Friday, March 07, 2014

For those who have wondered how Sarah Palin, and other Right Wing hacks, keep getting on the bestseller's list. Wonder no more.

Courtesy of the LA Times:  

Every author wants a bestselling book -- and those who can pay for the services of ResultSource Inc. just might get one. The company describes itself as "a boutique marketing firm that works with today’s thought leaders to build bestsellers," which it has. 

In 2013, the Wall Street Journal talked with authors of two books who paid thousands of dollars to ResultSource and subsequently landed on the Journal's own bestseller list. "Precisely how [ResultSource] goes about [its business] is unclear," Jeffrey Trachtenberg wrote. 

Now, a new report about the sales numbers for "Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together" by evangelical pastor Mark Driscoll and his wife, Grace, reveals some details of how ResultSource gets books on bestseller lists. Driscoll heads Mars Hill Church, a megachurch in Seattle. 

The church paid an estimated $210,000 to ResultSource to make "Real Marriage" a bestseller, according to a document obtained by World Magazine, a Christian periodical. Warren Cole Smith writes in World that the magazine obtained an agreement between ResultSource and Driscoll's Mars Hill Church that was signed by representatives of both in October 2011. 

According to the article, the contract was for ResultSource "to conduct a bestseller campaign for your book, 'Real Marriage' on the week of January 2, 2012. The bestseller campaign is intended to place 'Real Marriage' on the New York Times bestseller list for the Advice How-to list." 

"Real Marriage" topped the New York Times' hardcover advice bestseller list on Jan. 22, 2012. The following week, it was gone. 

The spike onto a bestseller list and then disappearance -- as opposed to an up-and-down arc, or a high debut followed by a decline -- can indicate something other than typical consumer book-buying behavior. 

The report in World reveals what ResultSource did to get "Real Marriage" on the list. First, it bought a lot of books all at once. "RSI will be purchasing at least 11,000 total orders in one-week," the agreement states. 

Then the company went to great lengths to make that purchase of 11,000 books appear to be made by individuals or small groups, according to the article. 

The World's report continues, "The contract called for the 'author' to 'provide a minimum of 6,000 names and addresses for the individual orders and at least 90 names and address [sic] for the remaining 5,000 bulk orders. Please note that it is important that the makeup of the 6,000 individual orders include at least 1,000 different addresses with no more than 350 per state.'" 

So now we know where SarahPAC spends all of that Unclassifiable consulting money.

Because you know if something like this is possible, Sarah Palin has definitely taken advantage of it. And besides it really IS the only viable reason for why any book of hers would ever be considered a best seller.

I think most of us have already known that this is how they do it, however it is good to see mainstream journalism confirming what we already know.

I swear everything about this bitch is phony.

69 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:33 PM

    This is straight up wrong, wrong wrong. Anyone who would game a bestseller result lacks morals.

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    1. Anonymous3:45 PM

      ... And your point is...? We all KNOW she has neither scruples NOR morals...

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    2. Anonymous6:23 PM

      the bitch is ratcheting up on the h8 throwing redmeat out on her facebook. Bitch! http://www.examiner.com/article/sarah-palin-nomination-of-debo-adegbile-shows-evil-reigns-under-obama
      maybe she will stroke out like Beerfart? two years ago? We can only pray....

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  2. Anonymous2:50 PM

    From an ethical stand point there is so much wrong with this scam. But then we live in a country where any moron can start a PAC and answer to no one regarding use of the $ it raises. We are a country where people can make a comfortable living by pretending to run for an elected office. We have folks raising money for our veterans who spend the brunt of their haul on fancy hotels, limos and meals at the best restaurants. It's no wonder so many are so ethically challenged in this country...nice guys finish last should be our national motto.

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    1. Anonymous3:00 PM

      "We have folks raising money for our veterans..."

      I think you mean, We have folks raising money FROM our veterans...", Palin being among the worst offenders for hijacking heroism and dedication.

      I hope she rots in hell. Seriously, I cannot think of a more deserving guest in Hotel Hades.

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  3. Anonymous3:09 PM

    Palin's last book spiked quickly up to @100, then fell back to oblivion again. Hmmm. Oh those Christian cons. Not very godly, honest or decent.

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  4. Anonymous3:19 PM

    Every industry you look at throughout the USA is nothing more than a fraud! Then we add politicians, religious leaders, journalists, the media, military heads and what the hell is left? We are just as bad as all the countries they tell us are corrupt.

    Aren't you proud to be an American?

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    1. Anonymous3:42 PM

      No, not these days at all. I really don't know how we will get back to a genuine people. I know there are good people here, but they aren't the moneyed and powerful.

      Unbelievably, there are those that still think America is not only exceptional, but the BEST country. We could be if we opened our eyes and hearts more.

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    2. Anonymous4:45 PM

      3:19 Forgot the oil industry!!

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    3. Sarah Palin is the only one who has told the truth..she can see Russia from her back yard. She is the savior of the USA.... GO Sarah.....
      Sara needs to run.. let her know by sending all your money to the Sarah PAC so she will know for sure... remember the bigger the donation the more words in your book inscription of "Happy Tidings and Wonderful Joy".

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    4. Anonymous8:02 PM

      @3:19 Start with our sacred founding fathers, the ones who started the Revolution in order to protect their own businesses--- slave trading, rum running, smuggling. Would you like to know how far back politicians and lobbying goes? In Ancient Rome, when the Senators walked through the Forum, they were met by people thrusting money into their hands to vote their way. If you want to look at an institution that has riches beyond measure, sex abuse, internal corruption, too much money, please look at the Catholic Church through the ages. And, this does not go on only in the United States. In many countries, the way to expedite the troublesome paper work, people offer bribes. It's the standard grease that keeps the wheels turning around the world. The Japanese covered up the full extent of the nuclear disaster. Berlusconi was one of the most crooked prime ministers of Italy. Russia is run by an internal mafia. This has been human nature since the first guy realized that he could exercise power over a weaker person, taking what he wanted. Vikings? Vandals? The British colonizing India? This has been the history of man throughout the ages. We don't need to point to another country as corrupt, not when I see that Sarah Palin's PAC spends thousands of dollars on postage in this age of email. She preaches fiscal responsibility while her PAC spends more money than it takes in. Who is to blame? That's Sarah Palin's name on that PAC. And, it speaks to the people that she has hired.

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  5. Anonymous3:33 PM

    What I don't get about this, (excuse me for a minute...I just want to say I LOVE the way she's done her hair in that picture) is how people know enough to get into the pipeline for this kind of malicious behavior. Who does Mrs. Todd Palin know who has these connections?

    That Timmerman (?) lawyer in AK?. Certainly not Sarah and Todd. CERTAINLY not anyone else in the family. (Hey Piper ,have you figured out how we can scam Top Ten Book Lists yet? Sweetheart?)

    The Palin Parade has danced right up to the edge of Ethical Misbehavior for the last six years. Well, longer than that. I actually think most agencies that follow these kind of breaches just don't want to deal with her and the Bots and hope she fades away

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    1. Greta Van Susteren's husband John Coale started the Palins out on the road to their post-quitting grifting career. I imagine he had a Rolodex full of contacts in publishing, investments, tax dodges, speech booking, media, entertainment, etc.

      Haven't heard much about him since mid-2013, a few months after news broke that he was diagnosed with cancer.

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    2. Anonymous7:50 PM

      Sorry to be unkind to Coale, but he is the one who set up Sarah's PAC and her first legal defense fund (called Alaska Fund Trust). The legal defense fund collected money to relieve Sarah of a personal debt, meaning that she was using her position as governor to enrich herself. (Enrich means she didn't have to pay her legal bills. She used the legal defense fund money. And, it covered her entire family. Todd was in contempt for not testifying in Troopergate). Coale did not read Alaska law regarding all of this, and Palin was supposed to pay back the money. In the end, the PAC told the donors that if they received a refund check, they should endorse it to the new, now legal defense fund. Coale taught Palin that she never needed to pay for anything again. He set up the PAC and made deals for her. Thank him for creating the monster.

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  6. Anonymous3:43 PM

    Do you REALLY believe that $he would pay someone good money for that, if $he can actually just do it even cheaper by having her PAC buy up those books?

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    1. Anonymous7:22 PM

      The buy all the books as postage and then give them away as a tax write off!

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    2. Anonymous7:45 PM

      What do you think the postage is to mail all of those books that the PAC bought? Make a donation and we'll send you a free book. They are probably spending as much in postage as they are getting in donations. And Sarah talks about fiscal responsibility.

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  7. Anonymous3:45 PM

    Don't forget their other scam. Donate your best to SarahPac to convince Sarah Palin to run for president.

    That was for the 2012 election year....
    This is 2014....

    Sarah Palin hasn't run for any political office and SarahPac has kept all that money.

    What a racket.

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  8. "I swear everything about this bitch is phony"

    Making money by any means is the gospel according to the GOP. Ms Sarah is just following their rules.

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  9. Anonymous3:52 PM

    I can see a person with narcissistic personality disorder paying money to get on the best sellers list. These people constantly want attention and constantly needs to be stroked. They need to seek medical help.

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  10. And it would seem the new TV show bought Sarah a place at CPAC - among the lowest level sponsors - so not in prime time.

    "Participating Sponsors, which is the lowest tier at $9,000, include: Americans for Prosperity, ChooseEnergy.org, Ashbrook Ashland University, Sarah Palin’s new tv show ..."

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43147_Behind_the_Curtain-_Whos_Really_Sponsoring_CPAC

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    1. Anonymous7:38 PM

      I bet that Sarah's PAC paid for the promotion. At the least, she got the station to split the $9,000. fee.

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  11. Anonymous3:56 PM

    Sarah what happened to your second half of your fight against Christmas book tour? You said you were going home for Thanksgiving and will continue your me me me book tour after that.

    Well Sarah you still have your moron fans waiting for her majesty.

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    1. She did some kind of weekend event at two different places (can't remember where) the first week of December, then called it quits.

      I can't figure out why no one has updated the banner on her Facebook page, though. It's not like anyone's going to want that book NOW.

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    2. Anonymous7:37 PM

      No point in continuing the tour. Christmas won. Christmas always wins each year. There is no war against Christmas. It was made up by Fox, and they are the ones who keep it going each year.

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    3. Anonymous7:44 PM

      Continuing your diagnosis, doctor, Sarah wears those tacky clothes in order to be noticed. Ditto for the trashy wigs and high heels. She says juvenile things, like "The president wears Mom jeans" to be noticed. She claims that they are always being hounded by stalkers, yet she posts photos of her kids and grandchild, not to mention the interiors of their homes, just to make it easier for the stalkers to find them.

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  12. Anonymous3:59 PM

    Sarah Palin what do you have to say for yourself?

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    1. Anonymous4:05 PM

      I, I, I.... I got nothing

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  13. Anonymous4:03 PM

    Sarah Palin write a best seller?

    Looking at Gov Sarah Palin's released emails, I dont believe that retard can write a best seller..

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    1. Anonymous7:35 PM

      Sarah certainly can't speak. Exhibit A: Her Friday night appearance on Greta' show.

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  14. Anonymous4:09 PM

    I would like to see a complete client list.........would possibly be very telling.......about who is trustworthy.......

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  15. Anonymous4:23 PM

    there's an interview with greta over on mediaite. she's off the doggie downers now and on the puppy uppers...that goofball shit will kill her faster than sticking to just one poison..

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    1. Anonymous4:31 PM

      Just saw it, she is still speaking like a middle schooler who is trying to fool the teacher that she knows the answers! It's hilarious.

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  16. Anonymous4:27 PM

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/palin-previews-cpac-speech-rails-against-unfair-biased-media-on-fox/
    Gryphen, what are the lumps on the lower part of her face???? Usual inanity spewed...

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    1. Anonymous4:46 PM

      I'm still being kind of grossed out by greta's neck...

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    2. Anonymous5:44 PM

      Ahead of her closing address at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday, Sarah Palin went on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren to preview what she plans to say to the conservative crowd. She promised an “optimistic” message that looks to this year’s midterm elections as a positive opportunity for the right.

      Palin argued that Obamacare does not need to be “fixed” but should be fully repealed, saying, “it needs to be killed now.” She criticized the majority of Republicans for failing to defund the law. “They balked,” she said, citing only Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and a handful of others who “stood strong on what they had at their fingertips to defund.”

      Later, Palin weighed in the media’s reluctance to give her credit for anticipating Vladimir Putin’s move into Ukraine. Despite her current media tour, she said there will be “no victory lap” because “you don’t interrupt someone when they are in the process of destroying their own credibility.” Here’s how Palin summed up the rest of her thoughts on the mainstream media:

      “I don’t like an unfair, biased media unless they declare that, of course they are biased, that they’re opinion talkers. Those that are supposed to be journalists getting the who, what, when, where and why for the people to be able to decide themselves an issue? No, I don’t like those who so interject their own opinion that they become very unfair.”

      Asked who’s at the top of her list for possible 2016 Republican candidates, Palin mentioned Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) but also said it does not need to be someone currently in the public eye. As for herself, she said, “you never say never” but is making no moves in that direction at this time.

      On the other hand, she said, if Americans “want a fighter, if they want someone who can can so respect our exceptionalism, everything that makes America great, the promise of America, and if we don’t find that? Then I would run.”

      Watch video below, via Fox News:

      http://www.mediaite.com/tv/palin-previews-cpac-speech-rails-against-unfair-biased-media-on-fox/

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    3. Anonymous6:09 PM

      Ours is not to criticize; ours is but to analyze.

      Gretle needs to get that turkey neck taken care of.
      The Perky One is back. And in NYC?
      There is a ring on her ring finger.
      And a word written on the palm of her hand.

      New gimmicks; old garbage.

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    4. Anonymous7:34 PM

      opinion talkers? Isn't that Sarah's job description when she appears on Fox?

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  17. Anonymous5:27 PM

    If it was confirmed that SarahPac used it's funds to buy book bulks to get on the best-seller's list, would this be legal?

    Do PAC's have any laws against this kind of spending?

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    1. Anonymous9:04 PM

      Nope.. only the IRS would have an issue if they did an audit

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  18. Anita Winecooler6:33 PM

    A few years back, a friend of mine passed and I was asked to be executrix of her will. She wrote four books, one a best seller, the other three were finished but not yet published and I researched on Scribed and a publisher in New York. Turns out, they were "picked up" and published by ghost authors but she didn't bring in much, and I wondered why.
    Anyway, this scheme has been around for ages. There's another that involves a chain of (I kid you not) Dollar Stores. The remainders that don't sell in book stores are dumped at pennies on the dollar. So if a Dollar Store can buy one book for a nickel or a quarter and sell two for a dollar, imagine what the mark up must be in the business? They bid on warehouses of books. I saw Sarahs first two fake books and Bristol and Nancy's book in the dollar store bins while Barnes and Nobel was still selling them.

    They must deal with warehouses full of books because they sit in the bins for ages.

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  19. Anonymous6:49 PM

    Sarah Palin has Nothing to offer America. She can't even manage her Dysfunctional Family. Todd is a Pimp, Track is drugged out, Bristol is Fucking any and all potential Trial Daddies, Willow has not used her 'Hair School' Certificate for employment, and Piper is on her own and following in the footsteps of her wild 1/2 sisters.

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    1. Anonymous9:34 PM

      Her PAC spends more than it takes in. And Sarah preaches fiscal responsibility.

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  20. Anonymous7:05 PM

    And Bristol also too. How did Chuck and Jr's book sales go? Did Sarah cough up for that? It doesn't explain why they were forcing mom and pop groups to take them to Applebees.

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    1. Anonymous7:20 PM

      Because Bristol and the Two Chucks wrote about Sarah and her political career, that makes their books political and meant to promote Sarah. That's good enough for me. Let her PAC pay to promote those books. It's like a mailing or a brochure. In fact, that's what those books are, homage to Sarah. They may have been offered as a bonus in return for a donation to her PAC. It's a scam.

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  21. Anonymous7:06 PM

    This pisses me off. Is there nothing authentic anymore in this country?

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    1. Anonymous10:55 PM

      You elected a fraud for a President you currently have, a man with zero going for him except literacy (ability to read a screen)

      What you do think?

      YOU have NO standards and attack ANYONE who is successful in life.

      Notice that your leaders in DC, most of them, have zero other accomplishments or life outside their little political world. We know Biden is a dumbass who couldn't pass a middle school test.

      smh

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    2. Anonymous4:46 AM

      10:55 PM Can any of the Palins say that they Graduated with their High School Senior class? Joe Biden has more smarts than the entire Palin Family combined. Pimping, Baby Making, Faking Pregnancies like Sarah and Bristol, Drug use by Track, Bristol, Willow, and Sarah and Stupidity on display is prevalent in the Palin/ Menard Family.

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    3. Anonymous4:49 AM

      10:55 PM You support a woman with an 83 IQ/Borderline Retarded, whose kids are Dysfunctional from the deficient genes inherited from Sarah and Todd. Not one of them completed High School.

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    4. Anonymous5:16 AM

      Jealous much, 10:55 PM?

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    5. Anonymous4:28 PM

      Poor baby (10:55), All that head shaking is taking it's toll.

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  22. Anonymous7:09 PM

    Her bookselling is as fake as her Facebook likes.

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    1. Anonymous9:03 PM

      And.....

      Fake tits
      Fake fifth birth
      Fake victimization
      Fake tv shows
      Fake poll numbers
      Fake oil industry knowledge
      Fake foreign affairs knowledge
      Fake history knowledge
      Fake Constitution knowledge

      Must I continue?

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    2. Anonymous9:33 PM

      Fake Journalism degree

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    3. Anonymous10:53 PM

      Commenters here are fake.

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    4. Anonymous10:55 PM

      What about blog lies here and Gryphen's fakeness?

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    5. Anonymous12:56 AM

      Fake pseudo-christianity domionist!

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    6. Anonymous4:41 AM

      10:53/10:55 PM You are Fake, Troll. Go find a job, since you have nothing to do. It gets Lonely Trolling, right, you stupid harpy? The entire Palin Family has shown the world how uneducated and mentally challenged they are. Sarah is still longing for some Glenn Rice meat flute.

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  23. Anonymous7:16 PM

    Sarah appeared on Greta's show earlier today. Her Pee Fans have the video posted at their website. You can actually watch it and listen to it. While Sarah doesn't look half bad (compared to he last appearance), she can't talk The words come out of her mouth but they don't stick together the way they should to make a coherent sentence. Sarah was reduced to well-worn phrases and that cute little voice which substitutes for substance. Yes, you really can listen to Palin because it is like listening to a child try to explain some thing without having the vocabulary. And, try to count the number of times that Greta and Sarah interrupt each other.

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    1. Anonymous8:03 PM

      I'd rather not. Her well worn phrases are as irritating as her cutesy voice. As far as words not sticking together and making coherent sentences, it's called puppy uppers. Doggie downers next to sleep. DRUGGIE.

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  24. Anonymous8:07 PM

    There are organizations which will sell you Facebook Friends who will flood your Facebook with likes and nice comments. They will grow your twitter list and you will look very popular. Sarah already has a ghostwriter; she didn't write the book anyway. The New York Time Best Seller List counts some books twice, first distributors' sales, then the same books when they are sold in book stores. Everything about Sarah is fake fake fake. Did you see her shoot the caribou. Missed it, missed it, missed it, Daddy, does this gun kick? And that woman is going to have an outdoorsy sports show. Right.

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    1. Anonymous2:33 AM

      That show will bomb. Just like everything else she touches.

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    2. Anita Winecooler4:30 PM

      She's as popular as Barbie. You gotta buy all her friends, too.

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  25. Anonymous10:51 PM

    To be fair, there are a lot of people who buy books. In comparison to country population, it's nothing though.

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  26. Anonymous10:52 PM

    Just like democrats. What, you think it's different just because it's YOUR side?

    Think again. I mean, it's been PROVEN the dem grassroot bullies know how to work things. Obama pac had no rules for donations. THAT was proven with video.

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    1. Anonymous5:14 AM

      At least President Obama was running for something, which $arah no longer can. PACs should be done away with, period.

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  27. Anonymous10:55 PM

    Hey... NO TROLL HERE TODAY???

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  28. Anonymous2:29 AM

    That image really telegraphs her infantile emotionality. There are other of course but this one stands out like the 'evil eye' one.

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    1. Anonymous5:17 AM

      And the horse face.

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