Okay, Who Gave Her a Pencil?
I want to leave this alone, but I can’t. I just can’t.
Sarah Palin is writing another book, which means that she might have just finished the one she wrote last time.
HarperCollins has announced Palin’s book, titled “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas,” will be released in November, according to the Associated Press.
The book will reportedly focus on returning the Christmas holiday back to its religious purpose and downplaying the commercialism that has come to define it.
It will also hit on the popular conservative theme of secular America’s so-called “War on Christmas.”
I have no idea what “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas” means and I also have no idea why she feels the need to sell books on Little Baby Jesus’s cradle, but I guess it takes what it takes to make money after even Fox News fires you. Them fingernails ain’t gonna manicure themselves.
By the way, Going Rogue is now selling for a penny.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
And it’s coming out just in time for Christmas.
1Going Rogue selling for a penny, huh? Is it worth that much?
2Thud.
3You would think the book publishers would see the diminishing returns by now. It will be on the bargain table at Barnes & Noble within a month of coming out.
4So she is taking the brave political stand of being pro-Christmas. What a rebel!
5Master Grifter Newt taught her well.
6Since I am employed at a synagogue, I felt I should share this link to represent all of my Jewish friends: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/aus/51505157.html
7The title of this post makes me smile. I keep imagining Sarah with one of those big fat pencils that we give to first graders, a Big Chief tablet with the dotted lines, and her licking the end of her pencil as she tries to think of the next word. I wonder if she writes with the tip of her tongue sticking out between her teeth?
8What was that Dorothy Parker quote?
9“This book should not be casually tossed aside. It should be flung with great force”
Splendidly apt Mike! Kudos!
10Apparently the pencil someone gave her doesn’t have an eraser.
11A trivial correction. Her prior book isn’t *selling* for a penny; it’s just *offered* for that. Nobody seems to be paying that much for it, since it’s still listed.
12Pencil? I’m thinking crayon.
13So, let’s see: writing a book that goes on sale just before Christmas downplays the commercialism of the season?
14Oh, the irony! (A concept probably lost on the author.)
Let me get this straight, the GOP, party of big business interests, is going to benefit from Palin’s attack on commericializing Christmas how? Hmm, won’t those big corps be a bit ticked-off if her message takes? Not that it would – Christmas is so secular in so many ways now, but . . ..
15Oh, BTW, though I am not a member in good standing (well, probably not since I am unaffiliated), I was under the impression that the centerpiece of Christian belief comes in the Spring, Christ’s triumph over Death..
Am I incorrect in my understanding. Just asking because Sarah says Christmas is the centerpiece of her faith. Hmmmm.
16Maybe this new book will only cost two cents!! 😉
17Adrian,
First – good one.
Second, I think most of us are plumb tired about Sarah’s two cents worth.
And I want a refund!
As I read this, I thought. That is great, take back all the Pagan-based elements of Christmas. Go back to the more pure expression: fasting (before a holy day) and spending the day in church listening to hours of mass…in a language you cannot understand.
When the Sherriff of Nottingham said “And cancel Christmas” in a movie, a friend pointed out that that would be a great thing for the peasants, because then they could eat as normal and not spend the day in mandatory services…plus not have to do farming chores around the holy day, when they are really not supposed to do any labor.
Last note: don’t be ridiculous, she didn’t write this, she worked with ghost writers, just like before and you know they don’t let her have sharp pointy objects, just things that go boom.
18I understand she will using the pen name Sarah Claus.
19THANK YOU Stephanie in Arlington for that link!! I’m a Christian and I feel the same way. I don’t think Jesus was born in a barn, smelling of animal… uh.. dung just so people can have tacky-gaudy decorations and sing and play horrendous versions of songs that only by creative twists of imaginations are tangentially related to that child in the manger. Savior of the World? Savior of American retail more like.
20I don’t think Palin is as much anti-Christmas-commercialism as she is anti-non-Christian. The “War on Christmas” is supposedly shown by the fact that people try to be sensitive to others’ beliefs by saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. The Rethugs decry this as denying their claim to the one and only true holiday.It’s their mission to
21let one and all know this is a Christian country, by God!
Everyone else is un-American.
Did she write the ‘book’ with a crayon because sharp objects are forbidden?
22March 31st is coming Sister Sarah. Check your watch. Its kinda important if you are a member of this tribe.
23How the heck can we miss this woman if she won’t go away!
24Star ~ Loved your post! Couldn’t agree more.
The ‘Winter Solstice’ is celebrated around the world whatever it’s name. Celebrations the world over are necessary for business & little kids love all the hoopla, especially the gifts. But let’s face it, Santa Claus replaced Jesus long ago, except for the nativity sets & songs in Christian churches.
25“Palin” and “write” should never be used in the same sentence.
26I look forward to Palin’s agreeing with Oliver Cromwell that Christmas should not be celebrated at all, because all the hoopla around it is pagan and not Christian at all. (I couldn’t agree more– not one Biblical thing about decorated trees, wreaths, candles, big dinners, gifts, elves, toys, snowmen, yule logs, a lot of the music, mistletoe and holly….)
27Doesn’t this id’jit of a woman realize that we know she is not capable of writing a book?
Only those other id’jits in the Peepond think she has some type of intellect.
Calling Lynn Vincent, who ghost wrote Going Rogue, where are you? Are you gong to get your hands dirty again? Remember, when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
28Talk about the height of hypocrisy! She’s “writing” a book about commercializing Christmas just in time to sell it at Christmas. If only we could prosecute someone for the ultimate in hypocrisy. Does anyone know if that option would be available under Sharia law? Just askin’.
Thanks so much to all of JJ’s clients. You always make me feel better about the craziness. Sarah Palin? Who cares?
29These books will be at Dollar Tree by March.
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