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After the gossip Web site Gawker published unauthorized excerpts of Sarah Palin’s forthcoming book America by Heart — including 14 partial page-scans — Palin took to Twitter to ask: “Isn’t that illegal?”
Gawker’s Maureen O’Connor responded by taunting Palin, suggesting the former Alaska governor might “want to take a moment to familiarize yourself with the law.”
Oops. Palin’s publisher, Harper Collins, went to court and Saturday afternoon, a federal judge issued a restraining order requiring Gawker to take down its excerpts. Associated Press reports:
The injunction prohibits Gawker from “continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book” pending a hearing on Nov. 30.
A source familiar with the case told me: “The judge found probable cause that Gawker violated copyright and ordered Gawker to pull the leaked pages and appear in court to defend themselves and explain why this wasn’t a violation of copyright and why the leaked pages shouldn’t be permanently removed… . This is a huge victory for HarperCollins’ lawyers.”
Governor Palin has now published her own “sneak peek” at the new book.
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Alan Brooks| 11.20.10 @ 9:32PM
Palin's book is just boilerplate, the same old America is God's country, when God is a citizen of no nation.
God doesn't need a passport to get around.
Ned the Red| 11.20.10 @ 9:37PM
No, but I imagine He likes to go where He is welcome.
OPSEC| 11.24.10 @ 9:03PM
Most of the world is more religious than we are. Stop acting like we all live in goddamned Saudi Arabia already. I hear enough God's Country crap from the enemy, okay?
DaveT| 11.20.10 @ 10:19PM
You know boilerplate
dud| 11.20.10 @ 10:59PM
Same old anti-judeo christian communist reply
Gemnerd| 11.20.10 @ 11:28PM
Not the issue folks. The issue is that Gawker broke the law. And Palin was correct. It's O'Connor who needs to review copyright law.
Pat OBrien| 11.21.10 @ 1:20PM
Not really, if you are a more careful reader than you apparently are. The court said there's "probably cause" that Gawker doesn't have the right to use the pages and Gawker has to go to court to defend its use. Probably cause is NOT proof. It's what happens when someone thinks you need to defend yourself -- like every defendent in this country who is not deemed guilty by the court until after arguments are heard.
So, round one to the Publisher, but the win has not be declared yet and Gawker may yet get to use the pages. Or not. Wait and see.
Pat OBrien| 11.21.10 @ 1:21PM
Pardon my bad typing -- "probable cause"
My bad.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 3:58PM
Re-read McCain's editorial that correctly states the critical point that THE BOOK IS NOT YET PUBLISHED/ISSUED TO THE PUBLIC [once done so, it them becomes available to the public for use/discussion; but not before]. A book before publication is the exclusive property of the writer and the publisher. Palin's pre-publication book was stolen, therefore there is a copyright infringement illegality!!!!
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 5:57PM
Ah, yes, but you did notice that the new court date is AFTER the book is officially released, did you not? So, Sarah wins not matter what. And if the judge had thought that Gawker was correct the hearing would have been sooner and the pages would have stayed up.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.22.10 @ 10:17AM
Sarah and her publisher already won! Her book is released tomorrow, and it will be bought by the gazillions.
I can't wait for you guys to read it. It is a splendid peek into the person millions have been questioning.
For good or ill, she has "nailed her theses on the door", just like Martin Luther did.
(heh, the German Lutheran, Martin for those of you from Rio Linda.)
Mondo Fuego| 11.21.10 @ 4:42AM
Alan ... sorry, pal, but you are no expert on God ... quit trying to big league us ... nobody has ever heard of you ... everyone has heard of Sarah Palin.
Heh heh heh
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:00PM
And, we have all heard of God and he certainly doesn't need Alan's approval to exist. I see God every day when I look out my window and behold his creation, with my God given eyeballs.
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:00PM
And, we have all heard of God and he certainly doesn't need Alan's approval to exist. I see God every day when I look out my window and behold his creation, with my God given eyeballs.
Bill| 11.22.10 @ 7:31PM
Mondo, God speaks to me on a regular basis. He told me that he does not like you very much. Heh Heh Heh
HJ| 11.24.10 @ 9:04PM
Everyone's heard of Justin Bieber and his book too, perhaps you'd like him to be VP?
alan, i am your god| 11.21.10 @ 9:17AM
i dont need a passport or a birth certificate...
i DO need air force one...my super limo...and most of all MY TELEPROMPTER!!!!!
now carry on my little troll.
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:02PM
Actually, Alan, you need both. You will need a passport to get into heaven, otherwise known as Jesus Christ and you'll need a birth certificate issued and sealed by the Holy Spirit.
NO| 11.24.10 @ 8:36PM
Cheapest, most cloying religious metaphor ever. Why is the Bible's poetry so lost on it's fans?
Tim*| 11.21.10 @ 10:04AM
Well Miss Agnostic, You Wouldn't Understand Such Things. Would Ya.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:13AM
Well I'm sure that it is NOT up to the standard of DREAMS OF MY FATHER or PROFILES IN COURAGE; but possibly, Sarah did WRITE HER BOOK [which would make it unique in comparison to the other two]!!!!
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 12:55PM
"Not the issue folks."
Oh, so God isn't the issue at AS??
God Himself is merely boilerplate for many cons here?
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 4:01PM
Damn, you're weird, but MOST HOMOSEXUALS are that way!!!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 7:00PM
Half of the adverts at AS are religiously-oriented.
GHD| 11.24.10 @ 8:36PM
Schoolyard taunt alert! God, so juvenile.
Cal| 4.21.11 @ 2:47AM
It's an established fact that Palin used a ghostwriter. Unlike Obama, who wrote his books himself.
Christopher Holland| 11.21.10 @ 7:53PM
Lucky for God that He doesn't need a passport - who would take His photograph and vouch that He is the person who He claims to be? What address would He put on the application, and how would He collect it through the mail?
tim-with-a-bo| 11.21.10 @ 10:07PM
Speaking of passports, go get one, and then leave. Go to one of the godless countries and learn something.
OPSEC| 11.24.10 @ 9:05PM
Newsflash, Taliban-wannabe, we're one of the more Godless countries. Hell, let's turn this around, if you're so into mullahs and state religion, why don't YOU move to Iran?
Osamas Pajamas| 11.22.10 @ 12:30AM
As always, Brooks, you're a nut. And God is an atheist, it's a self-esteem thingy...
Albert| 11.22.10 @ 6:55PM
Again, the Brooks trademark: non-sequiturs and irrelevancies. The article was about COPYRIGHT INRFRINGEMENT, not the book's content. But then, in the World according to Brooks, it is acceptable to violate copyrights of conservatives. Conservatives have no rights and no laws to protect them in the Brooks World.
Alan Brooks| 11.22.10 @ 9:54PM
Maybe you are right.
Copyrights are all you have- content means very little; certainly in Palin's book. As a politician/activist she has done well.
But her first book was pure SMARM. Worse than Rove's and Bush's. You could taste the rancid apple pie.
Susan Brody| 11.28.10 @ 3:32PM
I totally agree.All that stuff she puts in her book is nothing more than a ploy to buy votes for 2012 and dumb Americans are buying it
AJ4CoCo| 11.20.10 @ 10:11PM
Alan, so what if her book is boilerplate or spectacular writing? It's still illegal for Gawker to publish "sneak peeks". It's not an issue of the quality of the book.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 12:57PM
"It's not an issue of the quality of the book."
Hell, no.
Got that right!
Pat OBrien| 11.21.10 @ 1:23PM
It's not illegal to publish sneak peeks.
Nothing Gawker did has been deemed illegal yet, and what has God got to do with it? I'm getting confused by people who here who don't have a clue what the issues are or what they're talking about.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 4:04PM
Well, it soon will be....RE-READ THE DAMNED EDITORIAL!!!!!!!!
Randy Mars| 11.28.10 @ 3:34PM
The book is probably full of fluff anyway.Nothing that intelligent people would be interested in
DAVY D HOBSON| 11.20.10 @ 10:20PM
I thought it was all his since He created the whole earth.
anotherdude| 11.20.10 @ 11:02PM
Good point. Now that you acknowledged that God is the creator perhaps you can realize that the same god gave each of us right. I doubt you will do that because the communist manifesto told you otherwise.
youguysarenuts| 11.20.10 @ 11:40PM
When did bible thumping and ignorance become vogue again? The stupidity of the American "heartland" astonishes me. I'm not a socialist or communist, but I can at least define the terms...
Paul| 11.20.10 @ 11:55PM
About 2 years ago.
MichaelSSEC | 11.21.10 @ 12:35AM
When did ignorance become vogue again? Apparently when Palin Derangement Syndrome replaced Bush Derangement Syndrome. The Palin strain of that disease makes Leftist k00ks ignore (copyright) laws and then when anyone calls them on it, the k00ks demand that everyone ELSE familiarize themselves with the laws. When we do that, and gosh darn, it turns out the k00ks were STILL wrong after all, they resort to name-calling and Christian-bashing, as though those things constitute valid arguments.
Nice try. The "Gawker" broke the law, and that's the issue. Funny how these Liberals only care about the law when they can use it to beat us over the head. When the same law applies to them, suddenly it's time to change the subject.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 12:59PM
"The "Gawker" broke the law"
And you want his hands lopped off?
Christopher Holland| 11.21.10 @ 7:58PM
I would like to cut your head off, and you haven't broken any law. Being bloody annoying is enough for me.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:35PM
"I would like to cut your head off, and you haven't broken any law."
Because yu are a violent rightwinger.
Yu Kant Spel| 11.21.10 @ 11:10PM
And you're a violent perverted leftard. So what's your point?
Tim the Enchanter| 11.22.10 @ 12:36PM
Chris- you left off the part about crapping down his neck. At least that's the way I remembered this particular threat/insult.
ds80| 11.21.10 @ 11:48PM
Alan Brooks you argue like my 8th grade daughter. Hands lopped off? Red Herring
Alan Brooks| 11.22.10 @ 9:56PM
"Alan Brooks you argue like my 8th grade daughter."
You mean you send the poor little witch to publik skool? LOL
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 7:56AM
Nah, just a large dose of monatary compensation will do, including attorneys fees and costs.
$$$$$ being striped from their wallets is much more effective than a kick in the nuts or a punch in the nose, because no one recovers the $$$$$ damages they caused.
This is the pain I can believe in, say to the tune of a million or so.
Bet they won't do it again if ordered by the Judge to pay up.
JDH| 11.24.10 @ 8:39PM
Partisan BS. Several GOP folks have been slammed hard for using music without permission in their various campaign junkets and celebratory DC shindigs. That you are trying to make this copyright issue (that hasn't yet gone to court) out to be a "Leftist kook" thing is utterly pitiful. NOBODY KNOWS YET if Gawker has broken the law. You are daft.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:21AM
It became vogue again after 11/2/10, and will continue to increase in vogueness from that day forward [except on the coasts, in Hollywood, and in acedemia where they dispise CLINGING TO GUNS AND RELIGION, but instead prefer to hold onto their copies of MIEN KAMPF, MAO'S PHILOSOPHY, FIDEL'S STEPS TOWARD POWER AND CONTROL, etc]!!!!!
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 8:18AM
Hey Oldefatre;
Three words for these Useful Idiots
"Lock And Load" Three More words just came to mind. "Full Metal Jacket".
They can say what they want about being a "violent rightwinger". Funny though since I'm from Chicago's Mobbed-Up 11th Democrap Ward [30 years] of Scumbag Mayor Richard "The Irish Don" Daley where self defense is a no no while they Kill ya.
Not in Missouri, where WE The People can shoot back with extreme prejudice, and can not be sued.
This is why I'll be glad to have these Useful Idiots come over to the "Show Me State", It'll be right between the eyes, and they'll never hear the round go off. I wonder if they'll think "Silence Is Golden, Golden after that. I know I will.
JLD| 11.24.10 @ 8:42PM
Congratulations for pussy-footing around the idea of summarily executing your politicial opponents. You're a grade-A "useful idiot" yourself, you just don't know it. Now, show some goddamned responsibility and keep this violent retributive fantasy talk to yourself.
Heartlandsucks| 11.28.10 @ 3:35PM
Good choice of words!!!
Letscheck| 11.20.10 @ 11:15PM
Gawker is irresponsible most of the time. I'm surprised if this is the first time they have been tested by the legal system.
If it is the first time, then this might wake up others who have also been abused by the snark site.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 1:04PM
Intellectual property is finished; the courts will become too clogged.
But build more prisons- the taxpayers will cough up for it.
Why dod Ward Churchill get in trouble? not for saying WTC victims included Little Eichmanns, but because he plagiarized & fabricated.
Can't have that! it's one thing to promote violence, but when you plagiarize...
Christopher Hollland| 11.21.10 @ 8:00PM
Its called telling lies, it means you are dishonest and can't be trusted to tell the truth. You like people who are dishonest?
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:37PM
You mean dishonest people such as Newt Gingrich?
Anal Crook| 11.21.10 @ 11:11PM
No, we mean dishonest people such as Michael Moore.
Alan Brooks| 11.22.10 @ 10:00PM
Okay... just didn't know what sort of liar you meant, the the conspiracy-theory ass, or the "conservative" futurassed.
burningbush | 11.20.10 @ 11:32PM
Judge does not know copyright law either:
I could have won this case for Gawker and I'm not even a lawyer.
I think the publisher "leaked" it anyway for publicity.
Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
MichaelSSEC| 11.21.10 @ 12:41AM
You're not a lawyer, yet you give authoritative legal opinions anyway? And you actually think you know more about copyright law than a judge? My, the hubris of these Left-wing apologists never ceases to amaze reasonable people.
The fact is, "fair use" rules apply to ALREADY PUBLISHED literature. This is not yet published and the ONLY people who get to use excerpts before publication are...you guessed it....the publishers and the author (and sometimes, not even the author). So, for example, a critic can review an ALREADY PUBLISHED book, and use citations from the book in a "fair use" context. But no critic can call his buddy at the printing house that's handling the work for the publishing company, obtain an illegal copy of the book prior to its publication, and then claim "fair use" when he uses those illegally obtained citations in a blog ripping the unpublished book. That's basically what "Gawker" did and it's blatantly illegal.
Pat OBrien| 11.21.10 @ 1:25PM
Where does it say already published? If I'm wrong, I'd like you to point to the language that says that so I can be correct in the future.
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 8:28AM
I'll bet he believes that the elements of La Cosa Nostra [The Mob] didn't own the Teamsters Union among many others.
Maybe he should study Findlaw and read some case law before he opens his yap. The winning model as the poster boy of Useful Idiots of the left.
KJD| 11.24.10 @ 8:44PM
Self-appointed non-lawyers experts of the GOP persuasion have been trying to tell us all it's legal to torture fellow human beings for the last decade, and you come out swinging against "Left-wing apologists" for being party to the violation of BOOKS?
Blatantly absurd.
YouAreSmarterThanTheJudge| 11.21.10 @ 12:09PM
Too bad you weren't the lawyer for the Gawker. They must of had someone stupider than you to represent them. When does "fair use" allow someone to publish entire pages of text? The purpose of fair use is to rebut a quote. Gawker published entire pages, and then did not rebut the contents. In your legal opinion, does "fair use" allow someone to just post pages of content? What isn't the judge and the Gawker's lawyer as smart as you?
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 1:06PM
Put everyone in prison who gloms intellectual property?
Or take them to the cleaners?
Yeah, right. Sure.
Anal Crook| 11.21.10 @ 11:15PM
Since when have you got a problem with either of those things? They're what your beloved pederasts at your beloved TSA are doing to air travelers who refuse to let them play with their ding-a-lings, you know.
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 8:32AM
Contempt of Court Enforcement will achive both "Yeah, right. Sure".
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 8:34AM
Chris| 11.22.10 @ 8:32AM
Contempt of Court Enforcement will achive both "Yeah, right. Sure".
Sarah| 11.20.10 @ 11:39PM
Is this judge in Palin's pocket?
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:25AM
NO, but no doubt, the federal judge might be up AG Holder's ARS, as most of them are presently in our justice system, unfortionately!!!!!!!!
cars| 11.21.10 @ 12:00AM
A little bit of information is a dangerous thing for some people. Fair use isn't blanket permission to ignore copyright. If Gawker posted many scanned pages, that's not fair use, that's theft. A magazine might pay a great deal of money for the right to publish an exclusive excerpt from an upcoming book; they can't just send in spies and publish that excerpt for free citing 'fair use'.
And go look at the Gawker page right now. Read the comments. What a lot of hateful, angry people, raging at the stupidest things. They're so angry they can't see straight, and are confusing Harper Collins' perfectly reasonable legal action as "Palin suing us". These are not reasonable people, and they are not smart people. Worst of all is their monstrous attitude towards the disabled and their families, when it suits them to be cruel bigots.
Bob diddlet| 11.21.10 @ 12:08AM
Palin is a media WHORE!
George Bush| 11.21.10 @ 12:11AM
I disagree. She is just a regular ol' whore. Giving her the "media" label overstates her credentials.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:27AM
NO, but apparently you are a STUPID ARSCAVITY!!!!!!!!!
Bob's anus| 11.21.10 @ 10:33PM
0bama is an illegal commie FAG!
Hillary Clinton| 11.21.10 @ 10:35PM
I disagree. He's just a regular ol' retard. Giving him the "commie" label overstates his credentials.
KSD| 11.24.10 @ 8:46PM
She is, and her supporters are dead-silent on her unmitigated lust for fame despite having attacked Obama for his "celebrity". Funny, that. Why does her obsession with the camera get the pass?
Cheryl| 11.21.10 @ 1:21AM
This whole thing is stupid! Judge should have seen it was Caribou Barbie just churning up more publicity to squeeze more $$ from her low-information followers. Fair Use does apply; the book is published; not released to general public, but copies have been sold to journos. Too bad she's not as concerned about her children as she is about the "Stab America in the Heart" installment of her railing at people she doesn't agree with!
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 1:08PM
Good point.
Palin is a glory seeker, too.
"If Jesus saves, well he'd better save Himself,
from the gory glory seekers
who would use his name in death."
Tim*| 11.21.10 @ 2:29PM
Better a glory seeker than A Negative Attention Craver like Brooks here.
Go feed the squirrels in the park.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 3:45PM
"Go feed the squirrels in the park."
Can't your family get on Foodstamps?
Tim*| 11.21.10 @ 4:05PM
Couldn't Your Mama Raise A Man ?
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 7:19PM
Your father the colonel made you march around like a tin soldier?
Tim*| 11.21.10 @ 8:59PM
Me Taught Us To Ride, Shoot & Kick Ass.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:39PM
Yes, colonel Dad turned you into a martinet.
Tim*| 11.22.10 @ 12:00AM
Obviously, You're Mommy Turned You Into A Little Negative Attention Craving Pouting Pussy.
CalMark| 11.21.10 @ 3:36AM
WOW, there's a lot of hateful liberals here, bashing Palin and the laws of the United States.
You trolls seem to surf obsessively and find any favorable references to Palin, then spew bile, rage, and hate. How much is Evil, Inc. (a Soros/Obama Joint Venture) paying you?
KLKD| 11.24.10 @ 8:47PM
Well, you hit the nail on the head - one WOULD have to search obsessively to find any favorable references.
I say BS!!| 11.21.10 @ 5:17AM
Who is this GOVERNOR Palin??
Ohh that's right.... the one who QUIT.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:31AM
Like the corrupt Harlem kingpin moron who's about to be centured by the House, the domestic terrorists who are in running our government, the anti-American congressman who backstabbed his country and it president by conspiring with Russia??????????????
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 1:11PM
"domestic terrorists"
Oldfart is a wingnut, not a conservative-
it used to be conservatives tried to conserve something.
DJD| 11.24.10 @ 8:49PM
They sure don't know how to conserve money or liberty anymore, that much is obvious. So what are good are they?
caroline | 11.21.10 @ 3:23PM
I think she is applying for a job as park ranger, she should. She could be close to home with all the kids.. I'll petition for her to get the job. Go for that job Sarah. Win, win situation for all.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 3:43PM
Right below Franklin says he feels the hate;
the hate aimed at Obama.
Unbrookable Alan| 11.21.10 @ 10:38PM
Wow. You 0bama gonad garglers are such hypocrites.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:40PM
You why don't you just scream the n-word?
Tim*| 11.22.10 @ 12:04AM
OK !
NUTBAG !
Go Feed The Squirrels In The Park, Nutbag.
Franklin| 11.21.10 @ 6:09AM
Wow, I can feel the hate.
Palin may not be perfect like you people, but she has more love for this country than little o.
That makes her special in my view.
Thomas Edison| 11.21.10 @ 6:44AM
Special... Like you mean " short-bus " Special?
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:34AM
No, like the Democrats that CAME UP SHORT on 11/2/10!!!!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 7:21PM
"No, like the Democrats that CAME UP SHORT on 11/2/10!!!!!!!!!"
You don't have the Senate. You will be vetoed.
Fillibuster Power!| 11.21.10 @ 10:40PM
Like hell we don't. Say hello to gridlock, Anal Crook.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:43PM
But you wont shrink the govt, because you merely want to shift most of the funding to Defense.
Tim the Enchanter| 11.22.10 @ 12:45PM
Alan- seems that most of the people that still support the Kenyan are those with advanced degrees and high school dropouts. Says everything I need to know about the dangers of over-education and under-education.
Alan Brooks| 11.22.10 @ 10:04PM
So then all you have to do is turn America's skools into schools? when might that be? midcentury?
Willow| 11.21.10 @ 12:44PM
"it turns out the k00ks were STILL wrong after all, they resort to name-calling and Christian-bashing, as though those things constitute valid arguments." Noble sentiment.
A little farther down these comments, we see RWNJs posting things like "little o", "corrupt Harlem kingpin moron", and "Holder's ARS".
There seems to be a little hypocrisy here. It also seems tinged with bigotry and/or racism.
And a bit of ignorance/illiteracy -- "in acedemia where they dispise"...
NKD| 11.24.10 @ 8:50PM
Special != Qualified to speak on virtually any topic, or be voted into power for anything she could plausibly up and quit again
Larry| 11.21.10 @ 7:25AM
So much bitterness from the libs -- makes me want to buy the book!
Charles Y Farley | 11.21.10 @ 7:36AM
"This person" -- any conservative...
I didn't know this person could read! Every time I see him, he looks like an unshaven, illiterate derelict in a self-absorbed drunken rage, ranting and raving on a street corner. He is a typical GOP/TP'er, no doubt about it.
This person is a whining, narcissistic sore loser, an idiot, a bully and at least six other things I can't name here. I'll leave it up to your imagination: he's a bleeping, bleeped, bleepish bleeper of a bleep-bleep bleepazoid.
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As for your other insults, Mr. Farley says, 'Wash your mouth out with soap -- you need a "time-out."'"
Fat Farley| 11.21.10 @ 10:45PM
He long ago swore off being a mean-spirited, zero-sum greed machine.
In other words, like all leftards, he's not content with just being all those things, but also has to be a hate-monger, a misogynist, a racist, a nutjob, a traitor, and a totalitarian control freak. Yeah, you defenders of these parasitic and economically illiterate freaks are doing a real good job... at exposing how retarded all apologists for the far left really are.
Fastoid| 11.21.10 @ 7:46AM
It's funny to read the comments attacking Sarah Palin because any school kid using a computer mom bought can post a comment here, but none of you will ever sell a single book. Losers always hate winners.
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 7:23PM
Better to sell no book than a BAD book.
Christopher Holland| 11.21.10 @ 8:04PM
You meet this success indicator very well. Selling no books is just the way for you to achieve your life's potential
Alan Brooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:45PM
And what best selling book did you author, Christopher?
Anal Crooks| 11.21.10 @ 10:47PM
"A Whore Named Moore Gets An Anal Sore"
Alan Brooks| 11.22.10 @ 10:06PM
Great! alot better than Decision Points- laughs are better than yawns.
manonthestreet| 11.21.10 @ 8:17AM
She must be over the target.
Question,do liberals ever say anything good about anyone?
Question,will Michael Moore take a bath this month?
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:14PM
Only if he can find a bath tub big enough to get his fat ass into.
Tim the Enchanter| 11.22.10 @ 12:48PM
That'd be easy. Going to work today, I noticed a few dozen of those gas and oil storage tanks. Drain, re-fill with water and soap, and Bob's yer uncle!
JK| 11.24.10 @ 8:51PM
Epic debate and rhetoric from Rich Fisher here, ladies and gentlemen. Man, MIT must miss having you around with a mind like that.
JOS| 11.24.10 @ 8:52PM
Question,will extreme-right closet radicals who barely believe in anything anymore ever realize that Moore isn't a relevant talking point with most current-day liberal folks?
Stop aiming for cheap shots and your fumbling "movement" will do a lot better.
NVA Patriot| 11.21.10 @ 8:36AM
I rarely respond to children pretendingto be intellectuals - intellectuals who stoop to name calling and gutter politics as rapidly as possible.
In this case I just want to point out that the insanity of today's Palin hating as shown in all these posts is going to help Palin become President.
Libs have played the victim/Repubs are stupid card for so long you have lost site of how big people play.
So first, Sarah has out foxed Rove and the Mainstream media and developed a media strategy which complete bypassess the 'gate keepers.'
She has leveraged her star power to create a positive, sympathetic 'I'm just a mom image'
In this case a mom who is writing books to earn money for her family. She expects her property to not be stolen.
She doesn't respond to critics EXCEPT when it will be perceived as a mother protecting either her children, her family, her state, or country. This dynamic makes anyone attacking her a jerk for attacking a mom.
To prove the effectiveness of this strategy - look up recent John Stewart monologues where Jon S is beginning to feel sympathy fro Sarah P and has defended her - not in a global sense but on specifics.
Now the more you act like a JERK towards SP the more powerful the dynamic she has establised will be come. As the dynamic becomes a modest movement it will likely carry her through the primaries and then into the Whitehouse - there are a lot of mom's voting. A LOT OF MOMs volunteering. A LOT of Moms who don't like other Moms being gratuitously attacked.
So have at boyz
KL| 11.24.10 @ 8:53PM
MOMS MOMS MOMS MOMS
... I think that's what you're trying to say?
zeno malan| 11.21.10 @ 9:15AM
The truth will emerge. Too bad so many losers can't find a better way to devote their energies to!
Palin will change America for the good. Whether or not she runs for POTUS, someone with her moral fortitude will!!!
random european guy| 11.21.10 @ 9:20AM
It used to be North vs. South right? Now it's liberals vs. conservatives? Christians vs. communists? Evolutionists vs. creationists? Shouldn't you all be Americans first? Wasn't that the purpose of your civil war?
People have the right to disagree from one another and should learn from the other side. No one owns the whole and absolute truth. What a schizophrenic and paranoid society you guys are building. Good grief.
Get a grip guys. Take care.
@topic: Gawker was wrong (and arrogant) because the book wasn't published yet.
Yosemeti Sam| 11.21.10 @ 11:05AM
" ... schizophrenic and paranoid society ...." ?
Yo, European:
You've not heard of the ETERNAL struggle - GOOD vs EVIL?
Sort of happens - EVERYWHERE.
What exactly is your recipe for fighting EVIL in all its' myriad manifestations other than token hand wringing?
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:17PM
We've seen their answer, call 1800America and ask us to come save their ass once again. Then when we're done it's thanks, here's your $20, I'll call you when I get horny again.
Shawn| 11.21.10 @ 12:17PM
Thanks, Random European. Wish I could tell you you're wrong, but you're right. The Tea Party is taking this country to "heck" in a handbasket.
They're propping up people like Sarah Palin over qualified, educated, poised, thoughtful Republicans and that has thrown off our beloved Balance of Powers.
And they want THEIR country back??? The unqualified, undereducated, quitter masses never really had it!
Expel "The Ruling Class"!| 11.21.10 @ 4:32PM
Hi Mike Castle. Glad you could check in & give us your thoughts.
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:08AM
Love it! This moron O'Connor should now attempt to remove Sarah's boot from her ARS possibly. As Forrest Gump once proclaimed, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES, I suppose!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 11.21.10 @ 10:10AM
PS: Maybe O'Connor might wish to now phone in her vote FOR Bristol Palin on Dancing With The Stars, as many of the rest of us will be doing!!!!!
Mary| 11.21.10 @ 10:46AM
No matter the content of any book, Gawker was violating copyright laws and releasing content without permission prior to the books official release. Maureen O'Connor, GALB.
Bruce | 11.21.10 @ 11:30AM
Yawn ... this thread is but another example of why AS must immediately require registration and verification before allowing comments, like other major blogs do. These creeps from the left - those wonderfully "tolerant and loving" morons we hear so much about (from the left, of course) crank up their email each day to get the latest "you hang out at AS today, you go to Malkin, etc" to start trouble. It has left basically conservative blogs all but unreadable - which one can suppose is the intent. Meanwhile - liberal rags like Kos ban anyone not of their stripe who dares leave a negative comment on the hateful spew common to that venue.
You libs are simply terrified of Sarah and everything she represents - old fashioned, American VALUES - something you have none of and know nothing about. Punks.
Shawn| 11.21.10 @ 12:11PM
Ha ha. You called us punks. I love it. I'm 45 and yes, I am and have always been a punk. I just wear it on the inside, these days.
The funny part is the punk movement was built on anti-government, anarchist attitudes.
Sunny Came Home| 11.21.10 @ 11:08PM
Ha ha! You're brain dead!
Tim the Enchanter| 11.22.10 @ 12:52PM
You get banned from Newsbusters again and need a new place to lurk?
Willow| 11.21.10 @ 12:54PM
"AS must immediately require registration and verification before allowing comments"
Could it be that The Left learned this tactic from Tammy Bruce's constant urging via Twitter and on her radio show, and Conservatives4Palin clever operatives figuring out the no-verification e-mail voting glitch in ABC/DWTS on Monday nights?
They may have unwittingly leveled the playing field by bragging about their DWTS voting fraud exploits (because, who really believes that ALL of those people voting for my sister Bristol actually WATCHED the DWTS show every week?).
Malia| 11.21.10 @ 11:07PM
Malia is really Sasha's daughter with her daddy. It's true! Andrew Sullivan says so!
LDD| 11.24.10 @ 8:56PM
The only people I'm "terrified" of are those with absolutely no discernable "values". The entire problem with the kind of populist windbag you folks have been elevating is that they have opinions that blow with the wind on everything from torture to the economy. They do not appear to believe in anything, and are motivated more by talk radio and book opportunities than actual, true political principle. Why aren't more people on the GOP side noticing this?
Goodpeople from Brazil| 11.21.10 @ 11:50AM
The Palins and The Libs - the more the Liberals beat on the Palins, the more people will like them. Nobody sides with bullies.
And, I agree a little bit with the comments above from a "random european guy" ....
Plus, The Palins are indeed a lovely family. We here down in South America are in Love with Bristol...she is talented and beautiful...no one can be the best dancer in 3 months-learning...But one's character can be detected in 3 seconds...and goodness !! doesnt she has a sublime sweet shining character, personality? ...no wonder America is melting...about her. Gorgeous Bristol!
Willow| 11.21.10 @ 1:04PM
No, it's the same static number of people who became enamored of Sarah Palin back in fall of 2008 -- about 20% of the American electorate in America's "heartland" will never disavow her even when it's proved she committed tax evasion, and fraud involving a variety of issues including government health care for the child she claims as her youngest, her homes (4 at last count, maybe a 5th in AZ), the dairy scandal, etc.
The other 25% who voted for Sarah along with John McCain (yeah, he headlined the ticket, although you'd never know it now) have abandoned the S.S.Palin like the proverbial rats.
Malia| 11.21.10 @ 11:04PM
Damn, you leftards who can't admit how stupidly you voted in 2008 sure do project a lot.
KJD| 11.24.10 @ 8:58PM
... and you GOP faithful who still can't see that she helped torpedo McCain's bid (only to then quit the only job that could have possibly qualified her to do much of anything) are still stupidly trying to elevate her and pointlessly give her more power. What does it take for you folks to call a lame duck candidate a lame duck?
Shawn| 11.21.10 @ 12:08PM
This is hardly a win for Palin. She just looks like the vindictive, paranoid witch she is.
I can not imagine this woman has any friends at all. And from what I hear, she only has a small handful of trusted advisors...including Todd.
Being a politician is about building relationships, building bridges - not building fences around you. (Pun intended)
Shawn Blows Goats I Have Proof| 11.21.10 @ 10:52PM
Projecting again, I see.
Blackwatch| 11.21.10 @ 11:33PM
"from what I hear, she only has a small handful of trusted advisors (sic)...including Todd."
So what's wrong with that? You say it likes it bad to have a small handful of trusted advisers. All successful people have a small handful of trusted advisers. Having a large circle of trusted advisers is what gives you a Baracka Obama. Someone who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Someone who has no center, no moral compass, who can not make decisions on his own.
"Being a politician is about building relationships"......well you did not complete your thought because it gives you away. Let me do it for you:
"Being a politician is about building relationships.....with OTHER POLITICIANS.
There I said it for you. Sorry but Palin is too smart for you guys to fall into the Ruling Class crowd AND THAT IS WHY SIDE IS FOAMING AT THE MOUTH OVER HER. Good luck with that buckwheat. She's not Ruling Class.
She has figured out how to twist you guys in knots and you can't do anything but look dumber and more craven with every attack. And her show on TLC is a hit and will open new doors for her with the American people. You can't control the message anymore either. Sucks to be on your team huh?
LibBuster| 11.21.10 @ 12:16PM
How come the hateful comments from the Libs don't have any facts or useful information in them? I know the Libs are afraid of science, and of people that are successful. And, I know you can't take care of yourselves, so you want a big government that will take care of you. But, what is your problem with Palin? Do you not like her because she is happy and you are miserable? Is it because she doesn't have to read her speeches like Obama does? Is it because she can pronounce 'corpsman' correctly and Obama can't? She has not power over you, but Libs are obsessed with her. What about the guys that printing $600 in money, or passing laws to prevent companies from being able to grow? USA is following the same game plan that ruined the countries of Europe... but you think Palin is your enemy.
Willow| 11.21.10 @ 1:17PM
"How come the hateful comments from the Libs don't have any facts or useful information in them?"
That's because Free Republic, Townhall, Redstate, American Spectator, etc. are fact-free zones -- it's useless to go to the trouble of backing up a comment with a variety of verifiable facts not linked to any partisan websites (i.e., Politifact.com) on a blog that encourages endless circle-jerks of references from one RWNJ to another.
I.e., it's a waste of time.
And the denizens of the aforementioned blogs don't join in the discourse at the many forums that welcome all points of view, because the Freepers post unverifiable opinions, and eventually descend into ad hominem attacks and puerile personal insults of people who deride them for their narrowmindedness.
Rich Fisher| 11.21.10 @ 6:23PM
Well, Willow, why don't you be the first to post your "facts" here and let us take a look at them. Seems like all you do is snipe. Some of us would like to see your facts, so trot them out and let us analyze them. Unless, of course, all you have is "facts" from the Huffington Post or MoveOn.org. Bring it on!
Chelsea's Daughter & Sister| 11.21.10 @ 10:58PM
Projecting again, I see.
Politifiction.com| 11.21.10 @ 11:01PM
Ah yes, politifuct... also known as the Soros-funded fact-free far-left spin zone. Physician heal thyself!
wodiej| 11.22.10 @ 7:42AM
Ah, when facts are absent, try to fool people using "big" words. LOL...
SSL| 11.24.10 @ 9:00PM
Liberals are afraid of science? LOL! Why is it then that Bush slashed those budgets and Obama has been restoring them? Why is it that the GOP and pundit horde routinely attack the credibility of scientific institutions and the scientists they employ?
Frank Provasek| 11.21.10 @ 9:25PM
Coincidence that Fox News and Palin's publisher, Harper Collins, are both owned by Rupert Murdoch?
Duh| 11.21.10 @ 10:55PM
Coincidence that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, Wikipedia, and all the rest of 0bama's whores are also whoring for George Soros?
Refreshed| 6.20.11 @ 8:46AM
woot, woot! great connection...Smear on on lipstick and go Sarah go... you're out in front and just a few yards from the finish line.... WINNER
Tim*| 11.21.10 @ 9:54PM
Uh Oh ! The Obama Regime Will Put Murdoch & Palin In Jail For Practicing Free Press.
Anchises| 11.21.10 @ 10:29PM
Eh, what's up doc? I'm voting for Porky Palin on Dancing with the Pigs. We'll hog the show !
Tim*| 11.22.10 @ 12:10AM
Michelle Obama's Gonna Be On Her New Show, "Dancing With My Fat Ass On"
Osamas Pajamas| 11.22.10 @ 12:32AM
Nope, let's lop off YOUR hands!
wodiej| 11.22.10 @ 7:39AM
Oops, guess O'Connor is the one not familiar w the law. She's about as bright as Kathleen Parker who said Alexander Hamilton was an illegal alien when the US was still a British colony.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.22.10 @ 10:44AM
WOW, folks,
How many of the SOROS trolls here have even read the "sneak peek" Sarah wrote?
(It is after all linked above.)
I would LOVE any of the stupids to argue even one point of her sneak peek here.
OK, go for it loosers!
Pete2| 11.22.10 @ 11:52AM
Reading down thru the replies, it is quite obvious the lefties have serious mental issues. They sound like a bunch of 2 year olds. What a bunch of immature twerps...no wonder people like Soros and Gore can manipulate them.
Tim the Enchanter| 11.22.10 @ 12:56PM
Pete- that's the idea.
Refreshed| 6.20.11 @ 8:43AM
pete2...you are so RIGHT!
ChamWOW d'Elysses| 11.22.10 @ 6:43PM
Having sneak peeks get out there creates stir & interest, so unless Gawker put her whole book out there, they actually helped her, albeit illegally.
Objecting, getting it stopped, and putting out their own sneak peeks will create more stir & interest...
Rake it in, Sarah! Mama Grizzly beats the Grisly Gawkers!
AKLD| 11.24.10 @ 9:02PM
I don't think you included quite enough bumper-sticker sentiment and sloganeering in your post. Do you think you could come up with some more of that crap?
Wasilla Lad| 11.23.10 @ 3:46PM
Kristi Moen is HOT, Sarah Palin NOT !
Refreshed| 6.20.11 @ 8:41AM
We are praying for you Sarah. Angels, wing tip to wing tip. Ring of fire around you. Esther in a modern day. Keep your eyes on the prize... set your face like a flint. a soft answer turns away wrath. love