Palin's Staggering Haul

[babylonsister]

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/13/palins-staggering-haul/


Palin's Staggering Haul
Posted by Alex Altman Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 12:25 pm


An ABC News report quantifies the obvious: life as a private citizen has been lucrative for Sarah Palin. ABC estimates that since stepping down as governor of Alaska in July, Palin has raked in some $12 million from book deals, speaking fees and television projects. According to the network:

That conservative estimate is based on publicly available records and news accounts. The actual number is probably much higher, but is hard to quantify because Palin does not publicize her earnings. She reputedly got a $7 million deal for her first book, with the bulk of that money due after her resignation as governor, and will earn about $250,000 per episode, according to the web site The Daily Beast, for each of eight episodes of a reality show about Alaska for The Learning Channel. She has managed to keep a lid on reliable figures for her earnings from a multi-year contract with Fox News and a second book deal with HarperCollins.

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While book and television royalties are huge earners, Palin, 46, has taken on a breakneck schedule of public speaking engagements, booked through the Washington Speakers Bureau. Her typical fee is $100,000, according to a January report in Politico, though she accepts a somewhat smaller fee for events on the West Coast.

Palin is far from the first politician to parlay name recognition into a profitable second act; this trick has been deployed by every president since Gerald Ford. But few have lined their coffers as quickly -- and on the strength of such a short resume -- as the former Alaska governor.

[polichick]

1. Cashing in while she can - financially, it was a good move to quit. nt

[dkofos]

2. No wonder she quit.

Do you think she will send back her Alaska oil handout check??

[librechik]

3. Pssst--Mr. IRS agent, if you are reading this--keep an eye on Palin

I fear she may not pay her fair share of taxes on this cash income. WttW...

[Submariner]

4. Must be a lot of dumb teabaggers ponying up the bucks

to buy into her bullshit. Suckers...

[Cha]

5. Of course she bailed on serving the People of Alaska

with her documented ethical abuses to get more money from speading her lies nationwide. She was stealing from the taxpayers..now she can get places like Cal State University to fly her first class to spew her lies on campus without pesky rules about not using taxpayer money to go on trips with your family.

Did she ever pay back Alaska before she quit 1/2 term?

[sabrina 1]

6. Her son-in-law was right. He said she quit because she could

make more money if she did and that for her, it was all about the money. And every time her name is mentioned, she makes more money. If people just ignored her, she would begin to lose her value.

[abluelady]

7. We Need to Ensure She Makes Lots of Money

She is a greedy lady. The more she makes, the more we can be sure she won't become a civil servant.

[Bobbieo]

10. Don't forget all of the people on DU making fun of her as the 'quitter'

while she was laughing all the way to the bank!!!

[Aviation Pro]

8. It is a source of unending amusement....

...on the good Mrs. Assclown.

[MerryBlooms]

9. Maybe she's trying to earn enough to bail Wasilla

out of the $20 mil mess she left them with, and pay back all them thar guvmit earmarky thingies?

http://crooksandliars.com/2008/09/05/sarah-palin-the-earmark-queen-of-ak-left-wasilla-20-million-in-debt

She's a fraud and a menace to society. I'd be happy if her every word was purged from the public airways and her mug was never again seen on the M$M.

[Dr Morbius]

11. This thread may be a smart thing to bookmark.

And you could call it up any time someone brings up the notion of Sarah Palin running in 2012. She WILL run, and she will lose badly, but she won't spend a dime of her own money.

Because she quit the Governorship of Alaska as a career move. She's raking in money right now, and for those sad, pathetic people who think money is everything, it was a damn smart move. To the rest of us, she's a joke, but she's making money, so she thinks the joke is on us. Ha ha.

Money can't buy you a soul, Mrs. Palin.

Meanwhile the Republican puppeteers behind the scenes are using her as a smokescreen. They want the left to focus on Sarah Palin, who is photogenic and many (not myself) find charming, while they find a Great White Hope to defeat her in the primaries. Right now, that Next Great White Hope is Mitt Romney, but they have to know he can't beat The Man, so I think they're searching. Wouldn't surprise me if Scott Brown is anointed the Next Great White Hope.

[MerryBlooms]

12. I don't think she'll run

The presidency is way too much work for that princess, and I think even her supporters realize she couldn't hack it.

[KonaKane]

13. "Never underestimate the profit potential of American ignorance"

Can't remember who said that, although a few people have attributed it to P.J. O'Rourke.

[spanone]

14. it galls me that her cheap act can attract such cash. stupid country that we are.

[babylonsister]

15. I too am galled. Seriously. nt

[spanone]

16. we reward ignorance....again & again

[babylonsister]

17. We aren't. Seems to me the ignorant are rewarding ignorance. We

just have to hope there are more of us than them.

[applegrove]

18. She still has to live with herself. I wonder how she'll feel about denying climate change when

Alaska is in climate crisis in another decade.