Calm down, BMax. The linked article was obviously a parody piece. The deal about record Kleenex sales was a dead giveaway.
I note that Tenebras also recognized it as a joke.
The story may not even be real.
I am curious however, as to why we’ve heard nothing from the RNC lawyer ostensibly dispatched to secure the clothing. Is he hangin out for the weekend, ready to leap into action come monday, or is his existence merely a little piece of misinformation?
Indeed, Squink. Both on and off this board, I’ve been quick to point out that all of these claims about stolen clothes have come from completely anonymous sources (or possibly just one source). That alone should make people pause before lambating Palin for this alleged misdeed.
Now, if the attorney in question were to finally step forward and declare, “Yes, I was indeed dispatched to locate these clothes,” then I’d be inclined to give the story more credence. So far though, the sources remain anonymous.
BTW, doesn’t anyone find it odd that these sources claim that the RNC sent an attorney to go rummaging through Ms. Palin’s belongings? Perhaps, I’m missing something, and if so, I apologize. However, it seems to me that you don’t need a fancy law degree in order to locate a new evening dress or a shiny pair of pumps.
Next time someone loses an arm at your cube farm we can talk about the high prices of these unionized rig workers. You think they’d pay those prices if they could avoid it? People get paid those prices because otherwise pipefitters and other such skilled laborers would never take such a crappy job.
:smack:I just clicked on the link and actually read it:smack:
The really embarassing part is that I write stuff like that.
I need a foot-in-the-mouth smilie
The business is listed on their tax returns, which I linked to in my other post, as being a sole proprietorship in Todd Palin’s name.
Ignoring BMax’s spoof-story, the reports are from the mainstream media, so I suspect that more than one source is involved. Campaigns have a lot of inner members.
Nicole Wallace (anti-Paline) and Randy Scheunemann (pro) are thought to be among the leakers. Obviously they have their own agenda as well. I suspect that Steve Schmidt (anti) is involved as well.
All of the preceding are practiced smear artists. Some of the stories (Palin believes that Africa is a country, etc.) sound like BS or 1/4 truths. Then again, Palin lands dubious broadsides with the best of them and her denials lack specificity and therefore credibility.
I agree that some skepticism is called for: Kudos for pushing this point.
Oh, I think unionism is a contributing factor as well, and I understand that regression studies back me up.
And while compensating differentials also have strong statistical evidence it’s also true that certain crappy jobs like poultry and meat processing pay minimal wages.
Capital intensive industries like oil rigging and car manufacturing are susceptible to unionization, since strikes can have a crippling effect on profitability. Light manufacturers don’t suffer from the same overhead.
Have you never been married then?
Sure, anything that has an impact on reality is a ‘contributing factor’. But the idea of spinning working on an oil rig as some kind of cushy fat cat job is pretty silly.
True. But how many of those are working at poultry and meat processing plants off the coast of the Alaskan wilderness?
OK, well, as you might be able to tell by now, I’m not going to argue that unionization is irrelevant to the issue.
They did. The media wasn’t particularly interested in reporting it. They had bigger fish to fry, such as whether or not her child’s baby was really hers, or whether her per-diem expenses were appropriate, or whether she put too much pressure on people to fire the trooper who threatened to kill her father and tasered her nephew, or exactly how many colleges she went to, or whether the campaign was outfitting her with too many clothes, or whether she had ever addressed a meeting of an Alaska political party that has Alaskan independence as part of its platform, or whether her husband had too much influence in her government, or whether she was irresponsible in flying home to Alaska to have her baby when her water broke in Texas, or whether the father of her daughter’s baby-to-be is a ‘rink rat’ and therefore scum, or whether or not she’s a ‘Diva’.
Hell, with all those important issues to dig into, who has time to report on things like her actual accomplishments as governor or her amazing life, having come from nowhere to become one of the youngest and few female governors in the nation, and to have an 80% approval rating to boot?
And if they had time to report on her personal life, such as the fact that she still works in commercial fishing for part of the summer or that she once came off the bench to throw the winning basket in a basketball game after breaking her ankle, I’m sure there would be much more important things to write about, such as Obama making a 3-point shot while playing a little solo hoops in a gym, or how the sweat glistens on his arms as he does curls.
Please do not misquote my posts. I never used the word “husband” in any of my posts, not did I make any even remotely sexist comment. If the words are there, quote them; they are fair game.
Also, many things that are wrong were at one time “common knowledge”; to wit: the planet is flat, black people are inherently stupid, and the Earth is the center of the universe. “Common knowledge” is not a synonym for “true”.
My marital status, current or otherwise, is not germaine to the discussion at hand. If you have a point to make, go ahead and try to make it.
I just watched an interview with Nicole Wallace, and she denied that Palin had done anything wrong, and laughed at the idea that she was a ‘Diva’. She said the most expensive thing Palin ever asked for was a Diet Coke, and that she was an extremely hard worker and did a fantastic job. She also said that Palin didn’t buy those clothes herself, and that the whole issue had been blown way out of proportion.
Of course, I suppose it’s possible that she did say negative things, but now that this has been blown way out of proportion by the media and her career is on the line, she’s backtracking like mad. But there’s no real evidence of that. Come to think of it, there’s no real evidence of ANY of this, is there? All we have is some anonymous ‘campaign insiders’. Or rather, we have a report by someone in the media who claims to have gotten the information from campaign insiders.
In the meantime, reporters have gone through all the stores it was said that Palin shopped at, and can find not a single clerk who remembers her ever being there.
Given the bias the media has had against Palin, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the ‘campaign insiders’ will turn out to be one disgruntled intern who spent a total of five minutes with Palin or something. Or, I wouldn’t be surprised that this is an attempted ass-covering by some campaign staffer who was told to go out and buy Palin and her family suitable clothes for the campaign, went way overboard, and now has some explaining to do.
Whew! I was afraid for a minute there that we actually had American workers holding good jobs with high wages and decent benefits. I’m relieved to hear that such socialist malfeasance is not actually taking place.
BTW, the high pay of workers up there is only partly due to the union. I know lots of people have gone north to work oil rigs, or to work in the oil sands. Some are unionized, some aren’t. They all get paid a ton of money. It’s pure supply and demand. It’s a hard, demanding job, and the only way to get people to do it is to pay them a lot of cash. I had friends who would go north in the summer and work the rigs for two or three months and finance their entire school year that way.
So when is Palin giving back all the clothes, anyway?
So yeah, I’d say all those things are definitely more newsworthy, and more important for the voting public to know, than how much time she spends on a fishing boat in the summers.
The pregnancy stuff, not so much: there I agree with you.
Given that the RNC kept Palin away from any reporters for the first ten days of her candidacy, (which is when the majority of these stories were published and died), and that when she was finally turned loose she could not even handle Katie (Perky) Couric and when she went on the stump she did litlle but lie about Obama while making no effort to define a McCain position on serious topics, (of course, she was following McCain’s example, there), it is difficult to give credence to claims that the press “ignored” substantive news.
See, I don’t know what sources you were watching or reading, but this barely made a blip in the traditional media. It was about a 6-hour story on the blogs (the morning of Labor Day, IIRC). It certainly wasn’t something the traditional media treated as a “big fish”.
You mean the pressure that led to the ethics investigation? Can’t imagine why the media would make a big deal out of that.
A rather important part of its platform, considering that it’s called the Alaska Independence Party.
Like I said in another thread, I don’t think she got nearly enough shit about this. Like I and the other medical professionals on the board have said, it’s hard to express how dangerous and irresponsible this was. I thought this was a good look at how she might respond in a crisis situation.
All that said, I agree with you–I think once they got over their initial infatuation, the press was harsh to Palin. But she really asked for it. She barely made a peep to the press in the first few weeks of her campaign, and that just pissed them off. Then, once she did start talking to friendly outfits, she took every opportunity to throw in a sneer at the “mainstream media”. They probably made her out to look worse than she actually was, but I certainly heard enough to know I didn’t want her anywhere near the Oval Office.
If you have such little respect for this discussion as to say such trash as the italicized I will no longer continue. I’m sorry that you didn’t know something that the vast majority of people knew, but that’s not an excuse to act like this is an epistemological issue. You didn’t know factoid about Sarah Palin, end of story.
It does actually. Because if you had been married you would know that just because something is listed as a sole proprietorship doesn’t make it any less the family business. Married couples share ownership of things. You are pointing to a simple bureaucratic distinction and trying to make a point based around the fact that you simply cannot handle not having known something.
Of course, it’s ALL just made up by a bunch of liberals, right?