Sarah Palin Slams 'Impotent,' `Whack¿ Reporters in Radio Interview

(NewsCore) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin slammed reporters who write about her using anonymous sources Thursday, calling them ’impotent’ and ’whack.’

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee made the remarks in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s WABC radio show.

In response to a question about an upcoming trip to Iowa on Septmber 17, Palin singled out a piece in CQ Politics which reported that Palin had asked for an opportunity to speak in the Hawkeye state, instead of being invited to speak.

’I did see a headline on CQ Politics and they’re way whack, saying that I asked for an opportunity to speak in Iowa’ You idiot reporter! why can’t you follow up with a fact, like asking really? Who did she ask?... Certainly evidence of how whack reporters are today,’ Palin said.

Palin then questioned reporters in the media who publish rumors about her, noting that, ’I hear there’s some pretty ugly stuff right now coming up.’

Palin may have been referring to a new unflattering portrayal of her in a Vanity Fair magazine article. The article, written by Michael Joseph Gross, has been criticized for its heavy use of anonymous sources.

’I don't read some of it because I know that those who are impotent and limp and gutless, and then they go on, they're anonymous, they're sources that are anonymous, and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references,’ Palin said.

’You know, 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. So, when a story especially is filled with those and we know it's bogus, and we're not going to read it.’