Posted by
Locutisprime on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:02:27 PM
Todd Purdom
Palin Vanity Fair Article Reignites Feud Among Former Campaign Aides
It Came from Wasilla
Over the past seven or eight months, I have read plenty of copy on
Governor Sarah Palin and the concerted effort by mass media to blunt,
dull and diminish her and her family for the benefit of political
scalping and to kill any possibility of her candidacy for a 2012 run
for the presidency. But little compares to the latest offering of one
Todd Purdom in his Vanity Fair piece for August 2009's edition.
Here is a man that represents himself as a journalist, but whose resume
quickly reveals that his origins in the sport reside mainly in his
having been hand raised and weaned in the New York Times environment
and organization. Not exactly the bell weather standard of journalistic
integrity, even for those who cling to the old gray lady as if she were
still the pristine virgin at the dance.
None the less, Purdom's hit piece on Sarah Palin in next month's
edition of Vanity Fair, is one of the most banal and concentrically
sanguine pieces of journalistic tripe masquerading as educated opinion
that I have ever had the displeasure of wading through.
Purdom once again demonstrates the rip it and read it formula of the
anguished leftist, by dutifully hitting all the known talking points of
the targeted subject, then twisting and braiding in his own less than
amusing threads and observations and snide character attacks as if they
lend pristine analysis to an otherwise less than lack luster review of
previous scalpings.
From reading through this critique of Sarah Palin by Purdom? One might
seriously wonder as to if the entire republican party had been secretly
infiltrated by idiocy for ever having even allowed the woman to become
half of the McCain Palin 2008 presidential ticket. From the sounds of
it, she should remain in the back woods of Alaska punching out babies
and cleaning and gutting moose for dinner.
On the contrary? Purdom portrays John McCain as if he is some masterful
incarnation of a political savvy Yoda and master of the universe, only
to have been thwarted by some back woods babe from Wasilla.
Reminiscence of "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" is what came to my mind,
while musing the images that must have been playing in Purdom's head
while he was authoring this journalistic fairy tale about Sarah Palin.
I would recommend that anyone interested, please do indulge your
curiosity and wade into this piece of tripe as if you were strolling
into a swamp. Make sure and strap on your hip waders though and be wary
of slimy squishy things slithering about in Mr. Purdom's wild eyed
visions of his own grandeur and his professed and paid ability to
assess and comment on current events.