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Sarah Palin does an an intereview after pardoning a turkey, meanwhile other turkeys are slaughtered behind her.

Is Sarah Palin getting $7M for a book deal? Via Radar Online: Sarah Palin has garnered more than fame from her failed Vice-Presidential bid. She is reportedly close to making a book deal for $7 million. “Bill Clinton made over $10 million for his deal seven years ago,” a publishing insider told Radar. “That was more than any other former …

Is this election STILL going on? Sen. Ted Stevens’ hold on the U.S. Senate seat he’s held for 40 years is looking increasingly shaky in the face of more votes for Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. Begich now holds an 814-vote lead he took after nearly 60,000 votes were counted Wednesday. Thursday, the Elections Division provided additional detail on where the …

Now that Palin’s GOP handlers are off the leash, we find she’s even stupider than we thought. She thought that Africa was a country, not a continent. And she couldn’t name the three countries in NAFTA.

From Newsweek: NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, …

The people of Alaska must have been smoking something. Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was leading challenger Mark Begich with most of the election returns in hand Tuesday night, despite being found guilty of seven felonies and polls showing him in deep trouble. With more than 80 percent of the precincts reporting, Stevens held a 2-percentage point advantage over Democrat Begich. …

Via Swamp Politics: Citing her right to privacy, Gov. Sarah Palin refused to say who she voted for after emerging from her polling place in Wasilla, Alaska. That’s right, she wouldn’t say she voted for her own presidential ticket. We assume she did, but she stood on principle and wouldn’t say. She did say the secret ballot is one of …

Completely coincidental that this report was issued late yesterday, yes? A report released on Monday by a state board found that Gov. Sarah Palin did not apply improper pressure to try to dismiss a state trooper who was her former brother-in-law and did not violate state ethics laws in the firing of her public safety commissioner. The report by the …

A Canadian radio duo managed to convince Sarah Palin that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was on the line. Hilarity ensues. (Via – Boy Culture)

Yesterday Sarah Palin shocked her own handlers when she said that she was already thinking about her 2012 campaign. CNN’s Dana Bash told cohort Wolf Blitzer that a senior McCain advisor was rendered “speechless” by Palin’s comment. “There was a long pause, and then I just heard a ‘Huh.’ on the other end of the phone. I mean, this is …

Love the shot of Palin at the end. Burn!

Today John McCain and Sarah Palin issued separate calls for convicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to resign. Sarah Palin has told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo that she believes Stevens “needs to step aside and allow our state to elect someone who will be supportive of those ideals of America.” On Tuesday morning, John McCain called for Sen. Ted Stevens to step …

The Irony Meter flashed into “You’ve GOT To Be Kidding Me” territory when a certain reality show contestant complained about the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin by the media. Because reality shows never cast model-perfect young women to cavort nearly naked around the Australian outback. Elizabeth Hasselbeck is only on that stage because she worked the sexist system that she …

In West Hollywood, an effigy of Sarah Palin is causing a controversy. A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from some passers-by and gasps of outrage from others. The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red …

Television execs are looking for “the right vehicle” for Sarah Palin. As campaign managers for Sarah Palin plot last-minute tactics to get her elected, Hollywood bigwigs are convening strategy sessions of their own. Their goal: finding the ideal on-air vehicle for the VP candidate if and when she exits politics. Love her or hate her — there doesn’t seem to …

The Palins’ now-famous $150K wardrobe? Some of the stores that show up on the RNC expense report can find no record of the purchases. There are still aspects of the Republican National Committee’s shopping sprees on behalf of Gov. Sarah Palin and her family that are murky. Some of the fashion experts consulted Wednesday, for instance, about the $150,000 in …

Will Ferrell made a cameo appearance on SNL: Thursday Update last night to reprise his excellent Dubya impersonation. Not their funniest sketch, but a little Tina Fey goes a long way. Ferrell will play Dubya in a one-man Broadway show scheduled to open on February 1st.