The entire article about Sarah Palin’s inability to secure speaking engagements, as it appears in The New York Post, is pasted below.
A note: The fact that this is in The Post is amazing since this is a Rupert Murdoch-owned paper. Murdoch, of course, also owns the Palin fan club (aka Faux News). Of course, depending on who you ask, it’s nothing more than a tabloid. Still, this is one amusing article from a paper known to have a conservative bias.
Sarah Palin is said to have pocketed a $7 million advance for the 400-page memoir she turned in four months early, but she might not have such an easy time on the lecture circuit.After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager Joe Torre and magician David Blaine.
Palin’s bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: “The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot.”
Many big lecture venues are subscription series, “and they don’t want to tick people off,” said our source. “Palin is polarizing, and some subscribers might cancel if she’s on the lineup.” Other lecture buyers are universities, which have a leftist slant, and corporations, which dislike controversy.
“Palin is so uninteresting to so many groups — unless they are interested in moose hunting,” said our insider. “What does she have to say? She can’t even describe what she reads.”
Palin likely quit as governor just months after losing the election as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate because of money. “She knew that if she waited until her term ended in 2010, these opportunities would be gone,” said a source. “She would have lost millions by staying in office.”
Palin’s “Going Rogue: An American Life” is described by Harper publisher John Burnham as “her words, her life, and it’s all there in full and fascinating detail.” Harper wouldn’t discuss what Palin was paid.
Lynn Vincent, Palin’s collaborator, wrote the book so fast, publication has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17.
Did you catch that last part? Palin didn’t write her own book (most celebrities don’t, by the way). Just want to clear that up before it drops and everyone’s like, “See, she can write a non-run-on sentence.”
Maybe Palin’s reps would have better luck booking Tina Fey:
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 6, 2009.
The same can be said of Obama too, about not wanting to hear him anymore and about how his book was written by someone else.
Not wanting to pay is different from having good policies. We can do better than Obama on this with no problem.
Obama wrote his own book, Frank. He’s a writer. Writes his own speeches, too. You see, Frank, he’s smart and educated, what the wing-nuts like to refer to as “elitist.”
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is an uneducated, classless, spotlight-hungry, backwoods air head who just so happens to be good at prepping for show time (unless, of course, someone asks her a question she wasn’t given to practice before hand).
Your comparison only shows your own ignorance in your continuing drivel about how you hate everyone that doesn’t think like you do.
I have no problem with Palin trying to make money in the free market, instead of being a tax feeder.
She’s still a leftist with a R in front of her name IMO.
Samples of Obama’s past writings show that it is very improbable that Obama wrote his own book. It appears that Bill Ayers the domestic terrorist probably wrote Obama’s first book. It will take time for the truth to come out about this one but trust me it will.
This could be one of the reasons that he refuses to release his records.
Nuts like you What, only tell yourself that he is smart to allow yourselves to sleep at night. Even if he was an ok lawyer does not make him smart at running the government. His limited experience as a mere community organizer leaves him ill equiped to be president, even less qualified than Palin I am sorry to say.
Frank, you’ve got a lotta nerve calling someone else a nut.
Can some body get the straight jacket? Frank’s off the edge again.
Of course if you are a nut like the last poster, everything normal will seem wrong wont it. The last poster fell off the edge years ago and obviously hit her head.
My fellow readers, I think in 2010 we should all resolve to turn the other cheek instead of bashing Frank Griffin no matter how hateful he turns towards everyone else. I noticed that in the last few hours on New Years Eve when the rest of us were spending time with family and friends, Frank was spending his time writing several posts on this blog. This tells me that while the rest of us were with loved ones he was all alone and bitter, friendless and with a family that doesn’t want him around. Such a man should be pitied, not hated. Let’s do our best to tolerate him in the new year. Peace and God bless.