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Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair
Extremely well written piece by a small town Christian who originally set out to write about how the Media gave Sarah a bad rap, but the facts he uncovered demanded that he tell a different story -- that of a mean-spirited vindictive phony who lies in almost a pathological manner.
I know to Sarah fans, this type of story is like Krytonite, but give it a read and get to know the real Sarah Palin.
The hunting/fishing thing was the one aspect I did actually believe about her, but finding out it's all bull**** too, I guess I'm not surprised.
Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits—a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family—and the sadness she has left in her wake.
Extremely well written piece by a small town Christian who originally set out to write about how the Media gave Sarah a bad rap, but the facts he uncovered demanded that he tell a different story -- that of a mean-spirited vindictive phony who lies in almost a pathological manner.
I know to Sarah fans, this type of story is like Krytonite, but give it a read and get to know the real Sarah Palin.
To appreciate how alien Palin has become in Wasilla, how inscrutable to her own people, you have to wrap your mind around the fact that Sarah Palin is more famous than any other Alaskan, ever, and to remember that mass-media fame is a property of “outside.” It still does not quite seem real to most Alaskans that there are all these thousands of people in the Lower 48 turning out for … Sarah. It seems all the more unreal because Palin’s image as an engaging, down-to-earth small-town hockey mom was more or less accurate until two years ago. To be sure, some elements of that image were never true to life. “This whole hunter thing, for Sarah? That is the biggest fallacy,” says one longtime friend of the family. “That woman has never hunted. The picture of her with the caribou she says she shot? She got out of the R.V. to pose for a picture. She never helps with the fishing either. It’s all a joke.” The friend goes on to recall that when Greta Van Susteren came to the house to interview Palin “[Sarah] cooked moose chili and whatnot. Todd was calling everyone he knew the day before—‘Do you got any moose?’ Desperate.” In any event, her life is very different now: flying by private jet, driving a gleaming new Escalade ESV with tinted windows, and speaking to the whole world via a Fox News feed from her house until the network installs a TV studio on her property, where contractors are now also finishing a 6,000-square-foot stone-clad château that will contain an airplane hangar for Todd’s Piper Cub, two private apartments, and an office for Sarah.
The hunting/fishing thing was the one aspect I did actually believe about her, but finding out it's all bull**** too, I guess I'm not surprised.