Sarah Palin Vanity Fair interviewer: 'The worst stuff isn't even in there'

The author of a 'blistering' Vanity Fair profile of former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has told the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe that the 'worst stuff isn't even in' the profile.

"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Michael Joseph Gross said 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."

He later told the hosts that her political career primarily hinges on her ability to keep on lying and get away with it. "If we decide to let her keep lying and getting away with it, she's gonna still be around," he said. "But if we start returning to the standard that a politician has to talk with people, and a politician has to tell the truth, then she's outta here, because she can't stand up to that." [Via HuffPo]

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Americans agree: 59% say Palin couldn't be president

Any 2012 presidential bid is looking that little bit less viable today for Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and high-profile vice-presidential candidate for the 2008 election. A new poll, released today, reveals that 59% of people who responded believe that she lacks the skills necessary for the job.

In the survey, conducted as a joint venture by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair, conducted Aug. 3-5 by CBS News among 847 adult respondents, 59% told pollsters that they thought Palin could not be an effective president compared to only 26% who said that she could be.

Eighty percent of liberals reportedly said that Palin couldn't be an effective president, while still under half - 47% - of Republicans believed that she could be.

The latest pollster.com ratings put her in a position where she is '52.7% unfavorable'.

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Glenn Beck: I won't be running with Palin in 2012

The star of the big conservative rally of the week stopped by the press to deny any notion that he might be running for President with Alaskan glam-girl Sarah Palin in 2012.

"Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah's doing; I hope to be on vacation. I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable, and there are far too many people who are far smarter than me to be president."

Beck caused controversy (he is a conservative commenter for Fox News) when he decided to hold the rally on the same day and in the same location as the one Martin Luther King held several decades ago - where he gave his stirring 'I Have a Dream' speech.

He is no stranger to such controversy, though. He once called Obama a racist, among other things.

"I don't want to retract—I want to amend. I think it's much more of a theological question. I didn't understand really his theological viewpoints come from Liberation Theology; that's what I think at the gut level I was sensing, and I miscast it as racism."

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Levi Johnston regrets apologizing to Sarah Palin: "I've never lied about anything"

The father of Sarah Palin's grandson and former Playgirl model Levi Johnston has said that he regrets apologizing to his mother-in-law, the former Vice Presidential nominee for the 2008 Republican bid for the White House, because he sounded 'like a liar'.

According to CBS News, Johnston says that he regrets having apologized about lying because he's 'never lied about anything'.

"I don't really regret anything," Johnston said, who has appeared nude on the cover of a female-targeted pornographic magazine. "But the only thing I wish I wouldn't have done is put out that apology 'cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I've never lied about anything. So that's probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with."


Johnston has expressed some interest in politics since becoming part of the Palin's extended family, reports CBS, "While he has not officially declared which political office he aspires to, his manager, Tank Jones, has said Johnston is interested in a run for mayor or city council. Earlier this month, Jones confirmed the 20-year-old Johnston planned to run for office as part of a reality TV show." The network reported. 


"I can't guarantee or promise you anything but I'm gonna try... That's the goal," he said. [CBS News]

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Sarah Palin isn't so happy about the Dr Laura resignation

Although a number of people were happy to hear that a fast-talking radio pundit known as Dr Laura Schlessinger will resign from her long-running syndicated talk show, one woman wasn't quite so pleased. Former vice presidential candidate and Alaskan glam-girl Sarah Palin, for one.

Using the social networking site Twitter, she shot back at any notion that the conservative favorite would step back out of the limelight. She tweeted:

 The controversy surrounding Laura came after she verbally exploded in an on-air rant in which she used the 'n-word' eleven times. "b thankful 4 her voice, America!" Sarah Palin continued in internet shorthand. 


Dr. Laura is said to be one of the most listened to radio hosts in the country.

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Sarah Palin attacks Obama's defense of NY mosque

Sarah Palin took to the internet to publicly bash comments made by President Obama which defended the religious freedom of muslims living in the United States. Using social networks like Twitter and Facebook, the former Vice Presidential hopeful criticized Obama's lack of verbal continuity.

Reports were released today which suggest Obama has changed his view on the matter. See Palin's tweets below:

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Sarah Palin's new reality TV show premieres in November

She's everybody's favorite former-vice presidential candidate, and now she's becoming what every other woman with no talent or intellect aspires to be - a reality television star.

Clearly over her small stint as an inventor of new words, the Alaskan governor is looking to cement her place in American pop-culture with a new reality TV show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, to premier November 14.

The Palins recently spent camping time with another reality television family, the Gosselins. The camping experience will be the subject of one of the show's upcoming episodes.

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Sarah Palin uses hand notes to defend Bush tax cuts (video)

It would appear that Sarah Palin hasn't learned anything from her last experience of using inner-hand notes. For most of us it was school, but for Sarah Palin it was just a couple of days ago when she appeared on Fox News Sunday.

"[Obama's] commitment to let previous tax cuts expire are going to lead to even fewer job opportunities for Americans," Palin said. "It's idiotic to think about increasing taxes at a time like this."

"My palm isn't large enough to have written all my notes down on what this tax increase, what it will result in," Palin continued.

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Anti-Republicanism comes alive in all new Apple ad parody

There are so many Apple ad parodies out there, but this one takes a slightly different angle. Not taking the path of satirizing Apple products, but more the Grand Old Party, is what makes this particular video stand out. Want a president who still thinks America's energy issues can be solved by drilling more wells like the one in the Gulf? There's a Republican for that.

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Palin is running for president - signs show

According to the watchers of the United States political world, it is clear that Sarah Palin is heading toward a 2012 bid for the presidency, after failing for the deputy job in 2008 - although the video of her announcement may just be the scariest movie I've ever seen.

In a realisation of our worst nightmare, it has been speculated that the 2008 vice-presidential hopeful and governor of Alaska will attempt to pry the country's highest office from Barack Obama - who her party (including John McCain) lost to in the last election.

All the signs - including fundraising - point to a 2012 presidential bid, argues one article which appeared on the reporting site, The Daily Beast.

"If Palin runs", reads the blockquote, "wins the nomination and then loses the general election, she could leave the Republican brand in pieces".

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Sarah Palin thinks that Obama doesn't want to stop the leak, but instead wants to make as much money as he can

Following the address made by Barack Obama on the oil spill crisis from the White House, Fox News's outlandish and politically flamboyant television personality, Bill O'Reilly took the time to sit down in civilized discussion with perhaps the least politically biased lady (well, sort of) in the country.

Who else, but Sarah Palin. Among her more level-headed and balanced comments was that the President is in no rush to stop the leak, but instead just wants to get as much money out of it as he can by increasing the cost of energy.

Exactly what evidence there was of such thoughts was non-existant, and any possible motive unclear.

Anyway, I thought that trying to pay off your donors was your thing, Sarah.

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Sarah Palin wants to meet Margaret Thatcher

The Alaskan Governor and 2008's Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, says that she wants to meet the former prime minister of Britain Margaret Thatcher. Isn't that friendly of the Baroness?

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Sarah Palin denies that she has had implants, has a go at Newsweek magazine

Sarah Palin, everybody's favorite former Republican vice-presidential candidate, appeared on Fox News both to take a stab at Newsweek magazine over a cover depicting her with a halo around her head with the headline "Saint Sarah".

In addition to this, the Alaskan governor denied rumors (dubbed 'Boobgate') that she had undergone breast enhancements - after Fox News' Greta Van Susteren popped the question to her.

Looking to set the records straight, Palin remarked that she had never had implants, adding "I can't believe, yes[sic], that we're even talking about this" 


Palin didn't stop at the rumors about her breasts, however, also having a go at Newsweek, saying that it is because of covers like the one depicting her as a saint (clearly she didn't realise it was sarcasm) that the magazine is doing badly right now and nobody wants to read it. Newsweek, for the record, has a circulation of almost 2 million - even more than Vanity Fair or the New Yorker.

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Sarah Palin's Real America

On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, there was an audio clip of Sarah Palin talking about the 'Real America' - which she claims is in small towns and cities. Watch Jon's reaction below.

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