SALON.COM BREAKS DOWN THE PALIN SPEECH

AN EXCERPT OF A PIT BULL IN LIPSTICK? BY JOAN WALSH:

Perhaps predictably, she didn't take on any of the negative stories about her, ignoring not just her daughter's pregnancy but her own Troopergate, as well as the smaller revelations unrolling in the last few days: that she fired the police chief of Wasilla, and allegedly tried to ax the town librarian for not helping her ban books she found offensive. She didn't try to explain the many contradictions in her limited public record: She was for the infamous Alaska "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it. She was a supporter of disgraced Sen. Ted Stevens before she was an opponent. She has railed against pork but brought home the bacon for Wasilla and the state of Alaska.

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