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Rush calls Palin memoir "one of the most substantive policy books I've read"

November 13, 2009 12:32 pm ET

From the November 13 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (November 13, 2009 12:36 pm ET)
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      Save the accolades for GW's book.
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      • Author by PHXSJAZ (November 15, 2009 6:15 pm ET)
           
        GeeDub's book will most likely include a few hundred color pages in it... Limbaugh I'm sure will like coloring the "substantive" pages.
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    • Author by Major Tom (November 13, 2009 12:38 pm ET)
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      You see! That's all it is... He's never read a book!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 13, 2009 12:39 pm ET)
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      Rush calls Palin memoir "one of the most substantive policy books I've read."

      LOL!!!
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      • Author by pam95650 (November 13, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
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        It's probably the ONLY book he's read. Barf city.
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      • Author by marco21 (November 13, 2009 5:23 pm ET)
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        LOL, indeed. Any dittoheads take this bovine man-thing seriously?
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      • Author by CAM (November 14, 2009 12:37 pm ET)
           
        LOL? Have you read the book? Obviously not based on it's release date and the date of your comment. You have already made it clear that you would not give this an objective look, just as so many others have. Rather than taking a look at this book in an intelligent, observant manner, you will all just do your best to attack Palin blindly. Take a look at the things people who have read it are focusing on. You will find they are focusing on inconsequential things in the book rather than statements dealing with policy.
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    • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 12:41 pm ET)
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      Thanks for the review, Boss Hogg. I'm pretty sure you consider yourself "substantive", and you even mention in this clip that the best interviews of you are conducted by you. I'm going to take all of this into account, along with everything else I know about your psychosis, to tell me everything I need to know about Sarah of The North's pamphlet.
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      • Author by newzhound (November 13, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
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        Boss BlunderRush announced on his show today he was surprised to learn something from a caller, as he already knows just about everything that is important.

        He's the Second Coming of Sir Issac Newton!
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    • Author by NoSpinner (November 13, 2009 12:41 pm ET)
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      Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (November 13, 2009 12:41 pm ET)
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      Isn't her book selling for $4.97 a copy ???
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      • Author by Max Credits (November 13, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
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        At just under $1 per chapter, this has got to be "one of the most [inexpensive] policy books [Limbaugh's] read."
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (November 13, 2009 12:49 pm ET)
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        Whatever it's price, the book is destined to be a best-seller, because "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation will buy it in bulk and warehouse the copies. Eventually they will be handed out as door prizes at Conservative cause and candidate fundraisers.

        Oddly, it will sell a million copies, and you won't be able to find a single person who admits to buying or owning the book. This game is played all the time, and always in the same way.
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        • Author by bintx (November 13, 2009 12:54 pm ET)
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          I foresee a whole rack of these books in the "Bargain Books" section of my local Hastings and Books-a-Million, soon.
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        • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 1:03 pm ET)
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          Eventually they will be handed out as door prizes at Conservative cause and candidate fundraisers.

          And people will take them home and use them as door stops.
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          • Author by jjamele2880 (November 13, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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            They'll take them home and proudly display them for their idiot friends, and nod when the nice guy on Fox tells them how powerful and insightful it is, and defend Palin by "pointing out" that she made a lot of good points in her book.

            Actually READ the book? Nah.
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        • Author by jpeagle21 (November 13, 2009 3:54 pm ET)
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          Sure.....just like Mark Levin's book that spent several weeks on the NYT best seller's list. And guess what? I DO own a copy. And, Oh yea, it took almost a month after it's release to find it on a book store shelf. Try to explain that with your "bulk-buy" theory.
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          • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 4:43 pm ET)
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            it took almost a month after it's release to find it on a book store shelf.


            How much of that month did you use up trying to find the book store?
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            • Author by jpeagle21 (November 13, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
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              A non-rebuttal to my point. I can only assume you agree with it. Hurling conservative-stereotyping insults does nothing but make you look like a sad person.
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              • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 5:24 pm ET)
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                You would only assume that because it makes you feel good. Lighten up, it was just a joke.

                When these books are bought in bulk, it's not by book stores, but by conservative propaganda organizations. I'm sure book stores stock books according to anticipated demand.

                A book that was actually expected to be popular would more likely be pre-ordered by book stores, and appear at the book stores more quickly. Those that were bought in bulk at the earliest opportunity by agenda-driven groups would most likely not be seen at book stores right away.

                That's why I didn't rebut your point. You already did that.

                And I'm a pretty happy person.Stop projecting.
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                • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 6:52 pm ET)
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                  Here's the full ad, Col. Harlan-

                  Get Sarah Palin's New Book

                  Yes, rush me a copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as soon as it is available — plus Newsmax magazine's special report Sarah Palin and "The Newer Feminism" FREE — a value of more than $39 with shipping included — along with my one-year subscription to Newsmax magazine. My total cost will be just $49.95 with automatic renewal. If you are current Newsmax magazine subscriber, your subscription will be extended an additional 12 months.


                  Number one: you don't know what you're talking about. What you just said was categorically false about the Newsmax offer.



                  And number two: you still have no idea just how many books are sold at this price and how this compares to other marketing schemes for book sales in order to make the case that you guys are that except for these artificial methods the book would be a flop.
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                  • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (November 13, 2009 9:39 pm ET)
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                    Hey, Walmart & Amazon are selling Sarah "lipstick on a pig" Palin's book for just $9.00!
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                  • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 9:44 pm ET)
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                    What you just said was categorically false about the Newsmax offer.


                    That's a pretty bold accusation, Hoosier. Could you expand a little, be more specific? What did I say that was false?

                    Your "number two" point seems to be arguing about more things I didn't say.

                    Is this just you not knowing when to stop digging?
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              • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 5:47 pm ET)
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                And BEING a conservative makes you pathetic.
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        • Author by 000l (November 13, 2009 4:06 pm ET)
             
          More likely handed out as door stops.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 12:59 pm ET)
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        Human Events /Conservative Book club seem to be the ones saddled with truckloads of this GOP PR book. The good news for them is that the suckers who might be likely to buy a Palin book won't really be bothered that the shipping charge for this 5 dollar book is 6 dollars.
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      • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 1:01 pm ET)
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        Isn't her book selling for $4.97 a copy ???

        Yes, it is. And at that price, it's STILL about $4.95 too expensive...
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      • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 1:07 pm ET)
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        With a magazine membership. You won't read that part of the deal, though. And you won't read just how many of the books sold at that price as part of the total number of books sold. The left will just imply they were all bought by Richard Scaife Mellon and what books were actually sold went at $4.95.

        I'd love to see one media outlet do some real investigative work and show one example of a conservative book being sold the way they depict them as being sold.
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        • Author by Max Credits (November 13, 2009 1:15 pm ET)
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          I'd love to see one media outlet do some real investigative work and show one example of a conservative book being sold the way they depict them as being sold.


          How do media outlets depict them as being sold?
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          • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 2:40 pm ET)
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            Is this a media outlet, Victor. I'd like to see one investigative jouornalist that believes what the liberal blogs imply about conservative book sales show what they say is true, that it's not really true book sales, but give-aways, that inflates their numbers-- like it's all part of the vast right wing conspiracy.

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            • Author by Max Credits (November 13, 2009 3:33 pm ET)
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              I shouldn't have asked, I honestly don't understand what you're going on about. You seem to think media outlets are somehow misinforming people on conservative book sales but you're not citing anything specific.


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              • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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                No, you're saying the number of books sold is fabricated or artificially propped up with not any evidence to support it, save for an offer by a magazine that also stipulates that you need to buy a one-year subscription to get the book for that price. Nothing else. This same claim is made by the left for every conservative book that does well. Never is there any concrete evidence that proves the sales are the result of purely artificial means. Only speculation.
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                • Author by Max Credits (November 13, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
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                  Great, now you'd love to see one media outlet do some real investigative work and show one example of a conservative book being sold the way I supposedly depict them as being sold. Are you sure most of all this isn't just happening in your head?
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                • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
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                  you need to buy a one-year subscription to get the book for that price.


                  As has already been pointed out to you on another thread, and re-pointed out to you when you were unable to get it the first time;

                  The subscription is FREE. It's a sucker deal to make eleven bucks off of chumps who think they're getting a good deal because they're getting Palin's comic book for 5 bucks (plus 6 bucks shipping) when they "buy" a subscription (for free) to a right wing website's magazine.

                  Did all of you wingnuts spend the week in some sort of head-butting Olympics? You're acting thicker than usual.
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                • Author by pearlene_scott1602 (November 13, 2009 10:03 pm ET)
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                  . Never is there any concrete evidence that proves the sales are the result of purely artificial means. Only speculation.


                  Conservative Book Club-Get 3 Book for $1 each...
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            • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
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              No investigative journalists needed.

              Check out this NY Times bestseller list.

              The little cross after Glenn Beck's #1 book indicates bulk buys, as noted at the bottom of the page. This isn't a secret, it's a well-known tactic used to promote books that promote the interests of groups who will benefit by them.

              The fact that conservative groups like Newsmax, Human Events, Conservative Book Club, etc. have piles of these books that they're practically (or actually) giving away should have made this self-evident to almost anybody, without the help of an investigative journalist.

              For those of you who need the little symbol right next to the book ranking, telling you it was bought in bulk, I've provided the link.

              I guess I'm an investigative journalist now. Next I'm going to prove that those free samples of food given out at the supermarket are paid for by the manufacturers of that same food.
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        • Author by mjh (November 13, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
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          "I'd love to see one media outlet do some real investigative work and show one example of a conservative book being sold the way they depict them as being sold." -- swooshier



          Wish granted.

          Sorry its not a "real media outlet" -- just one of those bloggers Michelle Malkin is always complaining about . . .

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          • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 2:43 pm ET)
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            Wish granted? That blog, whoever in the heck that is, provides no evidence whatsoever. That's exactly what I'm talking about- he's just coming up with a theory that if anyone wanted to prove was going on if was true, could do so with one or two phone calls to verify. That link is bunk- pure hokum, mjh. Pathetic.
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            • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (November 13, 2009 4:39 pm ET)
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              Well, why don'y you just do it yourself Hoosier?

              Make a couple calls and see for yourself? It's well-known and well documented that this is the conservative method of selling their crap books.

              I think you just don't want to believe the truth.
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              • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 6:54 pm ET)
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                Well known and well-documented, but you can't provide an documentation.

                Got it, Limit Corp.
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                • Author by skatscan5624 (November 13, 2009 7:47 pm ET)
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                  I guess the New York Times best seller list indicating bulk sales isn't documentation for you.
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      • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (November 13, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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        It's substantive...

        And also light on the wallet!!
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    • Author by pilotshark (November 13, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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      LMFAO>>>> who new you could read,,,,, I am guessing she didnt say any thing about you in there.

      Rushbuttboil you are about the highest payed stupid dumb azz coward there must be.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (November 13, 2009 12:44 pm ET)
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      Newsflash RUSH is in love with SARACUDA.
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    • Author by JLP (November 13, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
         
      Character assassination of Palin, kind of like what you provide on Obama et al on a daily basis?
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    • Author by bintx (November 13, 2009 12:53 pm ET)
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      LOL!!!!!

      Maybe that's why he flunked out of every class in his three semesters of college, including ballroom dancing!

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      • Author by pilotshark (November 13, 2009 1:08 pm ET)
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        come now you can not blame rush flunking ballroom dancing as he had a boil on his azzz and that made it hard for him to dance.
        I also now wonder about his arrest picking up a male prostitute in Pittsburgh if maybe he though that would also get him out of the draft and all

        so question oh rushbuttboil,,,, did you use your homosexual experience for per pleasure or knowing you were a coward and the military dont take gays?

        just a question thats all pond scum
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    • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 1:00 pm ET)
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      If Caribou Barbie's ghost-written piece of crap is "one of the most substantive policy books" Rush as ever read, no wonder he's an idiot.

      A drug-addicted, deeply closeted gay idiot.
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      • Author by SMTDL (November 13, 2009 1:13 pm ET)
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        Yes ...This statement confirms him to be an idiot!!!!!Every time Obama makes a speech getting positive comments from all over the country and around the world,Limbaugh derides it .Now he says this empty-headed, slogan-repeating, "mavericky" winker writes the "most" substantive policy book he's ever read!!?? Rush.."You can't be serious"!!! OHhh maybe its the only one he's actually read!!!
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        • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 2:33 pm ET)
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          I understand Rush had George W. Bush read "My Pet Goat" to him - he was confused by the big words.....
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        • Author by hoosier (November 13, 2009 2:47 pm ET)
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          The difference between you and Rush, and it's just a small point, is that he's actually read the book.

          You, on the other hand, STMDL, have not. Nor will you. You will only read what the liberal blogs deem is worthy of reporting and you will only know what those liberal blogs' impression is of the particular passage they write about.

          That is the difference between yours and Limbaugh's opinions on Palin's book. Someone else will read it so you don't have to, and because of that, your opinion will not be yours. Unlike Limbaugh's.
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          • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (November 13, 2009 4:45 pm ET)
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            el Fathead didn't read the book,

            Hell, he read the jacket and tossed it in the trash. Come on, it only cost $3.95. (el Fathead got a discount copy.)
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            • Author by John Paradox (November 14, 2009 4:12 pm ET)
                 
              My (deceased) father had a saying....
              You buy them books, and buy them books, and all they do is eat the covers.
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          • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (November 13, 2009 5:03 pm ET)
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            hoosier, do you have any tangible proof that RUSH has read PALIN'S book?
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          • Author by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 5:49 pm ET)
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            I don't have to go down into a sewer to know what it contains. Which is why I won't bother reading Caribou Barbie's book.
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          • Author by SMTDL (November 14, 2009 12:08 pm ET)
               
            I don't have to read it to know Limbaugh is full of it!!!Only 13 pages in the book mention policy and some how it is one of the most sunbstantive books on policy ever read!!PULEEZe!! BTW - HOW do YOU know that Rush read the book and not just skimmed over it or read a summary from staffers!??Oh I know ..he said so right?
            My critique was not on the book itself but Limbaugh's usual hypocrisy and lack of objectivity.If YOU read it,please expound on why/how Limbaugh is accurate!!!Even Palin lovers at Fox have mentioned the lack of focus on policy!!!I guess they forgot to ask Rush for his input before they commented..
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    • Author by HumblePie (November 13, 2009 1:12 pm ET)
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      There's no policy in book, other than what Palin made up and pulled out of her butt. There are endnotes and no bibliography. How edifying. ;-)
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      • Author by pilotshark (November 13, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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        Smiles arrrr see its the pulled out of her butt thing and well rushbuttboil`s fetish with that zone.

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 13, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
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      This is a joke, right?

      Rush, if the media is going to focus on the "soap opera" parts of the book, as you say, that means the book is a soap opera kind of book. What serious political leader intentionally writes (?) a soap opera kind of book?
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    • Author by New Frontier (November 13, 2009 1:14 pm ET)
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      "one of the most substantive policy books I've read."

      Limbaugh, you may recall, had the same words for that other book he read, My Pet Goat.
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    • Author by jbraskin4786 (November 13, 2009 1:46 pm ET)
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      Then again, Limbaugh would find "Green Eggs And Ham" to be substantive.
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      • Author by Tiredog (November 13, 2009 5:22 pm ET)
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        "Then again, Limbaugh would find "Green Eggs And Ham" to be substantive."

        Or way, WAY over his head...
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    • Author by epkklk851 (November 13, 2009 1:47 pm ET)
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      Well, Rush, that sure says a lot about your education, doesn't it? I wouldn't spread that around too much, because, man, you will embarrass yourself when it comes out and it's as articulate and substantive as the author is. I'm surprised she actually knew how to write a paragraph, but then, she has a ghost writer, doesn't she?
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    • Author by Paganloreli (November 13, 2009 2:03 pm ET)
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      Rush Limbaugh can read? Amazing.
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    • Author by mjh (November 13, 2009 2:04 pm ET)
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      Rush calls Palin memoir "one of the most substantive policy books I've read."


      I guess when your usual reading material is comic books, it'd be easy to think that way . . .

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      • Author by John Paradox (November 14, 2009 4:14 pm ET)
           
        Wonder if Rush had anything to say about Archie getting married.

        Also 'comic books' can be quite substantive.. more accurately 'graphic novels'. I just finished re-reading TRANSMETROPOLITAN, with journalist Spider Jerusalem.. and we think our real world is a mess.....
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    • Author by gthogan (November 13, 2009 2:04 pm ET)
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      I would bet that Palin hasn't even read it.
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    • Author by newzhound (November 13, 2009 2:06 pm ET)
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      I believe Boss BlunderRush. Mrs. Palin's book undoubtly is one of the most substantive policy books he's ever read.

      We all have to face that time in our lives when we get out a book we also don't get out our crayons.

      When I think of Ole BlunderRush "massive" comes to mind before "substantive," but that's just me. As our California Governor pointed out, it's really unfair to call BlunderRush the 800 pound gorilla in the room. He probably doesn't tip the beam at anything over four bills...

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    • Author by Midnight Kevin (November 13, 2009 2:13 pm ET)
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      State controlled media?

      I look forward to reading this book because I am sure it will have some gems, unless the editing staff cleaned it up, but I would imagine it would sell better with all her garbled crap in there untouched. Can't wait to see what the Oracle of Wasilla has to say about policy; what wisdom she will bestow upon us.
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      The Midnight Review
      Mum Is The Word
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      • Author by indigo1968 (November 13, 2009 2:37 pm ET)
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        Limbaugh would fawn over Palin's book no matter what, just as he will Cheney's alleged memoirs when they are released.

        He is the ultimate right-wing whore.

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    • Author by Publius39 (November 13, 2009 2:36 pm ET)
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      Yeah, for Rush, Palin's book ranks up there with his all-time favorites like "Horton Hears a Who" and "Green Eggs and Ham."
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    • Author by timbo11 (November 13, 2009 3:14 pm ET)
         
      "one of the most substantive policy books I've read"
      Oh, so that explains why your views are so ill-informed.
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    • Author by reanna-mator (November 13, 2009 3:31 pm ET)
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      And here I thought he'd wait for the Audiobook version, recorded by Palin for a commission of $500,000.
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    • Author by Handyman (November 13, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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      The part I really liked was when he said that he often interviews himself - is that similar to talking to yourself? Wouldn't that require a dual personality? Isn't that the definition of a schizophrenic?
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      • Author by Tiredog (November 13, 2009 5:23 pm ET)
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        What's worse is when he starts arguing with himself...and loses.
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        • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (November 13, 2009 5:46 pm ET)
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          I enjoy interviewing myself. Not to brag, but I am pretty impressive at anticipating the questions, and often outsmarting the interviewer.
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (November 13, 2009 5:44 pm ET)
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      Rusty Limpballs is in loves the Quitter with the Litter on Twitter, and is trying to woo her from her do nothing hillbilly husband. He can offer her drugs, a big gated estate in West Palm Beach, and all of the hero worship that she can handle.
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    • Author by Winski (November 13, 2009 8:41 pm ET)
         
      Final proof (like last and final) that Rush truly is stupid. Too fat to move around by himself...Antennae sticking out of the left side of his head... and garbage pouring out of his mouth 24x7 everyday...Amazing picture..

      NFL had the right idea...Limbaugh is a crime against nature and doesn't deserve to be considered - for anything.
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