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Isn't she the narrator on the book on tape version? I think so, and that would have already been recorded. The way these usually work is that the writer would talk to her and write up what she says, improving the structure and grammar and stuff. They wouldn't just make up anecdotes.
The real issue here is that there's an alt media for rightists with wildly different standards in terms of ethics, and when they put something out or get exposed to mainstream culture, there is often a big shock.
This is starting to remind me of an episode of News Radio.
A rich business man (Jimmy James) writes a terrible memoir called "Jimmy James - Capitalist Lion Tamer".
It bombs in the US but the Japanese version is a best seller.
James decides that the Japanese version must somehow be better and so he translates the Japanese version back to English and re-releases it in the USA.
The new version is titled "Jimmy James - Macho Business Donkey Wrestler".
The surface level joke - literal translations between languages can be bizarre - is funny enough. What makes it a great joke is that it captures how these types of ghost written books represent the perfect intersection of narcissism and vapidity.