Palin’s Book Sales Cross The Million Mark
The second-week sales figures are in, and Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, has now sold over a million copies, HarperCollins spokesperson Tina Andreadis confirms to me.
Palin’s book first went on sale on November 17th, two weeks ago today, and racked up over 700,000 in its first week; it’s now hit the million milestone.
It’s a measure of the extraordinary promotional clout of the right wing media machine, the astonishing star power Palin enjoys within the GOP, and the skill (or luck) with which she’s made the transition from losing candidate and quitting-governor-of-a-small-state to political-media celebrity.
It’s also hard to imagine any other figure in the Republican Party penning a book that would sell anything close to this number. This is Glenn Beck terroritory — another reminder that some of the main emerging forces within today’s GOP are media stars, not elected officials.
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I heard a brief news clip last night that stated: New Children’s book coming out, with Sarah Palin in it, cast as a Super Hero.
I bet it will be snapped up by all those Teabaggers who complained about school kids being indoctrinated about President Obama.
Liam — got more info on that? I would love to get my hands on that book.
Greg,
It was just a brief clip on a local news report. They did not even mention the title.
Greg,
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/12/01/sarah-palin-stars-heroine-new-childrens-books/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fentertainment+%2528FOXNews.com+-+Entertainment%2529
“While Sarah Palin is certainly making waves with her own best-selling book “Going Rogue,” the former governor and vice presidential candidate is also in the spotlight with a cameo appearance as a heroine in the recently released children’s book “Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!”
In the book written by Katharine DeBrecht, “Governor Sarah” (a character based on Palin) attempts to help two young boys hold onto their dream of a swing-set business which is struggling as a result of high taxes, heavy regulations and 246 czars.
“I am trying to let all Americans know that these radicals are killing the American Dream and I want to stop them from hurting people that produce products and provide jobs,” the Palin character consoles the frustrated boys after their business is destroyed by “Marxus Obunduf” who is based on President Obama.
“I used Palin because I wanted to point out that there is nothing wrong with standing up for your values regardless of who attacks you,” DeBrecht told Foxnews.com. “The book also shows that “Marxus” and his radicals are basically killing the American Dream in their grab for power. I want to tell kids that they can achieve their dreams by working hard and not relying on the government to help them.”
The book also touches on the former governor’s life in the limelight and shows the boys “ruffling through their bills” when they see a special report on the TV.
“We have breaking news just in from a 37-year-old man who lives in his parents’ basement that Governor Sarah’s mother is actually an alien,” the excited anchor woman said. “And from this exclusive source, we can confirm that Governor Sarah feeds her children dog food for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”’
And with a moral in every children’s story, the boys learn that it is “mean” to spread rumors about people and that Governor Sarah “seems like a nice lady” and thus feel for a really nice girl in their class who is running for student council and bound to be the victim of malicious and untrue gossip.
“In this Internet age, we need to let our kids know that it is wrong to spread rumors and lies,” DeBrecht explained. “Unfortunately, many so-called journalists have basically told children that this is permissible as long as you disagree with someone’s opinions. Our kids deserve better than the shameful example that has been set before them. What message does this send to little girls who may want to enter the political arena? Don’t you dare lest you be Palinized?” “
Link to Slide Show Illustrations Of Super Hero Palin, in the chidren’s book.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/12/01/sarah-palin-featured-new-childrens-political-book
The question is how many of those people can read without moving their lips?
OMG Liam if the links weren’t there, I wouldn’t have believed it.
“In this Internet age, we need to let our kids know that it is wrong to spread rumors and lies,”
Apparently this doesn’t apply to Palin or the Author.
It does not matter. What Nit-Twitter says, makes as much sense reading it backwards as it does forwards. She is Sarah Palindrome.
Insimca,
Those words were said by the author who wrote the book, and filled it with lies about President Obama.
[[It’s a measure of the extraordinary promotional clout of the right wing media machine]]
Particularly when copies are being offered as tokens for $9 with subscriptions to certain right-wing publications. At least Sports Illustrated gives away something useful, like a telephone.
Keep up the good work,par4! It’s comments like yours that have independents running away from your side in droves. Please don’t change a thing that you are doing. See you in 2010 and 2012 when you’ll being drowning your sorrows, trying to figure out what went wrong.
- JP
I wonder what percentage of Palin’s book sales actually come from individual purchases as opposed to ginormous bulk purchases from Murdoch’s empire? It seems as though there has been a very deliberate effort to manufacture the best selling status. That Murdoch appears to have purchased in such high volume appears to suggest that they knew that Palin’s book would not likely be a best seller on its own.
I also find it curious that the goofball teabagger children’s book contains these gems for the tykes:
- “We have breaking news just in from a 37-year-old man who lives in his parents’ basement that Governor Sarah’s mother is actually an alien,”
- “that it is “mean” to spread rumors about people”
- “that it is wrong to spread rumors and lies,”
Hmm, I seem to recall many teabaggers foaming at the mouth while they breathlessly declared that the president himself was an alien. They have certainly spread their share of rumors and lies about President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, et al., as well. Palin herself is one of the worst offenders in this regard.
Would that conservatives would hold those on their side of the aisle to these same standards. Our national political discourse would be much more civil.
Thanks Liam! Appreciate that.
Gasman…you beat me to it…”I wonder what percentage of Palin’s book sales actually come from individual purchases as opposed to ginormous bulk purchases from Murdoch’s empire?”
Indeed!
@Lex….”At least Sports Illustrated gives away something useful, like a telephone.”
And don’t forget the annual swimsuit issue. Now if Rupert could toss in a swimsuit issue with Sarah, and Michelle and Dana Perino I might purchase “Rogue”
It reminds me of a tasteless joke I heard once on the radio about a famous movie star who was a babe but not such a great actress…”She fell in the steambath today and suffered burns on 40% of her talent.”
Media stars are easier to like: no messy policy-making or compromises to taint your record. Not a surprise either for the party that inherently distrusts governing.
And yet more incentive for the extortionist Palin to continue to proffer money from the die hard wingers who support her despite her tendency to quit a job when it gets tough. This is what happens when you are in a party that places the emphasis on power=money rather than using the their powers to actually govern.
Speaking of media stars; Father Coughlin enjoyed success that Palin can only dream of-http://www.ssa.gov/history/cough.html
Good thing he was a priest first.
If Kevin Trudeau can sell his informercial book to 3 million copies and make the NYT Best seller list, selling a book may be good for publishers income, but its hardly an index of anything more than sales.
The right wing’s subservience to the corporate-media-entertainment culture has been decades in the making.
Hollywood entertainer Ronald Reagan was the right wing’s perfect invention: A combat evading, divorced dead beat daddy who sold out America while pretending to be things he never was.
The right wing’s fictional creations are all marketing and no substance. It typifies the entire Republican leadership: Palin, Cheney, Beck, and Limbaugh are all frauds who managed to con millions.
“I wonder what percentage of Palin’s book sales actually come from individual purchases as opposed to ginormous bulk purchases from Murdoch’s empire?”
That’s always been the thing that drove Ann Coulter and O’Reilly’s books to the top of the best seller lists.
It’s so discouraging that she gets treated like a literary celebrity. She didn’t write one word and the dreck the ghost wrote is mostly lies and nonsense.
This just kills me – these people are too much for Squeaky?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/little-green-footballs-ch_n_375357.html
LGF originated Pancake Day to “celebrate” the day every year that Rachel Corrie was flattened by an Israeli tank.
And he finds Palin and Bachmann too crazy for him? Well better late than never, Squeaky. I guess.
Tena,
“She didn’t write one word and the dreck the ghost wrote is mostly lies and nonsense.”
Amen, sister. What I can’t understand is why they would hire such a talentless – and apparently lazy – hack such as Vincent? Reference the “Wooden Legs” quote as a citation of her laziness. She copied the incorrect attribution and the spelling error verbatim from an online quote site. You’d think that, given that Palin’s book would be very high profile, a big deal publisher would have insisted on a writer with more talent than Vincent. She’s just plain sloppy. As much heat as Palin is getting, Vincent doesn’t smell too good right now either.
I wonder if Murdoch still has mountains of “Going Rogue” stashed away in some warehouse that he will never be able to get rid of? It would serve him right.
The only reason I can think why they hired her is because her politics and Sarah’s agree.
Going Rogue will likely end up where they all do – in the remaindered bins.
Greg, I think there’s a typo in this sentence:
“It’s also hard to imagine any other figure in the Republican Party penning a book that would sell anything close to this number.”
As written, it seems to be implying that Sarah Palin wrote a book.
“As written, it seems to be implying that Sarah Palin wrote a book.”
Lord god I missed that. You are so right, Steve.
Ahem – Greg!
The Word On:
Going Rogue.
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Q/2/3/ghostwhiner.gif
Re: Josh Painter “Keep up the good work,par4! It’s comments like yours that have independents running away from your side in droves”.
Josh, you are so funny. Do you write out your hilarious routine before you present it to the public?
Palin attended five (5, cing, funf, ПЯТЬ, fem, cinco) colleges to get a journalism degree.
Now there is nothing wrong with a journalism degree. A number of very good journalist have a journalism degree.
But five colleges to get a journalism degree? Not a degree in astro-physics, or molecular biology, or chemical engineering, or computer Science.
In journalism.
5 colleges and this is the best she could do in her response to Katie Couric’s question about the federal bailout package: “That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.
If this is what independents prefer, then they can have her. I might even vote for her just to see her operate on a national and international level. The country would suffer greatly, but it should be fun to watch her conduct foreign affairs with a highly educated and intelligent leader from another country.
The only description of Palin that applies is “Narcissistic personality disorder”. NPD is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Oh, and don’t forget this little bit of delightful info:
Video of the anointing by Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee at the Wasilla Assembly of God before Palin was elected governor of Alaska. You remember, right? The guy who drove the demons out of Sarah?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4HIc-yfgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7hJDS26rI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE
That is satire, not a childrens book. It is satire on all the crooks we have in Washington
Blech.
Here’s what real people have to say about such nonsense:
http://bit.ly/5K4TIZ
(social satire)
“I wonder what percentage of Palin’s book sales actually come from individual purchases as opposed to ginormous bulk purchases from Murdoch’s empire?”
Didn’t you guys see the pictures of long lines of people lined up for hours at the signings?
“Narcissistic personality disorder”. NPD is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings: See OBAMA (Who also employed, a ghost writer to flesh out that lame Audacity of(Yawwnnn!)Hope-she sold 700,000 in the first week to his paltry 182,00 in 3 weeks.
What a scam…Rupert Murdoch pays Palin a huge advance on a book she didn’t even write, promotes it on his Fox News and Wall Street Journal, buys millions of copies in bulk to make it #1, then gives it way for subscribing to right wing rags and websites, dump the rest to the book outlet store for a couple of bucks each.
Epic
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Yes, tesky, we saw the reported pictures of the long lines waiting for Her Highness. We also saw pictures on Fox of rallies last fall that they pretended were current.Two different nights. So who to believe? The Murdoch buyup of her books, or Fox News, who tells the right exactly what they want to hear, or just makes things up.
Palin will never be relevant nationwide unless she lets herself be held accountable for the lies she tells, and allows her eminence to be interviewed by someone NOT a part of the Murdoch conglomerate that would love to hire her as an on air personality if they can figure out how to contain her ego. Tapping out anonymous messages on Facebook hardly rank as legitimate concerns, let alone policy statements. Closing your speeches to the media certainly sparks interest for a time, but when you spend a year at closed events, people begin to wonder what you’re hiding from them. Then they stop caring.
It is so interesting to listen to the right complain about lying, when Palin is the Queen of the Lie, bar none.
This is really amazing, but not surprising. Gov. Palin certainly makes the Left drip with condescension, abhorrence and vituperation. Fun to watch!
And that “small-state” provides how much of our nation’s energy compared to, say, Arkansas, the beloved home of William J. Clinton? Seems to me she negotiated one of the biggest construction contracts between otherwise intractable interests and between Canadian – US borders.
No, no, you have it all wrong. It goes like this:
“Not all Democrats are riff-raff, but all riff-raff are Democrats!”
You see when you talk about who can read and who cannot read, any test of all Republicans or all Independents or all Democrats would find Democrats testing far in the rear of the other two groups.
This blog is very funny. Mr. Sargent’s comment:
“It’s a measure of the extraordinary promotional clout of the right wing media machine, the astonishing star power Palin enjoys within the GOP, and the skill (or luck) with which she’s made the transition from losing candidate and quitting-governor-of-a-small-state to political-media celebrity.”
Who in the world is this unctuous jackass (that means Democrat)? Note the broad-based insults in his comment. “Skill (or luck)”. “Loser and quitting-governor-of” and “small state”. By the way, is the “small state” to which he refers, Alaska??? Lol
It’s not surprising. The arrogance of so many liberals and Democratic leaders is astounding. It’s a wonder they ever win anything they are such ugly human beings.
Well guys, like what you see in Washington these days? Like the incompetents? The losers? The cheats? The Marxist lovers? The man-boy lover champions? What about Obama who runs around the world bowing to Arab Kings and apologizing to everyone who will listen, for America. What a guy! The man hasn’t done anything right yet.
Like the new health care bill that is going to be CHEAPER when run by the government (lol – funny line there)? Amtrak anyone? Fannie Mae? HUD? Post Office? Medicare? Social Security? What has the government ever run cheaper than the private sector. How could they? Everything they touch is billions in debt and getting worse as the number of Federal employees soar (so many are unionized now). And what was that I read? Those people that work for US get an average of $71,000.00 a year, double the average in the private sector that pays them? Provides than with better health insurance than we have ourselves and better pensions? Is that the government we are talking about here? THAT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
You know, robots that are willing to pass a bill with 2500 pages they never read? Lol. That Federal Government? People like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi? How in the world did Democrats elect these two? Nevada and San Francisco? How far can you get from America than that?
Keep up the good works boys. You are destroying yourselves even faster than you are destroying America. That gives me hope. Hope we can rid of you before you do any more damage to this great country.
By the way, all Sarah Palin has are virtues you wouldn’t recognize if you fell over them because most of you don’t have any of them. You know that out-of-date stuff like honesty, integrity, personal strength of character, competence, independence et al. You remember them? Oh yea and five times the experience your president had when he was elected. No??? Well you can look it up.
While you are looking that up, check out the guys on your side in Washington. Guys like Chuck Schummer, Harry Reid, and tax-cheat Charlie Rangel.
And don’t forget Barney Frank. You remember Barney? The guy with the little business being run out of his apartment that he didn’t notice. Oh you can also looked into Chris Dodd and Countrywide or Jim Johnson at Fannie Mae or Franklin Raines. Also check out the golden parachutes. Oh yea, who was running the now-defunct Lehman Bros? Was that the same Jim Johnson that help Obama find his VP? Nah, it couldn’t be. He couldn’t be a Democrat CEO from Wall Street, could he? What? What’s that you say??? Wow. There are lots of CEO’s on Wall Street that support OBAMA? I didn’t know that. I thought there were all Republicans. What? You’re kidding. MOST OF THEM ARE DEMCRATS? Wow. Well, yes, sure, I heard of Billionaire George SOROS. Yes I know he’s a Democrat. What? Bill Gates, Warren Buffet? Yes I knew that. What? More Democratic Senators are millionaires than Republican? Wow.
I thought Democrats were all poor folks. Oh I see, only the suckers are poor. Their saviors are all rich and getting richer every day. I got it!
Got to run now. Trying to catch up on my fantasy read. Today’s program is “how bitter cold weather and record freezes and snowfalls are a sure sign of global warming”. It’s a new book by Al, (the millionaire-to-billionaire-public-servant)
Gore. Ain’t it funny how folks working hard for the common man seem to just get richer and richer??? And so many of them are Democrats. Wow. Rich Democrats. I didn’t think there were any of those. You live and learn.
JOEY
What a bunch of losers.
Sammy this sounds like a self-description:
The only description of Palin that applies is “Narcissistic personality disorder”. NPD is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Got a mirror handy, Sammy?
all you liberals read the book before you trash it .Your alliance with your SAVIOR is pittifull its so funny the reason you hate her so much is because she is a genuine home grown American with a passion for this countrys future she actually cares how she spent Alaskas money its clear the liberal Media is terrified of her GO SARAH