Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s a doggy dog world.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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  2. 2.

    donovong

    Sorry, John, but I have to disagree. It’s much worse than that.

    She is actually Richard Nixon with lipstick.

  3. 3.

    p.a.

    I’m no fan of the Republican ticket or party, but that’s just Philly being Philly. It was stupid to put her in that position however.

    Maybe someone can come up with a good political aphorism; "When you lose Flyers fans…"

  4. 4.

    Catpain Haddock

    I really can’t stand that little fake point-to-someone-in-the-crowd thing she does and that "gosh, what a crowd" look of hers. What a raging ass.

  5. 5.

    Catpain Haddock

    And doesn’t that daughter of hers have a shotgun wedding she should be getting ready for? Or are they going to wait to do that in the Oval Office? That would really go a long ways to restoring dignity…

  6. 6.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I posted this a bit ago in another thread but it belongs here:

    Regarding Palin dropping the puck, one press comment I saw said that she was greeted with a mixture of boos and applause, which turned to applause when she dropped the puck. Why the change?

    The way it dropped, she (and the official) should have just handed it to the Flyers. It was not between the sticks…lol! No wonder the crowd cheered. ;p

  7. 7.

    eric k

    How many months pregnant is her daughter supposed to be?

    Maybe Sullivan’s weird theory isn’t so far fetched.

  8. 8.

    Bailey

    I think you guys all misheard the crowd. They weren’t shouting "boo!" they were shouting "Moose! Mooooose!" Clearly Palin is loved in Philly. It would be foolish to deny.

  10. 10.

    Matt

    @Wini: Obviously you don’t know Philly sports fans. The daughter was there to prevent the rain of batteries.

    The music being blasted so high to drown out the boos was the funny part.

  12. 12.

    Steve

    I wish Americans whistled to show displeasure like fans in other countries. It’s a much more piercing, unmistakable message that the person in the spotlight sucks.

  13. 13.

    SAP

    I can’t believe she went to Philly. I really can’t. This is the town whose fans cheered when Michael Irvin’s career ended on the turf at Veterans Stadium in ’99. Did she really think she could bring her kids and they still wouldn’t boo her?

    She’s just lucky she didn’t show up on Battery Night.

  14. 14.

    TheFountainHead

    So I went canvassing today with Obama volunteers. It was pretty good times, especially since we didn’t run into a single McCain supporter. At least none that would identify themselves as one. In fact, it was such a good experience that I wasn’t even that pissed when I discovered that someone had stolen the VW emblem of the front of my car while I was out walking. I just shrugged, bought a good maduro cigar and a bottle of makers mark and enjoyed the evening. We got this shit.

    All McCain has are racists and the tin-foil hat brigade.

    TFH +(2*n+1)

  18. 18.

    malraux

    I can’t believe she went to Philly.

    I’m kinda shocked at how often she’s been to philly.

  19. 19.

    Game Over Green

    The Rangers player, #19 Scotty Gomez, is from Alaska. His fellow Rangers probably told him to get over there since she’s his home state’s governor. The look on his face said he wasn’t interested.

    The cheering after the puck drop? Happens every time after a ceremonial puck drop, as in, "Yeah! Time to see some hockey!" Don’t misinterpret the cheering as anything to do with Palin’s presence or how well she dropped the puck.

  21. 21.

    ThymeZone

    A minister delivering the invocation at John McCain’s rally in Davenport, Iowa Saturday told the crowd non-Christian religions around the world were praying for Barack Obama to win the U.S. presidential election.
    “There are millions of people around this world praying to their god—whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah—that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens,” said Arnold Conrad, the former pastor of Grace Evangelical Free Church in Davenport.

    CNN. If this has already been seen, then GBCW, this is the end of Rico.

  22. 22.

    The Pale Scot

    So that the campaign’s strategy, to hide Palin in Philly until the election in the expectation that no news of what what goes on there ever gets reported (except I guess, by Atrios), and hope that W.C Fields had a point when he said;

    "All in all, I’d rather be in Philadelphia"

    Which is not as good as;

    "I love children, as long as they’re well cooked"

    Any one need any Jimmy Durante lines, I gotta million of them!

  23. 23.

    JGabriel

    So there’s something I’ve been wondering about ever since McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate: Is Charlie Crist still engaged?

    .

  24. 24.

    dadanarchist

    I’d always wondered what it would be like if Dick Cheney did one of these throw-out-the-pitch moments.

    But I suppose none of these sports really fit his mood.

    Maybe if we brought back the gladiatorial games, he could start the festivities by disemboweling a prisoner of war, or something.

  25. 25.

    ChrisB

    Then the Rangers jumped out to a 4-0 lead. She’s the anti-Kate Smith.

    And check out the Obama signs in the background of the video.

    Oh, and she drops the puck like a, um, like a wuss.

  26. 26.

    zhak

    That’s not the pregnant daughter, it’s the middle one, Willow (along with the little one being used ineffectively as a boo-shield, Piper).

    I think her decision-making capabilities in naming her kids should disqualify her for higher office, even without considering her other … quirks. But hey, I’m so reactionary.

  27. 27.

    JGabriel

    Donovong:

    She is actually Richard Nixon with lipstick.

    Nah. Dick was an evil, vicious, paranoid fuck, but he was no idiot.

    Palin is Chick Cheney.

    .

  28. 28.

    JGabriel

    Malraux:

    I’m kinda shocked at how often she’s been to philly.

    Palin and McCain live in that alternate conservative reality where they think Johnny Drama can actually win IA and PA.

    I’m just happy to have them there instead of OH, CO, NM, FL, NV, or VA, where they might be able to do some real damage.

    .

  29. 29.

    Soylent Green

    Regarding Palin dropping the puck, one press comment I saw said that she was greeted with a mixture of boos and applause, which turned to applause when she dropped the puck. Why the change?

    Same reason people start cheering before they have finished playing the national anthem. Because that boring formality is out of the way and the game is starting.
     
    Has Hockey Mom ever been to a hockey game? You throw the puck down, not gently toss it.

  31. 31.

    Michelle

    @eric k: I thought the same thing. Wasn’t she far enough along for the boyfriend to be there at around Labor Day?

    What happened?

  32. 32.

    NonyNony

    I think her decision-making capabilities in naming her kids should disqualify her for higher office, even without considering her other … quirks. But hey, I’m so reactionary.

    I actually find her novel selection of names for her kids to be one of the few things I like about her.

    At least for the girls – Bristol, Willow and Piper are actually nice names. The boys’ names, OTOH, kinda suck. Sticking your kids with names like "Track" and "Trig" is actually kinda cruel. Not as bad as naming your son "Kal-El" if you’re not actually from the planet Krypton (thank you Nick Cage) but close.

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    A hockey player named Gomez? Will wonders never cease.

    Sarah Palin reminds me of a professional spokesmodel. I fully expect to see her doing ExtenZe infomercials at 2:00 a.m. on TNT. Soon.

    "Can a simple pill enhance that ‘certain part’ of the male anatomy? Let’s ask John."

    Someday I hope to appreciate the humor of all this. At present I’m nauseated.

  36. 36.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Same reason people start cheering before they have finished playing the national anthem. Because that boring formality is out of the way and the game is starting.

    True though I bet that the cheering was louder after she just about handed the home team the puck. Maybe she dropped it the way she did because NY is voting Obama and Pennsylvania is contested and she wanted to butter up the natives? ;)

    It was a lame drop, just like her lame campaign and everything else that is lame about her.

    She made "The Lame List". ;)

  37. 37.

    rob!

    She is actually Richard Nixon with lipstick.

    JGabriel beat me to it–

    Sarah Palin is NOT Nixon. Nixon was highly educated, and craved people who knew as much as he did. Of course, his ideas were mostly bad, and he let his personal demons take over, but he wasn’t anti-intellectual (conservative intellectualism, at least–or is that an oxy-moron?)

    Palin is even worse than Bush–Bush got a good education. Didn’t do anything with it, but he did go to Yale. Palin rejects the entire NOTION that you need to know anything about anything.

    How the Republican Party managed to dredge up someone I fear MORE as as a VP than Dick Cheney, I don’t know.

  38. 38.

    donovong

    @jgabriel:

    You were not on the nuclear alert aircraft staging area when Tricky Dick gave us the high sign in ’73. He was a dangerously idiotic paranoid fuck. And you have no idea how close we came.

    The idea of giving Palin that power gives me nightmares.

  40. 40.

    Starburst Pantload

    Hey, ain’t it past 11:30 out on the starboard coast? Any early reviews of Ms. Fey’s performance?

  42. 42.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Hey, ain’t it past 11:30 out on the starboard coast? Any early reviews of Ms. Fey’s performance?

    They’re re-running the Michael Phelps show. It seems they’ve learned nothing from the writers strike season.

  43. 43.

    gbear

    I wasn’t even that pissed when I discovered that someone had stolen the VW emblem of the front of my car while I was out walking.

    Well it looked kind of odd on the front of your Kia anyway…

  44. 44.

    Common Sense

    I’m betting this gives knuckleheads a meme to repeat for a while — "There’s a difference between ONE GUY yelling "Kill Him!" and TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE booing HER LITTLE KID!"

  45. 45.

    eric k

    Conservative Lib,

    Obama is up by 10 or 11 in Penn, which if the normal pattern is in play means he must be up by at least 20 in Philly:-)

    Michelle,

    I guess we’re wrong, this is Willow (I thought she was younger). Bristol must be staying out of sight.

  46. 46.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Eagles fans still bask in booing Santa Claus in ’68

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Those famously churlish Philly fans can’t hide behind the urban legends. The truth is out there: They simply booed Santa Claus. Frank Olivo — the erstwhile Santa in question — wasn’t drunk, nor was his red suit in tatters that December day in 1968 when he walked onto the field for the halftime show, only to be met by a chorus of jeers and a snowball fusillade from Eagles fans But by all accounts, they had cause for an ugly mood. ‘The fans carried on like that because the Eagles were horrible,’ Olivo said.

  47. 47.

    Starburst Pantload

    Well, well, from Fock Snooze, via DKos:

    The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”

    Why do I get the feeling that if Bristol’s kid were (FSM forbid) stillborn, Darth Mader would parade the dead kid as a campaign prop if she could?

  48. 48.

    Starburst Pantload

    @Notorious P.A.T.:
    They’re re-running the Michael Phelps show. It seems they’ve learned nothing from the writers strike season.

    Aw, fuckershmit. My night = ruined.

  49. 49.

    Michelle

    @eric k:
    You are telling me that the older girl is not Bristol? There are two girls there.

    I hate that is has come to this.

    I hate that now I am now looking at these videos this way.

  50. 50.

    gbear

    McCain should have gone with Pawlenty. He knows how to fit in at a hockey game (via moderateleft archives):

    Let’s Play Some F—ing Hockey!

    Did Gov. Timmy really say "As we drop the fucking puck…." last night as he welcomed Wild fans back to the X?

    That’s the word on the street. For goodness’ sake, someone’s gotta have video of this, right?

    UPDATE: No video, but Josh at Jack Pine Savage attests to having seen it.

    – posted by Jeff Fecke @ 11:04 AM

  51. 51.

    Joshua Norton

    because they’re going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens,

    So now they’re saying there’s something to polytheism? There’s a multitude of gods all vying for our devotion?

    I fully expect most of these whack-jobs to start caressing pieces of enchanted jewelry and whisper "my precious" to them.

    With McInsane leading the pack.

  53. 53.

    Genine

    I’m no fan of the Republican ticket or party, but that’s just Philly being Philly.

    Yes, that can most certainly be true. But I’d like to think my hometown folks are just smart like that. Or think there were enough smart people to fill a hockey arena.

    I’m feeling warm and fuzzy about Philly now. I think I might even go back and visit.

  55. 55.

    Martin

    Nice,

    John McCain says there are three people who’s advice he would seek in the White House is John Lewis. So, John Lewis gives McCain some advise that "Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse." What does McCain do? Demands that Obama denounce Lewis.

    Hey McCain. You fucking invited the advise, dickwad.

    You know, I don’t go after McCain all that much, but the media should absolutely eviscerate McCain over this. McCain himself made the case that Lewis’ judgement was the best he could seek out – presumably better than his own on such matters. But as soon as that judgement is offered, not only does McCain declare it to be bullshit, but he demands that other people declare it to be bullshit as well. Fuck him.

  57. 57.

    Thursday

    The home team always wins ceremonial face offs – unwritten rule. You don’t really want to endanger the honourable folk on the carpet, though a fight for the puck would make it more interesting…

    Given the political leanings of the nations hockey players come from, I’d be amazed if there were more than three Republican supporters on the ice during that face off.

  58. 58.

    Zuzu's Petals

    Aside from the utter cheesiness of bringing your six-year-old along to deflect the boos…

    I felt sorry for the real hockey mom who had to share the moment with her.

  60. 60.

    JGabriel

    Over at the New York Times, they actually have a blog devoted to Hockey with an entry on the Philly "boo"’s.

    The best part though is the comments section, about half of which comes from the keyboards of the pearl-clutching conservative set:

    Dood@9:20 pm: As usual. No hate like liberal hate.

    Mark@9:29 pm: So let me get this straight. When Republicans boo Obama at a Republican rally it is because they are angry racists, but when hockey spectators boo Sarah Palin at a Flyers game, they are to be commended? Wow, talk about a heaping helping of hypocrisy.

    KBL@9:38 pm: It looks like Obama in Philadelphia has been “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.” For shame, Obama and the Philadelphia Democrats. Such anger. Such ugliness.

    MNVet@9:54 pm: Way to go, libbies. Just watching you try to justify booing a little six ear old girl is hilarious. I thought you were the party of peace, love and compassion? What a friggin joke you people are. I can’t wait to see the peaceniks when their messiah loses on the fourth. I hope the riot police are prepared.

    NoMilk@10:39 pm: Sorry to see Obama supporters fueling a climate of hatred against their political opponents.

    And so on.

    I did post a response to that last one by NoMilk:

    Let’s see if we can explain this.

    Hockey fans booing a political figure = pretty natural behavior.

    Attendees at a political rally screaming “Kill Him!”, “Treason!”, “Traitor!”, and “Off With His Head” = a climate of hatred.

    Please try to remember the difference. One way you can tell them apart is that the latter involves death threats, where the other only expresses disapproval.

    Anyhow, check out the WATB and the snark over there. It’s pretty amusing.

    .

  62. 62.

    Phoenix Woman

    John, so long as you’re collecting examples of the rightards hollering out "Army Group Steiner will save us!", do get a load of this steaming turd of psychedelic pandemonium, courtesy of Hillbuzz (via Thers):

    "The buzz in those corridors is that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case….
    .
    If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes being committed makes all parties accessories to those crimes — and part of the conspiracy to defraud the public.
    .
    THAT would certainly be one Hell of a shock tomorrow morning."

    This was posted last Thursday. Needless to say, Patrick Fitzgerald did no such thing.

    Isn’t the delusion here priceless?

  63. 63.

    Jon H

    Notorious wrote: "They’re re-running the Michael Phelps show. It seems they’ve learned nothing from the writers strike season."

    Didn’t they just have a special SNL show on Thursday, that had a debate sketch?

  64. 64.

    Big E

    The Flyer fans showed that they will take no
    Repug bullshit in their house..
    I am proud of Philly !

    If you do something stupid or jive, you will
    be hammered in Philly

  65. 65.

    JGabriel

    Common Sense:

    I’m betting this gives knuckleheads a meme to repeat for a while—"There’s a difference between ONE GUY yelling "Kill Him!" and TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE booing HER LITTLE KID!"

    Yep, that’s exactly what they’re doing at the Times thread I linked above.

    I reminded the people pushing that line that there are a lot more than one or two Republicans doing that, and gave them the youtube links for the Strongsville OH and Bethlehem PA videos as evidence.

  66. 66.

    eric k

    Yeah Michelle, there is Bristol, the knocked up one, then Willow (I thought she was 13 but she must be older) and Piper is the youngest one.

  67. 67.

    Zuzu's Petals

    So she even admitted ahead of time that she planned to use her child as a boo-shield:

    A carpet was laid down and Palin, dressed in a beige trench, walked on to the ice joined by her daughters Willow and Piper. The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”

    Fox

  68. 68.

    Martin

    She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”

    Well, I guess it’s safe to say she’s never been to Philly or Yankee Stadium.

    And this is brilliant:

    With the help of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score every blog on Memeorandum based on their linking activity in the last three months. Then I wrote a Greasemonkey script to pull that information out of Google Spreadsheets, and colorize Memeorandum on-the-fly. Left-leaning blogs are blue and right-leaning blogs are red, with darker colors representing strong biases.

  69. 69.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I saw a reference on a musicians site I read that calls the Republican ticket this year the "Depends/ZOMG" ticket.

    Bingo!

  71. 71.

    Jon H

    She’s lucky they didn’t get pelted with TastyKakes, as happened to some pro wrestlers performing at the Philly Civic Center in lieu of a day of Rocky filming (they’d already finished).

    Stallone showed up, yapped a bit from the ring, then the wrestlers came out, and the free TastyKakes started flying.

    This was back in 1989/1990.

    Then again, if you have to be pelted, coffee cakes and faux Twinkies would be better than batteries.

  72. 72.

    Mike

    If Philly fans showed Palin one tenth of the venom they used on Jackie Robinson, this might be a story.

  73. 73.

    Conservatively Liberal

    OT, but this is pissing me off. This financial mess we are in was not caused by Obama. It was not caused by ACORN. It was not caused by poor blacks (and other poor people that the wingnuts despise). It is not a "Democrat" conspiracy to destroy the Republicans, take over American and impose Socialism, Marxism, Leninism or any other ‘ism’ that makes these assholes piss their pants and cry for mama. This is the latest racist spin out of the right that is taking hold, and it needs to be called out for what it is. Racist scapegoating in the hope of throwing the election and if not that then to set up the next narrative that the right will be bitching and whining about ad infinitum, or at least until they regain control.

    The narrative is that Obama had a hand in the financial collapse, and ACORN is the vehicle used in the ‘hit’. That this whole mess is the fault of the Democrats as a plan to bring down the Repubs. This is shit that is tailor made to appeal to the fucking nutjob racists out there, a way that is custom fit to appeal to the need of these racist assholes to blame everyone who isn’t white for whatever calamity we face which has usually been caused by rich white guys screwing everyone over, regardless of color.

    This is bullshit and these assholes who are feeding this shit know it. I can hear this dog whistle loud and clear, and I ain’t a damn dog. The end of this paragraph is a link to a shit stain of a site that a nutjob RedState member posted. Warning: Plug your nose and hold your breath before linking. You may need to bleach your brain after reading this shit.

    This diary at Kos set me off about it. Sorry about the rant but this shit is just too much for this white guy to take without venting. These racist fucks can fuck off and die, hopefully in the worst way imaginable.

  75. 75.

    va

    What you really want to see is Andy Card getting booed at UMASS as he tries to deliver a commencement address.

  76. 76.

    Ash Can

    I’m still wondering how the SNL studio audience will react on October 25, when supposedly Palin will put in an appearance.

    "There are millions of people around this world praying to their god—whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah…"

    Somebody tell this horse’s ass that he prays to Allah too, as do all the members of his congregation. Same deity, different name. You’d think that someone professing to be a religious leader would know that. On the other hand, the likelihood that his professional credentials arrived at his house in an envelope addressed to "Occupant" is probably pretty high.

  78. 78.

    Conservatively Liberal

    You miss Almost Live too, huh?

    Damn straight. My wife and I loved watching that show. Being a longhair, The Lame List was one of my favorite parts but the whole show was excellent humor.

  79. 79.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    You know if I were a Republican I probably wouldn’t go to a place called the Wachovia Center. Oh, the irony. Better yet my Rangers beat them. (The FSM is on our side and punishing the Flyers for bringing in Governor Spice! More proof that the FSM still rulez bitches!)

    Josh posted a great headline last night:

    Which Crash is Steeper? Global Finance or John McCain?

    FTW.

  80. 80.

    kommrade jakevich

    The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”

    This is also her plan to fend off terrorist attacks though.

  82. 82.

    harlana pepper

    To Bush’s credit (I never thought I would utter those words) at least there’s a little skill involved in throwing a pitch. Palin needed two cute daughters and the hand of a bona fide hockey mom just to drop a hockey puck onto the ice.

  83. 83.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Shorter Glenn Reynolds: The DFH’s iz scary.

    Does the Right really want to go there? Its not just Reynolds. The Usual Suspects are all on board with this notion that people calling Obama a "terrorist", "traitor", calling for his death at public gatherings and Governor Spice being booed at a hockey game are somehow equivalent. Jesus!

    BTW shouldn’t The McCain campaign know better than to send Palin to a major sporting event? EVERY politician is going to hear some boos at a sporting event. Good grief just how stupid are these people?

    But, alas, it really is scary to think we might have a President who will actually listen to ALL arguments before making a decision based on FACTS. Empiricism isn’t dead but the Right spent the last eight years making sure it didn’t get any life support.

  84. 84.

    Robert Johnston

    She is actually Richard Nixon with lipstick.

    Nah. Dick was an evil, vicious, paranoid fuck, but he was no idiot.

    Palin is Chick Cheney.

    Nah. Cheney is much smarter than Palin, not to mention that he turns to dust in sunlight.

    Palin is Michelle Bachman with . . . hmmm . . . no, not lipstick; the crazy congresswoman uses that too . . . no, not extra-crazy or race-baitingly stupid; they both score on those accounts . . . no, not with even more theocracy; again, they both want to supplant the Constitution with an inane version of the bible.

    Palin’s Michelle Bachman.

  86. 86.

    Argive

    Being a Flyers fan and a full-time Obama campaign worker, I was wondering pretty much all week how Palin would be welcomed. My city did me proud. Go Flyers!

    Also, Mike, did the fans really harass Jackie Robinson? I thought it was just the Phillies themselves.

  88. 88.

    D-Chance.

    Meh. Philly booed Santa Claus.

    The only time they have respectful crowds is during the Army-Navy game, and that’s because the students and alumni have better armaments…

  89. 89.

    Anticorium

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    How dare they boo Piper!

    Yes. They totally booed her daughter. Not Sarah Palin. Sarah was beyond reproach. She didn’t do anything that could make anyone think ill of her. She didn’t hide behind the skirts of a seven-year-old. She wasn’t stupid enough to stage a photo op at a Philadelphia sports arena.

    This is why they’re not letting her out of her underground bunker, except to be Rockstar Barbie in front of prescreened crowds of fanatics. She doesn’t even have the courage to look the people who dislike her in the eye and say "Yeah, you hate me? Well, go to hell. I hate you too."

  91. 91.

    Palmer Eldritch

    John, that’s awfully provincial of you. Philadelphians are about ready to burst with Democratic pride these days. Just last week I saw a beret-wearing greyhound owner threw a whole beer in some guy’s face and threaten to whip his ass because that guy was blaming irresponsible minorities for the financial crisis.

  92. 92.

    The Disenfranchised Voter

    As a Philadelphia fan…

    We Philadelphia fans boo two things–losers who suck and in the case of Santa, when we are losing the game.

    As anyone in Philly knows, Santa was booed because at the time we were losing that game. All the other people who were booed in Philly were booed because at the time they were being sucky losers.

    Clearly the whole "Well Santa was booed too!" line doesn’t apply because Santa was booed because of the way the game was going, and since the Flyers game didn’t even start yet, you can hardly use that excuse.

    Sarah Palin was booed because she is simply a loser who sucks; and I’ve never been more proud of my fellow Philly fans.

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