Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” in Bookstores November 17.
28 09 2009To answer your first question, no. This is not a joke.” That is in fact the title of Sarah Palin’s official memoir. The full title is “Going Rogue: An American Life.” I cannot stop giggling.
A mere four months since she announced that a book deal was in the works with Harper Collins, we can now take out our big red Sharpies and circle that date on our calendars. To answer your second question, yes. I will be buying a copy. Checking the book out of the library is out of the question, because they don’t like it when you scrawl things like “Seriously?” and “HA!” in the margins.
I know that there will be advanced copies of this book available to the media, but somehow I get the feeling I’m not on the list. So, unless there’s some benevolent Mudflatter who’s got a line on an advance copy and sends it my way, I’ll be waiting with the rest of wingnut America to get my very own copy of the 400-page tome at the bookstore. 1.5 million copies will be available.
Palin had a deadline of Sept. 15 for her manuscript and turned it in a bit early. Copy-editing and fact-checking are now underway in a race to meet the crash publishing schedule, which has been accelerated four or five months because of the huge anticipated demand.
Update: After about 15 minutes, I had a very different second impression of Palin’s title. See the next post.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:01 PM
The best place for Sarah’s book is hanging in every outhouse
across Alaska. It will do a great job for intended purpose.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:55 PM
“Lipstick and Rogue–A Maverick’s Guide to Style and Cosmetics for Pitbull Moms”
(oh, your mean Rogue, not Rouge? Ok, nevermind, I quit! Love, Sarah)
September 28th, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Ah, Glowing Rouge. I think that’s what made Rich Lowry see all those sparkles.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:04 PM
@52 Ripley : Personnel Board, very good.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Oh of course! It’s actually Going Rouge Cou!
How can we forget the classiness:
* Palin Obtained a Business License.
“Asked about the business registered under her name, Palin said, ‘Rouge Cou, it’s a classy way of saying redneck. It’s a French word, rouge is red, cou is neck. It’s for marketing and consulting, in case I wanted to go that route, I’d have my ducks all lined up and have a business license. [Anchorage Daily News, 6/8/05]
Read more: http://www.brianhayes.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-record.html#ixzz0STIA2ZYH
September 28th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
@norske blue: I love that business name. If it were actually in French, it would of course be “Rouge Cou”, but that makes me think of “Rouge Cul” or worse.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Okay, I’m not paying attention:
Cou Rouge
Cul Rouge
September 28th, 2009 at 9:32 PM
@strangelet
neither was she (peut-etre pas sa deuxieme langue, la francais?) — at least you caught it!
see http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/sarah_palins_red_neck.html re Mat-Su & Cajun usage
September 28th, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Either way, she’s a dolt in French. Think of that punking by the French Canadians.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Ja, Deutsch ist vielleicht meine zweite Sprache, und la langue francaise est surtout pour les restaurants.
But I do know that the adjective generally follows the noun.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:18 PM
$P resigned as governor on July 26th so that means she pumped out this garbage in less than two months? it should be a real quality piece of work –
worthy of a Nobel Prize in Literature award.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Did not want to put this on the other post, which is rightfully taking SP to task for using the word rogue as a weapon, but this gallery of book titles was worth a chuckle or two (these are all real and are even available at Bookfinder):
• One Night With a Rogue
• Only With a Rogue
• My Favorite Rogue
• Claimed By The Rogue Billionaire
• Rogue’s Nest
• Rogue’s Masquerade
• Rogue: Going Rogue
• Rogue Threat
• The Rogue and the Rival
• The Great Rogue
• Aleutian Rogue
• A Rogue for Christmas
• Statesman or Rogue: Elected to Serve
• After The Party: A Rupert The Rogue Adventure
• Rogue’s Legacy
• Rogue Pawn
• Sara And The Rogue (Harlequin Historical Series)
• Rogue Women
• Frontier Rogue
• Rogue’s Progress
• A Rogue’s Game (Mistress Trilogy)
• A Perfect Rogue
• My Lady Rogue
• Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
• Rogue Running
• The Infamous Rogue
• Rogue Queen
• An Undeniable Rogue
• Let Sleeping Rogues Lie
• To Tempt a Rogue
• The Last Rogue
• The Rogue and the Hellion
• Seduced by a Rogue
• A Rogue’s Life
• A Rogue of My Own
• Rogue Angel (Harlequin adventure/fantasy series)
• They Imagine A Vain Thing: Influences Rogue Politics Could Utilize For Global Domination
• The Lady & the Rogue: She Was a Beauty, a Wit, and a Born Deceiver, Could Love Make an Honest Woman of Her?
September 29th, 2009 at 1:23 AM
Can’t wait to buy it a The Dollar Tree for $1!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:43 AM
“Going Rogue: Why my kids are always losing their underwear.”
September 29th, 2009 at 4:02 AM
I think I’d go the library route and with a huge Tim Russert style dry erase board for all those sharpie comments. I can’t stand the thought of my money (however little of it) going directly into the Palin pockets. Of course, I doubt if I would make it through the first dozen pages or so without chucking it across the room.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Hey North #112. Aren’t these are all Harlequin Ronance (Steamy line) names? How appropriate! Especially After The Party: A Rupert (Murdoch) The Rogue Adventure
September 29th, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Here’s a proposal:
Those of us who can’t bear to pay for Sarah’s book will wait eagerly for AKM’s commentary. It’s wicked that she of all people has to spend her own cash.
I am going to hit the button with a small donation, If some of us do and theres any extra AKM can use it to grow the Flats.
This should be as much fun as adopting a wolf in Sarah’s name, and a lot more practical!
Copied to the next open thread.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
How to pretend being rogue while giving the oil & gas industry $ 500 million dollar blank check.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
The problem is that when the fact-checking is done with, there’ll only be enough text left for an eight-page pamphlet.
Q: Why was Muammar Gaddafi’s speech at the UN so confused and rambling?
A: Sarah Palin wrote it!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Now would be a really nice time to see Palin’s emails. Ya?
Where the heck are they and why won’t the state release them? This is insanity.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I pity the Palin Mss fact checker.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:53 PM
A couple of suggestions include getting on the library website and signing up to check out the book. My library has a maximum fine of $2 for all late books. I suggest we check out the library copies and keep them checked out for an extended period so her followers can not get to the library copies.
Secondly, we should start a contest for uses for Sarah Palin’s book so that her followers will have some idea what to do with a 400 page DUH. I suggest burying the book in your garden to feed the earthworms.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Fact checking by whom?
September 29th, 2009 at 5:59 PM
I wandered on over to “Team Sarah” to check on the Mayberry Clan to see the jubilation, there were about 100 comments on Palin’s book. Most of them said the same thing – seems they are all getting bumper stickers made with “Going Rogue.” Maybe someone should tell them what “Rogue” means. Here are some comments from sappy Team Sarah – they truly are a team, they all think alike.
1) Love the slogan “Going Rogue in 2012″ but I’m starting in 2010!
2) This morning I got up early went into word, clicked on landscape, font size 72 with bold print and made a make-shift bumper sticker that I taped in my back window before I left the garage! It said: Going Rogue…2012.
3) Can’t wait. I’ll travel a 100 mile radius to try to get to a book signing. Boy the internet is buzzing. Check out Politico. Three Sarah stories on the front page. It might help to stop in and leave some positive comments.
(AlaskaGal’s note to Mudflats: Must have only been negative messages left on Politico.)
4) WOW!!! I’m stunned. I don’t now how she does it, but Sarah is a few steps ahead of everybody else. She is so inside their heads in the White House.
5) Can the store team make a “Going Rogue in 2012 – Palin for President!” bumper sticker, hat, t-shirt..?? She’s wupped bho on facebook, taken command on the international stage, written a book and well maybe dressed a moose on the way, you GO GIRL!Who looks good as her running mate?
6) They better print more than 1.5 million….geesh what are the publishers thinking! How many do you think will sell??? I guess 3+. Look out Glenn and Mark ….here comes the Cuda!!
7) eeeeee!!! Yay! Merrrry Christmas!!! I cannot wait! Man, Sarah is fast…she is good!! Just like Sarah..gets the job done. She does not fool around. This will be the best book ever!!!!! Go Sarah! By the way that is the perfect title!!!!!
Going Rogue… in 2012!
(**End of Comments**)
Well, that’s the mentality of Palin top supporters. Well, we know 100 books will be sold – but what about the other 1,499,900 copies? I hope Murdoch has a large warehouse to store the copies that don’t sell.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
North@112 those could all be chapters in her book-The Infamous Rogue. Ha…
September 29th, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I was thinking they “rushed” to get this out because the rising star is fading so fast they are desperately trying to hold onto the flash in the pan.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:08 PM
The truth is they are rushing her book because the publisher finally realized that Sarah Palin really is pretty dense and is exposing her inability to hold an intelligent conversation.
The publisher is becoming scared the rest of the Ma and Pa Kettle crowd out there still running around with those silly tea bags hanging over their eye brows will soon wake up and realize they have been scammed by the “extreme” right-wingers including Sarah Palin.
Really folks, it should not come as a surprise to anyone about Palin’s real intentions from the beginning. After all, she won’t be the first person to use a version of sex to slime her way to the top.
The only sad part to me is that she was able to fool a large array of smart folks along the way. Maybe they should have kept their eyes on the political ball instead of ……., well; I think you get the picture.
For someone who continually called the then Presidential candidate Obama a terrorist and a person, who hangs out with them, look at where she is collecting her bank roll now, in Communist China. What a weasel, that one.
Keep an eye out folks, there will be many more of our “good Ole’ boys” Republican law makers to follow her lead. They no more care about America or its people’s plight for fairness and a chance for the American dream than a vengeance filled surviving member of the Taliban tribe in Pakistan.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:02 AM
For all those who have creativity..as an IV drip (rough birthin’ a kid AND the support-frame n tube. Mom never forgave me.>) ..just stick a press-apply note near your moniters..and as you think of them..start listing Your presumptions..as to ‘amazing revs’ about her ..life and times. Check them out..when the book arrives, cheap entertainment..and..costs nothing, plus you have fun of trying to ..gauge her..’mental processes’. Oh..and the assorted rallying crys
..as she will absolutely..be trying to interject a call/cry/motto..that would be ..setting her apart. Do you believe she counts on..going rogue..as the only iconic call? If so..I have a mental image of a fish..that I am..considering….so then..I’ll suggest you all..start creating your own..versions..as this world can make of ..’that rally-cry’ a buffoonery..well BEfore..the books hit the pavement. Jus sayin’….
September 30th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Saw you on TRMS of which I am a huge fan. You where great didn’t look scared to me. I’ve read some of your posts before and appreciate getting the story on what’s happening up there.