The mighty Sarah Palin, not in any political office but who somehow nonetheless rules the world from her Facebook page, clearly terrifies this pathetic little man, Michael Joseph Gross, who was all over the media today to promote his largely unsourced hatchet job on Sarah Palin.
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Yes, that’s right: Sarah is so terrifying that no one would speak of her on the record, which is why Gross had to, um, quote unidentified sources about her martial relations, her shopping habits, and other such things crucial to our understanding of her as a politician.
Even on the left, the reviews have been terrible. The Washington Post blogged:
What to make of it all? Politico’s Ben Smith questioned many of the anecdotes and concluded that “you can really write anything about Palin.” The Alaska Dispatch online magazine found the media bubble around Palin newsworthy itself: “A reporter followed Palin around on a speaking tour through four Midwestern states with apparent back-stage access, wrote more than 10,500 words about his experience, and his story doesn’t feature a single new comment from or interview with his subject ….. it’s very unusual.” The Christian Science Monitor summed it up best: “If you are trying to sell books or magazines or get clicks for your website, Republican Party star Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps giving.”
Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair should be ashamed of himself.
And then he should fire Michael Joseph Gross.
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