Group News Blog, October 23, 2008 Sarah Palin looking understated in her now-famous $2500 Valentino silk jacket. Photo NY Post, via Huffington Post. The flap over Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe may seem like a petty thing to be paying attention to in the twilight hours of a 20-month campaign. Fashion, according to one view, is …
Author Archives: Sara Robinson
Mother of the Year
Group News Blog, October 16, 2008 2016: This photo was later discredited by Snopes. But the argument below still stands. The provenance of the above photograph is unknown. It arrived in my mailbox this morning, shorn of context. (For all I know, Piper Palin’s face — and it is her face, I checked — was …
Michelle Obama, Superstar
Group News Blog, August 26, 2008 photos by Evan Robinson Monday night was the first time I’ve ever been on a convention floor. In some ways, it was very much what I expected — an explosion of light and noise and color as I came out of the tunnel onto the main floor; the …