The Ghost of Royalties Yet to Come…
22 05 2009Sarah Palin has chosen her ghost writer collaborator.”
Who will be writing Palin’s shiny new chapter book?
The lucky winner is Lynn Vincent, a conservative Christian who has written or co-written several other books including “Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party.” Oooooo, those Democrats are pretty naughty… Good thing Republicans don’t engage in that sort of thing. Oh, wait…..[LINK]
Of course, Sarah Palin says she will be writing the book mostly herself, in her own words. I don’t know how much they are paying Ms. Vincent, but I can tell you right now, it’s not enough.
Here’s what Palin’s almost-biographer Amanda Coyne said in an interview when asked about why she turned down the offer to write what became “Sarah” by Kaylene Johnson, and ended up in ceiling-high stacks all over the book tables at Costco in Anchorage.
I might be the only person ever who can claim to have dumped Sarah. That’s a joke, kind of. I turned the contract down after some interviews, and after being convinced that she was just not as substantial as I thought she was.
In my research, and by watching her, I realized that she is lovely and confident and was well on her way to something that she had not earned. And what was worse, in my mind, is that she didn’t seem to know that she hadn’t earned it. Indeed, Sarah told a reporter in 1996 that the “turning point in my life” was winning a high school basketball game, she said. “We were supposed to be the underdogs big time. You see firsthand anything is possible and learn it takes tenacity, hard work and guts.” I just didn’t believe that she was qualified to be Alaska’s governor.Here’s part of an email that I sent to the publisher, Kent Sturgis, when I decided not to do the book: “I’ve been following the governor’s performance these last months, and I fear that she is floundering. Her administration is exiting rapidly, some of her decisions have been ill-thought out, at best….
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:40 PM
HonestyinGov – Here ya go: http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/804225.html
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I’m going to go ahead and take whatever odds are that Sarah and Lynn, while perhaps liking each other personally, are ultimately not going to be able to get along enough to get this book done, at least not in the tight timeframe they have announced for it. Sarah’s said it herself – she likes to call the shots. If Lynn cares about her professional reputation as a writer, she will HAVE TO rein Sarah in somewhere along the way. As I said in another thread, Sarah will have to take some direction, will have to work WITH Lynn, and treat her like the professional writer she is, rather than as someone who is working FOR her.
I suppose it is possible they could get along.
But as God told me not to buy the book too, also, in the end I don’t much care. Sure would be better drama if they didn’t, and as we all know, we don’t follow SP because we are ’scared’ of her, we follow her because her antics are more entertaining than 95% of what’s on TV.
In fact, I think Sarah OWES it to us to have this book collaboration process be highly dramatic.
Invest now in popcorn futures as sales are sure to skyrocket.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 PM
akm, this post is priceless!
palin better come up with some really good stories for this seemingly pointless tome. i’m afraid even her base may be shrinking… my until-recently palin-loving ex-husband has confessed the scales have fallen from his eyes and he’s lost that palin feelin’
don’t get too excited though… he’s developed a man-crush on dick cheney. {sigh}
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:53 PM
rumor has it that she used 2 of her 20000 words on a chapter called “How To Make Your Kids Act Right In Public”
Drug Them!!
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 PM
txindygirl,
the ex sounds like he’s going from the frying pan straight into the fire. Or has a masochistic streak a mile wide. Take yer pick.
s
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I can feel “Lynnie the Friendly Ghost” coming on.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Amanda Coyne: “I might be the only person ever who can claim to have dumped Sarah.”"
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Not anymore, Amanda…..
69,498,215 voters dumped Sarah on Nov. 4, 2008…..and plenty more have joined their ranks because of her “idiot wind” blowing around Alaska since the election.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Will someone tell this stupid, country bumpkin that she is no longer relevent…she is DONE! She’s a laughing stock! She’s shining such a terrible light on Alaska. What is wrong with her? …and more importantly, who’s going to tell her to stop pretending she’s necessary!?!!!?
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Wonder how many folks GINO will dis’ in her so-called “memoirs”; getting even or settling old scores? Maybe an unexpected slam, even to an unexpected republican. You know, paybacks…..
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I doubt that Amanda Coyne will fare well, if Sarah decides to go after people who haven’t jumped on the Sarah bandwagon. Wow. That was an amazing insight into what Sarah is like. And how, as governor, does one justify that a high school basketball game is the defining moment in one’s life. Good grief. Sounds like SP needs to get outside Wasilla a bit more. Oh, wait. She did and she still didn’t get it.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 PM
John (Canadian Mudpuppy), you are hilarious. You really got me laughing out loud—-with these.
There is no way you could warm up to Sarah Palin even if you were cremated together.Sarah reminds me of someone who was abducted by aliens and they forget to remove her anal probe. The problem with Sarah is her gene pool has no lifeguard. Sarah’s as useless as a one legged man at an ass kicking contest.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Note that Lynn Vincent’s co-author of the ‘Donkey Cons’ book is Robert Stacy McCain — who was once a member of a white supremacist group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Ohhhh. pallin’ around with White Supremacists! Way to go, Winky!
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:26 PM
It’s all about job creation, but God, also too, told me NOT to read this book.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:29 PM
This “Christian” writer already has a track record of being just another ….. Liar for Jesus, so they will get along famously.
Of all the kinds of annoying people in political life, it’s Liars for Jesus I hate the most.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I consider it a good sign that little bits of unvarnished truth still do surface about Palin from people given close access to her. She can’t bamboozle everyone after all.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:42 PM
If they put it on audio with sarah reading it , no one will ever be waterboarded again.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Wait until those liars for jesus find out that it was all a temporal lobe epilepsy problem:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104291534
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About a decade ago, Schimmel had a benign tumor removed from his left temporal lobe. The surgery was a snap. But soon after that — unknown to him — he began to suffer mini-seizures. He’d hear conversations in his head. Sometimes the people around him would look slightly unreal, as if they were animated.
Then came the visions. He remembers twice, lying in bed, he looked up at the ceiling and saw a swirl of blue and gold and green colors that gradually settled into a shape. He couldn’t figure out what it was.
“And then, like a flash, it dawned on me: ‘This is the Virgin Mary!’ ” he says. “And you know, it’s funny. I laughed about it, because why would the Virgin Mary appear to me, a Jewish guy, lying in bed looking at the ceiling? She could do much better.” ….
Did Paul Hear Jesus, Or Was It Hallucination?
Some 2,500 years ago, notes Orrin Devinsky, who directs the epilepsy center at New York University, Hippocrates wrote one of the very first texts we have on epilepsy — and he named it “On the Sacred Disease.”
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May 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Huffpo has a story up on the author as well.
AKM has pretty much already covered all the points he was trying to make.
It just shows that the other media sources are out there watching as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/sarah-palins-book-collabo_b_206713.html
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 PM
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John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 PM
This should be a good one. I don’t know about Lynn Vincent and how much of a christian she is. But I can pretty well state by the end of the first chapter in Sarah’s book, Miss Vincent will be spew out a few cuss words of her own. I just cannot picture Sarah getting along with anuone who has one iota of intelligence. There is just no way. There is no way you could warm up to Sarah Palin even if you were cremated together.Sarah reminds me of someone who was abducted by aliens and they forget to remove her anal probe. The problem with Sarah is her gene pool has no lifeguard. Sarah’s as useless as a one legged man at an ass kicking contest.
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John, are you a PE Islander? Or even just your parents from there? It’s rare to get such rich bon mots elsewhere…even from Newfoundland…
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Sarah took an IQ test. The result? She failed.
How many times do we have to flush before she goes away?!
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Having done some reading earlier today, it seems clear that Lynn Vincent bases her work on the Wingnut Truth Formula:
1 gr truth (twist as desired) + 1 lg bkt BS = 1 lg bkt Wingnut Truth
The Palin book will be so full of ¼-truths, ½-truths, and nothing-to-do-with-the-truths that it’s going to piss everyone off except her campaign target groups. And they just might think it’s a wonderful book. Wow! Sarah’s so real, so full of integrity! Yeah, Obama IS a socialist …
This book is sure to be a viscerally distressing gagger.
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Having done some reading earlier today, it seems clear that Lynn Vincent bases her work on the Wingnut Truth Formula:
1 gr truth (twist as desired) + 1 lg bkt BS = 1 lg bucket Wingnut Truth
The Palin book will be so full of ¼-truths, ½-truths, and nothing-to-do-with-the-truths that it’s going to piss everyone off except her campaign target groups. And they just might think it’s a wonderful book. Wow! Sarah’s so real, so full of integrity! Yeah, Obama IS a socialist …
This book is sure to be a gagger.
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 PM
LOL< I thought Metlakatla High school won that champion… I do know this, that many of my amazing friends moved on from high school competition. Hmm, I dont think I will buy any book of hers.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Unfortunately, I’m still having to stand by my prediction the morning after Sarah’s speech at the GOP convention last summer: she WILL be the 2012 GOP nominee for Pres. And, if the economy hasn’t recovered by then, she’ll have a good chance of winning the election.
I so hope events prove me totally wrong. But misunderestimating Sarah is a dangerous error.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 AM
Stanley, I wouldn’t worry about it. Anything is possible, but Sarah just isn’t qualified and my golden retriever is more articulate. People also know she’s mean spirited and nasty.
Sarah’s best chance was is McCain had been elected. People were saying that if that happened he’d have to watch his back, especially at the top of any long stretch of stairs.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 AM
Stanley – the only thing Scarah could get elected to is Queen of LaLa Land. She is a national joke, as usual she doesn’t get the joke.
Well it looks like Scarah isn’t the only one who may be getting royaties Ruh Ro!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/fashion/24levi.html?_r=1&ref=fashion
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 AM
Stanely, I share your nightmare, although I do believe the GOP doesn’t really cotton to women or minorities so they will use her for fundraising, but Huckster and the rest will not go easy on her. Without good counsel, and she seems to reject that, they will crush her. She should hire Rove and I wouldn’t be surprised if she did just that.
She is dangerous. Have you seen A Face in the Crowd? Hick hero becomes powerful politically with his hickiness. And lies and fakery. And then the Sinclair Lewis book, It Can’t Happen Here. Well it can.
Which is why keeping the pressure on and exposing her lies is key.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 AM
UK Lady – Yup Yup !! I have said all along that Levi is holding some fine cards in this silly game sarah wants to play. Team Levi is in the drivers seat all the way. sarah loses sleep over Team Levi. Go Rex !! Thanks for the link.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Lord knows Team Levi is going to need a considerable amount of assistance when writing his book. These kids aren’t doing too badly for high school dropouts. Look out Costco…. here come a whole lot more books no one wants to read.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Wonder if Lynn, the Christian, believes in witch doctors. Wonder if she is a holy roller that speaks in tongues.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:20 AM
76 UK Lady Says:
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 AM
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UK Lady….. based on what Rex Butler said in those interviews it sounds like he is sort of just ‘ dangling the carrot out there’ just so the Palin camp have something to think about. Let their own paranoia take over and put the pressure on them.
He said very little…. which is even better. I think he has Levi’s best interest here and is looking down the road rather than short-term. I’ll bet he’s a good poker player.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Interesting that Sarah would select a League of the South discipline to act as her writer. Sarah continues to display provincial political skills on the national stage. She already has the crowd in the League of the South demographics. This book is intended to make money being sold to those who support her — not a bad business decision because you have a waiting market, but a horrible political decision. Politically, Sarah needs to attract others who aren’t already KKK remnants and Christian extremists. She fails at that woefully. The more she parades, the more national and Alaska votes she loses. I originally thought she was just too provincial to make the jump from Wasilla to Washington; now I believe she is truly lacking of any depth of intellectual ability.