President Barack Obama‘s new book “A Promised Land” has been out for less than 48 hours and it’s already sold roughly 1 million copies, making it the bestselling presidential memoir in modern history.
The only book by a former White House resident to come close to those early sales figures is Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” which sold 725,000 copies its first day of publication back in 2018.
The takeaway: People clearly like the Obamas!
In “A Promised Land,” Obama briefly mentions Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign who later went on to become a contestant on The Masked Singer.
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Writes Obama:
Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party—xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks—were finding their way to center stage. She had no idea what the hell she was talking about.
Well, it seems Palin didn’t appreciate this very much. She immediately hit the media circuit to do what she does best: lodge thinly-veiled racist attacks against the man she views as responsible for ending her political career while simultaneously proving every single one of his points.
Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity this week, Palin said she is “so fed up” with Obama’s brand of politics.
“Barack Obama with his 700-some-page ‘A Promised Land’ book, I guess, evidently, he thinks that he is the one to lead us to the promised land, so let’s refer to him as ‘Moses’,” she griped.
“Moses is the master of the politics of personal destruction, which people were so fed up with that a movement began and they elected someone to hopefully get us on a path to get rid of that politics of personal destruction. But Barack Obama just doesn’t get it.”
The person elected to “hopefully get us on a path to get rid of that politics of personal destruction” to whom she is referring, of course, is Donald Trump, which is ironic in many, many ways, the main one being that Trump literally just lost his reelection effort two weeks ago.
In a separate interview with Newsmax, Palin accused Obama of being “so still 2008,” which is also ironic in many, many ways, the main one being that she’s had the same damn haircut and bad dye job for at least 20 years, possibly longer.
Speaking to Hannity, Palin said that, ultimately, she really doesn’t give a damn what Obama has to say about her because he’s of “no value” in her narrow mind.
“In order to let a man’s opinion hurt, you have to give a little bit of value to that man’s opinion,” she said, “so I’m good there, because he does not represent truth.”
Approximately 1 million readers certainly don’t agree.
Listen to @SarahPalinUSA and @seanhannity prove Obama's point about Palin leading the anti-intellectualism and conspiracy-theory peddling of the GOP. https://t.co/OfzDyvwsX5
— Nicolas Falacci (@NickFalacci) November 17, 2020
Related: Whatever happened to Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s baby daddy who posed for “Playgirl”?
Cam
Now that Trump’s circling the toilet all the desperate little mole people are coming out of the dump to try to get another 15 minutes.
Hdtex
Still a quitter half-term governor, still an also ran, runner-up failure
She is of no consequence, no relevance, and no value. NEXT!
Grrrowler
Obama’s opinion is of such little value to her that she feels compelled to go on TV to tell everyone how little she values his opinion. If she really didn’t care what he thought, she’d just slough it off. Of course, doing that wouldn’t get her the attention she so desperately craves.
Roger Doremus
Caribou Barbie: Forgotten but not gone. The now righteously furious anti-Trump
pundit Steve Schmidt was instrumental in getting McCain to agree to add that pathetic bimbo to the ticket, helping to pave the way for a reality show conman like Trump. David Letterman also presents himself as an elder statesman opposed to Trump, despite having that pusbrain on his program THIRTY TIMES over three decades. A lot of politicians and entertainers are culpable in the degradation of American democracy and intelligent discourse.
Cam
Thank you!
All the people trying to claim McCain had so much integrity seem to forget that not only did he pick the completely unqualified Sarah Palin, whose husband belonged to a secessionist group, He then went on to attack media for daring to ask her simple questions.
That helped pave the way for the even more unqualified Trump and his screaming “Fake News” to deflect from his not knowing anything.
Consider This
Too bad she didn’t crank out a couple of tunes for us on her piano 😉
stan2015
She will do anything for camera time. I surprised she hasn’t turned to porn. Then again porn is suppose to turn you on not make you sick!
ScottOnEarth
This pathetic woman is the definition of a loser in life. She failed at everything she’s done (including her children and marriage). Everything Obama said about her is true….especially “anti-intellectualism.” In other words, the woman is a blithering idiot.
joxx67
She is the epitome of a loser!
woodroad34
I mean, she was unmasked on the Masked Singer….how loserish can you get?
wikidBSTN
Like Obama said – Palin has no idea what she is talking about. Total loon.
toronto
How is this relevant to Queerty
rbernard
I think President Obama’s assessment of Sarah Palin was perfectly spot on and to this moment, this mental lightweight still doesn’t know what the hell she is talking about.
succubus
she reminds me of cam, ChrissyK and PWWO
ingyaom
Do you think she ever puts the xmas tree away or keeps it up all year? More convenient that way I guess.