Time Publishes Palin-Hitpiece
It’s becoming more than a little frustrating that leftist magazines, newspapers and news channels continue to go after Governor Sarah Palin as if she was public enemy number one. See here, for instance, Time’s latest article about the governor. The headline: “If You Must Know: How Did Sarah Palin Write Her Memoir So Fast?”
Palin’s publisher says the answer is simple: hard work. “When she resigned as governor, she had a lot more time and was able to really devote herself full-time to writing the book,” says Tina Andreadis, a spokesperson for HarperCollins. “That’s really all that there is.”
(See pictures of Sarah Palin.)Well, there’s also this: Palin had help. Editorial sidekicks are par for the course in political memoirs, though ghostwriters say many pols are heavily involved in the writing process. Palin’s assist came from Lynn Vincent, a writer for the Christian news magazine WORLD, who has also co-authored several other books.
The author of the hitpiece, Laura Fitzpatrick, goes on about the ghostwriter for, well, pretty much the rest of the article.
Now, Palin obviously used a ghostwriter – a professional author to help her out. So you could say that there isn’t a problem with Fitzpatrick taking a closer look at Vincent’s role.
Sadly, that’s not what Fitzpatrick does. The intention isn’t to analyze Vincent’s input but to convince the reader that Palin had little to nothing to do with this entire project. All she did was keeping a journal, the Time ‘journalist’ wants to have you believe. The real author is Vincent, not the rogue politician from Alaska.
Time minimizes Palin’s role for one rather obvious reason: “Going Rogue: An American Life” is a major bestseller. If Palin would be credited for its success, she should be taken seriously as a politician, intellectual and as a writer.
The left can’t take Palin seriously. They can’t give her credit for any intellectual achievements. They ridiculed her last year and continue to do so today, knowing that she poses an enormous threat to them and to the party they support. Taking her seriously, treating her with respect means Independent voters may take her seriously as well – it’ll make her an even bigger threat than she already is.
So they think of a new narrative: “Going Rogue” wasn’t written by Palin but by Vincent. No need to give her credit for it, then. Nope, nothing to see here; Palin is and will always be the ‘dumb blonde from Alaska.’
Are you falling for the MSM’s latest anti-Palin talking point? Didn’t think so.
This is the key:
“knowing that she poses an enormous threat to them and to the party they support.”
And the more the left pokes at the minutae like this (as the left uses ghostwriters/ hires help too), and not debate what she stands for politcally and the issues / stances that she finds important, it will only hurt the left. The public is starting to see this game of back and forth politics for what it is, a game, and not important to the real issues of the day.
I am a moderate and I think Sarah Palin is an absolute joke. So do all the other “moderates” I know. Her book will be a bestseller but she will never hold public office again. In 1-2 years, it will be a case a Palin Who? Just like it should be.
If she wasn’t a threat, they’d leave her alone.
Jay C
You make the assumption that because they talk about her she must be a threat. Most of the people I know think she is a joke and they talk or read about her from that perspective.
Spot on, Jay C.
The threat she poses for the left is not really electoral. As I noted when she resigned as Guv, quitting high office is rarely a good path to acheiving higher office. The threat she poses to the left is as a gadfly and rally standard, a spokesperson for an ideological faction.
It is intellectually dishonest (ie. a lie) to say that you have read her or listened to her and still consider her “a joke”. If you disagree with her views, you have an argument. But, to continue spouting the narrative that she is “a joke” while claiming you have read or listened to her makes you look like a dimwit.
@Oliver21
well,if that is the case, then there is a lot of IDLE chatter from the left political blogosphere, when there are more pressing issues to discuss…
so which is it? she isn’t a threat and there is a lot of idle chatter about her binga joke?
or she is a threat and she is called a joke becuase there is no response to her talking points?
@Tully
Agreed Tully…
Palin finished her book early probably because it was largely written long before she signed a contract. She knew from day 1 that she was a “historic” candidate, the first woman on a gop ticket. Within days of the election rumors of a multimillion dollar book deal started circulating. Does anyone with a bit of sense think that she sat on her hands until she signed a contract in April, not putting down a word on paper? 0bama Time and all the rest of the 0bama obsessed media, and all those on the loony left hate Palin simply because she represents ideas and opinions still held by the majority of people. The loons know that their guy is a fluke, that it took $750 million, 2 years of non-stop campaigning, thousands of media cheerleaders coast to coast, and it still took a huge finanical crisis to drag him across the finishline. They know that if Palin choses to run, she’ll win the nomination easily, and could very well kick their sorry excuse of a candidate to the curb.
Suzi, I agree 100%. I would like them to start giving examples of her “stupidity” without quoting Tina Fey.
I know they have never read her Facebook statements. I know they know nothing of her achievements as Governor. I know they have never seen “Media Malpractice”, nor do they understand what happened during the campaign. I know that all they know is what they have been told to think.
I guess that actually makes them the stupid one.
Palin is the real deal .. a shinning star that may lead the US out of this terrible time in their History. There is obviously no one else that can do this , republican or democrat …
Sarah Palin is the antithesis of Barack Obama. She stands for fiscal responsibility, personal freedom and a culture of life. She is a true citizen politician and a Patriot. She loves her country. She is highly intelligent and she is not tied to a political machine or corporate interests. She threatens the left like no other candidate since Ronald Reagan. She is being attacked on a daily basis for this reason. If you believe that she is stupid or shallow or a caribou barbie, then you are either naive or stupid and seriously underestimate her power and potential.
Sarah Palin will win the GOP nomination and defeat Obama in a tough fight in 2012.
The reason will be the Independents will gradually learn who the real Sarah Palin is, not the SRM caricature.
She already is getting more popular with the Indies who are fiscal conservatives, and with the Tea Party Movement.
But the real reason is that Obama is showing exactly the lack of leadership and far left extremism that we would expect based not on his campaign speeches but on a serious vetting of his character, his past record which has zero accomplishments, the people he hangs out with and looks up to, and his failure as POTUS.
If you analyze both people, clearly more than any other politician, Sara Palin is the opposite of Obama. She is the Anti-Obama.
The people I know who think she is a “joke” have never read anything she wrote. One guy just told me, “She can’t put two sentences together.” She has a degree in journalism! I think people have heard and read, over and over, ad infinitum, that she’s dumb. So they figure it must be true. It’s not. I’ve never noticed anyone so denigrated as Sarah Palin. Whatever her abilities are, she hasn’t deserved this.
Palin, the Quitter Ex Governor of Twitter and the failed Republican Vice Presidential candidate of Facebook should save her pronouncements for the National Enquirer and the Star.
Actually those two publications would merit most of the stuff that has been written about her, not by her.
The Palin jokes are not about fear, they are about lazy humor. She has a set of gags that are already written and it is easy enough to churn out another couple hundred words.
BTW If I were a pure partisan with only electoral concerns in mind I would hope Palin wins the nomination in 2012. Personally I would hope a different wing of the party wins. I’m sure this will be taken as an endorsement by her supporters.
PALIN/HUCKABEE 2012!!!
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Palin isn’t a threat, not to me. She’s a dope. Anyone who believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old is an intellectual houseplant. We might as well elect Paris Hilton and give her the launch codes. Heck, even the GOP is distancing itself rapidly from Palin. Her fans make big numbers on Facebook (Facebook! What a joke!), but in reality represent a tiny minority of voters. No threat here, folks. Palin will never be President, not of the U.S.A., anyway.