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Sarah and Bristol Palin talk motherhood. Credit: InTouch
It would seem that Palin Family Values aren't actually all that valuable on the newsstand.
When In Touch Magazine paid $100,000 for their story about the Palin family, they were probably hoping for better sales than they got. Page Six reports that, despite Palin's constant presence in the media, the issue of the glossy gossip mag with her and Bristol on the cover "sold about 500,000 copies on newsstands." While that may sound like a lot, it is only half the amount of copies that a recent issue featuring the late actress Brittany Murphy on the cover sold, according to the Post.
Using hyperbolic logic, this must mean that Americans greatly prefer the death of a young actress to a story about how a mother and daughter "chose life." (Does this mean the Palins are pro-choice? Rim shot.) Is what a Gawker commenter wrote -- "Sarah Palin is like Haiti; eventually people will lose interest" -- true?
We prefer a simpler theory. Namely, that Palin is overexposed. There's no need to buy a magazine to find out what she has to say. Her fans can watch her on television, or pick up a copy of her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." So why would In Touch pay $100,000 to put the Palins on their cover? Perhaps they've learned their lesson -- the Post reports that next week's cover subject will be none other than Angelina Jolie.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 15)
1-22-2010 @ 9:58AM
ming said...sara palin is smart. obama has tried to force healthcare down our throats. i hope that sara tries to become president in 2012.
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1-24-2010 @ 8:42PM
G said...Yeah, great logic. That sounds like a GREAT reason to vote for the dumbest person on Earth. Because you don't like Obama. She's a bible-thumping, lying retard.
1-24-2010 @ 8:41PM
Steven said...First, learn to spell her name.
1-24-2010 @ 8:48PM
jim said...Golleee--this is just the person we need to run the most powerful nation on the planet. Her home-spun, moose-shooting brand of di-plomacy will just round up those maveric countries and make them play nice----
1-24-2010 @ 8:50PM
sheila said...Only those who have insurance, are politically inclined to vote no are. Those of us who do not have money and/or a job or enough money do not vote for a government health plan. If the shoe were on the other foot, tell me if those who have and those who have not are equal? I don't think so. So the big picture is that everyone should be insured and have a health plan. If you can afford better healthcare, then opt out and pay for that premium. That's just the best way to handle healthcare. Ask someone who needs it.
1-24-2010 @ 8:50PM
David said...I also hope miss mouse head runs in 2012. That's a sure bet that President Obama will win a second term in a landslide along with American's (like Canadians already have - and love it) having the health care it needs. You have been brainwashed by the 350 billion dollar insurance lobby who want even more of your money while providing you little or no actual health care coverage.
1-24-2010 @ 9:28PM
ccwstauffer said...Thanks, best laugh I've had all day
1-24-2010 @ 9:47PM
Frank said...It's sick minds like yours that need frontal Lobottomies!
1-24-2010 @ 10:05PM
steve said...yea ,and you're a genius
1-24-2010 @ 10:11PM
Kathie said...Yes, ming, that jerk, President Obama has nothing but ulterior motives for wanting affordable healthcare for everyone. Sarah Palin is a stupid puppet for the Republicans. They used her to try to get some of Hillary's voters before the Democratic party ditched her corrupt ass. Hillary was a pawn to distract the Rebublicans. It worked.
1-29-2010 @ 3:09PM
sarah said...People on her side of the Christian fense have this great knack for making us pro-choicer's feel like dirt. That's wrong. There is a better way to say that you love your baby and your so happy with life then to cram your views down my throat by using it as a banner with your money shot. I'm glad it didn't sell. There are MILLIONS of women who also have chosen thier babies, and its no big deal. When your encouraged to be happy about giving birth, meaning that your CHOICE is under the right circumstances for YOU- meaning: TEACH your kids to respect thier futures and themselves and this whole idiotic abortion issue would dwindle and go away. Realize your kids are going to have sex and then prepare them for it. I'm sorry, you might disagree with me, but there are strong christian under tones in what she said and I was really really affended by it the instant that I saw it.
I had my son, because i was ready for him. Not because my Church made me feel like total crap for getting pregant in the first place. I'm sorry but they do that. They have to make it sound like they are so good and ANY one on the street who is NOT them, would obviosuly choose to have an abortion unless they were a Christain and therefor they are less then human.
YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY CHOOSE TO BE PRO-CHOICE and STILL BE A GOOD CHRISTIAN. ALL MURDER IS WRONG not just abortion. It's ludicrus to assume other wise. To choose to be pro-life is still a CHOICE!!!!!
Whew! now that I got that off my chest, I need a cookie! Palin drives me nuts.
1-24-2010 @ 10:30PM
Tom Cole said...S. Palin is dumb. Thank you President Obama for addressing and trying to pass legislation that would provide for a more just and improved health care system.
1-24-2010 @ 10:41PM
Ian said...Ming-If your a woman I hope your very pretty and if your a man i hope your very handsome because after making that comment it's plain to see that you have NO brains,good luck finding them
1-24-2010 @ 10:56PM
Phil said...If you think that this woman is smart, you are precisely one of the dimwits she's got fooled. What she is is a snake oil saleswoman, who makes dimwits like you feel it's okay to be stupid. And president Palin? There's a lot of morons out there but not enough to get this fool elected.
1-24-2010 @ 10:58PM
jerry said...Why, you won't vote.
1-24-2010 @ 11:03PM
djsambiz said...Ming...you dont even know her name........ is $arah. Is alot you dont know about this woman ..learn before you vote for her. God made women to have a 4 days period no 4 years.....
1-24-2010 @ 11:13PM
Greg said..."Smart" is not a word I would use in describing Sara Palin. Not even "remotely smart".
1-24-2010 @ 11:25PM
loganr30 said...well, people lets talk healthcare, first of all nowhere in the constition does it say that the govt. will give anyone any type of care health or otherwise,when it was written by our leaders,the constition was set up only to tell us what the govt. could not do to us. i.e. take our land or tell us what god to pray to,but over the years our leaders have dicided that they are smarter than us. if you read the laws set up by the constition the govt, should by law never ever go into buiness, but it has sense it runs or has control over G.M. and alot of banks that is a law that our new congress and pres. have broken.
second clinton signed a law that says no one can be turned away from a hospital for lack of insurance, that hospital must by law save your life.
that hospital may not want to give you new breast implants or a new nose, but those are not life saving mesures. don't get me wrong our healthcare system needs to be fixed, first of all why can't we get our health coverage like we do car ins. meaning why can't health ins. cross state lines, i.e. alabama has only ONE health care provider allowed in state, if more could come in the price for all in that state would drop, it's called free interprise supply and demand.
we also need to fix medicare NOW not just when it servers the great almighty obama, but do it now, not only would that help in health cost but also our national debt. then we need to fix tort reform make it harder to sue your doctor IF he told you the possible outcomes. if you know what might happen and you still want those new breast, and you go through with it and get sick like the dr. said you might it in not his fault he warned you. deal with it, but if he cuts off the wrong foot or something like that then that is his fault, sue the idiot.
this comes from someone who has seen the best dr.s money can't buy the army, and you might not want the gov't doing your healthcare if you know that not all of them are good just cheap. just my thoughts
1-24-2010 @ 11:52PM
Mary said...It is amazing how health care for all American's is so much worse than invading a country that did not invade us and sending our troops to die in a senseless war. It seems like having our tax dollars actually helping the people in our country is unamerican but spending billions on a political war is more worthy. It is also strange how the conservative political agenda, those who pride themselves on high morals and religious ideology, have such little compassion for their fellow Americans. What a surprise judgement day will be for those who believe it is yet to come. I do not need the healthcare program that Obama is seeking and no one is trying to cram it down the throat of anyone who does not want it. I do howerver, believe that all Americans deserve to be treated with dignity and fairness and access to reasonably priced health care. The Obama haters are protesting way too much for this to be just about healthcare. As they have stated, they want to see Obama fail, under any circumstances , in hopes of winning the White House in 2012.
1-25-2010 @ 12:03AM
Judy said...dumb and dumber