New York magazine is out with its story on the commercialization of Sarah Palin. She pulled down a cool $12 million over the last year. But what’s more intriguing than that raw number is the underlying dynamic here: the mutual business relationship between Palin and the East Coast elites whom she rails against with populist invective and who scorn her as dumber than a moose. Money can soften any edge.
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