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Time Magazine admits Book Ghostwritten
American Thinker ^ | October 07, 2009 | Eric Tully

Posted on 10/08/2009 7:21:45 AM PDT by opentalk

Time Magazine has blown the lid on a secret ghost writer for one of the most well known political figures of our day and that person is... Sarah Palin. That's right! Not President Obama but Sarah Palin whose book titled Going Rogue: An American Life is set for release soon. What evidence do they cite? Well the author doesn't cite any but does say who the ghost writer is:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: boycotttimewarner; dreamsfrommyfather; getpalin; media; obama; obamaayersconnection; obamatruthfile; palin; palinbashing; pravdamedia; timelies
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Compare this Time magazine story, and its abysmal lack of evidence, with the wealth of evidence provided by previous American Thinker articles authored by Jack Cashill and James Simpson.

So where is Time Magazine on the ghost writer for the years ago published book - Dreams from My Father, supposedly written by President Obama -- well, they are too busy digging up dirt on a yet to be released book by Sarah Palin.

1 posted on 10/08/2009 7:21:46 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

I thought that was an open secret. Sarah wasn’t hiding this. There have been threads on this site on the collaborator which I assumed meant ghost writer.


2 posted on 10/08/2009 7:24:11 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: opentalk
Another MSM dinosaur whining itself into obscure irrelevance. One question: who cares? I don't.

;-/

3 posted on 10/08/2009 7:26:05 AM PDT by Gargantua (Sarah Palin: The only Republican to take on Zer0bonehead and WIN!)
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To: opentalk

Time Magazine trying to discredit Sarah Palin is the MSM’s idea of fair and balanced. What else did we expect?


4 posted on 10/08/2009 7:26:12 AM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: opentalk

So the only evidence that it was ghost written was a denial by the supposed ghost writer?

Meanwhile Bill Ayers claims to have written Obama’s book and that is evidence that he didn’t.

Time magizine is written by people with an obvious mental disorder.


5 posted on 10/08/2009 7:27:22 AM PDT by DManA
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To: opentalk
So where is Time Magazine on the ghost writer for the years ago published book - Dreams from My Father, supposedly written by President Obama

That's what I was thinking. Bill Ayers wrote his books. Time said nothing about it.

Bias? Gee, d'ya think?

6 posted on 10/08/2009 7:27:27 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Dave W

Just a further example of Liberal hypocrisy. They all know that this is true for pretty much all celebrity politician books, but now the are “Shocked! Shocked, I say.” that Palin had a ghost writer, or that there is something unusual about her having one.


7 posted on 10/08/2009 7:28:14 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: opentalk

Does anyone really expect the media to care? If someone delivered video footage of Obama kissing Arafat and calling for murder of all jews to a news organization, how many of those news operations would even mention it?


8 posted on 10/08/2009 7:28:57 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: opentalk
It's a rather obvious fact that Ms. Palin worked with a ghost-writer -- as the article notes, ghost-writers are par for the course these days, and there's no way Ms. Palin would be writing a 400-page book in her spare time.

The humor of the story is that Mr. Eric Tully should be so outraged by an article that tells the truth.

9 posted on 10/08/2009 7:29:14 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: opentalk

26 Obama covers for TIME... or is it 27 now?


10 posted on 10/08/2009 7:29:23 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: opentalk
This is just further corroboration of the Limbaugh Theory of MSM templates. The MSM has spent over a year now trying to paint Palin as a dolt and buffoon...so why is it newsworthy (to them) or even surprising that she would employ a ghost writer?

The answer is that it doesn't surprise them a bit, and for the left, this should be a "dog bites man" kind of story, but the report it anyways simply because it fits, and reinforces the template.

Likewise, the MSM has painted Obama as a man of letters, and far and away the most literary of all presidents. The fact that Ayers essentially wrote his book, while newsworthy in a "man bites dog" kind of way, does not fit the media template, and consequently it goes unreported.

11 posted on 10/08/2009 7:34:31 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Dave W
Title of Time article

"How Did Sarah Palin Write Her Memoir So Fast?" By Laura Fitzpatrick Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2009

Time is spinning it.

12 posted on 10/08/2009 7:34:44 AM PDT by opentalk
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Any one who is not a serious writer uses a ghostwriter. There is absolutely nothing shady or wrong with it. Hillary had one along with the anointed one. Rush Limbaugh did not use one and the critic picked apart his books ruthlessly so in the end they are going after a conservative no matter what.


13 posted on 10/08/2009 7:35:43 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Baynative

Great post!


15 posted on 10/08/2009 7:37:52 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
So where is Time Magazine on the ghost writer for the years ago published book - Dreams from My Father, supposedly written by President Obama --

Touching themselves in anticipation of Levi Johnson's upcoming Playgirl spread I would guess.

16 posted on 10/08/2009 7:39:01 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: DManA

that line from the story about the article is kind of misleading.
The supposed ghostwriter is mum on the story due to confidentiality agreements. The leap to denial stretches the phrase journalistic liscence to the snapping point.
That being said,Sarah has hid nothing. You’re quite correct about Ayers. The magazine is a joke.


17 posted on 10/08/2009 7:40:23 AM PDT by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: opentalk
Unless the book is self published and printed by a company that will print and bind any file you send them, an author is going to have some help. That will range from an editor reading the manuscript over and correcting a typo or two, through an editor giving a lot of rewriting help and coaching, through a coauthor working on a collaboration, or an uncredited coauthor working on most of the book with the primary just being interviewed and proofreading for factual errors to finally something that is nothing more than an authorized biography being sold as an autobiography.

If a politician is the "author", I expect that most will actually be written by a ghostwriter. Even JFK's Profile's in Courage was ghost written by his speechwriter Ted Sorenson, and Kennedy got a Pulitzer Prize for it.

Writing is hard, professional work. I don't expect a politician to build his own house with no help. Similarly, I don't expect one to write a book entirely. It would be nice if they didn't take sole credit though.

18 posted on 10/08/2009 7:41:15 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Rio: Gold / Madrid: Silver / Tokyo: Bronze / Obama: Lead weight.)
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To: Dave W
i find the whole thing absurd. of course they use ghost writers. anyone who's ever written anything longer than a term paper can acknowledge how much time goes into the project. most people haven't got the time. if they have the time, they also need the talent. it takes unique ability to keep readers engaged for several hundred pages.

i didn't care that obama used a ghost writer for ‘dreams.’ of course he did, they all use ghost writers. imo, the issue was obama’s claim that ayers was a passing acquaintance but his status as ghost writer put the lie to that claim.

19 posted on 10/08/2009 7:43:13 AM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: opentalk
From the headline I figured it was about Ayers’ connection to Dreams of My Father.

Does the Time-Lies hit piece at least point out that JFK didn't write Profiles In Courage and that Alex Haley's Roots was plagiarized?

20 posted on 10/08/2009 7:43:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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