor lamented.

Sarah Palin leveled a highly charged blast at CBS anchor Katie Couric during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night.

Palin, who was made to look ridiculous in a parody of the interview by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live , was asked whether she would grant another interview to Couric if she decided to run for president.

“As for doing an interview, though, with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say? Why waste my time? No,” she replied. She then went on, “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us. So a journalist, a reporter who is so biased and will, no doubt, spin and gin up whatever it is that I have to say to create controversy, I swear to you, I will not waste my time with her — or him.”

During the course of the interview, Palin also shot back at critics of her daughter Bristol’s success on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars , saying, “Haters are going to hate.” She added that despite the negative comments, she and her family have decided just to “dance and fly and soar and serve and speak about issues that are important to this country.”

Sarah Palin isn’t done with Levi Johnston. And she isn’t crazy about “American Idol,” either.

The former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate writes in her new book that it was “disgusting” to watch Johnston, the estranged father of her grandson, exploit his sudden fame after she was chosen as U.S. Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 election. She alleges that he was absent when her daughter Bristol Palin gave birth to Tripp and that he disgraced himself by repeatedly criticizing the Palins.

“Of course, we all had to bite our tongues – more than once – as Tripp’s father went on a media tour through Hollywood and New York, spreading untruths and exaggerated rhetoric,” Palin writes. “It was disgusting to watch as his fifteen minutes of fame were exploited by supposed adults taking advantage of a lost kid.”

Bristol Palin has been featured on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” but Sarah Palin has a few words for Fox’s “American Idol.” She refers to “talent-deprived” contestants who suffer from “the cult of self-esteem.”

“No one they have encountered in their lives – from their parents to their teachers to their president – wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth,” she writes. “So they grew up convinced that they could become big pop stars like Michael Jackson.”

The Internet has been abuzz in recent days about how Bristol Palin, who has consistently landed at the bottom of the judges’ leaderboard on “Dancing With the Stars,” has been able to remain on the show. Some critics have suggested that voters – particularly supporters of her mother – have been voting in blocs and manipulating the system.

Sarah and Bristol Palin have denied any organized vote-getting tactics. Bristol Palin says voters support her despite lackluster performances because she started the show with no dancing experience.

Palin’s book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag,” is not out until next week, but pages were posted Wednesday on the blog Palingates. Palin’s previous book, the memoir “Going Rogue,” was a million seller.

Johnston, who has feuded often with the Palins over the past two years, said last month he wasn’t doing any more interviews for a while.

Forget the “Real Housewives” and trying to keep up with the Kardashians.

“Sarah Palin’s Alaska”, which makes its TV debut on Sunday, couldn’t be further from the pampered pooches and designer divas seen in much of the popular reality TV fare about the lives of American women.

The eight-part show on cable channel TLC portrays the Tea Party favorite, and arguably America’s most polarizing public figure, as a family-loving, outdoors woman who is as happy gutting salmon in the mud as addressing political rallies.

Advance clips show Palin hiking with various family members in the glaciers of her Alaska home state, kayaking along its rivers, teaching her five children how to handle wild bears, and gathering in prayer for a homespun 16th birthday party for daughter Willow.

“I’d rather she be out here doing this than with her iPhone, texting her buddies, and thinking she needs to be all dolled up and going out partying,” Palin, a former beauty queen in her Wasilla hometown, says of Willow.

On Friday, TLC announced that Christian rock band Third Day will provide the theme music for the series with their song “Follow Me There”.

The Grammy-award winning group from Georgia said in a statement it was honored to have its song chosen as the theme song for “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

The TV series is the latest media venture from the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential hopeful who is widely seen as a prospective 2012 presidential candidate.

Palin, 46, has a second book, “America By Heart”, coming out soon, following her 2009 best-seller “Going Rogue.” Her eldest daughter Bristol, 20, a single mom, is currently a contestant on TV show “Dancing with the Stars”.

The mother of five told People magazine in an interview this week that the show was an opportunity to showcase Alaska and its hard-working people, adding that she hoped it would “correct some untruths out there”.

She also shrugged off recent comments by Republican political strategist Karl Rove who said that making a reality TV show diminished her credentials as a serious contender for high political office.

“I’d like Karl Rove to come up to Alaska and see me being in a man’s world,” Palin told People magazine.

On Sunday, Rove and the rest of America will get its chance. “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” makes its debut November 14 on TLC.

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An upcoming Fox News Channel special hosted by Sarah Palin is titled “Real American Stories.”

But rapper-actor LL Cool J says his participation in the show was bogus.

In response, the network has snipped him from the program.

In a Twitter posting late Tuesday, the entertainer wrote that Fox “lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.”

Country singer Toby Keith was similarly caught by surprise, his publicist said Wednesday.

Elaine Schock said a radio reporter contacted her Tuesday seeking details about Keith’s announced appearance on Palin’s Fox News program.

“I said, ‘You’re wrong. There is no Sarah Palin special with Toby Keith on it on Fox,’” Schock said.

She said the reporter then e-mailed her the press release issued by Fox News, which said Keith would “explain the inspiration behind his song ‘Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.’”

Schock said she believed the interview was conducted in January 2009 in Las Vegas but she had received no e-mail or phone call from Fox News informing her it would air on Palin’s show this week.

She said Keith would not request that the footage be removed. She would not comment on his reaction to it being used on the show.

“Real American Stories,” which debuts Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT, is hosted by Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, who joined Fox News Channel as a regular contributor in January. The one-hour program is described by Fox News as “the first installment of a new series” that features “real-life tales of overcoming adversity throughout the American landscape.”

Fox News says the episode, which was not available for preview, will feature a Marine Medal of Honor recipient “who gave his life to save his comrades” and a wealthy stockbroker who helps underprivileged students pay for college.

Originally listed as part of the show were former General Electric boss Jack Welch and LL Cool J in a segment called “In Their Own Words.”

The LL Cool J interview was from 2008, his spokesman said.

“Contrary to what was reported, LL Cool J was never scheduled to be a guest on ‘Real American Stories’ with Sarah Palin this week,” spokesman Rhett Usry said in a statement Wednesday. “The show had planned to use an interview from 2008 that was being repurposed without LL’s permission.

“This statement is not a reflection of any feelings LL has toward Fox News or Ms. Palin, whom he has never met, rather a clarification of what we have seen published in the media.”

Fox News Channel did not respond to numerous calls and e-mails from The Associated Press inquiring about the status of the segment with LL Cool J, who was born James Todd Smith.

But in a statement released to other media outlets, the network said: “‘Real American Stories’ features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith’s interview fits that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.”

Credits for the 42-year-old actor include a starring role in the hit CBS freshman series “NCIS: Los Angeles” and several films such as “Last Holiday” and “S.W.A.T.”

It was unclear when or if future editions of “Real American Stories” will appear on Fox News. Thursday’s airing pre-empts “On the Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

Palin’s ongoing relationship with Fox News Channel as a host and news analyst accounts for only part of her television activities. Last week, the TLC cable network announced “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” an eight-part series about Palin’s home state that is set to start production this summer.

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Real American Stories: http://www.realamericanstories.com