God, I hate exclamation points. But I couldn’t help it today because Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” finally arrives in bookstores. No, I’m not excited, but lots of other people are, including Jason Tolbert of The Tolbert Report.
By now, those of us that have been reading the Internet know that the book’s highlights include cheap shots at the McCain campaign for “overhandling” her on the campaign trail; snippy words for Katie Couric of CBS News who effectively demonstrated Ms. Palin was, well, a bit over matched; and criticism for Levi Johnson, daughter Bristol’s baby-daddy turned porn model (he’s in Playgirl soon).
As I wrote earlier, buy Bill Simmons‘ “The Book of Basketball.” You’ll be much more entertained.
What the book (and her appearance on “Oprah,” which my wife DVR’d) won’t tell you is whether she’s running for president in 2012. (Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times described it as, “a politician-celebrity going for broke.”)
She’d be silly to run, of course, but logic and Ms. Palin go together like Chinese food and chocolate pudding as Cal said in “Talladega Nights.” Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com thinks she’ll run, and if so, it would be troubling news for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who’s out promoting his own book.
“Going Rogue” soared to the top of bestseller lists thanks to advance sales, especially dirt cheap prices at Wal-Mart, among other big box stores. Ms. Palin will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas next month to sign books at Sam’s Club.
It’s rather funny to see Sarah and Levi going at one another over national television. They both could stand to be more educated, more kind, and get out of the spotlight …oh and contribute something other than their narcissistic attitudes. Hope to meet you at AMIN’s Social Media Summit. Janna
Sarah P quote on newsweek cover” The media will do anything to draw attention, -even out of context.”
So Sarah, what are you doing?
Now Blake, just because I talk about something endlessly does not mean I am excited about it.