She really didn't waste any time did she?

Nine bucks?! When was the last time you saw a price reduced so drastically before the book was even released?!

But from a marketing perspective, this will enable more of those conservative groups to order in bulk, so they can make the claim that it is a "bestseller".

Seriously, she's really trending toward a "cut and run" reputation:

"What?! Preorders have slowed? DITCH IT NOW!!!"

#2 -

Actually, no. It's a recent price war between Amazon and Walmart. Nothing about clearance at all. I believe that both sites are selling Stephen King's latest at the same price trying to gain business.

Oh shattered illusions!

I think I'll wait for Levi Johnston's book. Some selections from his Vanity Fair piece (October 2009):

"Sarah was always in a bad mood and she was stressed out a lot. Sometimes she would wonder why she took the job as governor. It was too hard, she said; there was so much going on. Todd was always out in the garage working on his snow machines and drinking beer or screwing off."

"After the nomination, Sarah and Todd wouldn't go anywhere together unless the cameras were out. They're good on television, but once the cameras would leave they wouldn't talk to each other. In all the time Bristol and I were together, I've never seen them sleep in the same bedroom. (I don't know how she got pregnant.). Even during the Republican National Convention they slept in different bedrooms at opposite ends of her suite."

"Sarah Palin has said she's a hockey mom and a hunter, but that's really not the case. She pays no attention to her kids when the cameras aren't around. Track and I grew up playing hockey together, and I only saw her at about 15 percent of his games. People think that Sarah likes hunting, fishing, and camping, but she doesn't. She says she goes hunting and lives off animal meat -- I've never seen it. I've never seen her touch a fishing pole. She had a gun in her bedroom and one day she asked me to show her how to shoot it."

"Sarah was sad (after the campaign) for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make 'triple the money.' It was, to her, 'not as hard.' She would blatantly says, 'I want to just take this money and quit being governor.'"

She's supposed to be coming to our town on her book signing tour. I was thinking of buying Going Rouge (no touchstone), swapping the dust jacket, getting her to sign it and sell it on ebay. But that would be stooping to her game. Bait and switch. So, I'll just take another page from her playbook and just not show up at all.

Going Rogue. Going Rouge sounds like an adventure with makeup.

Going Rouge.

I suspect if someone read both books and split the difference they might get some balanced truth. I don't think I could handle reading that much about the woman.

Readafew, that' s the attitude too many people take toward FOXNews in this country. It's not true. Balancing bullshit with facts doesn't yield truth somewhere in the middle. Bullshit is Bullshit, no matter how "fair and balanced".

I guess, I was meaning along the lines that, I can learn a lot about someone by the lies they tell.

Somehow I missed these Palin accusations. Is that woman really that popular? One starts thinking there is something terribly wrong with your tap water, Americans
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...

It is our own curious paradox - the more people stay informed by what they see on television, the less informed they are.

Palin is the product of the cultural milieu that gave rise to Oprah, the memoir of personal redemption, and Paris Hilton. She is a celebrity. However, unlike many who have pursued contemporary celebrity in the USA, who would be content with becoming serial reality-TV contestant-participants, or becoming a TV talk show host, or turning a beauty pageant appearance into a moral crusade, Palin decided she could be vice-president, or a near-president, and perhaps a future president. She bases her belief in being "the one" on two contradictory claims: she is absolutely rogue (she won't be managed, handled, spun, or packaged, all evidence to the contrary -- such as her ghostwritten book) and absolutely ordinary (hockey mom, protege of Reagan and God, and echt American patriot). Americans whose perceptual schema are trained to notice only the razzle dazzle of special effects and not the cranky machinery upon which these effects depend, are not disturbed by the apparent performative disjuncture between Palin's claims and the reality that contradicts them.

Palin is performance art par excellence, not the type that appears in video installations at the Guggenheim, but the type that turns up on US right wing talk radio and its televised component, Rupert Murdoch's FoxSpace. In European terms ("old Europe", that is), she probably can be characterized as a mixture of political poujadisme and the stage presence of la Cicciolina; she is a blend of Le Pen and Jean Cauvin with an up-do that rises in triumph over a stately pair of Manolo Blahniks. Palin has appeared before in history, in the guise of Cola di Rienzo, Savonarola, Robespierre, Father Coughlin, George Wallace, and Pat Buchanan.

More than Reagan, Wallace and Buchanan are her most direct ancestors in the recent history of American politics, a claim made as a part by the "back story" to Going Rogue offered by Sam Tanenhaus in The New Yorker (7 December 2009):

"(Palin) is equally circumspect on the issue of ethnicity, pointing out that Todd, whom she met in high school, is 'part Yupik Eskimo' and opened her to the 'social diversity' of Alaska. (Wasilla is more than eighty per cent white.) Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. 'Hawaii was a little too perfect,' Palin writes. 'Perpetual sunshine isn't necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.' Perhaps not. But Palin's father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe Sarah from Alaska. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: 'They were a minority type of thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home.' In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, 'because it was much like Alaska yet still 'Outside''

Palin's discomfort is easy to understand. Race is often the subtext of populist campaigns; their most potent appeal is to whites who are feeling under siege by changing economic and cultural conditions. Palin's strength with this constituency can only have grown since the last election. It's the reason that her bus tour is passing through the small cities and towns (Fort Wayne, Indiana, Washington, Pennsylvania) where the 2008 election might have been won. Already, she has drawn thousands of fans, some pitching tents overnight in the hope of receiving an autographed book. She is avoiding major cities in the Northeast and on the West Coast, a pointed assertion of her contempt for metropolitan elites."

Unfortunately, tap water is not to blame for this (although anti-fluoridation conspiracy theorists might argue otherwise).

mesaj modificat de autor, dec 23, 2009, 10:47am.