Sarah Palin's memoir: Ghosts and media

ghost writer or not, if palin signs off on it, you can bet your last dollar it will be truthful, and totally forthright. i'm really looking forward to the book myself. chris mathews book hit the trash after 3 chapters. i heard enough excerpts from obama's book that i didn't waste money on it.
dennisingn

I look forward to the read also. I hope she tells me everything I want to hear whether true or not.

What could she possibly write about that would be of any interest to anybody other than the mouth breathers that already think she's a Godess?
Can she write honestly about pathelogical blind ambition that shine brighter than Blago? Can she write about what carefully correographed "down home charm" has do do with affective administation of our republican form of government?
I wish her luck in her quest to become relevant, but I don't think it's ever gonna happen.

I was was wondering myself about Silva's snide little take on Palin's book, especially since on that day there was a Swamp item about Elizabeth Edwards and her book. Isn't Mrs. Edwards only in her mid 50s, about 10 years older than Mrs. Palin? And I was thinking about the Messiah and his two memoirs as well.
The real laugher is Silva pleading innocence!

You know you've hit the truth when conservatives go insane and start mindlessly tossing out insults.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

This odd looking guy, trying to stay on her good side (or else!) is already in line for the book:

http://msa4.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/bullwinkle-better.jpg

The real laugher is Silva pleading innocence!

Posted by: John D | May 14, 2009 9:56 AM

No John D, the "real laugher" is the publisher's assumption that Palin's followers can read! Maybe they'll get Tina Fey to do the audiobook for those who can sit still.

In just one example (of the many I could cite) of Silva double standards, consider that Mr. Silva has in at least 2 articles (Feb. 10 and Sept. 7, 2008) mentioned Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village", without mentioning that the book was ghostwritten by veteran author and ghostwriter Barbara Feinman.

M.S.--Consider it a 'badge of honor' to get busted on Newsbusters, where Crazy John Devola and his ilk go to feed their persecution complex.

I made the point yesterday and you completely deserve being chided and called to task.

By the way, I read something today alleging that Obama's first memoir was completely ghostwritten. I pretty much dismissed it, but it was an interesting thought -- and the person (who I think alleges Bill Ayres wrote it!) brought up previously really clunky Obama writing and then passages from the book.

I wonder if she's going to touch on the Alaskan Independence Party or the concept of lipstick on a pig, or the fact that she can she Russia from her kitchen window. Nevertheless, I'm sure it will be a very profound, detailed, and thought provoking read. I think not.
Go ahead GOP, put her on the ballot in 2012.

I wonder if she's going to touch on the Alaskan Independence Party or the concept of lipstick on a pig, or the fact that she can she Russia from her kitchen window. Nevertheless, I'm sure it will be a very profound, detailed, and thought provoking read. I think not.
Go ahead GOP, put her on the ballot in 2012.

I was was wondering myself about Silva's snide little take on Palin's book, especially since on that day there was a Swamp item about Elizabeth Edwards and her book. Isn't Mrs. Edwards only in her mid 50s, about 10 years older than Mrs. Palin? And I was thinking about the Messiah and his two memoirs as well.
The real laugher is Silva pleading innocence!

Posted by: John D | May 14, 2009 9:56 AM

No John D, the real laughter is on you and the rest of you morons. There's a huge difference between class and classless and I,m sorry but Palin has no class at all! Mrs. Edwards has been fighting cancer and for her life, to suggest this in merits less attention then your Malibu Barbie, well, that just says it all. You people lost for many reasons and yet you still hang onto those same reasons as if nothing went wrong! Yes John D, Terry and the rest of you the laugh is certainly on you!!

Bertie, Mark likes to leave out key ingredients to things he writes. It makes it easier to get the liberal spin to the masses.
Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, sorry, but when it comes to reading, understanding, comprehending and just overal basic knowledge, us Palinites and, frankly conservatives in general, are far more capable than most liberals could ever hope for. Intelligence never has been a hallmark of the liberal persona. And, Scot, when it comes to class, Palin again far surpasses any class those on the Left could ever dream of attaining. The Left never has been to include decent, hard working, good, honest people. Now scum, the Left is all over that!

How do you know Obama wrote his own "great" books? Just because a ghostwriter wasn't credited?? Obama can't even speak without a teleprompter! (Palin's teleprompter malfunctioned during her VP nomination acceptance speech and she did great!). He can't answer off the cuff questions without stuttering. He's come up with nothing innovative to solve the mess we are in (yes we know Bush and those before him created the mess and it's not his fault). However since Obama is considered a genius, why are his ideas pedestrian, liberal and uncreative ideas that have failed in the past? I expect much more of a "brilliant" man. Why on earth do so many think he's so smart and Palin so dumb? Why can't Palin write a book, and live her life without CONSTANT snickering comments? Does anyone see the bias here?

read the column and found it laughable. If Palin can't even speak a coherent sentence: Subject, verb and predicate, how will she collaborate? The amount of redundancies and incoherence she can stuff between the initial capital and final full stop is enough power a locomotive across continental US. Then he goes on to yammer about politicians who had collaborators and ghosts, unfortunately his selection included fairly intelligent, articulate people who could speak for themselves without phonetic spelling cards or coaching by Katie Couric. There's a slight difference between the experience and knowledge of a Goldwater and the incoherence of mooseburger chef in Alaska. As for the comments posted-- would like to see debunked that JFK did not write for himself. Newsbusters also apparently forgot to point out that Jimmy Carter is grossly illiterate because he came from sharecropper origins in Georgia, so obviously can't write at all.
J Carter wiki booklist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_by_Jimmy_Carter

after a while it's very hard to take such rants about left-wing conspiracies seriously. Palin is a joke. And so what if people treat her as a joke. If she can speak a coherent intelligent sentence, she can't write either. In all the transcripts available, seh cannot address Who, What, When, Where, Why or How in simple terms, so how can she do it in a complex world?

"The idea is to focus on the content of the book and what's coming in terms of me being able to tell my story unrestrained and unfiltered," Palin said, suggesting that Alaska's annual financial disclosures, due next March, will tell that part of the story - or at least the first installments on a fee being paid in stages.

The book is slated for a spring 2010 publication."
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/05/sarah_palins_memoir_long_stran.html

That should mean that she wants all her illiteracy to shine forth as an example of leadership. All the redundancies, split infinitives, digressions, tautologies, corndog exclamations should be unabridged and unexpurgated. Circular sentences should be left in eternal spin cycle. Haphazard and cluttered paragraphs should be left freely scattered about. Stream of consciousness and unfiltered thinking should definitely be encouraged. We want the raw story in the raw form without the editor's hand or collaborator's vocabulary.

I think it was H.L. Mencken who remarked on Dreiser's American Tragedy that the public loved a large, heavy book to keep them occupied through the winter.

Maybe Palin thinks she's Dreiser in disguise? A new American Tragedy in the making?

Anchorage Daily News
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/141095
notes Richard Barnet brokered book contracts for: "represented clients of extremely varied political stripes including Obama, Oliver North, Bill Clinton, Lynne Cheney Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bob Woodward, Tim Russert, George Will, Art Buchwald, William Bennett, Tony Blair and Queen Noor of Jordan. "

Well, gee, I think Art Buchwald and Bob Woodward were both desperately in need of collaborators to make them coherent and sell their books. Of course they couldn't write and neither could ever possibly attract a decent book deal.

I was so disappointed when I learned that William Manchester had written "Profiles in Courage," which won President Kennedy a Pulitzer. Then I thought about it, about that it was still his book, still said everything he wanted me and everyone else in the world to read and remember. So I shrugged and said, "Still love ya, Jack; still love the book; still don't give a hoot about William Manchester."
******
So, still love ya, Sarah; still eager to hear what you have to say.

"...when it comes to reading, understanding, comprehending and just overal basic knowledge, us Palinites and, frankly conservatives in general, are far more capable than most liberals could ever hope for."

posted by John D

Yep. Like your mastery of spelling and syntax.

I can't wait to read the part about when God appeared to her and told her that he wanted a pipeline built!

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep03/0,4670,CVNPalinIraqWar,00.html

Wouldn't it be great to have a President someday who will sit down and review the budget with God, one on one, to find out which infrastructure projects are God's will and which aren't?

“I look forward to the read also. I hope she tells me everything I want to hear whether true or not.”
.
Posted by: bill r. | May 14, 2009 9:46 AM
.
Why in the world would you want that in a book from Sarah Palin, when you already have the Democratic Party to tell you everything you want to hear that isn’t true?

* * * * *
If Palin can't even speak a coherent sentence: Subject, verb and predicate, how will she collaborate?
* * * * *
Posted by: pogo | May 14, 2009 3:56 PM
.
Way to go, pogo! You can’t even accurately describe the contents of a sentence, and yet you have the gall to rip on Caribou Barbie? That’s rich. (Hint: It’s either “Subject and Predicate,” or “Subject, Verb, Object,” but not a mixture of the two. A “predicate” contains the verb and any other words governed by the verb, including the “object.”)

Well, this will be very strange for me (I've been reading The Swamp for a while, without commenting), but I am finding myself wondering which side I'm on, since my first reaction to the whole thing was that the Newsbusters guy was just bent out of shape over Chris Matthews, and skimmed Silva's article without really reading it; being from Chicago myself, I've always considered Silva a "middle-of-the-road" opinionator (Unthinkable! An Unbiased Journalist! At The Tribune! The very Deifier of Chicago's Very Own Obama!) with a rather-dry sense of humor (sorta like a -- perish the thought! -- "conservative", like myself) ... but it wasn't until I read the comments on this essay that I really began to question if I was a Conservative; particularly since all of the Conservative Commenters here seem to think that Silva is a Red Diaper Doper Baby (no matter how old he is; hell, I've got more than a few gray hairs myself), and all of the Leftist Liberal Loonies (tm) around here think Silva is in line for sainthood (well, they would if they believed in G-d).

I guess I must be one of them there Moderates (who EVERYBODY hates); and, I'm sorry to say, but: Mr. Silva, I think you might be one too....

I'll keep in the bathroom where it can function as both amusement and spare TP.