Sarah Palin Spent $14,000 Of Other People’s Money On Stickers

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson

neener neener!Hooray, is the Internet pooping out more documents filled with juicy details about Sarah Palin’s pointless and yet self-serving political projects? Why yes! Palin’s latest SarahPAC filings with the FEC are a Political Topic today, because everyone’s favorite grifter quitter queen spent $14,000 just for the goofball decals on her “Road Accident Death Tour of America” bus, which is GEE, A LOT OF MONEY to pimp out the RV for a “family vacation,” which is what Sarah Palin told everyone this was, over and over. What else does $14,000 buy these days that would be more fun than a shitload of stickers? A temporary tornado victim shelter? A year or two of vocational school? Two warehouses full of methamphetamines? We do not know, we have never seen this much money at one time.

The WaPo reports on this topic, just for you:

Sarah Palin’s political action committee spent tens of thousands of dollars covering the costs of the former Alaska governor’s “One Nation” East Coast bus tour this spring — a trip that Palin (R) has repeatedly characterized as a “family vacation.”

According to a list of itemized expenditures filed by SarahPAC to the Federal Elections Committee and published Thursday, Palin’s committee spent nearly $14,000 on the “bus wrap” that festooned the family’s tour bus with images of the Liberty Bell, Constitution and American flag. The committee spent $10,000 on “logistical trip consulting,” $3,600 to the bus driver and at least $7,000 on lodging.

But the total for the trip is likely much more, because many bills came in after the June 30 filing deadline, Sarah PAC treasurer Tim Crawford said in an interview. In addition, many other expenses associated with the trip, such as photography, videography, Internet fundraising and airfare, are more difficult to account for. (One item in the report describes $6,999 paid to an air charter company called Republican Presidential Travel on June 9, at the tail end of “One Nation.”)

Haha, Sarah Palin, she is very good at this “grifter” thing, is she not? We would like to figure out how to get someone to give us tens of thousands of dollars to go on a family vacation. [WaPo]

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Barb July 15, 2011 at 9:56 am

Hugh Hefner asked Sarah Palin to pose in Playboy magazine. She turned him down, explaining that she's too busy posing as a politician.

Fare la Volpe July 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

Yeesh, Barb. Leave some jugular for the rest of us.

Barb July 15, 2011 at 11:15 am

Sorry Fare, my bad.

DashboardBuddha July 15, 2011 at 11:34 am

No kidding…the girl is on fire.

hagajim July 15, 2011 at 11:00 am

RIMSHOT!

Gleem_McShineys July 15, 2011 at 1:33 pm

No, that kind of thing only appears in Hustler.

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:07 pm

You, girl are smokin'! Not like Sarah, who is flame RETARDant.

tcaalaw July 16, 2011 at 11:08 am

Wow, a net 150+ upfists! Is that a new Wonkette record?

Barb July 17, 2011 at 12:18 am

No, I've hit 400, 300, and the high 200's in the last month and so did someone else.

Barb July 15, 2011 at 9:57 am

Palin is all for "limited government" that works out nicely with her "limited abilities"

trampndirtdown July 15, 2011 at 9:59 am

If only she would limit the number of words that spill out of her pie hole.

Barb July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

What a wonderful world it would be.

JustPixelz July 15, 2011 at 10:36 am

She's differently abled. HOLY SHIT! Did I just say Sarah Palin™ is "abled" in any way? Now I'm going to have to cut off both my typing hands (which is harder than it s

PsycWench July 15, 2011 at 11:38 am

Grifting counts as an ability…not honest work but an ability.

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm

It's true. I really do not have the ability (or lack of shame) to raise $1.6 million to travel….. from people (stupid people, but still) that are trying to get by in this economy.

Kochs, also, too.

Chillwaver July 15, 2011 at 9:58 am

"What else does $14,000 buy these days that would be more fun than a shitload of stickers? "

How about some of those Brisket memoirs? She could use some help selling 'em right now…

Ancient_Hacker July 15, 2011 at 10:27 am

Hmmm, A quick internet search seems to indicate the cost is about $12 a square yard for a wrap. Bible Spice got charged about 10 times the going rate?

Geminisunmars July 15, 2011 at 11:20 am

Maybe it is Track's new business.

Gleem_McShineys July 15, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Oh, ho, are you not learning grifhopper? You only CLAIM much higher expenses on that paperwork stuff. Forge a receipt if you have to.

Don't tell me you missed the obvious skimming opportunities to filch from your own grifting factory!?

Sheesh, what kind of pathetic grifters are we raising nowadays, anyway?

lenny_t July 15, 2011 at 11:28 am

Well, Palin's first book, the bio, would have been a so-so seller except that her SaraPAC bought a shitload of copies and gave them away to donors. Neat workaround. I 'spect the same will happen to the Brisket's book.

DashboardBuddha July 15, 2011 at 11:33 am

OT Bristol's name. I was talking with a co-worker about tats this morning and I mentioned levi's rings tat, but I played around with Bristol's name. I think my office mate now thinks here name is Bristlecone.

ManchuCandidate July 15, 2011 at 9:59 am

The cost of the bus wrap would have been more, but the PAC decided against getting the scratch and sniff versions.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:22 am

Why would anyone pay for a scratch and sniff wrap bus wrap when they got real scratch and sniff girls inside the bus (who are more than happy to come out of the bus, if you have a camera)?

ManchuCandidate July 15, 2011 at 10:26 am

Less chance of getting a disease or 10.

NorthStarSpanx July 15, 2011 at 10:30 am

Now you've given her the idea to issue scratch-n-sniff emission scented bumper stinkers when she runs. She loves that smell.

OneDollarJuana July 15, 2011 at 10:33 am

Thank God! Now I don't have that sticky goo under my nails that smells like week-old shrimp.

jodyleek July 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

If she would only have used just one of them there stickers to tape her mouth shut!

memzilla July 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

…a trip that Palin (R) has repeatedly characterized as a “family vacation.”

Hmmm. Wonder what the (R) stands for. Repressive? Reichsminister? Retread? Good thing nobody here ever got in trouble for associating a Palin with a word that begins with R….

Sharkey July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

It was supposed to be ®, but they couldn't find it on the keyboard.

arihaya July 15, 2011 at 10:10 am

ask Piper,,,you ruin their vacations, libtards !!

NorthStarSpanx July 15, 2011 at 10:29 am

I'm waiting for her to declare so that she can be Sarah Palin (C) in her world the "c" word means Creationist. For us, well, we know what it stands for.

hagajim July 15, 2011 at 11:02 am

Are you trying to hint at Retard! Good there, I said it.

An_Outhouse July 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm

tRig!

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Revolting?

One_who_wanders July 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

If that is the sticker, it was money well spent.

Come here a minute July 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

Also of note, she burned through $1.6M of the $1.7M she raised in the period, while she hasn't declared her candidacy yet. That's some real fiscal responsibility there, Lou!

Biel_ze_Bubba July 15, 2011 at 11:48 am

Still- a vacation that pays for itself is a pretty cool thing. I'm gonna wrap my car in the Uniform Commercial Code next time I go to the Catskills, and see if it works for me.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

A $50k family vacation. Or, as Columba Bush calls it, shopping-spree. Tax free, also.

Oblios_Cap July 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

Where in the World is Columba Bush? Nobody here in America's Dinghus™ has seen her in years.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:24 am

It was a Green Card Marriage, anyway.

Oblios_Cap July 15, 2011 at 10:57 am

For which one?

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 11:06 am

Both. Columba got U.S. citizenship without having to risk the INS & Border Patrol, & Jeb was allowed to brown the Bush name, so the family can maintain its perch even with the inevitable demographic surge of Latinos. (& when you think about it, the U.S. east coast has really been the only bastion of Anglo-Saxon/Northern European hegemony; past the Piedmont was New France, & past Lousiana was New Spain. Pale-faces have just been passing thru, in other words.)

OkieDokieDog July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

What's the problem with spending 14 thou on SNICKERS ? It's some good eatin'.

OneDollarJuana July 15, 2011 at 10:34 am

True story. Just read a letter to the editor this morning by a woman who was offended that someone in our annual town parade was throwing Twix into the crowd.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

Sounds lispy, after all.

poncho_pilot July 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

"it used to be you could hop out of your bus at a truck stop and buy a Snickers for $0.69. now they cost $0.89." –Sarah Palin (R); Mayor of Peanutopolis.

FidoMcCokefiend July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

Other stickers purchased with these dollars:

"Gas, Grass, or Ass – no one rides for free"
"Give me Liberty or give me derp"
"My child is an honor roll student at Todd's School for the tarded"
"My other driving machine is a snow machine"
"I'd rather be driving your tax rates down doncha know"
"If you can read this, then you are probably a left coast elitist member of the lamestream media"

And, of course, she has a Calvin standing in Alaska while pissing on the lower 48.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:24 am

My wife? – yes
My dog? – maybe
My gun? – never

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Many upfists.

arihaya July 15, 2011 at 10:02 am

poor Kirsten, you should use Sarah Palin's real pic, it is scarier than any cartoon

johnnymeatworth July 15, 2011 at 10:02 am

Sarah Palin Has A Posse.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

"My Dinner with Donald Trump".

OneDollarJuana July 15, 2011 at 10:35 am

Doesn't every woman have a posse?

hagajim July 15, 2011 at 11:03 am

Yes…but usually they use it for more noble causes.

KeepFnThatChicken July 15, 2011 at 10:02 am

Does the same microscope that tells us about Constitutional bus wrap also tell us how many Ameros that "We The People" have given SarahPAC?

KeepFnThatChicken July 15, 2011 at 10:10 am

READING! If I had only read the article, I would have a partial answer. Who woulda thunk it?

In the FEC report, SarahPAC reported raising a total of nearly $1.7 million during the first six months of the year and having $1.4 million on hand on June 30.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:25 pm

And it was reported on NPR that President Obama's reelection committee raised 86 million dollars in the 2nd quarter of 2011.
Link

Yeah, Sarah, you represent America alright.

Ducksworthy July 15, 2011 at 10:03 am

Meh. She grifted this money fair and square. Let he squander the rubes' life savings however she wants. They could have given the money to some GOPasshole who was running for something.

Andrew Drinker July 15, 2011 at 10:05 am

Or to lovely Crossroads GPS, who somehow thinks they're going to get contributions advertising on this here Wonkette site! Mwahahahahahaha! Yes, waste your money!

Wait, Downfisty might throw $5 at them. Who knows?

BlueMonkeh July 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

I, for one, am quite sure that any minute now we will all see the error of our libunatic ways after experiencing just one more downfist from Fisty and flock, en masse, to throw our greasy sheckels at them.

OkieDokieDog July 15, 2011 at 10:03 am

Oh. Stickers. Unless they were Harry Potter, Transformers, or Hello Kitty, then that was a big waste of moolah.

DangerHelvetica July 15, 2011 at 10:12 am

Or maybe those rad holograms they had in the 80s.

PsycWench July 15, 2011 at 11:43 am

Magic Eye stickers would be appropriate: it looks like nonsense but if you stand here really still and really focus….still looks like nonsense.

cheetojeebus July 15, 2011 at 10:04 am

<yawn>

Andrew Drinker July 15, 2011 at 10:04 am

I thought "Git'r'Dun" stickers were cheaper than that…

LabRodent July 15, 2011 at 10:04 am

John McCain owes the World an apology.

Ohforcripessake July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

I agree!

DAMN YOU MCCAIN !!1!

GunToting[Redacted] July 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

I say this often. If there is a Hell, Juan McCain will spend it delivering a concession speech in Scottsdale, with Sno-Snookii fighting him for the microphone.

Negropolis July 15, 2011 at 10:01 pm

…with Sno-Snookii fighting him for the microphone.

I just nearly lost my drink all over my monitor. The visual is just priceless.

comrad_darkness July 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

Fuck that, he owes the world his organs.

emmelemm July 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm

They're much too old at this point to be of any use.

weejee July 15, 2011 at 10:05 am

How much did they spend on AK47s 'n such 2nd Amends regalia for the bus and/or the Wahsillysauce armory?

poncho_pilot July 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm

fuck, did we arm the Alaska militias to combat the Soviet threat Lou can see from her porch? Alaska meth narcoterrorists? on snowmobiles? eating Slim Jims?

Chillwaver July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

So she "invested" all this money on a stupid bus…and still quit!

(or are we done with quitter jokes?)

SayItWithWookies July 15, 2011 at 11:09 am

Oh, the quitter jokes are still applicable — and will continue to be, even after Sarah shuffles off to do the Big Quit.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:28 pm

NEEDZ MOAR HOOKWORMS!

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:14 pm

I can't quit them.

Allmighty_Manos July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

Front cover of Newsweek folks. For a person whose main contribution by her 2012 "campaign" will have proven to be detailing a bitchin bus.

fuflans July 15, 2011 at 10:38 am

to be fair, it is newsweek.

TanzbodenKoenig July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

Man, it's almost like there's some sort of regulatory commission, who is supposed to receive filings on all sorts of griftericious money laundering ponzi schemes like this and punish those responsible, instead of just letting snowbillies rampage Mad Max on Meth style across the country in their 5 ton death machines and unshorn wiccans pay their rent all on the gullible fat old's dime

HistoriCat July 15, 2011 at 10:48 am

That's just crazy talk! What kind of place would we be living in if donations were required to be used for the stated purpose?

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm

And yet, Xtine O'Donnell is being investigated for using campaign funds to pay her rent?
There is no justice in this country.

zhubajie July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

Was that "Obama-Queer-Satan" bus covered with her stickers?

kissawookiee July 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

Dammit. Too slow on the draw with my comment again!

prommie July 15, 2011 at 10:07 am

It is somehow fitting that the talentless, stupid, and un-interesting, but recently chin-augmented Bristol appeared on the Tonight Show last night with talentless, stupid, un-interesting, and huge-chinned Jay Leno, where they traded witless inanities, and the crowd cheered when Don Rickles said her mother would lose if she ran for president.

V572 der Plaatz July 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

You've been hitting the gin again, haven't you, Prommie? Don't watch that drivel.

prommie July 15, 2011 at 10:58 am

Hells no I don't watch leno, I saw a clip on the interwebs.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 10:27 am

I love Don Rickles, everyone else you mentioned I despise.

Fred_Wertham_Jr July 15, 2011 at 10:53 am

Don Rickles is the Patron Saint of Wonkette commenters.

prommie July 15, 2011 at 10:57 am

Shut up, you hockey puck.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 11:00 am

You beat me to it.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 10:59 am

We are all hockey pucks.

LiveToServeYa July 15, 2011 at 11:26 am

Well, the puck stops here.

DashboardBuddha July 15, 2011 at 11:29 am

Don Rickles is still alive? Awesome!

poncho_pilot July 15, 2011 at 12:07 pm

he's 85! now he's an old i could get down with.

FakaktaSouth July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

She paid $10,000 for logistical trip consulting? Hell, I'd tell that bitch where to go for free.

prommie July 15, 2011 at 10:58 am

I think I'm in love.

LesBontemps July 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

Wow, AAA has really jacked up their membership rates.

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm

Amen, sister!

under_score July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

Does the 14K include the "I, the media whore" sign?

OneYieldRegular July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

What galls me is the ludicrous waste of money from this "reinin' in spendin'" quitadate. I mean, really, all she had to do was notify the Wonkette community, and I'm sure all of us would have gladly pitched in for free to decorate that bus.

LabRodent July 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

Put me Down for Blood and Feces!

NorthStarSpanx July 15, 2011 at 10:25 am

And me down for projectile vomiting.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:32 pm

I'll volunteer to put a surveyor's mark on it.

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:18 pm

It got creative here so fast!

Barb July 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

Don't cha love how Palin is always screaming about the FLOTUS, telling us to wean our kids off lard and high fructose corn syrup? She doesn't want Michelle Obama telling us what to do, Sarah Palin wants to tell us what to do.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:27 am

the bigger the front
the bigger the back

Oblios_Cap July 15, 2011 at 10:10 am

Sarah Palin’s political action committee spent tens of thousands of dollars covering the costs of the former Alaska governor’s “One Nation” East Coast bus tour this spring — a trip that Palin (R) has repeatedly characterized as a “family vacation.”

I'm sure Steven Colbert is busy planning his next "family vacation" as we speak! A SuperPAC should be able to cover a trip around the world.

HistoriCat July 15, 2011 at 10:50 am

Except that I can't imagine Stephen Colbert exploiting his kids.

Oblios_Cap July 15, 2011 at 10:54 am

He might just slap a flag decal on his wife's forehead.

RedNM July 15, 2011 at 10:10 am

Don't forget that Palin's movie opens today. I had the good fortune to attend last night's midnight screening of the film. It was a madhouse. Thousands of people lined up, dressed in their costumes with their wands.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 10:29 am

This may be even worse than Atlas Shrugged; it's current rating at Rotten Tomatoes is 0%:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771245638/reviews

The highest rating anyone has given it so far is C. Like with Atlas Shrugged, I'm sure this will eventually change, as they'll be some reviews from random wingnut guys with a website that they'll add for some reason; but for now, savor that 0%. Nobody likes it.

jodyleek July 15, 2011 at 11:24 am

Holy crap! I see that one of our business clients and friend of our owner is on the cast list. Interesting. Still not going to watch it tho.

PsycWench July 15, 2011 at 11:46 am

And this is from that C review:
"The Undefeated flatlines after an hour of empty back-patting and no dramatic edge. Bannon actively avoids any of Palin's setbacks, downplaying the entire 2008 presidential campaign to a few minutes of screen time."
The C may have been much like the C occasionally given to a student who failed the class once and you desperately never want to see him again.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Ah yes, the Gentleman's C, or as it's known at Yale, the Bush Special.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:37 pm

You can't believe those librul Hollywood types that are just haters. Real Americuns will love it!

BlueMonkeh July 15, 2011 at 10:54 am

Oh, yeah , I remember her. She's the one married to that guy with that kid and they ran away when all the real shit started going down.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

Blue Valentine?

soojank July 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Apparently, literally no one went to the midnight premiere

Why does America hate Real America (TM)?

HobbesEvilTwin July 15, 2011 at 10:10 am

Grifter is grifting.

DangerHelvetica July 15, 2011 at 10:11 am

"Republican Presidential Travel"? What a sad, sore loser.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 10:11 am

Now that some of the wingnuts are finally, after all these years, beginning to realize her grifting ways and that she's playing them, it'll be fun to see the family once the gravy train dries up while they keep up their overspending lifestyle. I foresee a bankruptcy filing, M. C. Hammer-style.

Barb July 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

Bristol thought she was riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels when she wrote that book. I imagine that she dreamed of what the profits could buy her, I know that I would have. I hope that she didn't dream bigger than a case of applesauce.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 10:22 am

She already spent some of it on that plastic surgery that actually made her uglier; though I'm sure there's profit to be made from mass purchases by right-wing foundations.

Barb July 15, 2011 at 10:33 am

Snark aside, Palin speaks of how the price of groceries is going up and how people have no money. She has money! It's from the people who don't have the money to spare. She asks them to send it to her and she has no guilty feelings over it. Then she has the balls to bitch about the price of milk. Outrageous!

The TV shows her killing an elk and she says "I have to put food in the freezer" I've never seen Ivanna Trump, run across a field and stick a rabbit in her purse for dinner. Let's cut the crap, you aren't having to go kill your own groceries. You're rich!

GunToting[Redacted] July 15, 2011 at 10:53 am

See also: Evangelists, tele-.

Biel_ze_Bubba July 15, 2011 at 11:58 am

Her last Slim Jim hunt didn't go well… those suckers are getting wily.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm

I wonder if her sudden interest in the price of groceries may be tied to a realization that the gravy train may be coming to a halt?

I crack me up.

emmelemm July 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm

Biscuit Wheels is a great band name, btw.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:29 am

With, hopefully, a Wesley Snipes-style incarceration for unpaid taxes.

… Oh, wait, melanin deficiency. The Palins will walk. (Suddenly, too, Todd won't be Inupiaq, like that great-grandparent never existed.)

KotBR July 15, 2011 at 10:12 am

Because nothing says 'Patriot' like blowing other people's money on adhesive paper with your name spelled out in red, white, and blue.

USA! USA!

YasserArraFeck July 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

What was the jerky bill?

Come here a minute July 15, 2011 at 10:17 am

Way higher than last year's.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:29 am

All of it, Yasser.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:30 am

$2.89

She keeps the native-american snow-machine vein-cane on a short lease since the massuse/hair dresser thingie

Come here a minute July 15, 2011 at 11:03 am

Sarah Palin, financial genius:

Consumer prices record largest drop in a year

Mumbletypeg July 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

But what do Sarah's followers think?

oops, wrong bus-following Alaskan weirdo.

kissawookiee July 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

That guy in Oregon with the Obama = Satan = Queer = Satan = SATAN! RV could've done the stickerin' for $10 and a 48-tab pack of Sudafed.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:32 am

My understanding is that for a 48 pack he will do your bus and pay you

kissawookiee July 15, 2011 at 10:42 am

He'd better be paying me, seeing as how I'll probably be wanting to replace the tailpipe after that action.

CapeClod July 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

And is there a line item about the money spent on outrageously expensive Slim Jims?

V572 der Plaatz July 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

SarahPAC treasurer says airfare is hard to account for? He must be one ace accountant. Or maybe he doesn't want to release all the New-Hampshire-to-Anchorage and Iowa-to-Anchorage tickets they bought so Sarah could sleep at home instead of in the big RV.

Fare la Volpe July 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

Duh, she needed so many tickets so she could fly home to pop out another baby. Because that's what pregnant women going into labor need: air travel.

fuckbreitbart July 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

jingoistic decal for tour bus: $14,000

human being employed to drive said bus: $3,600

conclusion: propaganda imagery is 4x more valueable than actual human beings

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

OT Boehner is talking and he really seems drunk, stumbling over his words and saying there will be no tax hikes. What a fucking tool.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:34 am

hoisted with his own petard?

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 10:46 am

I'd like to shove the fucking petard so far up his arse that it came out of his mouth.

The word petard comes from the Middle French peter, to break wind, from expulsion of intestinal gas, from Latin peditum, from neuterofpeditus,past participle of pedere, to break wind; akin to Greek bdeinto break wind. (Merriam-Webster)Petard remains a French word meaning a firecracker today (in French slang, it means a handgun, or a joint).
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase hoist with one's own petard, which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap," literally implying that one could be lifted up (hoist, or blown upward) by one's own bomb.

V572 der Plaatz July 15, 2011 at 10:50 am

Shakespeare, of course, in Hamlet, Scene 4: "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer/Hoist with his own petard." "Engineer" in those days meant military engineer, which meant mostly demolition of fortifications to facilitate an attack. "Hoist" meant "blown up. "

This concludes your English major freakout.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 10:52 am

Marry me! I have two of those worthless English degrees.

Mumbletypeg July 15, 2011 at 11:13 am

Petard remains a French word meaning a firecracker today (in French slang, it means a handgun, or a joint

"petard" : handgun : joint :: "fag" : ??? sticks : cigarette

The etymology of slang is bizarre. Or maybe slang is the etymology of the bizarre.

Nothingisamiss July 15, 2011 at 4:30 pm

First I learn how to pronounce "scone" without seeming snobbish, now this. Despite my own degree and reading ability, I'm starting to learn more on Wonkette from a Limey than in my real life.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 5:15 pm

I also have learned so much from the Wonkette, I feel as if I have really cool imaginary friends!

Texan_Bulldog July 15, 2011 at 10:16 am

Well, at least it wasn't on silk boxers for Tawd.

CapeClod July 15, 2011 at 10:32 am

or YSL handbags for that little brat, Crabgrass, or whatever the fuck her name is.

Tundra Grifter July 15, 2011 at 10:16 am

This should make that poor schmoe in Oklahoma who quit his job and is "working" for her for free quite happy. His time has been as well spent as the donations to Sarah's PAC. Of Lies.

iburl July 15, 2011 at 10:16 am

If she announces a presidential run, it will be because God told her to. You see, God is traditionally what mankind has always used as an explanation for things that are irrational and impossible to understand.

V572 der Plaatz July 15, 2011 at 10:35 am

The Deity is mixing Her messages again, as Rick Perry already said She'd told him this was his mission.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

But Michele Bachmann also said god told her to run. Which is it, Yahweh? Also, who is Superman supporting? What about Gandalf?

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:58 am

You know who else was on a Mission from God?

comrad_darkness July 15, 2011 at 11:11 am

Jake and Elwood?

BlueMonkeh July 15, 2011 at 10:59 am

This "God" of which we speak must have one twisted, sadistic sense of humor.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm

The must be the same "God" that made Ernest Byner fumble on the one yard line?

Weenus299 July 15, 2011 at 10:17 am

Why hasn't she offered up a noose conference to discuss her thoughts on the debt ceiling circus catastrophe?

LabRodent July 15, 2011 at 10:20 am

Cuz Math is Hard.

weejee July 15, 2011 at 10:25 am

Then she should have a moose conference and bellow about who has the best rack.

ttommyunger July 15, 2011 at 10:18 am

I love it. Think about it, the more money the Idiot Right gives the Grifter-In-Chief, the less they have to give to a serious contender. Spend away, Sarah, I'm all for it!

baconzgood July 15, 2011 at 10:18 am

Unrelated to this post

WHAT?!?!?!!? All right I go down to the warehouse and pull the fuckin' order myself!! FYI ass hole…….There's a good chance you'll get canned next week and replaced by a mexican who actually gives a fuck about putting food on his table. Jebus! Wonkers!!!, some times Baconz gotta get the shit done hisself!

CapeClod July 15, 2011 at 10:30 am

What happened to the intern/sex slave you were getting?

baconzgood July 15, 2011 at 11:16 am

I have to write out a job description first. I'm getting this whuppin boy/gal at the end of Aug.

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm

1) Must love the taste of Bacon.

baconzgood July 15, 2011 at 4:58 pm

MUST BUY BACON!!!

(FIXED)

DashboardBuddha July 15, 2011 at 11:41 am

I hear ya bro…things suck here as well. I've come to the conclusion that if my boss isn't on my ass, it means my job is in remission.

baconzgood July 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm

You want somthing done right….Don't call Baconz, but if you want it done half-ass and quickly then I'm your man. Sometimes my job can be a pressure cooker and that effects my snark time. Things that effect my snark and my not being sober make my face sad.

widestanceroman July 15, 2011 at 10:20 am

How much was spent on bendy straws? I would gleefully give her 2 fistsful, if she'd agree to choke on them.

jus_wonderin July 15, 2011 at 10:20 am

I love that graphic!! Where can I get a larger one???

I'm a dope. I found it. Gonna put STFU on it and put in on my car.

NorthStarSpanx July 15, 2011 at 10:21 am

$10,000 on logistical trip consulting?

The tiny team behind Sarah Palin's logistical consultants had media and supporters alike chasing their tails looking for the phantom famvaca tour bus. These Logistical Trip Consultants are about as mavericky and effective as her political consultants, speaking engagement handlers, foreign envoys, and PR for her unaccredited movie, The Oft Defeated.

WIDTAP July 15, 2011 at 10:23 am

Can I haz a SupePac for my family vacation?

Stephen Colbert, call me, man. I need bus fare.

freakishlywrong July 15, 2011 at 10:29 am

Please Grifterilla. Retreat.

DaSandman July 15, 2011 at 10:34 am

Her next book should be: "How to Fail Up."

genxr July 15, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Ugh. I just failed up in my mouth a little.

OneDollarJuana July 15, 2011 at 10:37 am

$14,000 is more than my family has spent on 14 years of vacations. Not counting beer, of course.

JustPixelz July 15, 2011 at 10:38 am

When she said she knew the words to "Rapper's Delight", I thought of the song. But she obviously meant "Wrapper's Delight" and its sweet, sweet lucre.

fuflans July 15, 2011 at 10:40 am

i would so not spend 14,000 on a trip to DC with a biker gang.

boston maybe.

Negropolis July 15, 2011 at 10:08 pm

Or Detroit. I'd so have them temporarily invade Windsor across the river and occupy it for a few days just for shits and giggles, well, and because they did it to us once upon a time. The Canadian military wouldn't be able to do shit about it, this time, though.

JustPixelz July 15, 2011 at 10:40 am

Now that Sarah Palin™ is certifiably rich with her millions of low-tax grifter-scented money, I guess she'll be creating a whole passel of jobs. That's what millionaires do, right? Get up, have Jeeves spoon feed them some Mountain Dew, then create jobs all day.

horsedreamer_1 July 15, 2011 at 10:47 am

& then, they live happily ever after with Greta Gerwig.

(How did that Arthur re-make escape the dread #faeriepixydreamgirl tag at the ONION av club? Why, because the males of hipster nation, which is 85% male (at least), want to bang Greta. So, she cannot, just simply cannot, inhabit the role of a superficial pretty face. She's got depths.)

bagofmice July 15, 2011 at 10:49 am

Technically, the bus driver got about 3k for the week.

riverside68 July 15, 2011 at 10:41 am

"We would like to figure out how to get someone to give us tens of thousands of dollars to go on a family vacation."

Once you learn to fake sincerity and believe what say is true, the rest comes easy.

It is not an easy thing to do, when sober and/or self aware

5thstate July 15, 2011 at 10:45 am

And don't forget the 2.69 worthless Obama-dollars for a Slim-Jim!

Mahousu July 15, 2011 at 10:51 am

The trip is expected to resume in the Midwest this summer, but it has been delayed in part because Palin was called for jury duty in Alaska and must report to the local courthouse each morning for the rest of July or until she is placed on a jury.

… or unless she wants to go fishing, or has a TV show to do, or is putting in an appearance in Iowa somewhere, or she just doesn't feel like it that day.

KennyCB July 15, 2011 at 10:52 am

How about $14,000 on birth control for Bristol and the other Palin ("rather be nailing") ladies, including, of course, Mama Grisly herself?

Eve8Apples July 15, 2011 at 10:53 am

"What else does $14,000 buy these days that would be more fun than a shitload of stickers? "

I would have the Palin family neutered and spayed. Let's drain the gene pool.

ChessieNefercat July 15, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Best idea yet! And maybe de-barked, like my neighbor considered doing to her horrid little yap-yap dog? (I think it would be mean thing to do to a dog no matter how annoying, but a Palin? Meh.)

Guppy06 July 15, 2011 at 10:55 am

I'd contribute money for her to stay on vacation.

comrad_darkness July 15, 2011 at 11:12 am

In one of the many small government paradises of the world. Like Somalia.

SorosBot July 15, 2011 at 11:38 am

Or Antarctica; no government at all there, truly a Randian paradise.

genxr July 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm

Just tell her Galt's Gulch is at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. She'll make the bus driver go there.

MJC1138 July 15, 2011 at 10:57 am

"if this bus is rockin', my kids are fokkin'.

hagajim July 15, 2011 at 11:00 am

"The committee spent $10,000 on “logistical trip consulting,”

That means that Sarah paid Tawd $10K to read a fucking map!

MJC1138 July 15, 2011 at 11:07 am

Whatever happened to jury duty?

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 11:11 am

Very OT but my all-time best imaginary boyfriend, Billy Bragg, has a great song about Murdoch. Scousers-Liverpudlians- never buy the Sun because they were liars about a terrible tragedy in Liverpool.
http://vimeo.com/26203800

ProudLibunatic July 15, 2011 at 11:37 am

What a beautiful contribution!
Thanks, Lizzie!
(I love the "j'accuse" stare directly into the camera.)

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 11:39 am

He is fantastic, such a good Socialist.

prommie July 15, 2011 at 11:41 am

I fell in love with him the first time I ever heard New England. How can anyone not love a communist punk-folk singer who can't sing? He should be made King of the World and Pope, all in one. I am still waiting for the great leap forward.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 11:50 am

He is amazing , I could listen to The Milkman of Human Kindness for the rest of my life.

DashboardBuddha July 15, 2011 at 12:09 pm

Billy Bragg FTW!

ShaveTheWhales July 15, 2011 at 2:11 pm

"The tabloids make their millions betting bullshit baffles brains" should get the Awesome Alliteration Award.

What a, you know, intelligent song. Thanks for that.

Limeylizzie July 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Here is the reason that Liverpool Football supporters have boycotted the sun for years.http://www.anfieldroad.com/dont-buy-the-sun/

Rotundo_ July 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm

BBC had about 10 minutes on that, I listened to it on the way to work at Dark-Thirty in the morning a couple of days back. Rupe the poop might have sold a lot of papers around the UK with that fiction, but I think it'll be generations if they ever do get around to buying The Sun in Liverpool.

5thstate July 15, 2011 at 11:21 am

PSA ( Palin Shit Announcement).

Don't forget the Palin movie "The Unencumbered" opens tonight!

It may well be the final installment in the magical series of media appearances that began with "Sarah Palin and The Sorceress' Stones". (released 10 years ago in 2008) wherein a young hockey playing grizzly bear discovers she has magical powers of grifting and a destiny to fulfill, even as she struggles to comprehend geography and basic English.
Now she faces her final challenge in this latest adaptation of the fantasy multimedia chimera—or does she?

Find out by forking over your worthless Obama-dollars to Griftgotts bank to see "Sarah Palin and The Deathly Shallows; Part x, (as usual, solve for x) and be a part of the media-magic!.

genxr July 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm

My favorite was "Sarah Palin and the Dark-Skinned Preznit"

5thstate July 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm

"Preznit" always makes me laugh!

Sarah Palin and the Goblet of Lies?
Sarah Palin and the Giblets of Moose?
Sara Palin and the Prisoner of Alaskaban?
Sarah Palin and the Half-Baked Alaska?
Sarah Palin and the Order of Freedom Fries With That Also?
Sarah Palin and the Chamber of Commerce?

"DumbleDick Armey's Army" ?

Thanks ,J. K Rowling, for your inspiration!

tihond July 15, 2011 at 11:31 am

Dear RWNJs, How's that Mavrick-y Rogue thing working out for you?

MinAgain July 15, 2011 at 11:32 am

spent $14,000 just for the goofball decals

Bitch got robbed.

TweetOnThis July 15, 2011 at 11:33 am

Breaking News!

Sarah Palin is a spy. Everything about her is a compete fabrication.

She was planted as McCain’s running mate to flush out those who are a part of the “New World Order.” This group consists of CEOs, wealthy elitists, and a collection of corrupt politicians with the goal of overthrowing the US government.

Obama, much like Osama, appears to be nothing more than a spokesperson for this group. Osama Obama, Biden Bin Laden, it’s a code. The feds are trying everything to contain this from leaking out. Whether you believe this or not it is honest to God’s truth. The military is using Obama as their puppet. This is also the reason why all the CEOs who ran in the last midterm didn’t get elected.

The majority of the media has been taken over by the feds in an effort to suppress this. Want proof? Didn’t you find it a bit odd that we caught Bin Laden 3 days after Trump, of all people, got Obama to release his birth certificate? Did you actually look at his birth certificate? After 3 or 4 days covering the death of Osama, a completely manufactured lie, the media moved onto 3 weeks of Anthony Weiner’s weener coverage. The Pentagon is not only controlling the news stories, they are also controlling the commenting. 90% of the comments you’re reading are manufactured garbage. This is what your tax dollars are paying for.

If you want the real story about what’s going on in America then by all means read and share the following story before our democracy ceases to exist. The future of our country is in your hands. Are you going to do anything about it?
http://ElectNoMoreSpys.blogspot.com/

Monsieur_Grumpe July 15, 2011 at 11:35 am

A lttle OT but it is still about Sarah…. just as she likes it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/

No one showed up for her movie.

elviouslyqueer July 15, 2011 at 11:59 am

Beautiful! And apropos of another brave Wonketteer, sometimes the schaden freudes itself.

ChessieNefercat July 15, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Self-freuding schaden indeed.

5thstate July 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm

She could argue that no other movie would be able to compete with the final Potter episode, therefore the disinterest is meaningless—but then it would still mean that the even her fans prefer Potter's heathen magic to her own pseudo-Christian brand—statistically there would HAVE to be some of her fans in the Potter audiences and their choice would be/was to see Potter, or at least Potter first.

MST3K needs to do a special on Palin;s "The Unwatched"/

GOPCrusher July 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Yeah, remember the Xtian outrage when the Potter books first came out? How much you want to bet that they timed the release of the Sarah Palin film with the last Harry Potter movie, thinking they could point to the box office take as proof of the superiority of the Xtian Cult?

genxr July 15, 2011 at 11:41 am

Were they garbage pail kid stickers? Cause I could see spending fourteen large on those. They're hilarious.

Terry July 15, 2011 at 11:53 am

I think that bus driver more than earned his or her money. Can you imagine listening to that bunch and responding to their demands? Having to say for the 40th time that, no, the bus will not fit through the Taco Bell drive thru.

ChessieNefercat July 15, 2011 at 3:37 pm

I'll bet he's still drinking and muttering and twitching.

Not_So_Much July 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm

If any of those stickers had been used to plaster over her cake-hole, it would've been a bargain.

orygoon July 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Those Nieman Marcus stickers don't come cheap, you know.

El Pinche July 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Again…the genius of Palin. Releasing The Unrepudiated on Harry Potter opening night.

MiniMencken July 15, 2011 at 1:45 pm

Nothing new here. Why, the Mayer family has been going on vacation around the US of A in their Wienermobile since 1936! And the madcap Goodyear family has been blimp-surfing the airways during their vacations since 1925! I'll bet you're just jealous!

BlueStateLibel July 15, 2011 at 1:59 pm

She had to pay someone ten grand to read a map or use GPS?! Wait, this is Sarah Palin we're talking about, now I understand.

ChessieNefercat July 15, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Delusional twatwaffle.

"Republican Presidential Travel"

No, you clueless dolt, no one is going to confuse that with Air Force One, or you with President of the United States. Not even if you have learned to fart Hail to the Chief out of your flabbity, saggity, aging old ass while wobbling down the pull away steps in your tasteful FMN leopard print platform hooker shoes.

Dozy cunt (thank you, LL).

ChessieNefercat July 15, 2011 at 3:39 pm

"bus condom"

For some reason that made me think of the MIB crawling down into the giant cockroach alien's gullet to get something.

PuckStopsHere July 16, 2011 at 12:10 am

And this cut into the bottom line…
The Donald: You had two slices and a Diet so your share is $14.81.

outragedcitizen July 16, 2011 at 2:24 pm

Duckworthy is right. The asshats deserve to have their money squandered by the snowbilly grifter queen. If they weren't giving their extra pennies to her, they just give them to some exiled Nigerian prince.

V572 der Plaatz July 15, 2011 at 11:41 am

I’m yours.For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings’.We’ll work out the technicalities later. And stop flirting with other commenters.

PuckStopsHere July 15, 2011 at 11:47 pm

Uh…Tradesnark infringement and HOCKEY LIBEL. Prommie–you're a lawyer…call me.

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