Now out of the White House Hope Hicks is being inundated with proposals to write a book.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Book publishers have already begun contacting White House communications director Hope Hicks to obtain the rights to her memoir upon her exit from the Trump administration, the British tabloid Daily Mail reported Thursday. 

The 29-year-old longtime Trump aide could be expected to make up to $10 million from an advance to a book deal and is actively being contacted by movie and TV producers as well, the Mail reported. 

"Next to Ivanka and Melania, Hope is the woman closest to the president," one publishing executive told the Mail. "[She] knows all the secrets, all the foibles, all the quirks." 

One White House insider also told the website that Hicks reportedly kept a "detailed diary" of her interactions and time in the White House, a resource that could be a major asset if she plans to write a memoir.

First off I have to imagine that Robert Mueller wants first crack at that "detailed diary" which according to Vanity Fair he may have been trying to get his hands on for awhile:

Hicks has racked up substantial legal fees, one source told me. “She’s in immense personal jeopardy,” one Republican close to the White House said yesterday. “This is a sign the Mueller investigation is a lot more serious than any one of us thought.”

And secondly of course Hicks was forced to sign a binding NDA.

However the vast amount of money she could make from a book deal, and the almost certain movie made based on that book, may be more than enough to pay for any financial penalty contained in a non-disclosure agreement.

And keep this in mind as well.

Courtesy of Politico:  

President Donald Trump’s lawyers have urged him not to discuss details of the unfolding Russia investigation with anyone outside his legal team, warning of a conversational “bright line” that could put aides and associates in legal jeopardy, according to current and former Trump aides. 

But Trump often ignores that legal advice in the presence of senior aides — including his departing confidante and White House communications director, Hope Hicks. 

“I think the president has put her in a very precarious position,” a senior Trump administration official said in a recent interview.

And just imagine everything else that she knows.

Yeah I am already clearing a space on my bookshelf for this book. 

Former FBI Director James Comey is going to write a book!

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration. 

Mr. Comey has been meeting with editors and publishers in New York in recent days, and is being represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer, partners at the literary agency Javelin. The book is expected to go to auction this coming week, and all the major publishing houses have expressed keen interest, Mr. Latimer said. 

The book will not be a conventional tell-all memoir, but an exploration of the principles that have guided Mr. Comey through some of the most challenging moments of his legal career. Among those are his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server during a contentious election, and his recent entanglement with the president over the F.B.I.’s inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

 "Including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration."

I think that's the phrase that pays right there.

And it is undoubtedly also the reason that Trump and his cohorts are shitting bricks right about now.

Look for all kinds of Twitter tirades against Comey and the intelligence agencies to be flying from Trump's stubby fingers after he digests this news.

Definitely going to need more popcorn for this.

Just a reminder that this cool customer is still out there in the world. And that he has plans. Big plans.

We have heard from Eric Holder that Obama is getting ready to reenter the world of politics: 

“It’s coming. He’s coming,” Holder said, speaking to reporters at a briefing for the new group. “And he’s ready to roll.”

We also know that he and Michelle might have the most lucrative book deal in the history of lucrative book deals.

Another thing that we know is that he is still haunting the dreams of the current resident of the White House:

Even though top Republicans on Capitol Hill have provided little support for President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama broke the law to spy on his campaign, Trump reportedly remains committed to attacking his political arch nemesis because he is “somewhat haunted” by “President Obama’s first term.” 

Sources close to the president reportedly chalk up his latest set of wild allegations as part of a larger obsession with his predecessor. 

And this is before the former President has even reentered the world fully after his long overdue vacation.

One has to wonder how Trump will respond once  President "So Much Cooler Than Thou" returns to the national stage?

Reportedly the Obamas are getting more than 60 million dollars for a joint book deal. Damn!

Courtesy of TPM:  

An auction for rights to books by Barack and Michelle Obama has set a new record for U.S. presidential memoirs, according to a report by the Financial Times. 

The auction has reached more than $60 million, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the sales process. The Obamas are writing separate books but selling the global rights jointly.

Apparently Penguin Random House won that auction.

By the way you might remember that Donald Trump accused Obama of having Bill Ayers write "Dreams of my Father" for him.

 While in fact his own ghostwriter made the following claim:

"I put lipstick on a pig"

Somehow I have every confidence that both of these books written by Michelle and Barack will be amazing, and that they will sell like crazy.

In fact I will make sure to reserve my copy early. 

Book deal dead, CPAC speaking slot rescinded, and now ejected from Breitbart. The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week of Milo Yiannopoulos.

Courtesy of CNN: 

The professional provocateur has resigned as an editor at Breitbart News amid a firestorm over unearthed comments in which he seemed to endorse sex between "younger boys and older men." 

Yiannopoulos released a statement on Tuesday afternoon, minutes before he was scheduled to give a press conference in Manhattan. 

"It would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues' important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effectively immediately. This decision is mine alone," Yiannopoulos said in a statement. 

While Yiannopoulos has made a living off of deliberately offensive statements, his comments on two recently discovered video clips proved too much, even for his friends and colleagues at Breitbart.

Jesus literally just 48 hours ago this guy was considered a conservative rising star.

And now he is essentially radioactive.

Gee, I guess promoting the idea that gays are pedophiles and that their sexual assault could work to help children "discover who they are" simply proved a bridge too far for the conservatives.

Remember it wasn't the antisemitic, anti-women, or racist comments that got Yiannopoulos in hot water.

Those apparently were just fine with the conservative folks, and even helped him to win a slot at CPAC this year.

Joan Walsh of "The Nation" recognizes that those disgusting comments were not only what made Yiannopoulos a star, but it is not the first time that kind of talk has done so:

But the question everyone should be asking is, how did a low-rent scam-artist like Yiannopoulos rise to the top of conservative politics, anyway? Even some conservatives are mystified. Reagan biographer Craig Shirley was aghast. “This is the first time I can recall a spoiled man child whose main purpose is self-promotion being selected as…[a] speaker at CPAC,” Shirley told The Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis. 

Shirley’s memory is a little short. CPAC helped mainstream another “spoiled man child whose main purpose is self-promotion” just four years ago when the group invited Trump to speak at its conference. Yiannopoulos’s political trajectory tracks that of the man he calls “Daddy.” His fall shows that the craven opportunism of the modern conservative movement has at least one limit: pedophilia. Of course, both men should have been stopped long ago. 

The rise of Yiannopolous is evidence that modern conservatism is mostly driven by fear, backlash, scapegoating, and whiny complaints about “political correctness,” which essentially comes down to white men complaining they can’t insult women and people of color without censure anymore. That’s the heart of Trump’s appeal, too.

Yep, there is a reason that Yiannopoulos calls Donald Trump "Daddy."

They share a similar pig-like DNA.

Trump was able to talk about "grabbing pussies," and walking in on young girls changing their clothes, and still get elected president. And one would think that in an environment like this conservatives should be able to get away with saying just about ANYTHING.

Unfortunately for Yiannopolulos he forgot the old adage, "Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy." (Yes I know that in this case the idiot was not actually caught with a live boy, but from his words it sounds like there were a lot of time he could have been.)

By the way don't think is the last we will see of this pathetic little troll.

Yiannopoulos says he has received "preliminary funding" for his new media venture, will be "doubling down" on education + entertainment.

— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) February 21, 2017

Personally I hope the media stays on this, because I would REALLY like to know who would fund something like this.

Bill "Drop Zone" Fulton's book is finally happening.

From my e-mail: 

Bill Fulton with NYT best-selling author and cowriter Jeanne Devon's "THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS," set against the vast, rugged, and sometimes lawless backdrop of Alaska, the true story of Army veteran Bill Fulton, who went from leading fugitive recovery missions to capture felons straight out of a Coen Brothers movie, to going undercover for the FBI to take down a private militia group plotting to assassinate judges and law enforcement officials.

You can read more about the book over at Jeanne's Facebook page.

This book has been a LONG time in the making.

In fact it was supposed to be published way back in 2014, but there were all kinds of unforeseen obstacles which delayed it until now.

I actually know quite a bit about what will be in the book, and I have to say that it should prove an entertaining read.

And yes I'm sure there will be a little in there about a certain half term governor and a vaguely bearded wannabe Senator.

"A gnat named Levi Johnston" is how Bristol refers to the father of her child in her upcoming book. Stay classy Palin family!

From Forbes:

Bristol Palin writes in her new book of losing her virginity to boyfriend Levi Johnston on a camping trip after getting drunk for the first time on too many wine coolers.

She awoke in her tent, alone, with no memories of what had happened as Johnston "talked with his friends on the other side of the canvas." She had vowed to wait until marriage. And she had lied to her parents about where she was going.

Palin, a 20-year-old single mother and the daughter of former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin, tells a story of "deception and disappointment" in the book, "Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far."

She calls him "the gnat named Levi Johnston," a self-involved slacker "who cheated on me about as frequently as he sharpened his hockey skates."

But Palin, self-described as a good girl and straight-A student, had been drawn to him and his bad-boy manner from the time they met in seventh grade.

When she confronted him about their sexual encounter, he said what she wanted to hear: They wouldn't do it again until they were married.

It didn't work out that way, though Palin notes that when she got pregnant she was on birth control pills prescribed to treat her cramps. Only by the eighth home pregnancy test, she writes, was she convinced of the positive results.

When she told her parents, they were accepting, not condemning, she writes, and focused on the future, particularly her continuing education.

Johnston's reaction wasn't so reassuring: "Better be a (bleeping) boy," he declared.

 I don't know anything about Levi and Bristol's first time, nor do I want to, but I seriously doubt it was anything like this "date rape" scenario that Bristol is describing above.

As for the idea that  Bristol was against pre-marital sex, and that Levi took advantage of her innocence,  I refer you to the following video.



If you hoped that somebody else was the father when you found out you were pregnant, doesn't that sort of prove that you were cheating on the guy who IS the father?  And how does banging two guys at the same time fit in with that whole "good girl and straight-A student" image?

If you are wondering whose version to believe, let me just remind you that Bristol is the child of pathological liar, a girl who once said "abstinence is not realistic at all" right before becoming the spokesperson for abstinence,  and somebody who explained this..

dramatic change in her appearance on receiving "dental surgery."

By the way I would like to point out that the final draft of Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" was supposed to be 432 pages, but when it was published it was trimmed down by 19 entire pages. This is highly unusual, and I believe it was on those pages that Sarah Palin trashed Levi, but decided not to print them for fear of retaliation.  Somehow Levi has been neutered, and now, apparently, defenseless against this new attack coming from Bristol, ostensibly because he agreed not to talk smack about her or her mother in his clearly one sided custody agreement.

And before you ask, yes I am trying to get a quote from Mercede on this subject, and will put it up when I have spoken with her.

Tina Fey discusses her Sarah Palin impersonation during her book tour.

tinIt is a little hard to hear at times (You may have to turn up your speakers.), but there are some very funny parts. 



Personally I am a big fan of Tina's now, and in some ways I may have Sarah Palin to thank for that.

What a horrible thought.

Bristol Palin signs deal to write a book about, get this, her life story.

From the AP:

The daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has signed with William Morrow to publish "Not Afraid of Life," to come out this summer. Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Tuesday that the memoir would provide "an inside look at her life."

"Bristol gives readers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her life for the first time, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother's political rise; from becoming a single mother while still a teenager to coping as her relationship with her baby's father crumbled publicly — not once, but twice," according to Morrow.

A listing for the book briefly appeared last month on Amazon.com and on an online HarperCollins spreadsheet. HarperCollins has published two best-sellers by Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008: "Going Rogue" and "America by Heart."

"Bristol talks about the highs and lows of her appearance on ABC-TV's 'Dancing With the Stars,' including the aching hours of practice, the biting criticisms, and the thrill of getting to the show's finals," Morrow announced. "She speaks candidly of her aspirations for the future and the deep religious faith that gives her strength and inspiration.

An autobiography?  Are there people in this world ridiculous enough to actually purchase a ghostwritten autobiography from this no talent 20 year old baby factory?  Well I guess there must be.

Wow! P.T. Barnum was right, there really is "a sucker born every minute."

"Not Afraid of Life," what does THAT even mean? 

Not afraid of her life? 

Not afraid to create NEW life?  (Well we know that one is accurate.)

Perhaps she just loves LIFE cereal?

Here is a girl who has spent that majority of her life either hidden from public view for one reason or another, or trotted out onstage like a trained poodle when her mother requires that the public be distracted from something she does not want them to see.  And you know that the publisher of her mother's books is certainly not going to let Bristol tell the truth about what was happening behind the scenes in those days. So really what is Bristol going to put in this book of any real value?

I am assuming the same thing of value found in her mother's books.  Nothing.

However if Bristol the Pistol REALLY wanted to write a book that would garner interest, from somebody besides the Pavlovian trained Palin-bots that is, she could absolutely do it.

Here let me help.

Chapter One: Finding out that my mother really is going to fake a pregnancy by hearing her announcement on the news.

Chapter Two: Manipulating Levi into knocking me up just to piss mom off.

Chapter Three: Faking family love to help mom get the chance to be Queen of America.

Chapter Four: Naming my baby after Daddy's favorite prostitute. Just to piss mom off.

Chaptret Five: Kicking Levi to the curb now that I no longer needed him.

Chapter Six: Faking family love again for Mom's stupid reality show.

Chapter Seven: Oops I did it again! Hiding another pregnancy on national television.

Chapter Eight: Stealing Tripp away from Levi and moving him to Arizona.  Hah hah chump!

Chapter Nine: Dating Sadie's leftovers.

Chapter Ten: The Perils of bad Plastic Surgery

Chapter Eleven: Turning grifting into gold by writing this book.

But of course we know none of that will make it into that book  Because that would be telling the truth, and one thing the Palins simply will not stand for is somebody telling the truth.