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Sarah Palin in an older photo featured on the cover of her 2009 calendar. Credit: Fame
In what would have to be the biggest pay out for a seven week memoir, Sarah Palin is rumored to have been offered $7million to write her biography. I know that Sarah is 44 years old, but we’re really only interested in how she handled the scrutiny of the campaign.
Literary agents were queuing up to sign Palin to a book deal that could earn her up to $US7 million, The Times reported.
The recent election campaign was sure to result in hundreds of books by journalists and politicians, but “Palin’s personal account of her tumultuous introduction to national politics” would be the most lucrative story, it said.
“Every publisher and a lot of literary agents have been going after her,” said Jeff Klein of Folio Literary management.
“She’s poised to make a ton of money,” public relations expert Howard Rubenstein said.
A spokesman for publisher Random House told the New York Post: “There are several of our imprints who are eager to talk to Governor Palin. She clearly has a constituency and we know books by conservatively-centred politicos usually sell very, very well.”
While it is true that Sarah came into the spotlight relatively unknown, and we’re all kind of curious about her credentials and background, what I’d really like to read is a book written by those people within the republican party who snitched on her in the days following the election. The ‘she doesn’t know what Africa is’ guy, and the one who blabbed that her clothing and make-up budget was actually higher than the $20,000+ a week she spent. I definitely want to see all those clothes!
The Times suggests that she is following in Obama’s footsteps, whose Audacity of Hope book was what they call his springboard to the presidency. Letting us know about herself, and gaining some sympathy for being a working mother, and showing some sort of intelligence, could easily lead into a ticket at the next presidential election.
It is also suggested that talk shows and other opportunities have been offered to Sarah Palin. They say the book deal will be finalized by the end of the month.
Note by Celebitchy: Apparently the “Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story was planted by an outsider operative and wasn’t one of the stories leaked by the Republican camp that worked with her.
Photos are from the Sarah Palin 2009 calendar, thanks to Fame. Photo update: more pictures added.
Written by Helen
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Key words there – “showing some sort of intelligence”. That’s a long haul for Sarah.
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Who on earth would pay hard earned money to look at a new picture of Sarah Palin every month? The fact that there are people out there who will buy a Palin calender is just terrifying. I’m not terrified of Arabs wearing explosive belts. I’m terrified of HER!!
Syko….those words leapt out at me too!
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Oh for God’s sake. Ditto xia and syko.
That calendar’s so bad it might actually be good in a so-gag-making-it’s-actually-funny kind of way. I wonder if it has some little homespun Palin pearl of wisdom to carry the calendar owner through each month? You betcha. An ironic Christmas gift perhaps.
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You guys want to see more of the Palin calendar? I think there are a few more photos I can publish if you’re interested.
-edit- all available photos from the calendar added.
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Please do CB. I’m in a particularly sneering mood today
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real republicans love her, that’s why the “snotty,country club” crowd is trying to destroy her.
SHE”LL BE BACK!
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Please, but only if you can be bothered! Any of the pics show her reading a newspaper?
Edit: Wot? No bikini pics? Or Palin in a towel?
xia – you know you want one…
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Ah, the good old days… when people still needed to be interesting to warrant a book deal…
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Gosh darn it people – leave her alone on this!!
Isn’t it obvious that she’s so much a “Wummin of the People” that she’ll happily allow everyone to remind themselves of that 365 days a year with a calendar of horrible photos of her with wonky hair and nasty lipstick!
You won’t find that floozy Mrs. Obama with a calendar cover that’s so blinkin’ mawkish, my stomach hurts from laughing at it
(flags, mountains, guns and lighting that’s making her squint – Judy Patrick, I don’t know if I should take your cameraphone away from you or proclaim you the next Man Ray
)
EDIT – what Maggie, now there’s a right-wing conspiracy against the …er… right-wing? Doesn’t that just get confusing?
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Celebitchy, the story about Africa is true, the persons who claimed t o have leaked it was the one who was a hoax, but the story is true. Going from her lame denial, I would say it is true. If it was a lie, she would have categorically said so and not gone and on about knowing how some one may have come to think so.
Has Bristol had her baby? Celebitchy, please find out for us.
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Mairead, I was looking for you yesterday! I saw ‘meh’ is now officially a word (according to the Collins Dictionary)
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geronimo…..she can’t do the bikini pics. What with the (half) a rifle tattooed high on her inner thigh. Yep these rootin’ tootin’ republican women are goers alright
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Hey Modesty – thanks. I blame my friend Gareth for getting me used to saying that word.
Yep these rootin’ tootin’ republican women are goers alright
Never! It’s a posh conspiracy I tell ye!
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Why must every shred of Sarah’s persona be mocked and destroyed?
how in the world did liberals ever get their reputation for tolerance? Isn’t there room in the liberal world view for dissenting opinions?
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Of course there is. But this is a snarky gossip site, so Scarah Palin probably isn’t gonna get much of a break here.
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to see her face every single day. I’m sure there are little nuggets of homespun wisdom sprinkled throughout
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xia – that’s what strategically-placed, freshly-slaughtered wolves are for. To cover embarrassing tattoos.
Bodhi – you’re not fooling me. You know you want one too.
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They will give anyone a book deal these days…didn’t I read that Joe the Plumber was being offered one also? I certainly wouldn’t mind getting a book deal…
Tess: What makes you think that all of us who are “mocking and destroying” Sarah’s persona are democrats/liberals? I believe there have been many republicans/conservatives who have maligned her also.
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Ugh. $7 million is so much for something that will have to be ghostwritten.
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“The ‘she doesn’t know what Africa is’ guy” – turned out there ws no such guy…it was a hoax. Research it.
I like her.
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Ah! Ya got me Geronimo!
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I CAN HASZ BOOK?
@Kaiser: how much will be spent to have someone read it to her?
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“Incompetance is rewarded” was never truer than here, when some book publisher is going to give this dumb loser ho a book deal. For heavens sake, she can’t even speak properly.
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Working Title: “How I F*ck*d the GOP Out of the White House and Came out Smelling Like a Rose”
@Tess, failure to produce the required results is NOT a tolerance issue. It’s failure. Sarah Palin has been tossed under the bus by her own party for losing the election. Fair or not- the facts of the matter are, she is being blamed.
Thanks for affirming the GOP has no humor about itself. Your party slanders and maligns the Clinton presidency day and night like its a sacrament, but when the shoe’s on the other foot- it’s going too far.
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If she did take on the book I really think she would just BS the whole thing to cover her behind. I kinda never want to go to Alaska again after seeing that ’09 picture. Feel bad for Canada
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@Baho – Seriously. I was going to say snarky things about what the book should be called, but considering her horrendous speaking style and general stupidity, I hope the book is called “ALSO” – after her favorite filler word.
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@ Kaiser: or little finger guns: ‘Pew! pew! pew! (The ‘pew’ could also sum up the content). I go with “You Betcha”…you just know it’s going to have some lame cornpone-y title.
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$7 mil for being stupid and incoherent. There is no justice in this world.
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Where is Joe the plumber’s calendar?
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I wish I had that much hair, can’t stand her, but I could do great things with that hair!
And the part of Todd Palin will be played by Tim McGraw this evening….
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Isn;t it interesting the McCain campaign portrayed Obama as a “celebrity” with books deals and all.
Whose the fame whore now?
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and the buffoonery continues…
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August, my birthday is in August lol.
Sarah is getting a book deal? Who ever said there was justice.
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will it be a pop up book??
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Graceful Defeat: You’re Doing It Wrong!
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