http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/6852/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/dowd-passes-along-dubious-psych-diagnosis-sarah-palins-pervasive-pattern-grandiosity <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Maureen Dowd passed along an extremely dubious psychological anecdote about Sarah Palin from her former colleague, journalist Todd Purdum, who penned a hit piece on the Alaska governor for Vanity Fair magazine. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>In Maureen Dowd's column Sunday on the shock resignation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ("<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=2&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=maureen%20dowd&amp;st=cse" target="_self">Now, Sarah's Folly</a>"), the proudly shallow columnist piled on with her usual self-satisfied (and pseudo-sophisticated) mockery. More seriously, she regurgitated an extremelydubious anecdote from the recent Vanity Fair hit piece on Sarah Palin by former Times journalist <a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/1021.asp" target="_self">Todd Purdum</a>.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/dowd-passes-along-dubious-psych-diagnosis-sarah-palins-pervasive-pattern-grandiosity" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Gaffe MaureedDowd NewYorkTimes NYTimes Resignation SarahPalin TimesWatch TimesWatch.org ToddPurdum Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:26:00 +0000 admin 6936 at http://archive2.mrc.org