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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Mean girl

Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
By David Talbot

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  • Monday, September 22, 2008 08:16 PM

    It''s The Picture, Stupid!

    While I agree with a lot of the other posters here that the article is more or less just ruminating over the horror we all recognize (and so kind of a waste of bandwidth), the picture, which I honestly rarely notice (at least until other readers start shrieking about how inappropriate some photo or juxtaposition is), really is interesting and horrible this time, and I honest to god (I guess I just lost half my readers by saying that), feel it is telling (and now I'm about to lose the rest of them); it is not an unflattering picture, not one of those tabloid hatchet jobs, and yet...it shows up a profile that's truly ghastly, that looks predatory and, well, mean, that resembles, seriously now, the alien in "Alien." Like that second mouth is about to come shooting out to bite somebody in the head.

    Prove to me she's really from this planet. Prove it. Go on, I'm waiting...

    —AJCalhoun Read AJCalhoun's other letters

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