Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)Nick Broomfield, a graduate of the one-man-band school of documentary muckraking, goes up to Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, where he interviews everyone he…2011-09-30PT90MDocumentarySarah PalinFreestyle Releasing
Nick Broomfield, a graduate of the one-man-band school of documentary muckraking, goes up to Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, where he interviews everyone he can find who knows her. He creates a portrait of Palin as a politician with a compulsion to destroy anyone who has crossed her. And though a great deal of this material (e.g., Troopergate) seems like old news, Broomfield is so dogged that he makes a case, in a deeper way than we've seen, that there's a terrifying remorselessness to Palin's feuding nature. B
Originally posted Sep 28, 2011Published in issue #1175 Oct 07, 2011Order article reprints