Palin Gets Booed At Hockey Game
Here's a campaign appearance that could have gone a little better. Sarah Palin stopped in at tonight's Philadelphia Flyers game to ceremonially drop the first puck -- and was met by an arena full of booing.
"Flyers fans, please welcome the best-known hockey mom in the United States," the announcer said. What happened next cannot exactly be described as a warm welcome:
(Via Daily Kos)
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thats whut she get dumbass muthafucka!!!
October 11, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
*cough*
Dear Sir.. I mean, yo, hey what is up?
I would like to inform..I mean, you know cat--apologies, dog--we are not necessarily in the lower vertical quadrant with your jargon, sorry, like..your killer rhymes--some type of felonious poetry at any rate--so..erm, young fellow...fellow-izle? Dog? Or lemur, possibly. Perhaps you ought to--no, no, omit that--like, do not be a "dumb doughnuts"? Is that right? "Doughnutizle?" Regardless, the patois employed--sorry..maladious..lines? That you..let fall?--strikes one as somewhat lame--in the colloquial sense, not a medical condition..sorry, sorry, forget that..I mean, those words--sorry, them words--are "whack".."whack-izzle?" Is whacks?
Er, you...dig? Dog? Fat dog? "Phat"? What do you mean, "phat"? Is that not what I said? "Fat dog"? Oh, I see.
October 12, 2008 6:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Me thinks those hockey fans know a lying, xenophobic skank when they see one!
October 11, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
They should. They've had one for a GM for a loooong time!
October 12, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
ROTFLMAO
October 12, 2008 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gov. Palin admits to using her daughter as a "boo shield"
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/palin-drops-puck-at-flyers-game-receives-mixed-reaction/
(yes, I cut and pasted this from the other thread - sue me)
October 11, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goddamn! - Didn't I say that very thing two threads down -
Someone was saying they hated seeing those dragged around and I replied that I hated it too - she always has at least one and they are both shields and accessories.
That fucking bitch - she's a hell of a mother.
October 11, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Count me in. Sure, politicians "use" their family for their PR purposes now and then, but Palin does so to a blatant, even obscene degree. It makes me puke. And what the fuck is that she passes around the down's syndrome baby like a toy doll late night???
October 11, 2008 10:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why aren't those school age kids in school? She's dragging them all over the country -
October 11, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
If they miss school, there's no way they'll be as smart as their mother someday.
October 11, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol, no kidding!
October 11, 2008 11:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
It still makes me scratch my head to see some women saying "She's a mom, just like me." No way Palin is a typical mom who struggles to balance work and family on a daily basis -- clearly, there is no real balance there in Palin's motherhood. Her ambition first, and everything else is her tools to achieve it. How could women identify themselves with that scum is beyond me.
October 11, 2008 11:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
They are home, make that hotel/bus schooled. Mostly they are learning that their mother has a vicious tongue. But maybe they already knew that.
October 12, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's a pretty safe bet that they know that.
October 12, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Where's Willow, the middle daughter? I haven't seen her make an appearance with Palin in ages. It's always Bristol and/or Piper and/or baby Trig.
October 12, 2008 8:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
maybe she's "visiting an aunt in montana," if you know what i'm sayin'.
that sort of thing seems to run in the family.
October 12, 2008 8:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, I hope not. Poor child's got enough problems already, but I've seen little sisters who got jealous of the attention big sister got for misbehavin' and went out and "got in trouble" themselves.
October 12, 2008 8:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Willow was at the hockey game with Sarah and Piper last night. Bristol wasn't there.
October 12, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I stand corrected. I had to go back and watch the video again. Thanks.
October 12, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure she said it tongue-in-cheek at the fundraiser and will defend it saying she was joking, but nonetheless it does show her underlying motivation.
October 11, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - I figured it out before she said it - it was obvious to me - especially when I saw she'd trotted Piper out there in that jersey - I knew instantly what she was doing.
She's savvy about some things -
October 11, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
We often use jokes to take the sting out of truth.
What was she saying about pit bulls, again?
October 11, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Failure to Draw Boundaries: WHY ETHICS MATTERS
This post explains it all. Why Palin has no ethics whatsoever. Just, ME...ME...ME, all the time.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/10/failure-to-draw-boundaries-why.php
October 12, 2008 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hockey fans are the greatest fans in the world.
October 11, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to think she was booed back to whatever hell she came from. But I've listened to that twice and hear no boos.
October 11, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wha?! You don't hear it? Although truth be told Philly fans boo everything.
October 11, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you look at the crowd, you can see that there is a whole section of people behind here either doing thumbs down, or they have their hands around their mouths to amplify their booing and there are some Obama signs.
October 11, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I def saw some gestures.. i didn't notice the signs on the FIRST go round.. but i couldn't see the booing at all. i thought maybe it were maybe just the acoustics. Im probably just deaf though, lol!
October 11, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to wait a minute to hear it. At first you can't, but as the tape rolls you can definitely tell they are booing. And over at HuffPo they say that it was deafening in person. Behind her on the left there are two Obama signs. You know hockey, so traditionally liberal... Or maybe Obama is just the real deal.
October 12, 2008 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's true. Philly fans are maniacal. They'd boo the second coming of Christ.
October 12, 2008 9:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I thought at first. But if you listen to the cheering that happens at the beginning and compare it to what you hear when she is announced, you get the idea.
October 11, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
New video on DKos and you can hear the boos as plain as day -- they have 2 versions - one you hear the music more the second there's no denying.
October 11, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm no Philly fan (I detest the Eagles and dislike the Flyers), but they made me proud tonight! I almost feel bad the Rangers started kicking their butts almost right away. Almost.
Thanks, Philly!
October 11, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do feel slightly bad for the Ranger in the shot. Scotty Gomez is one of surprisingly few Alaskans in the NHL, and one of the classiest players in the game. (don't know his politics, though most pro jocks are big time righties, so...)
But I will never feel sorry for the Flyers, or for any Philly fan. Sorry, but there's only so far I can go.
I'm guessing the security around her presence put a crimp in the fans pregame drinking, which wouldn't help her.
October 12, 2008 12:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, here's a good rule: No politician should ever drop a ceremonial puck at a hockey game. Maybe Canadian pols can't avoid it, but for any American pol it's just dumb. There's no percentage in it. It's not like a baseball game. It's not a subculture you want to wade into.
Here's a taste: At every NY Ranger game at Madison Square Garden, without fail, there is one tradition that's probably more continuous and older than any other: some fan in the cheap seats starts up a whistle, which prompts thousands to scream in unison Potvin Sucks!!. They chant this about a Hall-of-Fame NY Islander, Denis Potvin, who retired 20 years ago; because of a check he threw in a game before half of these fans were born.
That's hockey. Seriously, this is the photo op you're looking for?
October 12, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thankfully, the Rangers held on to hand the Phlyers a beating for their trouble!
Heh. You mean you're not a huge Bobby Clarke fan? :-)
Even though I lived way out on Eastern LI when the NY Islanders were born, I just couldn't dissociate them from Alfonse D'Amato and Joe Margiotta. I'm glad I was asleep for their winning seasons.
October 12, 2008 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I LOVE PHILLY!!!
Go Phillies, Flyers, Eagles, 76'ers
October 11, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
my fellow prisoners or brett favre plays for tha pittsburgh steelers,or bottle hot water for dehydrated babies,or president putin of germany iam startin to like this cat mccukoo!!!!
October 11, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eric,
Perhaps if Palin was from the United States instead of the "United Sates", she might have been better received.
October 11, 2008 10:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Being an Irishman, Booze always had a lovely ring to it. Now so does Boos.
October 11, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, she had her kids and a former Flyer escorting her and she still got booed.
October 11, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any truth to the rumor that Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain were heard to exclaim in unison, "Is there another reason to have kids other than to exploit them to your own benefit?"
October 11, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Taking those two little girls out to get booed by the crowd was a shameful thing for Palin to do. You have to be one tough sob to endure an arena full of boo-birds in full throat. So, subjecting her young daughters to that experience is unconscionable in the extreme. Pathetic, simply pathetic.
October 11, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rangers won the game, BTW. I suspect even the right wingers (political, not hockey) are booing. Don't think she'll be invited back.
October 11, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was not just the booing (which it was awesome, thank you Philly!) but is visible that a fan showed an Obama-Biden sign at 0:52. Then, at 1 minute on the clip, two Obama-Biden signs appeared.
October 11, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - you can see it clearly a lot of time and you can see the audience reacting negatively to her.
October 11, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just a reminder. TPMMuckraker has a lot great new reports on the Palins.
They are not getting much traffic on there, and there is a lot of in depth reports being posted.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
October 11, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
This was just a DUMB move by the McCain campaign. It's fucking Philly. What did they think was going to happen? What a bunch of morons. And using her daughter as a shield? Wait . . . aren't there schools in Alaska? Shouldn't one or both of them be in school right now?
October 11, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I don't get -
Jebus.
October 11, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sporting events are just stupid for pols. I mean on average half of the people in attendance won't like you or your party, and booing's going to come through a lot more clearly than cheers.
October 11, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
As has often been noted, Philly fans would boo Santa if he showed up at a sporting event on Christmas eve.
October 12, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
At the risk of getting booed myself.. guys.. i really couldn't tell if she was getting booed. I saw a lot of something that could be described as 'go away" hands, but i also saw some tepid clapping too. How could you tell she was getting booed?
October 11, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
The reason it is hard to hear the boos is that they cranked the music up to a ridiculous degree to cover them up. All reports from people there were that there was an "avalanche" of boos.
October 11, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aha! That explains why the acoustics were messing with me. Too bad these ears don't automatically come with software that can separate out sounds
October 11, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Simply because the booing sounds really pick up when she is announced. There is no such sound prior to then.
October 11, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I noticed. It was the contrast between the sounds after and those before that made it pretty clear.
October 11, 2008 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well you could have the sound on.
and midway you can see people boo in the back ground, and people with 2 thumbs down, and Obama/Biden signs.
October 11, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just more great news for John McCain!
Apparently, we're not getting the full effect of the boos because of that music the house pumps in, but the NYT hockey writer said the boos were "deafening":
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/a-misplaced-hockey-mom-moment/
October 11, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great link! Thanks :)
October 11, 2008 11:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
My pleasure.
October 11, 2008 11:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Am I missing something here? I guess I don't see where the big problem is with having Palin doing something as innocuous as dropping an effing hockey puck (her children/mothering issues notwithstanding). The writer goes on and on about "injecting politics" in to a place where it shouldn't be and involving the players.
Big deal. Haven't similar evens been going on in American politics for decades? What am I missing?
October 11, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink