CHILDREN MUST PLAY - AT 7:05 P.M. ET:  Sarah Palin's book is about to come out, news that seems to greatly bother an element of the fringe press, as The Politico notes:

Editors from the progressive magazine The Nation are pulling together a book to be released the same day as Sarah Palin’s with a similar title and cover mocking the former Alaska governor’s memoir.

What, precisely is "progressive" about The Nation?  The Nation is Marxist-friendly, never met a left-wing dictatorship it didn't like, and doesn't much care for the United States or any of its policies since George Washington.

And the sick obsession with Sarah Palin is amusing.

The book titled “Going Rouge: Sarah Palin an American Nightmare” is edited by Richard Kim, a senior editor at the weekly magazine, along with The Nation’s Executive Editor Betsy Reed.

The book’s cover displays a picture nearly identical to the photo chosen for the cover of Palin’s own “Going Rogue: An American Life.”

QUESTION:  If a buyer confuses the two and buys the wrong book, will there be a free exchange?  I think there should be.

In both pictures, Palin is wearing red behind a cloudy sky, though the background of “Going Rouge” is dark and gloomy with a lightning bolt come down over Palin’s left shoulder.

The book, being published by OR Books, will contain contributions from twenty-three writers including Joe Conason, Katha Pollitt, and Jim Hightower.

Katha Pollitt, after the attacks of 9-11, publicly expressed her distress that her own son wanted to fly an American flag from his window.  Guess we know the tone this book will take.

October 22, 2009