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Posts Tagged ‘biography’

EAT THE POOR

Fat-Cat President Signs Big Book Deal While People Starve

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Barack Obama once again demonstrated his callous unconcern for the American people by signing a major book deal right before he was sworn into office. Obama received a $500,000 advance for a middle-school reader’s version of Dreams From My Father on January 15. This obscene amount calls for a congressional investigation, and harsh words from Christopher Dodd! It also suggests that the only way to secure a decent book advance these days is to get elected president — a process that is only slightly more difficult than getting a publisher to look at your manuscript. [Washington Times]


SOMEBODY TELL MEDIA BISTRO

Sarah Palin’s Book Advance May Dwarf Even Nate Silver’s

Monday, November 17th, 2008

NEED MORE MUNNIEZ FOR SNOW MACHINEZAfter her cruelly brief tenure as a vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin is poised to perform a time-honored ritual for national failures and people who have completely humiliated themselves, repeatedly, on the world stage: she will write her memoirs, and she will be paid many millions of dollars for it. And she will waste all her millions of dollars on raw-silk Versace jackets and a new meth lab for her seventh child, Pistol. MORE »


BILL CLINTON

New Gerald Ford Bio Shits on Cheney, Clinton

Monday, October 29th, 2007

being dead is greatThe new Gerald Ford biography, Write It When I’m Gone, hits bookshelves tomorrow, and now we know why the ex-president was such a sissy about having to die before it came out: it drops bombshell after bombshell, and then drops more bombshells yet. Specifically, only Ford knew these two juicy bits of Beltway insiderism: Bill Clinton might be a sex addict, and Dick Cheney might be a liability to George W. Bush. OMG OMG OMG!#RR#@ MORE »


JOHN ROBERTS

John Roberts The Man: Loves His Kids, Hates Bees

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Ever since we crawled out of bed this morning, we here at Wonkette Central have been wondering how best to handle Charles Lane’s totally awesome review in the Washington Post of Chief Justice John Roberts’ new “kid-friendly” biography, now on sale at the Supreme Court gift shop. We know, we know: gift shop? Can you buy genuine Supreme Court gavels there? Not answered in the article, but a lot else is. Basically, we’ve decided to just excerpt the best of the piece, along with an attempt to transcribe our own dumbfounded reaction. That’s right: it’s a snarky summary of an earnest summary of a book written for 12-year-olds. This skillfully illustrates why blogs exist and why maybe they shouldn’t. Layers of intertextuality continue after the jump.

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