Meet Sarah Palin, Professional Celebrity
Since August 2008, Sarah Palin has been one of the most famous political figures in the country. Since August 2009, she's been one of our most famous figures, period.
By August 2010, she may be unrivaled in the fame department.
Last week, we reported how the former Alaska governor was working on a TV series about her home state, pitched by none other than famed producer Mark Burnett.
A day before that, her publishers at HarperCollins announced she was embarking on a second book, a follow-up to her blockbuster best-selling memoir, Going Rogue.
The day before that, she was the marquee guest on The Tonight Show, upstaging the likes of Olympic champion Shaun White and American Idol star Adam Lambert.
No small feat there.
Sarah Palin speaking at some event recently.
At least on the surface, she remains engaged in politics, praising the Tea Party movement, and somewhat involved in journalism ... or whatever Fox News is.
A joke she told on The Tonight Show said it all: "The truth is, though, I'm glad that I'm not vice president. I would not know what to do with all that free time." Bam!
Seriously, though. No one works harder at being a celebrity than Sarah Palin, whether she's hitting an Oscar gift suite or trying to cash in on teen mom Bristol Palin.
But toward what end? A 2012 presidential run? Tens of millions? A daily talk show? Oprah-like, single-name dominance of pop culture and soon the entire universe?
Everyone wondering exactly that simply enhances her star power, as does the blurring of the worlds of politics, celebrity and the media, which extends beyond her.
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November 23rd, 2010 8:32 PM
Sarah Palin is an IDIOT and I can't stand her and everything she says about seeing Russia from her house and the global scale of the Bush Doctrine. I'd make fourteen times the president she would have been, when John McCain would inevitably die. We would have been the laughing stock of the world. It's a good damn thing Obama was elected, or we would have been doomed with ANOTHER dumbass for president.
April 17th, 2010 12:38 PM
Sarah Palin is closer to me in her views than Oba-mama even pretends to be. $5mil in income for s sitting president... ys he is not influenced at all.... right.
March 11th, 2010 10:48 AM
Will someone please cut this woman's hair in a style from THIS decade?
March 10th, 2010 3:21 PM
Why don't you stop reporting everything that she does and maybe she will just go away???
March 10th, 2010 1:16 PM
The founder of the TEAPARTY movement has called $arah a WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING and has warned against her. That didn't get much press, though.....
Rank: Staff Member
March 10th, 2010 9:21 AM
@for_real_tho: You're right. We should really learn from Palin and not use her name for attention. Where would we possibly have gotten that idea from?
Thank you for making such insightful comments to show us the error of our ways.
Rank: D-Lister
March 10th, 2010 9:12 AM
stop trying to be all political and using this woman's nbame to pull google hits....you are tools....completely misinformed and all in all hypocrites....big dumb hypocrites...