If the Palin family story is discussed at all, it should be in the broader context of how, as parents, we talk to our children about sex and how, as a nation, we support mothers and address teenage pregnancy but not as fodder for public gossip.

CNN: Commentary: America, meet Sarah Palin

Next, according to a New Yorker reporter who dug into her background, she was the Vengeful Woman, an insecure gossip who had become embittered about the opposite sex because of a philandering father and her own failed marriage.

CNN: Tripp's Turn to Talk

It's the same way "Gossip Girl"'s costume designer Eric Daman who also worked on "Sex and the City" arranges wardrobes on the show.

WSJ: A Gossip Girl's Main Stage