# Willow weeps for Sarah **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495 "2010-03-31T20:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/21 "2010-04-01T13:28:08Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This sort of story just gives her another chance to say "Poor me, the liberal media are going after my family again, they sure are mean, doncha know Well seriously, I wish that the media would leave her alone too. It’s not like she’s acting like an attention whore or anything. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Facts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@The\_Facts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Facts)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/22 "2010-04-01T14:11:20Z")
> [@Mapache](#): > > So far a lot of information hasn’t come out, and the MSM hasn’t mentioned it anywhere, so maybe it’s all just Madeup Librul Lies, The MSM cover up for one of their preferred politicians? No! How shocking! ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/23 "2010-04-01T14:31:51Z")
Really? And you’re a great sorcerer… And I’m the king of Cashmir. Go to sleep, Willow. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/24 "2010-04-01T15:13:27Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > Man, if my parents had left me alone when I was 15, I would have invited my friends over, downed a bunch of Jolt colas, and stayed up all night playing Risk and Axis and Allies! Stupid parents! I had cool parents. I did that while they were IN THE HOUSE! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/25 "2010-04-01T15:35:28Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > If Sarah Palin was MY mother, I think that I’d probably get drunk as early and often as I could, too. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/26 "2010-04-01T17:22:55Z")
I hope this is true, simply because I loves me some good meaningless scandal. It’d be nice to see Palin called on the carpet for being a bad parent. It’s possible that this is a fake story, which could’ve been planted by either political party. However, I don’t think it really indicates much about Sarah Palin, the wannabe politician. Well, unless it really comes out that she pulled strings to get Willow preferential treatment… in which case, screw her. One of my big pet peeves is those with connections getting the royalty treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/27 "2010-04-01T17:57:33Z")
> [@pantheon](#): > > Really? And you’re a great sorcerer… And I’m the king of Cashmir. Go to sleep, Willow. 🙂 Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/28 "2010-04-01T19:16:03Z")
Shit, when I was 15 and my parents went out of town, I used to throw beer-bashes at the house too. What’s the big deal? Wait a minute. Holy shit. I think my parents might be … … Republicans! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/29 "2010-04-01T20:19:02Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > [The National Enquirer has gone quite mainstream](http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national_enquirer_accepted_pulitzer_prize_competition/celebrity/68188) I suspect it might be more accurate to say that mainstream has gone National Enquirer. Some of the factual stories these days would have been pipe dreams of a tabloid reporter only a decade ago. Still, if I never heard the name Sarah Palin again I would be a much happier man. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/30 "2010-04-01T21:46:50Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I suspect it might be more accurate to say that mainstream has gone National Enquirer. Well said. Or perhaps deaths by whale (dangerous huge animals I’ll grant but _amazingly_ easy to avoid) and missing rich white teenagers and celebrity infidelities are just much bigger social problems now than they used to be. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/31 "2010-04-01T22:33:37Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Well said. > > Or perhaps deaths by whale (dangerous huge animals I’ll grant but _amazingly_ easy to avoid) and missing rich white teenagers and celebrity infidelities are just much bigger social problems now than they used to be. I blame liberals for all that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/32 "2010-04-01T22:35:04Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Shit, when I was 15 and my parents went out of town, I used to throw beer-bashes at the house too. What’s the big deal? Did you throw beer bashes at YOUR house, or did you break into the neighbor’s house to do it? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/33 "2010-04-02T12:49:11Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Did you throw beer bashes at YOUR house, or did you break into the neighbor’s house to do it? My attorney has advised me not to answer this question. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/34 "2010-04-02T14:12:32Z")
When I was 15 and my parents left me went out of town, I played video games and watched my bootleg porno collection. OK, so that’s not any different than when they were at home. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/35 "2010-04-02T18:02:42Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/36 "2010-04-04T02:37:11Z")
If a woman who shoots wolves out of helicopters can be a spokersperson for an environmentalist program and her teenaged unmarried pregnant daughter can launch a career as a spokesperson for abstinence, this whole shenanigan is obviously Willow’s way of announcing that she’s now a spokesperson for sobriety. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/37 "2010-04-04T09:05:04Z")
> [@Mapache](#): > > Anyway the story is that Sarah and the First Dude had gone off to Hawaii on vacation and left their fifteen year old daughter alone in Wasila. With predictable results: a dozen kids, apparently led by Willow, broke into a neighbor’s house for an all-night drinkin’, dopin’ and sex party, which left the house with $20,00- $30,000 in damages. That’s your idea of “predictable results”? The worst thing my friends did at 15 was steal their mother’s Happy Pills and try pot! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/38 "2010-04-04T12:46:04Z")
The pulling strings to get preferential treatment, if true, is the part that irks me. I am reminded of something from my past. When I was in junior high school (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth), there was a scandal regarding some of the high school kids. A bunch of them who were the sons and daughters of the prominent citizens of town had been having a party (with alcohol IIRC) when some of the boys got to horsing around with a gun. One of the girls was accidentally shot in the abdomen. She was not killed but the gunshot destroyed her ovaries. The parents all closed ranks (including this girl’s parents) and basically were sucessful in getting the incident swept under the rug. The boys were not charged with anything and did not suffer any consequences (that I’m aware of). That always rankled me; not only that these kids were not held to the same rules as the rest of us, but that those parents would sacrifice one of their own just to keep a scandal from causing damage to the rest of them. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/39 "2010-04-04T16:09:09Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I remember when they were just another tabloid, little better then the Weekly World News, so it was quite a surprise to me when they started getting their facts straight. Generally speaking, if it’s in the Enquirer, or at least on the cover, it’s true. I don’t read it, but the stuff on the cover I see while standing in line usually checks out via other sources eventually. Maybe they got tired of getting sued, and decided it was a win/win to do actual reporting, even if the subject of the reporting isn’t always worth the effort, or if it’s reminiscent of peering into someone’s window, or exactly like peering into someone’s window. FWIW, supposedly they had the best and most thorough coverage of the O. J. Simpson story. The mainstream media didn’t want to admit it. After busting John Edwards they could no longer be ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495/40 "2010-04-04T23:39:27Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > That always rankled me; not only that these kids were not held to the same rules as the rest of us, but that those parents would sacrifice one of their own just to keep a scandal from causing damage to the rest of them. Ever see the movie “Hot Fuzz”? -Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-weeps-for-sarah/534495.md?page=3)