Vanity Fair Still Exists?

Ok, so two things happened yesterday that shocked me. 1) Vanity Fair is still around, and 2) An inside the beltway Republican actually showed some balls for once.

As for #1 Jim Geraghty at the National Review has already taken apart the article, although there is one issue left that needs to be talked about.

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.

Call me when Palin has a brother banned from a country for sexual assault on a 13 yr old girl or an aunt living here illegally on the taxpayers dime, or another brother who lives in a dirt hut while she is urging others to be their brothers keeper. Oddly enough it was the Italian issue of Vanity Fair that uncovered his brother living in a hut on $1 a day. That issue must not translate. You don't hear all that much about Obamas family in the news, and you certainly don't hear it being called a circus. But the fact of the matter is, Ringling Bros. would think Obamas family is a mess.

Second, and much more importantly, Bill Kristol stepped up and outed Steve Schmidt as the source of some of these leaks. Now just in case anybody wanted to hire the man that ran one of the worst campaigns ever, I think this should put an end to it. Isaiah Thomas did a better job running the Knicks than Schmidt did running a campaign. Steve, do everybody a favor and suspend your career. Oh, and take Nicole Wallace with you. That is all.