The Christian Science Monitor On Sarah Palin Book

There are just so many catty ways to write about Sarah Palin’s book that I find myself reading lots of the news articles to find them.  They are not hard to locate.  I am not sure if the The Christian Science Monitor meant it to ‘sound’ the way it reads, but I think this article is a hoot, and reflects how much of the media portrays Sarah Palin as intellectually inferior and  provincial.  No one is taking her book seriously.  Tonight on the David Letterman Show is was noted that no one in her high school ever thought of  Sarah Palin writing a book……….burning one, yes……but never writing one. 

You can see Russia from the front of Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue.” That’s because of its clever frontispiece, a map centered on the North Pole. Depicting the world that way puts front and center Ms. Palin’s beloved Alaska – as well as Russia, the nation Palin famously once said you can see from Alaskan soil.

One week into the Palin book tour, “Going Rogue” has been the subject of perhaps more publicity and commentary than all other books published in America this year, with the possible exception of Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol.” At this point, the highlights are pretty well known. The bill from the McCain campaign for her vetting – check. The way she was misled into her interview with Katie Couric – check. And so on.

Much less has been said about the book’s little revealing touches, such as the map. Barrow, Alaska, is marked on that map, but Boston, Mass., is not. Hmmm. Commentary on blue-state elitism?

And, did you know the first big word young Sarah learned to spell was “different”? You betcha. Also, Wal-Mart has named Palin’s hometown of Wasilla the Duct Tape Capital of the World. Husband Todd once helped fix the leaks in the Alaska governor’s mansion roof.

Palin’s father’s best friend was a dentist. At one point in “Going Rogue,” she recounts that this man loses his right arm in a tragic accident. He then retrains himself as a one-armed, left-handed dentist.

Among the nuggets from the book the article  highlights is this one.

Sarah from Wasilla was not accustomed to all the perks that came with big-time politics, after she hit the trail as John McCain’s running mate. She was used to the Best Western Inn on Lake Lucille, where they did not provide guests with thick robes and slippers.

So the first time Palin and her girls stayed in a hotel where there was a flat-screen TV inside the bathroom mirror, they were impressed.

“That drew cries of ‘Way cool!’ from my girls,” Palin writes.

But on Sept. 1, 2008, Palin was standing in front of this mirror, watching the news as she brushed her teeth, when a crawl scrolled across the bottom, breaking the news that her daughter Bristol was pregnant.

“I nearly gagged on my toothbrush,” she wrote.