Late Night: “Wait, I Have to Pay That Money BACK?”

[Joanne98]

Where is the justice? The day after it was announced that Sarah Palin had finished "writing" her memoirs, the pre-order sales for the 432-page doorstop catapulted to #1 on the Barnes and Nobles charts, and #3 on the Amazon list, nipping at the heels of "Arguing with Idiots", Glenn Beck's latest pamphlet about the voices in his head (Wait, what? It's not an autobiography?). Sadly, most of the purchasers are probably teenaged boys and old men who think it's going to be a series of photo essays. And I think you know what I mean...

Palin, of course, would never chip her French manicure by spending long nights plugging away at a computer keyboard to spit out 432 pages of self-reverential and utterly delusional fiction. Instead, Harper Collins allegedly cut a check for $7 million so the Wasilla Grifter could hire Lynn Vincent, another certifiable racist douchemook, to do the heavy lifting for her. After all, that's what the con is about, right? Two for the price of many, many more?

If Levi Johnston is to be believed, it is well within reason to imagine Sarah, fresh off the tanning bed, lounging on the bearskin-draped couch in her purple velour track suit with "Bridezillas" muted on the television in the background, dictating her twisted, fantastical version of reality to Lynn Vincent. Given the folkloric, Munchausen-like nature of "The Legend of Sarah" up to this point -- the "fierce" beauty pageant competitions, the superhuman strength required to prevent her vajayjay from dilating for a bajillion hours so she could pop out the li'l sack of flour in Alaska, bravely standing up to the government big spenders by selling the company jet on eBay (*cough*Escada*cough*), the years of foreign policy experience earned by staring down Putin across the Bering Strait, single-handedly pulling the McCain presidential campaign out of the shitter, and all the other incredible yarns she's spun -- this book should provide years of entertainment for fact-checkers and the reality-based community. Librarians across the country, and especially in Alaska, will delight in "mistakenly" shelving the book in the sci-fi/fantasy aisles.

Hoo boy. I do wonder if Palin understands that the $7 million was actually a loan. If Harper Collins doesn't recoup its investment . . . well, we'll see how good a grifter she really is.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/01/late-night-wait-i-have-to-pay-that-money-back/

[Selatius]

1. Hey, Sarah really did have to fight off the dreaded head of Putin.

[Montauk6]

6. Hey... is that...?

[rfranklin]

2. They know they'll never get that money back...

It's Rupert's way of saying thanks for the memories.

[KharmaTrain]

3. That Check Is Banked And Spent...

There's already hints at a massive wingnut book buy to put this poor excuse for toilet paper into the NYT Best Sellers list (lets see if the Times puts an asterik in front of it). The publisher already has gotten a bunch of free promotion on this thing and as long as people talk about the book that's all they care. It's more than money involved here...also influence and a backdoor payoff to Bible Spice. Sales mean little...it's the PR that matters here and a vain attempt by Mooselini and her handlers to try to re-invent her yet again.

[mainer]

4. Not true. Advances are seldom, if ever, paid back.

Not if the literary agent did her/his job right. Although they are technically "Advances against royalties," in the real world, these advances don't get paid back. Publishers not infrequently make these miscalculations and lure authors with big advances. When the books flop, it's the publisher who takes the loss.

[old mark]

5. ...and write it off in their taxes as a buisness loss.......nt