Palin hit piece an example of shoddy journalism

Though unable to actually locate someone close to Palin to provide actual quotes, Gross has done some extensive research when it comes to Palin.  Or rather, he has used the extensive research of others.  One blog in particular is praised because “without these blogs, the world would have much less information about Palin’s life right now.”

Immoral Minority, the blog he is specifically referring to when he says ‘these blogs,’ is cited shortly prior to that statement as having created fictional screen grabs quoting Palin.

In those screen grabs, from an interview with Sean Hannity, Palin says, “Yeah I told Levi to place his nasty sperm filled nuggets right here before he started his apology to my family. And every time he did not look sorry enough to me, I just gave them a little squeeze.”

Without journalistic integrity like that, we simply wouldn’t know the real Sarah Barracuda?

From there, Gross moves on to share creepy tales of a shared dinner with fellow Palin stalker Joe McGinniss.  During the dinner Gross realizes that the fence that Todd Palin had built to provide some level of privacy from McGinniss was quite inadequate.

He states that, “… even with the 14-foot-high fence the Palins put up the week McGinniss moved in, it was possible to see several of the Palins’ windows, a fair bit of the yard, and much of the lakefront edge of their property.”

A comforting thought for the Palin family, I’m sure.

Toward the end of the column, Gross lets everyone know that he is still in the business of staring at the Palin house from across the street.

“The freshly paved driveway is blocked by a new, spiked gate, which, though forbidding, is ornamental and freestanding, and not connected to a fence,” he says.  “From a thin piece of wire looped over one of the gate’s central spikes hangs a large metal decoration. It is five-pointed and two feet high and wide.”

Todd may want to wrap that sucker all the way around the yard.

Through it all, Gross surmises that everyone in Palin’s wake is experiencing the same emotion – sadness.

Not nearly as sad as the state of journalism after this column though . . .

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