Sarah Palin Vs. the Impotent and Limp Media…

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You may have heard about or even read the article about Sarah Palin in the latest issue of “Vanity Fair” by Michael Joseph Gross. If you wish to read it now you can do so by clicking on the lilnk below: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=1 As with everything regarding Palin, most people either hate it or love it. They either agree with Sarah’s scathing remarks about it or are applauding and saying, “I KNEW it!” However, some of us are willing to take both the article and Sarah’s protests with a grain of salt. I must admit IF this article had been in a publication such as the “Enquirer” or the “Globe” and IF the writer weren’t respected and well-known I’d have dismissed it entirely as fiction. It’s true most of the accounts were from anonymous sources who didn’t want to speak on the record, allegedly in some cases because they feared reprisal such as even losing their jobs. From reading the article and seeing the writer interviewed on TV I get that his point was that Sarah Palin is a rather intimidating person, that she’s not all that she seems in public. Among the claims made in the article is Sarah and Todd are know to have loud fights and toss the “F-word” around; to that I say who cares, they obviously know better than to talk like that in public and I can tell you my husband and I, despite over 40 years in a happy marriage have been known to do the same thing now and then! It was also said that Sarah doesn’t really hunt or fish, that when Greta Van Susterin and her husband were coming to Alaska and Sarah had promised to make moose chili Todd was calling around in a panic trying to find some moose meat. Again, who cares BUT why make something like that up if it’s not true? Then there’s the allegation that Sarah is lousy tipper, that she’s even “stiffed” some people, but that she gave one woman $100 tip when a crowd of adoring fans were watching and the cameras were rolling. Nothing earth-shattering there either way, right? There was also the story of Sarah being handed several books to study during the campaign to sharpen her knowledge, which she accepted and then laid aside and went back to reading e-mail messages from the “Prayer Warriors” on her Blackberry. It was also said she didn’t know who Margaret Thatcher was. My guess is that this article is a combination of truth and fiction. Some things are probably totally true, some likely have a bit of truth in them but are embellished for dramatic effect and others I’m sure are total fabrications. Mr. Gross predicted in his TV interview that if Sarah runs for President many of those who refused to speak on the record will go public. I agree that there will be many people who know or knew her or had contact with her will come out of the woodwork with stories both good and bad about her if she runs, which I’m now predicting she will. Until that time, if it comes, we really have no way of knowing for sure which stories are true or partly true and which are totally false. To lessen some of the accusations I’m sure I’ll get of being biased in this post I want to say there is a woman who commented following the article disputing some of what was written. She claims to have been interviewed by Mr. Gross and to be the woman referred to in the article as “perhaps a nanny?”. She says she’s a doctor and the mother of a Down Syndrome boy that Piper Palin loves playing with and she has nothing but good things to say about the Palin family. She also says none of what she told the writer made it into the article. I have a feeling, for better or for worse, this is just one of what will probably be an avalanche of “tell-alls” about Sarah Palin if she stays in the public eye and either outright announces or continues to leave the door open to a Presidential run in 2012. Since she’s a Fox news contributor, has her own reality show and has a new book coming out, it looks like she’s going to be in the public eye for some time to come whether she throws her hat into the Presidential ring or not. It’s now also a family affair since daughter Bristol is making the talk show circuit and will be appearing on “Dancing With the Stars” as well as having made her acting debut as an unwed teen mother. For whatever reason, she obviously sells magazines and guarantees that anyone who writes or even talks about her will get their own fifteen minutes of fame. I think I already know the answer to this, but what do you think? Is Sarah Palin “fair game” as the celebrity she is and as a potential Presidential candidate? If she announces she is NOT running, does that mean she should be left alone and, if so, doesn’t that put her somehow above other celebrities whose lives seem to be open books whether they like it or not? Should she continue to fight back whenever there is an article such as this one or should she try to stay above the fray and ignore these things? Annie