Ex-VP candidate Palin on Portfolio cover

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is on the cover of the next issue of Conde Nast Portfolio despite staff protests, writes Irin Carmon of Women’s Wear Daily.

Carmon writes, “The latest cover of Condé Nast Portfolio is, depending upon whom you ask, gutsy and counterintuitive or simply irrelevant. As the financial crisis grinds on, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is on the April cover, editor in chief Joanne Lipman confirmed.

“Palin apparently did not cooperate with the story by best-selling author Joe McGinniss, and the photographs are drawn from a Vogue shoot with Jonathan Becker for that title’s February 2008 issue (in which, it was later reported, she concealed her then-secret pregnancy with a parka). The move to put Palin on the cover met with some staff resistance, according to sources.

“In an e-mail, Lipman described the story as being about the former vice presidential candidate and ‘Big Oil, which is especially relevant now given plunging oil prices and increasing questions about Obama’s handling of the economic crisis.’ She added, ‘We’ve been breathlessly following the saga of Bristol and Levi, too, but alas, you won’t read about that in the pages of Portfolio :).'”

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