We’re just looking for an excuse to run the Sarah Palin Halloween mask again, but what the heck — the author of yet another book on the increasingly crowded Talibunny shelf says feminists are jealous that she temped her way to glory:

It was telling that Fey should be the actress who impersonated Palin. The two women may look like each other, but they could not be more dissimilar. Each exemplifies a different category of feminism. Palin comes from the I-can-do-it-all school. She is professionally successful, has been married for more than 20 years, and has a large and (from all outward appearances) happy family. And while Fey is also pretty, married, and has a daughter, the characters she portrays in films like Mean Girls and Baby Mama, and in television shows like 30 Rock, are hard-pressed eggheads who give up personal fulfillment — e.g., marriage and motherhood — in the pursuit of professional success.

Note the comparison: Not to Tina Fey herself, but to the fictional characters she plays. Last time that happened, Murphy Brown built an entire episode around it.

Palin Book: Feminists Jealous of Sarah’s Rise [US News]

You’ll recall, if you didn’t have better things to do, that Team Sarah sent us an email Tuesday pleading for some quick cash so Sarah Palin could read somebody else’s speech for the Iowa Family Policy Center — they were $41,000 shy of their $100,000 goal.

That set off a little, er, stink today, when politically inclined Iowans questioned the wisdom of paying anything at all to a prospective presidential candidate testing the waters:

“If somebody tells me they want me to pay an appearance fee, it tells me they’re not very serious about running for president,” said Ed Failor, Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief and an influential GOP insider.

Upon which IFPC said the hundred large wasn’t for Talibunny, but “only to secure a venue, pay for lighting and promote the event.”

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Levi Johnston:

Johnston also told [Maggie] Rodriguez [on the CBS Early Show] he’s been hearing a lot about his saying in a recent first-person tell-all in Vanity Fair magazine that Palin routinely referred to her baby, Trig, who suffers from Down syndrome, as “retarded.”

“I was just in shock for the first time I heard it,” Johnston recalled for Rodriguez. “And then she’d say it regularly. And I think she was joking, but it doesn’t make it right.”

Sarah Palin:

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Sarah Palin’s signature on a ghostwritten book is worth at least $1.25 million, according to a financial disclosure released today — the last filing for Talibunny’s temp job as Alaska governor. She claims to have blown $600,000 of that on “legal fees to fight false allegations while governor,” which still leaves $625,000 for a live-in airplane hangar.

Alas, a cool million doesn’t go as far as it used to, so Palin’s still reading prepared texts for beer money. Which brings us to today’s email from Team Sarah:

The Iowa Family Policy Action center needs to raise $41,000 in order to have Sarah Palin come to speak on November 21, 2009. They have raised $59,000 already, but they need to know there is enough coming in to ensure that they can pull this off.

Won’t you give generously? Mommy needs a Northland to keep the mooseburgers fresh.

Palin’s book retainer: $1.25 million [ADN, via TPM]

Left: Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin’s new ghostwritten memoir, to be published November 17.

Middle: Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, a collection of essays from The Nation, to be published November 17.

Right: Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book, to be published November 17. If only we had followed up on our original inspiration.

Attention, Sarah Palin bashers: Lookalike book ‘Going Rouge’ is coming! [Entertainment Weekly]

Oh, it’s on:

In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to air Monday, November 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode, which will mark Palin’s first interview to discuss her upcoming book, Going Rogue: An American Life and her first-ever appearance on the Oprah show.

Will Oprah break Talibunny into a million little pieces for all the inevitable lies in her memoir? Or will Talibunny trash Oprah for palling around with Obama? Who cries first?

Oprah Winfrey Talks to Sarah Palin on The Oprah Winfrey Show [Oprah]

Wha-wha-whaaaa?

After resigning as governor in late July, Palin spent most of August in San Diego working with [Lynn] Vincent on the book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Rumors swirled about Palin sightings at Vincent’s condo complex in north San Diego County. Palin reportedly was joined here by her family and top aide, Meghan Stapleton.

Fuck. We would have been happy to have coffee with Palin while she was in town, maybe even write a Facebook column for her. But no, she never called. Bitch.

S.D. ghostwriter mum on Sarah Palin memoir [SD Union-Tribune]