Hewitt can't sell proposed book How Sarah Palin Won the Election... and Saved America

[BurtWorm]

:spray:

From the New York Observer:

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/hugh-hewitts-how-sarah-palin-won-election-and-saved-america-does-not-yet-have-publisher

In the paper today we talked to some publishing people about why more reporters out on the campaign trail aren't working on books about the election-and why the handful who are doing it think it's a good idea. One campaign book that has already bitten the dust is right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt's How Sarah Palin Won the Election... And Saved America, which the literary agent Curtis Yates sent to publishers in New York last week.

When Media Mob reached Mr. Yates by phone on Monday, he'd already given up on trying to sell the book.

"The idea was to tell the story behind the effect that Sarah Palin has had on this election and how it is and why it is that she has basically turned the election around for McCain and why it is that she is resonating with so many people in the country," he said. "The intent was to finish the book by a week after the election, and to have it out before the inauguration."

Was that the plan regardless of who won?

"The book obviously presumed ," Mr. Yates said, "but the theory was that her impact on this election will have a lasting effect regardless—that she's not gonna go anywhere, that she's just gonna be a figure in G.O.P. politics going forward."

The title of the book, Mr. Yates said, "went through a couple of different iterations."

At one point it was How Sarah Palin Won the Election. At another point it was How Sarah Palin Won the Election... and Saved America.

[Curtland1015]

1. Pfffft... and the right think WE idolize Obama too much...

[mohc]

2. How about

How Sarah Palin Lost the Election....and Saved America.

Much more appropriate.

[LibertyLover]

3. One of the first things to take a hit during an economic downturn

is the saleability of bad fiction. Now if he could re-package it as sci-fi-alternative history, he might be able to sell it.

[Bake]

4. Speaking of counting one's chickens a bit too soon ...

Those eggs are going to rot rather than hatch.

:rofl:

Bake

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Hard cover toilet paper doesn't sell well in bad economic times, Hugh

I thought he knew that.

[Marsala]

6. Ah, Hewitt, the author of "A Mormon in the White House?" and "Painting the Map Red"

Perhaps the most reliably wrong man in the world. His blog posts about "Romney Rising" in the primaries were hilarious.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Sounds like the New England Patriots book "19-0". . .

We all know how THAT went down, right???
:P :P :P

Amazon even had a page for it...and it was struck down after the Super Bowl.

:evilgrin:

[beac]

8. Here's the title I propose:

How Sarah Palin Wasted America's Time for A Couple of Months and Went Home to Corruption Charges and Eventual Obscurity in Alaska

too wordy? :shrug: