Posted on 11/23/2010 1:20:01 PM PST by dselig
For the blossoming Sarah Palin media empire, this week is the busiest to date.
Ms. Palin was in the audience Monday night as her daughter Bristol performed on the penultimate episode of “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. On Tuesday morning she flew to Phoenix, the first stop on a 13-state tour for her second book, “America by Heart,” which is expected to be a best seller.
About 23 million people watched Bristol Palin on “Dancing” Monday night. She will join her mother on segments of the book tour, which was scheduled to start Tuesday night and is to resume after Thanksgiving.
The publisher, HarperCollins, says the book is a “highly personal testament to her deep love of country, her strong roots in faith and her profound appreciation of family.” It will have a first printing of one million copies; on Tuesday afternoon it was ranked No. 10 on Amazon’s ever-changing best-seller list.
Just as she did last year for her memoir, “Going Rogue,” Ms. Palin is embarking on a carefully choreographed book tour — this one taking the potential presidential candidate to critical states on the electoral map like Iowa, where she will visit twice, and Ohio — with stops in towns rarely if ever included on such tours, like Spirit Lake, Iowa, population 4,261.
“It’s Sarah Palin’s world, and we’re all just watching it,” said the ABC correspondent John Berman on “Good Morning America” Monday
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G*D is working...!
LOL! Guaranteed to make liberals heads explode everywhere!
Bingo!
“It’s Sarah Palin’s world, and we’re all just watching it,” said the ABC correspondent John Berman on “Good Morning America”
I know that quote will make liberal heads explode...
Palin Paranoia Decoded
Palin has “star power,” the real thing, rather like Ronald Reagan or Princess Diana did (and Bill Clinton, on a good day, still does). It is what Paul Newman had when the camera lingered on him: It didn’t matter whether he was acting particularly well. It is a quality that causes people to sit up and take notice—and even to feel a bond.
“Substance,” here, is beside the point, and this enrages a certain spectrum of the intelligentsia. As for Barbara Bush, her husband had not one iota of star power; her son had a little, but his qualities—non-eloquence, an Everyman outlook, a red-state appeal—are Sarah Palin’s, too… a closeness that may embarrass Barbara Bush more than a little, and really sting.
Another source of consternation may be more philosophical. We have in this country a still-revered notion—one that barely survived, on the left, the first election of George W. Bush—that democracy ultimately filters correctly, that there is a sort of democratic “invisible hand” that weds person and power suitably and has an in-built capacity for self-correction. If American democracy is inherently reliable, how could it be that Palin is a serious contender for the nation’s top job, or at least for the Republican nomination for 2012? Wouldn’t that outcome throw the whole process into doubt?
There are some who would applaud that. As many have observed, there is a kind of revolution-mood afoot: Out with the elites! Overturn! Upend! So the emergence of Sarah Palin—a candidate not qualified by the conventional terms of American high office—makes the political upending more triumphal, and somehow more total.
But the truth is that Palin disconcerts us because she seems to have no mask at all, no change of gear. She’s utterly forthcoming, even regarding her family, which is normally a sacred preserve of privacy. Perhaps it’s frightening to meet such people for those of us who value propriety and discretion first of all. So we don’t like her because we are afraid of that level of openness. It just terrifies us. Could we endure a president who is mask-less?
In sum, Palin has an attraction that many people cannot fathom. She did earn her way up a political ladder in Alaska, but that is below the broader radar for most. She is not to the manor born, not having met her husband at an Andover dance. Also: She has not ever been a theater critic, unlike Frank Rich—although I wouldn’t draw from that the conclusion, as Rich does, that she disdains educated people.
Since Palin’s political attraction isn’t immediately comprehensible to the ruling class, she terrifies that class, for whom there is no torture worse than not being able to comprehend. I’m convinced that her run for the presidency is her way of baiting these people—her enemies.
In effect, she’s a strong, beautiful, ungovernable woman who is scaring the pants off a whole lot of people—scaring the pants, to be sure, off Frank Rich, and off dear old Barbara Bush.
“its Sarah’s world, and we are just watching it...” lol, they seem more confused by her every minute. Funny
God always works...and we do too when we let Him.
I've NEVER watched DWS, and don't intend to.
Sarah is doing an end around run, past the MSM. I love it!
Who's this "we"? Does this guy have a mouse in his pocket?
“It’s Sarah Palin’s world, and we’re all just watching it,” said the ABC correspondent John Berman on “Good Morning America” Monday”
The frustration over not being able to destroy the Palins is absolutely excruciating for the MSM-their hate is virulent and uncontrollable. It’s an odd progression for so-called “journalists”.
Oh, that’s perfect!
Use that one often!!!
Yes He is. Sarah will be in T-town on Friday night. Weather is supposed to be downright cold and windy. The turnout should be interesting. Shop the sales, then on to the book signing. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
“It’s Sarah Palin’s world, and we’re all just watching it,” said the ABC correspondent John Berman on “Good Morning America” Monday.”
How can this be? SP is a dumb, chillbilly quitter with no future. /sarc
Bristol on tour with mom...Wonder if dad is driving the RV? Road trip!
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