Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sissy Willis: The 'sad and moldering strangeness' that is Vanity Fair

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Sissy Willis at Liberty Pundits does more debunking work on Vanity Fair's latest pack of lies:

We'll "fisk" one sentence from Vanity Fair's "Sound and the Fury" article and then rest our case:

She’s glad to be here with the people of Independence, Missouri, “where so many of you proudly cling to your guns and your religion” — the first laughline in a 40-minute stump speech that alludes to many of the perceived insults she and her audience have suffered together, and that transforms their resentments into badges of honor … anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.

Got that? Gleefully un-fact-checked 24/7 media smears are "perceived insults." Alleged "resentments"? Try this from the Leader of the Free World:

"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," Obama said.

Whose life reveals a "sad and moldering strangeness" again?

Read Sissy's full post here.

Related: Jim Putnam has a good backgrounder on VF at The Coltons Point Times. And at The Cypress Times, Stacy Drake contrasts media treatment of Sarah Palin before she became the first woman to be the Republican party's vice presidential candidate (Vogue Magazine, February, 2008), and today in Vanity Fair's hatchet job.

- JP

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