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Sarah Palin (former governor of Alaska, English as a second language, snowbilly grifter…that Sarah Palin) is going out on book tour next week hitting all of the big media centers like Noblesville, IN. and Roanoke, VA. and other towns with more than four stoplights. One of her stops will be in Norman OK. after her people were warned off of Lenexa Kansas because the people in Lenexa believe that women who read books are witches, so Oklahoma it is! Exciting!
So off to Norman Sarah will go, paying a visit to Hastings Books (located between the Payday Cash Advance place and the closed Orange Julius) where she will sign books for curious onlookers who have never seen an Eskimo princess before:
Sarah Palin will visit Norman next month for a book signing at Hastings.
“She wanted to come into smaller towns,” Hastings store manager Rob Wood said, adding that Norman will be Palin’s only Oklahoma stop on her book tour.
The former vice-presidential hopeful and governor of Alaska will sign copies of her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” which hits shelves Tuesday. The event will be 7 p.m. Dec. 3. at Hastings Books, 2300 W. Main St.
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“Basically how it’s working is they have to purchase their book from the store,” he said. Customers can buy their books from Hastings in advance and bring them to be signed as long as they bring their Hastings receipt. Wood said he expects many people to purchase more than one book to have Palin sign and then send to family members.
“It’s going to be a massive event,” he said. Crowd control measures will be in place, he said, but as this was recently finalized he didn’t know yet exactly what those would be.
“There’s obviously gonna be people protesting, there’s gonna be people against and for her,” Wood said.
Norman resident Mark Campbell said he was thrilled to find out Palin would make a stop in Norman.
“I’m tickled that she’s coming,” he said. “And Hastings has a wonderful magazine selection for her to choose from,” he added in reference to Palin’s Katie Couric interview.
When some random Okie hanging around a strip mall bookstore in Norman-fucking-Oklahoma makes off-the-cuff snarky comments about your reading habits, I don’t think a “run for the White House in 2012” is in the cards
This, of course, is good news for John McCain. Also. Very bad news for Matthew Continetti.
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Sara, Sara,
Whatever made you want to change your mind?
Sara, Sara,
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
Sara, oh Sara,
Glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow,
Sara, oh Sara,
Don’t ever leave me, don’t ever go.
Now now. In defense of Norman, it is one of the more liberal places in OK.
Yes, I realize that’s like saying that the soft taco is one of the more edible things at Taco Bell. But most of the liberals I know in the Sooner State live in Norman or Stillwater.
This book tour is going to be hilarious. I don’t see how it’s possible that she can avoid talking to people. And given her track record of continuous epic FAIL whenever she opens her mouth, well . . .
But I guess the good folks of Norman and Roanoke and the rest will all simply be tossed into the pile of people bent on “gotcha journalism,” even though none are journalists and most of the “gotcha” questions will run along the lines of “What did you have for breakfast today?”
Mickey Mantle was from Spavinaw, OK, but for what Mrs (former) Governor Sarah P is and what she has to offer, I’m sure he would have liked her just fine. No word on whether Normanites Candy Clark and Donny Vomit are coming home for The Signing?
The number of signed copies of her opus for sale on EBay will go up with each stop of the Palinpalooza. Tbogg should be able to buy his copy there for about forty cents plus shipping by the time she hits French Lick, Indiana.
Does her tour include stops in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook?
What ,no Springfield ?
5 Chapters ?
About 4 chapters too many , this vapid airhead could say everything she has to say in a single paragraph !
Maybe even one really long run on sentence !
Hey my daughter, SIL and two grands live in Norman. The Hastings bookstore is in a former Safeway store site. More into videos and CDs though.
I just had a partial flash back. What was the real name of the woman who played Loretta on Mary Hartman Mary Hartman? She was from Oklahoma and her character was a dead ringer for Sarah Palin.
Well I’m not familiar with Norman, OK, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Noblesville, IN. I’ve never seen anyone quite like Sarah Palin there, but I have seen The Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, String Cheese Incident, Fancy Lizards, Indonesian pop star Opie and a few others there.
To be fair from that list I’ve only actually talked to Widespread Panic, Fancy Lizards and Opie there.
What!? No Creed?
I’m reminded of Billy Beer. Years from now guests will walk into their childrens’ homes and say “Your parents gave you that why?”
In fairness to Norman, it is probably one of the most liberal places in Oklahoma (not high praise I know) and is home to the University of Oklahoma, which is a top tier university. Some “random Okie” on the street in Norman is a far cry from one in Okemah or Bugtussle (might even be a Ph.D.). Full disclosure, Ph.D., Anthropology, OU ’87.
It tells you a lot about what Hastings customers like to read.
(To be fair, they’re frequently the only bookstore in the area, unless you count W*lM*rt’s book and magazine section. Which I don’t.)
I just clicked the Matthew Continetti link and got an adware attack. Just to warn you.
That was Mary Kay Place.
She grew up and attended college in Tulsa, which is where the other liberal in Oklahoma lives.
Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place is a good actress.
Why are we spending precious bytes and finger cells on these Repiglican fools? Since we are, I wonder if the repuglicans are aware that Whinin pailin is the best they have? Their “Great white hope(less)”!
Something tells me that all people who show up to her book signings will be frisked and asked if they vote republican, you know, to protect Caribou Barbie’s fragile ego!
We have Barnes and Noble and Borders. I guess the college kids use the all the other bookstores in Norman. Some of us are even literate enough to go to those places instead of Walmart when we hock some of our extra guns.
We have indoor plumbing, too. It’s great, really.
Pissed off Patricia over at Crooks and Liars said it best “every time Sarah speaks we all feel smarter” and for some men harder.
Can you imagine what Sarah has to say coming out of a not so attractive woman’s mouth? She would be yanked from the stage.
It does amuse me that she will always be part of McCain’s legacy. He must be very proud. Along with the S&L scandal and Cindy and not knowing how many houses he has….what a guy. Of course, he himself was a legacy throughout his academic, military, etc etc career life. Look what that gets ya’.
Thanks! The more I recall of her character the more she resembles Palin. I wish they would rerun that series on my cable.
Yep. I grew up in Tulsa. I left… and with a MH MH irony ended up in one of the half dozen counties in the country that actually increased their vote for the Republicans.
Jeez, Tbogg, considering you live in a city that hasn’t had a Democratic mayor since 1988, perhaps you shouldn’t snark on the good people of Norman.
That, and Donny Vomit is from Norman. So is Martin Gardner.
Pfffft. Elitist.
If they keep referring to “smaller towns” the people in The City Beautiful are gonna get pissed. Our brandy new arena is almost done. We’re major fucking league, man. Oh yeah. We have more than four stoplights but nobody pays any attention to them so I don’t know if that counts.
We have indoor plumbing, too. It’s great, really.
The same could be said about South Carolina but I’m not sure an enclosed breezeway connected to the outhouse counts as “indoor plumbing”, unfortunately.
To anyone who lives in a city where La Palina is showing up, I would toss in a fiver if you get video tape of you (or a friend) getting a book signed while saying something snarkelicious.
Where I live in Oklahoma, many of us have not only indoor plumbing, but even Internet Telegraph Machines, so we can enjoy the Wisdom And Bassets beamed out to the hinterlands from San Diego.
I might just load granmaw’s rocker into the back of the Model T and head down to Norman to get me one of them books signed by Miss Starbursts of 2008.
Like “Blow me” ???
La Palina?// LOL. love it.
This is the LolaPalina tour?
Like the first poster, Sarah Palin also inspires me to verse:
Between trappin’ and huntin’ and shootin’
And saving our bacon from Putin
Where did you find time
To dabble in crime
And sabotage Officer Wooten?
I’m hoping someone manages to trick her into signing “Going Rouge”.
If Sarah really wanted to hit the sticks, she’d go to Enid, OK. The eight months I lived there were just about the longest eight months of my life.
She certainly is. I loved her on MH MH
Palin is……A DUMB ASS.
I grew up in Oklahoma. And I lived in Norman for 2 years. (When I was attending U. of Okla.) And I can tell you first-hand that Okies go bonkers when a “famous person” comes there. ANY famous person.
Of course, I escaped to CA the day after graduation, 34 years ago, but I still have family in Okla, and I know they haven’t changed.
It is like a 5-year-old, going nuts for the latest cartoon coming to visit them in person. They don’t realize it is a routine human in a costume. Sarah Palin is the same way.
Norman is sort of different because it is only about 20 miles from Oklahoma City. So — any large group will play in OKC rather than Norman. But Okies are very PROUD of their towns! If a famous person is actually coming to little old Norman, it is a red letter day!
University of Oklahoma is a TOP TIER university??? Who knew? I have a diploma from them and no one else seemed to think so!
Lawton is much worse and you don’t even want to know about McAllister.
Actually, when you and I (Ph.D., 87) were there, it was only second tier, but they have actually improved and made it into the first tier in the latest round of ratings.
Using the word “snowbilly” will probably cause anyone who lives in a northern area that gets lots of snow to be alienated. It is utterly bizarre to me the way that our progressive world responds to Sarah Palin with such highly personalized, classist, and at times bigoted insults directed at her personal history and heritage.
She’s a mental lightweight. Destroy her on that level. But quit discounting and denigrating for example anyone who might come from Alaska.
(And to be honest, she’s hardly any form of “redneck” or similar – she’s occupied a governor’s mansion, and spends her time with B and C list bigwigs.)
Speaking as a recovering redneck (spent the first 35 years in Oklahoma), she very much is exactly a redneck, regardless of “who she hangs out with.” Her proud and willful ignorance (a characteristic of the species) is at the very heart of the critique.
If I were a “progressive”, I would agree. Thank Jeebus I’m not burdened that anchor of a label.
It is utterly bizarre to me the way that our progressive world responds to Sarah Palin with such highly personalized, classist, and at times bigoted insults directed at her personal history and heritage.
Palin is RUNNING on her “personal histoIry and heritage.” She’s made a big deal out of all the details of her bio, and how those details somehow make her a better person than us snotty Eastern Elitists, blah blah blah. She thinks being an unread, reactionary, inarticulate, snowshoeing moose hunter from Wasilla, Alaska is a plus.
We’re telling her otherwise, with mockery of those characteristics.
She obviously made a mistake in the schedule. She was -supposed- to be signing her books at the gift shop of the Pink Tittie Church of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
What amazes me tho is that she is not getting to Salome-Where-She-Danced, Arizona. There’s a fine bookstore there that’d be proud to host her.
(And to be honest, she’s hardly any form of “redneck” or similar – she’s occupied a governor’s mansion, and spends her time with B and C list bigwigs.)
Oh give me a break. If Palin thought it would make more money she’d be a Freemason or a Bishop in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. As it happens, the Redneck schtick fits in neatly with her pride of ignorance and her simplistic world view as well as making her a ton of money so Redneck she is.
As for occupying a governor’s mansion (Apt choice of words that!), a quick look ’round at the current and recent occupants of governor’s mansions will reveal a choice collection of loonies, grandstanders, fakes, hypocrites and garden variety assholes.
Palin put her personal history and her heritage on the table in the mistaken belief that it would warm our hearts and establish her bona fides as a vessel of the sort of plain-folks wisdom that died with Will Rogers. She is first, last, and always, a grifter and anything that she does or says is grounds for mockery because anything she does or says is part of her con.
It’s more the towns Hastings puts its stores in – I lived in one of them, and its competition was W*lM*rt.
I thought it was a pretty state when I went through it, years ago. Didn’t have time to spend a lot of sightseeing, though. (This is the house my grandfather built.)
As a university town of over 90,000, Norman has always had lots of bookstores and easy access to even more in OKC 30 miles to the north.
On an unrelated note, your grandfather and I are from the same town.
Bartlesville is a nice town. Thanks to the Phillips, as in petroleum,, family . But you would know that. .
When I was growing up in Tulsa the Republicans were the liberals and most folks got educated. Last time I was there. in 2000, I couldn’t believe the changes even in the northeastern part of the state.
Oh, bite me.
Dear TBogg, as you may know, I’m fond of you and even fonder of the dogs. But, you don’t know what you’re talking about here.
Here are my credentials: I was born in rural NE Oklahoma in 1952 and grew up in that area, never leaving the state except for brief visits to family in CO or TX until well into adulthood. I have a graduate & undergraduate degree from OU, whose football I follow slavishly. I now live very happily on the liberal West Coast and no longer speak to most of my family in that benighted state. I’m still trying to get my niece out.
Norman contains the University of Oklahoma. No town which does that can be said to be small. Dude, I was born in Okmulgee, OK. THAT’s small.
There are liberals in OK as there are everywhere, who for one reason or another, cannot or chose not to, leave. They are your allies at boring from within – quit insulting them.
I have not been a witness to the drooling over famous people discussed above, though I’ll grant that I haven’t lived there since 1984. Until recently I visited 2/year.
The actual fact of the matter is that OK went for the McCain/Palin ticket by the widest margin in the country. Of course she’d go there. However, someone unfamiliar with the place has made an infelicitous choice in Norman. She’d be better of in some areas of OKC or in someplace like Sallisaw or Tahlequah.
MKK
Well said, Mary Kay. I’m one of ‘em. While Oklahoma politics have been receding into the stone age for decades, there are many reasons that I’m glad to live in Oklahoma. I actually enjoy freaking out my neighbors by wearing my “Obama 2008″ t-shirt around the neighborhood.
TBogg, there are some of us–admittedly, not a majority in Oklahoma–who are on your side. Please don’t sneer at us.
Remember, it was Woody Guthrie (born in Okemah, OK) who asked:
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I’d seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
Does this mean they’ll be booking Carrie Prejean for her tour as well?
At the risk of sounding like I’m explaining myself, the whole point of the post was to point out that, even in conservative Oklahoma, Palin is damaged goods. Granted Norman may be less conservative than the rest of the state, but elitist-socialist-gay-commie Manhattan (and we’re not talking Manhattan Kansas) it ain’t.
I notice no one is defending Lenexa.
Also. I had no idea I had so many readers from Oklahoma. I guess I should stick to crapping all over Indiana. There is a state we can all hate.
If you asked the average Okie in Hobart, Woodward, or Coweta, they would indeed tell you that Norman actually is elitist-socialist-gay-commie Manhattan. They have been saying so since I was a child.
Texas or Kansas would also work for us Okies.
Ummm. I don’t quite know how to break this to Palin fans – either (whether) in Oklahome or Arkansas, BUT – the schedule published in the following link shows Sam’s Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas for the same Dec 3rd date.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/sarah-palin-book-tour-ful_n_351333.html
Why am I not surprised that there’s a military base on that list?
Heh. – I may have sounded a tad testy, huh? I don’t really want to defend OK – I was miserable almost all the time I lived there and am ever so glad life gave me an out. I really think it was some of the commenters more than you yourself, TBogg, that got my dander up. Everybody picks on OK, but dammit, they’ve earned it and I should let it go.
Scratch the boys’ ears for me, will ya?
MKK
DOOD
Okies live in CALIFORNIA !!!
SOONERS live in Oklahoma
as in:
California was finally civilized in the 1930s by a large migration ofOkies Arkies and texans
keep it straight
and it’s good to see that Norman gets exposed to a little culture
or in princess pandora’s case, a 150 pound culture
There isn’t actually a place called ‘Lenexa’. I know. I haven’t been there in years.
Well think about where we live for just a minute.
If you lived in a place surrounded by living counterexamples to evolution as we do, you’d look outside the state for somebody with a sense of humor too. I used to do great sarcasm, but nobody outside of Norman got it. I had to give it up when I moved to Moore.
Being a liberal in Oklahoma is a lot like being a gay republican, without all the ickyness (the republican ickyness, I mean.)
Luckily we have things like TBOGG and DailyKos to find each other, and we don’t have to tap our feet in an airport restroom. Which is good because there’s only two airports in the state large enough to have actual restrooms.
Wow. Sixty-three comments in this thread and not one mention of PONCA CITY, OK, the garden spot of the whole damn godforsaken state? I spent 17 fun-filled years growing up in PC, escaped shortly after graduating from High School, and have never looked back.
Those of you claiming there are liberals in Oklahoma — I guarandamntee you that none of them lived in Ponca when I did.
My Mom stays in touch with some friends in Ponca and she sez they really like Sarah Palin, and one told her she just didn’t understand how that “young fella” got elected to the Preznitcy as she didn’t know anybody that voted for him.
I’m gonna tweet that twit Sarah and suggest she sign her book at Paperback Alley in Ponca. I’m sure she’ll be real well received by the folks.
Tbogg, you might want to spend some time pondering why you have so many Okie fans. Frankly, I would be concerned if I were you.
Heh. My sister currently lives in Ponca City and loves it. We do not talk much.
There is a liberal couple in Ponca City. At least there was last week when I checked their dead-drop.
May Kay Place IS a good actress, but $arah Palin would disapprove of her automatically because in “The Big Chill,” Place played a single woman who wanted to get pregnant, and Glenn Close lent Kevin Kline, playing her husband, to Place as The Inseminator.
And though Mary Kay Not-Place above suggested Sallisaw as a possible haven for $P supporters, those of us who have read a few books might remember that Rosasharn in “The Grapes of Wrath,” briefly feared that she would be heading for hell, as she and her husband had engaged in “clutch-dancin’” in Sallisaw. Clutch-dancing in Sallisaw! Jeesum Crow, I never heard about any clutch-dancin’ during the years I lived in Berkeley!*
FWIW, I stopped for lunch and fuel in Stillwater in 2003. There were Howard Dean signs all over the place. Norman is probably yet more liberal than Stillwater (OSU’s biggest benefactor is robber-baron/Swift Boat bankroller T. Boone Pickens).
While more slightly more liberal than the rest of the state, Stillwater is notoriously much more conservative than Norman. We called them “Cowboy U” (not a compliment) and they called us “tea sippers” (likewise).
That, of course only applies when we deign to think on the Cowflops at all. Sort of like one may look on the gum stuck to one’s shoe.
mmanion, I am taking your haiku–with full credit to you, Sir or Madam–to my favorite $P-obsessed blog!
Son-of-a-gun! Eugene, Oregon isn’t on the tour list. Perhaps she can not see us here in HippyTownUSA from Alaska, also….
“tea sippers”? Those Cowboys at The U are meanies!
You reckon without the mucho macho culture of Oklahoma manliness. That is an overt accusation of accursed effeminacy and possible nonheterosexuality, which in terms of the cultural logic should render the recipient a quivering blob of inarticulate protoplasm.
Them there macho cowboys guzzle their tea hot?
The closest I’ve been to OK is 1 NE feller + 1 KS girl = me. So as some guidelines, if I were to travel to OK from Eugene, OR (home of the mighty University of Oregon Ducks) could I expect Corvallis, OR (home of the Oregon State Beavers) to be a sister city to Stillwater? There’re plenty of cowboys in Corvallis, but also plenty of signs on sheep pastures stating “OSU Football Players Please Leave Us Alone” which I take to mean that sheep also sip their tea…
I’ve got some pastures around here for signs like that. And some that will say “Republicans leave us alone”.
Golly, I thought most all Republicans were sheep. You OK folks have those fancy non-Republican sheep? I gotta load up the EugeneHippyVan with medicinal pot (and hippies) and take a road trip to see this! Is there a particular time of year when non-republican-sheep-viewing is best? Sorta like when the New England “leaf” season is best? Is there a tour you can recommend? Also, I’ve noticed in Oregon that most sheep dogs herding republican sheep get bored. If I toss my dog DaisyDog into the HippyVan with the hippies for our road trip what are the odds that she’ll get some action with OK sheep? And does DaisyDog need any form of “protection” or are OK sheep OK?
I should’ve been clearer. These would be cow pastures here in OK. There are some sheep round these parts, but mostly cattle.
Dumb, slow, fat, easily spooked–yeah they’re republicans alright.
Ha!
When they’re spooked are they still dumb and slow or do they freak out entirely like Oregon republicans? These republican fuckers up here get down right weird when spooked. I like to yell “BIG GOVERNMENT” and watch ‘em tip over!
If you happen to talk to your sis, ask her if she has run across anyone in Ponca who will admit they voted for Obama. It’s a long time since I’ve been there, and who knows, maybe there is a small, counter culture of angry libs defying the local norm. Even in Ponca city, eight years of Bush could have brought some out of hiding.
See my reply to DrDick @81. I’m hoping those dead-drops are a thing of the past.
I wish I had known Okies like you, DrDick, and VonZeppelin when I was living in OK. It would’ve made life a little easier. As it was, I learned to keep my librul leanings to myself around sixth or seventh grade.
Concern troll is concerned.
Dammit, that was supposed to be a reply to a post higher up. Harumpff!
I grew up in Bartlesville, OK (north of Tulsa, and left of absolutely nothing); just joined a Facebook group called “I went to high school in Bartlesville, OK, and still came out liberal.” It’s an amazingly large group. I think it’s a good reminder that even the reddest of places still have an awful lot of blue in them (and, more tragically, vice-versa).
I need to try to that. Here you just shout “Middle Class Darkie!” and when they look and discover that it’s not Bill Cosby, they just go stupid and glassy-eye’ed.
Palin’s Book Tour Schedule is posted below:
At least half of these venues are relatively liberal compared to the rest of the states they are in.