Twin Tidbits from Palin Book Authors.
Palin Throws Bus Under the Bus
In a display of almost poetic metaphorical beauty, Sarah Palin has now thrown the bus…under the bus. That’s right, she’s now given up (at least in part) the Rogue on Wheels; the bus of the people; the Palin Express, in favor of winging around the country on a $4000/hr. Gulf Stream private jet. But don’t fear… she and the whole fan-damily will still pop out of the bus for bookstore appearances. Noted author Joe McGinniss who is working on a Palin book tentatively titled “Sarah Palin’s Year of Living Dangerously” is due out in 2011, had this to say:
There is, of course, nothing the least bit inappropriate about flying from place to place on a book tour. Back in the day when publishers still sent non-celebrity authors out in public, I flew on all of mine. It’s the only sensible approach. And if someone will spring for an executive jet, all the better. On the other hand, nobody tried to pretend I was riding a bus.
What’s wrong in this instance is the apparent fakery created and sustained for the sake of building pseudo-populist appeal—and selling books. Sarah Palin and HarperCollins have consciously tried to give the impression that she is doing her book tour by bus when the evidence suggests she is not. At every stop, she’s been filmed getting off Big Blue looking rested and radiant. She dazzles onlookers and interviewers with her seemingly bottomless reserves of energy. And no one suspects she may secretly be hopping on and off her main means of transport, UJT750, and resting up in hotels.
And more on the jet phenom from one of those pesky bloggers HERE. Harper Collins confirms use of the plane HERE.
Sarah Palin Throws Chief John Wooden Legs Under the Bus, also.
When I read “Going Rogue” I remember reading the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3. Some of you, like me, may have wondered why UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was quoted with the following:
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it–with their lives.
Ohhhkay.
Well, here’s the answer from Geoffrey Dunn whose book “The Lies of Sarah Palin” is due out in the spring. It wasn’t John Wooden.
It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled “Back on the War Ponies,” which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.
Doh!
Obviously this one slipped by Sister Sarah and her crack team of investigative journalists Lynn Vincent, Meg Stapleton and Ivy Frye, as well as all those dutiful fact checkers at HarperCollins. Obviously, they didn’t get the quote from anything Wooden ever wrote, but from a cute little web site called The Quote Garden. Isn’t that sweet?
runnin’ outta room under the bus, there, too also.
wonders never cease…..to amaze.
That sounds like Sally Heath’s fridge magnet to me.
there will be a small percentage of real americans thrown under the big plane, also, too…..not enough room at any major airport either, I betcha.
So funny. To get a quote wrong involving the Sainted Coach Wooden!!
That kind of news gets around even to the men who are her base.
And when the book tour is over SP will sell the plane on e-bay
John Wooden Legs was mentioned by Keith Olbermann, will be discussing this hour! Along with Mike Wooten!
Thanks, AKM!
The decent thing for the publisher to do is withdraw the book. Failing that, they ought to at least classify it for what it is: Fiction.
Just in case we haven’t heard enough about “the book”
Snip]
In the past, Palin could blame Katie Couric for leaving her more substantive answers on the cutting room floor. She could blame the liberal media for engaging in “gotcha journalism.” But now, she only has herself to blame for the consistently hypocritical persona she presents in Going Rogue. In Palin’s words, “I want people to read my book so they can read unfiltered what my values are, what my record is, what my accomplishments are…” Based on the book, her overriding moral code seems to be, “I’m going to look good at all cost, even if it means throwing everyone else under the bus.”
read more @
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mario-almonte/sarah-palin-spins-out-of_b_373792.html
It’s no longer a bus, it’s a plane. So, when she’s finished with someone, it’s…. throw them out of the plane.
credit where credit is due…
Does Palingates, who actually broke the bus/plane story, get a mention here?
Also the Philadelphia Inquirer (Tirdad Derakhshani) had the John Wooden story last Tuesday.
I believe it was Celtic Diva that broke the plane story originally, which was expanded by Joe McGinniss. She spoke to me about the story before it was posted anywhere else. I linked at the bottom of the page. Geoffrey Dunn added much more to the Wooden Leg story than I had seen before, but wasn’t sure where that popped up at first, but I don’t think it was the PI…I think it was a blog. Not sure. AKM
Vat an Idiot, that woman.
John Wooden vs. John WOODEN LEGS???
And the best part is that the quote is from a native American, about the sacrifices made by native Americans, and Sarah thinks the native Americans in Alaska who are suffering should just move and get jobs, and forget about the fact that their land is no longer their own.
Sarah Palin is truth challenged. Can you imagine the venom that is packed in those journals of Sarah’s? I hope, someone sues her and she has to produce those journals. They could be the death of Sarah.
The problem with classifying the book as fiction is that Palin names names in this book … she smears Katie Couric, Schmidt, etc. by name – no it is too late to pretend some kind of fairy tale story. I’d really like to hear the word libel seriously mentioned by some of the “characters” in the book.
And this was a fun little dessert of a read, in which the author tries to watch That Video [you know the one I mean] kills himself in despair – twice!
http://thefastertimes.com/nonsensenews/2009/11/30/scenes-from-the-class-struggle-at-sarah-palins-book-tour/
["28%] – the percentage of Americans who believe that Sarah Heath Palin is qualified to be President of these United States.
“Still, that’s not so bad, right? Only 28% of Americans are that dumb! …Or at least, it’s not so bad until you actually have to hang out with these people and listen to them talk. …And so it is with a great feeling of dread that I bring you the following video clip, recorded at the Columbus, Ohio stop on Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” book tour. See how far you can make it into the video before you turn it off! I myself made it to about the 3:32 mark before I bashed my own head in with a rock and died…”
Keith had Shannyn on and she was great!!! Kudos!
HarperCollins comes out looking as stupid and inept as Palin on these twin tidbits.
With publishers like that helping you, who needs critics to tear you down….
It would be interesting to find out how much Sarah Wooden Head demanded as far as creative control….Did HC just let Palin’s narcissistic belief that she’s the expert in everything, regardless of experience, run wild? Is this why Lynn Vincent’s name is not on the book? What an embarrassment.
Yup, remember all those who paid for our land with their lives so that Sarah can pay for her luxury with her lies.
1 Ripley in CT Says: November 30th, 2009 at 3:57 PM
runnin’ outta room under the bus, there, too also.
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The wheels on Palin’s unbus go squish squish squish, squish squish squish. …
Yeah baby !!! Keep rockin Muddy !!!! …..HAR…har….har…har….!!!!!
WHEN will it FINALLY be clear to the public at large that sister sarah-beck is jut a TOTAL LIAR ????????
And just to make thing really confusing there have been both a John Wooden and Wooten as UCLA coaches.
I bet Sarah was thinking Wooten, who she probably knows about.
Wrong person and wrong spelling.
Is Vincent actually trailing Palin around?
It’s not easy to propose more tax cuts for the rich (capital gains and estate taxes) when you’re a millionaire riding in a luxury jet.
Lee323 – You got it right “Sarah Wooden Head”, you betcha! And Chaim that was well said that Sarah can pay for her luxury with lies. All I can say is that Sarah you can’t hide from the truth and that’s a “gotcha”.
The amazing thing is no one seems to be picking up on another example of Palin’s hypocrisy: the jet itself.
When she campaigned against Frank Murkowski for governor one of her big issues was that he thought the state should have a jet for him to get around the long distances in Alaska.
Her comment: “That luxury jet was over the top.”
Once again, it may be “over the top” for someone else, but if Palin wants to fly around in a luxury get, instead of commercial aircraft or even her bus, why that’s ok!
@AKM: Palingates reprinted Celtic Diva’s original post on Palin’s plane, with Celtic Diva’s permission. But it was “snowbilly” in comments on Palingates who did the investigative work to identify the Palin plane that landed in Washington, find its flight logs (now archived as screenshots at Palingates) and its ownership information. So yes, Palingates and snowbilly deserve a shout-out and a link.
mo#15
And so it is with a great feeling of dread that I bring you the following video clip, recorded at the Columbus, Ohio stop on Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” book tour. See how far you can make it into the video before you turn it off! I myself made it to about the 3:32 mark before I bashed my own head in with a rock and died…”
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that was a good one mo.
John Wooden Legs…Please somebody I can’t stop laughing….breathe…whew…
Seriously, this one really has Alaskans laughing….you cannot make this stuff up…
Someone pass me a wet, cold cloth…good griefness,,,,sometimes the truth does indeed hurt!
bubbles!!! Now I’m really howling….hoot hoot from Alaska sisterooni!
This is just… precious…. Shannyn rocked on Keith btw
I’m starting to look like a unicorn from my head thumping against the desk top with such regularity during the “Going Rogue” Tour.
Anyone else too? Also.
She just can’t get it right can she. SO, what is ocean of urine saying about this screw up. I’m SURE they have an explanation to bail out and rescue their cult leader. Are they getting tired of this? Shouldn’t they be? How many times do they come to her rescue before waking up and seeing the light.
So I read they’re all happy she’s making millions, livin high on the hog and laughing all the way to the bank. Are they still sending her money? (I would hope not, she doesn’t need it!) Do they really think she’s just like them? one of them? ordinary? just because she can BS and con their sorry arses? LOL and last laugh is on them.
I’m guessing that sitting on her fat ass in the bus for all of those hours was “too much work.”
So if the bus is rogue, but the rogue isn’t on it, does that make her The Rogue to Nowhere?
AKM, I agree that Diva broke the story on the Franklin plane, but Palingates (especially commenter snowbilly) did the legwork on the actual tour plane.
yep, Diva had the Franklin flyin Scarah on his plane to the Graham dinner. But Snowbilly did the hunt down, dig it out, screen catch, post it research.
s’arah palin has reduced herself to a fungible commodity. All HC cares about is making money.
Omg….you truly cannot make this stuff up. I think we need another contest to rename this pack of lies and “made up stuff”. The rogue went rogue on her “rogueiness”. LMAO! Keith and Shannyn did a great segment on this tonight.
I can’t believe she is still continuing with this insane charade.
On the side, I spoke with my dad today (who loves Sarah! Ack!!!) and he is actually reading the book. He does admit she is not ready for prime time. Maybe there is hope out there.
In the words of Forrest Gump: “stupid is as stupid does, sir!”
thanks AKM & mudflatters, it’s definitely a group effort to keep up with all the news!
I just got to thinking, that if this “tour” plane is being used to promote a book tour, by Palin, but is owned by the Graham ministeries—–will it be taxed?
After all——a book tour has nothing to do with “preaching the gospel” or what ever this plane is listed on a tax form. If ministers are going to get involved in politics, they should pay taxes.
Lynne Vincent must be so glad she promised not to talk, so no one can ask how much of this was her writing. But one of these days, SP will say some of this was Vincent’s fault.
I’m waiting to see the Tammy Faye Palin televangelist show, SP’s dream job.
@ #33 Baker’s Dozen Says:
“So if the bus is rogue, but the rogue isn’t on it, does that make her The Rogue to Nowhere? ”
Now THAT was the funniest post I’ve seen in this entire ‘roadkill show’!!!
This is how a million dollar Palin team conducts research? The Quote Garden?
Well, is still beats her sweat sanity runs in which she constructs all her brilliant speeches.
Sarah was the one who wrote that she would be twittering from the bus while traveling across the US (at least important battleground states in terms of the next election). People who looked at her scheduled saw appearances that were so far apart that bus travel would be impossible (are there nuclear powered buses?) So, even though Sarah claimed to be riding, we could see that there would be some plane travel.
Surprise of surprise, Alaska’s old friend, Franklin Graham to the rescue for some travel. Now, Harper Collins has admitted to 3 plane rides. A sharp blogger did a screen capture of at least 10 HC plane trips, running at $4000/hour. I am sure Hockey Moms can all relate to $4000/hour plane rides.
It’s not just the bus, the plane or the $4000/hour. Sarah misused quotes. There are enough misrepresentations in that book to write another book. Every day brings new blogs and articles pointing out even more trivia that is inaccurate. I loved the notation that Sarah described how the Palin family played Scrabble, and they would hoard all of the K’s and Q’s which had high point values. A blogger pointed out how hard it would be to hoard all of the K’s and Q’s since there is only one of each in a Scrabble set.
Scrabble, it’s trivial. So is each and every other story. But, someone checked old weather reports on line to see if it really was 30 below when Sarah snuggled in her sleeping bag to watch “The Brady Bunch.” If it wasn’t 30 below, but just cold, why exaggerate? It is the total number of exaggerations, falsehoods, petty revenge and spiteful comments, the bus, plane, scrabble, Brady Bunch, it is all the life that Sarah dreamed that she had lived, and that’s good enough. It doesn’t have to be true; that’s the real definition of “Going Rogue, from the truth.”
The Quote Garden! HAHHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!
It’s just not possible that Palin can be this stupid. Ahh, hubris. Pride goes before the epic fail.
All I want for Christmas is more Palin Gaffes!
Wonderful opening line, AKM.
The incorrect John Wooden quote is an epic fail. I mean, he is one of the most famous BASKETBALL coaches in the world. No more point guard references from you S’arah.
The quote Garden, John Wooden Legs and the Rouge to Nowhere…there’s got to be a book title in there
If S’error Quittypants is not on the bus– who is driving the bus?
Quote Salad from Quote Garden
You just can’t make this stuff up….
I was in the Issaquah WA Costco tonight “the book” was there as well as 6 boxes under the table unopened.. I asked the gal how well it was selling?? she said do you see what’s missing (about 6 books? I said yes she said that is all we have sold…. I checked Barnes and Noble they said the same thing.. we can’t give em away!!! I would think they will be deeply discounted by Christmas!!!
akfishergirl @51 ~ that is a great report. You give me hope.
If S’error can use the quote site so can I. I think this should apply to Lady Sarah:
The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
they made her leave the bus and get on the jet. it wasn’t her idea, no she wanted to be on the ground with the people, but they made her do it.
FYI- New York Times poll on SP going to Ft. Hood. 68% said yes. 30% said no and 2% unsure. She is donating royalties from sales to victim’s families.
Speaking of quotes… remember this quote from Palin after the VP loss?
“I have absolutely no intention of engaging in any of the negativity, because this has been all positive for me, for what I believe in, the values that I represent and the progress that I want to see America be able to make.” -Sarah Palin
I can see it now:
The Rogue to Nowhere: The True Story of Sarah Wooden Head, aka Palinocchio by Todd “under the bus but not changin’ the diapers” Doe. Forward by Levi “let me see my kid” Johnston. Epilogue by Bristol “abstinence doesn’t rule” Doe. Appendix by Piper “stop the merry go round, I want to get off this %^(# plane” Doe.
What’s fer supper, Grandpa?
Word Salad, fresh from The Quote Garden!
DESK! Apply directly to the forehead!
DESK! Apply directly to the forehead!
I don’t think the bus/plane thing is a big deal. It’s a private plane being paid for by private enterprise (you know, the small backbone-of-America business Harper Collins) and not a government plane. Government really should cut back on expenses for travel and communication. Chevy Volts and dialup AOL for all of ‘em, I say!
Hilarious. So she uses the bus just for a giant billboard to get her mug in front of the public.
With all the money Harper Collins is spending on this little tour of Palin’s (which is likely much more than the money that they’ve already advanced her), plus the purchases of the books via Murdoch’s other interests like Newsmax that propelled the pulp to the best sellers list, ya gotta wonder what the actual profit will be.
“Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you.”
—Mae West
didn’t Palin say something about a private jet being “over the top”?
I am sure that Sarah really, really want to throw someone at HarperCollins under the bus for “forcing” her to take that jet when she really wanted to travel in the bus across the country that she loves. Cough.Cough.
But, she can’t because they are her bread and butter. The are the ones who gave her millions in advance for that thing they call a book. Plus, Murdock is buying up her book to make it appear that she is a “best-selling” author. I am sure it’s making Palin crazy to have to keep her mouth shut and not blame the publisher for this.
It’s obvious that this book is NOT flying off the shelves. I wonder how many of those advance sales are from Newsmax? Most of them?
@60, It’s not as much about the plane, as it is about Palin lying. The false impression that she was riding across the country in that bus while she is being flown around in a private jet is the story here. She is a fraud.
@62 OMG, I can’t imagine that there will be any profit from this book. Palin got a huge advance and the sales are not there…except for Murdock himself buying up the book. Plus, this book tour has to be costing them a pretty penny with the over-the-top-ego bus.
I doubt it’s even working as a promotional tool for Newsmax subscriptions. I wonder how many books he bought and at what price?
This whole thing is an illusion created by a marketing deptartment.
We went to our local library last night and my husband yelled out, “Oh No, there’s the Palin book!” On the New Arrivals book shelf.
1st reaction: Oh No, you’re kidding me! They bought those books with our tax dollars for HERE????!!!!!!
2nd reaction: Frowned, walked away.
3rd reaction: Came back and turned book around… smirk!
4th reaction: Great! At least there’s no long Reserve List for the book — highly unusual for our heavy reading community.
5th reaction: Ick! I touched that book! Never wanted to do that — ever!
Hold on a sec… that’s not Harpers Gulfstream, it belongs to Billy Grahams’ Samaritan Purse. You remember the OTHER ‘SP’, no?
http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/forums/awareness-politics/305339-sarah-palin-flying-gulfstream-her-book-signing-bus-tour.html
More on the ‘Gulfstream Solution’ here and at Celtic Diva…
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/sarah-palin-being-jetted-around-evangelical
Sorry if this ‘revelation’ is not fresh. I just read posts about it on page one. Like many pups here… since the default on comments goes to the most recent page first and not the first page… I tend to respond to what’s right in front of me and THEN go and read from the beginning! Just an excitable boy. Boyo, I mean! Thanks for your patience, all!
Palin is what happens when a person who thinks they already know everything knows nothing. Mistake after mistake and one lie after another is uncovered, and the result is always a disaster.
Perhaps this was posted before and I missed it.
I “read” most of my books on my mp3 player and get the books for free from our local library site, who gets them from Clevnet. I just saw that Sarah’s book is available to download and….yikes…is read by her! I thought there could be nothing worse than a book written by her…but having to listen to her read it has to be a millions times worse!!
Have to say “The Rogue to Nowhere” was the funniest line I’ve heard yet.
The way the expenses are adding up on the non-seller book and all the promos with bus and planes, HC must have purchased an an Insurance policy that would pay them double IF the deals don’t make their bottom line profit. After all, that is how big business is done in this country…a default swap on Scarah?
Wonder if they are expecting any overseas sales? They’ll probably ship a boat-load to Russia since it’s so close…also.
Where can she run to after this fiasco leaves her red-faced and completely undone by the backlash from the book? Oh oh. It’s not like she could hide anywhere in AK and mix in with the natives. LA calling.
An 83 year woman that I know told me today that all her family members except for one have switched from the Republican party to the Democrats because of all the bull crap and Sarah. Way too go Sarah!
Jane @ 60 – Palin is pretending to be a bus-ridin’ populist.
If I am getting this right, she is flying between bookstore locations, presumably the bus is also traveling to each of these locations. So she gets off the bus at the airport, flies to the airport closest to the next stop, the bus is driven to that airport to pick her up, then take her to the next signing location. Talk about waste of energy. Of course, as soon as SP opens her mouth she adds to global warming. You betcha.
@ 15: Mo
http://thefastertimes.com/nonsensenews/2009/11/30/scenes-from-the-class-struggle-at-sarah-palins-book-tour/
— thanks for the link to the fast times with that video of Palin nitwits who showed up to buy her book and get it signed. Wow, that was a painful 8 minutes to watch. I did make it all the way through, though I had to force myself to finish watching. No surprise (and my hat’s off to the interviewer) that most of them had no idea of Sarah’s specific stance on any political policiy when pressed to go beyond the typical buzz words they were spewing.
AKM – you state.
“I believe it was Celtic Diva that broke the plane story originally, which was expanded by Joe McGinniss. She spoke to me about the story before it was posted anywhere else. I linked at the bottom of the page. Geoffrey Dunn added much more to the Wooden Leg story than I had seen before, but wasn’t sure where that popped up at first, but I don’t think it was the PI…I think it was a blog. Not sure. AKM”
Yes, it is true Celtic Diva broke a story that Palin travelled one day by a plane owned by Samaritan Purse. That is a completely different plane story to the story which is now viral in the media. The plane story which Palingates researched and proved. There are two planes involved in these stories.
Palingates wrote about the Samaritans Purse plane story and gave Celtic Diva proper credit when they did so.
However the Samaritans Purse plane is not the Guulfstream luxury jet plane provided by Harper Collins and which Palingates wrote was used by Palin on her tour. This was a separate plane story by Palingates and was the one which went viral not the Samaritans Purse one.
Additionally, Palingates also deserves credit for the plane story as Joe McGinnis contacted Patrick at Palingates for additional information regarding the plane which Palin is using for the “bus tour”. That information was used by Joe McGinnis in his blog and he credits Palingates for providing it and the inspiration for his story.
The Sarah Palin Book of Lies was brought in by one of the ladies in the office for our Christmas White Elephant Exchange (aka Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa Exchange). Generally, the idea is to bring in a joke gift… It drew a huge laugh… but was never “stolen.”
Too funny!
What continues to stun me about Palin is her absolute lack of self doubt. She has total belief and confidence in her crushing incompetence and intellectual shallowness. Gloria Steinhem makes a devastating analogy in “Going Rouge”, when she says: “To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
If it really matters- more on the charter plane flights.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/01/palin-aide-downplays-use-of-private-jet/
BahstinBoyo wrote: “Hold on a sec… that’s not Harpers Gulfstream, it belongs to Billy Grahams’ Samaritan Purse. You remember the OTHER ‘SP’, no?”
Boyo, you need to hold on a sec. That was overdone blogger spin about the Gulfstream airplane belonging to Samaritan’s Purse. It isn’t true. The story keeps getting repeated in anti-Palin blogs, but it’s still not true. That claim was a hoax that has already been debunked.
My understanding is that there were two different planes, one belonging to Samaritan’s Purse and the other belonging to Harper Collins. She used both of them at various times. AKM