Geoffrey Dunn is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His forthcoming book The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power will be released by St. Martin's Press in spring 2010.

Dunn has produced and directed more than a dozen award-winning documentary films, including Dollar a Day, 10¢ a Dance: A Historic Portrait of Filipino Farm Workers in America; Miss…or Myth?; and the recently completed Calypso Dreams.

Dunn is the author of Santa Cruz Is in the Heart and Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee. He also wrote the original screenplay for the feature film Maddalena Z. Dunn earned a Ph. D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching award in 2001.

Blog Entries by Geoffrey Dunn

Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe

1040 Comments | Posted November 30, 2009 | 03:32 AM (EST)


There have been so many lies and distortions pointed out in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue since it was released last week that her memoir has already become something of a gag line.

But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend...

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More Palin Lies: The Trooper in 'Troopergate' Breaks His Silence

1227 Comments | Posted November 25, 2009 | 07:19 PM (EST)


The Alaska State Trooper at the center of Sarah Palin's so-called "Troopergate Scandal"--which impeded her run for the vice-presidency and stained her record as Alaska governor--has broken his more than year-long silence since his embattled divorce with Palin's sister, Molly, became a cause celebre during last year's presidential campaign.

After...

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California Bookstore Launches Bag of "Sarah Palin's...Just Plain Nutz"

17 Comments | Posted November 19, 2009 | 02:18 PM (EST)


Bookshop Santa Cruz, a leading independent bookstore in ever-so-liberal Santa Cruz, California, has launched a promotion to go along with the selling of Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue.

Bookshop Santa Cruz is giving a bag of Sarah "Palin's Just Plain Nutz" for everyone who purchases a copy of Palin's

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Palin's Former Ally Calls More Lies to Rogue

319 Comments | Posted November 19, 2009 | 03:07 AM (EST)


It's tough getting up to the front of the line of those wanting to call Sarah Palin for the truckload of lies spewed in Going Rogue. Even John McCain has gotten into the act by charging Palin with fabricating a $50,000 bill she claimed she got stuck with for her...

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Sarah Vain and Simple

404 Comments | Posted November 16, 2009 | 09:50 PM (EST)


When Sarah Palin burst onto the American stage little more than a year ago as John McCain's running mate, she was a virtual unknown in the Lower 48 and a relative political novice even in Alaska. A slim fifteen months later, Palin is now an iconic figure in American culture...

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Schmidt Calls Palin's Memoirs "Total Fiction"

712 Comments | Posted November 14, 2009 | 06:12 PM (EST)


To read Sarah Palin's shockingly shallow Going Rogue, one is immediately struck by how nasty and vindictive Palin is and by the fact that her book is little more than a veiled mechanism for settling scores with old foes who have triumphed over Palin throughout her lifetime.

Is Palin...

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The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

883 Comments | Posted November 13, 2009 | 12:08 AM (EST)


Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from Palin's memoirs:

  1. The Cover Byline: Palin didn't write the book by herself. Most books with known ghostwriters list their co-author's name...
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Palin Usurped "Concession" Speech

89 Comments | Posted November 7, 2009 | 03:22 PM (EST)


In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provided drafts of two versions of a speech that vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin was to have delivered on Election Night 2008 in Phoenix--if only John McCain and his top brass, including Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, had...

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Palin's Bob & Mark Show Shame

27 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 08:12 PM (EST)


As the inimitable Sarah Palin gets ready for the unleashing of her memoirs, Going Rogue, she announced on her Facebook page today that she's "very, very excited about the upcoming road trip for my book."

Of course she is. It will get her out of Alaska and...

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Going Rouge Skewers Palin

250 Comments | Posted October 31, 2009 | 02:36 AM (EST)


In what is surely a brilliant bit of counter-insurgency marketing, OR Books will be releasing the political antidote to Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue with Going Rouge--Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare, on November 16, the day before Palin's tome explodes on the national book market.

Although it's been billed...

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McCain's Latest Palin Lie

159 Comments | Posted October 13, 2009 | 09:31 PM (EST)


John McCain's duplicitous defense of his 2008 GOP running mate Sarah Palin this past weekend is as dishonest as it is shameful. He knows better--but for reasons that are rooted deeply in McCain's peculiar sense of chivalry and his political self-interest, he has refused to come clean about Palin with...

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American Gomorrah--Did Palin Cost the GOP the 2008 Election?

217 Comments | Posted October 5, 2009 | 07:29 PM (EST)


That the prolonged contest for the American presidency last year marked one of the epoch political battles in U.S. history goes virtually without saying. Rarely has a national election been so fiercely challenged, so infused with meaning, so weighted by widely swinging dramatic arcs, and so blessed by such an...

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BCelebrated -- A Revolutionary New Approach to Death and Life

25 Comments | Posted September 18, 2009 | 01:27 PM (EST)


A few years ago I was hit with the rather disturbing news that I might have only six weeks to live. I had been diagnosed with a very advanced and aggressive form of colorectal cancer. It felt as though I had been hit by a train.

The confrontation of...

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A Culture of Corruption: The Ghost of Sarah Palin Still Haunts Alaska

71 Comments | Posted September 12, 2009 | 09:12 PM (EST)


This past Wednesday there was a revealing, and indeed, troubling exchange between political watchdog Andree McLeod and members of the Alaska Personnel Board, the government body charged with processing so-called ethics violations by the executive branch in the State of Alaska.

Some of the interchange was reported in a...

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Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script

250 Comments | Posted September 9, 2009 | 03:25 AM (EST)


It's already been pointed out by several others that Sarah Palin has a new ghostwriter on staff and that she is clearly not the auteur of her most recent scribbles on Facebook and most certainly not the primary author of her op-ed yesterday in the...

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Sarah Palin's Obama Obsession

966 Comments | Posted August 29, 2009 | 03:57 PM (EST)


Today marks the one-year anniversary of John McCain's introduction of Sarah Palin to the international stage, in Dayton, Ohio, a political battleground that the Republicans desperately needed for another shot at the White House. They lost Ohio big (by more than 300,000 votes), and they lost the election even bigger--mostly...

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Palin Hit With Another Ethics Complaint

1273 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 07:44 PM (EST)


In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations have surfaced today in Alaska charging Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.

Zane Henning -- a conservative government watchdog from the governor's hometown of Wasilla and an oilfield worker on Alaska's North...

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The Iquitarod!: Sarah Palin's Latest Arctic Sport

376 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 12:17 AM (EST)


Oh My God!!! My friends in Alaska are having all the fun: Shannyn Moore and AKMuckraker, legends both, squires of free speech, calling up the spirits of Lexington and Concord on the Fourth of July, no less, and challenging the wannabe Queen of Alaska, "the deranged frostvixen quitterface"...

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The Real Story Behind Palin's Bombshell

622 Comments | Posted July 3, 2009 | 10:49 PM (EST)


Anyone who is in any way surprised by Sarah Palin's announcement today that she will not be seeking re-election, and, even more significantly, is stepping down as Governor of Alaska, has not been paying close attention. The signs have been everywhere.

Palin has absolutely zero interest in running the...

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Palin Lifts From Gingrich in Anchorage Speech

1505 Comments | Posted June 6, 2009 | 09:52 PM (EST)


Sarah Palin's speech delivered in Anchorage on Wednesday -- the one in which she declared "screw political correctness" and wondered why "we have to pussyfoot around our troublesome foes" -- repeatedly lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley without attribution.

While Palin twice...

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