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The rules set up by Mall of America officials for Sarah and Bristol Palin's book signing yesterday seemed to have been written in anticipation of an army of fans.
"'Camping out' is not allowed," the rules read. "Beginning at 5 a.m., guests will be allowed to line up."
But there was no teeming crowd of rabid Palinites at 5 a.m. And less than a half hour into the appearance of Bristol, Sarah, and Todd Palin, the crowd had dwindled to a trickle of latecomers.
Perhaps sensing that MOA's rotunda would not necessarily be mobbed by rabid Dancing with the Stars fans, Sarah Palin decided to tag along as well, revisiting the site where she was nearly tomatoed and signed a copy of our Michele Bachmann cover story "Going Crazy."
Maybe she thought she had some star power. And Wednesday's rules stipulated that no one got Sarah Palin's autograph unless they bought Bristol's book.
Savvy. But by the time the Palins took the stage, one estimate put the number of autograph seekers at about 300 people, all lined up to be wanded and watched over by a phalanx of Bloominton cops before getting to the Palins' table.
At the end of the event, the MOA estimated that about 700 books had been signed. Perhaps the Palins simply sign books at a lightning pace, but the rotunda was deserted at least a half hour early.
This is usually where I add something snarky, but really what more is there to say? Except perhaps, LOL!
Update: Here is video footage of the Palins premature departure from the event.
Who pays for all of that security? You can bet your ass Sister Sarah is not paying for it!
And did you notice they almost forgot the family prop that Bristol relies on to make her money? Now that is just bad business sense!
(Video courtesy of the Star Tribune)
Excellent news.
ReplyDeletehaha, they also captured on film the old dude who was on a scooter device. He did however have a sweet looking zoom lens camera. I missed him getting hoisted up the steps to the throne.
ReplyDeleteIronically, the gal between S&B looked like Katie Couric!
It was fun-ny to be there, to see the wack-a doodles who were in line.
My summer is almost complete, now I can chill under Sept when the next book is out, however I suspect an implosion before then.
Gryphen please post more photos from the event.
Excellent video of mall appearance. Got slam in on Bristol blaming everything on Levi. Five times the security even Obama would have had. Too nice a day for Palin fans to even show up. At the end the bitches almost forgot to let Tripp onto the elevator, he had to be squeezed in after security.
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To compare, I'm an author who had an book signing a couple of weeks ago. I signed about 350 books, and it took me 1 1/2 hours. Admittedly, I spoke to each person and personalized the book if they desired, but I had no security, no wanding, no forfeiting of personal possessions before readers were allowed into my presence, which must surely slow down the speed of the line.
ReplyDeleteI know that publishers will routinely say they shipped 250,000 books when they actually only shipped 20,000; the purpose is to make a book look more popular that it really is, because people like to read what's popular. Bottom line: you can't trust any figures released in this business. They might say they sold 700 books, but I suspect the figure is closer to 350.
SHUTDOWN LOOMS IN MINNESOTA
ReplyDeleteMinnesota could erupt into a full-blown state government shutdown just in time for the July 4th holiday weekend if a $5 billion budget gap isn't closed by the end of Thursday.
HOW MUCH DID THAT EXTRA state SECURITY PALIN'S HAD YESTERDAY at the mall cost? Citizens of Minnesota are about to go into a blackout of services yet there was enough money to have hours dedicated to inside, outside security and mob control to follow the Palin's. Something is assbackwards.
Oh, I am sure that once the rules of engagement were released, the thousands and thousands of fans that has planned to go to the book signing said "Screw it" and decided to stay home. If you can't camp out in a mall parking ramp, what's the point in going at all?
ReplyDeleteI love the video shot where $arah is shaking hands with some poor rube, and you see her fleshy underarms wagging in the breeze!! One more reason to hate Michelle O and her toned arms.
ReplyDelete*Sigh of relief*
ReplyDeleteAs long as she can walk, crawl, or drag her carcass toward a spotlight I know America will not be Palin-free; however I am VERY glad to see her christo-fascist crowds dwindling.
I am concerned about those boys who waited in line to see Sarah, going by their voices, speech patterns and appearance, I have to assume they are homosexual, yet they are Palin fans. Whats up with that?
ReplyDeleteJust the icing on the cake. What will she do next?
ReplyDeleteWonkette has an article about this also, with priceless comments.
(channeling nelson): HA HA!
ReplyDeletelovely, just what i wanted to hear. the giant sucking sound!
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin knocks ‘Middleton’ in autobiography
ReplyDeletehttp://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/bristol-palin-knocks-middleton-in-autobiography-1196586.html
10:28 AM: Troll, begone!
ReplyDeleteSo how will the Wasilla Hillbillies spin this? We know they're not well versed in recognizing reality. If it's finally beginning to sink in that their extended 15 minutes is over, I'm afraid they'll do something really outrageous to get attention. Hey, Scarah, it might be time to pull out your ace in the hole: "How I Faked Trig's Pregnancy". Now there's a book people would line up for. It'll cost you the presidency, but then you were never going to get that anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Artie Fufkin when you need him?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5FwzRBc_Y
Somehow Palin will claim the Media and their Minions sabotaged the book signing! Quick.....we need to find all the Palinites who have been kidnapped and locked in a closet!!
ReplyDeleteOr....she's done and finally America no longer cares what she does.
0h, no! Only 300 P- bots left in the world???
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:10, thanks for the link...Sarah is still glistening with sweat, even indoors. Menopausal for sure.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of security was absolutely ridiculous, and I agree, that citizens of Minnesota should demand to find out how many tax payer funded cops were sent to the mall for this fiasco, and send the bill to SARAH PAC. The mall cops are paid by the mall management company, so no biggie if they waste their money, but a state facing a government shutdown should have not provided ANY real police whatsoever.
Big Looser besides the Palins.....
ReplyDeleteTHE MALL OF AMERICA
About the 'Middleton’ thing- Wow!!
ReplyDeleteJust Wow.
For rough & tough Alaskans, they sure are a bunch of uptight, snobby, soft-bellied, witches.
Boy Tawd is a scrawny lil' man isn't see? Not very manly IMO.
ReplyDeleteSarah, Todd, and Bristol - It looked like the Three Stooges sitting at that book signing table. Fake smiles and platitudes.
ReplyDeleteRun, Sarah, run all the way to the bank. Sarah and Mini-Me are already knee deep in their campaign to sell their names.
Sarah looks like she's decked out for a night on the town, or a prom. What's with the dress?
ReplyDeleteFor such a thin chin, the Bris is looking really, really chunky. Espcially next to her skinny mom.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she ought to be posing with Becky instead.
I've been trying to find reactions from C4P on their website, but I don't see an article. Am I missing something? Could you point me to their explanation for why people didn't attend this earth-shattering event?
ReplyDeleteIsn't the security provided the same as the idiots that appear on the reality show 'Mall Cops'??? or whatever the show is called.
ReplyDeleteI remember the advertising of one of their shows that included Palin's book tour.
Wouldn't surprise me to know that Palin organized this so she could get further traction on this by appearance on the show which of course would include getting paid for it!!!
Just sayin''''
Virginia Voter, do you really think she's glistening with sweat because she's menopausal? Personally, I think it's drugs -- she was seen wiping her nose earlier.
ReplyDeleteI call these security people 'Cop Wannabees' as I suspect they work for the mall ('Mall Cops' reality show) and therefore they overstep by the extensive 'security wanding' etc..
ReplyDeleteI'd love someone to challenge this issue!!!
Wait so Palin quit her book signing early? No surprise there. She can't finish anything she starts!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't get the video to work so I went to the original website. Off to the side are their top stories.
ReplyDeleteNote the story under the Sarah story!
# C.J.: Bristol, Sarah & Todd Palin sign books at Mall of America
# Bipolar diagnosis creates concern
Coincidence? I think not.
Just so no one misunderstands, this Wasilla boy is definitely NOT a Palin fan. As a published book author, I can tell you how thrilled I would have been to ever have had to sign 700 books at a single event.
ReplyDeleteLoved that video along with the commentation. Now that is what you call fair & balanced. However I was disappointed that I didn't catch a glimpse of Paul Blart from the movie "Mall Cops".
ReplyDelete-Colleen
to 10:45
ReplyDeleteThey will spin it as they always do.
"*Sigh* the LSM and bloggers are just making things up again. LIES! there were thousands at the book signing in MOA. H8trs edited video to make us look bad. They are just out to destroy my children!"
$20 says they do!
Was that a big ice cream cone that Bri$tol has holding on the way out? Who was escorting Li'l Prop?
ReplyDeleteProp Palin--it's got a nice ring to it!
Tripp was there, Where is Trig, Piper
ReplyDeleteand Willow.
Sea O' Pee will be blaming Obama and Soros for plotting this entire set up at the Mall Of Rill America. All the socialist security people are really liberal undercover agents from the white house.
ReplyDeleteThe ending of this video is SOOOO good!
In that pic you posted, Brisket looks desperate to keep that old man talking to her even though he clearly is more interested in her mom. But she did look thrilled leaving the signing. I bet she feels like a real celebrity.
ReplyDeleteHere is link of same video but with an article which has some good jabs!! -- the numbers are clearly wrong as it sounds like they got them from another source as Fox is mentioned in the video.
ReplyDelete"Nevertheless, this was all very much a family affair. Tripp -- Bristol's cute child with Levi Johnston and the only reason this young woman has any public profile -- was there."
"...Bristol, her shimmy-shaking skills on "Dancing With The Stars" notwithstanding"
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/124784869.html
To see Tripp - he's 2 1/2 and still sucking on a dummy.
Sarah & Bristol are alike in being liars, vindictive mean girls and same in child rearing -- lazy. Bet he still waddles in diapers too.
Kimmel Sends Jake Byrd To Sarah Palin Documentary Premiere, 'The Undefeated'
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ROTFLMAO. There were more security guards than people wanting books signed!!
ReplyDeleteNo one has really gone after the fact that Sarah has no problem imposing "regulations" on her followers. She "required" everyone to buy her daughter's book before they could buy hers.
ReplyDeleteIt's an incredible statement about how she "governs" this business aspect of her life! Why isn't the media calling her out on this???
Bristol's book signing but the bigger attention whore has to upstage her own daughter. The whole family is nothing but pathetic.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the young girl was not so quick on her feet with a question. I have one.. Hey, brissdull, why did you name your child after your daddy's mistress?
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin reminds me of a former American Idol contestant. The summer after the show, the contestants from that season are mobbed at Meet and Greets and treated like big starts. By the following summer they're mostly has-beens. Sure they might release a CD and get a few people to show up, but the big crowds of the post-Idol summer tour are long, long gone.
ReplyDeleteThe "We love you Sarah!" shouts from the crowd are exactly the same as what people yell at former Idol contestants when they're still hot. But most of them can walk down the street and not be identified by anyone by the following summer.
Welcome, Sarah, to the post-Idol world.
A comment at Wonkette:
ReplyDeleteThey should have gone to the "Mall of REAL America".
Also read that this mall is so big, even 100,000 shoppers a day is business as usual. So 300 show up at a Palin book signing? Gee, I bet The Gap gets more traffic.
Wow, as usual the security was way over the top. SP's must have told them Hollywood is threatening her "and her children". (Snark)
Hmmm --
ReplyDeleteWonder if $arah was there to boost Bristol the Pistol sales -- or Bristol was there to boost $arah's sales
Are we counting down the last of Palin's fame?
C'mon, people... if you have an ounce of sympathy and human compassion for the humiliating decline of the Screechy Wretch (tm) brand you MUST admit this book signing debacle generates a small sense of sadness in your heart and the hope that better days are ahead for the despicable Wretch and her greedy wretchlings. C'mon... Admit it. Anybody. Just raise your hand. Say it after me: "I (state your name) feel a minuscule sense of compas...". No? Anybody. Let's go.... Anyone? Just raise your hand... Not one??? Really? Please! Look how far she's fallen!! She's an international laughing stock!!! C'mon people! Don't you feel ANYTHING for The Alaskan Hot Mess???
ReplyDeleteOk... Well, I tried... Maybe I'll have better luck when video of her banging on the locked doors of the GOP presidential nominating convention goes mega-super viral...
Hang in there, Lulu!!! People still love you!!! Tho... admittedly there aren't many... and fewer every day.
C'mon, people... if you have an ounce of sympathy and human compassion for the humiliating decline of the Screechy Wretch (tm) brand you MUST admit this book signing debacle generates a small sense of sadness in your heart and the hope that better days are ahead for the despicable Wretch and her greedy wretchlings. C'mon... Admit it. Anybody. Just raise your hand. Say it after me: "I (state your name) feel a minuscule sense of compas...". No? Anybody. Let's go.... Anyone? Just raise your hand... Not one??? Really? Please! Look how far she's fallen!! She's an international laughing stock!!! C'mon people! Don't you feel ANYTHING for The Alaskan Hot Mess???
ReplyDeleteOk... Well, I tried... Maybe I'll have better luck when video of her banging on the locked doors of the GOP presidential nominating convention goes mega-super viral...
Hang in there, Lulu!!! People still love you!!! Tho... admittedly there aren't many... and fewer every day.
Bristol must be closing in on 200 pounds and maybe has had a boob job.
ReplyDeleteBill
Both Bloomington police and mall security are on hand Wednesday.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/04b49c515b014ddc8030658e12b12fdc/MN--Books-Palins-on-Tour/
actually the MOA paid for security--suckers,
ReplyDeletethey all are working overtime
hahaha
When the most gullible people on Earth (teabaggers)say goodnight, Irene, you know you're approaching rock bottom.
ReplyDeleteHow long before she's hawking medical ID bracelets in overnight cable ad slots?
Noticed Tripp had a pacifer in his mouth, kind of old for that now.
ReplyDeleteOn the Anons who are posting the unnecessary dig at a historic Middletown (Palin fact-checkers with their increasingly trademarked due-diligence spell it Middleton) where the Wasillabillies were housed the night before Sarah's RNC unveiling:
ReplyDelete“The raggedy old hotel had dated furniture, small rooms, ugly pink walls, and an abundant supply of cockroaches,” she wrote. “I’d never even seen a cockroach before. Reporters might not think Wasilla is the prettiest town in the world, but at least we don’t have roaches.”
This critique coming from a family who don't know taste and style even if it were provided to them via six-figure stylists, decorators and set directors.
The soon to come British documentary (the antithesis of Undefeated) interviews Lyda Green in what I assume to be her living room in Wasilla - it is decorated with living creature comforts normally associated with human habitats, with window treatments, bric-a-brac, paintings, pictures, personal touches we all take for granted - compare that to the Wasilla Sports Complex II, the Palin home with naked commercial sized break-front windows, untrimmed everything, sparse decorations, impersonal furniture and accents.
Their home is cold and lifeless, unless you count their best and only accessories, babies.
The higher they rise now, the harder they fall later. Am just sittin back waiting.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 10:28 - don't be so concerned about those boys. Us liberals aren't.
LOSERS.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine Mama Grizzly trying to console their dullard daughter? No? That's right, because the NPD queen would be the one that needed to be cheered up, cause it's always about her.
Sarah is aging right before our eyes, she definitely looks grandmotherly. Bristol is gaining weight again, and white is not her color. The whole thing is just strange.
ReplyDeleteBristle vanished in a hurry; I bet she was first in the elevator. Nice that she had time to hold a stranger's kid while her own was, where?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she's upset over the lack of sales. After all, she wore her good luck push-up bra to the event and that always worked for mom.
Typical Palins. Now that the baby has served his purpose--they forget him.
ReplyDeleteto anonymous at 10:28
ReplyDeleteHave you seen Todd!?
They didn't really sell 700 books. More like 350 because if you wanted a signature from Sarah, you had to buy Bristol's book. Come on, no one really came there for Bristol. Her book is already discounted on Amazon.
ReplyDeleteOT Here's a research project for folks in Palmer/MatSu Valley. If you're called for jury duty, how long do you have to be available? A week, a month, a year? Just wondering how long Sarah will be able to use that excuse before it's time to gas up the old wagon again.
ReplyDeleteHere's a passage from Bristol Palin's book, Chapter 13:
ReplyDelete"I actually got drunk with my mom and Todd a bunch of times. Mom likes weird old-people drinks, like Tom Collins, Manhattans, Whiskey Sours and those icky martini things, but she doesn't like flavors in her martinis!! How can anyone drink unflavored martinis!! Mom also downs about four Bloody Marys every Saturday and Sunday, and she puts a lot of Tabasco and Frank's Hot Sauce in them! Ew! Ick! Todd--I've always called him Todd because, well, you know, he's always been my very 'special friend,' you know, heart, heart--likes bourbon, whiskey and rum, and he drinks several shots of Wild Turkey and Southern Comfort with every meal, including breakfast! Some days, that's the only thing he has for breakfast!! Levi used to like to drink these fruity drinks like Mad Dog, Tinkled Pink and Boone's Farm. We have fun drinking in our family! Myself, I love screwdrivers. I could have a big ol' screwdriver every day, sometimes twice a day!!"
Sarah Palin and the crowds
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What the hell is Tripp doing with a pacifier, a nanny and a stroller? I'll bet he's already developed detachment disorder.
ReplyDeleteCheeeez.
Hey h8trz, everyone came to see me, not Sarah! I AM THE STAR OF THIS SHOW DAMNIT!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.zimbio.com/pictures/nAH21M5cR_O/Bristol+Palin+Signs+Copies+Not+Afraid+Life/6TH43H8Y_LT/Bristol+Palin
I am going to sign my own book deal, Bristols only along for the ride
Well. You know how we progressives and liberals like to exaggerate the fallout from the sarastorm, so I ventured over to see what the pees had to say. The "other side of the story", as it were. The "truth" of the MOA fiasco.
ReplyDeleteImagine my surprise to find out, THERE IS NO STORY.
Soooo.. move along folks. Nothing to see here.
Nothing.
Never was.
Ah well Gryphen, they should consider themselves to be so lucky that no tomatoes got near them!!
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of security on the alert for dangerous veggies!!!
So Sarah's 2 days where she thought she would emerge totally victorious, and be able to gloat about all the thousands of adoring fans that would show up in Pella and at the MOA, didn't quite pan out for her? Oh, poor Sarah, and poor little ole Bristol too - seems like her book was not the inspiration she thought it would be. Of course, it WAS all about inspiring young people, right? The horrible media - so condemning, making her once again a victim. Well, Sarah and Bristol can now go back home (and where is that? Alaska? Arizona? LA?) and console one another. They can now plan what Sarah's next awesome event will be, and how it will succeed in making her POTUS!!
Well Monday is the 4th, and they may have a real treat in store for us - grab the popcorn, get comfy and watch what happens!
where's ole Trigger?
ReplyDeleteBut also, for someone who has built a national reputation on a platform of hatred, racism, jingoism, and xenophobia, how on Earth is she going to play the “Anti-Hate Card”? That card should not even be in her deck. People hate you because you’re a creep, Sarah Palin, but it is nothing as compared to the political agenda you are putting forward of dragging the United States backwards through the racist mud into some kind of isolationist, Grover Norquist nightmare. And none of the people cited in this documentary want to DESTROY YOUR CHILDREN. That is like one of those things where you say something about someone else that ends up saying a lot more about you than it does them. If anyone knows about setting out to DESTROY people it is the woman who abused her political office and has engaged time and again in the worst kinds of anti-human politics. Come on now, please. Eat your popcorn. Sip your soda. Turn off your cellphone and your tour bus and shut the hell up! You’re ruining the movie everything!
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LOL I went to a Clay Aiken CD release party at the mall back in the day that had more people show up. And we knew he wasn't going to be there! I think C4P just doesn't get that their little board only has maybe a few hundred members (being generous) spread throughout the country, so when they plan events where they're going to ALL come from far and wide to show their support for Sarah, it ends up looking like a Clay Aiken CD release party.
ReplyDeleteBut have you fucking HEARD this bitch? As much as I side with you on paper, the part of my brain that churns out reason gets clogged with hate and starts firing off steam to keep from exploding when this lady speaks. And the reason why is because that is what bullshit rhetoric does: it puts a kink in the gears and makes otherwise rational people fucking furious. There are people out there TRYING to set an example for the rest of the country of polite and intelligent discourse but when biased rhetoric that a fucking FIVE YEAR OLD should be able to recognize as such passes as “Just tellin’ it like it is!” to middle-america, the blind fury becomes overwhelming and personal attacks become more and more self-justifiable. Because, after all, it’s not the opposing party’s political stances that are actively seeking to destroy the standard of intelligent discourse; it’s the fucking individuals who spout rehearsed, hateful, anti-intellectual rhetoric that half of the country is actually going to accept as the gospel truth.
ReplyDeleteI might sound rambling here, but the tl;dr version is this: I don’t hate Sarah Palin’s politics. I hate Sarah Palin herself. I might DISAGREE with her political stances, but I don’t hate them because ultimately members of both sides of the spectrum are working for some version of “the greater good,” and that’s admirable. So when I say “I hate Sarah Palin” I mean that I hate the individual, not her politics, and that I am delivering a PERSONAL VERBAL ATTACK at her because she is a deplorable human being.
http://videogum.com/327752/duh-aficionado-magazine-matt-damon-doesnt-want-to-destroy-sarah-palins-children/behind-the-
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These people are sick, all of that security and no one even wondered if Tripp and his nanny are safe. What a fake mother. Most moms would have made sure their child was in the elevator first not last. Can Bisdull not push a stroller? I am so sick of this circus.
ReplyDeletewaitingforguffman | Posted on Jun 29th I haven’t seen this documentary because I don’t want to have a million panic attacks and gouge out my eyes, so I don’t know what the celebrities said, but to say that Matt Damon’s statements are “truly vicious” rings false to me. I just don’t see that. His qualifications where political discourse is concerned–and those of Louis CK, Madonna, or any of the other celebrities named here– may be “dubious,” but they are definitely no more dubious than her qualifications where political discourse is concerned, and for them to talk about how dumb Sarah Palin is is, in my opinion, no more hurtful than her policies about rape victims who wanted abortions, and certainly not more dangerous than Sarah Palin putting targets on maps of congressional districts.She ran for an office for which she was the least qualified candidate of all time, she took a job as a correspondent for the most right-leaning cable news network in the country, she stars in a reality TV show about herself, and she went on a nonsense bus tour and spouted historical inaccuracies to anyone who’d listen. I’m sorry, but you just don’t get to invite all that scrutiny, and then whine about being the victim of scrutiny. I’m not saying it’s ok to be hurtful, but I’m saying that I don’t really think Matt Damon is being hurtful. He’s just being right
ReplyDelete"I am concerned about those boys who waited in line to see Sarah, going by their voices, speech patterns and appearance, I have to assume they are homosexual, yet they are Palin fans. Whats up with that?
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HAHAHAHAHA Concern Troll Fail!
Where's Tri-G? You know the "retarded one" as Sarah calls him.
Let’s not forget though that this is a documentary that Palin had made for herself, with her approval, with the explicit purpose of making her look good, trumping up her legacy and setting her up for an inevitable presidential run.
ReplyDeleteThe clips of people saying mean things about her were specifically chosen to make us have sympathy for her and to play into her narrative of victimhood and outsiderness. They are there for a reason, and for her to play all “oh Im so shocked that people would be so meanypants to little old me” is completely disingenuous.
http://videogum.com/327752/duh-aficionado-magazine-matt-damon-doesnt-want-to-destroy-sarah-palins-children/behind-the-
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I love how those mall cops and city cops are trying to act all "Secret Service-y" -- except one of them is chomping on gum, and the other one forgets that he's supposed to face AWAY from the "package" and spins around to face the "security threats". LOL
ReplyDeleteDon't you love farce?
Send in the clowns!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (gasp) ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Real Americans slam the door on BOTH Sarah and Brisket at once!!--very efficient.
"Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI am concerned about those boys who waited in line to see Sarah, going by their voices, speech patterns and appearance, I have to assume they are homosexual, yet they are Palin fans. Whats up with that?10:28 AM"
They were picking up cruising pointers from Todd.
Okay, next question; how many are interested in seeing Bristol on a reality show with the Massie brothers?
ReplyDeleteI don't see any hands held up, I figured as much.
What got me was the footage of everyone walking to the elevator. Clearly Tripp was the LAST thing on Bristol's mind. Even with the nanny, wouldn't you kind of always naturally gravitate to be near or at least AWARE of your child's location?
ReplyDeleteSo much for maternal instinct...
Palin is not hated, but she does deserve the scorn and contempt that she earns with every word she utters. On top of that, she refuses to live with her mistakes or confront her profound weaknesses.
ReplyDeleteShe lies, smears, and insults everything that true Americans hold sacred about their beloved country -- and then goes whining and weeping to Daddy that her poor poor feelings are hurt. She pals around with domestic terrorists who are bent on destroying the Amercan system, and then has the gall to accuse others of doing so!
She sobbed on stage when she lost the vice presidency!! And went weeping into her Daddy's arms!! She is a weakling, a lightweight, a coward, a selfish, conceited, self centered narcissist and needs to be shamed and driven off the world stage.
Despite her appalling ignorance, deep character disorders, and lack of education, she has no humility -- because -- like most so-called "conservatives" she is incapable of self-reflection or empathy.
She has the conceit and arrogance that is typical of profoundly stupid people. Yes, she is an entertaining distraction. Yes, she knows hair and make-up like nobody's business. But no, she has no business holding any position of responsibility -- whether as a parent, a governor or a brownie troop leader.
Unfortunatly, too many Americans nowadays are sleep walking zombies, hypnotized by vulgar electronic media and cheap consumer pleasures, and are incapable of discerning truth or appreciating the difference between right and wrong anymore.
What a great video from the Star Tribune. I didn't see RAM there, although we clearly saw RAM in Pella.
ReplyDeleteWhat is up with RAM?
Sarah looks so skinny and middle-aged and Bristol looks 35 and matronly. Tripp is being pushed around in a stroller and sucking a pacifer just like a baby.
ReplyDeleteTodd dresses like he's going to go out and jump on a horse. Yehaw!
Bristol looks kind of cute in these!! Very plastic, very different, but very flattering lighting.
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It's always cute to see somebody like Palin, who has (for example) suggested that two of her more vociferous critics (David Letterman and Joe McGinniss) were child molesters, and has made any number of comments suggesting that various male politicians weren't sufficiently manly, play the victim. But unfortunately, the biggest lesson Palin seems to have taken from her 2008 election loss is that she can advance herself with a certain crowd (apparently exemplified by "ConservativeAmerikan") by constantly playing the victim. As she and Michele Bachmann demonstrate, you don't need to understand the issues of the day, the history of your country, or have a track record suggesting that you will do anything but quit when the going gets tough, but if you whine that evil liberals are attacking you and issue platitudes about taxes and freedom, a certain class of ill-informed self-professed conservative will rally behind you.
ReplyDeleteMore thoughtful conservatives, though, for the most part seem appalled.
1:54
ReplyDeleteMust be one of the Palin's who posted this link. No photos were allowed. Funny how many photos of the family are here.
Yes, the light is flattering. Yes, plastic. Yes, Sarah looks old.
They seem to be enjoying themselves.
Anon @ 12:39 PM
ReplyDeleteThat REALLY isn't in Bristol's book (Chapter 13)is it?
11:14AM - I grew up in the 80's. This is what we called them:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMCaw4qzjg
Bill of Wasilla -
ReplyDeleteDon't you think if you were on DWTS you'd sell a lot more books?
Is this him?
ReplyDeleteThere is a guy on Facebook who posted a video of himself in a bathroom at Mall Of America wearing a wristband for the Palin event wiping his ass with his hand. One butt check had Bristol in Sharpie the other Sarah. He was saying he was going to go shake the hands on Bristol and Sarah giving them back some of the shit they have given America.
As gross is that is, holy shit when there is a will, there is a way!!!!
Sarah better have her security doing sniff tests from now on. God, can you imagine if either of them put their hands in their mouths after he shook hands?
http://us4palin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bristol-palin-booksigning-6-29-2011.png
HEY Sarah n Bristol-
ReplyDeleteTHIS is what REAL. RAPE. VICTIMS. ENDURE.
you selfish, disgusting pigs!!
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Not anymore, anyway. Last September, the first time I went to Haiti, I spent my first day out accompanying a rape victim we'll call Sybille to the hospital.
The way her five attackers had maimed her in addition to sexually violating her was unspeakable.
The way the surgeon who was going to try to reconstruct the damage yelled at her, telling her she'd got what was coming to her because she was a slut, was unconscionable.
And the way Sybille went into a full paroxysm when we were on the way back to the post-quake tarp city she lived in was the worst thing I ever saw in my life.
We were sitting in traffic and saw one of her rapists, and she started just SCREEEAMING a few inches away from my face, her eyes wide and rolling in abject terror.
http://www.good.is/post/how-violent-sex-helped-ease-my-ptsd/
12:32 - In last night's video, I saw one person carrying 5 books. I don't remember the exact combo, but there were at least 2 of Bristol's and at least 1 of each of Sarah's. So it may have been closer to 300.
ReplyDeleteTotally O/T, but I just came back from my local library: SIXTY-NINE holds on Bailey's book, and TWELVE holds on G. Dunn's! YEAH!!!
ReplyDeleteDO THE MATH -- If people wanted Sarah to sign her book, they were required to buy one of Bristol's, too. So, if the mall estimated that about 700 books had been signed, then that means they sold only 350 each.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a few people already had Sarah's and only wanted Bristol's (that's highly unlikely). If that were the case, maybe Bristol sold 450 or 500 and her mom 250 or 200. LOL!!!
"Palin is not hated"
ReplyDeleteHell even the guy in India said she was. Among other things.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x565183
The P-bots must have stayed in bed all day, lamenting sending the last of their unemployment checks to SarahPac.
ReplyDeleteToo funny, the book is already 41 and 42% off at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. New releases usually go 20% off not 40 plus.
ReplyDeleteIs Sarah going to be in Phoenix also too or is Bristol on her own?
Sarah wasn't trying to help Bristol's sales she was controlling Bristol's sales.
ReplyDeleteAny success is do to St. Sarah the Devine and any failure is because Bristol dimmed Mommy Dearest's shining star.
She was crashing her own daughter's party, just like she did getting all that face time on DWTS. Any attention and success Bristol gets it due to Sarah nothing is due to Bristol. And she is pulling the same kind of stunt she has several times this spring by making sure she gets the camera coverage on a day with some actually note worthy person would otherwise get the coverage.
She proves over and over how selfish and petty and childish she truly is.
She welcomes more and more of an egomaniacal control freak. A 46 (47?) year old spoiled brat. (Dubhya's twin?)
Bristol, Sarah and Todd are all surrounded by the circle of security guards---the poor defenseless two year old is on the outside with his elderly nanny. So either the whole need for security is all hype or NOT ONE PALIN gives a crap about that little boy. Its so much fun to be adored.
ReplyDeleteconfirmed: her mothers ghost penned that 'book'.
ReplyDeleteSP would NEVER forget a shitty hotel the week before mccain calls her name out.
roflol. no roaches in wasilly.
roflmao.
Anon 1:54 - Sarah Palin should pay a high priced for what she's done to her children. The once pretty Bristol now can't close her mouth because of the unnecessary surgery she has had. Parents are supposed to guide and help their children into adulthood. Bristol was abandoned on day one. It's heartbreaking that Bristol is a willingly object of scorn. No loving parent would ever place their child in that position. And no loving parent would ever allow their minor child to publish such an poor coming of age bio. Maybe a novel, but never a biography. Shame on the Palin/Heath clan.
ReplyDeleteI anxiously waited all day for some photos from my cousin, who had friends that were going to get down there last night for some snarky pleasure. Alas, they got there within the posted time period, but all they saw were people packing up a "boat of books". Oh well. I seriously wanted to bring some interesting photos to the blog today. {sigh}
ReplyDeleteHere is my take on the book numbers. If there were 300 people there, half of the folks counted must have been security. If there were 700 books sold. 400 of them must have been bought by Sarah's PAC. 700 books sold would be the max number that they could give with a straight face for that measly number of people.
ReplyDeleteI wish Sarah Palin had become The USA President, Americans than would have really led the free world. When one considers her in depth knowledge about world politics, especially the Middle-East. What a great shame that she didn't make it!..
ReplyDeleteAnxiously awaiting possible photos from my cousins' 2 friends who got there ahead of their other friends last night....said they took some cell phone video of them yelling to Sarah & Bristol "We Love You!" and they waved.....they were in stitches.
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ReplyDelete29 June 2011 2:55PM
It has been less than 48 hours since Bachmann announced her candidacy for president and the left wing stank is thick and ubiquitous. And because liberals are compulsive hams, it covers the media like untreated feces at the bottom of an outhouse.
Bachmann's role model terrorizes liberals; it is why they become apoplectic and desperate. But when they lash out hysterically, from within the deep psyche is revealed a distortion and intolerance one could label "troubled" or "phobic."
Within this forum, the attempt to silence the opposition by school yard mockery and bullying goes further than immaturity. The mean spirited, seething malevolence reveals a deep seated subliminal pathology of hatred and misogyny. And it reveals not the slightest regret for misstatements, half truths, and outright lies.
Its Genesis is narcissistic arrogance, a pathos of intolerance for opposing views. It is nothing more than intellectual bigotry and deception; don't argue with the facts - harass. The afflicted hurl vulgar slime at a misperceived paranoia - a new generation of conservative women inspired by the ones now pilloried.
I hate what Sarah Palin stands for.
ReplyDeleteAs a creationist she stands for the triumph of ignorance over reason.
As an extreme right winger she stands for the good of the chosen few over the needs of the many.
She stands as proof that a lack of education, ignorance of the world and laughable idiocy up there with the most cringe worthy Big Brother contestant should be no barrier to high office.
All of those things, I hate. Am I filled with hate Sarah? Am I a hateful person? No, of course not. Perhaps you need to look at your own vile opinions, your ignorant hate filled ranting about abortion and guns, your nasty views on who should and who should not be entitled to health care in the US. It is your hatred Sarah and your intolerance that drives normal people to act unreasonably.
What I hate, is her hatred.
What I won't tolerate is her intolerance.
Too difficult a concept for these wing nuts to contemplate I know. Irony is not a word Palin and her ilk could ever properly understand.
You said it was coming, Gryphen, and it's happening. THANK YOU for never giving up.
ReplyDelete10:41 Bristol claimed the Manchester Inn had cockroaches and Alaska does not have cockroaches. Everyone in the Lower 48 knows cockroaches are attracted to trash. My guess is the cockroaches were the welcoming party for the Palins.
ReplyDeleteOMG, thanks, 1:54, for the zimbio link! Wow, those pics are amazing. That chin is beyond belief! I really think that Bristol's thinking was: No way is anyone ever going to call Bristol Palin's chin "weak"!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention, it looks like she got cheekbone implants, as well, and they're doing battle with the chin for supremacy. The loser in that situation is her mouth, although it's doing its darndest to keep up, what with the collagen or implants or whatever is in those lips!
Anon at 3:40 wrote:
ReplyDelete"When one considers her in depth knowledge about world politics, especially the Middle-East. What a great shame that she didn't make it!.."
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You're kidding, right? Perhaps you could cite examples of her vast expertise?
Though I love your use of the past tense.
Anon 3:43--For god's sake get some help. You are delusional.
ReplyDeleteUsing your kids to settle petty scores and keep your name in the news is pretty low class. Mind fucking them into altering their face borders on abuse.
ReplyDeleteI can't look at the two and not think of Baby Jane Hudson.
I think Quitter Queen's presence had more to do with making sure that Brisket doesn't say anything she is not supposed to if someone asks a question.
ReplyDeleteAfter that interview where she said that she "hates the word abstinence" and the other where she basically said that hr mom had already made her decision about running. If Mommy is sitting right next to her, she can steer things so that Brisket doesn't make any more statements that are not approved.
3:42
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone got a Thesaurus for high school graduation.
I'm sure Bristol will be jumping for joy that she forced the Manchester Inn to close down (snark).
ReplyDeletehttp://www.daytondailynews.com/business/manchester-inn-closure-an-end-of-era-for-some-new-beginning-for-others-1044668.html
Bristol could make real money for her and her son by writing a truthful, cathartic book about what it's like growing up with a NPD mother.
ReplyDeleteShe would also become a national hero and a true role model.
Not to mention save herself countless hours of therapy and/or rehab when she finally grows up.
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteSuggestion for a follow-up post.
Contact the mall and ask for visitor/"attendance" figures, as well as parking lot/vehicle traffic counts (# of bodies physically entering the mall/vehicles in the parking lots/decks) and what the total sales mall-wide were for 6/29/2011, the same day last year, and the previous 3 Wednesdays of 2011.
My guess - 6/29 was a significant drop in sales/visitors from any of the other dates. Meaning? $P cost the MOA vendors lots of sales $$$.
PS - the parking lot/traffic count & the number of customers/visitors can likely be gotten from the security office. Sales figures would need to come from the MOA management firm.
PMom_GA
Oggh.
ReplyDeletePsthetic. Meanwhile, the Mall was being shoplifted by the pound as all of security was with this freakshow.
Just kidding.
Wish I lived near the MOM for yesterday at least. I'd be whispering some sweet nothins into her ear when my pic was being tsken up close to her.
OT - related to the "belt" thread from earlier today.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe no one thought of this:
Can you say an $P version of a chastity belt???
Too bad, the train left not just the station, but the tracks (ahem) a long time ago!!!
PMom_GA
Why is Sarah dressed like Morticia Addams?
ReplyDeleteTWow, anon@ 3:42, cornelius sure needs a mirror, huh? LOL!
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at that plastic-faced, fake-smiling, 38yr-old-looking woman,....I just shake my head and wonder where Bristol went.
ReplyDeleteAnd I also feel bad for young girls who read her book and think, ok, I'm a slut if I lose my virginity, or I have to take a scalpel to my face to be liked. And that's not even getting into the social ramifications of abortion, of choosing the life of a fetus over your own, so that college is out of the question, a future ideal husband may be out of the question, a nice home, etc, and instead for most young girls who walk her path, there's walmart, taco bell, and welfare.
The whole thing is just sad.
I've been slogging through some of the tripe at C4P today, and read through this "article" and some of the comments.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the tone of the original commenter and the posting author, Granny BigBoss absolutely has to run or they will all explode.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/six-clues-palin-is-running-for-president.html
The posting lays out all the hard work, money, time, and sacrifice all the C4P and O4P people have done and donated. Tears have dropped on pillows worrying about Ms Paylin I believe.
IN other words, Qween Paylin is really in a quandary now:
She dare not piss of the bots by not running, but she might have some idea of how much really exhausting work it is to actually run a prez campaign. And oh yeah, there's the money aspect. And the big fear that one of her bigger scandals will hit the media.
Our Little Miss Quittypants has really got herself in a bind now doesn't she?
Flake out, play the "my girls will be raped card" victim routine, and NOT declare for office, and many of the bots will be royally pissed. She'll never again be able to say in a squeaky mocking voice , " Don't retreat, Reload"
Declare her self in the game, and she immediatly can expect to HAVE to engage in debates, press conferences, extensive exhausting travel, and suffer the withering criticism of many Repubs and Dems alike. She'll also have to raise 500 million to even have a chance in the big media markets.
Obama's not everything the left or Indies wanted, but he's one hell of a lot more centrist, capable, and experienced than an ignorant christian supremacist that QUIT her governor's job.
She who, also too, was desperate to genuflect to Ivana Trump for one whiff of that rich petrochemical perfume
that smacked of a glamourous life of indolence and fame that Paylin could only dream about while gutting salmon along side the little people.
SO Ms Quittypants BigBoss Stuffed Bra, Bumpit Qween, I dare you to respond.
And I challenge you bots to respond to this posting. Chicken?
What's it gonna be? Send her even more of your hard earned devalued dollars for pandering pathetic DVD?
GAME FREAKIN' ON !!
For whoever asked about jury duty in Wasilla, I can tell you. You are given a month to be on call. You are given a batch number and are instructed to call in every night after 5 PM to see if you need to report the following day. There is NO WAY Sarah could have been on jury duty when she was back east in June. Even if she was, what if she was told to report? How would she get back in time to report the next day? I suppose she has the money to fly, but it's so far, chances of getting a flight would be slim to none on such short notice.
ReplyDeleteAnd now she's at the mall signing books? And it's STILL June? Is she calling in daily to see if she needs to report? Hmmmm....
Sarah Palin is so full of shit her she must choke on it constantly.
Its really a simple matter of easy math...
ReplyDelete700 books signed.
Sarah only signs if they buy a copy of Bristle's book so that means at a minimum they're signing 2 books a person right?
700~2= 350
So only 350 people showed up to get a crappy book signed.
Then again, there's always the possibility that Sarah signed BOTH copies of her books in exchange for 1 of Brisdull's sooo...
700~3= 233.33
Either way, its not exactly the 1000's of zombies they were expecting such intense security measures for. I hope they feel like fools thinking people would give up the comfort of their own bed to camp out and see HER. The ego of this woman & her spawn is staggering.
When looking at the "700 books sold" at SP's event....remember, people had to buy both dull Bristol's book and Palin's book...so max about 350 people.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fiasco this whole book signing turned out to be, not surprised because Gryphen predicted it, and I had a gut feeling it would fail.
ReplyDeleteThe video is showcaseing Sarah's M.O. She's pushing her book in conjunction with her daughter's. This way she can keep a close eye on Bristol's mouth and any secrets she'd inevitably spill if on her own.
Todd thinks he's a cowboy, Sarah looks really bad, She's reverted to the campaign bumpit hairstyle, replaying in her brain the adulation the crowds of unwashed were showing her, while sabotaging her own daughter's day.
Tripp, with a binky in his mouth, almost being "left behind" because Sarah's making a mad dash for the elevator, Bristol's sucking down a soft serve xl cone, unaware of where her kid is.... The Palin fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree.
Looks like the gravy train is over, only Sarah doesn't realize it yet.
@Cornelius, 2:55PM
ReplyDeleteYou lost your audience and your way when you stumbled into the outhouse and checked to see if the feces in the bottom were treated.
Thanks for verifying to YOUR friends at C4P that it was untreated. Personally, I try to avoid shit either way, so where u go won't affect me. Just please don't ask me to shake your hand, because you've told us where you either toil or play.
No one here tried to shut you down or shout you down or in any way tried to inhibit your weak-ass effort to speak. Of course, we do have the right to ignore you, which most will do; but I reserve the right to laugh at you for the poseur that you are. You don't have many friends, and with shit on your hands, you will find none here willing to show respect for a man who has none for himself.
Best wishes to you as you try to find a place to fit in within society. Having read your pitiful drivel, I can honestly say that you will need all of the luck you can get. Take a shower and wash your hands with ward water and soap for 3 minutes. Then dry with a paper towel, and don't touch the door on your way out. Then get those fries and onion rings out. We have orders waiting.
Okay. She says she was a virgin. Then she says she was on birth control pills. Now I know there are many reasons to take birth control pills. But at 16 (or was it 15?) the only reason to take birth control pills is if you're planning on having sex. In which case no one is stealing your virginity. You're planning on giving it away. And no. I don't believe Bristol got pregnant the first time she slept with Levi. I think they were doing it a long time before Tripp came along.
ReplyDelete1500 at the Mall to get books signed? But only 700 books? Well, if you had to buy both books, that means only 350 people actually got books signed. Did they each bring three other people? Were they counting children, babies and toddlers? Gee. Do they allow pets? Maybe they were counting people who brought their dogs too.
TICK TOCK Sarah Palin's 15 minutes is winding down.
ReplyDeleteREMEMBER Dumb Fuck Brisket already announced that her mom has already made up her mind. LOL
Has anybody seen Team Sarah building up her election team or are we just watching her go on family vacations, personal movie debuts and book signings.
The fuse has been lit and it is a matter of time before her followers figure out they've been had and go KABOOM against the Palins.
ROFLOL Sarah's house of cards is about to fall apart.
People were "wanded"? What happened to the right to bear arms? What would have happened if someone showed up carrying a firearm? I guess it all depends whose ox is being gored.
ReplyDelete"Bristol could make real money for her and her son by writing a truthful, cathartic book about what it's like growing up with a NPD mother. She would also become a national hero and a true role model."
ReplyDeleteI think there's a chance for that. It's not THAT great of a chance, because this is the family of secrets. But there's a chance, when she gets in her 30's, that it will happen. Because right now, she's not even processing what's happened in her (brief) life. If you portray your first time with your sweetie as rape, if you don't admit what your lifestyle was like with smoking and drinking, if you say you look in the mirror after your radical plastic surgery and claim to see only a slight difference....then you're not mentally processing what's going on around you. She'll have to do it later. And when she does, maybe she'll write about it.
On the huffpo forum, when the NY Marriage Equality topic came up, and they talked about gay people living a lie and trying to deny who they are, and enter into straight marriages, etc,....someone said something memorable: "You can't lie your way into heaven."
And that's the truth. You can't. So one day when Bristol feels the same way she'll write about her real life, not her fake life.
816 pm said "But at 16 (or was it 15?) the only reason to take birth control pills is if you're planning on having sex. In which case no one is stealing your virginity. You're planning on giving it away."
ReplyDeleteYou can't give away something that's ALREADY GONE.
342pm:
ReplyDeleteRAM, we know Sarah is giving you the cold shoulder from that sad and desperate look you had on in Pella, but really--posting on the blogs???? How far the mighty have fallen!
So are you babysitting for Piper Diaper these days, or helping run Todd's scouting "business?"
*wink*
Even if they actually did sell 700 books (which I highly doubt) and pulled a $10 profit on each. The $7,000 profit wouldn't come close to covering the expenses of advertising, set up labor, or security; let alone the expense of flying in Bristol, her son, and nanny and I'm sure princess required a POSH hotel (minus cockroches....and she said Meghan was princess)
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe that this POS family is from my hometown.
ReplyDeletePeople are so stupid to fall for this Palin celebrity crap. Simple amazing.
My assumption is that people who need to follow celebrities, politicians, sports stars, movie stars, TV stars - have something SERIOUSLY MISSING in their own lives.
It's like they live their own lives through these mega-stars, who, in actuality, would not spit on their adoring fans even if they were on fire.
Palinoscopy: a medical procedure to see how far up your ass Palin is.
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