Vanity Fair's Michael Joseph Gross wrote an 18-page article that portrays former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in an unflattering light. Gross claims Palin is consumed by celebrity and is a two-faced liar.
"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Gross said about his article on "Morning Joe" Thursday. "I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman. I'm a small-town person, I'm a Christian, I think that a lot of her criticisms of the media actually have something to them. And I think she got a bum ride, but everybody close to her tells the same story."
Gross's profile includes interviews with former Palin associates, many who were ready to talk and share their stories and criticisms of the former Vice Presidential candidate.
Among other stories, Gross reports in his article, which can be viewed in full here, that Palin has a raging temper and gets into major arguments with her husband, Todd.
"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."
Gross also writes that Palin is a horrible tipper:
"Of the many famous people who have stayed at the Hyatt in Wichita (Cher, Reba McEntire, Neil Young), Sarah Palin ranks as the all-time worst tipper: $5 for seven bags. But the bellhops had it good in Kansas, compared with the bellman at another midwestern hotel who waited up until past midnight for Palin and her entourage to check in--and then got no tip at all for 10 bags. He was stiffed again at checkout time. The same went for the maids who cleaned Palin's rooms in both places--no tip whatsoever."
An acquaintance told Gross that the media fabricated the notion of Palin as a tough Alaska hunting woman:
"This whole hunter thing, for Sarah? That is the biggest fallacy," says one longtime friend of the family. "That woman has never hunted. The picture of her with the caribou she says she shot? She got out of the R.V. to pose for a picture. She never helps with the fishing either. It's all a joke." The friend goes on to recall that when Greta Van Susteren came to the house to interview Palin "[Sarah] cooked moose chili and whatnot. Todd was calling everyone he knew the day before--'Do you got any moose?' Desperate."
The popular article is already being scrutinized and several media outlets are calling it "questionable" and claim the story has several holes in it.
Vanity Fair's October edition with the article, "Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury," hits newstands in Little Rock, Tuesday, September 7th.
Comments
He, Michael Joseph Gross, herd it from a friend of a friend of a neighbor of Sarah Palin that......... Come on!!!!!!!! What are we in the fifth grade. I read all the papers and thay all say the samething, " Sarah Palin is as dummm as a box of rock's" Well if you guy's are still trying to knock her out, almost 2yrs after the election's, maybe she, Sarah Palin, is worth another look. =)
The audience for the soap opera that is $arah Paylin just keeps getting bigger. From a nobody heckler with a "Worst Governor Ever" sign to the dozens of national publications that have dared to print something critical, Sarah just can't leave it alone. She obviously relishes confrontation, and for those of us tuning in to the soap opera, we obviously love to watch. I'm just dying to see the Facebook post this VF article elicits!
It will all come out about her. Give it time and goodbye Palin. It doesn't take a brain to see what type
of person she is. The Smart people have already woke up to her a long time ago.
As soon as she opened her mouth you could tell she was not fit to be anything. Who voted
her for Govenor of Alaska all I can say is WOW unbelievable and look she quit her post.
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