Palin Inc. "Or how a middle aged imbecile from a hick town in Alaska, with passable looks and no conscience, became the most famous political brand name in the world."

This is from New York magazine and it was written by author Gabriel Sherman.

It is kind of late and I don't have time to dissect the whole article.  So I will simply link to it and go to bed.

When I wake up refreshed in the morning I will wade back in and see what juicy nuggets are contained within.

Here is how it begins:

On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold a press conference at her Wasilla, Alaska, home. She wouldn’t disclose the topic. For Palin, the months since Election Day had been a letdown even bigger than the loss to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Being governor was drudgery. “Her life was terrible,” one adviser says. “She was never home, her [Juneau] office was four hours from her house. You gotta drive an hour from Wasilla to Anchorage. And she was going broke.” Her sky-high approval ratings in Alaska—which had topped 80 percent before John McCain picked her—had withered to the low fifties. She faced a hostile legislature, a barrage of ethics complaints, and frothing local bloggers who reveled in her misfortune.

Here's the Levi Johnston portion:

Johnston told me he’s not surprised Palin is cashing in. “When she lost, I knew exactly what she was gonna do,” he says. “The whole time she was getting big-money offers for book and TV shows. I was like, All right, she’s gonna pick that up. It was just a matter of time before she quit.”

Johnston says he’s working on a memoir that would air the true story of the Palin household. “They’re never around each other,” Johnston says of Sarah and Todd. “It’s like they hate each other but they don’t want anyone to know it. I think they were gonna get a divorce, but then they were like, ‘Let’s not prove them right.’ I’ve never seen them sleep in the same room, he’s always on this little recliner. For years, they never really talked.” (This summer, Palin threw cold water on the divorce rumors, telling Politico that the speculation was “made up.”)

“I know everything there is to know about her,” Johnston adds. “She’s so fake. But she’s so good at it, too. She’s amazing at it. If I didn’t know it, I wouldn’t know the difference. She’s gifted. She could do movies because she’s so gifted.”

There are a lot of behind the scene details, but the big lies are still left untouched.  It becomes clearer, and clearer everyday that the MSM is NEVER going to do anything that truly reveals the shaky house of cards that Sarah so carefully constructed to hide her many, many sins.

Update: The article also reveals as factual many of the things that have only been talked about on the blogosphere, some of which were revealed here for the first time.  Such as that RAM is now in Palin's inner circle as well as pro-life attorney and evangelist Kim Daniels. By the way to REALLY understand justt who Kim Daniels is, you need to visit her "War Room".

They talk about the new Escalade, which I revealed here for the first time, as well as the additional house (that some argued was an airplane hanger back when we were seeing the construction for the first time) that was built on her property. In the article it is described very much like it had been explained to me.

A couple of years ago, the Palins purchased the adjacent lot from their neighbor, and they are currently building a 6,000-square-foot, three-level structure, according to building plans filed at the Wasilla Planning Office. On the ground floor, Palin will have an apartment for Track, who recently returned from his deployment in Iraq. Upstairs, there’s a second residence for Bristol. Palin is building herself an office that features custom woodwork, a long marble countertop, and panoramic windows. “The view is incredible, from the Chugach Range all the way to the Alaska Range,” Wasilla mayor Verne Rupright told me.

For some reason it does not mention the television studio that she uses to broadcast her segments for Fox.

However I have been told multiple times now, and Levi confirmed it recently, that Bristol does indeed have a condo in Anchorage.  So I am not sure exactly WHO, if anybody, is using her part of the house.  Willow perhaps?

Update 2: Here a particularly insightful portion of the article concerning Palin's book "Going Rogue".

The book, which gleefully skewered her former adversaries in the McCain campaign and elsewhere, did not seem to have made extensive use of a fact-checker, but that only seemed to accentuate its from-the-heart Palinness, part of her brand: In Palinworld, Palin, by definition, speaks the truth.

THAT is a frighteningly accurate description of Palin and those that hang on her every word.  Or as I call them, the "Cult of Palin".

Update 3:  Ooops I stand corrected.  On page five:

Palin made it clear to Fox that she wouldn’t be willing to move to New York or Washington. “If you take someone like Karl Rove who left office, he lives in D.C. and he could take a car down to the bureau,” Shine says. Fox offered to build a remote-camera hookup in her Wasilla home.