O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game

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O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game
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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:

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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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 10:51am

It doesn't really matter what you read.

   

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:16am

>>Yes, then imagine being a teenage girl that the left has decided to say that you fathered your little mentally handicapped brother. << (and the rest, which I didn't quote)

Repeating it in the form of accusation doesn't make you much better. I personally had never heard most of those accusations/mean commentary and think it's in poor taste to bring it up, even in the context of finger-pointing.

Caroline

Caroline

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:39am

"I thought the she was adorable"


I did too.

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:51am

I really don't understand why you would even read ANY of the bloggers, both right and left.

 

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:53am

Went and read the posts you linked to on this site.

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:56am
The difference between the Republican swill and the Democratic swill is that the stuff coming from the Democratic or liberal side is on out-of-the-way blogs....and even there, not on the main pages, but in the comments section, where any nutcake can post his or her "thoughts." The stuff coming from the right-wing side of the aisle is endorsed, disseminated and often even CREATED by the highest levels of the party's cognoscenti - the RNC puts out ads which rival nearly anything found in the backwaters of DU, Rush Limbaugh speaks directly to an audience of 20 million every day, saying some of the most vile crap imaginable. When your average commenter in position number #182 on a thread at DU reliably reaches 20 million people, give me a call. Otherwise, until then, you're right....it's no contest in the ugliness department....only not in the way you imagine.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:09pm
I'll have to ask about this. A friend was at that very game.

The 3 Day

Sandy
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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:47pm
Cool! I'd be curious to hear directly from someone who was there!
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Registered: 10-16-2005
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 1:06pm

Continued attacks on Bristol, her baby and her soldier son? Where are you getting this information? This is all old news and should

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 1:19pm
Plus it's not really a rush marriage anyway since she hasn't gotten married yet - there was a rumor briefly that she would get married right before the election but that seems to have died on the vine. Glad to see her mother/gramps aren't using it to bolster their campaign. Latest is they will get married in the spring - but that would be after the baby is born. So guess out of wedlock is ok if you are a 'conservative' also.

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