A nice supplement to those three NYT gossip pieces. This is what we're writing about now:

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's wardrobe has grown—even after $150,000 worth of designer clothes, hairstyling and accessories the Republican Party provided for her. On Monday, the day before the Alaska governor appeared at a Reno rally, one of her assistants bought her a new suit for the occasion at an Ann Taylor store in an upscale Reno mall. "She bought a short, three-quarter sleeve jacket, a skirt and a couple other items," store manager Suzette Ludden told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

You know what? I actually think this is kind of a good thing. For a while there I was getting worried that media outlets were getting lazy about smearing her. Instead of their usual trivial yet vicious nit-picking insults, they were settling for just egregiously distorting conservative columnists and McCain surrogates. It's nice to see that on the scene reporting is still a staple of anti-Palin news coverage. I mean, as an academic I obviously have a soft spot for nuanced psychoanalytic arguments like Kathleen Parker's "McCain picked Palin with his dick" article. But as a citizen and as a voter - it's good that I'm getting the information that I need about the blouses that Palin's staff is buying today.

And yet, for all of their obsessive coverage, journalists are somehow missing the left's disgusting sexist attacks on Palin:

Luckily Politico says that the picture's just "a classic genre of New York street art." I don't know why they're bothering with photoshops - the Newsweek strategy of just posting inappropriate 2002 stock photos seems much easier. For what it's worth, here's a video of Palin going ballistic about the press's shameless fascination with her wardrobe and her body: