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 - 4:59pm
He may be many things, but ignorant does not seem to be one of them.
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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:02pm

You've hit upon the essence of it: there is literally nothing LEFT of the Republican party anymore except the far right. People like Lincoln Chaffee, Susan Eisenhower, these people are literally pushed out of the party because there is no room under what used to be a much bigger tent for Republicans who are not of the conservative, hard-right variety. At least not if they're vocal and/or refuse to allow the dominant hard-right wing to...well...dominate every aspect of the party.

That type of Republican no longer exists; they are now called independents - sometimes even Democrats. What began as a successful strategy for the Republicans (shifting the entire political spectrum to the right, so that what used to be moderate, center-left is now considered "far left", etc.) has now turned and begun to wither, leaving nothing in the "one of us" category for the GOP but the far-right folks who've continued to follow each further lurch to the right unquestioningly (or at least supportively), while more and more regular folks have had their concerns and their doubts about things like whether a guy like Barack Obama truly is "a terrorist" only get more serious and more numerous, until either they realize that the party they joined years ago, or thought they had the most in common with....they no longer recognize. It's happening in droves, all over the country.

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:04pm

>>Flyers fans once booed Santa Claus.

Given that, this isn't such a big thing. <<

Technically, they were Eagles fans booing Santa. I'm sure there's some overlap, but I think there's a slightly different (and more bitter, in my opinion -- of course, I'm a Ranger fan) attitude of Flyer fans. The fans of Philadelphia also booed kids at an Easter egg hunt at the Vet.

I was watching at home and thought that while it was clear they booed her, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Of course, they did turn the music wayyy up to drown it out. Probably a smart move on their part (after the somewhat foolish move of inviting her -- though maybe that was just a ratings bid? NHL games do NOT do well ratings-wise...)

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:07pm

Bull. In that context (husband, honey, man) "baby'S daddy" (not "baby daddy") is not at all the same thing. It's "the father of my children," a common political sentiment. Leave off the apostrophe-s indicating possessive, though, and you have the Jerry Springer-formulation of the phrase with all the negative racial stereotypes attached.



Not the same, and not what Michelle said - nor does she "think it's OK" - for her or anyone else.




Edited 10/12/2008 5:22 pm ET by impalin_mccain
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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:13pm

Again, there's an ENORMOUS difference between a web site where anyone can sign up and post comments, and a radio or TV show where the host him/herself writes or at least approves the comments that are made. But if you want to talk Internet sites, how about:

http://www.freerepublic.com/
http://www.michellemalkin.com/
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/ (famous for "raghead" usage in 2001-2004 or so, haven't checked lately)
http://www.hannity.com/ (forums section here)
http://www.connecticutyankee.mu.nu/
http://www.ace.mu.nu/
http://www.mypetjawa.mu.nu/

Again, I could go on (and ON, AND ON)....but you get the point.

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:16pm

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No where in my post did I say anything like that.


Instead of reading the long post you have written.

   

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:18pm
Let me tell you once again.

   

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:22pm

I never said that you made the video nor did I imply that you did.

 

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 6:29pm

OMG.

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 6:33pm
You left out the worst - Michele Malkin or whatever her name is.

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