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The Ghost of Royalties Yet to Come…

Sarah 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….

sarah

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82 Responses to “The Ghost of Royalties Yet to Come…”
  1. Keith says:

    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.

  2. honestyinGov says:

    76 UK Lady Says:
    May 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 AM
    ——————————–
    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.

  3. greatgrammy1 says:

    Wonder if Lynn, the Christian, believes in witch doctors. Wonder if she is a holy roller that speaks in tongues.

  4. phoebe says:

    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.

  5. austintx says:

    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.

  6. lilybart says:

    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.

  7. UK Lady says:

    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

  8. marcus2 says:

    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.

  9. 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.

  10. mt says:

    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.

  11. Closet Mudpup says:

    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.

  12. Closet Mudpup says:

    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.

  13. CorningNY says:

    Sarah took an IQ test. The result? She failed.

    How many times do we have to flush before she goes away?!

  14. honestyinGov says:

    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

  15. nswfm CA says:

    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
    quote
    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.”

    end quote

  16. austintx says:

    If they put it on audio with sarah reading it , no one will ever be waterboarded again.

  17. Maria says:

    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.

  18. lilybart says:

    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.

  19. trisha says:

    It’s all about job creation, but God, also too, told me NOT to read this book.

  20. EatWildFish says:

    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!

  21. trisha says:

    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.

  22. 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.

  23. anon blogger says:

    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…..

  24. Lainey says:

    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!?!!!?

  25. Lee323 says:

    Amanda Coyne: “I might be the only person ever who can claim to have dumped Sarah.””
    —————————————-
    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.

  26. lynnrockets says:

    I can feel “Lynnie the Friendly Ghost” coming on.

  27. Nan says:

    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

  28. drew from lil ol texas says:

    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!!

  29. txindygirl says:

    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}

  30. Terpsichore says:

    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.

  31. Irishgirl says:

    Mae, I’m hearing you!!

  32. Greytdog Δ says:

    Bystander . . . ROFL!!!! Touche! bravo!!

    As for the cover illustration, I keep getting this horrifying picture of SP dressed up like the Virgin Mary (with glasses and a wink) looking pious, hands posed in prayer, and a shining light around her head. . . i think i just threw up in my mouth. gotta go rinse now

  33. Nan says:

    strangelet,
    I’d probably start looking for the nutmeg to add to that “nog” But it’s been a long day here, and I’m a little punchdrunk, so don’t pay me any mind, please!

    Nan

  34. AlaskaGuy says:

    The author of a book titled “Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party” is NOT going to give up the chance to write for Sarah Palin.

  35. PalinSucks says:

    Good Lord another tabloid exclusive…what will be left to add to a book?
    http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280580,00.html

  36. strangelet says:

    @CN 42:

    Sadly, I’m afraid that Ms. Vincent’s concern for her reputation only extends to the unusual suspects.

    BTW, would GINOG be too confusing as an acronym for Lynn?

  37. Canadian Neighbour says:

    Have never heard of Lynn Vincent, but she must know, her reputation is at stake on this too.

  38. honestyinGov says:

    If Lynn is going to be Sarah’s new BFF while this book is being written…. won’t that make Stapletongue a bit jealous…? how will THAT work?

    And I just read on tomorrows post at Palingates for Saturday.
    Sarah Palin’s Valley friends
    Five members of the Greater Wasilla Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors abruptly resigned Wednesday and at least three, including the former board president, are now calling for an outside audit to investigate how money has been spent by the group’s executive director.
    ————————————-
    Has this been in the papers…. corruption in Wasilla ?… hard to believe.

  39. Nan says:

    John (Canadian Mudpuppy)
    I haven’t laughed this hard since I don’t know when.

    But hon, lets not sugarcoat it any more; please, do tell us how you *really* feel, dear!

    I think it was the “cremated together” that started it, and the “alien probe” just totally caught me off-guard. I’ll be laughing in my sleep about that entire comment!

    Good on you!
    Nan

  40. honestyinGov says:

    I hope there are some reporters who are willing to stay up late at night to document when Lynn Vincent stops by the house for these rendevous.
    It would have to be LATE at night because GINO has already made a statement that she will be doing this on her OWN time….. and not writing this book on State time. Late at night is the only time She is not Governor.

    As per ‘HER’ legal advice and opinion of WHY this is not an ‘ethics question’ for GINO.
    Who wants to be a reporter… or at least play one. Like GINO is ‘playing’ the role of Governor.

  41. UK Lady says:

    Scarah and whoever writes this load of babble have a big problem, once in print with Scarah’s approval it is fact checkable, and there are going to be a lot of fact checkers.

  42. Darn, a ghost writer. I would read this book if I could be assured no one had tidied up Sarah’s beautifully ornate babbling . . . or “Speaking in tongues,” whatever we want to call it.

  43. Gramiam says:

    Lynn Vincent has to be a closet Catholic. She is using this book job to work off a whole bunch of Purgatory time!! And lest anybody think I’m insulting Catholics, I am one!!

  44. strangelet says:

    Oh, I meant to specifically comment on Lynn Vincent’s contention that FDR was elected with the help of the Mob.

    In the 1932 election, FDR carried 57% of the popular vote, and won all but six states. I’m not sure how much help he needed, but that alone convinces me that Sarah’s Ghost is well-detached from reality.

  45. lynnrockets says:

    @ John, #30

    That was one of the best collections of one liners that I have heard in quite a while.

  46. sauerkraut says:

    Sarah is for sale?

    Why does that not surprise me. …

  47. Bystander says:

    Sarah and Lynn- the Quack meets the Hack- or did I give away the subtitle?

  48. strangelet says:

    I dunno. I think Lynn-poo may hit it off big-time with GINO. A blurb from her current Christian-publisher employer about the book she wrote under her own name:

    Donkey Cons reveals:

    How corrupt Democrats in Congress outnumber corrupt Republicans by as much as three to one.

    How Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy were elected with the help of the Mob.

    What two eyewitnesses said about JFK’s obsession with hookers.

    How union operatives take from working families to deliver millions of dollars to Democrats.

    How Democrats in the 1990’s covered up a conspiracy one expert called “the largest incidence of obstruction of justice in American history.”

    Why Democrats ignore crime victims and take the side of rapists, robbers, and cop-killers-then stump for the right of felons to vote!

    I’m thinkin’ Sarah and Lynn gonna be BFFs.

  49. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    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.

  50. Mae says:

    Visualize…
    Cover photo of Palin on a bear skin wall hanging, drapped over WAR’s red hummer.
    Foreward by Robert Stacy McCain.

  51. lynnrockets says:

    As I understand it, there was another person that turned down the opportunity to pen Palin’s biography. Wait…wait…wait… Stuttering Bob from The Howard Stern Show. Ba-boom.

  52. nebraska mudflatter says:

    Clicking on the link to the “Sarah” book on the Amazon site really puts things in perspective:

    “Frequently Bought Together:

    *This item: Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson
    * A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O’Reilly
    * Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It by Dick Morris

    Price For All Three: $44.24”

    I would say . . . “price-less.”

  53. BigSlick says:

    Somebody should mail Lynn Vincent a couple of forms for submitting ethics complaints against GINO in advance so she can have them near and handy when this all blows up in their faces.

  54. honestyinGov says:

    I’m wondering if a certain bunch of ‘cons’ bloggers who praise the GINO have ever read that FIRST book…? Do they know what is in it…. because I never see them write stories on their blog about it.
    You know… Omnibus video, or video Omni, vid anonymous, … THAT guy!

    Does he write movie reviews for Blockbuster video as well.. I don’t know 😉

    And that’s what I am going to call them ‘ cons’…. the description fits.

  55. InJuneau says:

    Oh man, Greytdog Δ, I think you missed a great title suggestion for the contest! Or did it make it in and I just missed it?!?

  56. Tealwomin says:

    …wonder what details are in the contract between writer & GiNO….

  57. Greytdog Δ says:

    Palin’s Tall Tales of the Tundra has everything Vincent likes – sex, guns, religion, todd, and god.

  58. InJuneau says:

    fawnskin mudpuppy–thanks! 🙂

  59. Ripley in CT says:

    all we can hope is that whatever drivel that is produced ends up in the same place of esteem as the old Sears catalogues. yep, in the outhouse.

  60. UK Lady says:

    Bejeebus Big Pete, it means that #79,222 is a real stinker!

  61. InJuneau says:

    Mae–that’s funny, that’s what God was telling me too. We must share her!

  62. trisha says:

    Oh my gosh….I love the link to those “moral” republicans.

    What a self-rightious b*tch this writer must be to write a book about sex and corruption in the Democratic party.

    She need look no further than Palin’s little family for her next book, Sex, Crime and Corruption in Alaska.

  63. Mae says:

    The published book will be a hit with freaky “oil pan dipstick collectors”. Palin will consider THAT an accomplishment.

  64. trisha says:

    This has disaster written all over it. Who wants to wager how long it will be before this blows up.

    This writer will give Palin some gentle suggestions, and Sarah won’t tell it very well. She is all mavericky, ya know. Plus, it seems that Sarah is not a big fan of women, so she will, most likely, get into a —I’m better than you are–competition with this woman thus, a cat fight.

    Oh well, sounds like this writer deserves it.

  65. mlaiuppa says:

    Oooo. I think Amanda still needs to write that Sarah book. Only not as a collaborator. And probably not even approved, endorsed or official.

  66. Mae says:

    Don’t tell Palin that God has spoken to me. Cause God said something about “fire starter”, as well.

  67. Karin in CT says:

    I give Lynn Vincent one month before she quits.

  68. Mae says:

    Oh my God! God is speaking to me again. Just this past moment! He said to tell everyone to not read her book. lol

  69. “Palin’s Trailblazer book has a “Sales Rank” of #79,221 on Amazon.

    Is that good?”

    Bloggers on the Bus is currently at 4,561, and climbing rapidly.

  70. Mae says:

    God spoke to me, just yesterday, and said to not read the book.

  71. zyggy says:

    I’m confused, if Palin is writing the book in her own words, why does she need a ghost writer?

  72. trisha says:

    I think we need a list of things that we think Sarah should explain in her book “in her own words” that have been “misrepresented” by the media.

    Personally, I would like clarification as to why it took her so many years and so many schools just to get her B.A.

    I would also like clarification of her interpretation of the First Amendment where she stated that “it gives her the right not to be harrassed by the media”.

    Any others?

  73. BigPete says:

    Palin’s Trailblazer book has a “Sales Rank” of #79,221 on Amazon.

    Is that good?

  74. BooBooBear says:

    Well, Lynn Vincent is in for one hell of a ride. If she is touting herself as a Christian, will she be able to print all of Palin’s lies with a clear conscience? Do you think she is even aware of all the skeletons in the Queen’s closet? I doubt it…should be interesting.

  75. autopoeisis says:

    I’m betting teh governorette goes through 4 ghost writers, maybe five, before this thing hits the streets.

  76. fawnskin mudpuppy says:

    congrats, injuneau (wink wink)

  77. WakeUpAmerica says:

    Duh!!

  78. InJuneau says:

    (oooo, that hasn’t happened for me in ages! 😉 )

  79. InJuneau says:

    Yeah, there’s no way they’re paying that woman enough, just no way (not that I’m planning on reading it…).