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Political cartoonist, David Horsey, illustrates the problems with Palin's newest book quite eloquently.

Here is what Horsey had to say in his Los Angeles Times commentary:

I'm a big fan of Christmas, but I'm not inclined to join Sarah Palin's pro-Christmas crusade. Her new book, "Good Tidings, Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas," lays out the case that Christmas is under attack by stringing together a litany of slights against the holiday -- real, imagined and exaggerated -- that do not add up to much more than her usual chip-on-the-shoulder complaint against anyone outside her narrow definition of "real Americans."

A column by Michelle Cottle of the Daily Beast includes a pretty good summation of Palin's book: "From the first chapter, it is clear that, whatever her concerns about 'a Christ-less Christmas,' Palin has found a convenient frame on which to hang her rage at pretty much everything: Obamacare, Obamaphones, Nancy Pelosi, the national debt, gay marriage, sexual sin, crony capitalism, the preferential treatment of Muslims (whoo-wee! does she get rolling on that one), the lamestream media, Chick-fil-A haters, abortion, Mitt Romney’s hair, and on and on. No liberal stereotype, from Birkenstocks to the French, vegans, and NPR, is too tired to sneer at."

The book is also peppered with complaints about her treatment at the hands of pretty much everyone during her run for vice president in 2008. It's amazing how put-upon Palin still feels, given that she has turned her very thin political resume and limited intellectual gifts into a lucrative celebrity enterprise that has included a cable reality show, TV commentator gigs and bestselling books (although her Christmas book may not be setting the publishing world on fire). She should be immensely pleased with how far she has gone from her days as a lowly city council member in a remote burg in the Alaskan outback.

Very well put!

As many of us here at IM have pointed out in the past, essentially Palin is on a never ending "woe is me" tour, and whether she is giving a Fox News interview, having a Facebook post written for her, or contributing lunatic ideas to a ghostwritten book about Christmas, the central theme never changes.

Which is by the way, "I almost had it all, and then those liberal media assholes took it away from me. Fuck Obama!"

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