I honestly was trying to avoid writing about this next story. And I held out as long as I could. I already have an unfair rep. of being somewhat of a sexist, and I was afraid that writing about this subject would reinforce that unfair perception of moi. After all, if Sarah Palin was a male politician, would we have made such a big deal about her $150,000 shopping spree on the RNC's dime? I thought about that for a minute.....and the answer I came up with was, yes. I will use exhibit A, John Edwards, and his $200 hair cuts, to bolster my position. We killed the Breck Boy for his vainglorious ways, when his hair cuts were the story. So yes, Sarah, your ass is fair game.
Now let's talk about Sarah for a minute: Seems girlfriend hit up Neiman Marcus in the Twin Cities and Saks in the Lu for $75,062 and $41,850, respectively (that's funny, I never pegged St. Louis for a Saks kind of town), and girlfriend dropped another $4,100 for makeup and hair consulting. Even little baby Trig got hooked up. A $92 romper and matching hat did the trick for the little one. But seriously, hair consulting? Is that kind of like having a life coach just for your hair. Now why would Sarah need a hair consultant? I have some advise for you Sarah; and it won't cost you a dime: Lose that fucked up Aunt B hair style of yours. Try something else. Anything.
So in all, the little shopping spree came up to $150,000.00 all to dress up the hockey mom. (The Flyers are still winless) Sorry Sarah, your little makeover doesn't say small town middle A-merry-can values to me. In fact, it says style and appearance over substance. So let's see now: the average U.S. household spends $1,874 a year on clothes, you dropped damn near $100,000.00 on clothes in one month. That's a little more than just some lipstick there Sarah, don't you think? And I wonder if you will pay the taxes you will owe for these gifts? I am guessing you won't. After all, you do have some issues with stealing the government's money.
"Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card...Don't live outside of our means" Hear that A-merry-ca? Don't blow the entire college fund and 401K in just one month.
But as funny as this shit is, it's not what really has me pissed off about this story. No, it's the rethulicans reaction and how they carried about their little operation makeover in the first place. First, the arrogant pieces of shits are acting as if it's no big deal, just another case of the press picking on poor Sarah. And now we hear that they are going to donate the clothes to charity. Give me a break! Like what they are just going to drive that shit down to the Goodwill and drop it off. (Yes, I am Bob from the RNC, we have some Bob Mackie gowns here that we think you would just love to have )The slick ass rethuglicans, knowing that it's illegal for candidates to buy themselves clothes and personal items. So what did they do? They had a rehtuglican consultant, Jeff Larson, bill all the goodies to his firm, and then they reimbursed him. Larson, by the way, is running Mr. Morton's robo calls and is the same guy that ran the frat boy's robo calls against Mr. Morton in 2000. So in order to get around a little campaign law that McCain himself co-authored, the RNC used a middle man to get Sarah her clothes. You cant make this shit up.
So round and round it goes. Sarah and the family needed clothes because what, they don't have clothes in Alaska? The clothes they had didn't play well on television? What the hell, the woman was a governor of the state of Alaska for crying out loud, and her family didn't have any clothes? Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot (no pun intended), and the DNC had hooked up Joe Biden with some suits? We wouldn't hear the end of it.
But enough of Saksgate, it's time we got back to focusing on the real important issues facing our country. How bout dem Phillies?
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Now I ca n understand the need for clothing, but does your 7 year old NEED a Louis Vuitton purse? I mean really???
I mean I love designer bags too, but I buy my own.
This is over the top, I won't say anything else...
OT but this is pitiful:
A white woman (McCain supporter and volunteer) in PA claims that a black man assaulted her at an ATM and carved an inverted B (for Obama) on her face.
It now appears that the "B" was self-inflicted.
Check out Wonkette for pic's and details.
As usual,Field,you nailed it!
And let's hope that,in less than two weeks, we'll send Gov. Plain's ass back to Alaska!
C'mon Field. Did you see her wardrobe before? The woman needed a major makeover!
Yeah, I caught this in the Style section of The Washington Post. Theyre doing the same thing they gave Edwards crap about. Bunch of freakin hypocrites.
Joe the Plumber signing A BOOK DEAL?. America is truly a land of opportunity! Lol!
Field,
Acc. to McCain, Palin wanted and needed new clothes.
Brad Blakeman, GOP strategist, appeared on MSNBC today, and expressed (fake) outrage @ Obama for jetting to visit his gravely ill grandma on a 767 campaign plane. "Obama s/b humping his bags on a commercial flight," he said.
Blakeman's argument is that a 767 is costlier (in energy and money) than the $150k that Repubs plunked down on Sarah and her family's makeover (which incl. an $800 Louis V bag for her 7 y.o. daughter).
Field,
I did a blog on this yesterday. But as governor, what was she wearing in Alaska, feed sacks? What governor have you seen in this country that needed $150,000 for clothes? Plus some of that money went for little Palin, Mr. Alaska and Redneck boy.
Then in September Mr. Morton spent $8672.55 for makeup. Tell me any average woman or man who spends that much on make-up evry month and I'll run naked with you!
Yes, FN...How 'bout dem Phillies?
I wanna cry, I'm so pissed...
Isn't there anyone, beside you, who will finally take off the gloves off, b...h-slap MisAnn back to Adak and deliver us from her misery? If any of us were as foot-stompin' country stupid as this 4-eyed meth-head moose-with-lipstick, McDonald's would pay us not to work for them.
What's up with McSame's Alzheimer's meds and Paylend's sex tapes? These lying morally bankrupt old crackers are a menace to the future of our children.
Let's hope the early voter numbers are correct. Bless us all.
Flash
Perhaps the anger issue runs in the McCAIN family, check out his brother cussing out
Field,
I live in the twin cities; and I've been to the Neiman Marcus where Palin shoved out about $75,000.I couldn't even afford a tie. And I had just gotten paid off!
Well, my take on this, is the same as pretty much all the decisions the McCain and Co have made in the last 2 months. They are pretty much guaranteeing an Obama victory. In all seriousness, McCain is running the worst campaign I have ever seen. I am beginning to think that a. once he was thrust into the national arena, his rashness has really been amplified. He has made one rash, bad decision after another, starting with choosing Palin or b. He really does not want to win. Maybe he did at some point, but he sure isn't acting like he does now.
OK. Hell is freezing over. Scott M
McClellen, Bush's former mouth piece endorses Obama???!!!!
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003877603
flash....cloths provided by rnc not purcashed by carriboo AND they'll be auctioned off to feed poor black kids
What I love is turning to Fixed Noise and hearing Bill O complaining about how unfair the press is being to McCain. He had MONTHS of favorable coverage when Obama was getting reamed. They're such babies.
Hi field --
Thanks for your timely post. I think we're getting near the finish line. After that, I won't be puttin' up any more pictures of either of them, you betcha!
I posted today on "The Emperor's New Clothes" with a beautiful piece of artwork. Kind of looks like my second husband in the nude. You or your visitors might want to see it.
Warm regards,
EK in Oregon
http://ellenkimball.blogspot.com
A big Black Man attacked a WHITE woman and then carved the letter "B" on her face. This conveniently happened in Philly. LOL. You cant make this shit up!
one up side IF bambie makes it to the big house........he can't refer to himself as africun American.....lol
It's even more insulting when you consider the elitist charge coming out of the mouth of the Moosey one.
It's one thing to spend that kind of money on clothes. It's another thing entirely to spend other people's money on said clothes. Sometimes, it's almost like 'Cain and the moosey one are trying to lose on purpose.
@red devil 11:04pm. I read it myself, shocking. white woman who just happened to be an mccain supporter attacked by black male who happens to be an obama supporter. Just too perfect.
I had actuallly thought she needed to dress better and get a haircut, but as the saying goes "you can take the boy out of the country, but not the country out of the boy." Nothing is too form fitting for her or to colorful. I think it was a waste of money, her clothes are mostly inappropriate for an executive. She dresses like she's the candidate's wife. I don't see where the hair has changed any. Some apologist said her highlights are better now. What?
They should have had her featured on What not to Wear. They only give you $5000 to make your self over and she would have had help. I think one could shop even at Neiman Marcus for a few good pieces.
Michelle has shown affordable style and she knows the difference between looking professional as the lawyer and being the candidates wife.
Red Devil, that happened in Philly? really? Can somebody confirm this? the black mugger?
i saw a video of black dudes taking mccain signs out of this hard working american's yard!!!!
are they turning against the oman???
Let's play Six Degrees of Separation here, shall we?
Know who this Larson character is, above and beyond a slimy shit who did the robo calls? He is the landlord of the also slimy MN GOP senator Norm Coleman who is charged a whopping $600 per month for his classy DC digs.
Is there anyone in the GOP who is not corrupt beyond words, slimy pieces of crap, and total lowlifes?
Just askin'.
11:04pm
red devil
proof positive that all black men wants to do is mug white women. die niggers, die. wake up, america! y'all about to put a mugger-in-chief in the white house. may you all burn in fried chicken hell!
Really whitepower, what is fried chicken hell? LMAO
I guess your sorry white ass is about to get a taste of what people of color have had to endure for centuries. Someone who does not look like them in power! It's about damn time!
FN...leave it to my sister Jody to help you out on those legal issues. She has been doing this for quite some time! You just get ready to run!
um white power, stfu
anyways
wtf does a child need with a $92 romper?
but this doesn't surprise me.
remind me again, how many houses does john mccain have?
Hi Field,
Once again, insteresting post. Yes, I will admit that 150K for clothes is quite a venture.
By the way, according to one source, Barack Obama's campaign has reported over 12 million for "Misc. Administration" and 21 Million for "Polling/Surveys/Research".
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008
It seems now, all black on white crime is about Obama supporters attacking McCain's. I've seen too many stories recently. Any black person who looks cross eyed at a McCain supporter is an Obama Thug.
The mugging, this is Philadelphia! It smells when they say a B was carved in the woman's face. A mugger would take time to do that?
What some whites really are afraid of, is that its payback time. They know that the sins of their fathers have been passed down to them and it scares the crap out of them, that they may just have to pay some dues for their privilege.
"Even little baby Trig got hooked up. A $92 romper and matching hat did the trick for the little one."
Well, it's only natural a Grandmother would also spend the tax payer's money on her first out of wedlock grandchild (you do know she's a f-ing liar, don't you).
For all the low down dirt that has come out on this lying vindictive corrupted thieving individual in the past months, why is she still around and not disqualified? Why won't they just make her go away?
Field, thanks for putting Tekenya Wooten on your side bar. A missing pregnant 12 YEAR OLD (I don't the father was a 12 or 16 year old either), and NO Amber Alert! Yet that Racist Nancy Grace seems to be stuck on stupid over the same three year victim. I hate this prejudice and racism in this country!
"america! y'all about to put a mugger-in-chief in the white house. may you all burn in fried chicken hell!"
Rush, is that you?
Correction, maybe not the tax payer's money (or is it).
I saw the picture. It looks staged to me. A "black" eye, but it's not swollen? The mirror-image letter "B" looks like it was "carved" with a fingernail, not with a knife.
What, the Dallas Mother Ship Neiman's wasn't good enough for Palin? They had to shop at the Neiman's up north? What's up with that? Why does Palin hate Texas for?
{off topic} Would McPalin be running such a dirty low-down campaign if they knew that Rove had the fix in? The rethugs have got voter suppression down to an art, and they own the electronic voting machines. So why not tone down the campaign and act human? Is the nasty campaigning just a smoke screen for the Real dirty tricks?
Paranoid? Who? Me?
That woman's claim is false, and it'll come to light in a few days, if not already. The GOP party amazes me at how low they'll stoop to win at all cost. No mugger, black or white would take the time to carve an initial in someone's face and take the chance of getting caught. Her and the GOP really must think that people are stupid.
"black or white would take the time to carve an initial in someone's face and take the chance of getting caught. Her and the GOP really must think that people are stupid."
Not to mention write it "backwards" on her face. Stupid.
I need to hit the sack, all this crazy news and crazy people getting away with things is draining me.
field,
1. being a pittsburgher, i wish i could feel your phillies pain right now--but, truth be told, i know my buccos are so far away from ever seeing a world series again, the hubble telescope wouldn't even help them find it;
2. i read somewhere that the palins have spent something like $2,500 a day on their stylee. apparently, they've could've spent less on a week's worth of ads in some of their battleground states. so, hey, you can't blame them for knowing where their priorities are. just another mcfailing on their part.
singaporeswim,
i was wondering if they were going to figure out how to dog obama for visiting his sick grandmother. you can put nothing past the gop this year.
white power,
"fried chicken hell?" that sounds like fried chicken hebben to me!
Perhaps Palin should have hired a consultant to tell her to stop drawing the lipstick around her mouth. Everytime I see her I think of Ronald McDonald.
FIELD,
WHAT I THINK ABOUT SISTER SARAH IS THAT AT FIRST, WHEN SHE BECAME MCCAIN's running mate, she truly believed that she was capable of assuming that post, but now, she's simply running for herself.
She's not "studn" John McCain or his stupid campaign, because she is only positioning herself and getting herself situated for a larger role -- because she knows they are going to lose. She may not necessarily be looking at a run in 2012, but she sure as hell is looking beyond Alaska. She probably hates that she's stuck in the governing of Alaska, because she has tasted big-time America, and she obviously relishes the spotlight.
She cares nothing about McCain or Cindy or the Republican Party. She's all about Sarah. While John McCain's campaign used her at the beginning to win over the Hillary people, she, SisterSarah, is now doing the same thing to the McCain campaign. Turn-around in fair play. Now, when the election is over, she won't simply fade into the background. She will do the Sarah Tour, contract with a publisher and eventually do several book tours, she'll half-ass govern Alaska (and won't seek re-election), and she'll hire a series of nannies to care for her special-needs child.
Yes, oh, yes. SisterSarah has eaten from the big table, so there's no turning back now. She knows that she's not qualified to run the country in the event that something happens to McCain, but when he so foolishly asked her to be his running mate, she didn't blink, because she saw the offering as her once-in-a-lifetime ticket out of the trailer park. She saw (and sees) herself beyond whatever Wasilla ever had to offer her. She even tried to fix up her little girl -- the one who insists on parade-waving at every stage she's on, the same one with the oversized Louis Vuitton(sp) bag.
Oh, yes. SisterSarah is on to bigger and better things. If you notice the dynamics (or lack of dynamics betw. McCain and her), you'll notice an obivious strain there, which wasn't there at the very beginning. I think McCain probably hates her more than he hates himself for -- for all the stupid and mindless things she keeps on saying, and I think she hates him, because he's such a twit.
When the election's over and Barack has won, hands down, follow SisterSarah for a minute, and see how she circles the globe with her nonsensical gibberish, promoting herself.
You're going to write in your blog, "You know, that lady was right about SisterSarah." (Please note that I'm not referring to Sarah Palin as any kind of sister-sister. I'm referring to her as a right-wing church-going, trailer park sister of the cloth.
From: girlSouthern in Florida
(You know us Floridians know all about elections!)
FIELD,
WHAT I THINK ABOUT SISTER SARAH IS THAT AT FIRST, WHEN SHE BECAME MCCAIN's running mate, she truly believed that she was capable of assuming that post, but now, she's simply running for herself.
She's not "studn" John McCain or his stupid campaign, because she is only positioning herself and getting herself situated for a larger role -- because she knows they are going to lose. She may not necessarily be looking at a run in 2012, but she sure as hell is looking beyond Alaska. She probably hates that she's stuck in the governing of Alaska, because she has tasted big-time America, and she obviously relishes the spotlight.
She cares nothing about McCain or Cindy or the Republican Party. She's all about Sarah. While John McCain's campaign used her at the beginning to win over the Hillary people, she, SisterSarah, is now doing the same thing to the McCain campaign. Turn-around in fair play. Now, when the election is over, she won't simply fade into the background. She will do the Sarah Tour, contract with a publisher and eventually do several book tours, she'll half-ass govern Alaska (and won't seek re-election), and she'll hire a series of nannies to care for her special-needs child.
Yes, oh, yes. SisterSarah has eaten from the big table, so there's no turning back now. She knows that she's not qualified to run the country in the event that something happens to McCain, but when he so foolishly asked her to be his running mate, she didn't blink, because she saw the offering as her once-in-a-lifetime ticket out of the trailer park. She saw (and sees) herself beyond whatever Wasilla ever had to offer her. She even tried to fix up her little girl -- the one who insists on parade-waving at every stage she's on, the same one with the oversized Louis Vuitton(sp) bag.
Oh, yes. SisterSarah is on to bigger and better things. If you notice the dynamics (or lack of dynamics betw. McCain and her), you'll notice an obivious strain there, which wasn't there at the very beginning. I think McCain probably hates her more than he hates himself for -- for all the stupid and mindless things she keeps on saying, and I think she hates him, because he's such a twit.
When the election's over and Barack has won, hands down, follow SisterSarah for a minute, and see how she circles the globe with her nonsensical gibberish, promoting herself.
You're going to write in your blog, "You know, that lady was right about SisterSarah." (Please note that I'm not referring to Sarah Palin as any kind of sister-sister. I'm referring to her as a right-wing church-going, trailer park sister of the cloth.
From: girlSouthern in Florida
(You know us Floridians know all about elections!)
And she denied the $150,000 expenditure to the Chicago Tribune.
"That whole thing is just, bad!" Palin told the Tribune. "Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are."
She may not be presidential material, but she sure tells lies better than any politician I've seen in my lifetime--and that includes Bill Clinton.
Sheila
la incognita:
"Not to mention write it "backwards" on her face."
I was just getting ready to say that. We on the same page. (smile) What she did was inflicted that "B" on herself while standing in the mirror, and that's why it's backwards. I figured out how she did it, but what I'm still giving thought to is what method she used to give herself that blackeye. I'm thinking that she put something in a sock and did it. Although, she could have had one of her friends to do that part, and they just didn't sock her too hard, but hard enough that she would bruise, because you know she probably bruise easy.
One thing I know for sure is that she is lying. If a person carved a "B" in her face, it wouldn't be backwards. I tell you some folks is just plain scandalous, low-down, and trifling.
Sheila:
And she believes her own lies, so that leads me to believe that she has been lying for a long, long time. She is a pathological liar. McCain called her his soulmate, that speaks volumes about him too.
I don't know how much a professional makeover costs, but I can't blame them for doing one. But I don't believe it would cost $150,000 and more importantly, I don't think anyone spent that kind of money for that purpose.
If anyone actually bothers to investigate this, I think they'd learn that this is a case of embezzlement of campaign funds.
The whole thing is suspicious as hell. Why report it to the F.E.C. to begin with? The answer: To justify $150,000 in disbursements. Someone surely figured no one would look. But then they looked. And, when they did look, first the media reported the $150,000. Nice fun story for a day! Ha ha!
Then the media actually started calling the recipients named in the documents, and it turns out there there are NO RECEIPTS for this $150,000 in spending, and that the vendors where it was supposedly spent deny that there were purchases.
I think someone swiped $150,000 and went and spent substantially less than that on clothes and makeup for Sarah. I further think that, as we write, someone at the R.N.C. is talking to someone else at the R.N.C. in rather direct tones. Something like this: "Where's the fuckin' money? Get that money back or else!"
That's what I think.
Oh, and the attack by the big black mugger? Tawana Brawley in reverse. How high up in the McCain campaign is the question. I mean, we're talking Western Pennsylvania here, i.e. the part of PA that's West Virginia. As soon as the dastardly deed was reported, none other than Sarah herself was on the horn to offer her sympathy to the poor girl.
The hoax will be fully revealed soon. Then the question becomes: Will the media pay any attention, like, say, they were all over the horrible injustice of Daily Kos questioning whether Sarah's kid was really hers? The black-attack hoax came directly from the McCain camp, while the doubts about Trig came from outside the Obama campaign, but will that matter? Something tells me not. This will vanish.
Magic dog:
I totally agree with you about the black hoax being from the McCain camp, because it smells like something they would pull. Now, the clothes thingee, I dunno. However, on the young woman claiming that an Obama supporter carved a "B" in her face. I know without that is a lie and will be exposed soon.
Now, as a diversion, they have the nerve (and callousness) to go after Obama for using his campaign plane to travel to HI to visit his sick grandmother.
Hathor said: Michelle has shown affordable style and she knows the difference between looking professional as the lawyer and being the candidates wife.<<<
I recall her appearance on The View. She was wearing a black and white Donna Ricco dress, which goes for the grand price of $148.00. Ricco's and other like designers can be purchased at White House/Black Market: http://mail.google.com/mail/#label/Fashion/11d2a49843c4b1b7
What, no Target in MN? Did Sarah leave her Visa in her bag at the hotel? She's claiming she didn't accept the clothes, that most are sitting in the belly of her plane :/.
There are things that still make you go, hmmmm.
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Dear Singapore,
I just saw a pic of the "attacked" girl in PA with a B on her face and it's backwards ~ Either her attacker is dyslexic, or she didn't even have the sense to turn it around when she was looking in a mirror to do it.
red devil, i think that story happened in Western Pa., not Philly. If she is; Mr. Morton better watch his ass, because I hear that he called her peronsally.
"Oh, and the attack by the big black mugger? Tawana Brawley in reverse. How high up in the McCain campaign is the question. I mean, we're talking Western Pennsylvania here, i.e. the part of PA that's West Virginia. As soon as the dastardly deed was reported, none other than Sarah herself was on the horn to offer her sympathy to the poor girl."
Yes magic dog, I smell a rat.
"... Everytime I see her I think of Ronald McDonald."
That classic line was delivered compliments of soabpubble :)
"..seems now, all black on white crime is about Obama supporters attacking McCain's. I've seen too many stories recently. Any black person who looks cross eyed at a McCain supporter is an Obama Thug."
great point Hathor, guilt by association. The black bogyman(think Willie Horton) is back on the prowl.
sharon, you are not paranoid.We are talking about rethuglicans holding on to power here, they will do anything.
"Is there anyone in the GOP who is not corrupt beyond words, slimy pieces of crap, and total lowlifes?"
And sharon, you are right, going after a man for visiting his sick grandmother (I don't care if he used a damn rocket ship)is a new low.
msjoane I am thinking................hmmmm let me get back to you on that.
All Obama would have to do is to go to one fund raiser, to justify his use of that plane. Hawaii is a state.
Please tell me you have something else better to write about. Barack has spent over a $145 million on this campaign alone. Far exceeding McCain. So please stop finding irrelevant shit to talk about.
I don't begrudge the RNC for seeing the need to get the Clampetts presentable for the big stage....but $150k? Neiman's? Saks? Blookingdales?? Oh hell naw. I can just see them when they went thru the big doors of the "fancy city store"...WE DONE COME UPPPPPP!
And did you read where Miss Sarah got beside herself with the wardrobe director at SNL for her appearance? She didn't like the duds they picked out for her.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/sarah-palin-on-snl-costum_n_137248.html
The “B” is backwards….the “B” is backwards …….you people have drank the Kool-Aid…….are you telling me that a brother can’t be dyslectic ????
Oh, wait that would make him guilty and we all know that a black man CAN’T be guilty….that’s just a white man holding him down……..sometimes you guy disappoint me :(
and are you sure bambie's grannies sic???? I think it's just a political move...no wait "the man" gave her something and made her sic so he would have to leave the stump and lose the election....sigh
PS Edwards haircut cost $400. He also made the hairdresser meet him on the road, making the cost between the airfare and hotel over $1200. Just thought you should get your facts straight.
Also Michelle O Drama should use some of that 145 million to sharpen up her outfits. She's a lawyer from Chicago and has no excuse to dress like that. Palin lives in Alaska, what do you want?
12 yo and preg......I didn't even think that was possible.... and hav the popo checked out of the hell the sperm donor is????
i'm not sure which is worse.....
at any rate another baby & mommy i have to pay for IF the democraps win
Our Founders' Gift
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Election '04: If George Bush loses the popular vote but takes the Electoral College, as he did in 2000, expect an all-out assault on the musty old process.
That's consistent with his opponents' majoritarian impulses - and their reaction four years ago. But it's inconsistent with the arrangement set up by the men who framed our system. The U.S. is not a democracy, though it's almost always referred to as such. It is a republic.
Under the original plan, only members of the House of Representatives were directly elected. Senators, until the Constitution was amended in 1913, were appointed by state legislatures. And so the smaller states would not become utterly meaningless in presidential elections,
all you have to do is put bambie's name in place of bushmaster's...I see it coming
Over Fifty People Dead in My City this year... And NATIONAL NEWS reports on this crackpot lady.
Over 25 People Dead in the East End (where this happened). And they report on the crackpot lady.
I agree, that looks like makeup. I've been punched in the face before, and it swells.
Lady "refused medical attention" because she didn't want her shit called out.
And police won't be backing her.
Thank our fine Pittsburgh police, for taking her statement and letting her go. They've got better things to do.
that's it cover up for the poor black man
Heck, in this market, you could buy a house for $150k. My objection, in addition, to the price tag was the brands purchased for her. (She did not indeed make these purchases for her.) For someone who is so "pro-America," her wardrobe should have been focused on American designers and manufacturers. Heck she could have gone to Talbots and the like, been hooked up for under $10k. Louis Vuitton bags, although lusted after by many an American woman, are NOT pro-America.
One more thing: That skirt she wore during the McCain - Brian Williams interview was too doggone SHORT! I can't take a woman seriously who's flasshing that much thigh!
How does anyone spend $150,000 on clothes?
You can buy a really nice 3 bedroom/2 bath home in many parts of the country and put a new car in the garage for that much coin.
If I won the MegaMillions, I wouldn't and couldn't spend $150,000 on clothes.
The amazing thing is, despite this outrageous clothing budget, McCandy still manages to look like a $40 Vegas hooker.
Nailin' Palin, indeed.
ROFL@the P-burgh "mugging"...this election season is getting pretty obvious by now.
i find it ri-damn-diculous that she spends so much money on that swoop n tuck... period! she speaks as if she cares for this country and its people but she abuses her authority and digs herself into deep holes that she thinks she can "wink" her way out of!
i'll quit here before i go on and on about this woman and her "beliefs"
Field - I am off topic but have you heard the story about the missing 12-year old girl WHO IS 8 MONTHS PREGNANT - from Durham NC?
They have not marked her case as high-risk; they have not issued an amber Alert. See link below or my blog for more details.
http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/10/we-care-about-tekenya-wooten-run-a-way-is-high-risk/#comment-12856
IF YOU ARE IN DURHAM, please, call your PD, your council reps, your ministers, your people. This child is a victim of sexual abuse and now she is a victim of a dismissive police department and an apathetic media. This could be my niece or yours. PLEASE do something today.
So, that thing with the B? It happened in front of an ATM, or so she claimed. (citizens if anyone cares -- it's a shitty bank).
Problem is, the atm camera didn't catch any of what she claimed.
Polygraph test today! (thank you Pittsburgh Police!)
It's Willie Horton Time!
It's Susan Smith Time!
What did I tell ya?
Black McCain supporters should be ashamed of themselves.
You hear that Uncle James T.?
Tawana Brolly
This is my take, or at least part of it.
Rural Americans feel ignored within "Mainstream Society." Other than being portrayed as Ignorant Hillbillies, they don't see themselves in our culture.
Rural/Small Town America was decimated by the exodus of Manufacturing jobs over the last 30 years, and the people, whether they'll acknowledge it or not, are Pissed Off, and Rightly So (There are towns within my state where unemployment is over 20%).
Unfortunately, as most people do when they're Pissed Off, they displace their anger.
They see someone like Palin, who pretends to be "One of Them," and they go Apeshit.
It doesn't matter what she does, as long as she says what they want/need to hear: It's the "Elitist's" fault, it's "Affirmative Action," it's the "Mexicans," "Why do minorities get Special Treatment?," "I'm one of you," blah, blah, blah.
In other words, "Don't pay attention to the Man/Woman behind the curtain."
If they had any sense, "Small Towners" would despise Republicans more than anyone. Not because Palin has an $800 handbag, but because Republicans are the ones who started the mass exodus of jobs overseas with tax incentives, and subsidies for corporations.
Think about it, some of "Joe Six Pack's" own tax dollars were given to the company for which he worked, so the company could move to another country.
Joe was forced to pay to have his own job eliminated.
That's fucked up.
Anger almost always flows downstream.
Pissed off at the Boss Man? Curse your wife, and beat your kids.
Or, in this case, blame "Blacks," "Mexicans," and "Muslims."
Joe still wants to believe his "Hard Work" will one day pay off. Seeing Palin with an $800 purse reinforces his delusion.
Field,
I see you have a few racist attacks dogs prowling around your blog site... As you know, they only bark when there's a threat, so take it as a compliment when these narrow minded bigots share their thoughts with you:)
As for the Phillies, I picked them at the start of the season to win the World Series; if the pitching can get the game to Lidge "it's lights out" for Tampa, Florida! Ryan Howard has been a non factor, they need him to produce, and soon!!!!
This is one of the most disorganized campaigns I have ever seen.
How are you going to talk smack about the Dems being elitists then spend 150K on clothes? Most Americans don't make that in a year.
I get that she needed some new clothes but come on!
I think she could have done it on 20K really. I can't believe they bought a child a LV bag. WTF? I don't think she is going to want to donate that bag.
Other than the Valentino jacket I wasn't impressed by the get ups. If I had that much to spend I would have bought some Blahniks, Louboutins (sp) and had a few suits and dresses made.
I see Palin's traveling make-up artist was the highest paid McCain staffer for the first two weeks of October. The artist made $22,800. That's more than McCain's economic and foreign policy advisors made during that time.
You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
Sheila
As the author of the one and only Secret Squirrel Black Socialism Expose website, I want to have a good laugh as this trailer park Tawana.
But another part of me is upset, just like I was irritated by Tawana, her no-count family, the showboatin' Reverend Al, and by Charles Stewart, and the Boston Police, and by anyone else who decides they are going to hop on the Race Train and take us all for a thrill ride.
I'd like it if the little "B" were thoroughly exposed in the national media for this one. Seems to me that, as a group, black men have enough challenges without having little white Republican Bs running around tellin' trailer park tales about how they were assaulted by them big black bucks.
Officer! The big black buck was 6' 4" tall and he sat my my chest and, well maybe he did the nasty, and the next thing I knew I woke up with this B carved on my face! What is this, an outtake from Birth of a Nation?
Who knows, my attitude might be influenced by the fact that I've got a couple of nephews who are black bucks, having been adopted a long time ago by one of my brothers. They're great young men, and I worry about what's behind the smiles of some of the people they meet.
There is good news and bad news. They're going to have a black president to look up to, and most of those smiles they see are genuine. But at any moment, some little white B can claim that asome black buck did some nasty thing and there will be my nephews, under silent suspicion.
Yeah, I know, it's how the world is. The world gets better, slowly and surely, and of course nothing goes up in a straight line. But this one, ridiculous and (pardon the pun) darkly comedic as it is, still upsets me.
Here is a video of the B, if you can stand it. I'm going to have to restrain myself, lest I be ashamed of what more I write.
Hathor: All Obama would have to do is to go to one fund raiser, to justify his use of that plane. Hawaii is a state.<<
Exactly! And it wouldn't be that hard to do.
c'mon said: Also Michelle O Drama should use some of that 145 million to sharpen up her outfits. She's a lawyer from Chicago and has no excuse to dress like that. Palin lives in Alaska, what do you want?
What is wrong with Michelle O's wardrobe? She appeared on the View in a b&w dress and that dress flew off the shelves following her appearance.
Here is another video, where she stalks some black janitor and accuses him of ripping down her McCain signs. At the moment, I'm too mad to be articulate.
BREAKING NEWS: The little B has confessed to making it up. As I write, it's just a headline on the KDKA radio station website, with details to come.
I really hope this will get widespread national attention. This kind of shit needs to be called out for exactly what it is.
Breaking News: on kdka: ashley todd admitted to making up the story....she is the woman who claimed to be assaulted by a black man who wrote a B on her face..
Here is the quote from KDKA:
A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed. More details to follow.
Good work, Grinder, at 1:38pm.
Here is a better link to the story of the white woman claiming to be assaulted by obama supporter black man
God damn it, I hope this thing gets splashed over every fucking news show from sea to shining sea. I remember very well when that happened in the Tawana Brawley case. She and her enablers richly deserved what they got, and so will Ashley and the McCain campaign.
This is truly an outrage. It one level it's funny, but at another level there isn't one single funny thing about it.
Poor lady couldn't even find a black neighborhood. Got lost in Bloomfield, did she? That's Italian, not black! (though some would say Sicilian is half black, and I won't say they're wrong).
I knew when I saw the address she was lying.
You'd think PETA would be all over Palin calling herself a pit bull and a barracuda. Isn't that cruelty to animals?
Speaking of the Rethug's psychotic little darling, I must confess that I have always believed what a far wiser person than I once said, that not all conservatives are stupid people, but most stupid people are conservative. As the campaign unfolded (or unraveled, depending on your candidate), and the video clips of the Geezer/Dingbat rallies began resembling scenes cut from Mississippi Burning, I felt vindicated in my belief.
But perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps, at the very least, they're teachable.
Because after this story about the 150k shopping spree broke, the only redneck on my street willing to advertise just how much of a racist pig he really was took down his McCain/Palin yard signs.
I'm not so naive as to say I think he'll vote for Obama, but it did give me hope that maybe, just maybe, the so-called "real America" isn't as stupid as the Rethugs think it is. At any rate, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
(And it seems that Lady Justice is back at work. The US Appellate Court just granted Troy Davis a stay of execution!)
They found Teyana Wooten! Cheers.
Singapore Swim, et. al.,
This political mugging allegation turns out to be a falsehood. She inflicted the injuries on herself and lied. Now she's facing charges.
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
Hey FN...this whole deal about the hate mongering little Ashley, has really made me take a step back and think about this current generation of young republicans. At the risk of going "old fart" on you, I think we are seeing the end result of kids today, that have been weaned on internet anonymity, and really don't know when to separate that from reality.
It's a new phenom, but under the cover of the anonymity the internet provides, people can say whatever they want, and, as long as they are careful, there is absolutely no fear of retribution. It tends to lay the black hearts of the conservative party out bare and exposes them for what they really are-selfish, racist hate mongers that care little for anything but THEIR god, THEIR guns, THEIR taxes, and THEIR rights. Ironically, they also care little about who they are hypocritically willing to have others step on and oppress, to ensure that THEIR right to be a selfish hate mongering little shit does not get infringed upon.
We mistakenly believe they are few in number and will soon crawl back under their rocks. Sadly, however, because of the cover of anonymity, they tend to get louder meaner, and more obnoxious. They feed off each other. Over this past generation, they have managed to take their dark selfish politics from the edge to the status-quo. Progressive and altruistic ideologies that were once once inherent to American youth, have mostly disappeared. Sadly, they have been replaced by a generation weaned on the selfish callous disregard of Reaganomics, the teeth gnashing jingoism and underlying racist garbage spewed forth by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Mikey Savage, the corruption of Christianity to encompass the "who can we hate the most" dogma, and this seething neurotic hatred of liberals and the federal government.
The problem arises for them, when the few brave souls that have been so securely nestled in the bunkers of their moms basement, venture forth out in to the real world, forgetting that their anonymity gets checked at mommies door. We are just seeing the conservatives really are...bullies, but only bullies if no one is there to take them to task and call them on their shit. As has become apparent lately, strip that anonymity away and they all tend to curl up in the fetal position, and start crying that "it's just not fair...why are you oppressing me?"
The altruist in me say's pity them. The realist in me says screw them...they deserve worse than what they are getting.
You know Stacey and Clinton would have probably dressed Sarah Palin for a lot less. I do not understand why the baby needed a stroller because everything I see the baby being held by someone as if he was some kind of prop. Why would anyone hold a baby as if he or she was a football, but I digress.
There is an interesting article in the October 27 issue of the New Yorker (Yes I still read the New Yorker) about Sarah Palin and how she may not be that Washington outsider she leads everyone believes. While it is true, she is certainly no intellectual, Palin is a very calculating and I do not underestimate her. She is even uncutting her running mate Grandpa and using him as a stepping stone to put herself into place for 2012. I would not fall asleep on her at all.
hmmmm..no comment:
I just watched some highlights of Brian William's interview with Sarah Palin and John McCain.
This exchange was shocking:
Brian Williams: Back to the notion of terrorists and terrorism, this word has come up in relation to Mr. Ayers -- hanging out with terrorist - domestic terrorists. It is said that it gives it a vaguely post uh 9-11 hint, using that word, that we don't normally associate with domestic crimes. Are we changing the definition? Are the people who set fire to American cities during the '60's terrorists, under this definition? Is an abortion clinic bomber a terrorist under the definition?
Sarah Palin: There is no question that Bill Ayers via his own admittance was um one who sought to destroy our US Capitol and our Pentagon -- that is a domestic terrorist. There's no question there. Now others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or um facilities, that uh, it would be unacceptable -- I don't know if you could use the word terrorist, but its unacceptable and it would not be condoned of course on our watch.
Yeah, imagine if this crazy, racist bitch Ashley Todd had done something like this 40 years ago, i can assure you that a scapegoat black man would have been hunted down, castrated, and lynched. This is fucking serious.
Fried Chicken Hell? Mmmm . . . sounds yummy. Better than another Republican administration!
Americans should tell us, Is this the worst campaign ever?
I thought it was illegal to mixed personal property and government funds or any business funds with personal money.I also learned businesses should have more capital (cash) than credit but hey in the real world I guess you throw out the law.
grinder - why can't you let the Tawana Brawley thing go? Your hate seethed through my screen. why can't white people let this go oh once a black person lied WTF? Why mention your family adopted "black bucks" your statements are a nicer version of white power's statements. My boss states "I'm not racist,but please don't leave me alone with these Mexicans, I'm scared."
I love What not to Wear
grinder - why can't you let the Tawana Brawley thing go? Your hate seethed through my screen. why can't white people let this go oh once a black person lied WTF? Why mention your family adopted "black bucks" your statements are a nicer version of white power's statements. My boss states "I'm not racist,but please don't leave me alone with these Mexicans, I'm scared."
Oh come on. There are two mirror image cases that are bookends on the fake hate crime front. One of them is Tawana Brawley and the other is Charles Stuart. I mentioned them both.
The "black buck" stuff was obviously sarcastic. What this Ashley girl did truly offends me. It was calculated to reach into the white subconscious and yank at strings. You might not believe me when I say it, but when people do that I insulted, angry, and embarrassed, pretty much in that order.
Let's face it, that's what the young College Republican was doing. She was drawing on primitive race-based fear. Anyone who denies that it's out there is fooling themselves at best.
The most than can be said for Ashley is that she's nuts. I always thought, for example, that Jeffrey Dahmer the cannibal never should have been sent to prison but to the state nuthouse, because anyone who did what he did was crazy. Maybe it's the same for Ashley, on a lesser scale.
But I don't let McCain off the hook, that's for sure. He put out a statement saying they were "shaken" by the "sick and disgusting" incident. I think that was cynical as hell, myself.
As for my nephews, well, look. Maybe I got too emotional. They're great people and I think about them in connection with these things. Yet, you do have a point about my parading them as a credential, and I'll avoid it in the future.
demetrius and designer que:
Amen! Designer que, Granny wishes that you would have continued expressing yourself, because you were telling the truth and nothing but the truth. Granny's sentiments exactly...
I told y'all that the young woman's black mugger hoax was coming to the light soon. I guess, next one of McCain's supporters will be claiming rape. I wouldn't put nothing pass them. You can't teach an old dog new tricks, and in McCain's case, he is set in his ways and still holds some ancient racist views. Yup, he is out of touch and crazier than a road lizard.
Palin, well, I can't help but think that she ordered her degree out of a catalog, because she is severely limited in the intellectual department. Although, she seems to excel in catty remarks, lying, and inciting hatred, which is not, exactly, what I would consider qualifying her for any type of government leadership position.
This is that racist bitch(ashley todd) youtube link.
Here is her phone #
Ashley Todd
334-277-2493 (home)
334-312-7969 (cell)
334-834-9790 (work)
Did you see how see was dressin before they introduced her to the elite clothing designers' wares?
Red Devil:
Yeah, imagine if this crazy, racist bitch Ashley Todd had done something like this 40 years ago, i can assure you that a scapegoat black man would have been hunted down, castrated, and lynched. This is fucking serious.
You are abso-freaking-lutely correct and spot on. And the racist fury that Mc-Palin keeps whipping their mobs into, makes that possibility every bit as likely today.
I thing that FN should make the entire Pittsburgh PA police department todays field negroes from getting to the bottom of this so quickly.
They may have just saved a couple the lives of a couple of innocent men.
Not only did the 20-year-old lie about the assault, but the story was embellished by McCain's Pennsylvania Communications Director.
!!!
So the young woman lied, but a McCain campaign person embellished her lies.
What.the.fuck.
These hate mongers need to GO.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php
There is an aspect of this that ABSOLUTELY should not be overlooked, which is the McCain campaign's exploitation of the whole thing.
The girl herself is unbalanced. She is a classic misfit right out of the classic book about mass movements at the weak minded: The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer. As much as she irritates the hell out of me, she's a bit player.
What matters a lot more to me is that the McCain campaign hyped this story to the Pittsburgh media, which is what the link above is about. They gave further hyped-up details that turned out not to be true, and they told the media that the McCain campaign was "shaken" by the "sick and disgusting" attack.
In other words, the McCain campaign was playing the Black Savage card to the hilt. In western PA, an area known for its redneckiness, at a time when the McCain campaign was hoping to revive itself in PA, and then the rest of the country, with a comeback that would start in the western part of the state.
The McCain people are going to spin this as the lone actions of a deranged wacko. At some level that's true, but the McCain people were perfectly willing to amplify and spread that lie and inject it into a population of people who they knew would be predisposed to think the worst.
A long, long time ago I remember reading about the social environment that allowed the KKK to operate with impunity. The crackers who actually did the dirty deeds were just the sharp end of the stick; there was always someone behind the scenes with clean hands and plausible deniability.
dc, I see you posted while I was writing!
Latest headline:
Tom Ridge, thinking out loud to a reporter, says that McSame effed up royally by picking MooseBurger.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_595030.html
Mind you, this dude is currently co-chairman of the McSame campaign. But hey, at least he had one brief moment of honesty.
McFailin '08 =
Worst-run. Campaign. Ever
The racist bitch is the short fat one with the glasses. To the left
Why cant you people just B nice to her?
what a fat fuck
"B" nice to her! lol "B".
Hey!
This girl should not be excused, condoned, her actions should be condemned, period.
But, putting her phone number out there and calling her a fat fuck is NOT OK!
Last thing I wanna see is this girl getting harrassed for real... then she WILL become a little martyr. DONT DO IT! She is not worth your time and effort. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE! THAT IS OBAMA WINNING THIS ELECTION, not harrassing some pathetic lost soul!!!!
What do you know? the mcCain campaign were actually pushing the story
@ jody 7:26p.m. I am sorry, but this woman is vile...she WANTED TO ignite a racial war/violence/storm in this country.People like that deserves been hit by the bus. With all due respect to all fat chicks everywhere, she is one ugly fat bitch. Fuck her.
Nice red leather jacket, though!
Opie and his dad, as well as the Fonze, endorsing Obama for president.
Hey!
This girl should not be excused, condoned, her actions should be condemned, period.
But, putting her phone number out there and calling her a fat fuck is NOT OK!
Last thing I wanna see is this girl getting harassed for real... then she WILL become a little martyr. DONT DO IT! She is not worth your time and effort. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE! THAT IS OBAMA WINNING THIS ELECTION, not harrassing some pathetic lost soul!!!!
You are so right.
She did what she did and made it worse for McCain.
Leave it alone!!
Obama/Biden 08
8:19, yes. SisterSarh's red leather jacket is nice, but it appears to be a bit too big. Red jack or not, she's still trailer park PWT.
Punk said...
This is that racist bitch(ashley todd) youtube link.
astrid said...
she is one ugly fat bitch. Fuck her.
This is a blog where a great deal of latitude is given for the opinions of other to be expressed.
Some of it has been down right racist, and clearly from racists.
Now, some of their opinions have been vile and sick, meant to shock, but ends up being pathetic, sad, and sometimes humorous.
Although your comments don't rise to that level of vileness, it's vile nevertheless.
I just want you to know that you don't speak for me.
You, two, must be in a great deal of pain, not to empathize with this young woman who's in considerable emotional pain herself.
Your lack of empathy frightens me more than what she did as an manifestation of her own illness.
You need to take a deep, penetrating look into your own psyche, your own soul, to determine where all that rage comes from.
I hear it as a cry for help, more than anything else.
How you decide to respond, if you do, will either confirm my suspicions, or dismiss them.
I'm just not how you sell a $150k shopping spree to a family in middle America that won't make that much money gross in three, four, maybe five years. Sounds like the McPalin ticket is a little more Paris Hilton than they'd like to admit.
Field, the Phillies in the Series is proof positive that we are in the End of Times and the apocalypse is near. ;)
And Asshole Todd's 15 minutes are over. Toss her psycho ass in the big house and lose the key.
black diaspora, I agree with you. I think Ashley is a troubled young woman, age 20 going on 14. The real culpability in this incident is with the McCain campaign, which made a purposeful decision to spray gasoline on a fire. Ashley herself, well, having seen some serious mental health issues up close, I am inclined toward mercy.
Rarely do people regret showing mercy to the fools of the world. Maybe I have a thing for the fools, having been (or at least felt like) one more often than I'd care to recall.
@grinder: "well, having seen some serious mental health issues up close, I am inclined toward mercy."
Grinder, I've only had one mental episode in my life and it made me rethink everything I thought I knew about mental health.
Had it not been for prayer, I don't think that I would be here today.
The episode was unwelcomed, unexpected, and relentless.
I'm no longer glib about the subject of mental health, nor am I dismissive.
A person has to experience it just once to realize just how horrible it can be.
1. You don't spend that kind of money at department stores unless you're used to it. Shopping to that degree takes real practice.
2. "I have some advice for you Sarah; and it won't cost you a dime: Lose that fucked up Aunt B hair style of yours. Try something else. Anything."
Thanks Field, I am glad someone besides me has said that.
field, if you weren't married, and if i wasn't married...i would propose to you. JUST on the basis of your comedy ALONE.
LMAO @ SAKSGATE. and Bill O' Liely!
LMAO. i am going to take those to my mother--they're classic.
heck, SHE just might propose! LMAO.
GREAT writing, i LOVE it!
I'd love to see her spend another $150K on clothes. Every penny spent on clothes is a penny NOT spent on the kajillion robocalls I get every fucking day.
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