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townhall.com - 7/1/2009
Carol Platt Liebau: Vanity Fair and Sarah Palin
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There are only two reasons that come to mind why Todd Purdum might have written the nasty little hit piece on Sarah Palin for Vanity Fair:(1) This is red meat to the coastal elites (and wannabees) to which the magazine...
vanityfair.com - 6/30/2009
August 2009: Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin
— vanityfair.com — 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 ... (more) August 2009: Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin

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weeklystandard.com - 6/30/2009
Kristol: Liberal Media and GOP Hacks vs. Palin
— weeklystandard.com — Lefty journalist Todd Purdum has a hit piece in the new Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. You... don’t have to be a big Palin fan to recognize the article is full of dubious claims, and is dependent on self-serving stories provided on background by some of ... (more) Kristol: Liberal Media and GOP Hacks vs. Palin

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Palin to resign
washingtonmonthly.com - 7/3/2009
Palin to resign
— washingtonmonthly.com — PALIN TO RESIGN.... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) decided to shake up an otherwise slow news day... with an astounding announcement: not only has she decided to skip a re-election campaign next year, she's also resigning from office altogether later... (more) Palin to resign

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Dissecting Leftism — The Obama doctrine North Korea launches a missile and it takes Barack Obama and the UN five days to respond. Iran holds fraudulent elections, kills protesters and it takes weeks before Barack Obama can stand up and say that he is "concerned" about the situation. Then the people of Honduras try to uphold their constitution and laws of the land from being trampled by a Chavez-wanna be ... and it takes Barack Obama one day to proclaim that this was not a legal coup. Why the sudden decisiveness? Where were these strong opinions on foreign matters when Iranian authorities were trampling protestors and cutting off media ...

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Baier: Purdum's Vanity Fair Hit Piece Example of 'Palin Derangement Syndrome'
newsbusters.org 7/1/2009 — “Another case of Sarah Palin derangement syndrome has reared its ugly head,” FNC's Bret Baier announced Tuesday night in citing Todd Purdum's lengthy piece in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine, “ It Came from Wasilla .” Purdum, a New York ...
Was Sarah Palin responsible for the 9/11 attacks?
doubleplusundead.mee.nu 7/1/2009 — Everyone's favorite hysterical man-bitch delves further down the Trig-truther rabbit hole (prompted by the Vanity Fair hit piece, which I'm not going to link any more readily than St. Andi's insane ramblings), which hopefully leads to a padded cell: It remains true that no one in the MSM will ...
Yes, I Am a Psychiatrist
whiskeyfire.typepad.com 7/3/2009 — William Kristol casts asparagus upon the veracity of the Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin which suggests that Palin might just be a wee bit self-absorbed: Lefty journalist Todd Purdum has a hit piece in the new Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. You don’t ...
Video: Vanity Fair author defends Palin hit piece
hotair.com 7/1/2009 — You knew there was going to be a thread on it; the only question was whether it’d be a regular post or the quote of the day. [...] Read the rest »
McCain Staffers Trash Palin
politicalwire.com 6/30/2009 — The New York Daily News previews "an expansive story" in the August edition of Vanity Fair , a slew of senior members of John McCain's presidential campaign team "trash" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). "They can't quite believe that for two frantic ...
Some Things Snark Themselves
mahablog.com 6/30/2009 — I wasn’t going to comment on Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin , but then I caught this quote from the Purdum article from Michael Tomasky : More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant ...
Sarah Palin: Stayin Alive
politics.theatlantic.com 6/30/2009 — Todd S. Purdum paints a gruesome picture of Sarah Palin, politically speaking, in his Vanity Fair piece that came out today. It's rife with examples of two-faced moments and old former allies who are now estranged from Palin because, as they intimate, ...
Palin nuggets galore in Vanity Fair profile
briefingroom.thehill.com 6/30/2009 — A new Vanity Fair profile of the Sarah Palin saga has a handful of nuggets that are sure to drop jaws. Much of Todd Purdum's piece is already common knowledge, but he digs up a handful of anonymously-sourced anecdotes that are sure to sell some ...
McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece
themoderatevoice.com 7/1/2009 — Members of Arizona Senator John McCain’s 2009 Presidential campaign team have dissed McCain’s former running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bigtime in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, the New York Daily News reports — and in a ...
Check Under Your Bed for Sarah Palin
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — So, there's this significant profile of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair , and it's comparatively good for the most part, sticking mostly to relevant issues and giving time to both Palin's strengths and flaws as a politician—which are frequently the same ...
Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
corner.nationalreview.com 7/1/2009 — The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain's loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing ...
Palin wrote an e-mail to friends pretending to be God: ‘Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.’
thinkprogress.org 7/1/2009 — In a new article in next month’s Vanity Fair by Todd Purdum , former McCain presidential campaign aides unload on former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, calling her a “ Little Shop of Horrors ,” a “diva,” and a “whack job.” The exposé also ...
Sarah’s A Runner
themoderatevoice.com 7/2/2009 — Andrew Sullivan takes a break from the Vanity Fair fuss to point to Sarah “ I’m a runner ” Palin in Runner’s World. The photo above is from photographer Brian Adams’ slide show . Sullivan quotes a Dish reader:  ...
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. — RedState: Conservative News and Community
Background: Hot Air (Allahpundit) , Hot Air (Ed Morrissey ), The Weekly Standard , ConsiderThisNews (Pat Hynes) , The Politico Since everybody else is piling on, let me add my own comment to the fray. If you were one of the people who participated in that Vanity Fair hit piece, and we find ...
Sarah Palin Pop Culture Celebrity — Outside The Beltway | OTB
As we discussed on last night’s edition of OTB Radio, Sarah Palin is a story that simply refuses to go away. Despite the campaign being long over and her return to Alaska, where she had managed to live without notice in the lower 48 for years, controversies surrounding her continue to ...
Politco’s Mike Allen - PWNED [Darleen Click] — protein wisdom
So-called “journalist” yucks it up on MSNBC praising the Vanity Fair hit piece on Gov. Palin, asserting Palin has “given a series of embarrassing interviews” post-election and that she was a “circus act.” John Ziegler gets Mike Allen on air later and ...
Reagan, Palin And That Vanity Fair Palin Story — The Atlantic Politics Channel
Lots of buzz today about my my friend Todd Purdum's story on Sarah Palin in the new issue of Vanity Fair. The story's a good reminder of the still enduring role of the monthly magazine in the age of blogs and Twitter. By going over ground that was not exactly unfamiliar--the contempt that McCain ...
Vanity Fair's Palin Piece Stirs Republican Split — Politics Daily
Republican infighting over the recent trashing of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is bringing to the surface the long-bubbling conservative dislike of moderate "maverick" John McCain. Once McCain won the presidential nomination last year, most conservative Republicans supported him because he ...
HotAir — News
Kos, from the DailyKos, warned President Obama on Tuesday that with 60 votes in the Senate, he doesn't have any more excuses, writes Allahpundit. And Todd Purdum "defends" his Vanity Fair "hit piece" on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), writes Allahpundit.
Sarah Palin story sparks Republican family feud — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Politico[/b] A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year's GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the ...
Todd Purdum Discusses His Vanity Fair Article On Palin: "Desperate" Decision That Revealed McCain's "Appalling Egotism" To His Staffers — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Todd Purdum was a guest on 'Hardball" tonight to discuss his mammoth 10,000-word Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin and her involvement in the McCain presidential campaign. The piece is filled with former McCain staffers making damaging statements (albeit anonymously) about Palin on a wide ...
Video- Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum Discusses His Palin Article — The Political Carnival
The article that Gotta posted about here. Video via FDL.
Kristol slams Purdum over Palin 'hit piece' — Michael Calderone's Blog
Bill Kristol, who's supported Sarah Palin for quite a while , takes issue with Todd Purdum's nearly-10,000-word article in Vanity Fair, calling it a "hit piece." "You don’t have to be a big Palin fan to recognize the article is full of dubious claims, and is dependent on ...
— Brainster's Blog
Hatchet Piece on Palin I swear, you'd think she was the President the way the media can't resist kicking her at every opportunity. Todd Purdum slants his article from the word go: Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican ...
The Hitman -- Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum Unleashes Vicious Attack On Palin — NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Todd S. Purdum has really outdone himself . The Vanity Fair national editor most recently known for publishing a withering criticism of the Clintons during the 2008 presidential race has chosen a new target for summary destruction: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This is no mere attack on the ...
McCain aides trash Palin (anonymously) in Vanity Fair. What else is new. — Top of the Ticket
Longtime friends and campaign workers for Arizona Sen. John McCain have been talking to Vanity Fair about what Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's candidacy as vice president did for the GOP ticket in 2008. "A Little Shop of Horrors," said one unnamed aide. Perhaps they want to keep the ...
Sarah Palin and the Political Moms — Politics Daily
Like many of you, I read Vanity Fair's profile on Sarah Palin today -- and Todd Purdum's profile is fascinating if no other reason than its look at the slash-and-burn defense tactics of the Alaskan governor's shrinking inner circle. The line that gave me pause, though, was the same one that ...
"Palin and Cindy McCain, never soulmates." — Althouse
Funny caption, for this picture: Which is from this big (windy) Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin.
Nice Work on Palin From Vanity Fair's Resident Cartoonist — Politics Daily
WomanUp's beach reading recommendation for Independence Day weekend is the August issue of Vanity Fair, in particular Todd S. Purdum 's devastating portrait of the most media-savvy figure on the GOP bench. Sarah Palin may have been the wrong choice to round out Sen. John McCain's presidential ...
Purdum's Hit on Palin — Real Clear Politics - TIME.com
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...
John McCain's Campaign Staffers Unload on Sarah Palin — Politics Daily
"Diva", "whack job", a one-woman "Little Shop of Horrors" -- those are just a few of the choice descriptions that some of John McCain's former campaign staffers have used to describe Sarah Palin, McCain's ex-running mate. Vanity Fair' s Todd S. Purdum spoke with several of the disgruntled ...
Sarah Palin's big 'leap' — 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 ...