O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game
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O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game
| Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:40pm |
That's gotta hurt (video).
Especially since it occurs to me that this won't run in the "politics" or "national" section of the paper (though it may run there as well, after getting this kind of attention), but in the SPORTS section, where typically not-very-political folks hang out alongside their more-political brethren. The injection of this story into the sports world may be one of the few glimpses of politics that some segment of the electorate which doesn't bother reading those stories usually will get this season. And it wasn't pretty.
Especially when you consider some of the write ups. Here's Forbes, not exactly a buncha commies:
Ow. That's gonna sting. Even the AP, while not identifiable as a conservative or pro-business outlet in the way that Forbes is, said the following...which (unlike Forbes) will be read in dozens of papers around the country tomorrow:
Someone not long ago wrote up a post here about the "bloom being off the rose?"
I think they were right....just not about the right candidate.
Especially since it occurs to me that this won't run in the "politics" or "national" section of the paper (though it may run there as well, after getting this kind of attention), but in the SPORTS section, where typically not-very-political folks hang out alongside their more-political brethren. The injection of this story into the sports world may be one of the few glimpses of politics that some segment of the electorate which doesn't bother reading those stories usually will get this season. And it wasn't pretty.
Especially when you consider some of the write ups. Here's Forbes, not exactly a buncha commies:
Palin Gets Booed in Philly! This is sure to be the headline splashed across television and newspapers Sunday morning, the day after the Republican Vice Presidential candidate and hockey mom from Alaska drops the puck at the ceremonial face-off for the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener on Saturday night at the soon-to-need-a-name-change Wachovia Center. What will be missing from the news: the jeers were deserved.
Ow. That's gonna sting. Even the AP, while not identifiable as a conservative or pro-business outlet in the way that Forbes is, said the following...which (unlike Forbes) will be read in dozens of papers around the country tomorrow:
Palin was booed when she first stepped on the ice before the Flyers' home opener against the New York Rangers to drop the ceremonial first puck. Palin, the Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom," is trying to turn Pennsylvania into a red state.
Someone not long ago wrote up a post here about the "bloom being off the rose?"
I think they were right....just not about the right candidate.

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Sorry....y'all lost any claim to the high ground on such things about twelve years ago when Rancid Limburger put up a photo of Chelsea Clinton after saying he was going to show the "White House Dog." And when John McCain told a group of reporters "know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her mother."
Another case of right-wing fauxtrage.
Oh ok...So you are now saying children are now fair game?
It would be good to print the explanation in that article of why she was booed!
Not. At. All.
What I'm WONDERING (not saying) is where the heck were all you "right-thinking" folks when your very own kneecappers were calling a teenage girl ugly directly on national TV and radio?
Strangely absent. That's why we call it "fauxtrage." Because you're only outraged when it's YOUR side being zapped.
....and you polled the audience and know for sure this is why they were booing?
OK, then.
I'm guessing you recall being a teenage girl.
Can you reach back in your memory to recall what it actually FELT like at that time, and how you would've reacted to a nasty-voiced man who is a household name, with twenty-million nationwide listeners/viewers, calling you "ugly" over the airwaves, just because he didn't like your daddy's politics?
OK, then.
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