You know what would be a hoot? If somebody were to show up at a book signing, and actually got Sarah Palin to sign Going Rouge. I bet after she's signed six or seven hundred books, she'd probably be tired enough not to notice.
Does anyone else think that's what actually happened that time when she bailed out early?
@MattGaymon: on account of Jason Bourne is icing on Martha's cake & you're on a diet - or on account of you know the words by heart/prefer to lipsync? (Lovely!)
@bodegacat: I remember this and remember loving him more for it . Matt said what we all knew but the fucking media was and still does treat Palin with kid gloves because she preemptively accuses the m os sexism. She is as dumb and dangerous as she was last year.
I was able to shrug off all apocalyptic notions about 2012 - until Palin decided to go rogue with her rouge. That YouTube video and the possible future it portends is scarier to me than if the film 2012 was a documentary.
As for Martha? I'd cheerfully knit her campaign posters.
What chills my dark soul to its core is the fact that the above picture of the Palin duo, above, probably launched 1,000 masturbatory fantasies involving Straight-Shootin', Calls 'Em As I See "em, Wolf-Slaying... Twins. Naked twins.
During "The Gates" Jean Claude and Christo were signing copies of New York Magazine (which had a Christo painting of the project) in Central Park. The signing was eventually ended due to lateness, but there were about 100 people who had stood in line going home without having their mags signed. When Jean Claude found out, she demanded that the magazine publicist who had set up the event put everything in place so that everyone who waited could get their magazine signed.
That's how people with class handle a situation. And something I thought about Friday as I watched the SP footage.
@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Oh yes- I didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. There is nothing I would enjoy more than an afternoon on Martha's exquisitely decorated sun porch with three or four pitchers of martinis. You know she is cuttingly clever about everyone.
@ms_priestypants: I was exaggerating but then I googled the actual recipe for the lemondrop Champagne punch, and that basically is it, just add some simple syrup.
Yup, you betcha' I'm going to get Sarah to sign my book and I'll buy two and she'll sign both and one I'll keep and one I'll sell on eBay, and Sarah will love me and make it all better and make the sadz into happy
Oh, hey Sarah, what? You're not gonna' sign either of the books I paid for after standing in the rain all day and leaving my kids alone at home with nothing but the TV and a frozen pizza? Well, go to hell, Sarah, just go to hell. I'll find someone else, you'll see.
Well, she is quite the quitter, isn't she? Maybe some of the people who didn't get their books signed will post their feelings on Palin's Facebook and ignite a war with her remaining die-hard (because they don't know any better) supporters. That should be fun.
@Claire Buoyant: Nope, already happened, and that ain't what they're saying. The wingnutters are apologizing for Palin, it's not her fault you see. She's got a lot of little towns to get to and they have her on a strict schedule which she has no control over. So bless her 'merica-lovin' heart, everyone ought to just pray to Jeezus that her bus makes it to podunk safely.
@Claire Buoyant: Oh no, Palin didn't quit! See, there's a better way to provide a voice for Alaskans than serving out her full term as governor. And she'll get started on that right away, as soon as she figures it out. Really. That'll coincide with when OJ finds the real killers.
Shit like this serves as Exhibit 85 as to just how unhinged Palin is. It makes no sense to alienate your nutjob base of future supporters. But they were lined up to see her and got what they deserved, so I can't feel too sorry for them. Tomorrow they'll all defend her and blame the lib-rul media for the negative coverage surrounding her ditching of her fans. The whole thing makes my head hurt.
Thanks, John McCain! You created this fuckwit. Why anyone takes him seriously anymore truly baffles me.
@OrneryBabe: here's a little Palin Orange Alert, Ornery: I saw her on Bill O'Reilly last night and she's stringing actual words together to form sentences. She's got a sliver of Reagan Worship 101 down anyway--that's the easy shit that all the dummies can do, you know. But still...[This is a public service announcement. ]
@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Wait a minute. You were watching Bill O'Reilly? ;) Kidding! I wonder if her publisher is paying to coach her on the fine art of sentence structure. As in, it has to contain a beginning, middle, subject and verb need to agree, . . .
But yes, Reagan is an excellent analogy. Everyone laughed at him, too. Supposedly Carter and his team celebrated when they learned he won the GOP nomination. And look how that whole thing worked out.
@OrneryBabe: The thing about Reagan was that he was a lot more intelligent than people understood. And he was knowledgeable and well-read, not broadly over a whole range of issues but on those few he cared about, yes.
@ngonzogo: Reagan is the beneficiary of a successful effort by Republicans to beatify him and name whatever they can after him. I remember the Republicans arguing that Washington National should be named after a president, not a city. When it was pointe out that it was named after a president, George Washington, they still insisted on renaming Reagan. I refuse to call it Reagan National. Reagan is the same man that counted ketchup as a vegetable in defense of school lunches. He was big on the astrologist. He did fuck this country up royally. There is Iran/Contra, Star Wars, deficit, AIDS, I can go on. I almost forgot, the Iran hostage crisis. Yikes.
@adiam7: Reagan was also the idiot who convinced the gullible public that they really didn't want any sort of regulation that would protect them from bloodsucking vampire bankers. "Government isn't the solution, it's the problem." Sure, that's who crashed the economy, the "government" in cahoots with all the crazy liberals, the hippies, the feminazis, and everyone else who hates America, apple pie, baseball, the troops, and Sarah Palin.
@ParahSalin: The was he has been canonized is scary. There is never any mention of his real record. They tried their best to do this same number on Nixon but it didn't work but Reagan , nothing. He is either portrayed as out of it or well meaning.
@adiam7: Most of your post has nothing to do with Reagan but with what conservatives have tried to make of him. Trust me, I didn't like the man's politics or the consequences he wrought but that doesn't change a thing I wrote. In his narrow field of interest he was studious and well-versed in contemporaneous conservative thinking. However, he did not think broadly as I pointed out.
@ngonzogo: I thought I mentioned Iran/Contra, deficit,star wars program, trickle down economics, ketchup as a vegetable... My point about them is that they have tried to make him into something great despite his obvious awful record.
Wow, Martha's delightfully frank there. Prison hardens a person, and she knows Palin's never had to carve her own shiv out of a toothbrush. Pish.
(Also, it'd be nice if a CNN reporter would shut up with the gushing about Palin's book being a "best-seller"- of course it is, they're selling it for $4.99 at Wal-mart, and giving it away free at right-wing sites like NewsMax. It will be #1 on the NYT chart next week, but look for that little dagger indicating bulk sales. A scandal I am dying for someone to report on- ALL right wing books have this dagger on NYT charts. Pump and dump, right-wing "think-tanks" always artificially inflate the rankings of right-wing books. )
@Baroness: "bestseller" rankings are usually based on orders from bookstore chains or other chain stores like Target, Costco, Wal-Mart, etc. If they order 4 million books then that is what is reported as "sales". If 3 million of the 4 million go back to the publisher, then the book was still a best-seller.
Of course selling them for $4.99 is a good way to assure that you won't get stuck with them and an excellent loss-leader.
@Baroness: .The book will be airdropped wherever patriotic Americans live and those books will count towards her sales. Fuck Oprah and her book club, Sarah has Jesus, tea-baggers, and a shotgun.
Now there's two of them to hate. One for being Sarah and the other one for thinking she's a super cool lookalike in her bumpit and homemade pin. Go home, both of you.
I'm struggling to figure out how Fox News will blame Teh Liberals for Palin fans going rabid ferret insane on-camera after Palin pulled a Palin and quit her book signing early. But I'm failing. Nada. Zip.
Damn. Maybe Fox is genius.
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Does anyone else think that's what actually happened that time when she bailed out early?
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#tips
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Now if you'll excuse me while I turn down the sound on Jon Stewart...
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As for Martha? I'd cheerfully knit her campaign posters.
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Compare this skull to Palin's profile. The Maya elite practised changing the shape of their offspr.... I now fear that predictions about 2012 will indeed come true, and Sarah Palin will end us all.
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Naked twins.
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That's how people with class handle a situation. And something I thought about Friday as I watched the SP footage.
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1 bottle of champagne
2 cups vodka
juice of 3 lemons
(serves 2)
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The woman really does out WASP the WASPs.
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Oh, hey Sarah, what? You're not gonna' sign either of the books I paid for after standing in the rain all day and leaving my kids alone at home with nothing but the TV and a frozen pizza? Well, go to hell, Sarah, just go to hell. I'll find someone else, you'll see.
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#tips
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Shit like this serves as Exhibit 85 as to just how unhinged Palin is. It makes no sense to alienate your nutjob base of future supporters. But they were lined up to see her and got what they deserved, so I can't feel too sorry for them. Tomorrow they'll all defend her and blame the lib-rul media for the negative coverage surrounding her ditching of her fans. The whole thing makes my head hurt.
Thanks, John McCain! You created this fuckwit. Why anyone takes him seriously anymore truly baffles me.
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But yes, Reagan is an excellent analogy. Everyone laughed at him, too. Supposedly Carter and his team celebrated when they learned he won the GOP nomination. And look how that whole thing worked out.
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P.S. my boyfriend hates when I watch O'Reilly, but I must!
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Palin? There's nothing there.
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(Also, it'd be nice if a CNN reporter would shut up with the gushing about Palin's book being a "best-seller"- of course it is, they're selling it for $4.99 at Wal-mart, and giving it away free at right-wing sites like NewsMax. It will be #1 on the NYT chart next week, but look for that little dagger indicating bulk sales. A scandal I am dying for someone to report on- ALL right wing books have this dagger on NYT charts. Pump and dump, right-wing "think-tanks" always artificially inflate the rankings of right-wing books. )
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Of course selling them for $4.99 is a good way to assure that you won't get stuck with them and an excellent loss-leader.
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#tips
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Damn. Maybe Fox is genius.