Palin's book shoots to #1

[lynnf]

funny and sickening at the same time.....

(you have to scroll down to see earlier stories)

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Posted: September 30th, 2009 05:42 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Sarah Palin's 432 page memoir isn't set to be released for more than seven weeks, but the highly anticipated tell-all has already shot to No. 1 on Barnes and Nobles' Web site, supplanting new releases from bestselling authors Dan Brown and Mitch Albom.

The forthcoming book has also vaulted up Amazon.com's bestseller list, currently holding the No. 3 spot just behind Glenn Beck's "Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government."

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lynnf

[Mapleton]

I've never been as turned off by a policitian than I have by Sarah Palin.

[eok321]

Why do people like her:confused:

[libertarian4321]

Why do people like her:confused:

Maybe people are just comforted by a leader who isn't as bright as they are.

Maybe they like her big hooters.

Hell, I don't know- I find it baffling that anyone would be impressed with the likes of Sarah Palin.

[muh_roads]

She has the small government speak (only good thing about her) combined with that retarded pro-israel crap the majority of republicans love. All wrapped in a package of pro-life/religious pandering and "look at my titties".

Nobody on this forum should really be surprised. I'm sure everyone here feels like they are talking to kindergartners when you chat politics to friends, family & co-workers. What else should we expect from the masses? They have the attention span of a gnat that is consistently glued to superficial garbage like American Idol & America's Top Model after a long day of government education and slaving away for fiats.

[Baptist]

I wonder if she will include the part about calling Africa a country, and when asked about foreign policy credentials, stating, "well, Alaska is close to Russia, and their planes flew next to our state a few times."

[paulitics]

Bill Crystal knows that "conservative" Americans like a good looking ditzy politician (dan quale, palin, etc). He is giving them what he knows they want as a distraction, while his agenda marches on behind the scenes.

[tonesforjonesbones]

Well, I am disappointed that Palin quit ...but she never said Africa was a country and not a continent. that was a hoax. You can read about it here. Palin was horribly smeared by both sides ...and ya'll fell for it. I am not ok with her zionist remarks either...but I feel the need to debunk the obvious ridiculous claims made about her. Tones

A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence
Axel Koester for The New York TimesDan Mirvish, who with Eitan Gorlin created an elaborate Internet hoax complete with a fake policy institute and a phony adviser to Senator John McCain.


Published: November 12, 2008
It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Palin Calls Criticism by McCain Aides ‘Cruel and Mean-Spirited’ (November 8, 2008)

Martin Eisenstadt’s Blog


Eitan Gorlin as the phony McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.Now a pair of obscure filmmakers say they created Martin Eisenstadt to help them pitch a TV show based on the character. But under the circumstances, why should anyone believe a word they say?

“That’s a really good question,” one of the two, Eitan Gorlin, said with a laugh.

(For what it’s worth, another reporter for The New York Times is an acquaintance of Mr. Gorlin and vouches for his identity, and Mr. Gorlin is indeed “Mr. Eisenstadt” in those videos. He and his partner in deception, Dan Mirvish, have entries on the Internet Movie Database, imdb.com. But still. ...)

The pranksters behind Eisenstadt acknowledge that he was not, through them, the anonymous source of the Palin leak. He just claimed falsely that he was the leaker--and they say they have no reason to cast doubt on the original story. For its part, Fox News Channel continues to stand behind its story.

Mr. Gorlin and Mr. Mirvish say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.

“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.

Mr. Gorlin, 39, argued that Eisenstadt was no more of a joke than half the bloggers or political commentators on the Internet or television.

An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.”

But most of Eisenstadt’s victims have been bloggers, a reflection of the sloppy speed at which any tidbit, no matter how specious, can bounce around the Internet. And they fell for the fake material despite ample warnings online about Eisenstadt, including the work of one blogger who spent months chasing the illusion around cyberspace, trying to debunk it.

The hoax began a year ago with short videos of a parking valet character, who Mr. Gorlin and Mr. Mirvish said was the original idea for a TV series.

Soon there were videos showing him driving a car while spouting offensive, opinionated nonsense in praise of Rudolph W. Giuliani. Those videos attracted tens of thousands of Internet hits and a bit of news media attention.

When Mr. Giuliani dropped out of the presidential race, the character morphed into Eisenstadt, a parody of a blowhard cable news commentator.

Mr. Gorlin said they chose the name because “all the neocons in the Bush administration had Jewish last names and Christian first names.”

Eisenstadt became an adviser to Senator John McCain and got a blog, updated occasionally with comments claiming insider knowledge, and other bloggers began quoting and linking to it. It mixed weird-but-true items with false ones that were plausible, if just barely.

The inventors fabricated the Harding Institute, named for one of the most scorned presidents, and made Eisenstadt a senior fellow.

It didn’t hurt that a man named Michael Eisenstadt is a real expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is quoted in the mainstream media. The real Mr. Eisenstadt said in an interview that he was only dimly aware of the fake one, and that his main concern was that people understood that “I had nothing to do with this.”

Before long Mr. Gorlin and Mr. Mirvish had produced a short documentary on Martin Eisenstadt, supposedly for the BBC, posted in several parts on YouTube.

In June they produced what appeared to be an interview with Eisenstadt on Iraqi television promoting construction of a casino in the Green Zone in Baghdad. Then they sent out a news release in which he apologized. Outraged Iraqi bloggers protested the casino idea.

Among the Americans who took that bait was Jonathan Stein, a reporter for Mother Jones. A few hours later Mr. Stein put up a post on the magazine’s political blog, with the title “Hoax Alert: Bizarre ‘McCain Adviser’ Too Good to Be True,” and explained how he had been fooled.

In July, after the McCain campaign compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton, the Eisenstadt blog said “the phone was burning off the hook” at McCain headquarters, with angry calls from Ms. Hilton’s grandfather and others. A Los Angeles Times political blog, among others, retold the story, citing Eisenstadt by name and linking to his blog.

Last month Eisenstadt blogged that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber, was closely related to Charles Keating, the disgraced former savings and loan chief. It wasn’t true, but other bloggers ran with it.

Among those taken in by Monday’s confession about the Palin Africa report was The New Republic’s political blog. Later the magazine posted this atop the entry: “Oy — this would appear to be a hoax. Apologies.”

But the truth was out for all to see long before the big-name take-downs. For months sourcewatch.org has identified Martin Eisenstadt as a hoax. When Mr. Stein was the victim, he blogged that “there was enough info on the Web that I should have sussed this thing out.”

And then there is William K. Wolfrum, a blogger who has played Javert to Eisenstadt’s Valjean, tracking the hoaxster across cyberspace and repeatedly debunking his claims. Mr. Gorlin and Mr. Mirvish praised his tenacity, adding that the news media could learn something from him.

“As if there isn’t enough misinformation on this election, it was shocking to see so much time wasted on things that didn’t exist,” Mr. Wolfrum said in an interview.

And how can we know that Mr. Wolfrum is real and not part of the hoax?

Long pause. “Yeah, that’s a tough one.”

[max]

Why do people like her:confused:

Cuz they buy into her phony conservative image of "the Christian hockey mom next door"

Truth is, she's a lousy mother who doesnt even cook for her kids or put time into raising them. She's also a whore who had sex with her husband's business partner while Todd was away.

As a former beauty pageant contestant, she's so obsessed with pursuing money and fame that she doesnt have time for them...

[angelatc]

The Africa thing was just a mis-speak. It could happen to anybody. Biden says dumb stuff like that all the time but it never makes headlines anywhere.

And Palin was right about Russia. She did deal with trading with them all the time.

She was also right about the "President of the Senate" thing.

She lost me when her very first stop as nominee was with AIPAC, and then being unable to answer a question about what newspapers she read. Having the audacity to call that question "gotcha" journalism was icing on the cake.

Having said that - can you imagine what this book would read like if she wrote it the way she speaks?

[tonesforjonesbones]

Max...prove that. thanks. Tones

[tonesforjonesbones]

DID AN:YBODY BOTHER TO READ MY POST? the AFRICA thing was a HOAX.. TONES

[tonesforjonesbones]

I guess this forum is only capable of absorbing one or two sentence posts. TONES

[angelatc]

Cuz they buy into her phony conservative image of "the Christian hockey mom next door"

Truth is, she's a lousy mother who doesnt even cook for her kids or put time into raising them. She's also a whore who had sex with her husband's business partner while Todd was away.

As a former beauty pageant contestant, she's so obsessed with pursuing money and fame that she doesnt have time for them...

If the best you can do is liberal lies and sexist attacks on her character, you're a bigger loser than she is.

[tonesforjonesbones]

I do not believe Sarah Palin is a stupid woman. Do you remember how many lies and smears Ron Paul had to deal with ...and ya'll want to do the very same thing to someone else??? What hypocrites! TONES

[angelatc]

I do not believe Sarah Palin is a stupid woman. Do you remember how many lies and smears Ron Paul had to deal with ...and ya'll want to do the very same thing to someone else??? What hypocrites! TONES

Oh get over it. Dig back through all the old posts here and you'll see that I was excited to see that Palin was being bandied about as a potential running mate for Ron Paul because she had a reputation as a libertarian Republican.

She didn't do anything to cut the size of Alaska's government or Alaskan government spending while in office. End of interest from me.

America wasn't the only country with a flag hanging in her office.

With Ron Paul, you don't have to dig very far down through his speeches and find truth. Palin speaks rhetoric.

[libertarian4321]

The question we need answered is not whether or not Africa is a country, but rather if one can see Africa from Alaska.

When Mugabi and Putin rear their ugly heads, the first thing they see is Alaska!

[libertarian4321]

I do not believe Sarah Palin is a stupid woman.

She may not be drooling on herself, but she is far from bright.

I expect someone running for the highest office in the land to be brighter than the average 3rd grade teacher, and I'm not convinced Palin can meet that standard.

[yokna7]

Maybe people are just comforted by a leader who isn't as bright as they are.

Maybe they like her big hooters.

Hell, I don't know- I find it baffling that anyone would be impressed with the likes of Sarah Palin.

Her hooters aren't that big.

[angelatc]

The question we need answered is not whether or not Africa is a country, but rather if one can see Africa from Alaska.

When Mugabi and Putin rear their ugly heads, the first thing they see is Alaska!

Thus proving that in spite of their blather, Ron Paul suuporters aren't really any less gullible than the general population.

Palin did not say she could see Russia. That was Tina Fey on SNL.

[libertarian4321]

Thus proving that in spite of their blather, Ron Paul suuporters aren't really any less gullible than the general population.

Palin did not say she could see Russia. That was Tina Fey on SNL.

I will quote Palin precisely from the Gibson interview when asked about how being close to Russia made her a foreign policy expert: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

Hence, my previous statement did not show any "gullibility." Palin did, in fact, say that you could see Russia from Alaska. Tina Fey modified her statement slightly to say that "you can see Russia from my house"- which I did NOT say in my previous post.

The reason Tina Fey's impersonation's of Palin are so damned funny is that she barely changed a word from Palin's original moronic statements.

Palin also addressed this issue clearly in the Couric interview. When asked about it, she said "as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America what what where do they go? It's Alaska."

If you want to verify what I wrote, this is a nice video of some of the greatest Palinisms right from the mouth of the genius herself: YouTube - Sarah Mania! Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E)

She's something special, alright...

[angelatc]

I will quote Palin precisely from the Gibson interview when asked about how being close to Russia made her a foreign policy expert: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

What Palin said is actually true. Here's a webcam: http://www.bssd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=81

And she's dead right about Russia. If we start a war with them, Alaska is where they're coming first.

I'm pretty sure I don't have time to watch your pointless video.

[Cowlesy]

My guess is of this 400 page tome she is publishing, she probably wrote about 20% of it, and that of those who made the purchase.....less than 10% read it from cover-to-cover. Just another knick-knack on a bookshelf.

[ClayTrainor]

Oh get over it. Dig back through all the old posts here and you'll see that I was excited to see that Palin was being bandied about as a potential running mate for Ron Paul because she had a reputation as a libertarian Republican.

She didn't do anything to cut the size of Alaska's government or Alaskan government spending while in office. End of interest from me.

America wasn't the only country with a flag hanging in her office.

With Ron Paul, you don't have to dig very far down through his speeches and find truth. Palin speaks rhetoric.

+1

[Bucjason]

Maybe people are just comforted by a leader who isn't as bright as they are.

Maybe they like her big hooters.

Hell, I don't know- I find it baffling that anyone would be impressed with the likes of Sarah Palin.

God , I wish I was stupid enough to make millions off of a book....

[libertarian4321]

What Palin said is actually true. http://geography.about.com/b/2008/10/24/can-you-see-russia-from-alaska.htm

And she's dead right about Russia. If we start a war with them, Alaska is where they're coming first.

I'm pretty sure I don't have time to watch your pointless video.

In the future, if you call someone out on something, you might want to ensure that you have your shit together first. Just a suggestion of course.

You have almost 13,000 posts on these forums. Looks to me like you have plenty of free time. If you don't want to see Palin's actual quotes, that's fine, just say so (all of the quotes in question come in the first minute of the video).

BTW, I was in the military during the cold war. We never considered an attack on Alaska to be a likely high priority for the Soviet Forces- certainly not a likely point for an invasion because an invasion of Alaska would be very difficult due to terrain and lack of infrastructure, to say nothing of the logistics of an amphibious invasion against a superior Navy. Even if you believe Alaska would be a primary target, her answer does not intelligently answer the interviewers question about being a foreign policy expert.

[ClayTrainor]

God , I wish I was stupid enough to make millions off of a book....

The sales have nothing to do with her intelligence / writing ability ...

[libertarian4321]

God , I wish I was stupid enough to make millions off of a book....

Sarah Palin has a book. Jessica Simpson has a book. Steve-O has a book. Paris Hilton has a book.
Joe the Plumber has a book. Hulk Hogan has a book. Kanye West has a book. Marilyn Manson has a book. Joe Frazier has a book. Al Franken has a bunch of books. Shaquille O'Neal has a book. Jenna Jameson has a book. Ron Jeremy has a book. Charles Manson has a book. Terrell Owens has a book.

You don't have to be a genius to hire a ghost writer to put out a book and collect money from the dopes willing to fork over money for it- all of the people above have done it, as have thousands of other nit wits and unappealing people. Just about any level of fame or infamy is enough to get a book deal these days.

[ChooseLiberty]

People were expecting some nudie pics.

:D

[angelatc]

Sarah Palin has a book. Jessica Simpson has a book. Steve-O has a book. Paris Hilton has a book.
Joe the Plumber has a book. Hulk Hogan has a book. Kanye West has a book. Marilyn Manson has a book. Joe Frazier has a book. Al Franken has a bunch of books. Shaquille O'Neal has a book. Jenna Jameson has a book. Ron Jeremy has a book. Charles Manson has a book. Terrell Owens has a book.

You don't have to be a genius to hire a ghost writer to put out a book and collect money from the dopes willing to fork over money for it- all of the people above have done it, as have thousands of other nit wits and unappealing people. Just about any level of fame or infamy is enough to get a book deal these days.

Which still doesn't explain how Obama got his.

[Bucjason]

YouTube - Sarah Palin on Ron Paul and Republican partisanship (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YglP4clX0A)

[justinc.1089]

Well I do think the media has portrayed Palin as stupid, and that all her comments they made look stupid might not have deserved it, but I also think that Palin is a bit dumb like Bush lol.

I don't think the media could hold up the idea of her being dumb if well she isn't at least a little dumb.

I think it says a lot of the county though when Paul's book is behind Palin's book lol. We could all agree on which is the more intellectual book out of those two lol.

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

defending Palin is humorous. She was picked because she was moron. She was not prepped for the interviews specifically so she would look that way. Get it through your heads people. The NeoCons wanted Obama. The picked the worst GOP candidates they could without looking too obvious to most (including some of you)

[justinc.1089]

defending Palin is humorous. She was picked because she was moron. She was not prepped for the interviews specifically so she would look that way. Get it through your heads people. The NeoCons wanted Obama. The picked the worst GOP candidates they could without looking too obvious to most (including some of you)

Thats probably true, I have thought about it.