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Another Sarah Palin Hit Job Profile
Ace of Spades HQ —
... turn. It looks like the biggest quote so far is an implication that Palin may have been suffering from postpartum depression* during the campaign. All the while, Palin was coping not only with the crazed life of any national candidate on the road but also with the young children traveling with her. Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palins youngest son was less than six months old.) Bill Kristol thinks he knows who floated that bit of trash...none other than top John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt. ...
As If McCain's Crew Didn't Do Enough Damaga Already
Riehl World View —
... and, or Kristol, or someone else. As for this below - even if it were accurate, we're honestly supposed to believe Biden is executive material? What would these same people be writing if they had him on a ticket and lost? Palin did more to help McCain with money, enthusiasm and crowds, despite his not even allowing her to assume the traditional attack dog role that is the task of every VP nominee. John McCain blew any chance he had himself and wouldn't let anyone attack his challenger, even when they had every right to do so, as with Reverend Wright. Evidently ...
Vanity Fair Palin Piece Touches Off GOP-on-GOP Hate
TPM Election Central —
... Kristol, ever the Palin defender, took issue in a blog post on The Weekly Standard and zeroed in on one McCain aide. Pardum had written, "Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression?" ...
Matt Lewis: Seduced by Sarah?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... . Bill Kristol has some good thoughts on the dubiousness of it , but I'm interested in a fairly minor point the author made on the way to slandering her. The author correctly notes that Palin, Some have speculated that Republican men (including John McCain) were "seduced" by Palin's looks. If this is true, it is most likely not in the sense that they mean. In my estimation, if Republican politicians and conservative opinion leaders were guilty of favoring Palin due to her looks, it was not because they were personally attracted to her -- but because they naively thought ...
Yes, I Am a Psychiatrist
Whiskey Fire —
... 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 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 the people who ran the McCain
campaign into the ground.
Here’s a highlight of Purdum’s reporting: “More than once in my
travels in Alaska, ...
Video: Vanity Fair author defends Palin hit piece
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... the ball much. The stories about Palin not getting along with McCain staffers or not being ready for the intense primetime of a national campaign are old hat by now. A more useful piece would have focused on what she’s doing to rehabilitate her image and how her weaknesses might spoil a bid in 2012. (Purdum touches on that but most of the piece is a rehash.) The chief virtue of the finished product is that it’s driven some Palin fans to such extreme exasperation that they’re now outing his sources while driving her critics to such extreme derangement that they’re ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ARCANE MYSTERIES REVEALED ONLY TO A CHOSEN FEW! Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum just published his big Sarah Palin article -- and William Kristol thinks he has Purdum dead to rights: Here's a highlight of Purdum's reporting: "More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin's extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of 'narcissistic personality disorder' in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--'a ...
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Liberal Media and GOP Hacks Like Steve Schmidt vs. Sarah Palin
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 ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... is a great and rare gift, and I envy reporters who have been granted it through genetic mutation.
Can she be simultaneously tired, resentful, and thinking she shouldn't have run for vice-president, and at the same time, nostalgic for the campaign trail, eager to return to national issues and focused on Washington D.C. beltway politics?
Or is it that Sarah Palin is now a blank slate, upon which national magazine writers project whatever negative narrative they prefer?
Liberal Media and GOP Hacks Like Steve Schmidt vs. Sarah Palin
Lefty journalist Todd ...
Bill Kristol Is A Prince Among Kings
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... Bill Kristol has gotten totally pissy about the Palin article, mainly because Steve Schmidt got to run the McCain campaign into the ground, and Bill Kristol only almost got to do that. This has sparked ...
GOP Operative Schmidt Blasts Bill Kristol: ‘He’s In The Business Of Ad Hominem Insults And Criticism’
Think Progress —
... Kristol fingered one particular McCain official for blame: chief strategist Steve Schmidt. Kristol claimed that Schmidt trashed “Palin’s mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign.” And now Schmidt is firing back by unloading some very candid rhetorical bombs against Kristol. Politico’s ...
Sarah Palin: The verbal hits just keep on comin’
Sister Toldjah —
... wrote a 9,800 word rambling diatribe that played fast and loose with the facts, and contained more personal attacks – including those by disgruntled “former McCain staffers/higher ups” who are now engaged in a nasty public he said/she said battle – than constructive criticisms.
Jim Geraghty wrote a mini-fisking of Purdum’s piece here in a must-read. Bill Kristol wrote a defense of Palin here.
But the morning Palin news round-up wouldn’t be complete ...
Kristol And The DSM Defense
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Palin was partly Kristol's cynical ploy - so you'd expect some kind of response to further exposure of just how unqualified for any public office she is. But after an entire article detailing yet more loopy high-school lies, more derangement, more ignorance on the part of his protege, Kristol takes issue with just one fact: ...
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 out your name, you will be a net drag on any national campaign for the rest of your professional career. Not because you helped the Left go after Governor Palin, but because you are an untrustworthy sneak who is dedicated to propping up the elitist ...
Obama & Palin: Blank Slates on Which “Journalists” Project Their Biases
GayPatriot —
... I really don’t need bother reading Purdum’s piece because he’s not interested in reporting honestly on the Governor of Alaska, but feeding the media narrative about the incompetence and arrogance of this good-looking, happily married conservative woman. I mean, can you trust a guy who claims that, as Bill Kristol puts it (quoting Purdum) ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... to Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum. William "Unrequited" Kristol leaps to his true love's defense, accusing McCainiac Steve Schmidt of being the key leaker. Other '08ers ...
"What this is about is a personal issue that happened late in the campaign relating to a close, personal friend of Bill Kristol"
Hit & Run —
... WS kingmakers would be reason enough to run screaming for the exits. Though in fairness to the former in-flight magazine of Air Force II, for whatever managerial or temperamental reasons, John McCain's political campaigns have frequently been riven by messy civil wars. ...
On Sarah Palin's 'Narcissistic Personality Disorder'
The Corner on National Review Online —
... accusations was this: More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of narcissistic personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy and thought it fit her perfectly. Bill Kristol took to ...
