Everybody just assumes that Sarah Palin wakes up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy all the time, in a golden bed of $100 bills. This is because the lamestream media makes it seem like she’s always collecting enormous wads of cash in exchange for her hardcore mama grizzlin’ services (speechin’, hangin’ tough, Teabaggin’). But according to Forbes investigative reporter Dirk Smillie (né Dirksen Smilloszewskiwicz), Palin has earned only $10 million in the past 12 months, “at best.” AT BEST, people.
Many reporter-types have been running around saying Palin made $12 million last year, though. How did everybody get the facts so wrong? Dirk Smileyface knows:
The $12 million figure got its footing in April when ABC News first reported it. Since then the number has been repeated dozens of times by other outlets. On a July 3 broadcast of the Today Show … NBC News’ Norah O’Donnell gushed: “Sarah Palin is cashing in, going from $125,000 a year to an estimated $12 million. There’s her blockbuster best-seller “Going Rogue”; on that deal, $7 million. Her own TV show on The Learning Channel; on that deal, $2 million.”
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But a publishing industry source who knows the terms of the deal said Palin’s advance was “nowhere near $7 million.” A source inside Palin’s camp says the number is closer to $2.5 million.
Smillie throws some more money figures in there, and they don’t add up to $12 million, so everybody just STFU about $12 million cuz it’s not true. Palin is just like one of us, a poor! Except that unlike us, she’s got a half-dozen additional mouths to feed and receives no fancy clothing stipend from the Republican party, anymore.
Forbes discovered the truth about Palin’s finances while compiling their ”World’s Most Powerful Celebrities” list, which Palin totally didn’t even make. Tina Fey did, though. Man, kick a lady while she’s down, why dontcha. [Forbes.com]
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It’s very simple, really; the $10 Million is what she put down on her taxes, representing what she legitimately earned; well, made, she didn’t actually earn one cent of it but people wasted their money on her useless speeches anyway. The $12 million is the full amount she actually made, including the value of everything she stole from various political organizations and charities.
Hey and keeping her family, which now may include Levi, supplied with Oxy is NOT cheap. also
The fact that SP is on “The Learning Channel” convinces me that this whole existence is just a fever dream and I am in fact, hooked up to some enormous supercomputer in some storage facility. Can someone give me the feckin’ red pill?
$10 million is serious grift, for a 2-bit grifter like she was. Its a hell of a step, going from stealing hot sauce packets and sweet-n-low at Taco Bell, to mass-grifting fake “books” to illiterate teabaggers.
I wonder how she makes end meet?, I mean a paltry 10-12M is chump change for her unfathomable stupidity is ridiculas!
Maybe Sarah could fold a fallen flag and then people will feel sorry for her, send her money, and demand that she be GIVEN a job and health care.
Who weep’s for Pa…
Oh fuck it, I can’t even pull it off in a sarcastic way. If ever there was proof that the all powerful marketplace of ideas is fucked, here it is–a woman making millions of dollars without being physically capable of having any ideas at all.
Surely now Republicans will back an extension of unemployment benefits, right?
[re=614413]Prommie[/re]: For a second, I read that as “mass-grifting fake “boobs”"; and well, there’s a pretty good chance she grifted for those too.
Jesus. All these wads of cash swimming around And I STILL can’t get a job…
The photo suggests that she could earn more if she impersonated Ginger or Mrs. Howell. Mary Ann lookalikes are a dime a dozen.
This is Forbes Magazine we’re talking about here, a publication that caters to guys so out-of-touch they think grocery clerks and fruit pickers make “oh, I don’t know–what, five million a year? What, less? OK, three million MINIMUM. Christ, the poor devils.”
And they say Sarah Palin’s not shrewd — she made $10 mil in reported income, but the other $2 mil was in bendy straws from her speaking engagements. They’re not counted as income, and they add up!
God why did you curse me with morals and a conscience??? i can run this grift so much better than she can without looking like a tard-o-matic.
[re=614418]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: She’s just the latest incarnation of Gary Dahl. Google and weep.
Teabaggers always do things second-rate – they can’t even fund a celebrity grifter in a properly lavish fashion.
Poor thing, remember that was only for a half year. That’s still $9.9 million more than she would have made as gubner.
And I thought she quit to get treatment for her hookworms…or Alaskans…or something.
What passes for media in this country is like an abused girlfriend. She trashes anything but hate radio and Faux as “lame”, and MSM gushingly reports every asinine twat and Mama Grizzly shit like it’s earth shattering news. And then, we, instead of arguing facts, have to spend literally months debunking death panels.
Hope Sarah is making her quarterly estimated tax payments…
And Jesue, that mullet! Hillbilly in the front, Real ‘Murican in the back.
Forbes has always had a real gift for evoking my sympathies … but never more than this.
That’s what TLC means?
When does Michael Steele go on TV to tell us that “ten million doesn’t go as far in today’s America as it used to”?
I am too lazy to find the number myself right now, because of the heat – does anyone know off the top of their head how this compares to His Glenn-ness’ earnings?
Mama Grizzlies don’t need cash. They just kill what they need.
Simple answer…
Sarah only accepts payment in gold or silver – which accounts for the differences in these estimates.
Sarah Palin is a real woman of the people. She’s so middle class she is, like, 130 middle class families all by herself.
I love this photo. Behold the teabagger vision for the new Mt. Rushmore!
[re=614439]Radiotherapy[/re]:
The hookworms.
Parasites inside a parasite wrapped in popularity that’s an enigma.
There is sweet, sweet money in schadenfreude. And it’s tasty too! But I expect the white trash relates to be diggin into that stash soon enough! Where is first dude anyway?
Did they include all that money Todd made from selling wolf pelts and caribou heads?
Oh, I wouldn’t say she earned ten million dollars.
In fact, I wouldn’t say she’s earned coach bus fare. She has been given ten million dollars by the feckless and the gormless, and she believes that, like oil, it will never end.
[re=614459]user-of-owls[/re]: Crap inside of crap, laminated with crap, she needs an enema.
[re=614473]Geogre[/re]: Her fans may or may not be gormless, but she is definitely not wormless.
p.s. Thanks for the new word!
[re=614476]Radiotherapy[/re]: Better yet, an edema. She’s ineligible for the cerebral kind, but maybe one of the other flavors.
I was too distracted by her terrible hair to read the article.
Oh, innocence.
Bet he didn’t add in her smile. That’s worth a million bucks right there.
[re=614484]Panquake[/re]: Wow. Just wow. Things have changed THAT much in only two years? People should take that trip back in time and recoil in horror at our collective ignorance. Even among respected long-timers like Jagorev:
http://wonkette.com/402356/alaska-gilf-is-maybe-veep-after-all#comment-74976
Thank you Panquake, you evil bastard.
With 10 million dollars she could easily fund a $1000 yearly scholarship fund at all the different colleges she attended.
Of course it is already a target rich environment, the satire, mock and pillory SP and her family scene. Nearly filling the void left by Jr. George and his posse of war loving, deficit spending cronies. But, this mama grizzly analogy is not getting the comedy/snark it deserves. I am including a link to grizzly mating data that will hopefully inspire a whole new genre of SP jokes and “attacks”. http://www.canadianrockies.net/grizzly/mating.html
But what about Todd? Doesn’t he make like a bazillion dollars between his snowmobile racing and his annual squirrel hunt? Add to that, the fortune Levi earns from gay porn mags and this family is looking like the Rockefellers of the frozen tundra.
Sarah is just a working class, blue collar, trailer trash, hockey mom – struggling to get by on 10 million a year, being flown around the country on private jets, having the lamestream media at her beck and call, hoards of mouth breathing bible thumpers following her around like lost puppies.
She would have made the $10 million dollars but it was whittled down to 2.5 thanks to the slave-like taxes our Socialist President has forced upon us to crush the Creators of this world.
I enjoy watching Bristol’s public service announcements: Yes if you work hard you can make it as a struggling teen parent when your mom only makes $10 million a year. Choose life!
[re=614484]Panquake[/re]: Hey, I was young and didn’t know any better and really drunk. Also.
Isn’t the fact that there are far more people, making a lot less money, and contributing far more to the human condition enough to raise the rage level in most humans?
I wake up on a daily basis hoping to hear that this creature has died in a fire.
$10 million or $12 million, she is still stuck with being Sarah Palin. Meh.
Need moar white trashiness. Maybe if she farted more in public, showed her tramp stamp and wore halter tops, all the time, she’d be making $20 to $30 Million.
[re=614430]La Cieca[/re]: oh shit![re=614440]freakishlystrong[/re]: Fucking word, man. It’s all fucking People magazine (and all owned by Time Warner). [re=614453]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: that shit’s probably true.
This is a stupid fucking article. What the fuck was that correction supposed to do, ultimately? Maybe the figures were off by 1/6th. So? She’s going to fleece these stupid motherfuckers (including the media who are all in her face for the ratings, the ratings they get by making her a celebrity) until her shit gets tired (visually and figuratively) then cash in and be some fake ass buddah, making superficial comments on right talk radio when she’s too painful on the eyes. And like most lottery winners, she’ll blow all that cash in a few years and be in Fred Thompson informercial territory soon.
So fuck her.
When people ask why I want to move to Europe I can point them to some of the comments about Sarah on this blog. Such as:
Sarah Palin is no quitter. Nor is she crass or money-grubbing. She has acted consistently with the best interests of her state and of her family in mind, as would any decent human being.
Sarah Palin is charismatic, smart, and savvy. That is why she continues standing strong despite the tsunami of left-wing sputtering, mindless rage visited upon her since she first walked onto the stage in Dayton. She is a gifted speaker and does not ping-pong between two teleprompters in speaking to a sixth grade class as does Barack Hussein.
..so the rats and sewer dwellers who call her a quitter don’t think Obama quiting as Senator to campaign for President just months into his term is worth noting.
SONG OF THE PALINISTAS
Don’t cry for me Alaska-tina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don’t keep your distance.
And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
Have I said too much?
There’s nothing more I can think of to say to you.
Only 10 mil? *sniff* That will still buy someone to lick Todd’s “snow machine” clean and get Bristol’s hymen put back. Money is a LOVELY deodorant.
[re=614727]chascates[/re]: Don’t rush to move too quickly, man. Stay with us (mostly) Merkuns and make fun of this crass piece of trash: Sarah probably wrote that shit herself (after someone corrected the grammar, spelling and ghost wrote the talking points).
[re=614441]V572625694[/re]: Oooh, that’s a wonderful thought. Sadly, she probably has hired a tax accountant.
I killed it, and eated it, and I stuck it on my head.
Well to be fair, the article did say celebrities, “actors, actresses and musicians”.
I don’t think that includes carnival barkers and, uh, flautists.
My god! How can she support her husbands snow mobile and pickup truck habit on a measely 10mil a year. This is an outrage!
Let’s hope she pulls a wesley snipes so the evil socialist Obama nazi gubmit can come after her.
$10 mil or $12 — either way Sarah Palin should be able to afford the best hookworm treatments known to man.
Sara and bristol are sluts.
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