Palin Voice Coach Billed As "Get Out The Vote" Expense

Politico:

From the Robert Draper piece:

[A]n elegant ... woman sat alone at the far end of the bar ... Her name was Priscilla Shanks, a New York-based stage and screen actress ... who had found a lucrative second career as a voice coach. Shanks's work with Sarah Palin was as evident as it was unseen. Gone, by the evening of her convention speech, was the squeaky register of Palin's exclamations. Gone (at least for the moment) was the Bushian pronunciation of "nuclear" as "nook-you-ler." Present for the first time was a leisurely, even playful cadence that signaled Sarah Palin's inevitability on this grand stage.

Shanks' name does appear in McCain's campaign finance report.

It's reported as: "Operating Expenditures / GOTV CONSULTING."

As in "Get Out the Vote."

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[moAb]

The voice coach may try all she wants but she can never change the self-interested, anti-intellectual, theocratic, and despotic way Palin thiinks about her possible role as VP.

VOTE EARLY!!!!

[spambrando]

Yup... even if a moose can correctly enunciate "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain", it's still a moose.

[lioness39]

I'm hoping the rain in America will fall mainly on the Palin in November and send her, screech and all, back to Alaska. That's when you will see the wildlife there obtaining their visas for other shores.

[dhertzfe]

Gosh! I wonder how she sounded before the voice coach?

[kellygrrrl]

wasted money! Her voice is still annoying as all heck!

[elycee]

that's
annoyin

[MarryAnn]

you betcha!

[Mysticalsister]

Palin's convention speech was AFTER the coaching? Egad, what did she sound like before?!!!

I guess there's only so much a voice coach can do.

[LemonMeringue]

I guess that mocking sneering tone is here to stay.

[lioness39]

That comes from the mud in her soul.

[tel8034]

McCain needs to ask that speech coach for a refund ..........­..........­. Palin's voice continues to make my skin crawl.

[lioness39]

So she can buy some more clothes or another shade of lipstick?

[spell]

She has a voice coach? Has he/she started working with Palin yet? =)

[spyder03]

Palin should of got washed up 5 times married family value country western singer Lee Greenwood to give her voice lesson. I noticed Palin trotted out Greenwood for his once every 4 years appearance at a Republican rally to sing God Bless U.S.A. At least the Republicans are doing their part to keep out of work washed up country singers working,as far as the rest of us you are on your own.

[toochie50]

Well the coach should have been fired - cause that voice is not good.
Yes it was a beauty pageant so that the RETHUG base (the men) could salivate over her like those 2 teenage boys were doing over her red shoes in the pick.

[LiberalHick]

wearing PINK?

[allonfla]

Dear god. please fire her voice coach - palin's voice is horrible. i prefer hillary's and i wasn't a fan of hers in the primaries

[WestCoastWoman]

Voice coach?????? She needs to be coached on how to not sound like an 8 y.o. when she speaks. Please Sarah.... your 6 colleges have not helped you. WE need an intelligent leader and Barack is that leader. We can't wait to have him as our president!

[LiberTLover]

Next we'll find out that she used to be a he.

[hortonhearsawho]

Need some lube there babe...

[cobaltbluedog]

I'm blown away! She had a voice coach and she still sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard!!
Beyond that, yupper, gotta work on that content.
Whatever they paid that coach, it was too much.

[ChaiKat]

She had a voice coach? They need to do a stop payment on that check STAT!