Poor Sarah!
What's that? She about to tweet another song now?
She's warming up ... "Me, Me, Me, Me ..."
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Palin knew there were ways to solve her money problems, and then some. Planning quickly got under way for a book. And just weeks after the campaign ended, reality-show producer Mark Burnett called Palin personally and pitched her on starring in her own show. Then, in May 2009, she signed a $7 million book deal with HarperCollins. Two former Palin-campaign aides -- Jason Recher and Doug McMarlin -- were hired to plan a book tour with all the trappings of a national political campaign.
But there was a hitch: With Alaska’s strict ethics rules, Palin worried that her day job would get in the way. In March, she petitioned the Alaska attorney general’s office, which responded with a lengthy list of conditions. "There was no way she could go on a book tour while being governor" is how one member of her Alaska staff put it.
Money problems in paradise Governor Palin? (I mean ex-govr)
Surely there must be something you can do about that, eh?
After all the People love you!
Poor Sarah!
Why is everyone always Picking on little ole her? Oh me. Oh my.
Link: The Revolution Will Be Commercialized
Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America -- and it’s a position with a very big salary.
By Gabriel Sherman, NYMag.com -- Apr 25, 2010
[...] For Palin, the months since Election Day had been a letdown even bigger than the loss to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Being governor was drudgery. "Her life was terrible," one adviser says. "She was never home, her [Juneau] office was four hours from her house. You gotta drive an hour from Wasilla to Anchorage. And she was going broke." Her sky-high approval ratings in Alaska -- which had topped 80 percent before John McCain picked her -- had withered to the low fifties.
She faced a hostile legislature, a barrage of ethics complaints, and frothing local bloggers who reveled in her misfortune. All this for a salary of only $125,000? The worst was that she had racked up $500,000 in legal bills to fend off the trooper scandal and other investigations. She needed money and worried about it constantly. "You have to keep in mind," Bill McAllister, her then-press secretary, told me, "she and Todd were middle class. They’re rich now, but not then."
And, whatever one thinks of her intelligence, she was more than shrewd enough to see that there was money to be made on her newfound national profile, and she hadn’t been the one making it -- this was her particular American resentment.
Better strike while that "Fame" Iron is Hot -- right Sarah?
The good People of Alaska will understand -- afterall, they used to love you.
It was finally a time for "Poor Sarah" -- No More!
Cuz ya know, you can't rake in all those E-Z Millions, with the dreary mantle of "Public Service", holding you back ... can you now?
[...] The numbers are staggering. Over the past year, Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune and shows no sign of slowing down. Her memoir has so far sold more than 2.2 million copies, and Palin is planning a second book with HarperCollins. This January, she signed a three-year contributor deal with Fox News worth $1 million a year, according to people familiar with the deal. In March, Palin and Burnett sold her cable show to TLC for a reported $1 million per episode, of which Palin is said to take in about $250,000 for each of the eight installments.
Yep, the People really love you, again, Sarah -- and you're just giving the People what they want, right?
Afterall, even President 'wantabees' have to make a living too ... It's just the "American Way!"
[Pg 2 -- Link]
Palin commands $100,000 per speech
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Palin’s $100,000 contract for the tea-party event -- which drew fire from rival tea-party groups angry that Palin was cashing in at their expense -- included $18,000 for private-jet travel for her and an entourage of five people, according to two people who’ve seen the contract.
Even though Sarah Palin may occasionally claim to be interested in "Public Service" (?)
-- her Actions Contracts betray her and make it clear, she's chasing a different type of "Service" -- one clearly centered on herself. Her Fame. Her Fortune. Her Fifteen.
Say I don't really know who keeps track of such things -- But isn't Sarah's "15 Minutes of Fame" ... finally about up?
Perhaps maybe when her "grass-roots" Tea Party followers finally find out how Big Corporate interests are paying for their Party -- and paying for Sarah's Perks too -- maybe then her "shiny exterior" will fade away ... into one-hit wonder obscurity.
And we can then, all get on with the bigger business at hand, of actually serving the interests of the American People. Not just the interests of Palin's Fans.
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Tea-Party members really need to Wake up -- to the fact that they're being so played ... by hidden Big Money Interests, who really just want to keep outsourcing those jobs. With all the Tea Party members unflinchingly, cheering them on ...
Tea Party
sourcewatch.org
While promoted as a spontaneous "grassroots" movement, many of the activities of Tea Party groups were organized by corporate lobbying groups.
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Reports indicate that the Tea Party Movement benefits from millions of dollars from conservative foundations that are derived from wealthy U.S. families and their business interests. Is appears that money to organize and implement the Movement flows primarily through two conservative groups: Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks.
In an April 9, 2009 article on ThinkProgress.org, Lee Fang reports that the principal organizers of Tea Party events are Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works, two "lobbyist-run think tanks" that are "well funded" and that provide the logistics and organizing for the Tea Party movement from coast to coast.
No wonder Poor Sarah, always looks like a Million Bucks -- [like 12 Million of them!]
even when she's chiding Americans, for having formed an opinion or two, about her, and then actually having the nerve to express them. Oh My. How dare we -- it's so unfair!
True to form, Palin's still singing the same old song ... ... "Me, Me, Me, Me ..."
otherwise known as, just the ... Mama Mia... forever chasing her dream.