Another lefty for rape
The Washington Times has an article by Amanda Carpenter about a hit piece on Sarah Palin written by Todd Purdum for Vanity Fair. Purdum’s piece is mostly a bunch of allegations supposedly anonymous McCain staffers, or Purdum could have just made them up for all we know. The Times piece has a bunch of campaign aides who say the Vanity Fair piece is garbage. Curiously, Jason Recher, one of Palin’s closer advisors, says that Purdum did not bother to talk to him. No matter. The attacks on Palin pretty much tell us that the left is afraid of her. Purdum’s attack is worth noting only for the kind of sleaze it peddles. Three illustrations. The first is idiotic hyperbole.
The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the rogues’ gallery of political relatives. By comparison, Billy Carter, Donald Nixon, and Roger Clinton seem like avatars of circumspection.
You remember Roger Clinton’s circumspection, which included cocaine dealing and drunk driving. Billy Carter’s circumspection included pissing in public at official events, and of course the whole business of being an unregistered lobbyist for the Libyans. A very circumspect bunch, that.
The second is shock, pure shock.
The second thing McCain could have discovered about Palin is that no political principle or personal relationship is more sacred than her own ambition.
Purdum is shocked, shocked to discover an politician who is ambitious.
The third moves beyond slime.
Recently, Palin did star in a week-long seriocomic feud with David Letterman over some of his borderline jokes. . . . But the biggest headlines the trip [to New York in Juner 2009] produced were those about Palin’s feud with David Letterman, who joked that Palin had gone to Bloomingdale’s to update her “slutty flight-attendant look” and made a tasteless sexual jibe about one of the Palin daughters. Letterman eventually apologized, though Palin fanned the flames in ways that were not necessarily to her advantage.
Letterman made a joke about raping a 14 year old girl. This is what Purdum calls “a tasteless sexual jibe”, and curiously Purdum does not repeat what Letterman said. Good to know that Purdum thinks that rape is “tasteless”. If you have an underage daughter, do not let Todd Purdum near her.