Huffington Post: Palin "not really American"; Updated: Dunn Smears Lynn Vincent Too

It's two days and counting until the release of Gov. Palin's blockbusting megabestseller autobiography, and the left are in mental meltdown. As in: completely. How else to explain the following piece of garbage, published on the Huffington Post by 'award winning journalist, filmmaker and historian' Geoffrey Dunn in his 'The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue':

2. The Subtitle: An American Life. Aside from her infancy, Palin has really spent very little time outside of Alaska, and according to John McCain's campaign advisors, was shockingly unfamiliar with American geography and American history. "Alaska," as John McPhee noted in his resplendent Coming Into the Country, "is a foreign country...Its nature is its own."

Yes indeed: they've run out of things to say, so they start attacking her claim to be an American. Of all the filth published about Gov. Palin, this is right up there with Chicago-based Wendy Doniger who used her Washington Post 'On Faith' blog to declare that "Her greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman."

Mr. Dunn, congratulations. In what was already remarkably shabby discourse by the left, you just managed to lower the tone even more. I hope you're proud of yourself.

Update by Doug: (H/T Josh Painter) The remarkably incompetent Dunn, who has a history of shoddy research and distortion when it comes to Governor Palin, also wrote the following in this piece of garbage for internet tabloid Huffington Post:

1.The Cover Byline: Palin didn't write the book by herself. Most books with known ghostwriters list their co-author's name on the cover. In this case it was Lynn Vincent (a well-known homophobe). Going Rogue does not.

Geoffrey Dunn, as is his custom, is either too lazy or incompetent to research his bizarre musings. He is simply repeating the "Lynn Vincent is a homophobe" line originally promulgated by obsessed Palin-hater and self-taught gynecologist Andrew Sullivan. In a recent article for Big Hollywood, Lynn Vincent herself takes on this non-starter:

I know a little about what that’s like. In late September, HarperCollins announced that it had bumped up the publication date for Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, to November 17. As Sarah’s collaborative writer, I suddenly became a target (the left having running out of original ways to insult the former Alaska governor herself.)

Andrew Sullivan, who blogs at The Atlantic’s website, read my arguments in favor of traditional marriage, and summarily crowned me a “fanatical homophobe.” Others, to use Perez Hilton’s term, followed suit.

Had Sullivan bothered to reach out for a reasoned dialogue, I might’ve shared with him that my sister Lori, an articulate, politically active lesbian on the progressive left, has had with me some pretty productive discussions on gay marriage. That for me, it’s about more than “the Bible tells me so”; it’s about the collision of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

I might’ve shared with Sullivan that the maid of honor at my wedding was my best friend, CM, and her longtime lesbian partner.

Hmmm. Mr. Dunn likes to proclaim that he won some kind of journalism award. I wasn't aware that journalism awards were given for fiction. It would seem that his qualifications for a journalism award are on a par with Obama's qualifications to win the Nobel Peace Prize.