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Sarah Palin Has Earned an Estimated $12 Million Since July
ABC News ^ | April 13, 2010 | Matthew Mosk

Posted on 04/13/2010 7:45:31 AM PDT by Zakeet

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 $250,000 per episode, according to the entertainment trade press, 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: booktour; income; millionaires; palin; speaking
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To: Zakeet

Funny how disinterested ABC News was when Clinton went from the lowest paid Governor in the country ($35,000. a year) to a bank account of over $130 million.


101 posted on 04/13/2010 11:57:59 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Zakeet

No problem. What’s shocking is how much money Bill Maher has made, or Sean Penn.


102 posted on 04/13/2010 11:59:14 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Zakeet

Good work when you can get it.


103 posted on 04/13/2010 12:01:57 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: Zakeet

And I hope she makes another 12 million by this coming July.


104 posted on 04/13/2010 12:20:49 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: muddler
Perhaps a new .338 Win Mag moose gun is in her future...
105 posted on 04/13/2010 12:32:50 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Zakeet

Good for her. I applaud.


106 posted on 04/13/2010 12:43:17 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Zakeet

I hope she makes so much money that she ends up buying cbs, abc and nbc and then burning each of them to the ground.

You betcha.


107 posted on 04/13/2010 12:49:06 PM PDT by four more in O 4 (Climate change -- AND HOPE)
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To: onyx
I don't think the left has ever treated anyone as badly as they did Sarah, including trying to bankrupt her.

I thought they treated President Bush badly (and they did!), but it wasn't as brutal and dastardly as how they treated her.

She's got to have a will of iron to still be around.

108 posted on 04/13/2010 12:52:09 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Zakeet
She reputedly got a $7 million deal for her first book

Someone correct me here, but as understand it, famous, high selling authors like her, get $4 for every book sold. Given that she's sold approx 3 million copies of her book, that'd put the money from her book alone at $12 million, no?

109 posted on 04/13/2010 2:35:45 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: CaptainK

The more the MSM attack, the bigger her following, and thus her earnings get.
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110 posted on 04/13/2010 3:48:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Cicero

“and he hasn’t even done anything yet, let alone written a book”

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Except for dismantling the entire American economy....
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111 posted on 04/13/2010 3:51:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: wtc911

But then, you’re not one of “us.”
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112 posted on 04/13/2010 3:53:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: wtc911

Even someone of your severely limited cognition should be able to see through that one.
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113 posted on 04/13/2010 3:57:07 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: wtc911

A little Kaopectate might clear your head...
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114 posted on 04/13/2010 4:04:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: ohioWfan
She's got to have a will of iron to still be around.

Twelve million bucks can keep a person around too. :)

115 posted on 04/13/2010 4:11:57 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

LOL! I didn’t think of it that way. ;*)


116 posted on 04/13/2010 4:17:12 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Still waiting for you to back up your repeated (and false) claim that Palin gets a million bucks plus for her speeches.


117 posted on 04/13/2010 6:00:53 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

Its not a false claim moron!

We’re still waiting for you to backup your false claim of being human.


118 posted on 04/13/2010 7:24:52 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Zakeet

$12 million!! Why that’s more than Al Gore! How terrible!


119 posted on 04/13/2010 8:39:34 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," --"Brawls for Radicals" --by Barack Alinsky)
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To: editor-surveyor

Sure it is a lie...and you know that you have zero proof. That’s why all you can do is insult.


120 posted on 04/14/2010 4:00:04 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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