Wonkette
Here is the latest impossibly meaningless “Fight” between Sarah Palin and John McCain. Can it still be called a fight if there are A. no stakes, and B. the participants themselves even seem a bit unwilling? Anyway! “The AP said that Palin writes about receiving a bill for about $500,000 from the McCain campaign to pay for expenses relating to the vetting process that took place before she was named as the vice presidential nominee.” McCain’s campaign says this is untrue, and also, it really doesn’t seem to be the thing that in any reality would be true! Anyway, Stapleton calls the book “embargoed”—like LITERALLY—which allows her more time than usual to come up with one of her usual lies. [CNN]
How much could it have possibly cost? A rabies shot and a thorough deworming doesn’t exactly break the bank.
AP corrected it … it was $50,000, not $500,000.
Reporters apparently aren’t good at the maff. Embarrassing.
Click: I think you’r thinking of the vet bill, not the vetting bill. Either way, someone got ripped off.
Even for Whacko Palin, this seems odd: Why would the Republican presidential candidate send the Republican vice presidential candidate a “bill” for “vetting,” or for any other reason in the universe? Why? It doesn’t even matter if it’s five cents or five dollars–why? As Wonkette said–this doesn’t appear to be anything any campaign would do in any reality. Why?
It does not make any sense.
Can we finally just all boycott anything having to do with Palin–really? Let’s start the boycott right here: No one should buy her “book.” No one should watch her on TV. No one should go to any of her appearances–none, nothing. No one should respond to her online. No one should give her a dime. No one should talk to her. Nothing, nada.
It’s the least we can do!
Considering the quality and thoroughness of Palin’s vetting, shouldn’t the cost have been $0?
She’s also pissed at Couric, of course, who she thinks was unfair. Sarah, when you’re complaining about a journalistic lightweight who asks nothing but softball questions, the problem isn’t her, it’s you.
She’s like one of those grifters who prey on old people like McCain, saying they owe them money for work never done. And she’s probably hoping McCain will read the first AP report, and being an old person, just send her the $500,000 to shut her up.
Well, if she was wetting herself, she should pay for it.
Wait….what?
Never mind.
thefrontpage: I agree- at least until the 2012 elections really heat up.
thefrontpage: But I can still bang the shit out of Bristol, right?
Click: When I lived in AZ, they ran a special that was like 25 bucks for the shots and spaying/neutering. They should have done that.
Mustang: I stand corrected.
the kind of vetting McCain needed, for himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvvQq4leoo
“Embargoed” is the new “Pre-emptorily Remaindered,” right?
I have a theory. I think Palin’s lawyer knows she’s a dumb as a box of hair and he sent her a bill for $50K, saying that she needs to repay the vetting fees to the McCain campaign through her lawyer.
Click: That five-ten minutes of pay for her secretary to email the necessary information is pretty goddamn pricey.
Well this should be easy to prove, where is the FULL FROM CERTIFICATE INVOICE POORCHASE ORDER?
Crank Tango: Do you suppose she’ll get Trig fixed?
It doesn’t seem as though anybody vetted this book.
nbawriter: it was $50,000
Well, be fair, McCain’s got to pay for Meghan’s push-up bras. I researched the topic and apparently those things cost like $50 or more. And, you know, it’s Meghan. So, yeah, McCain sends bills to everybody he can think of.
“All those bills are from her personal attorney Thomas Van Flein, mostly relating to the Troopergate investigation and other ethics investigations. It is not legal to pay for those investigations out of general election funds, even if the campaign was so inclined.”
…or to hear Sarah say it: “Hey, my lawyer sent over the Troopergate files and invoiced me $50k for the postage. Why don’t you pick up the tab on this one.”
Jebus, the book isn’t even out yet, and there’s only been snippets of Oprah and I’m already Palinized…
She also claims she was told the campaign and/or RNC would pick up the $150,000 tab for her shopping sprees. Either Palin is a blithering idiot or the RNC is populated entirely by petty, dishonest cheapskates. I’m perfectly willing to believe both things are true.
ForTheTurnstiles: I think we have the new Palin 2012 Campaign song!
So the Gov’nor thinks the McCain campaign should pay for her defense of the ethics charges brought by Republicans and other conservaties in Alaska for events that took place before she was nominated when she ran for office in the first place as a reformer who kicked corrupt politicians out of office?
My head hurts!
freakishlystrong: It’s only going to get more unbearable as the release date approaches. I may go into hiding in my spider hole.
So the vet who didn’t vet actually did vet Palin. This just shows how stupid McCain and the republicans really are.
Maybe they were just trying to get some of her shopping spree money back. I mean, really, who would want the First Dewd’s silk boxers back?
Terry: Rings truest.
Apparently Mrs. Palin is still PO’d that the night of John McCain’s defeat she wasn’t allowed to make a speech to kick-off her 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Why would Sen. McCain see there was anything wrong with her doing that? What’s the matter with him?
Oh, I thought it was for Vittering — which would be gross and overpriced.
Couric’s producer has said that they never expected that particular interview (the what do you read interveiw) to amount to anything. The quesitons were considered softball/getting-to-know you questions that any reporter would ask in a first session at that point in the election. Palin’s ignorance made it a big deal, not the question. And she will never, ever understand that.
Wow. Tempest in a teapot.
RoscoePColtraine: Countdown to HarperCollins reclassifying the book as Fiction in 3…2…
I would have “vetted” Sarah for fifty bucks but would definitely shower/take antibiotics afterward.
Tundra Grifter: So the *former* Gov’nor thinks the McCain campaign should pay for her defense of the ethics charges brought by Republicans and other conservaties in Alaska for events that took place before she was nominated when she ran for office in the first place as a reformer who kicked corrupt politicians out of office?
/fixed
$499,999.50 of that vetting took place after her nomination was announced.
Click: They better–Levi is proof enough that retards can get all the pussy they want in Alaska.
Crank Tango: I was speaking in the more general sense, but yes, I think it’s a good idea to keep him from procreating as well.
I’ll meet you for drinks in hell.
Maybe McCain sent her the bill because she lied on her job application. The part about the post-doctoral work at the Sorbonne didn’t check out.
In addition to not paying for her vetting, whatever that is, he did not pay for her legal bills. That’s where you come in. Please donate all you can to The Alaska Fund Trust the official legal fund created to defend the integrity of the Alaska Governor’s Office from an onslaught of political attacks launched against current Governor Sarah Palin, the First Family, and state-employed colleagues.
This whole thing started over an argument about who was going to take care of demanding a full refund, since there was no vetting.
She should have been allowed to keep the clothes, though.
“The McCain Campaign charged me for something = Run out and donate to SarahPAC — do it NOW.”
these are our leaders,
so come take a look.
they lie and cheat and steal
and sell the rights to the book.
– todd rundgren
Any red-blooded Merukin priest would have done her exorcism for free. Heck, the Church would send her hush money if it didn’t go well. And it obviously didn’t go well.
Click: Hey that works for me. The drinks part, although I don’t drink anymore, but by the time I end up in hell, I won’t really care anymore, right?
Paul Tardy: Needs more rubber chickens. Or pies. Or breasts or something. Maybe more Neilist.
McCain/Palin conflagrations yet to be disclosed:
* The day Palin caught McCain and Joe the Plumber throwing darts at a picture of Todd
* The secret slush fund McCain set aside to keep Levi Johnston going on Geraldo
* The video of Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain mocking McCain’s viagra prescription
* The tape of McCain plotting with campaign advisers to hire Tina Fey to play Sarah Palin on the campaign trail
* The time Sarah Palin tried to show McCain Russia from the top of her chimney in Wasilla
george
I’m guessing she thought Troopergate was part of the vetting, since all of the vetting she got was done by Alaskan legislators (and bloggers).
Crank Tango: Actually, I hate drunks, so you can sip delicious smoothies while I sit back and smoke the cigareetes I’ve been craving for the last ten years.
Click: I’m jonesing so bad I can’t even spell it right.
It was a Canadian morning DJ who called her and said he was from the McCain campaign and needed a $50,000 check to Ima Retard. Or maybe it was a facebook scam, and she thought the McCain campaign was trying to bill to her Farmville account? I heard they do that on facebook.
Does her book include her phone conversation with the French prime minister?
Click: Sure! But I am gonna be smoking shitloads of hash. Which is just a hair more than I smoke now LOL.
Don’t really care about her fake bill for going to the vet. But I would like to commend the artist of that latest Blingee. That is honestly the shit!
$50,000? I have a guy that would have got that done for $50. Would have done a better job, too. Name is Eddie. Eddie the Vetter.
germansteel: Especially considering that RNC wardrobe, which will be the subject of her next thrilling revelation, “Going Vogue.”
Simple Sarah claimed the half a mil was for her legal expenses, which was creating inflation among Anchorage shysters.
Blingee win.
pondscum: It’s a wild guess as to what a Simple Sarah “understands” (do aardvarks have consciousness?) but the heat-shifting is well-known. All morons do it. They ask her what newspapers she reads, and she volleys it as an insult to provincial Alaskans, as if they don’t get them papers up there. And then she attacks the interviewer. Standard issue demento deflections.
germansteel: Sarah called. She vants to vipe your viener. If you vant.
bitchincamaro: But she does not vant to get vet. Achtung!
Tundra Grifter: I think it’s actually possible that she believed that “vetting” meant (literally) “rehabilitating my image.”
tinkleberry: When the world is literally your oyster, Eddie the Vetter will help get you out of a pearl jam.
Extemporanus: Mmmmmm…Eddie Vedder……
One Yield Regular: We know what she would have thought she was getting if they’d called it a “make-over.”
“Vetting” reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon with the dog leaning out the car window yelling at his friend “Hey Rusty! I’m going to the vet to get tutored!”
Meanwhile, according to MM4A, Boss BlunderRush has pronounced Gov’nor Palin’s tome “The most substantial policy book I’ve ever read.”
Personally, I’m quick to believe that is a true statement.
Flanders: You are, of course, correct. I left out the “former” as my homage to those pathetic minions of washed-up ex-pols who inflate their sorry station in life by continuing to refer to their bosses as if those bosses actually still occupied elective office.
For over fifteen years we’ve had to hear Ole Newt called “Speaker.” He never manages to find the time to correct the persons who address him as such, do he?
$50,000? Abortion doctors make that in like 5 abortions. Sarah is clearly in the wrong business if she’s so concerned about money.
Are you sure she didn’t mean John McCain paid her for some ‘petting’?
(I don’t think she knows the definition of the word vetting)
So they made her sell her Neiman-Marcus clothes to pay for the vetting?