Vanity Fair sees that Sarah Palin is down, decides to give her a little kick. Update!

Courtesy of Vanity Fair:  

The most notable thing about the news of Sarah Palin sliding off the skillet at Fox News, her contributor’s contract expiring after a long dribble on life support, is how un-newsy it was—barely a pebble splash. Palin’s being let go from Fox News seemed as negligible as the CW canceling a series that viewers had forgotten was still on. There was a time not that long ago in our post 9/11 delirium when every sassy, spangly number Palin performed under the political big top kicked up sawdust and attracted yokel attention in the political media. Her appearances on Fox News were billed in advance as if she were about to lay down another smacking on the liberals and squishy conservatives who were still a-sceered of her grizzly-mama scorn, no matter how much they pretended otherwise behind their cocktail-party smirks. Palin had those millions of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, after all, a mighty army of admirers who could be mobilized at a moment’s notice to rise up in revolt and fire off a tweet or two before collapsing back on the sofa, not wanting to miss too much television. 

The numbers are still there for her on social media, but they might as well be empty eggs and spambots. She has the dubious honor of being just about the only Fox News alumnus who hasn’t announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination, the clown car reaching official overcapacity next week when Chris Christie crams himself into the race. Most tellingly, unlike in years past, there is no fan base or astroturf movement clamoring for Palin to jump into the fray as the Tea Party’s Furiosa—no one claiming that she is the only warrior queen capable of defeating Hillary Clinton in the dusty field of battle that will be converted into a FEMA internment camp, should Hillary prevail. (I take it these folks have not heard of a little slice of hell we like to call the Sea O'Pee.) How fickle our political culture. Palin seduced the party and its pundits—her camera wink during the 2008 vice-presidential debate had National Review editor Rich Lowry seeing “little starbursts”—and now she has been abandoned, a brittle relic of yesteryear. 

The irony is that Palin’s incoherence as a thinker and speaker—her ability to toss a word salad at the slightest prompting—has set the tone and tempo for the Republican contenders that have so far taken the field and are wandering around with their helmets on sideways. Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Rand Paul—their message discipline and mental rigor seems to be held together with old garter belts. Even a supposed pro such as Jeb Bush is betraying a lot of rust that’s accrued from years of not campaigning and enjoying his post-gubernatorial complacency.

The article then goes on to discuss Republican incoherence, Roger Ailes along with the future of Fox News, and their prediction that Palin will ultimately throw her support to Donald Trump as a "gesture of charlatan respect."

As if Palin really respects anyone that is not somehow furthering her career, or helping her to make money.

You know I have always liked Vanity Fair's tale on the Wasilla Wendigo.

They also boldly went where few reporters dare to tread back in 2009 and 2010. And who could forget Levi's contribution also in 2009?

Boy those were the days weren't they?

However these days there is so little meat on the bone I am sure many publications think that it almost a waste of time to send a reporter up here to dig up any dirt on Princess Dumbass of the North.

Of course I still have a few stories left to tell.

And hopefully I will get to tell them soon.

Hey, maybe Vanity Fair would like to hear them?

Update: Oh look here! Vanity Fair weighed in on Bristol's second not so immaculate conception.