“The Greatest Con Job Ever Told”
Where is the justice? The day after it was announced that Sarah Palin had finished "writing" her memoirs, the pre-order sales for the 432-page doorstop catapulted to #1 on the Barnes and Nobles charts, and #3 on the Amazon list, nipping at the heels of "Arguing with Idiots", Glenn Beck’s latest pamphlet about the voices in his head (Wait, what? It’s not an autobiography?). Sadly, most of the purchasers are probably teenaged boys and old men who think it’s going to be a series of photo essays. And I think you know what I mean…
Palin, of course, would never chip her French manicure by spending long nights plugging away at a computer keyboard to spit out 432 pages of self-reverential and utterly delusional fiction. Instead, Harper Collins allegedly cut a check for $7 million so the Wasilla Grifter could hire Lynn Vincent, another certifiable racist douchemook, to do the heavy lifting for her. After all, that’s what the con is about, right? Two for the price of many, many more?
If Levi Johnston is to be believed, it is well within reason to imagine Sarah, fresh off the tanning bed, lounging on the bearskin-draped couch in her purple velour track suit with "Bridezillas" muted on the television in the background, dictating her twisted, fantastical version of reality to Lynn Vincent. Given the folkloric, Munchausen-like nature of "The Legend of Sarah" up to this point — the "fierce" beauty pageant competitions, the superhuman strength required to prevent her vajayjay from dilating for a bajillion hours so she could pop out the li’l sack of flour in Alaska, bravely standing up to the government big spenders by selling the company jet on eBay (*cough*Escada*cough*), the years of foreign policy experience earned by staring down Putin across the Bering Strait, single-handedly pulling the McCain presidential campaign out of the shitter, and all the other incredible yarns she’s spun — this book should provide years of entertainment for fact-checkers and the reality-based community. Librarians across the country, and especially in Alaska, will delight in "mistakenly" shelving the book in the sci-fi/fantasy aisles.
Hoo boy. I do wonder if Palin understands that the $7 million was actually a loan. If Harper Collins doesn’t recoup its investment . . . well, we’ll see how good a grifter she really is.
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It’s OK. Regnery will bail her out.
Hi WT!
Oh, and “Zed”
Oh boy! It’s the Wasilla Snowbillies! Almost just exactly like when I was a kid. So who plays Granny? Sarah gets to be Jed and Todd is Jethro.
Guess the big question is, can Lynn Vincent write better than a blithering idiot?
sarah wants to be the lovable ellie mae but is, alas, mrs. drysdale.
Bet you can make a snow-machine go real fast on one of them there ce-ment ponds. Yeee-haw!
Well if the end product is even marginally coherent, we know it ain’t hers.
Well, WT, thanks for opining about Palin’s “memoir”. I couldn’t be bothered.
But if it’s not at all coherent (guess where I place my bet), we may never know the truth.
Sad, but true.
i wonder if the publisher used a fact-checker before sending it to be printed
or if they took their chances…
Not if they wanted to get it into print in this millennium.
At least Palin’s not being paid $53 million for destroying a bank and almost imploding the economy.
I’m guessing they took their chances.
WAG
;~P
Damn! Seven million dollars for a ghost-writer?
One and a half million copies at, what — $25 a pop, less Lynn’s 7 leaves eighteen for Rupert and Sarah to fight over. Oh, yeah, printing and “public relations” to fly the Ice Princess all over for book signings and talks, wow — Rupert Murdoch will be lucky to get himself a pair of silk boxers out of the deal.
If the past history of fact-checking in right-wing screeds is any basis for judgement, I expect that The P-Files will be virtually innocent of any connection to reality. Lewis Carroll presented a more believable world.
i figure it is 400 plus pages of non-fact checked palin dictation … i’m not gonna read it but i am sure looking forward to the lake’s dissection of it
Going Rogue: An Alien Autopsy.
John McCain, of course …
Watertiger !
LOL!
going rogue – i don’t think that word means what you think it does
Say, you’re pretty good at Gazintas !
Going Rogue: Did You Know My Husband is a Secessionist?
hey teddy – do ya think her contract includes a clothing allowance for the book tour?
You gotta give Palin credit, she chose an appropriate title. From Merriam Webster:
Also impressive that she created the first 400+ page pop-up book.
Going Rogue: A Non-Thrilla From Wasilla
If Teddy’s right about the economics of this tree-killer, she may have to do the book tour without clothing.
Palin accused Walt Monegan of going rogue. She also said that her brother- in-law was a rogue police officer. Rogue was bad for them but good for her.
Maverick was already taken. Sarah didn’t want to be perceived as one part of a team of Mavericks (as she famously referred to McGrumpy Jet Crasher and herself).
You couldn’t pick a wrong definition from that list.
Might improve sales among her fan base.
Yep, right on all counts.
Her fans would prefer the subtitle: Going Commando.
Some of them know what that means.
Going Rogue: Anecdotes From the Far Side of the Bell Curve
So DrDick, how’s about that “Ardi,” first name, “Chef-Boy?”
doncha know that webster fella has a well known librul bias. yes-sir-eee-bob. also.
Going Rogue: Tales from the Shallow End of the Gene Pool.
Then you will miss the 75 pages on shootin’ stuff from a Whirly Bird …
Suz !
His parents were asking for it, naming a boy Merriam…
going rogue – i can see russia from my house
Pretty cool, except that I now have to rewrite last week’s lecture in my intro class. I did talk about Ardipithecus, but previously we only had very fragmentary remains which could not be placed firmly in the human lineage.
That’d certainly sell more … um … Hardcovers …
Sarah researched her genealogy and discovered it was a straight line back to Adam and Eve.
Apparently Owen Lovejoy still hasn’t figured out that the monogamous pair bond isn’t the natural state of affairs for humans.
going rogue – the real story behind todd’s silk boxers
But for that to happen, the inbreeding would be…oh. Never mind.
Rich Lowery will buy five copies his own self.
Without a single branch, I am told.
Of course it will pose no additional impediment to creationists who assert there is no fossil evidence of evolution.
Yeah, I did notice a whole lot of projection onto those remains in the press conference. Tells us a whole lot more about the scientists than the fossil hominins.
Going rogue – naming kids after snow machine parts
Going rogue – flying back from texas when my water broke
chris matthews will have his tingle back
Going Rogue: The Grift of the Magi, A Christmas Story
They know it is all made up in a Hollywood sound stage right next to the one where they faked the moon landing to prove it wasn’t really made out of green cheese.
It always seems to happen that way–when did anyone named Leakey not try to make every new find the root of the human lineage? But that’s unfortunate, because by the time cooler heads prevail, the press has moved on to another shiny object.
Going rogue – build yer house with spare parts and labor from the sports complex.
going rogue – what happens in denali stays in denali
Self denial would not appear to be a predominant trait of the species.
Yeah, I have talked about that tendency in my intro class. Given today’s news, probably a good thing.
Going rogue – quit yer day job for fun and profit
soon to be made into a feature length film rogue-busters with ray parker jr singing the theme song.
There is some evidence to support the notion of a natural tendency toward short term pair bonding (up to about 4 years). Mostly in the biological phenomenon of “romantic love” and worldwide patterns of infidelity and divorce.
Going Rogue: Katie Couric is a Witch, I Tell You!
Darwin, Marx, Bin Laden… Satan must have a thing for beards.
Santa Claus?!?!
Going rogue – divorce, cheatin’, methamphetamines, teen pregnancy and kids out of wedlock – Ok if you are Republican, but John Edwards is Scum!
In reality, it was probably something closer to this:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StarTrek-Gorn.jpg
The period of infatuation that precedes the wandering eye.
Keeps you together until the infant is old enough to get around on its own and probably survive.
Clearly more than coincidence that Santa is an anagram of Satan.
the female would no longer be nursing and could fend for herself instead of having to rely on the male to provide food
Gee, I always thought Jim Morrison was the lizard king.
Well, he is clearly some kind of communist. Always giving stuff to people who haven’t worked hard at a 8 hour a week wingnut welfare job to earn it or inherit from mommy and daddy.
Why wouldn’t the females gather their own food?
He wears red. That’s all you need to know. Get a rope.
I suspect that the male was more helping out than providing, but pretty much. We have partial analogues in baboon behavior.
Going Rogue – How to say nothing and take all day to say it !
Meanwhile, Toys R Us goes belly up. Why does Santa Claus hate America?
Is das nicht ein douchemook?
ja, das is von great big schnook.
doucemook, great big schnook, oi!
It is not surprising that there would be huge pre-orders. Don’t a lot of these right wing groups order big numbers of books at huge discounts to give away if you make a donation or spread around at fund raisers, etc.? I remember this was done with Ann Coulter’s books. Since most of these people don’t read and only put them in their bookcases for show, buying in bulk at a discount is the best way to buy. Soon enough, remaining copies will be stacked in the bargain book section.
He got fed up with all the conservatives who took the wrong message from the lump of coal.
Because they’re la-ZEE (just kidding, OW!).
ROFL !!!
tis part of the wingnut welfare system
Or then Sarah still has the RNC’s Credit Card …
I suspect you’re right. The Gorilla from Wasilla is just going to learn the hard way that you don’t fund a presidential campaign on book sales.
See, Santa was a tool for Big Carbon, now his house is sinking.
For people who are all about the free market and capitalism, they don’t seem to have a real good idea of how it is supposed to work.
Um … Ladies, ratfood is hiding behind the Couch !
Will they stay open thru this christmas? Or are they shutting down post haste?
Gorilla from Wasilla? Kinda unfair to our simian friends, doncha think?
my thought was a female with a newborn would not be able to do some activities that carrying the infant would prevent – such as hunting. once that child was weaned, she can leave the child home and hunt and gather unencumbered by the nursing schedule of the child.
I’m wondering if secondary infertility was originally meant as a feature, allowing time for one child to be fed and partially raised before being able to get pregnant again.
It scanned. It rhymed. I ran with it.
Silly me, I thought they’d already gone under. Got a feeling if they are still gasping this holiday season will likely polish them off.
Can’t help it, the closet was making me claustrophobic.
She probably meant to say “Going Rouge”
Credit to someone else for that, unless it’s not funny, in which case Blame on someone else.
i don’t wanna grow up
i’m a toys-r-us kid
Hunting isn’t an issue until much later in human evolutionary history–at least, not as a major percentage of the diet. Handling unweaned offspring isn’t a major impediment for other primate mothers gathering their own food; I doubt it was a big problem for Ardipithecus.
oh that is hilarious! and a thing of beauty!
now i can endure the christmas season with that cycling through the mind all season.
No evidence that early hominids were actually hunting. Actually, no good evidence that australopithecines (the group than comes after ardipithecus) even ate meat, though they likely did, since modern chimps do. The evidence for Homo habilis (just after Australopithecus) is that they were mostly scavenging predator kills rather than hunting. First real evidence for hunting comes with Homo erectus (or ergaster) after 2 million years ago.
Didn’t Palin say the trouble with the French is that they have no word for rouge?
whoops – i was thinking early modern man… not that far back
LOL !!!
My younger son tells me that we lost 2 video rental stores in town. I guess Netflix won that market.
Time for me to toddle off. Take care all.
Probably didn’t need to hunt, grooming provided abundant protein. Creepy-crawlies = fast food.
G’nite DrD !
“Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything!”
— Steve Martin
Some reporter said that already. Seriously. Read it wrong.
Does that mean that Shrub will pretend to read it?
Lice…yummy!
g’nite dr dick and all the other leaving sleepyheads
Video rental stores appear to be on the skids. You might be right about the culprit
‘Night. Have fun corrupting young minds tomorrow.
No. But Rove will claim he did.
Maybe, assuming he ever finishes reading “My Pet Goat.”
G’nite.
I should mosey too, splendid evening to all.
Too good to waste.
That’s not his fault. Them evildoers broke his concentration.
Good night.
Won’t that be considered eating meat?
On the Netflix subject, remember that they use the US postal Service. When the righties complain the government can’t do anything right, ask them if they think netflix is jst stupid.
First wolves, then moose, later polar bears, and now she is killing forests for the paper to print her lies.
special price doncha know
All this from a very small reduction of canine size vs. Pan. When the largest canine sizes in hominoids relative to cranial size are in the most monogamous Family…the gibbons. Hmmm?
I also have some big issues with Lovejoy’s ideas about the parallel development of the brachiation anatomical complex about four to five times. The more parsimonious system would be a reversal of hand/forearm anatomy to the more primitive pattern ONCE in the hominin lineage (probably easier, too, since the embryological genetic systems were already there).
I call Gawdz-Drilla from Wasilla.
hahahahaha
My suspicion is that it’s harder to do either the mobbing or semi-planned hunting strategies that chimps can do in the forest or woodland out in more open country. Once a primate regularly started hunting the other animals would run away. Baboons get an occasional rabbit or baby antelope by happenstance. But if they regularly started preying on a species avoidance techniques would soon develop. A wider berth would be given those weird bipeds.
Thus scavenging was the main way to obtain animal protein (with some termiting, too). Some people think hunting only was possible in these more open habitats through pursuit, or perhaps the use of fire to drive prey towards the hunters.Or whacking tools for smaller mammals.
she is a refection of a large population of america.
that is the scary part.
she would not have been paid 9 million if the masses were not there to buy those books.
a pay day loan on every other corner in big cities in america at 400 per cent interest says it all about the future of america.
and who says karma does not exist?
and americans thought they could have those wars for profits with no pay back. oh lets not forget greed and arrogance in the american mentality.
we have met the enemy and it is not glen beck or russ. it is american arrogance and greed.
capitalism a love story few will understand the movie very few. capitalism must self destruct just as communism did.
hey it is self destructing right before our eyes and all can do is blame blame and more blame on individuals.
whoops seven million. still a nice bit of change for a wink and a blank racist mind.
I can’t wait for the interviews. Of course at first it will be friendly Foxy sorts; then the critique will take hold. Politics is one thing; but literary pursuits will be dealt with an entirely more sophisticated critic. Her ineptness will be a bone of contention; undoubtedly blaming liberals for harping on the not so subtle underlying racism and outright falsehoods. Her brand of traitorous small “a” americanism will be jettisoned to the forefront of beckishness; she will be once again the darling of looney tunes. This is gonna be fun.
I hope every knuckle-dragger out in Delusionville, USA empties out his/her wallets for Sister Sarah’s musings.
Not only will it deplete their personal finances, it will increase tax revenues to the federal government — their sworn enemy!!!
The irony is delicious!
going rogue: vapors, voices and other vibrations from the butt
It was me and I hope it sticks!
Actually, the way this game works, she will probably never pay back a dime. That only happens to us real authors. Various rightwing thinktanks and foundations will buy up the book by the palletload and have the pallets shipped directly to the the pulping plant. Sarah gets a neatly laundered subsidy from a few wealthy wingnuts.
Are we sure the title wasn’t supposed to be “Going Rouge”? Maybe she just can’t spell.