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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2012 / Don’t Mess With Snowbillies

Don’t Mess With Snowbillies

by @heymistermix.com|  November 17, 20108:01 am| 80 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Flash Mob of Hate

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Apparently the pain from David Letterman’s joke about her is causing Willow to lash out:

Willow Palin was responding to a boy named Tre who updated his Facebook status on Sunday night to read: “Sarah Palin’s Alaska, is failing so hard right now.”

Willow then replied, saying: “Tre stfu. Your such a faggot.”

Willow also wrote a message on Tre’s wall which read: “Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I’ve seen pictures of, your disgusting … My sister had a kid and is still hot.”

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  1. 1.

    cleek

    November 17, 2010 at 8:07 am

    classy!

  2. 2.

    JPL

    November 17, 2010 at 8:10 am

    If people weren’t so mean, Willow wouldn’t have to use slurs… lame facebook

  3. 3.

    cathyx

    November 17, 2010 at 8:11 am

    Do you have to have a weird name to live in Alaska?

  4. 4.

    Suck It Up!

    November 17, 2010 at 8:11 am

    free speech and stuff.

  5. 5.

    AB

    November 17, 2010 at 8:12 am

    like mother like daughter, I think. Bristol/Willow can lose to Malia/Sasha 2040 or whatever

  6. 6.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 8:12 am

    Proper spelling and punctuation appear to be optional in Alaska. Also, too, one of the Obama girls wore a t-shirt with the peace symbol so STFU.

  7. 7.

    Nick

    November 17, 2010 at 8:13 am

    real ‘merkins!

  8. 8.

    Alex S.

    November 17, 2010 at 8:15 am

    Ah well, such things happen thousands of times each day on many, many facebook pages. It only made the news because a Palin is involved. There’s nothing to see here.

  9. 9.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 17, 2010 at 8:16 am

    TBogg has a nice take.

    Normally a Palin would respond by pointing out that Tre is some kind of lamestream gotcha socia1ist pedophile, but Willow is just a teenager so she takes the high road with all of the grace and droll wit that we have come to expect of the children who are The Future of This Great Country of Ours

  10. 10.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 17, 2010 at 8:17 am

    @cathyx:

    No, Sarah Palin is just so in LUUUUUUUUUV with Alaska that her girls got named after Alaska-esque things:

    Bristol is named after Bristol Bay, Alaska
    Piper is named after the Piper Cub, a popular small aircraft used for bush travel in Alaska
    Willow is named after Willow, Alaska

    I’m not sure where Track and Trig’s names come from.

  11. 11.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 17, 2010 at 8:17 am

    FYWP

  12. 12.

    cathyx

    November 17, 2010 at 8:18 am

    @Jay in Oregon:

    What about Tre?

  13. 13.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 17, 2010 at 8:18 am

    @debit:

    Proper spelling and punctuation appear to be optional in Alaska on Facebook.

    Fixed that for you…

  14. 14.

    Sly

    November 17, 2010 at 8:20 am

    On the next episode of Juneau Shore…

  15. 15.

    geg6

    November 17, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Well, I see the apple hasn’t fallen too far from the tree.

    Mean girls beget mean girls.

  16. 16.

    scav

    November 17, 2010 at 8:21 am

    we can also infer that on Fb, boasting about an illegitimate kid is fine as is pointing out that your sister is hot, the former of which is hopeful, the latter of which is just so slightly disturbing.

  17. 17.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 17, 2010 at 8:21 am

    @geg6:

    Beat me to it.

  18. 18.

    Chris

    November 17, 2010 at 8:22 am

    @Jay in Oregon:

    It’s like she actually picked her kids’ names in view of political campaigns, to be as folksy as possible.

  19. 19.

    Hal

    November 17, 2010 at 8:27 am

    Meanwhile, her daughter with two left feet is still on Dancing with the Stars.

    The hilarious thing for me is, I don’t even watch the show and I’m pissed. They booted Brandi and put Bristol in the top three, with her smug ass. Audience didn’t seem to happy about it at all.

  20. 20.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    November 17, 2010 at 8:28 am

    Nice to see Palin has done her part to make sure America never suffers a Mean Girl deficit. USA! USA!

    @Jay in Oregon: Track = Making tracks away from crazy mom. Trig = A better chance of mastering advanced mathematics than crazy mom.

  21. 21.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 8:29 am

    Wait, didn’t one of Sarah’s boys also do some sort of white trash thing? What was it, slashing the tires of some school buses?

  22. 22.

    Linda Featheringill

    November 17, 2010 at 8:29 am

    How childish. Of course Willow is a child.

    I think we should just leave her alone.

  23. 23.

    vtr

    November 17, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Her mother can only dream of speaking that coherently.

  24. 24.

    one two seven

    November 17, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Ladies and gentlemen, your future first family.

  25. 25.

    ChrisS

    November 17, 2010 at 8:32 am

    I cannot wait until their 15 minutes are up.

  26. 26.

    geg6

    November 17, 2010 at 8:32 am

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Normally, I would agree with you. However, this family and this “child” have decided that they want fame and fortune over and above privacy and a normal childhood. And now she’s decided that it’s fine to bully people online. Fuck the little snot. If she wants left alone, she should take her own advice and STFU.

  27. 27.

    4tehlulz

    November 17, 2010 at 8:34 am

    Bush twins > Palin spawn

  28. 28.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 8:39 am

    I await with breathless anticipation for Sarah’s tweet or Facebook update about this matter. Will it be a stern admonition to her daughter about language, respect and tone? Or will it be a call to release the flying monkeys to investigate Tre’s counter tops?

  29. 29.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 17, 2010 at 8:42 am

    @geg6:
    not to mention the fact that she can keep her FB profile private if she wants.

  30. 30.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    November 17, 2010 at 8:47 am

    @debit: Oh no. It will be a whiny screed about how her family deserves privacy and respect. Always play the victim card. Thank you John McCain for turning the American political system into the Jerry Springer show.

  31. 31.

    cmorenc

    November 17, 2010 at 8:49 am

    The half-term governor mom is fair game.
    Her kids are not, other than Bristol. Bristol’s fair game for reasons beyond simply the message-clash between her abstainance-preaching mom and her unwed pregnancy; she made her own adult decision to go on “Dancing with the Stars”.

    So leave Palin’s (other) kids alone, even if the evidence so far suggests that the Palin apples didn’t fall far from the momma-tree, in terms of basic character.

  32. 32.

    Hal

    November 17, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Palin thinks it’s ok for Dr Laura to say nigger over and over to a black caller complaining about racism. My guess is she won’t care much about her daughter calling someone a faggot.

  33. 33.

    Alex S.

    November 17, 2010 at 8:50 am

    @debit:

    He went to Iraq.

  34. 34.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 8:53 am

    @Alex S.: Yes, he joined the army as part of a deal to stay out jail for vandalizing the school buses. Or am I remembering it incorrectly?

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    November 17, 2010 at 8:56 am

    @Alex S.: Jail or military for vandalizing school buses. He took military. And good for him. Might do him some good.

  36. 36.

    cleek

    November 17, 2010 at 9:03 am

    @Hal:
    but she doesn’t like it when someone uses the word “retarded”.

    that Sarah… she’s pretty complex for a walking, talking, manifestation of pure evil!

  37. 37.

    Jimk

    November 17, 2010 at 9:05 am

    “@Jay in Oregon: I think “Track” is from a Snowmachine, and “Trig” is like a trigger to a rifle.

  38. 38.

    Alex S.

    November 17, 2010 at 9:08 am

    @debit:

    I think you’re just being too spiteful.

  39. 39.

    Peter J

    November 17, 2010 at 9:09 am

    I blame bad parenting. I’ve read that her mother was the mayor of the meth capital of Alaska. Social services should intervene.

  40. 40.

    El Cid

    November 17, 2010 at 9:10 am

    I’m really shocked by this story, in two ways.

    First, that there could be any weirdness whatsoever coming out of the rock-solid, non-temperamental Palin family;

    Second, that the facebook ranting of every single person within a million degrees of separation from Sarah Palin end up being national news.

  41. 41.

    Michael D.

    November 17, 2010 at 9:13 am

    @Jay in Oregon:

    I’m not sure where Track and Trig’s names come from.

    Not sure about Track, but I’ve heard Trig’s name comes from Trisomy-G, or Tri-G, the medical term for Down Syndrome.

    Now, this might not be true at all. But it’s a really unfortunate name, nonetheless.

  42. 42.

    Blue Neponset

    November 17, 2010 at 9:15 am

    @El Cid: I am shocked that anyone is shocked about this being “news”. Our culture feeds off of celebrities. If Palin didn’t want her crotchfruit to be in the gossip rags then she shouldn’t have put them on a reality show.

  43. 43.

    scav

    November 17, 2010 at 9:16 am

    @El Cid: must be the next stage of the pointless celebrification because PHilton’s whatevers pretty much stuck to PHilton and didn’t drag in all the Hotelistas. The unholy spawn of genetic transfer between 7-degrees-of and Hiltonitis?

  44. 44.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 9:16 am

    @Alex S.: Actually, I’m pointing out a pattern of behavior that carries out in the entire family.

    I don’t blame the kids entirely; you don’t pick your parents. However, there comes a point in life when you have to accept some responsibility for your own behavior. At sixteen, and as the daughter of a public figure, Willow should know better (as should Bristol who fancies herself an advocate of sorts) than to engage in petty, offensive word laden squabbles online. Track should have known better than to vandalize public property in the town where his mom was the freaking mayor.

    As for Track, I hope he does well in the army and that it teaches him some responsibility and allows him to mature.

  45. 45.

    chopper

    November 17, 2010 at 9:17 am

    how deliciously white trash. mommy, i want a mullet!

  46. 46.

    Anya

    November 17, 2010 at 9:20 am

    @AB: My bigest thing is do the Palin kids go to school at all, or is it optional?Maybe they’re like the Brangelina kids. It’s safe to assume that Sasha Obama has more education than all the Palin kids.

  47. 47.

    Violet

    November 17, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Willow is the one to keep an eye on. She’s not going to do what mama wants her to do in the same way the other kids will or have done. If there will be leaks on Sarah’s lies from inside the family, they’ll come from Willow.

  48. 48.

    Ash Can

    November 17, 2010 at 9:24 am

    This is a case of poor judgment on the part of a minor, exacerbated by the fact that the adults in the family have notoriously poor judgment as well, and complicated by the fact that they’re a famous family. I just think it’s a shame that there’s likely no one to take Willow aside and instruct her on proper Facebook (et al.) behavior.

  49. 49.

    Peter J

    November 17, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Sarah Palin should refudiate what her daughter wrote.

  50. 50.

    El Cid

    November 17, 2010 at 9:32 am

    @Blue Neponset: I wasn’t really shocked.

    It would also be funny if Willow was the next to wed Levi.

  51. 51.

    brantl

    November 17, 2010 at 9:35 am

    Sweet kids, those Palins.

    They seem to have quit on civil behavior, they way their mom quit being governor.

  52. 52.

    shortstop

    November 17, 2010 at 9:35 am

    @cmorenc:

    The half-term governor mom is fair game.
    Her kids are not, other than Bristol. Bristol’s fair game for reasons beyond simply the message-clash between her abstainance-preaching mom and her unwed pregnancy; she made her own adult decision to go on “Dancing with the Stars”.

    Okay. That thread is full of Bristol’s comments, too — “shit” this and “shit” that and heartfelt insistences that she’s “successful” because she “works her ass off.” Can I make fun of that?

  53. 53.

    jomo

    November 17, 2010 at 9:37 am

    Seems like pretty boilerplate teen trash talk to me. But I still can’t imagine the daughters of Clinton or Obama being allowed to trash-talk in a public forum. Says more about the parents than the kids.

  54. 54.

    shortstop

    November 17, 2010 at 9:38 am

    @El Cid:

    It would also be funny if Willow was the next to wed Levi.

    Probably not. But I’ve got $100 on her being pregnant within a year. Not that I could find anyone to take that bet.

  55. 55.

    New Yorker

    November 17, 2010 at 9:41 am

    Well, it’s good to see the third child is an illiterate brat who, I’m sure, will drop out of high school soon enough. I’m just wondering what she’ll do to top the trailer-trash antics of the first two….

  56. 56.

    catclub

    November 17, 2010 at 9:43 am

    @Jay in Oregon:
    Um, names like that turn out to be where the child was conceived. I knew a girl named Eleuthera (spelling?).

    Makes Piper seem especially … special.

  57. 57.

    Tom

    November 17, 2010 at 9:44 am

    Come on, this is a 16-year-old kid. Teenagers inherently do and say stupid sh*t. I think it’s rather ridiculous that this is a hot topic on the blogosphere.

  58. 58.

    New Yorker

    November 17, 2010 at 9:44 am

    @jomo:

    Or, for that matter, the Bush twins. They seem like perfectly normal people, and Barbara seems to have the kind of work ethic her father totally lacked.

    Says more about the parents than the kids.

    Two high school-dropouts (one arrested for vandalism, the other knocked up at 18) and a third probably on the way. To me that has always said far more about Sarah Palin than anything else.

  59. 59.

    cleek

    November 17, 2010 at 9:44 am

    @El Cid:

    every single person within a million degrees of separation from Sarah Palin

    yes, 1 <= 1,000,000

  60. 60.

    Alex S.

    November 17, 2010 at 9:45 am

    @debit:

    I agree with you about Bristol because she chose to become a public person, but not Willow or Track. Willow did not make a public statement (only in so far as each of our comments on this or any other blog is a public statement), and just because her mother is a public person, her children shouldn’t automatically become public people as well.
    But now I’ve really spent too many words on this issue.

  61. 61.

    cleek

    November 17, 2010 at 9:47 am

    @cmorenc:

    Her kids are not, other than Bristol.

    her kids are all performers on a TV series about their family.

    don’t want your family to be talked about? don’t make your family the subject of a TV show.

  62. 62.

    pk

    November 17, 2010 at 9:48 am

    The entire family is trash. Imagine the exact same behavior from a black family.
    You can be a piece of crap from the gutter, but if you are white, christian and republican all is good

  63. 63.

    SBJules

    November 17, 2010 at 9:50 am

    @4tehlulz:

    I think the Bush twins look good compared to the Palin bunch.

  64. 64.

    Jose Padilla

    November 17, 2010 at 9:50 am

    Note to Tre: If Momma Palin gets elected Pres, I’d look into leaving the country, if I were you. I hear Russia is pretty close.

  65. 65.

    ChrisS

    November 17, 2010 at 10:02 am

    @Tom:

    While the ability to reach a greater audience through inexpensive media has certainly changed since I was a teen, my mother taught me not to hate and that if I didn’t have anything nice to not say anything at all.

    I’d figure that a super-mom like Palin would be able to do the same.

  66. 66.

    New Yorker

    November 17, 2010 at 10:03 am

    @pk:

    Imagine the exact same behavior from a black family.

    I sometimes laugh thinking about the apoplexy on the right if Barack and Michelle had had 5 children (“welfare queen popping out babies”) and the first one had dropped out of high school and had been busted for spray-painting the walls of a building in Chicago and the second had also dropped out of high school after being knocked up by a fellow high school dropout whose mother was busted for selling crack.

    Such dysfunction is to be celebrated, however, when it’s Real ‘Murkans who do it.

  67. 67.

    grape_crush

    November 17, 2010 at 10:12 am

    The Palin family is to politics what the Spears family is to music.

    The difference is that at least Britney can dance.

  68. 68.

    JD Rhoades

    November 17, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Well, the Resigning Woman started using her FB status as her means of communicating with the electorate. The lazy media decided to go along with it by essentially letting the Snowbillies’ tweets and statuses drive the news cycle. So it’s not surprising that this has happened.

  69. 69.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    November 17, 2010 at 10:27 am

    Clearly the work of liberal provocateurs.

  70. 70.

    debit

    November 17, 2010 at 10:27 am

    @cleek: I loved the bit in the one (thankfully) commercial I saw where one of the girls is going to her room and Sarah yells, “No boys upstairs!” It’s a good thing she has rules like that, because otherwise someone might have sex, get pregnant and have a baby.

  71. 71.

    John Cole

    November 17, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Look, it is obnoxious, but count me out of any pile-on for what some silly 16 year old kid said on her facebook page.

  72. 72.

    bemused

    November 17, 2010 at 10:34 am

    @brantl:
    That’s assuming they ever practiced or even understood civil behavior.

  73. 73.

    Beffie

    November 17, 2010 at 10:40 am

    I love the Alaska show. Hopefully the Palin’s will see that this is easy money and stay with it.

    TV has been very very good to the Palin’s. Bristol on Dancing with the Stars (or as I like to call it… “Who is the most popular A#@hole in America”) & Sarah with that Alaska show…

    No, I don’t watch either but then again, I am willing to put up with the media ‘s obsession with this family if they just stay with what they are good at. This behavior is just mirroring the psuedo-celebrities who have paved the way for these women.

  74. 74.

    SRW1

    November 17, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Sounds a bit immature, but she’s still a kid, after all. So, maybe there’s still hope. Her Mom on the other hand, that one’s definitely a lost cause.

  75. 75.

    chopper

    November 17, 2010 at 10:42 am

    @pk:

    imagine if the president’s daughters acted like this.

    then again, iokiyark.

  76. 76.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 17, 2010 at 10:43 am

    It seems that all the kids nowadays use “faggot” as an all purpose pejorative, much like how something is “gay” where we “get off my lawn” types would use “sucks” or “blows” as an adjective for something unpleasant or disagreeable.

    You see this in World of Warcraft chat all the time.

    The kid on the facebook page is off course right…everything connected to Sarah Palin is fail, except, of course, for the checks coming in, which is the entire point of the Sarah Palin experience. This woman is a grifter, and as long as the lucre flows, it’s all good.

  77. 77.

    pj

    November 17, 2010 at 10:45 am

    Police: Wis. man shoots TV after Palin dance.

  78. 78.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 17, 2010 at 10:46 am

    @Blue Neponset:

    If Sarah actually wanted to protect her children, she wouldn’t have so blatantly used them as props in Minneapolis, and beyond.

  79. 79.

    blondie

    November 17, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Families of politicians are well aware of the bargain they have struck. They know their actions are under a magnifying lens. They know that many people believe the actions of children reflect on their families and how they were raised. So if you want to blame someone for this little whirlwind, blame Willow’s mom and dad, not the rest of the U.S. for acting like it always does.

    Further, if this were a case of internet bullying by non-famous teens, leading to another tragic outcome, would people still want to cut the bullies some slack? They’re just minors?* Come on. They’d be on the Today show for days running, with Matt and Meredith tut-tutting at their atrocious behavior.

    *Bristol is not only not a minor, but has sought fame, personally and regularly.

    If you seek fame and attention, and then you do something stupid and offensive, the attention will be drawn to your offensive stupidity. Don’t they watch “True Hollywood Story”?

  80. 80.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    November 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    You know, the Palin kids appear to literally be an Idiocracy. The Idiocrats.

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