Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair -- "she lies about everything"
Sarah Palin can lie about everything. That's the word from the author of the scathing profile piece on Sarah Palin, according to the Huffington Post.
On the MSNBC show "Morning Joe" Thursday, Michael Joseph Gross admitted he wanted to wanting to write a positive piece on the former Alaskan governor and vice-presidential candidate but instead, his research led him in the other direction.
"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Gross told 'Morning Joe. 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."
And it's that same story that once you pick up this issue of Vanity Fair at say, Harvard Square, or if it's already been delivered by the postman and you haven't read it yet, you may just be in for a very big surprise.
The piece paints a picture of Sarah Palin as an abusive, retaliatory woman who knows one thing all too well, Gross says. And that is how to lie.
"This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about," he said. "She lies about everything."
When asked what he thought Palin's political future might entail especially with word spreading around Washington that Palin could, in fact, make a presidential run in 2012, Gross said it all boils down to how the media portrays her.
"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."
Critics argue Gross has a grudge against Palin. He said that's simply not true.
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