Sarah Palin, Alaskan chronicler
By Michael J.W. Stickings
As you may have heard by now, Sarah Palin, that most literate of Alaska governors, has signed what is likely a massive deal with HarperCollins (h/t: The Plank) to write her much-ballyhooed memoir. (I say massive because, according to reports, the deal is valued at a whopping $11 million. She has called that figure "laughable," but she hasn't offered a correction.)
In an interview on Tuesday, Palin -- who, to me, is profoundly uninteresting (and an object lesson in unironic self-parody) -- said that she will tell her story "unrestrained and unfiltered," which of course is utterly misleading, if not blatantly untruthful. She will undoubtedly filter some unabashedly self-aggrandizing story, one she has delusionally convinced herself is completely true, through the strainer of her unrestrained ego.
And then she offered this glorious nugget:
Hilarious.
First, how does her journalism degree -- how long did it take? how many mediocre-to-bad institutions of "higher" learning did she attend along the way? -- qualify her to pen anything other than a puff piece written, generously, at a Grade 5 level? Or does she mean that she will do some Woodstein-like investigative work? Perhaps some new Deep Throat can help her expose the various skeletons that occupy her custom-built walk-in closet.
Second, how is her story Alaska's story? Does she really see them as one and the same? Perhaps, yes, given her egotism -- she is the center of her own imagined universe, after all, and the book will supposedly be an "unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about" -- but the thought of her as some sort of Alaskan Homer is nothing if not outrageously ridiculous.
I look forward to finding piles upon discarded piles of Barracuda: The Untold Story, or whatever the hell she intends to call it, in the remainder bin at my local mega-bookstore.
As you may have heard by now, Sarah Palin, that most literate of Alaska governors, has signed what is likely a massive deal with HarperCollins (h/t: The Plank) to write her much-ballyhooed memoir. (I say massive because, according to reports, the deal is valued at a whopping $11 million. She has called that figure "laughable," but she hasn't offered a correction.)
In an interview on Tuesday, Palin -- who, to me, is profoundly uninteresting (and an object lesson in unironic self-parody) -- said that she will tell her story "unrestrained and unfiltered," which of course is utterly misleading, if not blatantly untruthful. She will undoubtedly filter some unabashedly self-aggrandizing story, one she has delusionally convinced herself is completely true, through the strainer of her unrestrained ego.
And then she offered this glorious nugget:
It will be nice to put my journalism degree to work on this and get to tell my story, Alaska's story.
Hilarious.
First, how does her journalism degree -- how long did it take? how many mediocre-to-bad institutions of "higher" learning did she attend along the way? -- qualify her to pen anything other than a puff piece written, generously, at a Grade 5 level? Or does she mean that she will do some Woodstein-like investigative work? Perhaps some new Deep Throat can help her expose the various skeletons that occupy her custom-built walk-in closet.
Second, how is her story Alaska's story? Does she really see them as one and the same? Perhaps, yes, given her egotism -- she is the center of her own imagined universe, after all, and the book will supposedly be an "unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about" -- but the thought of her as some sort of Alaskan Homer is nothing if not outrageously ridiculous.
I look forward to finding piles upon discarded piles of Barracuda: The Untold Story, or whatever the hell she intends to call it, in the remainder bin at my local mega-bookstore.
Labels: Alaska, Sarah Palin
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
10:15 AM
3 Comments:
Careful, or she'll be telling us you're a "far left liberal onslaught" against her freedom of speech. Seems to be a habit of hers.
Isn't a book by JTP Wurtzelbacher inevitable? I wonder if Dostoevsky still owns the copyright to "The Idiot."
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Capt. Fogg, at 10:46 AM
Isn't a book by JTP Wurtzelbacher inevitable? I wonder if Dostoevsky still owns the copyright to "The Idiot."You can't copyright a title, so it's available. And appropriate.
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Mustang Bobby, at 7:03 AM
Oh, I don't know. The idea of Palin as an Alaskan Homer is actually pretty good....as long as we understand we're not talking about Homer the epic poet....
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Anonymous, at 7:13 AM
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