06-30-2009, 12:10 PM
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I just printed this out to read... comments forthcoming...
Edit: A very comprehensive article, but nothing new here.
Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin | vanityfair.com
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Politics
It Came from Wasilla
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska?s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn?t always jibe with reality. As John McCain?s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs?political and personal?that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
By Todd S. Purdum August 2009
The pattern is inescapable: she takes disagreements personally, and swiftly deals vengeance on enemies, real or perceived. Illustration by Risko.
The crowds begin streaming into the Evansville Auditorium and Convention Centre a couple of hours before the arrival of the ?special guest speaker? at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life dinner on a soft Indiana spring evening?nearly 2,200 people in the banquet hall, 800 more in an adjacent auditorium watching the proceedings on a live video feed. The menu is thick slices of roast pork and red velvet cake, washed down with pitchers of iced tea, and when Sarah Palin finally enters, escorted by a phalanx of sheriff?s deputies and local police, she is mobbed. The organizers of the dinner, billed as ?the largest pro-life banquet in the world,? have courted Palin for weeks with care packages of locally made chocolates, doughnuts, barbecue, and pastries, and she has requited by choosing Evansville, a conservative stronghold in southern Indiana, as the site of her first public speech outside Alaska in 2009. Like Richard M. Nixon, who chose the coalfield town of Hyden, Kentucky, for his first post-resignation public appearance, Palin has come to a place where she is guaranteed a hero?s reception. She is not only a staunch foe of abortion but also the mother of a boy, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome just a few months before John McCain chose Palin as his running mate. The souvenir program for this evening?s dinner is full of displays for local politicians and businesses, attesting to their pro-life bona fides. An ad for Hahn Realty Corporation reads, "If you need commercial real estate, call Joe Kiefer! Joe is pro-life and a proud supporter of the Vanderburgh County Right to Life...
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And the insta-response from the RCPblog:
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time....-hit-on-palin/
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Purdum's Hit on Palin
Posted by Tom Bevan | Email This | Permalink | Email Author
Todd Purdum pulls down the black ski mask and whips out the sawed off shotgun for this utterly predictable hit piece on Sarah Palin in the August issue of Vanity Fair.
To be clear, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the elitist MSM's contract-killer journalism against political figures with whom they disagree - which, more often than not means conservatives.
Purdum's piece is an absolute classic of the genre, complete with a slew of juicy, negative quotes from insiders and a smoothly crafted narrative that demeans and diminishes Palin's accomplishments and portrays her as an ignorant white trash whack job who stumbled her way into the governorship of Alaska through a combination of raw ambition and blind luck.
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Last edited by 'BusNative; 06-30-2009 at 12:33 PM.
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Throw her out of OFFICE!!!!!!!
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