# Sarah Palin vs. Vanity Fair editors (funny) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 21, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782 "2009-07-21T21:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/81 "2009-07-23T04:06:12Z")
Missed the edit but FTR my post above (#79) was written before I saw all the other posts preceding it so was not trying to re-ask questions already covered. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/82 "2009-07-23T04:10:39Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Well I pretty much agree with Whack-a-Mole’s answer except the part where he thinks that salaried lawyers being tied up in Sarah Palin hatefests in the courts do not cost the state money. Either way it ties up state resources and makes it impossible to do business, which was the entire point, the hatefest led to punitive filings against Sarah Palin for running for VP. You’ve said that the dislike for her is because we disagree with her politically, that the hatred has brought about the ethics complaints, and that those have hindered her efforts to the point that she has to step down. But the man who will replace her is also a Republican. Won’t he pursue the same policies, leading to the same hatred, etc.? So how does her resignation change anything? She said she doesn’t want to serve out her term as a lame duck, but she passes the job on to someone who hasn’t even been elected to it once. How does that serve the needs of the people of Alaska? Those are the sorts of things I had in mind when I said the speech was lacking in substance. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/83 "2009-07-23T04:17:55Z")
Aside from the stuff Whack-a-Mole posted, there a [new ethics probe](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106867377&sc=fb&cc=fp) under way. Note the first sentence: > [@](#): > > **An independent investigator** has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week. Bolding mine. I’m sure that independent investigator is just full of Palin hate, though. He even sympathized with her need for money to defend against ethics charges, but stood behind his finding that she took improper gifts of money for her legal defense. In any case, Palin has engendered a great deal of dislike in her home state. As W-a-M noted, much of it is from within her own party. It’s hard to imagine that she’s the innocent victim and everyone is just a big, mean jerk picking on poor old Sarah. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/84 "2009-07-23T07:29:45Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > In other words, it’s a typical political speech, and certainly no more shallow and vacuous than any speech Obama has given. Well considering the highly readable, erudite, clear and well structured books that Obama written I don’t think you really want to go down the road of comparing his writing abilities to those of Ms Sarah Vacuous Doesn’t Have A Clue Palin. And that’s not to mention that Obama is an acutal, ya know, Univeristy Professor. Meaning he had to “impart knowledge” to students. > [@](#): > > In As president of The Harvard Law Review, Mr. Obama had impressed Mr. McConnell with editing suggestions on an article; on little more than that, the law school gave him a fellowship, which amounted to an office and a computer, which he used to write his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” Do you really really want to go down the road of comparing Obama’s speechwriting skills to Palin’s? Isn’t that just a teeny bit like comparing a Ferrari F40 to a Fiat Bambina? (and these comments are made quite independently of politcal philosophies of the relevant parties) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/85 "2009-07-23T23:33:06Z")
I yearn for the day when Sarah Palin becomes irrelevant. And the sooner we convince people that she’s incompetent, corrupt, and otherwise a really bad idea, the sooner that day will come. In the meanwhile, though, she still has a real chance of being the Republican candidate for President in 2012 or 2016, and I can’t figure how the Presidential candidate of a major party can be considered irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/86 "2009-07-24T19:37:13Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > In other words, it’s a typical political speech, and certainly no more shallow and vacuous than any speech Obama has given. Haha, seriously? I mean… okay, I know in your tribal partisan brain, you have to think “at no point can I concede that anyone on my side shows weakness or inadequacy, nor anyone on the opposition side shows anything positive” - but can you actually pass this thought through your brain and not have alarms go off? You may not like Obama. You may disagree with everything he says. But you are so ridiculously partisan that you can’t admit that he gives speeches that are more meaningful than the scatterbrained and meaningless speech she gave? A speech so rambling and bizarre that no one can even figure out what the narrative was? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782/87 "2009-07-24T22:26:29Z")
My favorite part: > [@Sarah Palin](#): > > If I have learned one thing: life is about choices! Except when it comes to abortion. Or who a person wants to marry. Or smoking marijuana. Or using stem cells to research possible cures for horrible diseases . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-vanity-fair-editors-funny/503782.md?page=4)