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Still Feuding Over Sarah Palin

July 01, 2009 11:22 AM

Here is the deal.  Vanity Fair is out with a not so flattering piece about Sarah Palin.  It has opened up some not so old wounds.

William Kristol posted a blog slamming the article calling it a "hit piece", saying that the very people who ran the unsuccessful campaign were the background sources in the piece.  “In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin’s mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt,” writes Kristol. 

Steve Schmidt fires back in an email excerpted by Politico’s Jonathan Martin:  “I'm sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign.” “After all, his management of [former Vice President] Dan Quayle’s public image as his chief of staff is still something that takes your breath away.”

Here’s how Rick Klein sums it all up in this morning’s “Note”.:

“As for Gov. Sarah Palin -- the fallout of the Todd Purdum piece leaves Bill Kristol publicly warring with Steve Schmidt -- with Randy Scheunemann (McCain campaign foreign policy aide) taking Kristol’s side.  Politico’s Jonathan Martin plays it all out, with details of the McCain campaign searching e-mails of its staffers in frantic search of leakers: “[Kristol’s] allegation that I was defaming Palin by alleging post-partum depression at the campaign headquarters is categorically untrue. In fact, I think it rises to the level of a slander because it’s about the worst thing you can say about somebody who does what I do for a living,” Schmidt tells Martin.  Said Scheunemann: “Steve Schmidt has a congenital aversion to the truth.””

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What a glad bag of hot CO2 polluting air this is.

Listen, Vanity Fair is just writing about Palin in an effort to boost sales.
It doesn't matter if the article is positive or negative.
It's as simple as that.

Posted by: Noz | Jul 1, 2009 11:34:47 AM

To tell you the truth, the article was a bit uninteresting with nothing new to report.
Does anyone actually buy Vanity Fair any
more?
As for Palin, she's still Governor; she's doing her thing like everyone else.
Why does Palin get under some people's skin? That's the interesting part of this whole story.

Posted by: jk | Jul 1, 2009 12:23:16 PM

Sarah is as Sarah does...

Posted by: pj | Jul 1, 2009 12:54:45 PM

The one benefitting from this is Sarah Palin, because every time ANYTHING is said about her, instead of having the good graces to just let it go, she's back in the news duking it out.

All the drama and attention just keeps her out there in front of everybody. South Carolina's governor Sanford is addicted to his mistress, and Sarah Palin is addicted to media attention.

If everybody would shut up about Palin, she would disappear into the woodwork where she belongs.

Posted by: tg | Jul 1, 2009 1:25:39 PM

Vanity Fair is an antiquated magazine that has seen it's day. Does anybody subscribe to it these days? I know I don't and think raking Sarah Palin over the coals again is like beating a dead horse. She is a fine person, yes doing her job as we all are and now it's time to move on to other news.

Posted by: sharon | Jul 1, 2009 1:27:23 PM

Poor old Vanity Fair. Without Bush bashing, it looks like they are running out of interesting informative topics.
I dropped my subscription 3 years ago.
My daughter, who supported, Obama, decided to drop hers also. Enough already.

Posted by: B | Jul 1, 2009 1:45:04 PM

I think its time for the liberal media to take an enema and relieve themselves from the 2008 Presidential campaign and election, no?

Furthermore, Vanity Fair is no longer the prestigious publication it used to be; today it is an old hag-rag and relic from the past and I agree with the previous comment that this hack job on Sarah Palin is simply an effort to boost poor sales. It’s time to call for a boycott of Vanity Fair as well as the products of its advertisers.

Posted by: Judy | Jul 1, 2009 1:48:15 PM

The left will continue to try and smear Sarah Palin as much as possible because they believe she could be a threat in future national elections. A lot of average people identify with Palin; and like her, and that is why she is still considered a threat. The media only talks about points that support the leftist agenda instead of giving all facts and letting the viewer/listener decide. It is appalling, at best!

Posted by: ps | Jul 1, 2009 1:49:19 PM

I can't understand why people are so negative about Gov. Palin?

Posted by: Charlie | Jul 1, 2009 1:55:10 PM

I thought the article was very informative. It only confirmed what I already believed about Sarah Palin that she was and is totally unqualified and
a very mean-spirited, vindicative person. I'm just glad she is not my Governor.

Posted by: lonnie | Jul 1, 2009 2:05:21 PM

Who's Sarah Palin? Who cares? When someone can't handle the puffball questions asked her by Katie Couric in that now famous interview, why should any of us be getting our shorts in a tangle about someone as unqualified and short on intellect as Sarah Palin?

Posted by: Igor | Jul 1, 2009 2:14:12 PM

I love all these people that say Palin just loves all this because it gives her attention. That is laughable at best. All kinds of media constantly ask her for interviews she could have one whenever she wanted.

Posted by: LaTrela | Jul 1, 2009 2:37:38 PM

The only thing Sarah hates more than folks talking about her is folks NOT talking about her. It's sad to see someone so desperate for attention........even negative attention.

Posted by: Sammy | Jul 1, 2009 2:38:04 PM

Seems to me that the article simply illustrated what most intelligent voters already knew....that Palin is a political neophyte and diva....As much as the Republican machine tried it could not hide those facts...

Posted by: indy_voter | Jul 1, 2009 3:24:57 PM

ps: "The media only talks about points that support the leftist agenda instead of giving all facts and letting the viewer/listener decide." --- Hate to have to correct ANOTHER conservative but you just described that wing-nut propaganda machine, Faux News. Denial: a conservative state of mind.

Posted by: Mangalore | Jul 1, 2009 3:31:09 PM

I believe Americans really want to fix America. That's why we voted the way we did. Now, please get on board and support our new administration so we can move forward.

Posted by: Jiva Soul | Jul 1, 2009 3:43:36 PM

I don't read Vanity Fair, so I have no idea what they wrote about Palin. What intriques me are those who think that Palin is a bright, competent person worthy of high political office. It intrigues me because I realize how dumb-downed our whole society has become. Seems like we would want a presidential candidate to have at least some expertise and knowledge in at least a few key areas. For some people though, I guess what is more important is that we elect a president who is "like us." Bizarro!

Posted by: Jim | Jul 1, 2009 4:19:36 PM

This Vanity Fair article is practically devoid of new information or insight about Sarah Palin. It reads like a thread on the Daily Kos from last November. What a racket the media has; they publish bilge like this to rile up all sides and sell their advertising, and use the resulting controversy to slam Gov. Palin as if she had sought out such media exposure herself.

I don't mind attacks on her policies, nor does she. That's part of the game. But the double standards for her personal characteristics are shocking. Ooooh, a politician has a strong ego and likes the limelight? Bickers with her advisers, some of whom think they are smarter than their boss, and doesn't suffer fools gladly? Stop the presses! Worst of all, she let her kids walk on stage with her during the campaign, oh the horror!

I can't wait to call her Madame President. Anyone who drives the Left to such spittle flecked apoplexy is OK in my book.

Posted by: John Skookum | Jul 1, 2009 5:06:45 PM

Favorite expressions of ditto-heads: "the left" and "leftists." Always divisive, always self-righteous, always profoundly uninformed about what matters to average middle class Americans. Always childishly angry about the last election and always willing to participate in personal attacks and pointless smears of our new President.

Who really started the "game" of personal attacks and vicious sniping, Mr. Skookum? Can you spell Carl Rove or Rush Limbaugh? Now that we're fighting back and are no longer willing to passively accept this offal, you suddenly want to "clean up politics." Just more political hypocrisy from people who have never known the difference between right and self-righteousness.

Posted by: Igor | Jul 1, 2009 5:22:24 PM

Sarah who?

Posted by: BikernAz12 | Jul 1, 2009 6:11:33 PM

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