Sarah the Quitter leaves hundreds of wet fans steaming when she leaves book signing early

[BurtWorm]

Yes, another Palin thread to unrecommend:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/20/palin-angry-book/

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in Indiana yesterday for a book-signing at a Borders store. One thousand lucky fans with wristbands to meet Palin stood in the rain all day waiting for her to arrive. However, Palin quit the event before she had the chance to sign all the books, leaving 100 supporters out in the cold:

“I’m very disappointed. I think it was very rude. She could have at least apologized, and she didn’t even do that,” said Teresa Hedrick. <...>

“We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed tonight,” said one woman. “My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”

“We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.“

People who didn’t get to meet Palin “went home only with a piece of paper with Palin’s signature.” Video from the event shows angry wristband-holders loudly booing Palin and yelling, “Sign our books!” and “Quittin’ on the job!” <video at link>

[BOSSHOG]

1. Fucking up a wet dream by going rogue

Fucking supporters the conservative value way. What a sad, pathetic hunk of flesh she is.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Suckers. n/t

[goodboy]

3. I was in a waldenbooks yesterday, and a lady there was buying the

book at face value because "The internet price was 9.95 and I just couldn't do that to her"

[skypilot]

18. No way!!!

You just made that up. I can't believe that you were in the same room with that kind of stupidity and lived to tell about it.

[goodboy]

25. I braved it all to buy "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins (nt)

[goodboy]

26. The books included in "science and nature" were far more disturbing

crystals, and angel animals, and astrology... oh my.

[Cha]

44. lol!

[Kali]

24. OMG

that is scary

[lpbk2713]

4. One of these days they might learn about having faith in RW Pied Pipers.

But some never learn. That's why they keep tuning in to
Limbaugh and all the other lying RW Media Hatemongers.

[spinbaby]

5. She's coming to my town tomorrow

Signing books at Sam's Club on the busiest weekend of the year while people are trying to do their Thanksgiving shopping. Should be a fiasco.

[frylock]

28. maybe this will be her "haircut on the tarmac" moment

[RamboLiberal]

40. Washington PA?

Glad I live in Allegheny County and won't be anywhere near that fiasco. The wingnuts from PA, WV and OH will be there.

[spinbaby]

49. Unfortunately, I live among the wingnuts

And, yes, they'll be out in full force. Heaven help anyone who wants to shop for Thanksgiving at that Sam's Club today.

[Sukie]

6. After being stood up, guy says,

"I feel like I don't want to support Sarah". Now that is just about as stupid as they come. I can't feel sorry for them if they can't see how utterly ridiculous this woman is.

[DebbieCDC]

7. The stupid never know when they are being conned

Until it's too late and the grifters have left town.

[bullwinkle428]

8. A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!! SUCKERS!! 'CAUSE I'M A LIAR!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrd_jZJxkg

[Ikonoklast]

14. Love it. Love Henry.

He's the most honest man on this planet.

[Raven]

9. Sarah is the poster child for the Republican Party....they just don't

give a shit.

[mitchum]

10. Their idol has feet of clay (attached to some really chunky legs and thighs)

[Javaman]

11. cries of the stupid.

when will these morons understand, it's all about the photo op to failin quitter, she doesn't give a flying fuck about these people.

Unless it's about failin quitter, she doesn't want to have a thing to do with you.

she's kinky friedman in pumps.

[ixion]

12. heh... punked by mooseburger

serves'em right for supporting that worthless excuse for a human.

[democraticinsurgent]

13. Gee the Indianapolis Star didn't write about that

I wonder why??

[Bitwit1234]

15. Well she is true to form

since when has she ever finished anything she started. This book she is promoting, the only reason it was finished is, because someone wrote it for her.

[POAS]

38. But it isn't finished...no index!

[Blue_In_AK]

16. As Shannyn Moore wrote some time ago,

Palin "can't quit quitting."

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/palins-commitment-phobia-continues/

Nothing has changed.

[cbdo2007]

17. Geez, she can't finish any job she's hired to do. She's about as bad as honoring

her contracts as Carrie Prejean.

[GreenTea]

19. What fucking hype believing idiots, keep watching Fox you stupid fucks you deserve

what you got, what did you expect from "Sarah the Quitter" - who is only out to make a buck, when the cameras leaves so does Sarah...you stupid fucking gullible Fox news sheep!

[grace0418]

20. Only the stupid would be fans of Sarah Palin, so I guess I'm not surprised they actually

expected her to be generous and gracious and fulfill her responsibilities. The stupidity knows no bounds.

[butterfly77]

21. These stupid people were..

still begging her to sign their books how dumb can you get, you can see the distain in her face for many of them as she signs their books,she doesn't give a damn about these people and they still don't get it she is all about the money.

[TwilightGardener]

22. Well, she got them to buy the book--sometimes TWO copies. That's all that really matters.

I guess her idiot fans don't realize this. They think she really wants to meet them or something.

[EOTE]

23. Oh Sarah, I wish I could quit you.

But I never will. As long as you're around to provide stupidity and scandal, I'll be around to eat it up.

[johnnie]

27. Who will she blame this one on?

Someone HAD to have been the problem behind her quitting signing those books the suckers bought.

This woman must be a PR nightmare for her handlers.

[sakabatou]

29. LMAO

[jaysunb]

30. Elvira Gantry ?

:rofl:

[tanyev]

31. So, any statement from La Palin on her Facebook page?

Or crickets?

[csziggy]

32. Did Andrea Mitchell cover it LIVE on MSNBC?

That would have almost worth watching. :evilgrin:

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[peaches2003]

34. But the real question is...

why have I not seen a word of this on MSNBC or CNN? They have given her millions of $ worth of free publicity for her book tour, but all positive (that I have seen). They should cover this for the same amount of time. The articles I read online about this said 300-400 left standing in the rain in IN and they now have cut back to 500 from 1000 the number who will get wristbands because she is staying 3 hours at each stop and not a second more.

AND when is child protective services at one of these stops going to get on that bus and have a little discussion with her about the care Trig is getting? Again she's hauling him around at night like a sack of potatoes for the crowd's applause like she did in the campaign.

[derby378]

35. Slowly it dawns on teabaggers that they bet on the wrong horse...

...and this was one of the voices telling them to stop health insurance reform, or at least to make sure it was watered down to what we're facing now.

[Blackhatjack]

36. Someone needs to ask Palin what she is doing with the $$ from her book sales...

Is she contributing to the Republican Party, Republican candidates, charities, the Federal Deficit, OR IS SHE PUTTING THE $$ IN HER POCKETS?

Know where the money goes, and you know values of the recipient.

[MindPilot]

37. Contrast that with a Michael Moore book-signing I attended.

Came 10:00 pm, Moore had been signing solid for a good three hours and the line still wrapped around the building. The building super came in to announce it was time to go. After a few words Moore pulled out his checkbook waved in the guy's face, "I'll pay the extra on the light bill, the security guards' overtime, whatever, but we are staying here until everybody who wants a book signed gets a book signed."

[JVS]

47. He's a mensch

[demmiblue]

39. Priceless!

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

41. Comments at her Facebook site are pretty revealing.

http://www.progressivealaska.blogspot.com/

An example:

Jordan Harris. I just spent 9 hours of my day, $40 of my hard earned money on two of your books, and took the whole day off work to watch you jump on a bus and throw a half-heated wave to the crowd you were avoiding.

I have never felt so disrespected. How can you claim that you are different? You aren’t. You are just as selfish as everyone else in Washington. It breaks my heart. I thought you might be the answer to the turmoil this country is under but you aren’t. You just slapped hundreds of Hoosiers in the face. The hard working type of people that you claim to represent.

As Celtic Diva said at her blog, "We told you so."

[Cha]

46. She quit her book signing!

I guess she got bored..no worries she'll come up with a hundred excuses of why it's everyone else's fault.

[Canuckistanian]

42. There was probably more money to be made elsewhere

If nothing else, she's predictable.

[BlueIdaho]

43. What? She quit? Now there's a real shocker...

[JVS]

45. most sentences involving the terms wet and steaming are a lot more fun than this on.

[marmar]

48. Anyone dumb enough to stand in the rain to see Sarah Palin deserves what they get.

:nopity:

[mwb970]

50. She pulled the rug out from under her fans here in Columbus as well.

The third day of Palin's book-signing tour was a smashing success, although it did not turn out happily for all. Borders had announced that the first 1,000 in line by the store's 10 a.m. opening would be guaranteed to get their books signed, two per person.

But Palin's staff called the Sawmill store early yesterday and told managers to cut back to 500 wristbands, causing hundreds to be turned away.

"The reason was she was not able to get through all 1,000 wristbands," said Misty Bohland, general manager. "Everybody's upset with Borders, but Borders was just doing what Palin's event staff asked us to do."

Rex Eberle, 53, a Columbus insurance salesman who waited in line for nearly four hours, was not mollified.

"I'm not blaming Sarah Palin or her people, but what I'm saying is why didn't Borders communicate this to people at the store?" Eberle said. "They let over 700 people stand in line and knew full well they wouldn't get a wristband."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/21/palin21.ART_ART_11-21-09_A1_TDFOFBK.html

So let's look at what happened. Palin had promised she would sign books for 1000 people. At the last minute, her staff told Borders to only let 500 people in instead. Some were disappointed and what was their response? They blamed someone else (Borders) for Sarah's screwup! Boy, when her supporters say she's "just like them", they're not kidding!

Just look at what supporter "Rex" said: "I'm not blaming her, but why did Borders screw up?"

These people are pathetic.

:eyes:

[TwilightGardener]

52. That's going to be the plan--blame Borders.

Or whatever other bookstore hosts her.

[livetohike]

53. Her fans are just like her - it's always someone else's fault

not Sarah Palin's. She is pathetic.

[mwb970]

54. I especially like the defense of her disastrous Couric interview.

To her worshippers, her staggeringly awful performance was entirely Couric's fault. The level of denial at Camp Sarah long ago achieved psychosis. I'm beginning to think it's not a joke to refer to this form of conservatism as a mental illness. Surely what we are seeing here is not "normal cognition". There's something wrong with people whose brains work this way.

[ima_sinnic]

51. has anybody ever been organized enough to compare pictures of people at these "signings"?

I just don't believe the number of totally brain-dead morons, people with no life whatsoever, with the time (let alone the motivation) to camp out all night and day to have a book signed by someone who can't even read, let alone write "her own" book, someone who has shown the world in numerous interviews that she is dumber than a sack of rocks. I think it's the same old repuke astroturf crap. They fly people around to bookstores to "wait in line" and try to drum up enthusiasm for the moose-shooting illiterate freak.

[skepticscott]

55. Let me get this straight

They gave up a day of work and stood in line all day to get a freaking book signed? These people seriously need to get a life. And now they're saying they won't support her, but WTF were they supporting her for before this? If it was for her skill and experience in governing and her sound policy positions (stop laughing), those haven't changed, so what's the problem?

Bottom line is, this is all about celebrity. Sarah Palin wants to be famous, and these sheeple that flock to her want be able to say they were around a famous person. And I'd be very interested to know how many of the people who got an autographed book will ever actually read it.