Sarah Palin Uses Sexual Metaphors in Blasting Mainstream Media

Sarah Palin manages to make headlines even when she's trying to refute -- or should we say "refudiate"? -- someone else's. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate used sexual metaphors Wednesday as she slammed mainstream media reporters for using anonymous sources, CNN reports.

"Those who are impotent and limp and gutless and they go on their anonymous -- sources that are anonymous -- and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references," Palin said on Sean Hannity's radio program. "It just slays me because it's so absolutely clear what the state of yellow journalism is today that they would take these anonymous sources as fact."

Palin's comments came in response to an unflattering Vanity Fair profile of her that cited numerous unnamed sources. Vanity Fair reporter Michael Joseph Gross said that people who know Palin well would not talk about her on the record, some out of loyalty and others "because they fear she will exact revenge."

In summarizing the article, Politics Daily's Suzi Parker says it characterizes Palin as controlling and having a "mean temper."