son-in-law, who she also once used for political hay, quoted her as having called her own youngest child her retarded baby, unquote. thirdly, her credibility is so slight, she's probably just guaranteed mr. emmanuel his job for life. perhaps her real intent has failed. she was trying to divert attention from her latest skeevy scandal in which she has used $63,000 worth of contributions to her political action committee to buy copies of her own book wholesale from her publisher and then give them to donors. the blog hot air, one of the greatest sources for soffestry on the web, says this is no big deal because it would only involve 4,700 books. the number of books is not the question. it's the royalties on the books. at her publisher, harper collins, division of news corp, an author can set themselves up as a special sales client, buy their own book in bulk, and then the author gets a 10% royalty on the deal. in other words, there's a way for sarah palin to tithe all the donations to her political action committee and keep it for