I posted about the Vanity Fair piece here Vanity Fair gives Palin the once over. I still haven't read the full essay, but Imus, who doesn't like Palin, did. On the radio Tuesday he said it was a hatchet job. I guess this is further evidence.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's
blog Political Fix reported that Loudon told Gross during the event that the
child in the stroller was her son, Samuel. Loudon explained, "When I grabbed
Samuel and walked past the stage, he said, 'Oh, are you the nanny?' And I said,
'No, I'm not the nanny; I'm the mother.' "
Gina Loudon said, "I told him that. And he
ignored it. It's not even like he didn't fact check — he just ignored
facts."
Why is this important? Because on the very first page of his essay, the author uses an incident with the child to paint a dark picture of Palin as a disinterested mother, with more important things to do – she was about to give a speech.
In the first page of the story, Gross paints a scene of Palin's youngest
daughter, Piper, pushing a stroller holding a baby that Gross writes is Trig,
behind the stage at the event in Independence, Mo.Gross writes: "Backstage in the arena, a little girl in Mary Janes
pushes her brother in a baby carriage, stopping a few yards shy of a heavy,
100-foot-long black curtain. The curtain splits the arena in two, shielding the
children from an audience of 4,000 people clapping their hands in time to 'The
Battle Hymn of the Republic.' The music accompanies a video 'Salute to Military
Heroes' that plays above the stage where, in a few moments, the children's
mother will appear."When the girl, Piper Palin, turns around, she sees her parents
thronged by admirers, and the crowd rolling toward her and the baby, her brother
Trig, born with Down syndrome in 2008. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, bend
down and give a moment to the children; a woman, perhaps a nanny, whisks the boy
away; and Todd hands Sarah her speech and walks her to the stage."
Palin's maternal nature takes a turn for the worse in the article as
Gross talks with many anonymous sources from politicians to long-time Alaskan
acquaintances.
Shameless. Here was Palin's response to the article before the above mistake became public knowledge.Guess she was right!
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