Sarah Palin Kicking Off Book Tour in Bethlehem, PA

[onehandle]

Source: Philadelphia Magazine

It’s November and the War on Christmas season has already begun? GROAN! Have no fear, brave crusader Sarah Palin is here–literally here, in Bethlehem, to wage war on this war. Palin’s rolling into the local Barnes and Nobles there on Tuesday, November 12th to hawk her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.



Read more: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/07/sarah-palin-kicking-book-tour-bethlehem-pa

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Psst. Wrong Bethlehem, Moron.

[JaneyVee]

1. Is it written in crayon?

[Fuddnik]

7. Not yet. You have to use your own crayons.

[SharonAnn]

52. Oh, I thought she maybe finally READ a book!

[oberliner]

53. Was that a Crayola joke?

If so, well played.

Are you from PA?

Edit to Add: Oh wait, that's Easton.

[sakabatou]

2. Will she quit half-way through the tour?

[pangaia]

28. No, but the book is only half a book. The second half is blank.

[closeupready]

56. So's the first half.

[Zeke L Brimstone]

3. Did she slouch into town?

[Sognefjord]

6. Oh ho! Literary reference. Almost got by me!

Rough beast truly.

[pangaia]

29. Ok, I have 4 college degrees and I have to ask..

what is the literary reference?
The only one I know is "Slouching off to Fargo."

[IveWornAHundredPants]

31. Yeats' 'The Second Coming'

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[pangaia]

32. Yes yes yes.

And Garrison was talking about Yeats last week.
It must be Yeats month.
Thank you....

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. Another line you may have heard

from the poem:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Actually, the poem is pretty apropos today:



William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[pangaia]

58. A stunning work.

We studied it in high school- 1959-60 ish.
Back when such things as poets mattered in school.
I had forgotten the line....

[maddiemom]

43. "Second Coming" is chock full of famous lines used as titles in literature

and other well known references and allusions. If you're not familiar with it, check it out sometime. You'll be surprised.

[Sognefjord]

61. The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats.

In my college and post grad years I never took a class in 20th Century UK/Irish poetry but read his work on my own. Sylvia Plath lived in a place in London once home to Yeats.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Awesome post. nt

[Brother Buzz]

4. Sales may be sluggish

All her fans are still slogging through Going Rogue: An American Life (2009) and haven't even peeled the cellophane off
America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (2010).

[Berlum]

18. yeah...and of course the economy is down since her RepubliCronies shat on America

...and tied the economy in knots to prove to everyone that RepuliBaggers are meanspirited nitwits.

[Blue Owl]

5. She'll personally grift-wrap each book

n/t

[PADemD]

8. Bethlehem PA is known as The Christmas City

http://www.bethlehempa.org/visit_christmas.html

[Archae]

9. I expect to see this book soon...at Big Lots.

In their dollar bin.

[Gore1FL]

10. She's doing it there because she thinks it was the birthplace of Jesus. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

11. Jesus, she kicked off her little boots already?

I guess she needed another break. Hey, she's on a quitter's roll after falling down the chimney. Makes sense she'd kick off the santa boots.

[truthisfreedom]

13. My bad, thought it said Kicked off Boot Tour

[Roy Rolling]

12. The view

She can see the manger from her backyard.

[truthisfreedom]

14. "I can see my manager from here!"

[Major Nikon]

15. Hopefully her editor has a good Hillbilly-to-English translation dictionary

[paleotn]

37. Ummm....

....that's snow-billy, thank you very much. Trust me. I'm an expert on hillbilly. But whatever language it's originally scrawled in, it still comes out in English as word salad, lacking any discernible point.

[Left Coast2020]

16. Will it be available to those who only read "moran" language?

Or common sense impared?

[hrmjustin]

17. I bet it is a small book and boring.

[Gore1FL]

38. It's a big book. The second half is blank, however. n/t

[egold2604]

19. They were welling one of her books for 50 cents a copy

Ollies, a Central PA, odd lot bargain store, sold one of her books for 50 cents a copy. I bought 10 of them and put them in the porta-potty I rent for a major party I throw each year. They were used as toilet paper. My very liberal guests thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. We ran out quite fast and I had to put real TP in.

[Freddie]

27. Heh! Love Ollie's

You never know what you're going to find there.

[OldRedneck]

20. Follow the adventures of Sarah Failin' here

If you haven't discovered Malia Litman's blog, here it is:
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/

She is NOT a fan of Sarah Failin' and every day she blogs about another Palin foible, along with an occasional other topic.

She's especially tough on Todd Palin and his association with a prostitute in Anchorage and the alleged cover-up by the Anchorage PD of the woman's assertions that Todd was pimping her out to his friends.

Anyway, Malia has a long blog item on Sarah's Christmas book tour.

[Voice for Peace]

48. who are these ghouls?

[liberal N proud]

21. The entire book will fit in the palm of her hand

[Loup Garou]

22. Wonkette has an excerpt from her audiobook

Warning: Sarah Palin's voice may be detrimental to your hearing.

http://wonkette.com/533110/your-ears-appear-to-be-lacking-in-blood-lets-fix-that-by-listening-to-sarah-palin-read-her-christmas-audiobook

[BlueJazz]

23. Very unusual book cover.

[JoePhilly]

24. Sarah Palin: "Well, that is where Jesus was born."

[ck4829]

25. Saying Happy Holidays is Treason!

Is probably what the gist of this screed is.

[japple]

26. These folks who are yelling about protecting Christmas are mostly concerned about

protecting capitalism.

[Javaman]

30. this one comes with it's own crayons! nt

[AndyA]

33. Sarah Palin: separating fools from their money at every opportunity

Palin is either smart enough to have figured out how to do this, or someone told her how it could be done and she remembered.

In all other respects, the woman is a failure--but she does know how to take advantage of people.

[rpannier]

34. She finally finished reading a book

congrats sarah

[Arkana]

35. Oh, here we go.

This shit again. "LIEBERALS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CHRISTMAS!"

[SwankyXomb]

47. But they have no problem with

Big Box Retail taking away Thanksgiving.

[KinMd]

36. What did Bethllehem do to deserve this?

[olddad56]

63. It is a mistake on her part, she thinks she is in the birthplace of Jesus.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

40. Oh goody where can I not pick up a copy.

[NastyRiffraff]

41. Every year

Same old, same old War on Christmas (and of course the Baby Jesus). Yet, strangely, Christmas is still here. Go figure.

Unfortunately Sarah Palin is also still here. Like an annoying gnat that circles your head, she won't go away.

[MissMillie]

42. She can write?

I thought you needed to be able to think to do that.

[Turbineguy]

57. Yes,

God, not being satisfied with denying her a brain....

[Yavin4]

44. Imagine being the editor of that book

Poor soul probably has PTSD. Even the MS Word editor that highlights grammar mistakes probably crashed.

[woodsprite]

45. Hopefully, it'll end up the same way her other one did.

At our local Border's, before they went out of business here in DE, they had racks of her book - some autographed - they had been marked down to $1.50. And they still weren't selling

I really thought of buying one of the autographed ones, but I refused to give the satisfaction of a sale to that bimbo.

[libdem4life]

46. At least we may rest assured there will be no plagiarism charges.

[Ezlivin]

49. Sarah Palin Kicking Off

FTFY

[louis-t]

51. 128 pages, total of 2 sentences.

[awoke_in_2003]

54. I get sicker of this every year. nt

[Lint Head]

55. Maybe it will help to increase sales in the cheap bin at the Dollar Tree store.

[packman]

59. perfect gift

For those right-wingers in your family. What joy it will bring them

[Ednahilda]

60. There's a Barnes & Noble in Bethlehem?

Not as far as I know. There's one in Easton, in Whitehall, and in Center Valley - all a fairly short drive from Bethlehem - but not a one in Bethlehem itself. The best-known book outlet in Bethlehem is the venerable Moravian Book Shop and I doubt they'd have her there signing books.

[paparush]

62. Who? Oh, "Reload" Palin

A blight upon this country. Another in a long line of opportunistic grifters who's only skill is lowering the lowest common denominators.

[struggle4progress]

64. "Hay! Eye writ an udder won!"

[47of74]

65. God. Stupid. Burns.

What the fuck did we do to deserve Alaskan Barbie?

[wordpix]

66. the byline: "the need to bring back the freedom to express Christian values"

I don't see the need b/c I have my own beliefs and don't need her Xtian fundy ones.

That latest pic of hers makes her look like Strict School Marm