Maybe its ‘Maybellene’…
Scrubbing all those Evil/Ignorant Ideas out of her brain: Priceless. 
Yeah, I just want to point this out again. Looking at the pattern on Piper’s bag, it’s plainly not Louis Vuitton, and is just one of those look-alikes that are ubiquitous on street corners in Manhattan. It probably didn’t cost her $20.
I have to agree with Green Bean re: shopping at Filene’s. Frankly, if I was going to be on stage in front of the entire world and I had some money to throw around, I would not decide that it was time to bargain hunt.
Whew! So it is just a respectable Republican cloth handbag.
So, she’s supporting intellectual property theft. Didn’t Sen. Orrin Hatch once compare such people to terrorists?
And why should you think any different when it comes to planning the Federal budget? 
“…but Clinton would have, potentially, in an alternate timeline have done the same thing!”
Holy fuck, people have gotten pathetic.
-Joe
Well, yeah. I can agree with all this.
And so you’re saying that these “Main Street Americans” never travel to “the big city?” :dubious:
Sure, some of them never do, and I’m sure that most of those who do don’t bother to go shopping in extremely expensive department stores while they’re there. But lots and lots of them swing by just to check it out. It’s not a matter of whether a given person would find it convenient or practical to shop in one of these stores on a regular basis. It’s a matter of whether a given person would ever even have an opportunity to pay a visit to one and buy something there if they wanted. There are around 50 Saks and 40 Neiman’s in the U.S. They’re not rare.
Making a visit to Saks or Neiman’s out to be some sort of esoteric rite that can only be achieved by the rich and powerful? That’s absurd.
Yeah, seriously. The folks at Gawker should be ashamed of themselves for not knowing it. (And no, I’m not being sarcastic.)
I’m with you on that. If she doesn’t know why appearing in public with fake designer goods is bad…well, that’s a real problem.
Wait, I’m confused. Are we more angry that she spent a lot of money, or that she saved money by buying a knockoff?
Can’t it be both?
Here’s an article about Palin’s shopper, Jeff Larson, a Karl Rove protégé.
Here’s a jpg of some of the expenditures. Hey, forget the clothes, looking at that list closely, is Palin getting baby strollers and pacifiers from the Republican donors too? Must be nice.
Oh, wait, Pacifiers is a baby clothing store in Minneapolis. So yeah, donors are paying for baby stuff too.
Probably a moose-eating surrender monkey.
Well, damn. I knew there was a reason I’m (usually) suspicious of Gawker. Apologies for passing on erroneous information.
Out of curiosity, how close does a knockoff bag have to be before it infringes on trademarks? Is the Palin bag close enough?
If I had wanted to say that, I would have said that. But plenty of “big cities” don’t have a Neiman’s or a Saks. Neither can be found in Milwaukee or Seattle, for instance.
*Well, they’re not rare in certain parts of the country. The Saks website tells me that 17 of those 50 are in California, 16 are in Florida, and 7 are in New York. There’s one in D.C. proper and a couple more in the D.C. area. There are none in Alaska. There aren’t even any in Washington state. So while members of the liberal media elite, Wall Street investors, and Washington insiders could easily shop at a nearby Saks, if Palin’s constituents wanted to they’d have to go to Portland, Oregon. Looks like the closest Neiman Marcus would be San Francisco.
“Joe Sixpack” does not shop at Saks, does not live near a Saks, and has never been inside a Saks. Neither have I for that matter, and I’m a godless ivory tower egghead liberal elite type.
Equipoise was correct when she said that “most voters will ever even see, let alone enter, let alone buy something from” a Saks or Neiman Marcus. Could they? Sure, in the sense that there is no law or regulation preventing them from doing so. But do they? No, they do not.
IANAL, but from what I’ve been able to gather the standards are pretty low to be considered a trademark infringement. From what I’ve heard people who have to deal with things like trademarks, you’ve got to file suit over some of the tiniest things, because if you don’t, then when someone comes out with a nearly exact copy of your item, you’ll lose as the court will rule you didn’t “protect” your trademark “aggressively” enough.
I wonder, incidentally, how much Mr. Obama, Mr. McCain and Mr. Biden spend on their suits. I’m guessing they’re not wearing shit off the rack.
I have to say I had NO IDEA hockey outfits were that expensive.
DB, just an aside here, but as I was skimming this line stood out to me.
It sounds REALLY REALLY Creepy. :dubious:
I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure Hillary pays for her clothes out of her own pocketbook. Just like most everyone else (except Sarah Palin) does.
I’m not outraged our anything. I don’t care what other people spend their money on.
But let’s stop pretended that $150,000 is a reasonable amount to spend on clothes.
150K is about 150% of what my mother paid for her house- which she will spend the next 30 years paying off. 150k can pay the salary for around 130 Peace Corps volunteers for a year. 150k is way more money than I’ve made in my lifetime, and I’m 27 years old. 150k will buy you tickets on a 131 day round the world luxury cruise- every year for the next six years. 150k is, quite simply, a lot of money. I don’t care how many other people pay 150k on clothes or how much fancy bras cost. It’s a shitload of money. There is no way you can construe this to be a reasonable amount of money to spend on clothing in one shot. No possible way.