Another Week, Another Hit Piece

A man named Gross has lived up to his name publishing the ultimate of hit pieces in Vanity Fair.  The "information" contained in the article was not the story this time.  The story was the reaction to it.  Gross depicted Palin as the Wicked Witch of the West, demeaning her husband, tossing around the "f" bomb, and throwing cans of food.  He criticized every aspect of her life , her politics, her religion, her family life, as being fraudulent.  To bolster his case, he named only one second-hand source with all the juicy bits being provided by that always reliable "anonymous". 

This time, even some liberals had had enough.  Some liberal feminists thought the author was criticizing Palin for qualities that a male politician might be admired for.  They missed the point.  It was all lies.  Many on all ends of the spectrum knew that it was lies and wondered aloud what journalism was coming to when a major publication would print such a story without documentation.

Get ready, another will be coming along soon.  Author, Joe McGinniss, has completed his "vacation" living next door to Sarah and Todd.  He will soon produce a book based on many of the same sources as this article, although possibly better written.  The question is - Have people had enough of this?  Is the opinion of a dozen or so  unnamed Alaska critics and bloggers sufficient to counter-balance more than 2 million Sarah Palin Facebook friends?

What the seemingly endless and baseless critiques of Sarah Palin tell us is that there is a necessity to make her out to be a fraud.  The left can not accept the fact that a woman can achieve success in her personal and public life, being guided by her religion and while holding conservative values.  The life of Sarah Palin is a poke in the eye to their value system.  The idea that a woman would knowingly give birth to a Down Syndrome baby challenges their view that abortion is a sacrament and that the disabled have little value to society.  That a woman can achieve success at the highest levels of government without sleeping her way to the top is just not possible.  If Sarah Palin is not exposed as a fraud she might peel away enough women voters from believing the liberal victimization agenda that the Democrat Party would lose the largest component of its coalition.  Liberals will stop at nothing to expose this fraud.  Every sentence she speaks will be parsed, every eye movement played back in slow motion and, if they could, they would crawl under the covers with Todd and Sarah to report back on their sex life. 

Since this latest attack fell flat and forced an admission that one of the assertions that the author was supposed to have seen himself was untrue, the public may have gotten the measure of these Palin-haters and their small number of Alaska confederates.  The appetite for more sleaze may be diminishing.