Like their heroine, they don’t know much about it:

Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1N3G37_SQ

Sarah Palin, who deserted her post as commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard, has some choice words for Barack Obama:

“There’s been a lack of acknowledgement by our president in understanding what it is that the American military provides in terms of, obviously, the safety, the security of our country,” Palin said during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “I want him to acknowledge the sacrifices that these individual men and women — our sons, our daughters, our moms, our dads, our brothers and sisters — are providing this country to keep us safe.”

It’s understandable that Palin might have missed this, and this, not to mention this, what with her preoccupation with riot-proofing her tour bus. But her sock-puppet masterpiece has sold 700,000 copies, and as Stephen Colbert wisely observes, the ultimate arbiter of truth is the free market.

Sarah Palin: Obama not acknowledging troops [Politico]

Frank Rich, who unlike us gets paid to blather, puts his salary to use:

Easily the most startling passage in “Going Rogue,” running more than two pages, collates extended excerpts from a prayerful letter Palin wrote to mark the birth of Trig, her child with Down syndrome. This missive’s understandable goal was to reassert Palin’s faith and trust in God. But Palin did not write her letter to God; she wrote the letter from God, assuming His role and voice herself and signing it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

Every week, when FlyingChainSaw doesn’t relieve us of the chore, we churn out a silly reader poll for the passing amusement of our devoted audience. So last Sunday, with that book about to be unleashed on an undeserving nation, we asked “What’s your favorite part?” And among the answers — currently trending first — was “The moment God tells her, ‘You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.'”

We had no idea we had pegged the book’s most noteworthy passage. But if Roland Emmerich would like to buy the rights to our other apocalyptic predictions for his next disaster-porn blockbuster, he knows where to find us.

The Pit Bull in the China Shop [NYT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8mAZhOJIfI

In our cribbed report from Sarah Palin’s first book-signing, we omitted a curious detail:

4:40 p.m. | Several hundred more people waited outside in the misty rain. They didn’t get to the Barnes & Noble Booksellers early enough to get one of the wrist bands. But they hoped that Palin might show some pity on them by saying a few words or extending her three-hour signing time.

Since there was no follow-up — did she extend her hours? — we let it slide. But it turns out that the Golden Ticket orange wristband, “which would allow them a few moments with Palin,” doesn’t guarantee you shit:

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Propmaster Sarah Palin protects her children’s privacy like a stage mother:

Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the sweetest baby girl swathed in pink, pretend angel wings fastened to her soft shoulders.

“That’s you, baby,” I whispered to Piper, as I have every year since she smiled for the picture as an infant. She popped another cloud of cotton candy into her mouth and looked nonchalant: Still the pro-life poster child at the State Fair. Ho-hum.

Well, I still thought it was a nice shot, as I did every time I saw it on its advertisements and fund-raiser tickets.

We went hunting, but alas, we can’t find the Piper Poster online. But our favorite move remains shoving Bristol in front of the cameras as an abstinence advocate. We can’t wait until the kids hit 21, when they can write their own books.

Piper Palin, Superstar [Washington Independent]

Villager Mark Halperin has a list of things in Sarah Palin’s “book” – I’m more interested in what’s not in it:

* Don’t look for hefty policy prescriptions.

* Once source who has seen  “Going Rogue” says it does not include an index.  That would give Palin a subtle revenge on the party’s Washington establishment, whose members tend to flip to the back pages and scan for their own names. If they want to know what Sarah Palin has to say about them, they will have to buy the book—and read the whole thing.

More proof she’s just a grifter ….

What’s In Sarah Palin’s Book [Time]