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player ready...By now, nearly everyone with a TV has seen the teases for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s appearance Monday on Oprah Winfrey’s show. (Is Levi Johnston welcome at Thanksgiving dinner? Does she hate Katie Couric?)
Thanks to a sloppy stock clerk at an undisclosed bookstore, there have been plenty of leaks from Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue,” which officially hits bookstores Tuesday.
The Palin publicity blitz has begun, and if it has elements of a political campaign, a Twitter feed and that of a top-tier rock band touring second-tier cites, well, that’s by design.
Palin, who taped her appearance on Oprah last week, kicks off her tour Tuesday at a Barnes & Noble in Grand Rapids, Mich. She’ll swing through small cities such as Fort Wayne, Ind., Washington, Pa., Roanoke, Va. — places where she had triumphant appearances last year on the campaign trial as Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential running mate.
“I’ve decided to stop in cities that are not usually included in a typical book tour,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page, which has been her chief mode of communicating since she stepped down as Alaska governor in July.
So what’s in the book?
There’s some juicy campaign trail gossip, writes the Associated Press reporter who last week tracked down a copy of “Going Rogue.” In it, Palin reportedly claims as much as $50,000 of the legal bills she amassed while she was governor of Alaska came from the vetting the McCain campaign did of her as a vice presidential candidate.
There’s also plenty of media bashing, according to an excerpt leaked to the Drudge Report Web site. Palin was barred even from talking to the reporters on her campaign plane, according to the excerpt of her book.
As for the book’s rogue appearance before its release Tuesday? Palin bemoans it on — you guessed it — her Facebook page. “As is expected,” she complains, “the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book.”
“Keep your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it!” Palin added.
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Priced to sell
Publisher HarperCollins has printed 1.5 million copies of the Palin book, and in a retail war unrelated to the sassy politician, Amazon.com, Target and Wal-Mart have slashed prices as low as $8.98 on the $28.99 hardcover version of the book.