# Sarah Palin smoked weed, did blow and banged Glen Rice **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 14, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310 "2011-09-14T17:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/61 "2011-09-14T21:01:10Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > You can’t? Is this some weird Alaskan law or did you just make it up? It’s called a budget. Your precious Sarah did not get stalked. The only person who got harassed was McGinnis, who got his property trespassed on by Palin’s thug of a husband. Poor pathetic cuckhold. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/62 "2011-09-14T21:03:30Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Wrong, as **Nars** pointed out. There are 4 hotels, 19 Bed & Breakfast/Inns, 4 specialty lodging, and 3 vacation rentals according to this [Cite](http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g31161-Wasilla_Alaska-Hotels.html). > > PWNED. > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Incorrect. Sorry. Why don’t you actually check where that shit really is. The only place IN WASILLA was the Best Western at the time. > > ETA I think somebody is talking about smoking pot in another thread. You better run and report them. “Two Titans of Intellect, both men of great learning and culture, battle it out for the Belt.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/63 "2011-09-14T21:07:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > ETA I think somebody is talking about smoking pot in another thread. You better run and report them. This is a personal attack and it’s off topic. Don’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/64 "2011-09-14T21:08:04Z")
I’m sorry. Not that I don’t think Sarah Palin is full of shit. But I have a hard time believing that the one hotel in town is in a residential neighborhood, especially one as tony as where the Palins would presumably live. Or does Sarah live on the main strip? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/65 "2011-09-14T21:08:29Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > “Two Titans of Intellect, both men of great learning and culture, battle it out for the Belt.” They can fight if they want to, but I’m keeping it. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/66 "2011-09-14T21:09:58Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > I’m sorry. Not that I don’t think Sarah Palin is full of shit. But I have a hard time believing that the one hotel in town is in a residential neighborhood, especially one as tony as where the Palins would presumably live. > > Or does Sarah live on the main strip? On a lakefront. It’s not really a “neighborhood.” ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/67 "2011-09-14T21:10:41Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It’s called a budget. Your precious Sarah did not get stalked. The only person who got harassed was McGinnis, who got his property trespassed on by Palin’s thug of a husband. Poor pathetic cuckhold. Now you’re really reaching. Sarah is neither mine nor precious. I’m simply pointing out the hyprocrisy in your saying that another poster is “buying uncritically into the Palin victim narrative” when you seem to have swallowed McGinnis’ story whole hog as well. But, you read it somewhere so I guess that’s good enough. BTW, I’ve stayed in B&B’s that were less expensive than other hotel options. Surely you’ll accept that since my post is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/68 "2011-09-14T21:15:51Z")
I remember the days of yore, when a thread of snark _stayed_ a thread of snark. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/69 "2011-09-14T21:16:25Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Probably some combination of both. I distinctly remember reading back at the time that the only other place available to him was the Best Western on the other side of the Palins. Affordability might have had something to do with it too, though. In any case, it was a phony issue. I hesitate to ask, but since you can remember it so clearly, perhaps you can scrounge up a link for the rest of us. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/70 "2011-09-14T21:17:26Z")
I can’t be assed. You’re free to swallow the Palin narrative. I don’t care. It’s a side issue. If you have some proof that McGinniss tried to stalk or harass the Palins, let’s see it. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/71 "2011-09-14T21:21:29Z")
[WAPO interview giving McGinnis’ version of events](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052805254.html). That’s after a quick search. Take it or leave it. I’m starting to think I might have confused an issue of affordability with availability. Same difference. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/72 "2011-09-14T21:24:20Z")
It could be an issue of the precise boundaries for the incorporated city of Wasilla. For instance, if the Best Western is a few yards east of the big rock by the dead tree, or a few yards west of Moose Grin Creek, it might be outside greater metropolitan Wasilla. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/73 "2011-09-14T21:33:24Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > [WAPO interview giving McGinnis’ version of events](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052805254.html). > > That’s after a quick search. Take it or leave it. I’m starting to think I might have confused an issue of affordability with availability. Same difference. Okay. Now since you have changed your tone on that point maybe you want to address the trespassing issue? Nothing in that interview states that Todd Palin was trespassing. He was being a jerk, clearly, but I didn’t see trespass mentioned. Did you see that somewhere else? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/74 "2011-09-14T21:35:39Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#): > > Okay. Now since you have changed your tone on that point maybe you want to address the trespassing issue? Nothing in that interview states that Todd Palin was trespassing. He was being a jerk, clearly, but I didn’t see trespass mentioned. He came onto the property uninvited and started acting like a threatening cocksucker. How is that not trespassing? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/75 "2011-09-14T21:36:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Skald** : > The thing is, from the Xtian point of view, no past misdeed is suppose to count once she has genuinely repented. They would be hypocritical to hold the things mentioned in the OP against her if they happened before she was born again. (I’m assuming Mrs. Palin is a believer of that stripe; I don’t actually know.) Yes, but part of genuine repentance is recognizing that one has done wrong, which would seem to go along with admitting to have done those things. If Palin (or any other politician) had said “Yes, I did some foolish things in my youth, like taking drugs and sleeping around, but now I’m putting that all behind me and going on the straight and narrow”, then I’d consider the possibility that she’d repented. But to go on a crusade against those things without admitting she’d done them herself doesn’t sound very penitent to me. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/76 "2011-09-14T21:43:39Z")
Her Xianity has no relevance at all to her hypocrisy in preaching stuff like abstinence only education. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/77 "2011-09-14T21:47:32Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Her Xianity has no relevance at all to her hypocrisy in preaching stuff like abstinence only education. While I agree that abstinence-only education is stupid, it’s not hypocritical to preach it, _even if her own daughter would have benefited from birth control_. To many Christians, the state of one’s soul matters more than the state of one’s soul, and premarital sex is actively dangerous to the former. Thus birth control that you and I think more reasonable to teach (because it actually works) is odious to them, as it encourages people to have sex outside of marriage. This belief is stupid in my view, but preaching it is not hypocritical. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/78 "2011-09-14T21:51:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > To many Christians, the state of one’s soul matters more than the state of one’s soul, and premarital sex is actively dangerous to the former. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/79 "2011-09-14T21:53:13Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > [WAPO interview giving McGinnis’ version of events](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052805254.html). On the second page of that story is a link to a Facebook picture taken by the Palins of the author standing on his deck, looking in a different direction (off in the woods, it seems), perhaps drinking a beer. And the comments of the Palin supporters are absolutely chilling… especially considering that the photo catches McGinnis red-handed, totally ignoring the Palins! With his back toward the camera, no less! Here’s a sample: > [@](#): > > “Margaret Sand - Hmm… here in Montana - rather than restraining orders… motion sensor-triggered firing of 30-06’s have proven successful.” > > “Aletta Blair - Sarah! Get your gun!” > > "Brenda Errico - I think you should do what TEXAN’S would do, invite him over for dinner and remind him he is looking down the barrel of a shot gun. Let him know at anytime someone might be defending their home and “accidentally " mistake him for a bear!!!” > > “Charlie Brown - He kinda looks like a legal moose to me…” > > “Brian Borden - Hey, is that a moose up there on that red balcony? Where’s my bow?” But let’s remember: those are all metaphors. Just like the target on Gabrielle Gifford’s district. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310/80 "2011-09-14T22:43:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > These are the first good things I’ve heard about her. Ya know. Kinda disappointed in Glen Rice, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-smoked-weed-did-blow-and-banged-glen-rice/596310.md?page=5)