NEW YORK — When Newsweek published Andrew Sullivan’s cover story three weeks ago with the provocative headline “Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin quickly took the magazine to task on Twitter.
“Newsweek: know what’s truly ‘dumb’?” Palin tweeted. “Giving a cover story to the TrigTruther conspiracy kook writer who thinks I didn’t give birth to my son.”
Sullivan, a veteran journalist who brought his popular Daily Dish blog to the Daily Beast and Newsweek a year ago, has long questioned Palin’s account of how she gave birth to Trig, her fifth child, in April 2008. Salon, among other news outlets, has looked into the matter and last year debunked the theory that Palin didn’t give birth to Trig.
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