Is Sarah Palin Barbie Gone Bad?

By The Joy Behar Show

November 19, 2009

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Nation columnist Naomi Klein appears along with Air America's Ana Marie Cox on the Joy Behar Show to add to the growing consensus that there's not much of a "whole" in the sum of Sarah Palin's many parts. Klein's assessment of Palin as something created in the basement of The Heritage Foundation seems to pin down the fact that Palin is overly engineered, and that we are witnessing her public malfunctioning. In addition, Klein draws a parallel to the familiar reality-TV narrative of "country mouse goes to the big city" as an explanation for why we follow the drama--a drama that might resemble a presidential campaign but will not, ultimately, be able to amount to one.

--Fernanda Diaz

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