Palins Get Ready to Spill (writing books)

[kskiska]

Source: washingtonian.com

Alaska’s Republican governor, Sarah Palin, has retained DC Democratic power player Robert Barnett to sell her presumed memoir of the 2008 campaign. The expected seven-figure book advance will make it easier for Palin to pay for travel to the “lower 48” for political events and then a presidential run.

The book could put Palin into a 2012 race with President Obama, who used the same lawyer and the same strategy—a big advance and a book—in part to back his early campaign efforts.

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The Palin account could turn out to be very lucrative for Barnett. In addition to the advance he’s expected to get for the Alaska governor, Barnett also may try to sell a book for her daughter, Bristol Palin, who recently gave an interview to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren about the burdens of teen pregnancy.

A political-daughter book wouldn’t be a first for Barnett; he convinced publishers to give Mary Cheney a sizable advance for a book about her life in Republican politics as a lesbian, and he sold Jenna Bush’s young-adult book. He also once sold a compilation of letters to Socks and Buddy, the Clintons’ late pets.

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[Stellabella]

1. Wow, she can hold a pencil?

The kind of money publishers pay to these right wing cretins is criminal.

[Ken Burch]

24. She'll record it as a talking book

That way, she doesn't need to learn to write and her supporters don't need to learn to read.

:sarcasm:

(I know, cheap shot, but sometimes those are the best)

:eyes:

[NC_Nurse]

2. Jeebus! these people just WON"T go away!!! I hope Levi gets a book deal too.

Just to piss Princess Palin off. :P

[BOSSHOG]

4. And maybe the real father of Bristol's baby

This story plays out all the time in Mississippi.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Maybe they can get the DNA test results on Springer and do it right!

[howmad1]

19. Geeez, they'd have to DNA test the entire Hocky team........

.....to find out who the real father is.

[NC_Nurse]

22. Think what a great brawl it would be though!

[Ken Burch]

25. NO...needs to be "Maury", so that the host can turn to Levi, on camera,

and say "You're Not The Father"!

[superconnected]

12. Sarah would try to get it banned.

The interesting thing about Palin writing a book is all of the lies that twit would tell and how exposed she would be for them. Lot of law suits I bet.

Plus we'd get a big laugh over her failed logic and thinking style - Ms. I can see Russia from my house isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. I bet her book would be as embarrassing as her interview engagements.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Will it come with crayons, or will the deluded moran who purchase this also need to buy crayons?

These things are important to know.

[GiveMeFreedom]

7. Not if Marvel Comics is hired as the publisher,

Lots of colorful pages will already be included and the "Betch-ya's" and "Don't-cha's" will fit into the dialogue bubbles over the cartoon character's heads better.

[Norrin Radd]

9. I seriously doubt the liberal editor-in-chief of Marvel, Joe Quesada,

would be interested in publishing anything about Palin.

[Kerrytravelers]

20. Can you imagine if this family was made into a comics book?

They're already characters! {{{cymbol crash}}}

[TwilightGardener]

5. Except for a few crazed male Freepers who still have the hots for her, I fail to

see why anyone would be interested in her shopping sprees and debate coaching ("Make sure to say, 'Say it ain't so, Joe!' when you have the chance--it's adorable!").

[nomorenomore08]

8. Heh... "presumed memoir." That's a good way to put it.

Which is to say, she'll probably have about as much of a hand in writing it as guys like Hulk Hogan and Dennis Rodman had in writing *their* "autobiographies."

[superconnected]

10. The woman who couldn't form a coherent sentence is writing a book.

I feel so sorry for an editor somewhere.

[EFerrari]

11. OMG! I would LOVE to write that book "as told by".

:rofl:

[Rashel]

13. Chapter I: Let's not tell the kids or constituents I'm pregnant.

Chapter Two:I fooled 'em all on the plane ride home.

Chapter Three: No hestitating for me!

Chapter Four: Get Levi to Minnesota right now!

Chapter Five: Trig who?

Chapter Six: Do I look cute in this little towel?

Chapter Seven: My own personal shopper!

Chapter Eight: Why can't I give the concession speech?

[demoborn47]

14. Jeeez luhweez

Would somebody get this lady to STFU, she has repeated the same 10 catch phrases for 6 months, and they still don't hold weight. Thanks a lot Barnett just because you're as greedy as the rest of those Repugs we have to hear more of her.... man, I know we want her to act like a fool but it's getting OLD.

[tanyev]

15. Oooh, I can't wait for the movie version.

It's about time "Dueling Banjos" surfaced in another movie soundtrack.

[L. Coyote]

16. Is that a CBC euphemism for "legal fees are piling up"?

[LynnTheDem]

17. Seriously...that anyone would EVER consider Palin' for president truly shows the

deep hole America has dug itself into.

I mean holy fuckin' shit.

[Hardrada]

18. The Title is "Thenks but no thenks!"

[DebbieCDC]

21. Title: "In what respect Cherlie"?

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

23. Hmmm...who gives a shit?

She was on the campaign trail for what, 62 or 63 days? In that time she didn't do much more than make a complete fool of herself and totally torpedo McCain's feeble hopes of becoming president.

[groundloop]

26. Thanks, but no thanks....

After reading Obama's book this would be far far too depressing to even begin to read.