I have no prospects on the horizon to do either, mind you.
In fact, let’s make it about someone other than me. Ghost Writer X, a progressive atheist who worked on the Obama campaign, is given the opportunity to make beaucoups of money penning an apologia & hagiography for the last eight years, on behalf of either the Sith Lord or his apprentice. Would doing so make you lose all respect for that person?
No, not particularly.
Hell, yes.
I’d like to think that your soul would go for far, far more than the going rate for a ghost writer of any sort.
He’s a pro writer. He writes what he’s paid to write.
I think less of anyone who associates with Bush and friends. Both of their morality, and of their judgement; remember Colin Powell ?
No way. Get the paycheck.
You know it would make the baby Jesus cry.
I’ve been waiting all this week to use that one.
Yes, but ya gotta make a living. Like prostitutes.
Makes me think of an old Bloom County strip:
OPUS: Excuse me, I never shot Warren Beatty in the buttocks.
MILO: Must be a typo.
Do you get this degree of latitude? I say go for it!
It depends. Do you simply blather whatever BS they want? Or do you slip in coded messages giving the real story, and then publish the key to the code on a website after the book hits the stands? Cause if its the latter, I’m gonna declare you to be my personal Jebus.
Are you sticking to the facts, even if they’re selectively chosen? Are you avoiding lies, slander, and misrepresentations? Are you making Bush (or whomever) look better than he deserves without making anyone else look worse than they deserve?
If so, then go right ahead.
Hmmm. You’re an established and published author and you’re now going to stoop to shilling revisionist ghost memoirs for Bush or Cheney to put food on the table?
“Yes, Virginia, there really is a Depression.”
We’re talking about someone who makes his or her living GHOSTwriting, of which there are more than a few.
Spielberg already wrote the memoirs ages ago, surely you’re familiar with a little show called “Pinky and the Brain”…
“Gee Dick, what do we wanna do tonight?”
"The same thing we do every night, Bushie, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
If you ghostwrote the memoirs, how would I ever know?
The book would be in rhyme.
:smack:
Or there might be frequent references to boiling water being poured on a poet. (You mean ‘Skald the Rhymer’ isn’t a command?)
That’s why I said to make it about hypothetical Ghostwriter X (whose little brother Speed is an up & coming copywriter) whom you happen to hang out with from time to time; let’s say you happened to see notes for the manuscript on his computer screen one day.
Or Ghostwriter X could be getting an “as told to” credit.