This is your savior? Palin’s ‘Tea Party’ Crib Notes
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words “Energy”, “Tax” and “Lift American Spirits” are clearly visible. There’s also what appears to read as “Budget cuts” with the word Budget crossed out.
This is so egregious that I linked to a Huffingtonpost.com article.
You know I was reading this article thinking, “wow, that’s a little out there,” and, “well, I don’t necessarily agree, but okay,” and then I stumbled upon this… “analogy.”
What the hell? Are you trying to stupefy your readers into agreeing with you, Alessandra Stanley?
And (Conan O’Brien’s) sense of betrayal is perhaps fanned by the followers who have held protests outside NBC headquarters at Rockefeller Center, as if the network is Myanmar and Mr. O’Brien the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of late-night comedy.
Are the Days of Leno, Letterman and O’Brien as Polite Hosts Over?
Patterson may lack the name recognition of a Stephen King, a John Grisham or a Dan Brown, but he outsells them all. Really, it’s not even close. (According to Nielsen BookScan, Grisham’s, King’s and Brown’s combined U.S. sales in recent years still don’t match Patterson’s.) This is partly because Patterson is so prolific: with the help of his stable of co-authors, he published nine original hardcover books in 2009 and will publish at least nine more in 2010.
