New Vancouver book club invites Sarah Palin and Pervez Musharraf to town

by Charlie Smith on Aug 31, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Sarah Palin will be going rogue at the Vancouver Club on October 13.

Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will speak at the Vancouver Club on October 13.

Palin, author of Going Rogue, is one of six writers invited to Vancouver by the Bon Mot Book Club.

Palin's speaking fee is $75,000, according to one of the founders of the club, Leah Costello. She told the Georgia Straight by phone that Palin's fee would have exceeded $100,000 had she booked the event more recently.

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf is another one of the speakers. He will be in Vancouver on January 19.

The series kicks off on September 20 with Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.

Also part of the series is Dambisa Moyo, a former World Bank and Goldman Sachs economist who has opposed providing foreign aid to Africa.

Other speakers include New Yorker writer Dr. Atul Gwande and author Liz Murray, who went from being homeless to attending Harvard University.

Costello said that the speaking fees of Gwande and Musharraf are each in the $100,000 range.

There are only 18 tables in the room for these events. Individual tickets cost $500. For $8,000, patrons can purchase six tickets plus six VIP passes, which will enable them to attend receptions to meet the speakers.

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dudeguydotwebs
Aug 31, 2010 at 6:16 pm
oh so exploitable. it sure would be nice if we could have some raging grannies at the reception.
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raincoaster
Aug 31, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Who do I have to bl- uh, blackmail, to get a media pass to that Michael Lewis talk?
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49 degrees latitude, 360 degrees attitude!
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carderoaerie
Sep 1, 2010 at 6:53 am
The woman bringing this piece of work to Vancouver is affiliated with both the Fraser Institute and the infamous CATO group founded and funded by one of the Koch brothers, yes the big bucks wielding the sticks trying to whistle home the destruction of America for big business. When civil war scatters their population I hope the Republicans are held at the border, after all, they will have been the firestarters. They can move to Uruguay for the duration, where the Bush family has decided to wait out the war before heading back to a depopulised country missing a middle class. Sarah Palin is what Olbermann says, but more dangerous.
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miguel
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:50 am
Go Sarah! Hoik as much money out of rich people as you can!
Miguel
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Dave S
Sep 1, 2010 at 8:57 am
For $75,000 I'd happily put together a talk for this club.

Oh wait. No one invited me to run for a position I'm not qualified for. And I've actually been to other countries. Guess they don't care what I have to say.
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Grant Phillips
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:24 am
For real? I've never heard of Bon Mot. (that's in French isn't it?) Most conservatives I know find her an embarrasment. I'll bet this is a scam, and they are really bringing in Tina Fey.
Seriously though, what could a USA right winger frim Alaska have to say that anyone in BC would find interesting? even if there was a free meal on Hastings or Cordova Street included.
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DaveD
Sep 1, 2010 at 10:00 am
so... is the Bon Mot Book Club a comedy club or something?
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Tea Bags
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Let's all show up - with tea bags! Big ones! Wet ones!
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just say no
Sep 1, 2010 at 2:51 pm
really? am i the only one saddened by the fact that there are enough, rich, influential people in Vancouver WANTING to see such a pathetic, fear mongering, right-wing, loud mouth speak? Sarah Palin is everything we as Canadians should be resisting and educating themselves above.
i know, perhaps a double bill, Musharrif and Palin, speaking on Ghandi's birthday ! a follow up performance to the Apostle Glen Beck and Palin MLK anniversary speech. frightening, truly.
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montyvan
Sep 1, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Oh my, what a complete waste of money to listen to some airhead babble on about nothing important! For $5, you can buy a helium-filled balloon and slowly let the air out. That would be far more entertaining, and would save you $74,995.
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March Hare
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:03 pm
We need to have a Mad Hatter's Tea Party outside the Vancouver Club. Spread the word. Let's give the maddest of them all a proper Vancouver welcome. Freedom!
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Sandy Garossino
Sep 3, 2010 at 1:18 am
Are they going to give her a book?
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Fasih Ali Khan
Sep 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm

Musharraf is a Statesman that world needs badly, especially Pakistan.

Long Live Musharraf

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Eleanor Brook
Sep 13, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Odd that this book club has no charitable component.
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Umar Mukhtar
Nov 9, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Musharraf is a coward. I am surprised a book club inviting a war criminal for speech. Such a shame.
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Aziz Baloch
Jan 13, 2011 at 2:35 am
True face of Mushrraf: In March 2005, under his rules, in Sui, Balochistan a Pakistani army officers raped a female physician Dr. Shazia Khalid instead of providing the female raped victims a justice. The irony is as head of the Pakistan, he acquitted his Pakistani rapist army officer without any trial.

Second, on August 26, 2006, Musharraf ordered the Pakistani army generals to assassinate a prominent Baloch leader, a former governor and premier of Balochistan and 7000 political, social, and human rights activist of Baloch people have been whisked away and disappeared under his rules which is a crimes against humanity.

This is a shame such ruthless dictator true face has been ignored by Vancouver Book Club inviting him to make a presentation.
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Freedom Fighter
Sep 26, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Kudos to the organizers of Palin's book tour. Too bad she doesn't charge as much as Al Gore for his bogus "Global Warning" tours. Sarah I think you should raise your price.
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