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    Sarah Palin Meets NationalEnquirer

    By encinoman

    Extending their celebrity franchise into politics, the National Enquirer is apparently launching a bipartisan campaign to investigate America&;s best-looking national politicians.   For months a lonely beacon of truth about John Edwards, the Enquirer is now looking into Sarah Palin.  Not surprisingly, they find a mother-daughter catfight in this &;Jamie Lynn Spears&; family.  Says the Enquirer:

    &;Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.&;   

    Interestingly, the Enquirer claims that it was their reporting (again) that reluctantly pulled the truth out of Palin, not her truth-telling nature.

    &;The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news. In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.&;

      How do they do it?  This CBS story shows a bit&;although in a blunder now sadly typical of the mainstream media, they get the name of the Enquirer&;s founder wrong&;it was Generoso Pope, not David Pope.

    With Palin, once again the mainstream media (and apparently the McCain campaign) is being scooped by the National Enquirer.  So far the Enquirer&;s circulation hasn&;t responded to its newfound public-spiritedness, but if the national media wasn&;t so stubborn in its death spiral, it too could learn from the plucky tabloid. They have the story the public wants to read &;even before the investigative reporters have settled into Anchorage.&;    

    Tags: Bristol-Palin, John-Edwards-lovechild, National-Enquirer, Sarah-Palin

    This entry was posted on September 2, 2008 at 4:33 pm and is filed under Journalism, National-Enquirer, newspapers, Politics, public-relations-disaster.

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