Palin vs. Palin
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The week in Palin from two sides: Michelle Goldberg argues she may suffer from narcissistic personality disorder while Lee Siegel says it's a liberal pile-on and she embodies our democracy.
Palin's Ego Trip
Michelle Goldberg is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World and Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many other publications.
Does Sarah Palin suffer from narcissistic personality disorder? Michelle Goldberg puts America's hottest author on the couch.
Sarah Palin's Media Mafia
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
How could Palin blame the press for her demise when she owes her meteoric rise to Rush, Bill, and others in the conservative media elite?
American History's Biggest Quitters
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Has anyone left the political stage as abruptly-without apparent scandal or ambition for higher office-as Sarah Palin? The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin talked to historians about some famous political dropouts.
Friday morning on Today, the governor kept up her attacks on David Letterman, who's just the latest victim of her relentless assaults on her critics. Watch some of her biggest blowouts.
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Monica Crowley is a radio and television political commentator based in New York. Since 2002, she's had her own nationally syndicated radio show, The Monica Crowley Show and is a regular commentator on The John Batchelor Show. She is a panelist for The McLaughlin Group, and she blogs at MonicaMemo.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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