Sarah Palin's book should give Katie Couric something to read

[underpants]

Source: LA Times (blog)

Looks like Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin is gonna give Katie Couric something else to read besides her TelePrompter scripts.

The 44-year-old mother of five has reportedly retained high-powered Washington super-attorney Robert Barnett, who's negotiated muti-million book deals for numerous high-profile clients from Bill Clinton to his wife, who started work on her next book as secretary of State today, and the young Great Changer's audacious autobiography himself.

Media strategists would advise Palin to get off the "media were unfair to me" theme and use the book to look ahead, not back. To construct her platform and reason for running in 2011, as her potential GOP competitors like Bobby Jindal, et al are already doing at the grassroots level.

Less Glenn Beck. More Iowa Lincoln dinners.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/sarah-palin-2.html

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The Star Report: Light reading - autobiographies from Sarah Palin and Britney spears?
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11530690

Book Or TV Deal For Palin?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/22/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4747591.shtml

Television producers would also be interested in retaining Palin, a former sports reporter who would likely have an easy time transitioning to a television role.

[Cleita]

1. I have writer friends who "help" celebrities and politicians with their

vanity bios, but I really feel so sorry for the poor writers that are going to end up with this one.

[RJ Connors]

2. This will give light reading a whole new meaning.

This from the mercury news link.

"One would think that wilderness governor Sarah Palin and resurgent pop tart Britney Spears probably don't have much in common, unless you count similar family planning strategies. But guess what? They're writers, too!"

[4lbs]

3. My money is on Britney's autobio being more substantive.

:D

[sasquatch]

5. Actuaally it would be if it went into her mental illness

[underpants]

6. Britney has been in show business for a while now

there has to be some good stories in there (Mouseketeers with Justin Timberlake etc.) where as Palin has what 60 days in the spotlight as of the election?

Palin will tell about her family and her ideals of HOW to raise a family.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Too bad that some great trees will have to be sacrificed for the piece of garbage.

[bluebutterfly]

7. A waste of trees indeed!

Can someone help me, please. I read an article here recently
that defended Caroline Kennedy's
decision to run for senator. It was in answer to Jane
Hamsher's anti-Caroline post at Firedoglake.
I have no idea who wrote it. Can anybody here direct me to it?
Thanks.

[Ken Burch]

12. She'll make sure the trees are old growth from the Tongass National Forest

n/t.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Ooh, I love it! She's going to guarantee the death of the 'thug party once and for all!

She's the death knell!

[cosmicone]

9. The only career suitable for Sarah Palin is

that of a game-show associate a la Vanna White where one has a lot of looking good, smiling and winking but not so much of thinking and/or talking.

[Dr.Phool]

10. She'll claim she was misquoted in her autobiography!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Somebody else just did that (Terrell Owens?).

Hello.

[underpants]

13. Charles Barkley

Typical of Barkley, he wrote an impossible-to-put-down autobiography, Outrageous!, then had the audacity to try to halt publication of the book, claiming he'd been misquoted.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/charles-barkley-at.htm

[oldnslo]

11. A Sarah Palin book is a no-brainer n/t

[Javaman]

14. I heard the only thing holding up its release is she's stilly deciding what color crayon to use. nt