Palin: “Going Rogue”
[Guest post by DRJ]
Sarah Palin has completed her first book several months ahead of schedule:
“Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, her publisher said.
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The book now has a title, one fitting for a public figure known for the unexpected—”Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Palin reportedly got a hefty advance but the Palin family may also get a big Christmas bonus this year.
— DRJ
“As with the Kennedy book, the digital edition of Palin’s memoir will not be released at the same time as the hardcover. “Going Rogue” will not be available as an e-book until Dec. 26 because “we want to maximize hardcover sales over the holidays,” Harper spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Monday.”
Grrr. Guess what, Harper. You just lost at least one sale. If it’s not on ebook, I’m not buying it, and enough books come out that by the time you get around to finally releasing it in a modern format, something else will be in my queue.
Pure brilliance, and by that I mean mind-numbing idiocy.
Skip (9c227a) — 9/28/2009 @ 5:17 pmI want one! Palin’s book will top my Christmas wish list.
J. Raymond Wright (e8d0ca) — 9/28/2009 @ 5:18 pmSurgeon General’s Warning: Carrying this book into a Starbucks next to a college campus when there are ten Priuses in the parking lot may be hazardous to your health.
James (400f72) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:17 pmI cannot wait for the criticisms about collaborators and ghostwriters. Because then we will revisit a certain other political figure who I am pretty sure used a collaborator he would not like to admit to using….
Eric Blair (184ac1) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:23 pmGoing
Official Internet Data Office (918234) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:31 pmRogueGalt.Frankly, the title of her book is making me cringe. I wish she weren’t trying so hard to convince us even before we’ve opened the cover.
Dana (863a65) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:33 pmComment by James — 9/28/2009 @ 6:17 pm
I think the greater danger would be to those in attendace not receiving immediate medical care for the strokes and appoplexy that would result from that action.
AD - RtR/OS! (4994e0) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:37 pmSo, prior to entering that Starbucks, please call 9-1-1 and ask for them to “send a bus”.
Don’t be so hard on her, Dana: she can’t well call it “Going Maverick”, now can she?
Leviticus (30ac20) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:39 pm#7,
Heh
Leviticus (30ac20) — 9/28/2009 @ 6:39 pmI’m ordering one copy. I might give one to my Berkeley PhD daughter-in-law but I don’t want any catastrophes.
Mike K (2cf494) — 9/28/2009 @ 7:20 pmOooh, something to get for my father in law!
(Dana– betcha Mrs. Palin didn’t get to choose it….)
Foxfier (97deae) — 9/28/2009 @ 7:51 pmDana #6: Yeah, I think that the “Rogue” business is uncomfortably close to calling oneself a “Maverick.” And with all due respect to James Garner, we know how that title worked out last November.
As for books and PC, I am reminded of having a copy of one of Michael Crichton’s books in my bag when I was giving a seminar at Michigan State a few years ago.
The department Chair started when she saw it. “How can you read his claptrap?” she asked.
I told her I hadn’t read it myself, but was curious, so I bought it in the airport for the trip home. What had she thought when she read it?, I inquired.
“Oh no,” she replied. “I haven’t read it. I just read the New York Times review.”
True story.
Eric Blair (184ac1) — 9/28/2009 @ 8:13 pmWhat’s wrong with “Going Rouge”? I know a lot of women who like to highlight their cheeks with a bit of the pink powder. No need to criticize the former governor for availing herself of that fine product.
[pause]
Oh, wait. . . it’s not “rouge”? I have the letters transposed? Hmmmm. Well, that’s an interesting title.
JVW (d1215a) — 9/28/2009 @ 9:56 pmArtsy Dana, I understand your trepidations regarding the title of the book, but if you consider the object of her rogue meta-verbage, it may well be accurate. I view the subject as Republicans in office. And, as Rasmussen reported, 74 percent of grass-roots Republicans consider Republican office-holders as more liberal than the real deal.
So, if Sara Palin is going rogue, she might well be going Conservative or going honorable or or or . . .
I, for one, will spend my hard-earned 7.40 an hour (used to was 16+ an hour) on the hard-copy as soon as I find it on the shelves. And it’s very difficult to write margin notes and highlight and circle text on a kindle (that I don’t even own). Besides, with this zero-bar wifi that likes to drop below zero-bar connection, it takes me 20 min to watch a 2 min youtube vid.
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 9/28/2009 @ 10:18 pmWell, I’m gonna buy it.
An authentic voice, she is. Like her or hate her, she speaks true.
rick (de9292) — 9/28/2009 @ 10:30 pmI work next door to a Starbucks; I’m feeding off of their wi-fi right now in order to post this. I also have a connection to a manager at our local Barnes & Noble.
Hmmm . . .
I’m envisioning surplus ad material for the book finding its way onto the outside wall of my building, facing directly at every latte-swilling libby as they roll into the drive-thru lane.
Icy Texan (43c637) — 9/29/2009 @ 1:19 amDon’t judge a book by it’s cover.
What else would she call it? Going Mainstream? How about Memoirs of a Conservative Woman Betrayed by the Modern Media Machine and the Corrupted Republican Conglomerate?
NavyspyII (df615d) — 9/29/2009 @ 4:36 amPalin also gets her first big on-screen Hollywood movie jab this fall, from the quickly deteriorating Sarah Jessica Parker.
“Oh my God, It’s Sarah Palin!”
Charlie Foxtrot (c3c634) — 9/29/2009 @ 4:48 amCould’ve been even more of a poke in the eye: She could’ve called it “Only Dead Fish Go With The Flow.”
Brad S (9f6740) — 9/29/2009 @ 6:13 amAlaska was a pretty corrupt system until Palin stepped in. Her reforms took on entrenched politicians (inc. Republicans), a mafioso-style union boss, and Big Oil.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if Obama had been principled and brave enough to confront the corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine? Or shady political operators like Tony Rezko? Racist preachers? Instead of doing business with every last one of them?
IMO people could end up voting for the Gipper-in-Heels in droves- they’ll surely being looking for some such antidote to the Bolshevik con-artist who’s taking a wrecking-ball to this society now.
Small wonder then that the far-left moonbats -along with Team Obama’s David Plouffe’s internet squad- are out to destroy her.
Go get em ‘Cuda- you’re one tough lady… and there’s a lot of us behind you.
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Reaganite Republican (6836b1) — 9/29/2009 @ 6:29 amAs said above, I think the title of a book is usually more the doing of the editor/publisher than the author, but could be wrong.
I think it conveys an appropriate message. She took on her own party in Alaska when she thought things were not being done “right”, she wasn’t necessarily happy with the way the McCain campaign people wanted her to be, and she certainly has little patience for obfuscation. The idea of “Rogue”, I think, isn’t just one that goes on their own, like a “maverick”, but one that will do just as they please and is dangerous.
Whether the title works or not I don’t know, we’ll have to see.
Political “Rogues” who do live by their own (honorable) standards with integrity would be real nice to see. Whether they can survive and Gov. Palin has proven she is one 10 years from now we will see.
MD in Philly (d4f9fa) — 9/29/2009 @ 6:40 amWhatever it’s called, I’m buying several – for me and for Christmas gifts. Wonder when it will show up on Amazon. They’re either studiously ignoring it or they are stupid. Hmmm, malevolent or incompetent – reminds me of the Obama conundrum.
Peg C. (48175e) — 9/29/2009 @ 6:48 am#12 Eric Blair:
Lemme guess.
State Of Fear, the one with, you know, all those icky footnotes and references and stuff?
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 9/29/2009 @ 6:48 pm