Editing Sarah Palin

— By Steve Aquino

| Tue Jul. 21, 2009 10:17 AM PDT

Vanity Fair sics its edit staff on Sarah Palin's rambling, sophomoric resignation speech and creates a sea of ink.

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good lord

Submitted by Jen Phillips on Wed Jul. 22, 2009 10:05 AM PDT.
The green fact-checking marks alone are frightening. The red editor's pen is out of control. Go VF edit.

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