Wonkette
Last week Sarah Palin was exposed as a vulgar fraud for parading around various poor white trash rallies in gazillion-dollar suits made by foreign elite gays and financed by a shadowy hedonist cabal called “the RNC”. She didn’t say anything about this terrible scandal for a while, because she trusted American voters would be more concerned about “real issues” like Barack Obama’s terrorist pals, who include Karl Marx. But after a few days of bad press she started saying things like, “These clothes isn’t mines,” and by this weekend she had reverted to wearing tragic street urchins’ rags to show she is a Real Pro-America American.
Dogged for days by the brouhaha over outfits from upscale stores such as Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, Palin argued that she and her family live frugally. To emphasize her point Sunday night, she wore jeans at an event in Asheville, N.C.
Of course her newest stunt embodies the very worst sort of materialism, worse even than spending three times your average supporter’s yearly salary on red motorcycle jackets and peep-toe pumps: the kind of materialism where you crow about how little you spent on something in order to demonstrate how virtuous you were for not spending money.
Palin talked about her accessories Sunday: earrings that were a gift from her husband’s Yup’ik Eskimo mother, and “a $35 wedding ring from Hawaii that I bought myself. Because with my ring, I always thought, it’s not what it’s made of, it’s what it represents.”
(Hint: her ring represents Sexism, as in, her very inexpensive ring exemplifies her remarkable frugality, which only a Sexist would point out is completely phony.)
Sarah Palin will spend the rest of the campaign wearing a hair shirt and mom jeans from Out of the Closet, her favorite consignment store in Anchorage, whose name she does not realize is a pun.
Palin says expensive clothing not her property [AP]
Sad Piper has to give back that LV bag.
We’ll know this campaign is really over when she starts wearing vests that she Bedazzled herself.
Wouldn’t you respect them more (or, at all) if they didn’t immediately reverse course after every one of the dumb stunts and frauds?
Also: Elizabeth Hassleback. Eat a dick.
YAY Scarlett O Hara!
Mom Jeans, ftw!
Todd couldn’t afford to spend $35 on a wedding ring for his precious?? So he’s always been a poor, slacking loser. Two reasons why Bible Spice keeps him around: 1. he has a HUGE dick or 2. he lets her keep his cojones in one of her pantsuit pockets so she can also wear them as earrings.
The Jordache designer jeans you wore at Idaho State 25 years ago don’t count.
I will not be satisfied until her kids go back to wearing their potato sacks and chipmunk fur hats and dancing for for nickels on street corners.
>>Also: Elizabeth Hassleback. Eat a dick.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that she already has that covered. Eating an entire flaming bag of BBQed dicks, on the other hand, may be new to her.
Maybe.
I’m getting 404′ed on that CBS link…
Oh Sara, you have the BEST alt tags!
I can’t wait until the whole country collectively gives Palin a “frankly my dear, we don’t give a damn” at the end of this election season.
So she says the clothes are just like any other campaign prop that belongs to the campaign that she will give back? Does that mean the plane and everything else will also have to drycleaned three ties then irradiated to remove the rank gamey miasma of sweaty fraudulence?
In gay liberal Hollywood you can get a free HIV test at Out the Closet. I don’t know if your wingnuts supporters would approve of you financing the gay agenda, Sarah.
P.S. Sarah, don’t forget to wear gloves with your hobo curtain dress, lest Rhett Butler find out you’ve been working with your hands like a common Negro!
I think this image would have been more appropriate:
http://blog.designpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pdvd_071.jpg
“I saw it in the window and I couldn’t resist.”
O.o. Sarah, as if your campaign wasn’t in enough trouble already, you had to go and admit you’ve been to Hawaii…
Nothing comes between Sarah and her Calvins. Not even Todd’s Zamboni.
I’m still waiting for the news to break on how much the RNC has spend on ball harnesses and butt plugs.
Can they return those when the campaign is over?
there is nothing worse that someone who is worth over a million dollars talking about how awesome it is to be poor and frugal. poverty is not a fashion choice, you over-privileged ninny. and most people who can’t afford to buy nice clothes on a regular basis or heat their house fucking understand that.
Seriously, the GOP campaign has become a flickering shadow of a joke projected on the wall of Plato’s colon.
I was watching “Morning Joe” this mornig while at the Gym, and thoroughly enjoying Scarborough’s meltdown. It used to be that I was annoyed by Scarborough’s turn to the right shortly after the McCain campaign’s choice of Palin as America’s Miss. Teen Vice President. He dropped all pretense to fairness and became a complete Palin whore. But now that the McCain campaign is nose down in a Palin induced death-spiral hurling to Earth faster than a dead bull moose pushed out the back of a C130 cargo plane, it’s fun to watch Scarborough froth at the mouth. He was all “why doesn’t the news report on the cost of Barack Obama’s suits? Why don’t they report on his fancy schmanzy campaign jet, he’s supposed to be a man of the people, blah, blah, blah.” Sorry Joe, but Obama never claimed to be some dumb, regular guy, hockey dad redneck like Palin. His schtick is that he’s smart, well educated and a tremendously skilled politician. No one gives a shit what his clothes cost because he’s never run around in $500 shoes accusing his opponents of being “elitists” while forgetting just how many homes he owns.
Also, mad props to SKS for calling SP a “vulgar fraud.” Me loves it.
magic titty:
Maybe a contest here to see what final, last week stunts they can come up with. I’m going with the one where she blames her daughters shotgun wedding on Dick Cheney.
Good try Íarah, but the IRS isn’t gonna buy the “Oh, those really weren’t MY clothes” line. Pony up that tax money, baby.
Until I see her in a moose-fur parka and mukluks, I’m still gonna assume they aren’t her real clothes.
Sarah doesn’t own the clothes given to her by “the RNC”, Ted Stevens doesn’t own the furnitures given to him by crooks.
What is wrong with Alaska?
Give it to me, I’ll use it, but I don’t own it if I get caught…..
Texan Bulldoggette: I go with option 1. It seems Todd is the Cheney in the governor’s office I think he keeps his cojones.
jinmoom: Should work now.
Palin again will be hit hard with another scandal this week, as the press discovers that her hobo clothes were expensive garments from Mugatu’s Derelicte line.
Time to roll out Checkers, my simple Republican Husky.
Serolf Divad: My wife was watching Morning Joe this morning and I caught the same segment and said pretty much the same thing, albeit shorter. I said, “Joe Scarborough is a dick.”
Serolf Divad: Brilliant Allegory of the Cave reference! Win.
Serolf Divad: Yes, but who is back there working the projector?
Serolf Divad: Good lord that is brilliant. And so simple…
Woodwards Friend:
If she starts bedazzling, McCain will win Florida.
If there’s one thing the olds in Florida appreciate, it’s nicely blinged-out mom jeans.
Serolf Divad: Joe the MSNBC Designated Right Wingnut got a directive to show more partisanship. It was pretty pathetic — trying to find traction in support of Mooselini.
Regardless of how you feel about the cost of Palin’s wardrobe, I think we can all agree that the red leather Michael Jackson jacket she’s been wearing is atrocious.
Rush: I am just waiting for Palin to call a press conference and angrily yell: “shame on you Barack Obama” while bobblehead McCain and Powlanty stand behind. Why not, they copied everything else from Hillary Clinton.
oyanobaka: OMG that was just the best scene evah!
Burnett/Korman 2012!
Jeebus, at her next “rally” she should just go with the obvious, flip flops…
southernbitch: Having spent the early 1990’s delivering pizzas, I can attest to the fact that rich people are the cheapest motherfuckers on the planet. You expect to get shitty tips from poor people, but the rich neighborhoods were far worse. They make you jump through a bunch of hoops for them, then it’s ” Here’s your 5% tip peasant, now leave my home before I release the hounds.”
Hey, Scarlett O’Hara! That’s what I was drinking Friday night.
Serolf Divad: Why doesn’t Joe get off his beady-eyed ass and go ask Obama himself. I can’t watch Scar at all these days. It’s like watching Glenn Beck.
I am once again shocked that Snowbilly didn’t melt when she went to Hawaii on the $35 wedding ring shopping spree. Quite frankly Hawaii is elitist and unamerican. South Carolina though is where real hard working white americans should go.
Palin had better be wary with them new hobo digs — an anti-hobo fella might attack her with a hammer.
southernbitch: Ugh. This whole thing smacks of Marie Antionette and her ladies traipsing around the Petit Trianon pretending to be poor little shepherdesses in exorbitantly-expensive, courtier-made, silken “peasant” gowns because the Simple Life was just so much better than that stuffy old court life and those starving poor totes obvs had it sooo much better off.
Well, we know how THAT story ended…
On a side note, I actually have sewn a gown out of drapes. It was pretty fabric.
Is she also going to stop getting free plane tickets for Track, Trig, Brillo, Hawkeye and Leatherstocking?
Rush:
Well, they’ve already invaded Syria, which leads to the ‘let’s not change course now in war times’ schtick.
They dusted off that silver-spooned shithead Hasselback to say that people taking issue with a campaign based on Average Joe-ness are being sexist.
The RNC has sent out leaflets calling Obama ‘Black Hitler’, while at once repudiating these very leaflets they themselves sent out.
I’m assuming they’ll cook up an Al-Qaeda ‘credible threat’ by Wednesday at the latest.
well, we can all look forward to a few more years of bible spice- she’s like those indochinese crabs– easy to pick up but hard to get rid of: http://www.newsweek.com/id/165656
Rush: Or maybe they’ll have Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld endorse Hopey.
totoro: rank gamey miasma of sweaty fraudulence Full of win!
lizardmess: I hope that she removes Trig from it first.
Cranky Little Camperette:
I remember seeing that Carol Burnett episode live. I swear my mother pissed her pants from laughing.
dano: Yes, rich=cheap motherfucker is true.
Wardrobegate was fun for about half an hour. L’ennui c’est moi or somesuch.
Caribou Barbie should be wearing the hides of the critters she has slaughtered of the years - moose hide pants and wolf pelt jackets, and the moose antlers. Real Americans are proud to show off their trophies from the hunt.
magic titty: Better yet, George W. Bush confesses that he voted for Obama.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Actually, since “vulgar” means “common,” it’s more like she’s “fraudulently vulgar.”
dano: You don’t get rich by spending a lot of money.
PrairiePossum: Caribou Barbie should be wearing the hides of the critters she has slaughtered of the years
I’d love to see an evening gown made from the skin of Frank Murkowski.
She went on to say that after the election her prop children will go back to the orphanage too.
Hey hey hey, this is just her showing her maverickness. She’s such a maverick she has no problem rebelling against the thing she just said. She’s not going to be beholden by spend her “own money” on “stuff”. All those elitists may say things like “oh, sarah, you shouldn’t spend the money of hardworking donors or constituents.” But why would she listen to them? She’s just an average joe-sixpack maverick and she’ll be damned is she’s going to let an elitist tell her what to do.
by the way - the picture on this story looks like a hobbit. Maybe Sarah’s really just your averge joe-hobbit.
PrairiePossum:
Don’t forget the meth satchet around her neck.
PrairiePossum:
Gotta disagree there. If Palin actually went around wearing moose-fur suits and antler hats, I would be forced to vote for her on account of awesomeness. She would be terrible for the country, of course, so I’m glad she doesn’t dress that way.
Still, some things trump voting for the best candidate, and a bitching moose-antler hat is right up at the top of that list.
Morning Joe is a good reason for leaving for work before he comes on the TeeVee. Why doesn’t he EVER get asked about the dead woman in his old congressional office?
For me, it isn’t about how much she spent on clothes. Hell Cindy McCain probably stands back there thinking…oh you peasant…since she spent $300K on her one convention night outfit. The difference is, Cindy doesn’t pretend to be common and she bought it with her own money.
The issue is that she touts herself as “one of us” and in reality…she isn’t. Also, that the RNC spent donations to cloth her and her family. If I were a donor I would be upset.
I’m dating myself but the more I read about her, the more she reminds me of one of the grifters in “Paper Moon”. She and her family are frauds, con artists. Working the angles to get what they want.
I don’t know many Alaskans personally but now that her pattern of abusing power and the system for personal gain has come to light, I hope they take appropriate action to put an end to it.
Texan Bulldoggette: I think she sent Todd out to buy the ring, but instead he spent the $35 on an eighth of weed and a six-pack of PBR. He MUST be hung to get away with that shit…
I’m thinking muumuu.
http://www.ezonapparel.com/shop/index.php?cPath=49_112
srpen: OMG, I thought she had never been out of the country before!
…all she needs is a fanny pack and t-shirt with an eagle and confederate flag on it!
gjdodger: Oh, I dunno. I prefer to think of Palin as common in the British sense, in which case there wouldn’t be any question about authenticity. Or to quote from that faggoty librul socialist Britcom Are You Being Served?, “Yes, it’s a nice try, but you just can’t hide common.”
I don’t think Palin’s fraudulently vulgar or common. Bush is fraudulently vulgar. Palin is genuine, 100 percent white trash.
I wonder if she also tries to reconcile the tanning bed with her alleged frugality at these rallies… I’m sure the base would totally understand the need to look crispy all year round while their houses are being foreclosed.
Is this “RNC” that Sarah Palin speaks of some kind of radical Isamist terrorist cell funded by Bill Ayers to help Obama thwart God’s will and defeat Sarah Palin?
Nathalie08: Sounds like socialism to me…
LiberalCompassionFascist:
“Still, some things trump voting for the best candidate, and a bitching moose-antler hat is right up at the top of that list.”
Everyone loves a girl who sports a nice rack.
Dreamer: Including the losing…
WOW. I just started browsing around at http://www.ezonapparel.com, and god damn is that an eye opening look into the world of the bitters.
Where else could you find a $19 classic Muumuu ($22 for XXL and XXXL sizes, due to the sheer volume of fabric involved) and at the same website get a 13-inch color TV for $250?
Check out the EZON Measuring Guide (PDF) - http://www.ezonapparel.com/shop/pdf/EZON-MeasuringGuide.pdf I honesltly had no idea that dress sizes could be as high as ‘60′. As in, “I’m a size sixty”. “You mean, size six?” “No, sixty.”
I don’t even know what an Anti-Strip Suit is, but it sure is HOT.
southernbitch: Did anyone hear McCain this morning? I swear he said we should buy stock and let it sit for a year. Where do I get the money to buy the stock?
AngryBlakGuy: Daisy Dukes with cowboy boots.
magic titty:
If only they had a larger kitchen sink to toss at Barry. Joe the Plumber should be able to help with that.
She will be making public appearances in the paper bag she could not govern her way out of.
Serolf Divad: Not to mention that Barry has actually worn holes in his shoes.
Damn bitch. It’s not the fact that you wear expensive clothes that’s offensive, it’s that you in no way earned those clothes yourself. I fucking hate her so so much.
“Who cares about the $150,000 I spent on clothes, I’m wearing cheap shit now that you’ve found out about it. Don’t I get credit for that? I’m keeping it reals, yo.”
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
3dollarbill: If only I could get Foxnews to listen to my pitch, I could go buy something new to wear. As it is, I can’t afford to eat, which is working out, because now I’ll waste away and fit into the skinny clothes so they can bury me well.
But I digress: A want a one hour news show on FOXnews. Put her against Maddow and blow that lesbo’s ass out of the water. Start with a little folksy political bs from Sarah, feature the occasional witch doctor healing and wing-nut politicos who can’t get the stardust out of their eyes, do regular crossover segments of first Dude and how manly alaska men are. Add a segment, “At home with Bristol, fucking hockey dude, man, and baby Bibbyboo” and sometimes a feature on the ‘tard and how happy they are that Sarah didn’t bother aborting him. Wingnuts would be lining up to to appear on her show.
And every episode would end with Sarah killing something! And ripping it open with her bare hands and a bowie knife before Todd eats it raw!!!!
Listen up, Fox, I have just carved out sheer money for me, you and the snowbillies.
Cash which allows me to eat again, buy nice fat clothes and give money to Democrats, of course, to cleanse my soul of the evil.
If she start’s jumping on the Greyhound bus routes for her trips to campaign stops, I’ll hold my nose and vote for her….but mostly because I’m starting to get a little nervous about that socialist negro terrorist pal dude.
I think not using the clothes that that the trusting donors of the RNC gave her is more of a waste then buying them in the first place. Of course, since most of the clothes were purportedly not worn, she could return them and use the money for good. Oh, wait. That might be construed as “spreading the wealth.” Obscene wastefulness it is!
But does Palin rinse her mouth out with cologne so that Todd won’t know she’s been hitting the brandy? Scarlett would. But then, Scarlett had more class than Palin. And that’s really saying something.
I dont see why you meanies are piling on Elizabeth Hasselback, that right wing nut is hot hot hot!!
As a plus, when she was young she hosted some kind of cheap fashion guide on mtv that let teen girls buy cool outfits on a budget of 40$ total
I am soooo waiting for her playboy spread
If Scarlett O’Palin looked like the 1939 Vivien Leigh we would ALL be voting for her, even (especially?) Maddow.
NoWireHangers:
That’s “a common nigra!”
shivan:
“I’m dating myself . . .”
Have you tried okcupid.com?
Just to make my point
http://www.xarj.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/Elisabeth-Hasselbeck1.jpg
So, in other words, she’s conceded that her and old WALNTUTS! have lost this thing. Otherwise she’d be needing those rags in her veep job?
Rudy can take her clothes because he is a panty-wearing J.Edgar Hoover closet case. I’m sure he would like to wear Sarah’s skin if he could vis a vis: “It needs to put the lotion in the baaaasket!!!…”
Just think what fun she’s gonna have at the next GOP convention announcing that she put those expensive, excessive clothes on eBay. Doubt it’ll get the same response as the jet line from August, but what the hell, they’ve proven themselves willing to try absolutely anything.
Serolf Divad: “Seriously, the GOP campaign has become a flickering shadow of a joke projected on the wall of Plato’s colon.”
I am simply in awe, sir.
Mumble Softly: I’m waiting for her Penthouse spread with Ashley Todd. (Ewww. I just horrified myself, and that’s no mean feat.)
Oh Wonkette! How dare you compare the uncouth country hick Sarah Palin to the glorious and feisty Scarlett O’Hara? Miss Scarlett is a role model for the ages, standing there all pert and lovely and full of hussified spirit, dressed in her mother’s green velvet portieres. Sarah Palin isn’t fit to lick the mud from Scarlett’s dainty emerald dancing slippers.
saratoga: what dead woman?
Rozalia: Or maybe not. I like to think she would have surprised everyone by showing up for the inauguration in a velour track suit.
Uh oh, Republicans!!!!! Better stay away from Saks and Neiman Marcus! They appear to have a LIBERAL return policy!!!!!!
What’s funny is that she said the cost of her wedding ring is not important, it’s “what it represents.” Somebody tell me what buying a $35 wedding ring YOURSELF represents?!
you cannot be serious: ‘I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist’ — OK … *you’re* the one who made me blow my hot coffee out my nostrils this morning. Thanks one helluva lot! Ow …
I probably shouldn’t drink hot liquids while reading Wonkette. I already have to keep a sponge here by the desk.
chaste everywhere: That, SIR , was beyond the PALE!!!
Woodwards Friend: Funny you should mention Bedazzeling…I brought one and made a denim vest for a Palin rally. The vest was awesome. I made one side longer than the other to give it that real redneck look. Then I bedazzled the fuck out of that thing. The front had Sarah Palin fan mantras. I wanted to put a giant bedazzled eagle with a tear on the back, but I didn’t care enough. When the sideshow came to Florida, I was not granted a ticket. Karl Rove must have my name on a list somewhere….
Har, my BFF has husband who thought $35 was waaay too much for a wedding ring, too. Not a redneck, though–a Yankee.
Serolf Divad: I was thinking the same thing this morning, though not so eloquently.
I especially liked Joe’s suggestion that Obama fly coach to prove he’s a “man of the people.” Can you imagine the logistical nightmare of the secret service, press, etc. squeezing on to a Southwest flight? Not to mention the other passengers who would be afraid to board the plane in case one of the wingnuts who think Obama is a secret terrorist decide to take matters into their own hands.
Putz.
I love her “that’s not really me”.
She admits that she is a fraud and a phony!!
THe first step to solving your problems is to admit them….
“Hi, my name is Sarah Palin, and I am facade of a Veep candidate.”
“Hi sarah”
Joe Scarborough is a dumb whore.
And if he’s bitchin’ about airplane charters, how does he think Palin Antoinette gets around? On a pogo stick?
JSDC007: Snowshoes, silly, and her pixie wings!
Okay, it has to be said: Birthday suit!
Texan Bulldoggette: Track was born 8 months after they got married (and 9 after the stick turned positive, oops). Do the math.
It’s been so much fun, watching the McPain campaign as it lurches from banana peel to banana peel. I will truly miss it when it’s all over. The whole bidness about the clothes is really kind of silly, but you have to say that they invited the controversy when they tried to stoke the resentments of the working class white folks by pretending that they were just Joe Sixpacks (and can we just can it with the Joes - puhleeze!).
At least Miss Scarlett was faking it in the other direction when she dressed up in her mother’s curtains (”I saw it in the window and I just had to wear it”). She was down on her luck and pretending that everything was okay. She was willing to whore herself…for Tara! Palin, on the other hand, was plucked from comfortable obscurity, given the star make-over and yet pretends that she is just like the folks - she’s whoring herself for votes.
Oh well, here’s to waiting for the next banana peel because, after all, tomorrow is another day!
wallythepug:
It’s worse than that. At one point he suggested Obama fly around in a cargo plane.
4tehlulz: No, no, no, elitist gay arugula-infused dicks, cooked my Rosie of course.
totoro: “Just like the sound, lights, stages, and other stuff, my clothes and me are props for the Party.”
“Faded Glory” jeans- very appropriate, and only $15.99 at Wal-mart. Get some photo time with the greeter in the wheelchair at the door.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is defending the clothes purchases because she is the same size as Palin and hoping to inherit.
So in other words, she’s just like those Beverly Hills girls who go into the finest shops on Rodeo Drive, buy a super-expensive ensemble for some party they’ve been invited to that night, then return it the very next day.
Also, I saw Palin on the tv this morning at some rally, speaking about the “RNC” buying those clothes. She pronounced “RNC” with the same tonality with which she pronounced “community organizer” back at the convention.
Mumble Softly:
“Sorry.”
I knew even as I typed the words that I was savagely violating all concepts of human decency, but– like Ben Gazzara in Anatomy Of A Murder–I was seized by an irresistible impulse.
“Just like the sound, lights, stages, and other stuff, my clothes and me are props for the Party.”
She herself is a prop for the party.
She pronounced “RNC” with the same tonality with which she pronounced “community organizer” back at the convention.
Which is funny because she has no right to complain. She signed up for it, I doubt Todd or anyone else forced her into it.
@ dreamer: “Saratoga” is presumably referring to Lori Klausutis, found dead with a fractured skull in Joe Scarborough’s district congressional office sometime after the 2000 election. This was right around the time of the Condit/Levi media feeding frenzy; the MSM did a complete hush-hush on Joe’s little secret. He resigned from Congress and commenced his TV career after a brief spasm of “spending more time with his family.” A few individuals have done some digging, eg.: http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html.
“These clothes isn’t mines,”
Dam you Wonkette, I’ll have Al Sharpton on your ASS this statement is clearly RACIAL,youns don’t give a Niggar a chance!
Oh! what is that you say they are talking about Sarah Palin,,,,,,,,, Ok then the statement is in orden.
All I wan’t is to win dis dam Election and get me a white gurl.
So, is she allowed to keep the Blingee?
What gives in this Alaska place?? How could a store called Out of the Closet not realize that it shares the same name with about a billion goodwill-type stores with a Stop AIDS/HIV prevention/Love the Gays/etc. mandate? These people must be smoking the wrong end of the meth pipe.
I hope Little Matchstick Girl Sarah P. shakes her moose moneymaker with the matching felt socks on national tee-vee. Her schtick about socialists and communists is as frayed as those Alaskan granny panties. Todd can wear his boiled wool wifebeater, while Joe- the-Guy-McCain-found-on-the-street can model those low rise plumber pantaloons. All this will be an alternative to Obama’s infomercial tonight.