From the Editors
Sarah Palin's Back, Sparks Blogger Feud
Todd Purdum appeared on Hardball last night to discuss his 10,000-word piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair. "The piece is filled with former McCain staffers making damaging statements (albeit anonymously) about Palin on a wide range of issues," explains HuffPo, "from her lackluster efforts to prepare for debates to her diva-like behavior and strained relationships with the campaign staffers assigned to her." Not surprisingly, the piece, entitled "It Came From Wasilla," is creating a lot of, um, discussion on both liberal and conservative blogs. NewsBusters calls it "an indefensible political drive-by shooting," and Sister Toldjah describes the article as "a 9,800 word rambling diatribe that played fast and loose with the facts." But Politics Daily says it's "fascinating if for no other reason than its look at the slash-and-burn defense tactics of the Alaskan governor's shrinking inner circle." Many bloggers are just enjoying tidbits from the article: "the Alaska Governor was apparently so intent on delivering a concession speech that McCain advisers found it already loaded in the TelePrompTer when they went to put in his remarks" (via Faded Youth Blog); she wrote an e-mail to friends after Trig's birth signed "Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father" (via Change of Subject); she tells tons of odd lies (via Daily Intel).
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