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Let’s not kid ourselves. Anyone with the bare minimum requirement of one honest bone in their body knows that Snowbilly Virginia Woolfkiller did not spend the past four months holed up in an igloo of her own furiously typing up her memoirs. Sarah provided Christian scrivener Lynn Vincent with tapes and some face time while she was visiting here in San Diego, between taking the kids ( Musk, Camaro, Velour, and Baby Brushetta) to Legoland and the outlet malls, and, poof! magic!, a book was born.
But just like those facebook postings and the speech in Hong Kong, Sarah really wants us to believe that she did it all by her own bad moose-slaying self, and so Lynn Vincent gets relegated to the liner notes so as not to clutter up the view/Rich Lowry toss-off target:
No “..with Lynn Vincent” or “…as told to Lynn Vincent”.
Just like the Bible: God wrote it.
So: Sarah Pain, accomplished author.
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Virginia Woolfkiller
If there’s a Nobel for Snark – and there should be – it belongs to TBogg.
C’mon Tbogg–she’s just carrying on her own version of the proud Republican tradition of glomming someone else’s accomplishments as your own. Kinda like how Dubya was born on third base, but spends his entire life honestly believing he got where he is on his own merits. (Substitute most any other prominent right-wing name in there as you see fit: Kristol, Goldberg, Rosenthal, etc.).
It will probably read like typing, too. But I really like the “Going Rogue” title. I’m guessing that someone very special thinks that “rogue” is the superlative of “mavericker” but the American Heritage dictionary doesn’t make it sound all that positive for such a marketing creation as Palin:
rogue n. 1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp:
3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd. 5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
v. rogued v. tr. 1. To defraud. 2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety. v. intr. 1. To remove deviant plants.
Hmmmm… non-profit institutions buying huge bulk orders, in order to pay a politician a premium for a book she did not write… anybody else see some interesting IRS enforcement issues here? I would love to see some well funded think-tanks busted over this scam.
In a surprising turn of events, the rise of Sarah Palin makes me miss the comparatively humble bungling of America’s Worst Mother. We were all so young, then.
“…an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.“
Ooh, I like this very much! Please spread it around the InterTubes.
You are on fire today, TBogg. I love the freewheelin’ naming of the Palin kids. And Virginia Woolfkiller? Instant classic. As for Palin’s book, I still have not one whit of interest in it–though, I do keep reading the title as Going Rouge.
At least the conservative dollars that get spent on this book won’t be used for anything that produces results. For every book bought by a conservative organization, a teabagger doesn’t get a bus ride to a rally. Imagine all the tears that Glen Beck will shed because wingnuts will be passing on his book in order to buy Palin’s.
Letting Palin suck all of the atmosphere out of the conservative economy for a while can only be a good thing, and it’s only a good thing because she’s suck a fucking joke. Also.
I read a comment yesterday about how, at some point in her book tour, someone will ask her a question that she won’t be able to answer because she won’t be familiar with what’s in her own book. That seems like a pretty realistic prediction.
They left out grifter.
She can see a pile of money from her book cover.
Well, it IS Going Rouge in reality, so the big hubbub about her cosmetic choices really confuses me from the hero-worship point of view.
But, really, isn’t the most pertinent conjecture about this book: are the pages absorbent AND soft?
The fun part will be when mischievous talk show hosts open the book, read the beginning of a paragraph, and then ask Sarah what happens next.
Rich Lowry, upon seeing the cover:
“Oooh, bet she’s naked under that.” Fap fap fap. Starbursts. Kleenex.
Oo, look, Myth Alaska broke out the extra-special Sunday-go-to-meeting hair extensions for this picture. She appears to have forgotten her bust, though.
I bet she wouldn’t appreciate this at all… but the cover of the PalinOde is kinda similar to the cover of Ted Kennedy’s book.
Did HarperCollins use alphabet fridge magnets to lay out $P’s name? Good G-d, it’s humungous!
g*d, TBogg, not only do you show a doggie boner, you link to one.
Reminds me of the prickly sticker told about in today’s National Geographic:
http://news.nationalgeographic…..s-sex.html
Just as with McSenile and the word maverick, I don’t think that word means what she thinks it does. From Dictonary.com:
1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
8. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
11. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local.
Synonyms:
1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack.
Yes on Virginia Wolfkiller! And yes on the newest avatar of “America’s shittiest mother” and her children’s names (petunia, spunk, chlortrimeton and poughkipsie).
But, more seriously, I think that picture on the cover was a mistake. It doesn’t look heroic enough for the book’s game.
aimai
Wild blue yonder, check. Bright white smile, check. Republican Red jacket, check. American flag pin, check…
O noes! We forgot the halo!
I think it’s a little statue of a basset.
I do hope a large monetary award is involved as well.
Needs to be copy/pasted on her Amazon page.
In all seriousness (though why waste seriousness on SP is a good question) it is pretty clear that ‘Rogue’ here means ‘not buying into the pin-head idea that you have to have any accomplishments to succeed’. In the world of Rogues being a C student at Yale or finishing third from the bottom at the Naval Academy or bouncing around to five colleges before eking out a BA are not only not a disqualification for the highest office but instead resume highlights.
After all the current stars and leaders of the Republican Party are a guy that barely finished High School (Beck) and a college dropout (Rush) and yet their followers regard them as the smartest, most informed guys on the planet.
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in the conservative base who are not phased a minute by graphs showing that the more educated you are the more likely you are to be a liberal. That just means that you spent more years being brainwashed by politically correct college professors.
I spent a couple of high school years in a deeply conservative town in central Indiana. It wasn’t a big town but it was the Country seat. But not only did it not have a bookstore, it didn’t have a store that sold books. The drugstore had a rack with a handful of Harlequin romances and Louis L’Amour westerns but that was it. There simply was no market for books. And the public library was not actually bustling either.
‘Stay in school! Get an education!’ For Rogues like Sarah that kind of talk is for other people. The Losers stuck in a groove. Or egghead commie college professors. Nope real leaders roam free unconstrained by the strictures of the herd.
Another way of putting it is that a rogue is a maverick with a mischievous twinkle in his/her eye. Wink, wink, you betcha.
They subtitled it “An American Life,” but don’t she and Snowmobile Ken party with Alaska secessionists? However, I agree that Half-Baked Alaska probably hasn’t read her own book.