Sarah Palin put her mainstream media grudge aside in December 2009 when she appeared before the Gridiron Club's white-tie winter dinner. Palin, in the middle of the book tour for bestselling memoir Going Rogue, referred to the publicity blitz by saying that, "the view is so much better from inside the bus than under it." That wasn't her only political jab that night; Palin also noted that if John McCain had won the presidency, "I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book, Going Rogaine." With comments like that, it's no wonder the 124-year-old journalistic institution dropped its long-standing rule that dinners must be off the record.