No Separate Christian Version of Sarah Palin Memoir Planned
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
News reports that Sarah Palin is planning a separate Christian version of her forthcoming memoir, Going Rogue, are false, according to her publisher, HarperCollins. The reports were so widely circulated that they appear to have caused confusion at Zondervan, a Christian publisher owned by HarperCollins, where the director of publicity said yesterday that a special Christian edition of the book had been planned but was scrapped because of the expedited timetable for the book's release.
Reports about a special Christian edition of Palin's memoir included a long Vanity Fair profile on Palin last summer, which said that her memoir was to be published "not only by HarperCollins but also in a special edition by Zondervan, the Bible-publishing house, that may include supplemental material on faith."
Politico has reported on the possibility of "a slight addition on faith for the Zondervan edition," and bloggers have speculated on what information a separate Christian edition would include.
Instead, Zondervan will copublish the same version of Palin's memoir and distribute it to Christian booksellers. "We always said Zondervan was codistributing the book, but it's the same book" as the one HarperCollins imprint Harper is publishing, says Tina Andreadis, a HarperCollins spokeswoman.
Originally set to be published next spring, Harper recently moved the release date for Palin's memoir up to November 17 to take advantage of current interest in the former Alaska governor.
In an interview yesterday, Zondervan publicity director Karen Campbell said that a separate Christian edition had been planned but that "when the release date was moved up, they left it as the same version."
In an E-mail message today, Campbell said she misspoke. "Zondervan never planned on publishing a separate Christian edition of Going Rogue with supplemental material," she said. "From what I understand, it was misreporting."
Zondervan's roster includes Rick Warren, whose Purpose-Driven Life has sold more hardback copies than any nonfiction title in American history, and it publishes popular editions of the Bible.
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Oh please
I have voted against Palin twice - I was an AK resident when she ran for gov. there. It had nothing to do with her personal life, her children, or her religion. I didn't even know about her children or her religion when I voted against her in Alaska. I voted against her because she is not qualified for public office. She proved it by quitting the governorship of AK.
And to say that those of us who do not like her and won't vote for her have probably had abortions is so patently ridiculous, it's unbelievable...
Actually, the post by Sharon Leavitt in Florida is fairly indicative of the type of people who support Palin. Sharon's right, she's just like Sarah - unable to express herself clearly in the English language, fixated on a couple of buzz-word topics (abortion, religion), and accusative of everyone who disagrees with her.
The problem(s) with Palin
I thought I'd add a liberal viewpoint to these comments.
It is incorrect (and a rhetorical device) to suggest that the reason folks like me don't like Palin has anything to do with her personal life.
I care nothing about it. Having two teenagers, I know what it is like to have wild animals in one's house!
But to the point--why I don't like her. Firstly it's the hypocracy. Professing yourself a good Christian and then acting otherwise by lying multiple times about her record (Bridge to Nowhere funding, Gas pipeline, Troopergate) disqualifies any of these "Christian" politicians. While I don't believe her transgressions rise to the level of a Vitter or Sanford it does prove one cannot trust anything she says.
She lacks intellectual curiosity, a poor and sometimes dangerous trait in someone who makes policy (see Bush, George W.) When asked what periodicals she read she replied, "...All of them...." Meaning none, also see "lying" above. While I appreciate her (projected) down-home folksiness I'd rather have someone who knows more about the world and different sides of different issues in a position of policy.
She lacks good experience. She only has experience with issues in Alaska, which is quite different than the rest of the country. While a governor of a large "lower 48" state gets experience in all sorts of issues and venues, the same can't be said for a governor of Alaska.
She's a quitter. Several times in her college career she quit school. Several times in her professional career she quit jobs, most glaringly quitting the governor job to which she had made a committment. And she did it for money (see camel/needle).
See there? I never once brought up her personal life and gave several reasons she isn't qualified to be a national pundit nor politician.
sarah is not as you think
I do not think Sarah is fit to be president, nor is she so bad that she deserves to be crucified.....she is a small town girl who has seen a window to wealth and fame by allowing the political hounds to organize her life. Can you blame her for that? She wants what we all want...a good life for our families. It is not her fault that she is not qualified.....it is the fault of the right wing republicans who do not care about her as a person but are using her as fodder to fuel their own goals. Actually I feel very sorry for her. The pressures on her this past year has been enormous. She has even lost weight and is not as fresh and beautiful as she was last year.Let's just leave her alone.
WHat has she accomplished that she deserves such pressure?
She needs to have her own life of privacy with her family. She needs to reconcile with the father of her grandson.....she has a rough life. I hope she is up to it and I hope her sacrifices bring her what she wants.
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