Published 6/30/2009
by Mark Murray
at First Read
From NBC's Mark Murray and Alex BeinsteinBelow are some more passages from Todd Purdum's critical Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin:
Palin
is unlike any other national figure in modern American life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching...( read more )
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