Wednesday, September 09, 2009

The Huffington Post Exposes the Next Great Politcial Scandal   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Breaking news: A politician has a speechwriter. Geoffrey Dunn writes:

So what is this attempt at rebranding Palin all about? You can lay some good money down that here's what happened: The big boys — her attorney-agent Robert Barnett and probably her publisher, too, Rupert Murdoch — had a sit-down with young Sarah and told her she had better pull her mud together. They have a lot riding on the deal. Murdoch has anted up a seven-figure advance for a book written by someone who can't construct two cohesive sentences together. Barnett has staked his considerable reputation on the line. Rest assured that Palin had the law laid down to her. And firmly.

Also note that in the aftermath of Levi Johnston's most recent revelations in Vanity Fairthere hasn't been so much as a peep out of Palin or her Alaskan mouthpiece Meg Stapleton, whose political instincts are both infantile and unprofessional. Palin has what's known in sports as rabbit ears. She can't help but respond to everything that's written or said about her. It's a bad impulse when you're in the public eye, and Stapleton simply fed Palin's fetish. Others, including earlier elder male patrons like John Coale and Fred Malek have tried to curb these self-destructive proclivities. She simply did not listen to them.

I bet that she is listening now.

Before Palin's overpriced attorney, Tommy Van Flein sends out another spurious legal threat, I'm going to issue a challenge to him: Put your client in a locked room, give her an hour to write an op-ed piece, and let's examine the words she puts to the computer screen. It's what all of us in this business do every day. Those of us with real intellectual integrity. Those of us who claim our own thoughts and express our own views. Those of us who don't employ ghostwriters to fudge our bylines. We write our own words.

The WSJ piece is yet another Palin lie.

This new version of Sarah Palin is like those lip-synch groups from the '90s that didn't sing their own songs or write their own lyrics. She's the Milli Vanilli of American politics.

And Barack Obama wrote every word he'll be reading from his TelePrompter tonight.

09/09 07:17 AMShare