Usually the leftist media can be counted upon to unite, seize upon an anti-Palin meme and run with it. That liberal solidarity, however, has all but vaporized in the wake of Levi Johnston's latest round of charges against Sarah Palin and her family, as promoted by Vanity Fair magazine.
The first cracks in the liberal media wall appeared when only CBS of the big three alphabet television networks bought into the myth Vanity Fair's editor Graydon Carter had hoped to spread to take down Palin, as NewsBusters' Kyle Drennen reported:
"Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new attacks on Sarah Palin by the father of her grandson, Levi Johnston, co-host Maggie Rodriguez exclaimed: 'And shocking allegations that could shatter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s conservative family image...'"
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"Unlike the Early Show’s accepting coverage of Johnston’s outrageous claims, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America raised serious questions about his credibility."
Oops! Only one for three with the morning big three.
FAIL
The crack in the wall of lies spread a bit more with this Reclusive Leftist post titled "Did Bristol Palin dodge a bullet or what?":
"Levi is singing his song again to Vanity Fair, the song of course being, 'so, like, what do you want me to say about Sarah Palin? Cause, you know, whatever you want. Hey, do I get to keep the limo?' Levi is about as believable as The Pathological Liar on Saturday Night Live."Attention: Blogger not on board.
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"No wonder Bristol has decided that abstinence is best."
FAIL
Another crack in the wall appeared after this from a site which has been hyper-critical of Sarah Palin, Business Insider:
"Is America's most famous teen dad getting his revenge for being forced to shave off his mullet and hold Bristol's hand at last summer's Republican convention instead of partying the night away?"FAIL
"No!"
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"Johnson has actually managed to help Sarah Palin's cause."
The next crack in the wall for Levi's lies came from another unlikely source. Liz Smith wasn't falling for Levi's deception, and the columnist, who is in the habit of slamming Sarah, even felt the need to ask her liberal readers to cut her some slack for not joining in the feeding frenzy that Vanity Fair was trying to get started:
"Don't kill me here on this eve of the Labor Day weekend, but I am actually beginning to feel a bit sorry for Sarah Palin. At least in the matter of her estranged, almost-son-in-law Levi Johnston. This kid just can't keep his mouth shut."
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"I just don't see the wish to protect a teenage child as terribly evil or Machiavellian. Sarah Palin could play her well-worn 'Good Mom' card and even I would buy it."
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"...I don't think Bristol tossed away endless nights of effervescent conversation when she broke up with him."
"Now, her mother is nobody to mess with. There is a Medusa behind those Foster Grants; an atmosphere of Faye Dunaway barking in 'Mommie Dearest,' -- 'Don't f*** with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo!'"
When you're trying to smear Sarah Palin and you lose Liz Smith, you've lost one of your strongest potential allies.
FAIL
The cracks grew much longer, deeper and wider when the Washington Posts' Ruth Marcus, who prefaced her column by admitting that she had been less than charitable toward the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate:
"Finally, though, I find myself in Palin’s corner -- pushed there by Levi Johnston, her former future son-in-law, and the father of her grandson."
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"Is any of this true -- the talk of divorce, Sarah’s secret plan to adopt Tripp? I don’t know. Would anybody’s household look especially attractive if its inner workings were splashed on the pages of Vanity Fair by someone with every motive to accentuate the negative? I know mine wouldn’t."
"Johnston is an opportunistic creep..."
Remember that WaPo was founded in 1877 as an organ of the Democrat Party and has never strayed far from its original mission. When even the Post won't get on board your ship to score points against a prominent conservative who it otherwise delights in bashing, your boat is taking on water.
FAIL
But the unkindest glass cutter of all turned out to be the real jaw dropper of the bunch. Gail Collins, columnist for the mother of all liberal media outlets -- the New York Times -- exposed Levi's lack of cred in her September 2 column:
"For the first time in my life, I feel sympathy for Sarah Palin."If you can't convince the NY Times to buy what you're selling to beat Sarah Palin up with, your ship is headed for the bottom.
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"Given the fact that Johnston is a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested last year on six felony drug counts, it is conceivable that he is not the perfect arbiter of normal families."
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"So it would be helpful to know if Palin was 'always in a bad mood and she was stressed out a lot,' as Johnston claims. But really, we’re going to have to wait for a more reliable witness."
FAIL
So, two of the three major alphabet networks, the Washington Post, the New York Times and a smattering of liberal bloggers, all of whom can usually be counted upon to join in any attack on Sarah Palin, refuse to be convinced by the Levi line of BS offered up by Vanity Fair.
SERIOUS FAIL
And if all of that wasn't enough bad news for Vanity Fair, its parent, the Conde Nast publishing empire, is drowning in a sea of red:
"Conde Nast is reeling from what is expected to be a loss of 5,000 ad pages this year, translating into a revenue shortfall of between $275 million and $350 million -- and very likely pushing the publishing giant into the red."EPIC FAIL
"After Condé Nast's ad-page tally last year fell 10.5 percent to 34,966 from the previous year, according to Media Industry Newsletter, the company behind mags like Vogue and Vanity Fair is expected to see the ad-page count fall more than 20 percent this year."
Update: Yet another columnist who is a longtime Palin critic weighs in against VF and lyin' Levi. Ana Veciana-Suarez of the Miami Herald:
"Johnston is not the sort of person someone in my business would call a credible source. This is his shot at the limelight, and he cares little about its consequences."EPIC FAIL OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS
- JP
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