The Sarah Palin "Going Rogue Coloring Book" -- perfect gift for the rightwing nutter on your Christmas list -- and just the right intellectual level, too

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Hysterical and fun coloring book parody of Palin's farcical "Going
Rogue" "memoirs." Conceived, written and illustrated by our colleagues
Julie Sigwart and Michael Stinson.

As written up in the Washington Post on November 6th:

"'Going Rouge': The Sarah Palin coloring book"

Love her or hate her, people are drawn to Sarah Palin. Now, a new book
wants you to color her.

One year after the race for the White House, publishers have released
several books about the GOP vice presidential candidate. The most
anticipated is her own memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," which
lands on store shelves on Nov. 17 and is tops in pre-orders on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble's websites.

Will there be parodies? You betcha.

In fact, the two spoof books share the same title. "Going Rouge: Sarah
Palin - An American Nightmare" features essays by writers for The
Nation, a liberal magazine. The other is "Going Rouge -- The Sarah
Palin Rogue Coloring and Activity Book" by husband and wife team Julie
Sigwart and Michael Stinson.

"That other book just has a bunch of words," joked Stinson of The
Nation's book. "We got pictures!"

But coloring pictures is only half of it. There are mazes such as
"Help Sarah find her way to the White House" (hint: it's impossible)
and a cut-out paper doll page titled "Dress Sarah for
Success!" (wardrobe options include an Alaskan wolf pelt skirt).
There's also a word search with this theme: "Sarah wins nomination for
Pres! Who will she pick for her Veep?" Names to be found include Rush
Limbaugh, Joe the Plummer, and Hairstylist.

Stinson, 57, and his wife are long-time liberal political activists
who live in Ocean Pines, Md., and work as graphic artists.


He is also well acquainted with the Alaskan terrain. He worked there
as a uranium prospector in the 1970s. At one point the helicopter he
was flying in crashed over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
Stinson, along with the rest of crew, spent a week in the remote
wilderness before they were found. ("We actually did talk about
cannibalism.")

Echoing Palin's "drill, baby, drill" statement from her vice
presidential debate, he said the goal of the coloring book is to have
it "sell, baby, sell!" He called the response to date "phenomenal,"
especially among bookstores in Alaska.

"We decided to do something playful and spontaneous," said Stinson,
who used to collect every issue of Mad Magazine. "We also figured a
coloring book was the perfect vehicle in which to lampoon her."

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Why not combine it with a Michele Bachmann comic book that teaches you
much about the madness that lurks behind Bachmann?
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1852
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