One of the benefits of being a hag mother, a woman who had her daughter at forty, is that while my daughter is away at college, I still get her Rolling Stone subscription weekly.
Matt Taibbi has a barkingly cyncial and very funny piece in the October 2, 2008 issue of Rolling Stone called "Mad Dog Palin." That article you will have to read in the actual magazine; it isn't on line yet.
However, Spins, Lies & Facts: The Truth About Palin, by Tim Dickinson is available on-line: click here to access it.
Let's look at a few myths and lies:
The Myth: "She's from a small town with small-town values."
The Truth: Wasilla and the surrounding valley recently named the meth capital of Alaska, with 42 meth labs busted in a single year.
The Myth: "She's been to Kuwait. She's been over there. She has been with her troops."
The Truth: Never had a passport before 2007, when she made a brief photo-op trip to visit troops in Germany and Kuwait. Has never been to Iraq, and has not met a single foreign head of state. Well at least until today, when she met with Henry Kissinger (thankfully no longer in power), President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on her whirlwind tour of the United Nations, where she tried to look presidential.
My favorite quote from Matt Taibbi : Palin's symphony of sneering remarks at the convention was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
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