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Inauthentic? Dana Perino: Sarah Palin’s Writing “Doesn’t Sound Like Her”

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On Fox News Sunday, former White House press secretary Dana Perino suggested somebody’s writing some of Sarah Palin‘s meatier foreign policy musings–and it’s not Sarah Palin.

“It doesn’t sound like her when you read the materials,” said Perino, who conceded it’s hardly uncommon for politicians to have ghostwriters.

Perino said in Palin’s case the folksy style she brings to her public appearances, Twitter posts and on her reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska makes the uber-serious written takes, including a recent USA Today op-ed on Iran seem so out of character as to raise questions about her “authenticity,” which Perino claimed has “never been more important.”

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  • The Real Royal King

    I’d very much be surprised if the Drop Out Governor were dishonest or inauthentic.

  • Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996

    No shit Dana. She is a fraud and everyone knows it.

  • The Real Royal King

    It sounds like the Drop Out Governor is dispatching Brisket to Arizona to stalk Cindy and Meghan McCain. I guess no one told them Cindy and Meghan spent most of their time beachside, in California.

  • TangledThorns

    Sarah Palin is a honest and brilliant woman. If there was a ghost writer for all her articles we’d know about it by now. Lefties prefer a faux intellectual like Obama running the country into the ground.

  • Hugo Daun

    Lynn Vincent is a fairly decent writer…it’s no wonder that she has difficulty sounding like the wild Alaskan dingbat.

  • nighean donn

    TangledThorns said:
    Sarah Palin is a honest and brilliant woman. If there was a ghost writer for all her articles we’d know about it by now. Lefties prefer a faux intellectual like Obama running the country into the ground.

    Hah hah thanks for the Holiday laugh….this is Ms. Perino we are talking about…..hardly a lefty.

  • Judge Mental

    I’d venture to guess that most people don’t write like they speak.

  • writer

    As a (very) mature adult, the King finds it necessary to not only hate the people he politically disagrees with. He must hate the children, too.

  • noekk

    Sarah Palin is a fraud who is stringing along her supporters. She is living off of their donations and her only poitical maneuver will be how to convince them to keep supporting her family when she doesn’t run for president.

  • noekk

    Sarah Palin is a fraud who is stringing along her supporters. She is living off of their donations and her only political maneuver will be how to convince them to keep supporting her family when she doesn’t run for president.

  • TrollJuice

    “No one’s gonna cut her off at the legs,” Wallace claimed. “Only Sarah Palin can beat Sarah Palin, and let me tell you why no one will take her on. Her defenders and supporters, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity — people I admire — are so powerful on the Right that nobody wants to anger any of those people, nobody wants to end up in the crosshairs, and nobody wants to look like they are unwilling to let her do her thing.”

    Wallace continued: “Just let her do her thing, she is going to be exposed enough to the American public that she will reveal what her nature is. I think her nature has been revealed lately as very prickly, very cynical.”

  • The Real Royal King

    TrollJuice said:
    “No one’s gonna cut her off at the legs,” Wallace claimed. “Only Sarah Palin can beat Sarah Palin, and let me tell you why no one will take her on. Her defenders and supporters, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity — people I admire — are so powerful on the Right that nobody wants to anger any of those people, nobody wants to end up in the crosshairs, and nobody wants to look like they are unwilling to let her do her thing.”

    Wallace continued: “Just let her do her thing, she is going to be exposed enough to the American public that she will reveal what her nature is. I think her nature has been revealed lately as very prickly, very cynical.”

    I would say “prickly” and “cynical” are accurate, but I would have to add “thoroughly self-absorbed”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 Greg Palmer

    Even if true, what’s wrong with that? Kennedy didn’t write Profiles in Courage and BHO didn’t write his books either.

  • leftofsocialist

    Dear Readers:

    Surely S. Palin’s backers can do better than this.
    Where’s the vitriol? the venom?
    Some little functionary of FoxNews attacks S. Palin’s trademark authenticity and no outrage is expressed?
    How strange!
    Even metaphoric cannibalism is eschewed in this instance?
    D. Perino was, after all, just doing her job as Karl Rove’s official spokesperson.

  • The Real Royal King

    Greg Palmer said:
    Even if true, what’s wrong with that? Kennedy didn’t write Profiles in Courage and BHO didn’t write his books either.

    Next you’ll be telling me Mark Twain and George Eliot were noms de plume.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Doofus Dana Perino is a vapid, vacuous sock-puppet with a Maddow hairstyle. Who cares what she parrots?

  • valkyrie101

    The Real Royal King said:
    Next you’ll be telling me Mark Twain and George Eliot were noms de plume.

    And don’t forget, Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s first book.

  • Thelonious Funk

    When she wrote ‘refudiate’, it sounded like her.

    A lot.

  • notsofast

    As if Barry writes his stuff.

    You libs are a joke.

    I remember when you trogs suggested that HE literally wrote the 3000 page HC Reform bill!!!

    LOL

  • The Real Royal King

    notsofast said:
    As if Barry writes his stuff.

    You libs are a joke.

    I remember when you trogs suggested that HE literally wrote the 3000 page HC Reform bill!!!

    LOL

    That’s unrelated to this topic.

  • notsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    That’s unrelated to this topic.

    Not at all. It certainly is above your intelligence, I’ll grant you that!

  • writer

    Although the King was just a boy when Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, he was still offended by the racial references.

  • Tricky

    She is not brilliant by a long shot, She does have smart advisers however. She knows she can’t win the presidency and she has no intention of running. She is in it for the money, and BTW anyone who can’t answer the simple question “What newspapers and magazines do you read”? is the definition of an idiot. Even if it was a trick question, (really? or perhaps a “Gotcha” question), just answer the damn question. But Ms. Perino was right, she is the best that the Republicans have at this point. And all of you people berating the president as a pseudo intellectual, just look at the list of things he has accomplished in two years.

    1. Health care reform (yeah, just try to repeal it)
    2. The auto bailout (F.D. ,Bush started it, Obama finished it), the taxpayers are seeing a profit
    3.START Treaty
    4. DADT (again, non-repealable)
    5. Extension of the (cringe) Bush tax cuts (Boo!)
    6. The 911 first responders bill

    It is almost like he thrives on all of the hate. That is just off the top of my head, I hope he continues to be this “ineffective”.

  • The Real Royal King

    notsofast said:

    The Real Royal King said:
    That’s unrelated to this topic.

    Not at all. It certainly is above your intelligence, I’ll grant you that!

    Unrelated to the topic.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Everybody knows Palin has writers. That explains why she never criticizes the Daily show.

  • writer

    I didn’t see ‘Brisket’ mentioned in the article.

  • philipjames

    Poor Dana. I guess she realizes that she won’t be getting any money from the Sarah Palin campaign, so she is doing just what the money sucking consultants that float around the political parties do… angle for a job with another one of the candidates.
    is this the same Dana Perino who is a Bushie, an hard core Washington establishment person, someone who sucks money out of the political donations bucket?
    It amazes me that Sarah Palin, someone who doesn’t have a hope of winning…. evokes such a push back against her, even from a Perino who probably supports Romney or some other dolt like that. I think we can treat her comments as just that, shots from a supporter of another contender.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: She has ghost writers. She doesn’t buy her own cloths the RNC does it for her. She doesn’t shoot a gun by herself. She didn’t finish her term at being governor of Alaska. She can’t win against Ozero. She doesn’t read. All I know your all her bitches in 2012! That’s a fact and it is what it is!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOa3_pWE1g

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “Inauthentic? Dana Perino: Sarah Palin’s Writing “Doesn’t Sound Like Her””

    …Let’s put this unsubstantiated crackpot conspiracy theory right next to that of “The 911 Truthers”.

  • notsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    Unrelated to the topic.

    Son, this is way above your pay grade.

    Let the adults handle this.

  • notsofast

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Everybody knows Palin has writers.

    And Barry doesn’t?

    LOL

    You are the jerk who said Barry personally wrote that 300 page HC bill!

  • M Colins

    Sarah Palin>Jesus Christ said:
    Give it a rest Pernio quit being so gelouse of Sarah. I red all 7 or Palins books and I read her colums she writes good u just a dum lady. quit bein so gealouse of sarah bitch ass.

    This is typical of todays Leftist. Nothing so low they won’t stoop to it.

  • M Colins

    Apparently the MSM isn’t equally curious of BO’s writing style as at least one maybe both of his autobiographies were ghostwritten.

  • hamp1239

    Anybody with half of a brain, know Sinister Sarah is a “Dumbo”! Everytime there is a comment you all don’t like, you all attack Obama. There is one thing that Obama has that Sinister Sarah will never have, ‘A Brain”!

  • writer

    Obama can’t be that smart. He listened to Rev. Wright for twenty years, and still had no idea what he’d been saying.

  • RTB

    Well if barrack is such a brain why is this country still going backwards even more so than before…he’s a crowd pleaser and a bullshiter…highly intellectual as well. …shake yourselves lefties

  • hamp1239

    RBT, I am willing to bet you, you get your information from Fake News!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    How stupified does Fox make its viewers?

    TangledThorns says:
    “Sarah Palin is a honest and brilliant woman.”

    Uhhh, Tangled Brains, Palin just won the 2010 Glenn Beck Honorary Excellence in Misinformation Award. That’s not an indication of honesty.

  • writer

    Having GBR ‘review’ Glenn Beck is like having bin Laden ‘review’ Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Hugo Daun

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Palin just won the 2010 Glenn Beck Honorary Excellence in Misinformation Award.

    And she certainly earned it!

  • redleaf

    NEWS FLASH!
    Politicians do not write their own speeches or Op-Ed pieces.
    There are 40 million reasons to want Sarah Palin to disappear and leave politics to the smart folks, but this is not one of them.

  • Hugo Daun

    redleaf said:
    There are 40 million reasons to want Sarah Palin to disappear…

    I think you’re low-balling it with that number…

  • esd2000

    “Ghost Writer”. She could use a “Ghost Thinker”.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    “writer” says:
    “Having GBR ‘review’ Glenn Beck is like having bin Laden ‘review’ Benjamin Netanyahu.”

    Right! (Hear sarcasm in voice): Better to have a sycophant like you review Beck, huh? Someone who can’t grasp his many lies, his hypocrisies and the utter lack of qualifications he has for his job. Right, “writer?” That would be constructive…NOT!

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