Going Rogue - with epigraphs

By Ron Beasley

DaveNoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money is reading Going Rogue so we don't have too.  Now I'm not really interested in even reading about the book but I found this amusing.

I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch her chapters with epigraphs that aren't of dubious origin?

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So far as bungled epigraphs go, the third chapter is arguably the winner so far, attributing this nugget of wisdom to the renowned former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden:

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember than our grandfathers paid for it -- with their lives.

Now, if that's not the sort of thing you'd expect a hall of fame basketball coach to say, that's because, of course, he didn't. Students of American Indian history might recognize that passage as belonging instead to John Wooden Legs, the post-WWII Northern Cheyenne tribal leader who -- though a contemporary of John Wooden's -- was not the same guy.

Yes, yes -- it's absurd to expect much from Sarah Palin, but imagine if these sorts of gaffes had appeared in books by Hillary Clinton or Obama himself.

Now most of the people who buy Palin's book won't read it or any other for that matter.  It's what I call a trophy book - proudly displayed next to the literary gems from O'Rielly, Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh but never opened unless there are pictures.