McCain Advisers Feel Guilty Over Loosing Sarah Palin on the American Public
By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
John McCain's advisers thought Sarah Palin was pretty goofy. That is, after they almost put her in the White House as vice president of the United States, a heartbeat from the Oval Office. "No serious vetting had been done," writes Todd Purdum, in a new article by Vanity Fair. The McCain team was shocked, afterwards, to discover a certain "slipperiness—about what the truth was and whether the truth even mattered" to the Alaska governor.
More than one of the Alaskans he spoke to independently told Purdum that, after dealing with Palin, they turned to the Internet and Googled the clinical definition of a narcissistic personality disorder: "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration and lack of empathy."
Palin is "at once the sexiest and the riskiest brand in the Republican Party," Purdum writes. But rather than go home to Alaska, compile an impressive record, and study foreign policy, she "has done none of this," he says, and instead pursues an "erratic" course that raises questions about her fitness for higher office.
Says Purdum: "When she chooses to reveal herself, what she reveals is not always the same thing as the truth." The various members of McCain's campaign who talked to him, he says, now show symptoms of "survivor's guilt" at what they almost did to their country.
Wonderful. Thanks, Mac.
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Yellow Journalism
Fox News owns that title; The Yellow Journalism one, that is.
Thank goodness for Vanity Fair. It's more than Fair.
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism got its start with the rise of technology allowing newspapers to print thousands of copies. Competition was fierce, so yellow journalism arose as a means to sell papers. Today, the economic downturn is weighing heavily on newspapers and competition with new media is fierce.......hence yellow journalism is making a big comeback.
Interesting example here as well as the Vanity Fair piece it is based on.
sarah palin is about the most beautiful thing to have happened to the united states
it is so amazing how the american media obssess about sarah palin. They present rumors against her as fact. Now let me ask: How will you deal with the rumor that:
1. Obama is gay and has an active gay partner?
2. Obama's daughters are not his biological daughters?
3. Obama is a 'sleeper cell' and a closet muslim?
how would the american media have reported this? would huffington post bloggers have presented this as fact?
It is a tragedy how the media finds the destruction of a sincere woman comedy.
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