The "sad and moldering strangeness" that is Vanity Fair

"Palin, meanwhile, has stated that she finds Bachmann to be a 'fireball' with a 'stiff spine," Vanity Fair captioned this image of Congresswoman (MN-6) Michele Bachmann in its predictably snarky mid-July article "Grizzly Women." Chip Somodevilla/Getty Image photo.

"Vanity Fair has released not one, but two damning articles investigating the woman and the brand that is Sarah Palin," snivels Newsweek, stomping its infantile editorial foot in frustration at the legacy media's intractable inability to break the bitter-clinger code:

But even the magazine admits that the reporting will not damage a woman whose credibility seems "incidental," it says, to fact.

We guess it depends upon what your definition of "reporting" is, not to mention "fact." As we blogged the other day in "I have a dream … and a nightmare":

In the wake of two years — and counting! — of unrelenting persecution by that same commentariat, Mama Grizzly Sarah "Don't retreat, instead RELOAD!" Palin has emerged stronger than ever, the President's most persistent and effectual gadfly, first among equals of our Tea Party rabble in arms disintermediating the powers that be and their allies in the legacy media via the internet, Fox News and on-the-ground appearances. Everything she says or does goes viral online and in the gateway media, who can't resist documenting her every move, if only to snark.

We'll "fisk" one sentence from Vanity Fair's "Sound and the Fury" article and then rest our case:

She’s glad to be here with the people of Independence, Missouri, “where so many of you proudly cling to your guns and your religion” — the first laughline in a 40-minute stump speech that alludes to many of the perceived insults she and her audience have suffered together, and that transforms their resentments into badges of honor … anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.

Got that? Gleefully un-fact-checked 24/7 media smears are "perceived insults." Alleged "resentments"? Try this from the Leader of the Free World:

"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," Obama said.

Whose life reveals a "sad and moldering strangeness" again?

Update: Michelle Malkin "Buzzworthy" link!

Update II: Trending on Memeorandum.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[KingShamus]

I love the MFM (tip o' da hat to Ace).

They hate everybody west of Manhattan and east of Anaheim. They make no effort to hide it. When they're not smugly patronizing, they're angrily insulting.

Then they get defensive when somebody notices it.

These progressives are truly an amazing lot.

[Gayle Miller]

They are pretty dismissive of people south of Los Angeles and between L.A. and San Francisco as well. When I lived (if you can call it that) in California during the 70s, 80s and early 90s, it felt like we lived in two separate states, that's how sharply divided the two portions of the state could be and frequently were.

Sarah Palin is AUTHENTIC, ergo their inability to diminish her appeal in any way! Let them try - each attempt only makes her stronger.

[chickelit]

I blame Graydon Carter. I've been sneaking peeks at that magazine for years now (my wife is a subscriber). She claims she never "reads" VF and only looks at the pictures. I'm this close to shaming her into cancelling *holds up thumb and forefinger* but she claims she can't do without the glossy fashion pr0n and that they keep giving her breaks on renewal prices.

I did finally convince her to cancel The Atlantic.

[1389]

I stopped reading The Atlantic a very long time ago. I used to read it in the distant past, just to see what my political enemies are up to. There are better ways to keep up on them now.

I'm amazed that anybody still reads VF.

[jameshigham]

Good to catch up on the news over there. What happened with that Faust at Harvard? Is she still there?