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Meet Sarah Palin's Ghostwriter
But did she really nail Palin? Lynn Vincent took leave from her post at the Christian publication World Magazine, where she'd worked for a decade, to be ghostwriter for Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, due out in November. But Vincent can't talk about it—she signed a non-disclosure agreement. Vincent retired from the Navy as an air traffic controller in 1991 and settled in San Deigo. Since then, she has written books about a Christian pop singer, a former terrorist, and an Army general, but her most successful work was an inspirational book about a rich art dealer who befriended a homeless man. Same Kind of Different as Me sold more than half a million copies and spent 75 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list—prompting Mark Clayman, executive producer of the sappy American Dream-themed The Pursuit of Happyness—to pick up the movie rights.
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Hahahaha!
Typical elitist snobs here as usual. So now Palin has a 'Ghost Writer' and not an editor. Too funny. So now that her book is likely going to hit #1 immediately...the same media snobs who said she was finished...now will tell us she didn't write her book. Insanity to be so afraid of a 'citizen politico' as Palin. Maybe the people of the nation know much more than the mavens who inhabit Manhattan.
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I'm a liberal, and I never said she was finished. I knew she was going to have a super successful book. There are enough crazies and enough curios people to make it a hit. She needed someone else to write it so it didn't completely suck though. It's funny because she bills herself as a maverick and a non-washington type who is a new kind of politician, but then gets a ghost-writer. Nothing "citizen politico" about that. Same old, same old.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
H.L. Mencken
Well, enough of the people of this nation did know enough to keep this proud ignoramous out of federal office. But, maybe she could now win us over after publication by appearing with some intelligent interviewer (perhaps 60 Minutes?) and answering questions about "her" book. Of course, we would first give her a few weeks to read the book to become familiar with its contents.
Populism vs. elitism, eh Jpelhamin? Well I call BS. Here you have a woman who claims to have insight into how the world should work....and she can't even write her own book. If that's elitism, well, I guess I'll just vote for The Undertaker or The Big Show for President. According to your idiotic view of the world, POTUS should be a belt you win in WWF. Moron.
Yes. The people know.
Forgot to take your meds tonight? Call 911
Just so YOU are clear. Lynn Vincent lists herself as "co-author" on Palin's book. (See Wikipedia.) That's more than ghost writer and even more than editor. The press release announcing the early release of this "memoir" mentions that in addition to Vincent, editors at H-C also worked on it. That's code for their lawyers looked at it too. With so much animosity about to be flung at her "haters", Palin's book would have to be scrutinized thoroughly by the publisher to prevent lawsuits. That's what happens when a "Christian" wingnut dictates a word-salad to people charged with translating into English.
Only elitist snobs can AFFORD to hire a ghostwriter, not the ordinary people working at the car wash. Oh more likely, Rupert Murdoch hired the ghostwriter and helped "edit" the book.
Did anybody ever really believe that Sarah Palin actually wrote a book? You just KNOW that she didn't. She couldn't.
I hate to burst a bunch of bubbles but atleast half of the non fiction books are co-written or "ghostwritten" today.
The big question is: Will she ever read the book she wrote?
May God have mercy on her soul.
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The sin is writing a book like that.
Sarah Palin already sold her soul on eBay.
It's not a sin, it's just not much of an event, whether it's Palin or anyone else. If the thoughts and words are not your own, then the account offers little insight into the mind or the character. What use is it to anyone who wants to learn something? Any person should be embarrassed to participate in such a charade.
Austerlitz - I think it would depend on how many lies she wrote on behalf of Palin that went into the book, like lying about being pregnant during the Alaskan gubernatorial election, lying about not knowing Bristol (the daughter) was having sex, lying about why the son went into the military, lying about the husband's separatist politics, etc.
The difference is that Hillary can think and speak coherently on her own. The same cannot be said of Palin. Ever.
What a waste of trees.
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But you would be wrong.
Exactly right...thanks for mentioning nearly every publication on the wrong side of history in the past 50 years. My God, those publications didn't even mind those enslaved in Europe under Communism. Today they are just liberal trash dying slowly on the vine of elitist self-denial.
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YOU would say that because you don't read MSM or thoughtful outlets that attempt to present a world view, tough issues, different perspectives. Go back to right-wing Web sites and take your silliness with you.
I'm still puzzled on how you can make a 400 page coloring book.
Instead of reading between the lines, you have to color between the lines.
Does purchasing the book include a box of crayons?
You would fill it with drawings of the journalists who never questioned Obama's background or views...a book of Liberal Looney Tunes.
Please list these journalists so we can hound them for that missing "background or views." Then we'll send them over to Palin who will reject any opportunity to be interviewed by them because they are not narrowly enough "Christian" and might ask her questions her handlers have not vetted.
Yes...a lot of people are puzzled over Palin and worried as well.
Hardly....you must be drinking from the "Delusional Thinking" kool aid barrel!
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Have you read any of them?
Bill and Hillary are bright, articulate people and, if they did not personally type their books, at the very least dictated them.
I can assure you that "Dreams from My Father" is so dull, dry and boring that it could only have been written by Obama. A ghostwriter would never have been paid for a submission like that and would know better.
Bill and Hillary are bright? LOL LOL Book knowledge is nothing compared to common sense.
jpelhamtn - They can string words together to form coherent thoughts. That is a skill Ms. Palin has yet to acquire.
"Nature abhors a moron."
H.L. Mencken
jpelhamtn-spoken like a true Beck man. Why would any one give credence to the 'common' sense of people like Palin and Beck who have NO knowledge let alone book knowledge. You have to be able to understand and digest the ideas of others in order to express your own. Otherwise you are just ranting.
Protest much?
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Because she is ridiculous and her PWT family, the baby-daddy, his drug-dealin' mom, the turkey guillotiner, almost everyone but the moose is just so darn funny!
We need a good laugh now and then. You betcha!
The haters won't want to give her a nickel and the lovers will be selling them unread on eBay.
I can see 1.5 million copies sitting unsold in a dark warehouse in South Carolina.
As you said, to be parlayed on Ebay. Maybe better kindling than for the Kindle.
Amazon has already discounted their price from $28 to $15. That will knock the h*ll out of Palin's profits.
Hmmmm...
I cant wait to delve into these pages of ill literature.
You are obsessed with Palin....look, she is what she is and she is is a not too bright and an accomplished liar, all in the name of Christ.
I wonder if there is going to be a paraphrase reference to Trig as
"My little retarded baby."
Disgusting and pitiful. Leave her kids alone. You have no shame obviously.
jpelhamtn - When she herself whored them out, she has to take the consequences.
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
H.L. Mencken
come on folks flag this
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nightdragon83 - Were you defending Amy Carter in the 70's and Chelsea Clinton in the 90's? If the Obama girls weren't black, the daggers would be flying already. Even so, it's only a matter of time. And yes, I would and will say the same thing.
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Her current speeches are merely her stump speeches with minor tweaks... I wonder if the book will manage to detail her profile any more than her stump speech.
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SP is such easy prey.
Every time she opens her mouth, it's another political or social train wreck
that needs mending. Palin is merely a genome oddity that functions merely
as cannon fodder for comedians and critical analysts. There's really not much
to debate here.
What little redeeming value could be culled from her "personal accounts" will
quickly dissolve into assorted water cooler discussion nuggets - all but forgotten.
The publisher has already order 1.5 million copies because the publisher has an advance order of 1.5 million copies from the Armageddonists of the 700 Club as campaign contribution.
When she shuts up and goes way, people will stop talking about her.
Night/TeamSarah, you have too much time on your hands, but I'll humor you and agree that Palin will sell 1.5MM copies. There ARE that many wingnuts in the country, especially since this is being pitched as a "memoir" (i.e. reality filtered through the cheesecloth of HER memory) of a conservative Christian. The Bible Belt will be eating it up. However, don't look to liberals and moderates to buy herr book. We'll wait for the reviews, which will supply LOL moments and lots for Tina Fey.
And since we're talking about books, keep an eye out for the upcoming exposes by Geoffrey Dunn and Joe McGinniss who have already written extensively on Palin. Those fact-filled books with lots of interviews of people who know her will make a great postscript to her lies. That's when Palin will learn that she didn't get the last laught, just big bucks for milking a credulous "base" like you.
Editor maybe
ghostwriter NO.
Sarah is a talent..
no - a flower just ready to
BLOOM. Why all the
NEGATIVE - she has
insight that will shine.
I used to doubt -
no more!
If William Kristol says that she is a viable candidate... than she is a viable candidate. The Bush Jr. election machine will be implemented and new barriers will be broken.
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that's very low, even for a conservative, to fake someone's identity on here. You clearly cannot handle yourself in a debate if you need to sink to that level. Although in mimicking rita your delivery is actually quite decent. Switch names but keep it up!
SS-
You're encouraging
Faking someone's identity
On this site?
not even CLOSE!
Cheap and dirty tricks have always worked for the Republicans. The fake Rita is following their playbook.
Most regular readers of these threads have already figured out that Winston is fake Rita. Winnie is as obsessed with Rita as Jokeman is with Obama.
And how about Obama's ghost writer for his two books?
Or do we just ignore those facts...
As I said above:
Have you read any of them? . . .
I can assure you that "Dreams from My Father" is so dull, dry and boring that it could only have been written by Obama. A ghostwriter would never have been paid for a submission like that and would know better.
DB!!! Nobody cares!! Her 15 minutes are UP, OVER . Get it?
Obama wrote his own books. Sarah can't write complete sentences if we are to go by the way she talks. But that's okay, I think her spluttering somehow speaks to a lot of people, so hopefully the ghost writer didn't change much. After all, Tina Fey's spoofs were particularly funny in the way they used Palin's own words. You betcha.
Ghost writer? Ms. Vincent must be one of those demonic spirits that the High Priestess of Trailer Trash is continuously trying to have exorcised.
Certainly any claim to actual intelligence by Princess Palin is a satanic manifestation.
I'm sure her handlers pointed out that even Jesus used them (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) and gave Ms. Vincent a nice Xtian title:
Articulation Angel, Blessed Book Buddy or Heaven's History Helper
I knew it, stupid is, what stupid does. Have someone write it for you......! hahahhahahhahaha SARAH BUSH- I TOLD YOU..
Something odd.
Interested in how they would frame the 'Going Rogue' meme, I visited nearly a dozen conservative sites, WorldNet, PJ Media, TownHall, Freepers, etc and NOT ONE had any mention of the book! Even PJ Media had taken down the PalinTracker it had just put up a couple of weeks ago.
Only Malkin, and she just had a two line blurb.
So, what is the politics happening here? and again, reading though the comments on this site and tasting the bitter devisivness that SP seems to front and forment, I can only wonder, WHO BENEFITS?
Who benefits as we citizens of this wonderful country are split apart by the noise and misdirection (on all sides) that has taken the place of journalism? How can we come together in the promise of our founding fathers and the Obama election that now seems so lost?
Thoughtful remarks, anyone?
If every voter were half as well-informed as most posters on TDB, this country would have frequent and healthy debates about the critical issues facing this country. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The fault lies on the part of the voters themselves.
Do we at times fall short in striving to disagree without being disagreeable and being able to agree to disagree? Yes.
That said, there are no sacred cows in this country. Hypocrites, liars, scoundrels, and all other political beasts on both sides of the aisle need to be called out for what they are. This unrestrained "freedom of speech" is what country was built on and is what makes America unlike any other country in the world.
So, for Sarah Palin, who advertised herself as a Washington outsider, a "regular" person, and championed "Joe the Plumber" for his alleged everyman qualities, it's the height of hypocrisy for her to not have written her own book and she is being taken to task for that.
Thank you Spotted. I was beginning to feel I'd 'killed the buzz'.
I appreciate your analysis and am sorry it is now so close to my bedtime that I cannot respond as thoughtfully as I might.
In being fairly new to commenting at this site and a few others, I keep looking for the healthy debate you advocate, especially from the 'right' as I am ignorant of many of the underlying premises upon which they seem to base their arguments. I have made use of the 'Blogopticon' that Vanity Fair has up to access a range of sites and still am left puzzled.
Let me know if you have any suggestions. It seems TDB may not be the best location for lengthy discourse.
If only I had the wit of Rita...;)
Thank you for your time.
even conservatives do not understand "speaking in tongues"....imagine reading the jibberjabber.
I'm guessing that the book will be pure unadulterated hogwash.
some body read it and then report back on what zipcodes she claims the demons live in....
Now I'll never know what color crayon Sarah used to write it.
Thought it would be a graphic novel.
Sarah Palin needs to READ a book-or twenty.
Did anyone really think that Sarah Palin was 'furiously writing' anything this summer, let alone a book?
Ghost writers are not the same as editors. Fitzgerald and Hemingway had an editor-Max Perkins at Scribner's-they did NOT need a ghost writer. Neither did Barack Obama who was a law student at the time he wrote his first book.
Sarah Palin needs a platoon of ghost writers and editors-what a task for this one poor lone ghost writer.
I think Levi's book will be better.
Agreed!
CNN's Candy Crowley was on the Situation Room panel tonight and asked a republican analysts:
"Would you want her in the White House in 2012?"
Answer from rethug analyst: "No"
Glorida Berge then laughed and said "2016?"
Rethug reply: "silence"
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