Geoffrey Dunn, HuffPo: "Palin No Longer Writing Own Script, the Milli Vanilli of American politics"

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Geoffrey Dunn

Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script

It's already been pointed out by several others that Sarah Palin has a new ghostwriter on staff and that she is clearly not the auteur of her most recent scribbles on Facebook and most certainly not the primary author of her op-ed yesterday in the Wall Street Journal.

Yes, the latter continues her unyielding obsession with Barack Obama by trying to upstage his healthcare address to the nation today, but it's clearly the work of someone who can write cohesively and thinks in a linear fashion. The piece doesn't even sound like Palin. Tina Fey this isn't. Hopefully Palin's memoirs capture some of her peculiar dexterity with the English language. (A genius like Mark Twain might have pulled it off, but rumor has it that he's not around any more.)

Trying to pass off Palin as a policy wonk on national health care issues is simply going a bit far. This dog simply will not hunt.

How do we know? Because we've seen Sarah's raw writing on Twitter and Facebook and in her emails--the Palin writings that aren't ghost written. The examples are everywhere. Just take a look at some of Palin's infamous "word salads"--as my friends in Alaska call her idiosyncratic manner of slinging phrases together--and it becomes all too clear.

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