Sarah Palin’s new book is due in stores next week and the press has been building quite the momentum to its release. Certainly no one expects a stroke of genius or something worth a literature award, but it’s the non-sense that Palin writes about that will likely payoff and help bring in some dollars to her coffers.

Take for example, the exaggerated attention by the media over the weekend about Palin’s comment that she would sit down and have a cup of coffee with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It’s like, “who the hell cares!” but that didn’t stop Meet The Press’ David Gregory from asking Clinton on his show Sunday if she would accept such an invitation:

Gregory: You may not have heard, but Sarah Palin has a new book out. And in, it she writes this: “Should Secretary Clinton and I ever sit down over a cup of coffee, I know that we would fundamentally disagree on many issues. But my hat is off to her hard work on the 2008 campaign trail.”

Is this somebody you’d like to sit and have coffee with, and do you plan to read the book?

Who ever decided to make a big deal out of Palin’s words obviously didn’t have any news to write about. When is the media going to stop picking up the absurdness that Palin says or writes about? What a waste of everybody’s time.

Fact of the matter is that Hillary Clinton had no choice but to respond:

Clinton: “Well, I absolutely would look forward to having coffee. I’ve never met her, and I think it would be very interesting to sit down and talk with her. And I’ve got more than I can say grace over to read. But obviously, in the next week, there’s going to be a lot of attention paid to her book, and I’m sure that I’ll see excerpts printed and snippets of interviews as I channel surf in Singapore and in Shanghai and in Beijing. But I’m ready to have a cup of coffee. Maybe I can make a case on some of the issues that we disagree on.”

In other words, this is what Clinton actually wanted to say:

Clinton: “Well, what a dumb reference about me in her book. What? Is that all she can say about me? For god’s sake I guess I would have to have coffee with that dimwit, I’m the Secretary of State after all and I have no choice but to be diplomatic. I have successfully avoided that airhead all this time since I’ve never cared to meet her. Obviously, in the next week Palin’s face is going to be plastered all over my television. I will have to surf the channels and look for something worth watching — maybe Animal Planet. But I’m ready to have a cup of coffee with her so that I can carefully observe how stupid she looks when I talk to her about foreign affairs. While we’re at it, I may quiz Palin on geography and see if she knows anything about any other countries aside from Russia.”

Now that would have been news worthy! A high ranking public official who actually speaks the truth.

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