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Palin Writer Brings Antigay Résumé


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Lynn Vincent, the ghostwriter who helped Sarah Palin quickly complete her new memoir, Going Rogue, brings a background replete with antigay and racist connections, according to Max Blumenthal, senior writer for The Daily Beast.

According to Blumenthal, "Vincent’s commentaries for World are punctuated by inflammatory characterizations of gays, minorities and liberals that have already provided fodder for Palin’s critics. Among Vincent’s most strident statements were her description of homosexuality as a ‘deviant’ mental disorder and labeling of President Barack Obama as the ‘face of the minority survivor’ of abortion, which she dubbed the ‘Black Genocide.’”

Blumenthal also writes about Vincent’s alleged association with Robert Stacy McCain, whom he describes as a “player on the far-right fringe” that recommended Vincent for the ghostwriting job. According to Blumenthal, as a Washington Times staffer, McCain “turned the Times’ Culture Briefs section into a bulletin board for the racist right, promoting articles from racist publications like the Occidental Quarterly and the Virginia-based neo-Nazi leader Bill White, who has described McCain as a friend.

”McCain was himself a member of the neo-Confederate group, the League of the South, which favors a ‘second secession’ from the United States and has been labeled a ‘hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center,” writes Blumenthal.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Caleb Whorton
    Date posted: 11/18/2009 10:03:11 AM
    Hometown: Wallsboro Ala

    Comment:

    I have been a long time member of the League of the South and trust me Mccain has never been a LoS member, nor do we want him!

  • Name: JC
    Date posted: 11/18/2009 8:22:50 AM
    Hometown: PDX

    Comment:

    Remember when you could call a talk show and submit a comment without being screened by the jerk who censors calls? Now we don't even post comments on the internet without the same jerk censoring posts. Freedom of the press right?

  • Name: tj
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 4:18:50 PM
    Hometown: Florida

    Comment:

    I don't know what all this Texas seccession talk has to do with Palin-book ghost writer Lynn Vincent, but yeah, let Texas secceed provided the U.S. refuses to take action when Mexico invades to reclaim it. That'll learn 'em. As for Lynn Vincent, no surprise about her résumé, but abortion is "the Black Genocide?" So caucasians, latinas, and asians don't get abortions? I know I'm not missing anything so the abortions that do occur among black women are done by CHOICE and not against their will, strapped to a table and scrubbed out. By 2050, minorities will be the majority and I see plenty of black kids around so maybe she should just try spending some time outside of her lily-white gated community, scary as that may be to her either physically, or "intellectually."

  • Name: Jorge
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 2:03:59 PM
    Hometown: Houston

    Comment:

    Too bad Texas holds claim to the birthplace of modern nanotechnology, Whole Foods, the most generated wind power in the US, Beyoncé, and Dustin Lance Black. Those idiots in Texas who want to secede don't know anything about Texas history as part of the agreement of rejoining the union was that we could never secede again. However, Texas is allowed to break into 5 separate states. I vote for the Houston and Austin areas to become two of the five. At least they're not blinded by the "team support" mentality that perpetuates the modern Republican platform.

  • Name: Kevin
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 1:23:10 PM
    Hometown: Ft. Myers

    Comment:

    Seriously, I wish Texas would just go ahead and secede, along with all the other useless states (Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Utah, South Carolina, the northern part of FL, all of Louisiana except for the French Quarter, Alaska, the Dakotas, Idaho, Tennessee, and Kentucky). We keep Austin, and southern FL, however. :)

  • Name: dieter
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 12:29:34 PM
    Hometown: sacramento

    Comment:

    don't let the door hit ya on the way out.... TEXAS sucks anyways...LOL

  • Name: dieter
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 12:28:55 PM
    Hometown: sacramento

    Comment:

    don't let the door hit ya on the way out.... TEXAS sucks anyways...LOL

  • Name: Larry Kilgore
    Date posted: 11/17/2009 12:17:01 PM
    Hometown: Mansfield, TX

    Comment:

    I have attended League of the South meetings and have heard no hate remarks. Larry Kilgore for Texas Governor - TXsecede.com



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