Sarah Palin Profile Reveals Her Facebook Ghostwriter And Spendthrift Ways

[babylonsister]

Sarah Palin Profile Reveals Her Facebook Ghostwriter And Spendthrift Ways
Christina Bellantoni | September 1, 2010, 11:23AM


She's earned $13 million since the 2008 presidential race that shoved her onto the national stage, but Sarah Palin apparently is a crappy tipper. A new Vanity Fair profile of the former Alaska governor paints a picture of a woman who has skyrocketed to success -- stepping on staff, friends and family along the way -- but who is so deeply concerned about controlling her public persona that she hired a friendly blogger to write her much-ballyhooed Facebook posts.

The wide-ranging profile documents hotels where Palin stiffed bellhops; her demands during the presidential campaign and on her busy speaking circuit; tensions with residents in her home town; and Palin's fashion preferences (and includes a sidebar with more details on the RNC clothing flap) -- up to and including mentioning her use of Spanx and push-up bras. But after the more salacious details, Vanity Fair writer Michael Joseph Gross also drops strong suggestions there's something fishy with some of the political action committees paying Palin to boost candidates across the country -- but he doesn't quite nail it down.

This line from the profile sums up the theme of the piece:

A onetime gubernatorial aide to Palin says, "The people who have worked for her--they're broken, used, stepped on, down in the dust."

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/sarah_palin_profile_reveals_her_facebook_ghostwrit.php

Vanity Fair article here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=all
Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury

[w4rma]

1. The PACs are bankrolled by astroturfing Billionaires? (nt)

[bullwinkle428]

2. Excerpts from the piece are just priceless!

"One friend of the Palins’ remembers an argument between Sarah and Todd: “They took all the canned goods out of the pantry, then proceeded to throw them at each other. By the time they got done, the stainless-steel fridge looked like it had got shot up with a shotgun. Todd said, ‘I don’t know why I even waste my time trying to get nice things for you if you’re just going to ruin them.’ ” This friend adds, “As soon as she enters her property and the door closes, even the insects in that house cringe. She has a horrible temper, but she has gotten away with it because she is a pretty woman.”"

[joeybee12]

5. Um, she's not that pretty...she's what i call NASCAR pretty...

if you get my drift.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Pretty to rocket scientists like Todd, who are still learning how to spell "clothes":

"In late October, when stories of Palin’s exorbitant campaign clothing budget surfaced, Todd Palin dismissed the criticism in an e-mail (subject line: “Cloths”) to several campaign aides: “How many fundraiser’s has she done for RNC, how much money has she raised and how much has voter registration increased for RNC since she was announced. So what if RNC purchase’s some cloths for her for the work she has done for the party.”"

:rofl: :rofl:

[EOTE]

12. And proper use of the apostrophe.

Why is it that I figured that Todd Palin would use an apostrophe to pluralize things? I guess I should have been surprised if he DID use it correctly.

[Raschel]

10. She has what they call a lantern jaw. Maybe a pit-bull jaw?

I think she's bipolar, besides being hateful.

[Dappleganger]

6. What I don't is how her kids aren't revealing more of this...

I know for a fact that if my husband and I messed up our home this way that our kids would Facebook about it before anyone went to bed that night.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Read the full VF article, to get the real story of "The Wrath of

Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods"!

[Dappleganger]

9. ok

gonna save it to .pdf and read it during PT. ;)

[EOTE]

3. All that money and she couldn't even hire a ghost writer who is fluent in english. NT

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Warpy]

11. Holy shit!

Somebody needs to tell that horrible woman that the people she stepped on as she clambered to the top are not going to be there to catch her when she falls.

She will fall, too. She's completely unstable, worse than I thought and I generally think the worst.

Now I see why her poor kids are such awful messes. They didn't have a chance.

[SpiralHawk]

13. Push-up bras are a Republicon Family Value statement?

Who knew?

The crappy tipping is, of course, a readily par for the Republicon course.

[gratuitous]

14. I think we've all seen the type before

And no, it doesn't end well for anyone in near proximity.

[LiberalAndProud]

15. That Palin is still in the public eye all these many months after she

demonstrated (repeatedly) that she is unfit for public office offends me. Do I blame Palin for riding the wave of public interest? No. I blame the wave of public interest.

William Hung and Sara Palin. Famous people who make me wonder, WTF are people smoking?

[Saphire]

16. Great article.