Sarah Palin headed for the bargain bin

[marmar]

via HuffPost:



Palin Lectures Not Selling, No One Wants To Book Her: NY Post


Sarah Palin is not selling well on the lecture circuit, an industry insider told the New York Post.

"The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot," the source said. "They don't want to tick people off."

Palin's fee for a recent speech in Hong Kong was rumored to be in the low six figures.

Palin finished her memoir, "Going Rogue," in just four months -- ahead of schedule and in time for the holiday season.



Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/palin-lectures-not-sellin_n_304020.html

[Viking12]

1. The first politician in history that can't cash in on her position.

Evidence of her incompetence.

[bbinacan]

11. She's already gotten $7 million

from HarperCollins. I'd call that cashing in. Of course she won't being getting a dime out of me.

[timeforpeace]

29. So, except for that and the book being #1 47 days before release, the OP is spot on!

[timeforpeace]

2. Just read it's #1 on Amazon and B&N already and not out until Nov 17! WTF?

Can that be right?

[marmar]

6. It's not difficult to secure the No. 1 spot on Amazon for a week or two....

..... believe me, it will plummet like a metal boulder.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Or a stone girder.... interesting phrase, metal boulder. n/t

[notadmblnd]

16. and be in the dollar stores at christmas

[timeforpeace]

28. 47 days before it's out? This is totally different. And very wierd. Be afraid.

[marmar]

39. Umm. Okay.

[gateley]

9. I've heard where RW groups buy these books in bulk (like Coulter's last one) so

they "place" well on the best selling lists. That could be what happened in this instance.

[Arkana]

13. That little "bulk-order" trick that conservative publishers do

to bump shitboxes like Ann Coulter's unhinged screeds to the top of the bestseller list is at work here.

[Puzzler]

38. That's absolutely correct...

... it is a marketing trick that's done with books like these. Large bulk orders are made to skew the sales numbers up. This is why it can be so high on the list 47 days before it's released. Does anyone seriously think that people are lining up at the books stores to place a huge number of pre-orders for a political memoir?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Now she's a rogue? I thought she was a maverick. Maybe next she'll be a pirate.

Or a buccaneer.

[REP]

4. Maybe a Paladin or an Elf

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Or maybe a Klingon warrior

Having what looks like a snapping turtle shell glued to her forehead would give her a great new look.

[YOY]

23. or one of those daring 2nd ed combos like a cleric/theif.

That looks really clool until you realize that you can't back stab with a mace...

WHY DID YOU PICK CLERIC/THEIF SARAH?!?!?! YOU CAN'T BACKSTAB WITH A MACE AND YOU CAN'T SNEAK WITH ARMOR!


STOOPIDHEAD! I'm not playing anymore. Tell Brian that I'm taking my dice too!

[appal_jack]

27. It's actually a Tina Fey line

In one of the SNL skits (when the real McCain was a guest iirc), Tina Fey as Sara P. steps away from McCain for a minute and whispers, "I'm going rogue," before holding up a Palin 2012 shirt.

When I first read the title of "her" book (ghost-written of course) my jaw nearly hit the floor. Not only did Caribou Barbie employ ghost writers, she STOLE the title!

Tina Fey should sue for royalties.

Life is far stranger than art.

-app

[roguevalley]

32. up here, her using that isn't so funny. She called Walt Monegan a

rogue cop and she slandered him. No sale here.

[appal_jack]

40. I agree that Sara is NOT funny at all

She is a dangerous, immature, and mean-spirited woman. Sorry you have had to deal with her as a governor.

:hi:

-app

[2Design]

5. she headed to hide a thread -n/t

[marmar]

7. Repetez en anglais, s'il vous plait.

:shrug:

[Arkana]

10. Looks like she's beginning that long, bumpy, shit-lined slide into irrelevance.

[JuniperLea]

14. No one has the appetite for word salads these days...

This is good.

[notadmblnd]

15. a book filled with ahs, ands and also toos

[HipChick]

17. I'm collecting donations for public Sarah Palin book burning parties...

she went abroad and dissed the President..What's good enough for the Dixie Chicks is good enough for her...

[Thickasabrick]

35. LOL....Best comment Award!!! nt

[YOY]

18. When your fanbase has the attention span of gnats and the memories of goldfish...

n.t.

[UTUSN]

19. K&R, K&R, K&R - ad infinitum ... !1

[LiberalFighter]

20. They need to retool. Instead of a lecture. It should be a pie throw.

They could also suggest she do a lecture North Korea, Iran and other similar countries.

Then tell her that they won't respect her unless she enters their country without permission.

Oh yeah... if she is arrested and sentenced to hard labor in prison she should ask them to request GW Bush to negotiate her release.

[alp227]

21. Finished in 4 months?

I guess it's gonna be a really bad book. I'd rather read Twilight then.

[Zodiak]

22. My guess

Is the publishers pushed forward the date of the publication of this book in order to cash in on what remains of her fame before she falls into obscurity. By summer of next year, no one will give a shit, and the publishers know it.

[Kingofalldems]

24. She'll be on Monday Night Raw pretty soon

[Anakin Skywalker]

25. Wouldn't It Have Been Easier for Pukelin to Just Plagiarize

the bible instead of dragging 4 months on this so-called book of hers, since her views all came from the bible anyway? Not one original thought or idea! (Yeah yeah yeah. I am sure some of the more fair-minded people would say "Well you haven't even read her book yet!" in that whiny nerd voice. But I will wager on this!)

Maverick my ass! Rogue my ass! Now kiss my ass, Pukelin!

[AngryOldDem]

26. I predicted the remainder bins as soon as I heard how many copies they were printing.

A Christmas gift for a buck ninety-nine. Can't beat that.

Sarah Palin aside, nobody -- and I mean nobody -- can crank out any kind of written word worthy of reading in a mere four months.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Her book was at Costco last week

There was a whole stack of them.

[donheld]

31. couldn't have been. it's not out till Nov 17

or did you leap into the future. If so please tell me the correct lotto numbers :D

[Stinky The Clown]

34. 328456

I coulda sworn it was hers. But maybe some other RW nut job. Hmmmmm ..... you sure?

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. It was another one, here you go

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/30/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5354122.shtml

Book is not yet out. But scaife and company must have done a lot of pre-orders already.

[Mz Pip]

37. The day after it comes out

it will be available for $1 on Drudge. I think he's the one that buys this crap in bulk.

[lpbk2713]

33. Watch for her to come up with another faux indignation stunt.

Like she pulled on Letterman. That kept her in the headlines for a couple of weeks till it fizzled out.

When all was said and done Failin looked like a chump and Dave looked like a champ.