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More Press For Palin
09/02/2010
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A friend of mine sent me a round about link to a recent Vanity Fair article about Sarah "WTF" Palin. In this article, now making its rounds on the blogs, Michael Joseph Gross drives the point home that Palin is a bitch -- over and over again. Gross makes claim after claim -- with the magazine equivalent of mouth agape -- that Palin is a horrid person in private, pulling such dreadful crimes as poor tipping and yelling at her husband and staff. But the article is inflammatory and long-winded, insisting that the reader see eye-to-eye with Gross' obvious dislike for his subject. Not only that, but there are no surprises or revelations in this article: Sarah bites.
      
      The record will show that I am no fan of Palin. In fact, a member of my family, devoted Alaskan conservative, Birther and Teabagger, has refused to have anything to do with me over my public disdain for the woman. However, the Vanity Fair article does nothing for the cause of getting Palin off the world stage -- which should, in fact, be the goal of everyone in this country who thinks. Instead, the magazine launches into a tirade that is incendiary and poorly supported, and consequently is easily dismissed by any Palin fence-sitters who read.
      
      The right wing will have a field day with this one, claiming that it is just hatred, and not journalism, that has led to the article's publication. They can use it as example of how the left wing press has taken over the country, and consequently giving teabagging suckwads like Limbaugh even more reasons to want to "take our country back."
      
      Vanity Fair is in a unique position to influence women who might have a connection with Palin -- she is, after all, part of their demographic. Instead, they short-change their readers -- and indeed the rest of the country -- by stooping to publish a tabloid-style article.
      
      The magazine is not without its means to raise the bar, either. In the same breath, they have published an excellently written brief on the brouhaha over the GOP being sugar daddy to the Palin clan, buying them tens of thousands of dollars of clothes and goodies during the election.
      
      My silly little blog has very little impact on the national discourse over which redneck should be shooting road signs and playing banjo in the Whitehouse come 2012. However, the national press needs to keep their snotty little noses clean and force the debate -- it is, after all, their freaking job.

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