Sarah Palin’s Book Tour Schedule – Get Your Boots On!
OK, here’s what we have so far for Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue tour! Any Mudflatters out there who want to be “Boots on the Ground,” you now have your dates. Rogue photographer wannabe? Want to plan an outing with friends? Are you among the lucky few that live in these not-so-big, not-so-blue cities? Get out your super secret decoder rings, and toothbrush communicators! Everybody loves a good caper.
I think if I could beam myself to just one event, it would be the Sam’s Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
More dates are coming but this is a good start, although there’s one state I don’t see yet… Hmmmm.
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11/18: Grand Rapids, MI – Barnes & Noble, Woodland Mall, 3670 28th St SE, Kentwood, 6 PM
11/19: Fort Wayne, IN – Meijer – 10301 Maysville Rd, Fort Wayne, 12 Noon
11/19: Noblesville, IN – Borders Books and Music, 13145 Levinson Lane, 6 PM
11/20: Cincinnati, OH – Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Rd, Norwood, 12 Noon
11/20: Columbus, OH – Borders Books and Music, 6670 Sawmill Road, 6 PM
11/21: Washington, PA – Sam’s Club, 80 Trinity Point Drive, South Strabane, 11 AM
11/21: Rochester, NY – Borders Books and Music, 1000 Hylan Drive, Henrietta, 6 PM
11/22: Roanoke, VA – Barnes & Noble, 4811 Valley View Blvd N NW, Valley View Mall 11 AM
11/23: Fort Bragg, NC – AAFES Post Exchange, Bldg. #8-5050 Butner Rd, North Post Mall 11 AM
11/23: Birmingham, AL – Books-A-Million, 757 Brookwood Village, Birmingham, 4:30 PM
11/24: Jacksonville, FL – Books-A-Million, 1910 Wells Road, Orange Park, 9 AM
11/24: The Villages, FL – Barnes & Noble, 1055 Old Camp Road, Lake Sumter Mkt Sq, 2:30 PM
11/24: Orlando, FL – Barnes & Noble, Colonial Plaza, 2418 East Colonial Drive, 7:30 PM
11/26 – 11/29: Thanksgiving Break
12/03: Fayetteville, AR – Sam’s Club, 3081 North Highway 112 at I-540, exit 66
12/04: Dallas, TX – Legacy Books, 7300 Dallas Parkway, Plano, 11AM – 2 PM,
12/06: Sioux City, IA – Barnes & Noble, Southern Hills Mall, 4400 Sergeant Rd, 1PM
12/06: Sioux Falls, SD – Barnes & Noble, 3700 West 41st St, Sioux Falls, 5PM
12/07: Bloomington, MN – Barnes & Noble, 118 East Broadway Suite 238, Mall of America, 7 PM
What? I don’t see Wasilla in there?
My friend has already offered to pay my bail if we get to go…
And just in time, back twittering.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_TWITTER?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
A twit – I knew that already.
Is it just me, or is the tour a bit heavy on “battleground” states?
yeah, what did she say/promise ha ha ha about advancing AK when she resigned?
I too love a good caper, you can count on me for Columbus OHIO!! I’ll be there for sure with camera in hand. Do I have to buy a book???? I was thinking of just printing the cover and putting it on another book and hope she doesn’t notice.
Well, bless my heart, looks like she doesn’t make a Georgia appearance – guess once was enough. (KMA, Saxby).
Prisonernumbersix and I will be in Washington, PA on 11/21. We are taking one for the team.
Well, the Meijer’s is basically a grocery store with more stuff, albeit a nice one. I’m thinking she could set up a card table for this and the Sam’s Club venues. She could wear a designer apron and set her books up alongside her homemade cookie samples.
Books a Million is already for remainders, so it’ll save on shipping to the final resting place. I was expecting to see Buck-a-Book, in Providence, RI.
It’s only 200 miles from Nashville to Birmingham. I’m considering it.
How come she’s not coming to McCain Land?
Is she dragging the kids along on this trip too? When is this “family values” candidate ever at home? Resigned to “save the state of Alaska” but around just enough to drive the rest of us nuts!
Now that Todd has “retired” from employment, does this mean he will be with her or is he the designated babysitter? What about the baby? Does she intend to drag this poor little special needs sweetheart all over creation in a big bus or is Mommy shunting him off to others for weeks at a time while she rakes in the big bucks? Is Bristol minding the store for the whole group? Is Levi available to drive?
Does she wear a in reading “Palin in 2012″ or one that identifies her as “Mom” since she spends most of her time on the road?
Inquiring minds want to know!
SarahPalinUSA – such a good patriotic girl!
Lol! That sounds like the schedule for the “Going Rouge” tour. (For those who speak French….get it???
) I see she is completely avoiding any of the major cultural cities and just focusing on her “real America” bastions of redneckness (please no offense intended to anyone here who lives in any of these places!).
Hey Sarah! If you are reading this blog, please go to Urban Dictionary and look up “Going Rogue”.
Hah!
Shilling books on Sunday? For shame, sarah!
Ft Bragg? REALLY? Been there, done that. 1st PsyOp Btn, JFK Special Warfare Center. They could teach her a few things! Actually, she could be a case study for them!
It lists one of the three stops here in FL as just ‘The Villages’… would that include the villages of the damned? Or the Disney villages? Or the villages that are missing their idiots?
Some tour. Where’s the beef? No ‘meaty’ cities? No offense to those listed!
I believe it’s a large retirement community. AKM
Looks like Ca. isn’t invited to $carah’s parteeee….lmbo
Hmmmm…. Not much on the “left coast”.
That Meijer in Fort Wayne – it’s in the middle of Amish country up there; the store has stables for their horse-drawn carriages. They won’t know what to do with her! I used to shop there when we lived in Fort Wayne …
Bree has the poster up for this and I agree w/ Ella
ella said…
How dare she use “Brian,” the Mudflats moose on her poster!
Brian, you sure get around!
What? Nothing in San Diego, CA? She wrote the book here. We are supposedly a Republican city since we keep (stupidly) electing Republican mayors to a supposedly non-partisan office (but not really.) And we’re a Navy town.
Well, if she gets close, I’ll try to get there as long as it doesn’t involve taking off work.
She’s only going where she knows/thinks she is adored. What a chicken. Is she afraid of David Letterman in NYC? Is she afraid of Philadelphia where she got booed at a hockey game? I wouldn’t buy her book even if someone paid me. I’m in a blue state so she won’t be anywhere near me. I’d love to ask her how is she progressing Alaska.
yeah…don’t see CA on the list. if she had her druthers, she would carve up the United States into a Conservative, Hypocritical Bibleland and just work THAT room. She is the most UNcourageous, UNgifted, UNeverything person on the planet, and she must realize (or maybe not) her message is for the small-minded, ignorant…like herself. I can see the dark side reclaiming her someday.
There IS a star in CA – if the stars themselves are not just an extension of word salad, then it will likely be Orange County. If so, I will bring some friends and have each of us ask a question:
1. Do you think you will eventually go to jail for being found guilty of abuse of power in Troopergate?
2. Is Pastor Muthee on this tour? I have a little witch at home who needs a lesson.
3. Do you have any updates on that war in IRAN (one of our THREE wars you spoke about during the VP campaign)?
4. What DOES a VP DO all day, anyway?
We can think up some really good questions, mudpuppies – and I say we ASK them. I fear, however, that if I see her I will only want to point and laugh.
Can’t believe she’s going to be allowed at the PX on Ft. Bragg…
Jeez…
future, you were railroaded! But we do appreciate it
Seattlefan, did you notice no Seattle? But she will be in state for Thanksgiving!
After just watching Keith Olbermann, I just ‘got’ why Sarah’s book title inclued the word ‘rogue.’ Richard Wolffe’s book about Pres. Obama is titled ‘Renegade.” Both words have negative connotations. IMO, since she’s really (in her own mind) competing as a worthy opponent, and if it’s good enough for our President, it better for her. No dictionary required.
Washington, PA?? Strabane? Must be up by Erie, Tom Ridge’s hometown.
You have to open the link to her FB page to see the map – the list only shows the cities to be visited PRIOR to Thanksgiving. There are MORE – IF she does not QUIT halfway through. One protester, one heckler, one person with a sign about the AIP – and she will likely fold up the tent of Sarah’s Travlin’ Salvation Show.
Oops, INCLUDED
Futureexpat… if you need bail money, call me.
dallas in december — sounds like mudstock time to me.
Lori – is she comes into the T of pennsyltucky (the alabama between philly and pittsburg where I live) then I AM SO THERE!! With my AIP sign, of course.
Gotta make one first, tho. What are their club colors?
How is she going to make some of these connections on the tour bus? I think some other mode of transportation might be involved?
@Lori in Los Angeles
…then it will likely be Orange County…
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now, that’s funny! I’d go up there if she would brave it, but I won’t hold my breath, b/c there’s not a brave bone in her body!
Sauerkraut – I don’t know the AIP colors – all red I suppose.
You should SEE the poster with the map and stars (tour stops) on her FB page.
There is an iconic image of OUR mudflats Brian the Moose on there! And ON the Brian moose it says “Go Rogue with Sarah!” I kid you not.
Jodie – you are correct. She has only 2 hours to arrive at a stop that is (per mapquest) 6 hours away by bus (per poster at IM).
Lainey and other Southern Californians – we shall have a meet-up and go en masse if she shows up here!
I’m in, Lori.
RightReverend… I don’t know that she’ll be IN the PX, maybe just at a long folding table OUTSIDE by the entrance! They should set up the Girl Scout Cookie table next to her… guess who gets more attention! They probably wouldn’t let her in Pope AFB!
It’s not a surprise that she’s not coming anywhere near Seattle. Too bad, I would try to go just for the spectacle of it.
Wasn’t there an article last week that said that she wouldn’t be going to places that were decidedly blue? Chicken.
Lori@36, don’t worry, that’s not our Brian. It is an imposter named Butthead with really weird legs.
Pat… even a two-bit thief knows to avoid the police station!
boodog…I did see that star in central WA. Ya want to go track her down with me?
I hope all the turkeys in that vicinity have taken cover.
Geesh….Seattle is a prominent stop on all book tours and she is snubbing it for an undisclosed and yet to be determined location in rural, red Washington. Go figure!
In case you were wondering what the point of the book tour was, I believe it has something to do with SP being “laser-polished” — see http://sarahs-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2009/11/rebirth-forging-and-breaking-glass.html
My favorite part is the malapropism contained in the line
“Her enemies thought they could destroy her with a full-court hostile press”
…you would think her fans could handle a basic basketball concept!
The featured photo of SP sighting thru a scope is pretty unsettling, but the worst is a mash-up where Ronald Reagan is made to look as though he is saluting her.
And these are her more literate fans.
She is nearby on my Birthday! Party in Washington, PA on Nov 21st, anyone?
I’d love to go track her down, but I think they said she would be in Wa. only to visit relatives for Thanksgiving (eastern Wa), no signing. But if you find out otherwise, well. I’m in!
@#2 Schauzer – that was not fair! Now I need to clean a red adult beverage off my computer screen
Thanks for a wonderful belly laugh!
Hey, Washingtonians…isn’t the star in WA right around the Yakima area? Since a lot of that area still has Dino Rossi (Prefers GOP Party) signs up, she may get a crowd
She can’t be driving that bus back to AK, though. SeaTac or PDX has to be a stop at some point, doesn’t it?
There is a reference to her spending time with family in Washington. Our red, red area likes her, but I have never seen anything or anyone claiming a connection to her. Kinda like her Idaho college not taking a lot of credit for her. You’d think there would have been some “local connection” stories or something. President Obama’s mom’s WA connections were written about. But, THAT would be something to brag about.
You betcha she isn’t coming close to me in Illinois. Wonder why>
Pat, Washington state…you are so right. She obviously is heading to areas she might be comfortable in. I hope it backfires and the “librul” media tracks her down and gets her goose (or in this season….turkey!)
SeaTac? hmmm…
Oh thank God, she’s not scheduled to come here to Phoenix.
SeaTac indeed! (or Spokane….)
Alert the media!
1smart…..red adult beverage in that chair of yours could = bliss!!!
OK Wa mudpups – Seatac is a bit tough to enter after 9/11, but I’m sure we could make our voices heard in some manner. Let’s be ready!
I’m picturing that chair too, seattlefan! I may have to git me one!
Big signs! But how will we know when? QuitterTwitter?
Sarah, the good people of Michigan would rather you not visit their state. Isn’t Grand Rapids, the city where they ask questions that stump the candidate. Perhaps you would feel more at home in Portage, the host’s (Track) city. Maybe do a bookstore in Kalamazoo. I shall return to Michigan……………..sounds a little like Gen. Douglas MacArthur. This women has no shame. And the demagoguery trip continues.
Between Dancing with the Stars and this blog, I am totally laughed out. I may need to go to HGTV to calm down – and then immediately check back in to see what is happening. I must say, life has improved since I found The Mudflats. And with a leg propped up on two pillows in an big easy chair, I am in a good place.
Sarah, while making me crazy, has made my life more fun too, also
And meeting local mudpups is a total joy!
House Hunters International- probably a socialist country tonight!
What? No Arizona? I thought that she would love to visit with the McCains…
Hmmm. I’ll keep a weather eye out.
#44- the norweigian blue-
I clicked on your link. I thought the images were bizzare. Their worship of her as some sort of savior is truely disturbing. What’s wrong with these people?
I must say that I am disappointed that Brian’s evil twin is on Sarah’s book tour page. He, nor Brenda, mentioned anything about this on Saturday when we all got together. Maybe they, like many families, don’t talk much to each other
But at least Brian and Brenda are good, fun, intelligent, well-traveled, well-educated moose/meese – no offense to Alaskans who may know the plural of moose (which is probably moose rather than mouse/mice).
I have a brother in Rochester- I’m trying like heck to get him to go on out there, but he is VERY resistent! I will keep working on him.
After reading the comments on IM regarding THE book tour, it appears that it will take a private (FOX) aircraft to make the connections between signing spots. The comments are good!
So, she will attempt Ohio…thank goodness Cincy and Columbus is far from my area, I bet I can hear her from here…I will make sure to plug my ears on those days.
Maybe enough people will read her book and we will all hear them screaming across the US.
oh god, let’s gogogo…
Kind of a small book tour: 13 stops in seven days, and then five more in four days. I like how 11/26-11/29 is the “Thanksgiving Break”, although she has no appearances scheduled between 11/25 and 12/03.
I don’t know anything about the tactics of book promotion, but I thought that the reason most authors hit major metro areas is so they can do media interviews (local talk shows) as well as sign books. (You can only sign so many books an hour, no matter where you are).
There don’t appear to be a lot of places where there will be time for TV appearances. Dallas and the Twin Cities. Maybe Cincy?
On the other hand, the forecast for adoring crowds is pretty good.
@63 tm68 I’d offer my husband’s brother’s wife who lives there, but she is, I’m sure, a Palinista, and therefore unlikely to get anything good. She already had ‘bot tendencies for many years. She was just a waitin’ for someone to lead the way here on earth. She would be the type to call her Sister Sarah and fawn all over her. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
OMG! I will be just outside of Siox Falls, SD when SP is there on Dec. 12. If I go do a “Boots on the Ground” duty, do I have to buy her book? I need ideas, folks!
OOPS, I mean Sioux Falls, SD on Dec. 6th. Anyway, I’ve been in that Barnes & Noble many times, and that will be so wierd to see SP there! Very strange indeed. What could I do if I didn’t buy a book for her to autograph? Or should I buy one and have it autographed and auction it off somewhere somehow? TeeHee!
bring her the “other” book to sign…the going rouge one
Lori in Los Angeles.
That’s not San Francisco and it isn’t Orange county. That star looks like it’s Salinas/Monterrey Bay. I think it’s too far north to be Santa Barbara.
Either way, too far north for me.
Anyone better at geography?
Better fix up that “Dallas” line quick before Brian points out that Plano ain’t Dallas.
Too bad she’s not coming to the Bay Area. I can’t imagine why she wouldn’t want to come to beautiful California…
So she has left time in her schedule to “pardon” some more turkeys…..Do you think she’s actually going home to be with her family?!
And, if I’m anywhere near one of her stops, I’m bringing the Rouge book!
mlaiuppa, do you have a link to the map. I’d guess that if she goes anyplace in CA it would be redneck central like Fresno or Bakersfield. BTW, Salinas is 3 hours north of Santa Barbara on 101. Both of those areas are Blue so I doubt that she’d show up. Maybe she’ll hit the casino out in Lemoore by the Navy air station. It gets the valley types that she appeals to also.
I was at the site PeopleofWalMart.com. These are her fans, strange indeed.If anyone needs a good laugh go over there.
I’m not really a fan of WalMat because the nearest one to me is the one where a security guard was trampled to death by a mob trying to get the specials on Black Friday.
WalMart was unsympathetic to the poor man or his family.
And also too I am not a fan of Toxic Barbie.
All those southern states and no Ky. Damn
OK, I think the map is the one from Twitter? If that is so then the CA star is just about Santa Maria or could be San Luis Obispo, the only city with bookstores on the Central Coast. It could be Paso Robles but they don’t have any bookstores just Walmart and such. I’m still thinking that the star could just be Bakersfield or Fresno shoved a bit to the left in the graphic. Time will tell.
I actually think we have a Mudpup in Fresno.
I double BlewDog Dare Queen Hester to make an appearance at Powell’s Books in downtown Portland, Oregon!!!
70 Lainey Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 10:29 PM
bring her the “other” book to sign…the going rouge one
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Slip it into the cover of her word salad bible and actually get a signed copy….yes indeed….you know she won’t check closely enough to catch it if it has her cover on it.
Sarah and Her ” Ghostwriters Book ” made the Letterman Top 10 tonight.
The subject was…”Top 10 surprises in the Health Bill Just passed”
$arah made # 1 spot.
Answer : The only thing more difficult to get trough than this 1200 page bill..
Sarah Palins new Book.
Yes Sarah… It is Your’s and Todds fault that he is STILL making You the BuTT of all these jokes. You earned it.
AND…. wait till he starts reading it to the audience…. all 400 pages of it.
There will be Years of Jokes in there.
I read on another site that you had to buy the book at the store you were visiting in order to get her to sign it. So, they made it sound …. if you had ordered the book online and came to the store, that you would not be able to get that book signed. Nice, huh?
And no personalization? Her fans, Bubba and Ellie Mae are not going to like that at all!
Mount Vernon, WA?
The price of Glenn Beck Day: $17,748.85
“Last month, Bud Norris, the mayor of Mt. Vernon, WA, controversially decided to award hometown boy Glenn Beck the ceremonial key to the city and declare Sept. 26 “Glenn Beck Day.” In response, approximately 800 people turned out to demonstrate — “the largest protest anybody could remember” in the town — and the city council unanimously passed a resolution that distanced itself from the mayor’s decision. Now, the Seattle Times reports that the event cost the small town $17,748.85, an amount that has stunned the Mt. Vernon finance director.”
Maybe she’ll be in Lynden with her brother-in-law: Stanford Development, Inc., “Real Estate Developer” James Stanford. Nordstrom shoe salesman in a previous life. And Amway IBO.
“Governor’s Special Assistant Joe Balash set up a meeting of Palin cabinet members in the Governor’s conference room in Anchorage for James Stanford and other representatives of Stanford’s employer, Thom Fischer of Bellingham, Washington. (Fischer’s Company, Whitewater Engineering was pardoned by Governor Murkowski of a conviction for criminally negligent homicide on Murkowski’s last day in office.)
The reason given by the Governor’s office for the meeting was so Stanford could pitch a wind power project in Southeast Alaska. At the start of the meeting Stanford loudly and proudly stated that he was the Governor’s brother-in-law.
It finally came out that the real reason for the meeting was to have the State force the Four Dam Pool Power Association to help finance Fischer’s hydroelectric project in Southeast Alaska that no one other than Fischer and his crowd wanted.”
Note – Whitewater is now Toll House and they did get their project. Power will be running from Petersburg, AK to Whatcom County, WA by 2014.
Lets see, Washington State…there’s Colfax, WA where its rumored the last hanging took place. She oughtta be comfortable there… or perhaps somewhere within driving distance of Hayden Lake, ID or Sandpoint, ID…wasn’t she raised there…Aryan Nation country?
@BooBooBear
I read on another site that you had to buy the book at the store you were visiting in order to get her to sign it
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well, I guess the palin camp figured that one out…force the public to buy the damn book or you can’t gawk at her…no tickie, no shirtie…figuratively speaking, I’d rather go shirtless! booyah
My hometown is 3rd on that list, and I’m not surprised given some of the comments I read on Facebook from friends during the election. SP is certainly playing it safe with this tour and hitting places sure to generate decent lines that will film well for Fox.
I will try to go to the one in Fayetteville, I live within 30 miles of it. I can’t fatham how I could stand to be around the people who would go to see her but I can try…….. If I remember.
Betcha’ she’s going to have Piper and Trigger meet her in Orlando so they can spend Thanksgiving at Disney World. Wonder if the rest of the family will be invited.
Or maybe she’ll stay at Greta’s place in Clearwater?
Nope. No stopover in Boston. Shocking. Too many elites over here.
ooh, CG. Brother-in-law in Whatcom County? Never heard that. He’s married to whom? And thanks for the info on the cost of trying to make Mt. Vernon Beckistan-for-a-Day. That hardly sounds fiscally conservative. (It was a while ago, but did you notice how sloppy Beck looked? Untucked, wrinkled shirt and baggy pants. Was that his idea of dressing like the common man? I thought it was a tad insulting…but I find HIM insulting in general.)
I had a lot of computer work to do last night, but I sure had fun reading these comments. Thanks all!
What? Palin doesn’t like Mormon’s? No Utah on her trip?
I thought she and Beck would be a double headliner since he is here on a regular basis. The Mormon’s love their Mormon Brother Beck!!!!! But, they will kick Palin to the curb as soon as Mitt enters the race.
Her Dallas stop is more than halfway down her tour list. I wonder if she will quit the tour before getting to Texas?
ahhhh.. the Northeast is spared Hurricane S’arah.
I was all ready to go, too, also, with sign in hand and camera at the ready!
@44 the norwegian blue Says:
In case you were wondering what the point of the book tour was, I believe it has something to do with SP being “laser-polished” — see http://sarahs-accomplishments.blogspot.com/2009/11/rebirth-forging-and-breaking-glass.html
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OMG, I saw that yesterday. What a freakin’ weird site. It says it’s about Sarah’s accomplishments and defending her , yet it seems to just be filled with strange images and odd phrases about rebirth, forging, and breaking glass. HUH? Also, seems to really make her out to be a deity. Some things along the line of “we will wait for you to save us”, etc.
Well……O.K. then……………………………I can see now how cults are started.
Rochester she’s coming to Rochester hmmm why didn’t she pick a book store in Auburn, NY allegedly 30,000 people showed up to see her in the parade
I may have to take the short trip to Rochester get out my boot and sign
WAIT a second!!! this is an 8 hour drive… she’s not taking no stinking bus!!!
11/23: Fort Bragg, NC – AAFES Post Exchange, Bldg. #8-5050 Butner Rd, North Post Mall 11 AM
11/23: Birmingham, AL – Books-A-Million, 757 Brookwood Village, Birmingham, 4:30 PM
Grand Rapids isn’t that far from me, I’m going to try and go but I am NOT buying that woman’s book. She’s not very popular in my home town but Grand Rapids is a mixed bag, it could be interesting. It’s the home of the DeVos(Amway) family yet also the type of place that would host the late great Molly Ivins to a huge crowd.
She really is a big insult to our Gov. Granholm, who has had it rough, worked her butt off for our state and never quit. There was talk that our Gov. might even be offered some position by Obama at some point, there’s your “higher calling” $arah.
Is she still appearing on Oprah? I thought I read an article recently, probably put out by Meg Stapleton, that Palin had several TV interviews on Fox with Greta, Glenn, Sean Hannity, etc. and others and was “in high demand for appearances” so don’t know if this is still happening. I was just dreading having her all over the media again and hoped Oprah whould drop her if she was going to be so overexposed.
Saurkraut: Washington, PA is about an hour south of Pittsburgh. Too close for comfort. The thought of $P being an hour away makes me want to gag.
BahstinBoyo @16:
My first thought on her Florida tour ending on 11/24 in Orlando???
WOOHOO! THANKSGIVING WITH MICKEY…!
For the kids’ sake, especially Piper’s, I would hope they have fun.
I will leave out any snark for the time being.
the norwegian blue @44 & trishia @89:
That is one disturbed, as well as disturbing website you are linking!
It is enough to make me queasy!
My snark has returned with a vengeance!
Her book tour schedule reminds me of a great song by John Prine accompanied by Iris DeMent from the In Spite of Ourselves CD. “By a fountain in Rome I fell in love with you. In a small cafe in Athens you said you loved me too. And it was April in Paris when I first held you close to me. Rome, Georgia, Athens, Texas, and Paris Tennessee.” chorus: “We’re not the jet set We’re the old chevrolet set There’s no Riveria in Festus, Missouri and you won’t find Onassis in Mullinville, Kansas.” It’s worth going to youtube to listen to the song.
BooBoo @ 80 – bookstore has to make money to help with the security coverage; maybe that’s why you have to buy it there.
laprofesora @ 94 – oh, right. forgot there’s one down that way, too. pennsyltucky has way too many municipalities with the same name. is that washington where indiana u. of pa is located? think they might have a democratic club on campus that could send a few palin look-a-likes to march in with yellow booties?
strangelet says: November 9th, 2009 at 10:01 PM
“I don’t know anything about the tactics of book promotion, but I thought that the reason most authors hit major metro areas is so they can do media interviews (local talk shows) as well as sign books.”
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You are correct, it is common practice to grant some interviews along the way – similar to what Max Blumenthal (Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party), and David Plouffe, Obama’s former chief campaign manager (The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory) have done recently since publishing their books. So why doesn’t Miss Priss follow what is a natural trend for reputable authors?
Because Miss Priss isn’t a reputable author, nor does she have the aptitude to give an effective interview. Sitting signing books behind a table at Barnes&Noble, or Sam’s Club for that matter, limits the use of her word salad rhetoric to merely “Hi’s”, “Thanks for your support”, “Glad you could make it”, yada yada yada. In some ways, it’s the same as prohibiting media, cameras, phones, pen and paper during her paid speaking engagements.
The consequences of putting her face front with the media for an interview would simply be too risky, leaving the door open to stump poor ‘lil Miss Priss and challenge her, on record, about claims made in her memoir.
This should prove to be an interesting chapter to say the least.
No Oregon slash n cash.. on the lists? Hmmm…how nice we cause her peeps..a tad bit of heartburn.
That *laser-polished* website is freaking scary and crazy!
Just looking at the photos and reading the topics and blurbs was more than enough for me. Another site had some comments about wanting Texas to hurry up and succeed (sic) so that Sarah could be the president of her own country and then they’d work to get other states to be part of that new country. Cult is almost too tame a word for these whackos!
Okay…I am about 1 1/2 hrs. away from Grand Rapids and will see what I can come up with. I found a story @ mlive.com, she will be there from 7-9 P.M. The comments were 99% negative when I looked. Some residents insulted, funny ones (go live on an ice floe) and one person wants to protest.
What route should I go….infiltrate w/my ‘I’m With Stupid’ shirt or protest with signs outside? I kinda want to attempt the secret agent strategery….
I will get pictures and this time will post them (my son still hasn’t helped me w/the pics from the Beck protest, I am sad to admit).
Columbus? She must be nuts, alright–can’t imagine her getting a particularly friendly reception here, but we’ll see.
Guess I’ll have to go just to protect the karma of my fave hangout from being poisoned. . . .
OMG… Mall of America in December. Marking the calendar to stay away from the mall that day. Ugh.
I guess I’m a little confused about why fellow mud flatters would want to spend the time and money to go to one of these events. She’s not worth it. Nothing we can say or do would dissuade her followers. And showing up would just increase her numbers. She deserves to be shunned and ignored, and if we won’t do it, who will?
@Mag the Mick #110
I guess it would be to show her that she’s not loved by all…that she can’t fool all the people, all the time with her decisions and her autrocities…ignoring her only makes the starry-eyed, kool-aid drinking, kowtowing believers visible to her…she controls her interviews (facebook, twitter, fox noise) for the same reasons…she can’t control anything when she’s out in public…this book tour is forcing her out of her bubble…and so, here we are.
Those who wish to pass the ‘infiltration scoping/testing’..might well dress in a fashion reminis…of ..’Herself’..plus carry a bible er something..and a flag pin..or angel pin. Good luck..because even then..your expressions will give you away..an honestly ‘vapid’ expression..is just danged near impossible for all who have geniune cortical activity..goin’ on!
They just love her and Giuliani in “The Villages” in Florida, and I think it may well be “Tea Party central” of Central Florida. It figures that she would go there!
I also just saw her new Twitter page, and I don’t think she has enough graphics on it. It’s a little dull, don’t you think?
Actually: “It burns!” And what’s with the Moose logo gone tacky that says “Go Rogue With Sarah?” Really? Ugh.
OMG !!! She’s going to the town I grew up in Fla !!! AARRGGHHH!! my little brother and his wife will be in Fla. Cracker Heaven !!
The California star could be at Vandenberg AFB. Is it still open? A great place for a book launching.
Wow. All those stops look like actual work. Can she handle it?
The only reason I would be going would be to protest. Maybe some pro-choice groups in each town should organize and protest.
She’s too chicken to show her face in Seattle, I see, even though a good chunk of population here is from AK.
She’s probably too chicken to show up at Cafe del Mundo, too.
What a wonderful opportunity to acquaint Palin fans with a bookstore.
I really hope that Sarah is not allowed to go to a Unitid States Army base and be able to spew her hate. I don’t think that political rallies are allowed on Military bases.. As we all know, she is gone rogue. They better assign an officer and MP’s to stay close and monitor, so that if she goes over the line that she is escorted to the front gate if not arrested and put in the brigg. Just hoping for the last part.
Does Palin’s “fans” even know how to read?
Michigander @107 – Not sure if this is the same article you referenced, but found this to be interesting that a student from a Bible college plans to protest Palin.
http://blog.mlive.com/talkingpolitics/2009/11/a_week_before_grand_rapids_vis.html
Huckabee will sign books in Grand Rapids Nov. 17. Palin will begin her book tour here the next day, Nov. 18.
Kuyper student Matthew Kelley, 21, says he has commitments from about 20 people to protest near the corner of East Beltline Avenue and 28th Street before Palin’s stop at Barnes and Noble at the Woodland Mall.
Kelley, a native of Kenosha, Wis., describes himself as a political independent with liberal views on some issues. He’s protesting former Gov. Palin, he said, because she “has not been a responsible public figure.
“She has come forward with statements not tied to fact,” he said, pointing to.her insistence that President Obama was tied to terrorists and her recently resurrected claim that Democratic health care reform would lead to death panels.
OK, I live about an hour and a half from Rochester, where she’s going to be on the 21st. Anyone care to join me for an infiltration?!
Palin coming to Rochester will be greeted with hundreds of protesters planning on being at the Borders book store in Henrietta. We don’t want this “pin-head” wantta-be here …. or anywhere! She represent the extremist right-wing, and that’s it. Palin is simply out for Palin, and she could give a crap about the average American.
Show up at the Borders in Henrietta on Saturday November 21 and let this
worth-less self-centered loser know that she’s not welcome in Rochester.
Especially those of you at RIT …. get out and protest Palin’s visit!