One male Sarah Palin fan simply cannot hide his excitement at meeting her.

Watch for the guy in the blue shirt.

If that does not sum up the Republican male attraction to Caribou Barbie in one simple video then I don't know what would.

Sarah Palin throws a gutter ball during speech at a Bowling Expo. Gee I thought bowling alleys had more class. Update!

Palin, who is becoming famous for making things up and and clumsily forcing bizarre comparison between her life and the venue at which she is speaking, has really out done herself in her most recent speech.

(The quotes from her speech were found at the Examiner.com.)


First Palin atempts to bond with her audience by comparing the knocking down of pins to blowing holes in wildlife back home in Alaska

"You are an audience full of fellow sports enthusiasts, that's how I view all of you," she said. "I grew up in a family of sportsmen.

After that one skids into the gutter Palin desperately tries to link her love of running with a sport that has cupholders available to hold your beer.

"I enjoy running and as I thought of that sport, how that contrasts with the community of bowling and I think of it as a community. Any sport that shares shoes truly in my mind is a community."

Shoes! Of course!  Bowlers are EXACTLY like long distance runners because they both wear shoes!

"I have a personal appreciation for what you do," she said. "There were a lot of cold nights where I'm from where after basketball games we would meet at the bowling center. I have an appreciation of what you provide in your community."

"I also once ate in a Chinese restaurant so I feel a lots of solidarity with the oppressed people in communist China! Oh and by the way, thanks for making my handbag!"

Palin recalled her youth when her father set pins in Idaho.

"My Dad was on a Thursday night bowling league," she said. "He bonded with his buddies. I have memories of that point of my life which mean very, very much to me."

That is such a stupid statement that I don't even have enough energy for a snarky remark.

Palin also was impressed with how bowling centers have fared during the recent recession.

"What I find fascinating is how you have been able to evolve and innovate during changing times," she said. "You've stayed open later. You've added automatic bowling machines and a variation of disco bowling. Because you were innovating and adapting you've seen a resurgence.

If by "bowling machines" she is talking about automatic pinsetters they were first mass produced in 1952.  As for Disco, well that became popular in the 1970's.  Yep bowling sure is on the cutting edge of technology isn't it?

"You have 70 million bowlers and I only thought it was a cool thing in my small town of Wasilla, Alaska.

I am confused.  Does Palin believe that bowling was invented in Wasilla? You know the only two things that I know of that were invented in Wasilla is a potent grade of marijuana and a method for getting rich off your babies.

Wait!  Did Palin get all the way through her speech without taking a shot at Obama? How did that happen?  Is she getting soft?  Did she forget to read one of the notes on her palm?

Wait....

Maybe hearing our president (Barack Obama) spends so much time on the golf course, he should bowl more. After all, he has a lane in the White House."

Ahh!  Much better.

Hey Sarah do you know what that scraping sound is that you kept hearing during this speech?  That my dear is what is known as reaching the bottom of the barrel. It was the same sound John McCain heard when he picked you to be hisVP.

Update!  Here is a comment from Phil Munger of Progressive Alaska.

Spare me more Palin lies:


"There were a lot of cold nights where I'm from where after basketball games we would meet at the bowling center. I have an appreciation of what you provide in your community."

The bowling alley in Wasilla (on the Palmer-Wasilla HWY) was completed in early 1985, by which time Palin was into her 2nd or 3rd college. There was no place for her to go to bowl in Wasilla "after basketball games," as she gave up basketball at least two years before the local lanes were built.

Dammit, I KNEW that was a lie!  But I was so tired last night when I wrote the post that the only person I could think of to check with about when the bowling alley was built was Sadie, and her response was that it had been there "forever".  I forgot that comparatively speaking Sadie is still kind of new herself. 

Well I apologize for not doing my due diligence and getting all the details before hitting "publish".  My only excuse was exhaustion and overwork.

And let me give a big THANK YOU to Phil for providing that very useful information.  Next time buddy I am going to call you first.