Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version. Vanity Fair's editorial, research and copy departments take colored pens to the transcript.

I love how editing invigorates writing with confidence. A lack of confidence is one of the chief causes of bad writing, whether it's lack of confidence in the statement being made or in the tools being used to make it. The needless words admonished by Strunk & White are there to comfort the writer at the expense of the reader, to reassure the writer that what they're trying to say is true and convincing. Omitting them is an act of honesty and bravery.

We're doing so well, my administration. My administration's accomplishments, they speak for themselves. We work tirelessly for Alaskans. We aggressively and responsibly develop our resources because they were created to be used to better our world, to help people. And we protect the environment and Alaskans, the resource owners, foremost with our policied.

Here are some of the things that we have done. We created a Petroleum [^ Systems] Integrity Office to oversee safe development...

It's amusing to read political criticism into these edits, but good editing is always this brutal, regardless of the subject or the author. The original is pretty bad, but under the editor's pen, it's just bad writing.