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Don't Pity This Woman

Palin deserves our scorn, and that's it

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 30, 2008 1:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – The media seems to be lining up to feel sorry for poor Sarah Palin, forced to endure these deer-in-headlights interviews. “I guess I’m one cold dame,” Rebecca Traister writes in Salon, because “when you stage a train wreck of this magnitude…... Read full story »

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