Flap’s Links for February 22nd from 19:02 to 19:42

These are my links for February 22nd from 19:02 to 19:42:

Everything You Need To Know About This Sarah Palin Tell-All – It is unclear whether or not the memoir being shopped around by former Palin aide Frank Bailey, "In Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years," will find a publisher.
The biggest reason why not? Well, as Alex Pareene points out today, this new offering only "confirms what you know about Sarah Palin." Come to think of it, why didn't you write this book? Probably because you have better things to do! Anyway, here's a brief and lamentable compendium of everything you need to know about this:

–Ben Smith and Andy Barr talked to a "Palin ally, who spoke on the condition of anonymity," who said that the content [of Bailey's book] should be viewed through the lens of Bailey being "the quintessential disgruntled employee." This disgruntled employee still had access to Palin's email passwords, however!

–The folks at Wonkette discovered that Sarah Palin apparently operates a second Facebook account under the name "Lou Sarah," which is exclusively used to "like" the things the actual Sarah Palin likes. This is deeply weird: is Sarah Palin not aware that she has a huge and obsessive fanbase on Facebook that will reflexively do these things anyway?

–Andrew Sullivan: "Bailey describes Palin's eventual media strategy: avoid any MSM interviews and get talking points out through surrogates. Who were they? Bailey names names: Bill Kristol, Mary Matalin, former Bush aides Jason Recher and Steve Biegun, GOP officials Nick Ayers and Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly." Bailey says: "We could normally expect them to repeat any coordinated message we sent." This is all pretty shocking to you, I'm sure.

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Pretty damning stuff – as usual….
Sarah Palin reality show receives $1.2 million in Alaska State Tax Credits – “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the TLC reality show starring the former governor in her home state, will receive roughly $1.2 million in tax credits for filming in Alaska, the state says.
Under a state subsidy created by the Legislature in 2008 and signed into law by Palin, Alaska allows film and TV producers to recover 30 percent or more of the money they spend on filming in the state.

All told, the Palin show spent $3.6 million in Alaska, the state says.

TV and movie-makers may not have tax liability in Alaska but they can sell the credits at a discount to corporations that do. The tax revenue would have otherwise gone into state coffers.

Shows such as “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers” have also received credits in the past year, though no reality show spent or received as much as “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” according to a state list of approved tax credits.

Season four of "Ice Road Truckers" spent $2.7 million in the state, receiving about $900,000 in tax credits. Season six of "Deadliest Catch" spent $1.7 million and received about $600,000.

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More Big Government interfering with the free market – this time thanks to Sarah Palin and about Sarah Palin
President 2012: Sarah Palin Despises Newt Gingrich – Here's what Palin sent to her "team" after her scheduled appearance speaking about Gingrich at a fund-raising event was canceled:
“Yes, (Newt/GOP) are egotistical, narrow minded machine goons… but all the more reason God protected me from getting up on stage in front of 5000 political and media ‘elites’ to praise him, then it be shown across the nation.” Palin wrote in the e-mail.

“At some point Newt would have shown his true colors anyway and we would have been devastated having known we’d earlier prostituted ourselves up in front of the country introducing him and acting like that good ol’ rich white guy is the savior of the party,” she continued.

Yeesh. Can't wait for the next time those two try to pretend to like each other. Also, Good ol' rich white guy? In private, Sarah Palin kind of sounds like Markos Moulitsas.

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I can hardly wait for a Presidential debate – if either of them runs.