Sarah Palin Has Earned an Estimated $12 Million Since July

Source: ABC News

With A Steady Stream of Six-Figure Speaking Gigs, The Former Alaska Governor's Haul May Be Even Bigger

Apr. 13, 2010 —

Pundits can debate the political costs and benefits of Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor, but the monetary advantages of leaving her $125,000-a-year public service post are beyond dispute.

Since leaving office at the end of July 2009, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has brought in at least 100 times her old salary  a haul now estimated at more than $12 million -- through television and book deals and a heavy schedule of speaking appearances worth five and six figures.

That conservative estimate is based on publicly available records and news accounts. The actual number is probably much higher, but is hard to quantify because Palin does not publicize her earnings. She reputedly got a $7 million deal for her first book, with the bulk of that money due after her resignation as governor, and will earn about $250,000 per episode, according to the web site The Daily Beast, for each of eight episodes of a reality show about Alaska for the The Learning Channel. She has managed to keep a lid on reliable figures for her earnings from a multi-year contract with Fox News and a second book deal with HarperCollins.

A Palin aide responding to questions from ABC News said the governor "is now a private citizen. As a result, her fees and earnings are private."

While book and television royalties are huge earners, Palin, 46, has taken on a breakneck schedule of public speaking engagements, booked through the Washington Speakers Bureau. Her typical fee is $100,000, according to a January report in Politico, though she accepts a somewhat smaller fee for events on the West Coast because they are easier to get to from Alaska. Speakers Bureau officials did not respond to emailed questions.

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Just sayin'...

How do I break into the ignorant-has-been, can't-stop-talking-about-shit-I-know-nothing-about business?

Only in America can a person get insanely rich by being an ignorant imbecile.

H L Mencken

Still true today.

She's very cunningly bilking her deluded followers out of lots of money. Unquestionably an unintelligent and gleefully ignorant person, she nevertheless is raking it in...

that a bimbo, a stupid, lazy, non-productive one at that, has followers.

But then, there's an insatiable demand in this country for bigots. I can't understand that, either.

Of course, he was well-connected, too. Sarah is only a first general duper of America.

Bristol is looking like she may a chip off the ole blockhead, though.

Sure beats governoring.

She knew that McCain didn't have a chance.

The moment that idiot elevated her, she started marketing her ass.

She never intends to run for public office again.

She'll fly into Iowa, get paid to speak, and sign a few books just to keep the MSM talking like she might.

All according the the grifter's code.

Week?

Didn't think so.

She is NOT a hockey mom. I took my nieces to their ballet and figure skating lessons and practices for years along side the actual parents who also spent the time getting kids to and from practices. so I resent it when someone claims to be a "Hockey Mom" or even a "Soccer Mom" that doesn't get out and BE ONE.

She is an ass who lied about being a hockey mom. Don't call her one. She's an insult to real hockey moms who do put their kids' sports on their schedule. And, I mean the mundane weekly practices.

She's still the Grifta from Wasilla as far as I'm concerned. Let her earn away - hopefully she's got a well-paid nanny or someone watching the kids while she galavants across the country.

"Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book
Political Action Committee Paid More than $60,000 for Copies of 'Going Rogue' in Late 2009

"http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-palin-pac-buy-book/story?id=9718024

This has GOT to be made illegal.

to earn something you must put forth an effort. At best she received something for pandering, which she has a talent for. At worst she got money for pimping an imagined self. The two are not far apart.

some people can be stupid and still be a "f..... millionarie"....(in the comedy video he was referring to Paris Hilton).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5d5IfdYK4

However, I do give her props for exploiting shallowness and stupidity beyond anything I ever thought possible.

In her ridiculously high and pointy Manolo Blaniks, I would probably have just hidden in my room at the Hilton for the rest of my life.

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The guy that ran the "superpower" for 8 years gets less invites than Sarah

Pay attention

If an idiot like Dim-Son can run the nation for 8 years . . .

yeah;

sumthing to think about