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Palin Seeks $11M Book Deal, but Can She Read?
Matt NegrinPosted: Jan 25th 2009 1:59AM
Filed under: US Elections, Politics, Boston University, MediaOne can only imagine what Republican rising star Sarah Palin could possibly write about in her memoirs. The true story behind Todd's goatee? Which makeup is the most mavericky? Untold stories from the six colleges she attended as an undergrad?
Whatever's going to be in the book, the former VP candidate is asking for an $11 million book deal, and has hired a famous Washington lawyer to get it for her, the Los Angeles Times revealed. (That's more than Laura Bush's less-than $2 million, Bill Clinton's $10 million memoir and Hillary Clinton's $8 million deal.)
The figure is obviously a bit staggering, given Palin's inability to construct simple sentences in subject-verb format. That's probably what prompted left-leaning MSNBC host Chris Matthews to blatantly state, "If she can read, if she can write, she's gonna make some money."
"The big question is," Matthews determined, "Who's gonna actually write the Palin book? The only politician I know who can write is Barack Obama."
To answer Matthews's question: Yes, Sarah Palin knows how to read. In fact, I believe she's very well-versed in biblical studies, having plenty of knowledge to declare that dinosaurs and humans in fact co-existed.
Although when Katie Couric asked the Alaska governor which newspapers she reads to know what's going on outside of her bubble, Palin was too stunned and couldn't think of any. (She figured it out a few days later and declared that she can read a few upper-level publications, among them The Economist.)
No doubt people will ask why this is all newsworthy more than two months after she failed to help John McCain win the election. The simple answer is because Palin appears to be trying to stay in the spotlight as much as she can, as her fans urge her to consider a 2012 presidential candidacy.
Yet top endorsements for her are hard to come by, especially following a GOP ticket that many people say she hurt more than helped. Even her knight in maverick armor, McCain, wouldn't endorse her over other Republican governors.
Aside from telling her life story to stay in the news, Palin has lashed out at the media again, this time for reporting about her children. Though politicos have pointed out that publicity is a two-way street: You can't thrust your kids in front of cameras to bolster your "family values" without expecting journalists to report on who your family really is.
Finally, remember Palin's $180,000 wardrobe that she said would be donated to charity after the election? Turns out all the clothes have been stuffed in trash bags at the RNC's Washington headquarters.
Though if Palin doesn't clean up her mess, her clothes won't be the only things in the garbage.
Whatever's going to be in the book, the former VP candidate is asking for an $11 million book deal, and has hired a famous Washington lawyer to get it for her, the Los Angeles Times revealed. (That's more than Laura Bush's less-than $2 million, Bill Clinton's $10 million memoir and Hillary Clinton's $8 million deal.)
The figure is obviously a bit staggering, given Palin's inability to construct simple sentences in subject-verb format. That's probably what prompted left-leaning MSNBC host Chris Matthews to blatantly state, "If she can read, if she can write, she's gonna make some money."
"The big question is," Matthews determined, "Who's gonna actually write the Palin book? The only politician I know who can write is Barack Obama."
To answer Matthews's question: Yes, Sarah Palin knows how to read. In fact, I believe she's very well-versed in biblical studies, having plenty of knowledge to declare that dinosaurs and humans in fact co-existed.
Although when Katie Couric asked the Alaska governor which newspapers she reads to know what's going on outside of her bubble, Palin was too stunned and couldn't think of any. (She figured it out a few days later and declared that she can read a few upper-level publications, among them The Economist.)
No doubt people will ask why this is all newsworthy more than two months after she failed to help John McCain win the election. The simple answer is because Palin appears to be trying to stay in the spotlight as much as she can, as her fans urge her to consider a 2012 presidential candidacy.
Yet top endorsements for her are hard to come by, especially following a GOP ticket that many people say she hurt more than helped. Even her knight in maverick armor, McCain, wouldn't endorse her over other Republican governors.
Aside from telling her life story to stay in the news, Palin has lashed out at the media again, this time for reporting about her children. Though politicos have pointed out that publicity is a two-way street: You can't thrust your kids in front of cameras to bolster your "family values" without expecting journalists to report on who your family really is.
Finally, remember Palin's $180,000 wardrobe that she said would be donated to charity after the election? Turns out all the clothes have been stuffed in trash bags at the RNC's Washington headquarters.
Though if Palin doesn't clean up her mess, her clothes won't be the only things in the garbage.
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yasminaspeaks
11:51AM 11:51AM Jan 25th 2009
Amen!
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joab
8:08AM 8:08AM Jan 25th 2009
What a stupid article. How does this crap pass for journalism? You need to write for Marvel.
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Leann
11:11AM 11:11AM Jan 25th 2009
I agree 100%
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STeve
3:37PM 3:37PM Jan 25th 2009
Joab,
I agree 100%. Do you also notice that while the liberal media ripped apart everything about Sarah Palin and maligned her because she is unwilling to kill her own babies, they completely ignored reporting anything about Caroline Kennedy and why she mysteriously withdrew her nomination for Senator at midnight? So obviously one-sided.
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Mike
2:11AM 2:11AM Jan 26th 2009
It's amazing how blind people are to their own stupidity. Liberals rant and rave about how hateful conservatives are, and they don't see a problem with articles like this. How is this not hateful? How is mocking Sarah Palin going to help the country?
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FAITH
8:54AM 8:54AM Jan 25th 2009
TYPICAL HATEFUL LIBERALS POSTING HERE CALLING THOSE WHO DEFEND PALIN "morons." REALLY, THEY'RE THE 'TOLERANT' ONES; TOLERANT ONLY TO THOSE THEY WANT TO TOLERATE: minorities, gays. THEY SEE ANYONE ELSE LIKE CONSERVATIVES AND CHRISTIANS AS FAIR GAME. SURE LOOKS TO ME THAT LIBERALS ARE THE PARTY OF HATE. I THINK SHE KNEW WHAT NEWSPAPERS SHE READ; THEY JUST USED THAT TO TRY TO MAKE HER LOOK STUPID--JUST LIKE IN THE CHARLIE GIBSON INTERVIEW. I COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW HE TREATED HER. HE WAS JUST TRYING TO "GET" HER ON SOMETHING, ANYTHING. HE DIDN'T EVEN SMILE BUT LOOKED DOWN HIS NOSE AT HER AS THOUGH HE IS SUPERIOR.
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FAITH
9:32AM 9:32AM Jan 25th 2009
I GUESS THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY -- MAKING FUN OF SOMEONE? I DON'T THINK THIS IS FUNNY, BUT SOMEHOW LIBS THINK IT'S OK TO DISRESPECT THOSE THEY DISAGREE WITH.
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nick
9:37AM 9:37AM Jan 25th 2009
Matt Negrin where did you get that nose you got. You suck buddy.
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Teacher
9:51AM 9:51AM Jan 25th 2009
Matt, you do NOT represent the feelings of most Democrats. You're making a fool of yourself. There are enough negatives about Palin to report accurately without getty smarmy, if that was your true objective. You're just turning into a Liberal version of Glenn Beck.
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nick
9:43AM 9:43AM Jan 25th 2009
For the second time, I guess you have your ass holes on hear picking and chossing, your a slug with mud all over your face, you left wing nuts are all the same.
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EReints
3:56PM 3:56PM Jan 25th 2009
and you are an uneducated typical rightwinger who does not know our language
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bill
9:50AM 9:50AM Jan 25th 2009
I don't know how Palins book will come out, but I do know that this article by Mat Negrin is poorly written, inaccurate, and was created from an obviously "bitter point of view." All in all a very poor piece of journalism, If you could even call it that.
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Don
10:36AM 10:36AM Jan 25th 2009
Say what you "feel" about Sarah Palin(because you have little actual knowledge of her)she carried a 90% approval rating in her state AS GOVENOR. Show me another govenor or mayor or congress person with an approval rating that high. YOU CAN'T. It doesn't exist.SO I'm just guessing here, but I think you've been drinking the kool-ade that the media is serving. Tryu to compare the questions given to Obama against the questions given to Palin in the media interviews. Oh but you wouldn't do that. It would show the way the media avaoided the actual vetting of our current President.
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bob
5:54PM 5:54PM Jan 25th 2009
Matt, Matt, Matt. It is so like you librals to demand everyone give Obama a chance, demand that we all pull together for the sake of the counrty, and blow up the first amendment demanding we don't listen to the voices of opposition such as Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity ----- yet you continue to use those very rights to attack the opposition. Can you say antichrist?
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The Girlfriend
11:57AM 11:57AM Jan 25th 2009
Those damn librals! If you want to insult someone, you might want to check your spelling first, or you'll just come across as incredibly dumb.
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bob
6:26PM 6:26PM Jan 25th 2009
yep! just as I thought--Girlfriend, you can't answer the real question so your only comment is about a typo somehow makes someone "look bad", WOW, that's deep. What makes you look bad is your ignorance.
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falling
11:33AM 11:33AM Jan 25th 2009
This article goes a long way towards showing how frightened of Palin running for President in 2012. Quite frankly, I wish she had been the candidate on the Eepublican ticket with someone like Romney on the VP ticket...she would have walked all over Obama in the debates as proven by her routing of Biden (and hasn't HE turned out to be a huge loser!). Rumor was that Biden would turn her inside and out on foriegn policy...instead it was he who made several mistakes. We are rapidly finding out that it was a serious mistake to elect a man whose past records at college, in the Illinois Senate, medical records, even his birth records were sealed. We are rapidly seeing what a mistake we made falling for the lies of a man we know nothing about and the next time we will be looking beyond the wet dreams of the media elete to find the candidate who truly represents our beliefs.
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Leann
11:10AM 11:10AM Jan 25th 2009
Was this article written by an adult??? Apparently anyone with money can get a journalism degree these days. No brains needed
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kim
11:47AM 11:47AM Jan 25th 2009
she is agov. and you r writing a blog> who is smarter?
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Renee'
12:21PM 12:21PM Jan 25th 2009
I AM AMAZED AT THE TRASH STILL BEING THROWN AT THIS WOMAN. PALIN HAD HUMBLE BEGINNINGS THAT PROPELLED HER TO GOV. OF A HUGE STATE OVERSEEING BILLIONS IN A STATE BUDGET. IF SHE WERE AS STUPID AS SOME OF YOU TRY TO PORTRAY HER ALASKA WOULD BE DESTROYED BY NOW. DROP YOUR BIAS TOWARDS HER. IF YOU STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH HER POLITICAL VIEWS FINE, BUT ADMIT FOR A FAMILY WOMAN SHE IS PROVING THAT SOME WOMEN CAN HAVE A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS WELL. GO POWERFUL WOMEN, NO MATTER WHICH PARTY!!!
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