Former Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Current Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is lashing out at the media and the online community for painting a misleading picture of her. Governor Palin, who was the center of attention for many political scandals while on the Presidential campaign alongside her running mate John McCain, is refusing to follow her former running mate's decision to accept defeat and slowly fade into the background. Instead, Sarah Palin has appeared on a variety of talkshows and given out a large amount of interviews discussing her personal grievances, and therefore continues to be the topic of discussion for many media personalities.
Governor Palin was responsible for many scandals while on the campaign trail, from the pregnancy of her underage and unwed daughter, to her dismal experience on Foreign Policy (once boldly announcing that she can "see Russia from her House") and many other embarrassing situations that seemed to hurt McCain in the polls severely.
Recently she has been in the news for her harsh criticism of the McCain aides, and has come out swinging at them claiming that they tried to dictate her, and did not let her present herself as she wanted to while she was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Even though the McCain cabinet denies these allegations, I for one would not be surprised if McCain and his aides worked tirelessly to revamp her image because even from the beginning she was a completely unsatisfactory choice for the second highest office in the country, especially from the GOP party which is infamous for its conservative ways.
And now, her new target for criticism are political bloggers (such as I) who continue to criticize her. She recently was interviewed by Esquire magazine, and in this interview stated her dislike for "Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie [and] annoy me" and continued to defend her "I can see Russia from Alaska" statement.
Overall, I found this interview to be more humorous as opposed to a serious article because Governor Palin remains adamant to admitting that she has made mistakes, (in the same manner that other people have made mistakes while on a campaign trail), and I believe her constant refusal to admit to her mistakes is going to be the reason she is going to continue to be heavily criticized by media personalities and bloggers alike.
The Esquire Interview;
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/sarah-palin-quotes-011309?src=digg
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