In the latest Vanity Fair for eighteen pages the curtains are opened on the life of Sarah Palin and what's behind the curtain doesn't look very nice. In fact is that the lady looks a little crazy.

Ms Palin is shown as a person who is abusive to her family and staff, resorts to fear and retaliation to control the people around her, and as a habitual liar.

Michael Joseph Gross, who wrote the Vanity Fair Palin story, said on yesterday's MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, of Ms. Palin -- "This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about. She lies about everything." See the video.

Ms Palin's reaction was predictable. Reporters are 'limp" and "impotent" said the lady? Why the sexual references? Who knows?

Politico reports: "Sarah Palin on Thursday ( yesterday) tore into 'impotent, limp and gutless reporters' who quote anonymous sources criticizing her. Though she did not name a story in particular, Palin seemed to be referencing a new Vanity Fair story on her that relies heavily on anonymous stories and contains several unflattering anecdotes about her temper. 'I hear there is some pretty ugly stuff right now,' Palin said of her recent coverage in an interview on Sean Hannity's radio show."

Mr. Gross of Vanity Fair said on Morning Joe, "The worst stuff isn't even in there I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman. I'm a small-town person, I'm a Christian, I think that a lot of her criticisms of the media actually have something to them. And I think she got a bum ride, but everybody close to her tells the same story. I started this with every good intention toward her. I was just shocked and appalled at every step at what I found. And I wrote this story sort of against my will. It wasn't what I wanted to write, it wasn't what I wanted to find. It was what was forced on me by the facts."

Well, any objective person who has been following Ms. Palin in the news -- her reaction to the reporter who rented the house next door to her, the way she relates to the father of her grandchild, the stories of how she tried to get her ex-brother in law fired -- could conclude that indeed, the lady isn't wrapped too tight.

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