This is pretty exciting — Sarah Palin is coming through my town as part of her book tour next week.
Find out here if she’s coming through your town.
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Zifnab
Sadly, nothing in Texas.
I was really hoping to catch the raw personification of crazy, up close and personal.
Keith
@Zifnab:
You’ve never met the TX governer?
Michael
Should be rephrased “Going Stupid”.
dmsilev
She’s going to be here in Chicago on Monday, to do Oprah. Somehow, I doubt that she’ll venture anywhere near my neck of the woods, being as Hyde Park is the stomping grounds of William Ayers among others, and God forbid she would ‘pal around’ (aka be within a mile or so of) with him.
Never mind the high density of liberals, and of course the home of He Who Took Away Sarah’s Rightful Place In Washington.
-dms
monkeyboy
I notice she is appearing in the rural Republican small city of Washington PA rather than in the nearby much larger overwhelmingly Democratic city of Pittsburgh.
She may only get small crowds, but they will be loyal.
Zifnab
Also…
What is this crap?
CatStaff
She’s staying out of DC and, notwithstanding any of her other aspirations, we plan to keep it that way.
Sadly, she’s going to infest the lower part of Virginia, but that’s their problem.
Morbo
She’s starting in my neck of the woods (well, almost). I’m actually surprised to see that the Grand Rapids area was such an even split in the pres. election.
dmsilev
@Zifnab: Just the normal media stupidity. I think they’re hoping for some sort of Jerry-Springer-esque fist fight between the two, or something.
-dms
phoebes-in-santa fe
Interesting that one of her signings is at a Sam’s Club. Isn’t that a members-only store? Will they give non-members a pass that day?
Zifnab
@Keith: Nope, and I spent 5 years in Austin.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Fuck no and thank FSM!
Building controversy to build ratings, what else? You some news n00b or what? ;)
parksideq
Looks like she’s not passing through my neck of the woods (and by “woods”, I mean Brooklyn).
To be fair, Sarahgeddon doesn’t fly very well in a county that went between 75-78% for Obama.
Llelldorin
As you’d expect, she’s ignoring us out here in what I like to call the “real America”–the San Francisco Bay Area.
arguingwithsignposts
@Keith:
(golf clap)
parksideq
Now that I think about it, I’m surprised her traveling circus is coming to New York state at all. After NY-23, it should be painfully obvious that NY as a whole doesn’t buy what Palin’s selling.
calipygian
Man, she’d be perfect for Politics and Prose, and I suspect that the crowds would LOVE her at Busboys and Poets or on Dupont Circle at Kramerbooks!
She’s practically a gay icon!
arguingwithsignposts
DougJ – that link is really difficult to figure out where these “events” are. Is there a better list of her tour sites?
ricky
@Keith: @Zifnab:
Raw personification of crazy and meeting the Governor of Texas.
I have had the pleasure of knowing Rick Perry since his days as a member of the Texas House. He was a yell leader at Texas A&M University. (Do a Google video search to grasp, if not understand, what that means) He is the first Aggie to grace the Governor’s mansion since the founding of that institution of post primary education. Aggies are raw. They are often personified as stupid and imbecilic.
Perry has now served as Governor longer than anyone in history and appears headed for re-election. The term crazy may better apply to all those millions of voters responsible for that.
J.W. Hamner
Shockingly, no visit to Cambridge. What’s wrong with our wingnuts? Both of them are going to be quite hurt.
Ash Can
I’m still amazed that she’s going on Oprah’s show. I can’t imagine that Oprah isn’t going to ask her any real questions. I don’t see this turning out well for Palin at all, other than her RW sycophants wailing afterward that Winfrey asked nothing but “gotcha” questions, and had the nerve to be black on top of it.
calipygian
@parksideq:
What explains Peter King? Other than Long Island is full of asshole rednecks who drive bitchen’ Camaros and eat pizza instead of driving pickups and eating squirrel?
Disclaimer – I was born and raised on Long Island before I escaped and never looked back.
valdivia
oh are you going to go and ask some awesome questions?
arguingwithsignposts
@arguingwithsignposts:
Nevermind, it’s on her facebook page.
She’s going to be at a Meijers in Fort Wayne, IN. I guess the Wal-Mart was all booked up.
calipygian
I’d be supremely disappointed in Oprah if the questioning didn’t start with “Kill him!” and go downhill for Caribou Barbie from there.
cjdavis
Oh man, she is going to be at a great bookstore less than 5 minutes away from me here in Cincinnati. I would totally go to see the circus if it didn’t mean waiting from 8am on as I would expect.
bobbo
Andrew Malcolm is creaming his pants over at the L.A. Times.
Did you know she gave a flawless debut national political speech, despite a faltering telepromter?
arguingwithsignposts
This also seems infuriating:
I suppose it’s too much to keep politics off a military base.
IndieTarheel
Looks like the greater Charlotte area will be spared (although she did choose to put in an appearance at Ft. Bragg).
Buffalopundit
That’s just 60 miles down the Thruway.
Do you think she’ll sign my copy of the far more insightful “Garfield At Large“?
calipygian
@arguingwithsignposts:
If she had any sort of decency, she’d flog her book at Walter Reed. Not that I think she’s smart enough to draw any lessons about mindless war cheerleading from that at all.
Brick Oven Bill
Check out the shoulders on Jill, who has not yet committed to showing up to the Rochester book signing, but is a Rochester 9-12er in good standing any case. Jill is not only good-looking for a person from New York, but is good-looking period.
She might show up DougJ.
SpotWeld
I wonder what would happen if someone asked her to autograph a copy of the “30 Rock” DVD
SpotWeld
I wonder what would happen if someone asked her to autograph a copy of the “30 Rock” DVD
jrg
Anything that gets Palin supporters in a book store is probably a good thing. Besides burning Dixie Chicks albums, I mean.
MikeJ
Would she noticed if you slipped in Going Rouge?
SpotWeld
Holy crap BOB… your post is almost Pavlovian in the drooling going on there.
Legalize
She’ll be at a stop like 1/2 mile from my house. What do I do? What do I do?
camchuck
Uh oh. My mother’s favorite bookstore is on that list. She will be none too pleased.
John PM
@dmsilev: #4
Ben Richards
@calipygian: Not sure really. He represents a lot of Nassau County and some really rich parts. He’s a product of machine politics as I recall and once you get to a lofty perch, it is hard to be knocked off…
From Hauppauge by the way…
arguingwithsignposts
Let me just say that this thread is a reason I’m glad I reinstalled the Pie Filter yesterday.
sbjules
Nothing left of the Mississippi? Or is this a partial list?
Tom65
Nah, too many smart people around here.
Just Me
She’ll be in my town. I’ll be safe at work in the next town.
kay
The grifter hits the road. She’ll love this new job. It’s easy.
They Live By Night
I remember after last year’s election thinking to myself, “Thank God we won’t have to hear about Sarah Palin again.” Ah, the folly of youth.
The Grand Panjandrum
OT: Oh my. It looks like Glenn Beck will have to respond to those rumors that he committed a heinous crime against a young girl after all. I’m not saying he committed the crime. I’m just saying the rumors are out their and he should come clean and tell us what really happened.
The Saff
You’d have to pay me to buy her book or to go to one of the stops on her book tour.
Brian J
Is she running? That list might suggest so.
As much as I might like to go see her and ask what the fuck her fucking problem is, I don’t think I would unless I had nothing else to do. Her influence is such that while it’s powerful to a small group, it’s nothing to the majority. If she somehow does get the nomination and run, she will be destroyed in every which way possible, unless of course that, for some reason, Obama is so weak, anyone could run and beat him.
Simply put, aside from mocking her, she’s not worth my time.
Roger Moore
@Llelldorin:
The list doesn’t seem to include anywhere west of the Mississippi. Of course it only includes the first couple of weeks of the tour, so it’s possible- even likely- that she’ll eventually get within 1000 miles of us dirty Left Coasters.
Smith
Ugh, the Quitter is coming to Rochester. At least I don’t have to go to Henrietta that day. She chose one of the few places in NY that McCain actually one – surprise, surprise.
I’m sure the Quitter’s book will sell and get to #1, but only because of bulk buys. I will be looking and checking for that little cross mark next to her book in the NYT bestseller list.
Ironic that the people Palin campaigned for in the 2009 elections all lost yet the ones who refused to campaign with her and told her to take a hike (McDonnell in Virginia and Christie in New Jersey) won. Her power and influence is grossly overrated. I’m sure she’ll draw a lot of crowds because, hey, who doesn’t like to see the freak show up close?
The Saff
@kay: Richard Wolffe told Keith Olbermann a few weeks ago that a book tour ain’t that easy. He said it can be pretty gruelling. And, we all know how Sarah doesn’t like it when stuff gits hard.
The Saff
@They Live By Night: You and me both.
kay
@They Live By Night:
She could quit at any moment. No telling!
50 bucks she spends the entire time whining. I listened to the other female conservative standard bearer who is on a book tour. She’s promoting a book, on television, while complaining the entire time she’s being interviewed that she is being silenced. Jesus. You don’t know where to start with that.
SFAW
What I wanna know is:
How is Rich Lowry going to explain to K-Lo that he’s going to be “out of town on business” from 11/18-11/24? How is he going to explain 30 copies of “Going Rogue” and 10 boxes of Kleenex on his expense report?
Paris
At first I thought, what if no one attends? But then I remembered that the hillbillies around Rochester have cars, I know because I live out in the woods near them. It still implies that they can find a bookstore. I’m surprised she isn’t doing the signing at a Tractor Supply or Walmart.
kay
@The Saff:
I think she’ll love it. The book is already sold to fans, she stands with a Sharpie and hears wonderful things about herself for 4 hours, and then retreats to the luxurious hotel room.
I do feel sorry for the publicist and book store staffers, however. She’s not much of a “team player”.
Paris
@Brick Oven Bill:
She’s a keeper all right.
joes527
@The Saff:
I dunno. this book made her a millionaire already. The quitter in her seems to be focused on activities that don’t benefit Sarah Palin.
Campaigning is pretty gruelling, but she hung in because she saw that as her ticket to the big time.
Governing can be tedious, and there was no direct payoff for Sarah, so she was out of there.
My guess is that she will stick with the book tour because she is looking for the sequel (Sarah: The Next Year) to make her a billionaire.
kay
@Paris:
Wouldn’t it be great if that woman she savaged in NY 23 showed up?
Palin would run from a face to face encounter. It’s a little different than Tweeting.
IndyLib
@monkeyboy:
She pulled that crap here a few days ago, she spoke to a pro-life group in West Allis, Wisconsin. Which is a wingnut suburbia bastion outside of Milwaukee.
joes527
@kay: This is why I don’t think that she will even make the primary in 2012.
She lives for fame, fortune and adoration.. She really doesn’t care about power. She can get tons more fame, fortune and adoration being “Rogue Sarah” than she will ever get being “Candidate Sarah.”
Running for president at this point would be a step backwards.
The Saff
@kay: Yup. She’s a narcissist’s narcissist.
Brick Oven Bill
Speaking of Sarah Palin and Kleen Ex, perhaps Rich should consider ShamWows. $19.95 buys eight ShamWows.
Motto: You’ll Say Wow Everytime!
As an aside, did you know that Vince is currently in jail?
Felony Battery of a Hooker!
The reason you hire secretaries with big boobs, Paris, is that you can train them to type.
Cain
@dmsilev:
If I was William Ayers, I would show up to her tour and get a photo op.:)
cain
Notorious P.A.T.
@Legalize:
Ask her to sign the “Playgirl” that Levi is in?
dSquib
@John PM: Palin has no obvious local electoral reasons for attending a book signing in Chicago.
They Live By Night
@Cain:
I have it on good authority that Ayers ghostwrote her book.
ruemara
Meh. I’m waiting for the “Go The Fack AWAY” Tour. And praying that this will be it.
Tom Hilton
She’s skipping San Francisco.
I’m shocked.
EEH
Once again, Denver is ignored, thankfully in this case.
fuddmain
@Zifnab:
Damn. That’s the Barnes & Noble I frequent. How long you figure it will take for the stupid to off-gas? I don’t want to wander in too soon and lose precious brain cells.
Grayson will only show up if he wants to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
pharniel
Bary ritholtz was asking what shows to try to go on to flogg his book.
Turns out going on operah is guarenteed 100% filthy lucre stream.
So i’m guessing like everything else sarah does, it’s for teh monies.
I hope operah sends her into tom cruise territory of crazy.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Wow, no Vermont stops for Palin. Fancy that!
HRA
Rochester voted for McCain? Looks like I missed it. I could have had some fun with my Rochester relatives (sigh)
I’ll be at work, too, even though it’s only 60 miles on the Thruway.
Doug, are you going to it?
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Notorious P.A.T.: The universe can’t contain that much win.
fuddmain
@Notorious P.A.T.:
She could sign Johnston’s Johnson.
ruemara
@Legalize:
barricades and remote cameras.
Bubblegum Tate
Words cannot express how shocked I am. Then again, if she came to Oakland, I would probably try to go. After all, I haven’t been to a comedy club in a couple years now.
kay
@joes527:
I don’t care if she makes the primary. I think we dropped another rung when the press decided they had to “level the playing field” out of a sense of “fairness” and treat this idiot as a serious person.
I don’t think she should be compared to Hillary Clinton, or Nixon, or Newt Gingrich, all of whom made some effort to say or do something real, and none of whom bailed in the middle of a difficult job.
geg6
Yep, ol’ Sarah Serendipity will be in Washington, PA, just about a half hour drive from me. I’d go, but the traffic jams of idiot wingnuts heading down Routes 18 and 22/30 and 79/70 will be more traffic than I can bear. Too bad no Pittsburgh stop. There would be no lines and no traffic.
licensed to kill time
Well, I know she’s not coming to my area and thank dog for that, because I would’ve had to dress up like a moose and hope she would shoot me before I would pay to hear her “speak”.
fraught
I would love to see SP show her face in Williamsburg or Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She would certainly get some interesting feedback.
monkeyboy
So, if I go to a book tour appearance, what is the goofiest or most embarrassing thing I could get Sarah to sign? (I presume I would also have to buy and have her sign a copy of her book)
I don’t really have any good ideas yet. Maybe if I got a copy of “Liberal Fascism” I could get her to sign and endorse it as “one of the most insightful investigations of our times”. I think if I try to get her to sign a book that is not her own she won’t do it blindly but at least look at the book, so probably a children’s book along the line of “My Mommy is a Lesbian” is out. I actually have a copy of “The Turner Diaries” someplace – do you think she would go for that?
Any suggestions? I can always say that whatever is for a child or elderly relative that really can’t appreciate her book – I would bet I could get her to sign “my grandmother’s bible” but what fun would that be.
licensed to kill time
@monkeyboy: Well, the “Going Rouge” book comes to mind. Prolly she wouldn’t notice, very similar cover and all.
licensed to kill time
sorry, linky to Going Rouge
Colette
Given that my home town is San Francisco (and workplace is in Oakland) – not bloody likely.
I would pay cash money to see her set foot in Berkeley, though.
New Yorker
Bleah. I like Greenpoint quiet (it was even quiet, thank god, in the aftermath of the Yankees winning). Keep her away.
Also, since when is Rochester fertile ground for Palin’s brand of idiocy? Monroe County went for Obama 58-40. Does she really think a retried Kodak chemical engineer from Pittsford is going to be attracted to “Edumacation is for lib’ruls! Science is a tool of the devil to make you hate Jesus!”?
Master Mahan
If you want to try and get her to sign something, I recommend grabbing a Going Rogue cover and slipping over your other book, such as Going Rouge, The Communist Manifesto, or a book of David Letterman Top Ten lists. I’m not sure Palin is fully literate, but she can probably recognize basic colors.
Patrick
Knowing a bit about Rochester (30 years there) I wondered why she would go on a book tour to Rochester. Then I noticed that she actually will be visiting the folks in Henrietta. They deserve her.
Zandar
Oh squeeeee she’s coming to Cincy.
A room…with a moose!
monkeyboy
Maybe I could get her to sign a copy of Little Black Sambo for my “nephew” since it has been recently been redeemed from being racist un-politically correct.
moja31
@Ash Can: Actually going on Oprah is perfect for Sarah; if Oprah asks her anything other than fluffy softballs, wingnuts the world over will howl about how it was a setup, engineered by Obama and his crony Oprah to make poor Sarah look bad. Politico will write up their nonsense as fact (you know, “some people are saying…”) in order to score a drudge link, and the hacks in the media who live for drudge will pick up the ball from there.
I don’t expect Oprah to go anywhere near the real stuff this woman ought to be held to account for.
Cheryl from Maryland
My poor dad and brother — she’s coming to Roanoke, VA. So much for her concern for the real America, however, she’s going to the big corporate book store rather than the TWO independent bookstores in Roanoke — Ram’s Head and Printer’s Ink.
Brachiator
Why does the theme from The Monkees suddenly come to mind?
Here she comes,
Walking down the street,
She gets the sparkliest looks from
Everyone she meets…
Hey, Hey, She’s The Palin,
And she’s done roguing around,
So you just try to get ready,
She may be Galting to your town!
licensed to kill time
@Brachiator: So many possible lyrics:
Hey hey she’s a Monkee
People say she monkeys around
But she’s too busy teabaggin’
To stop putting Obama/Dems down
Just tryin’ to be friendly
Come and watch her wink and pray
But she’s too busy slinging
Any talking point that comes her way
Hey hey (I’ll stop now……)
Shell
She’s appearing in the Garden State at four locations! Well, New Jersey is supposed to have gone Red with the election of Christie, hasn’t it?
_____
Let the cliche’s begin. The first sentence in the book’s blurb is ‘From her humble beginnings…” Besides FDR, what politician hasn’t claimed they came from ‘humble beginnings.’
Ron
I saw she was coming to Rochester. I briefly toyed with the idea of making the drive out from here (about 35 miles east of Rochester) to go but honestly don’t really want to see her or listen to her.
Elizabelle
Dang. Not coming to my town.
And I so wanted to dress up like a quitty fish and see me some Sarah.
Elizabelle
Brachiator and licensed: please keep with the Monkee lyrics. Catchy and you could start something there.
This should be a thread in itself.
parksideq
@calipygian: Peter King (and Lomg Island, by extension) are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Ash Can
@moja31: But they’re going to say all that anyway, no matter what Oprah says, asks, or does. Oprah’s show, on the other hand, has 48 million viewers. Oprah isn’t exactly going to go all Matt Taibbi on Palin’s ass, but neither does she have any reason in the entire world not to play first and foremost to her own sizable base, which is not exactly known for its wingnuttiness.
Palin will come out looking good to the people who are already convinced she can do no wrong. Oprah’s fans, however, will as a whole be more critical — maybe not as critical as we are in this forum, but critical nonetheless.
oh really
I’m assuming they chose the title “Going Rogue,” because “Going Bat Shit Crazy” didn’t fit on the cover.
Ash Can
(tried posting this a few minutes ago; not sure wtf happened to it)
@moja31: But they’d all say that no matter what Oprah did, said, or asked. Oprah, on the other hand, has 48 million viewers, and those viewers, needless to say, do not necessarily overlap with Palin’s own fans. Oprah would have no reason in the entire world not to play to her own sizable fan base. She won’t exactly go all Matt Taibbi on Palin’s ass, but neither does she have any self-interest in fluffing Palin the way the RW wackos would want to see.
PanAmerican
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asiangrrlMN
Big, bad, brave mighty she-wolf huntress is not coming to my state (MN) because she’s skeeeeeered of us Al Franken pointy-head types.
Damn. I could have had so much fun.
asiangrrlMN
DougJ, you going? Seems like a mighty-fine spoof-in-real-life opportunity to me.
parksideq
@calipygian: Peter King (And by extension, Long Island) are the exceptions that prove the rule.
parksideq
FYWP!
DougJ
DougJ, you going?
You betcha.
DougJ
Rochester voted for McCain?
No, this is at the far north end of a Republican district. The city went overwhelmingly for Obama.
Eric
@John PM:
She’s already taped Oprah’s show today and NBC channel 5 reports that no free books were given away at the end of her program.
DonnaInMichigan
I’ll be there, in Grand Rapids, holding my sign:
Quitter’s are People, also too.
My friend Debbie is tagging along, and will have her sign:
Palin for President!
2012-2013 1/2
You Betcha!
My husband unfortunately doesn’t get our humor.
He’s a Palin apologist.