The Sarah Palin Hit Piece in Vanity Fair
By Hillary Taft - Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Yawn. Big surprise – Vanity Fair has published an unsubstantiated piece of journalistic garbage that portrays Sarah Palin in a bad light! Wow, what a surprise! (That’s sarcasm there.)
You have to wonder why Sarah Palin is continually being brought into national media attention when the election is OVER…it’s not like you’ll see Vanity Fair publishing hit pieces of Mitt Romney. But Palin is probably the best potential candidate to run against Obama in 2012, and it’s clear to me that people with an agenda are trying to take her out of the running now.
But what women should be up in arms about is the article’s speculation that Palin had “post-partum depression.” Nice. Criticize a woman candidate because she was just pregnant. Do you ever hear things like “He’s going through his mid-life crisis?” associated with male politicians (particularly those who are actually displaying it with their philandering)?
It used to be that journalists had some sort of integrity; that they believed in standards of fairness. They would not print negative quotes without trying to talk to someone with an opposing viewpoint and showing the other side.
The hit-and-run type of journalism expressed by Vanity Fair is nothing more than propaganda. You must remember, these were the guys who published a hit piece on Bill Clinton during the primaries, apparently in an effort to take Hillary down. (I’m actually surprised they didn’t just plaster a big headline across their cover: “HILLARY THE SHREW” – and then blame her for Bill’s sexcapades.)
Palin’s Vanity Fair piece tries to paint her as having narcissistic personality disorder – something that actually fits Obama better. Will Vanity Fair run a hit piece on Obama, talking about the now legendary Obama “Evil Eye”? Nope, because Vanity Fair is apparently in the pockets of people who want Obama and certain Democrats in power.
The mainstream media, which put Obama up on a pedestal and then smashed Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin down with unabashed misogyny during the 2008 election is something I no longer trust. The upshot of this is that they are starting to cry wolf – I am so immune to any Sarah Palin criticism right now that even if the worst were true I would not believe it.
Considering I am a 20-year registered Democrat who has for years been absolutely opposed to the “religious right,” the fact that the media has gotten me turned off of Democratic propaganda and now taking the side of a conservative woman is no small feat. If I am feeling this way, I can only imagine how middle America is feeling.
