Sarahcuda got caught acting like a dweeb three times this week (OK, she got caught more often than that but these are the three I'm writing about. I mean, there's so much to work with here that you gotta make choices, right?) as her fabulous book tour ended, a tour in which she visited 25 states (including Alaska, which maybe I shouldn't count because she had to go home sometime) and sold over a million copies of a book so bad it makes Anne Coulter's stuff look like Francis Bacon by comparison.
First, giddy and no doubt exhausted by her plane rides and having to answer such tough questions from conservative radio & tv hosts as "Do you think the Democrats are so dumb they actually believe that global-warming crap?", Teh Cuda ran off to Hawaii for a vacation wearing this T-shirt:
On the front it said, "If you don't love America," and on the back, "then why don't you get the hell out."
Quite an improvement on that old, worn-out cliche, "Love It Or Leave It". Betcha thought that was the controversy, din't yah? Well, you were wrong. This is the controversy: she tried to distance herself from the disastrous McCain campain by wearing a sun visor with McCain for Pres blacked out.
"In an attempt to 'go incognito,' I Sharpied the logo out on my sun visor so photographers would be less likely to recognize me and bother my kids or other vacationers.
"I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection.
Sure. Of course. Although, as HuffPost added, "if she wanted to go unnoticed she could have just worn a different hat." Or gone to a private beach. Teh Cuda wants to avoid press attention like a 2-year-old wants to avoid candy.
Second, she stiffed not just the leaders of Utah's GOP (dirty, non-Xtian, Mormon infidels that they are) when she was in Salt Lake for a book signing, but a woman she hired to do her hair. (Via TBogg) The poor woman even had to pay for parking her car, so not only was she stiffed, she's out a cool ten smackers. (Queens don't pay, you know. Anything. To anybody.)
But here's the kicker: her "people" were so afraid of Teh Cuda being pelted that they made Costco take tomatoes off their shelves. And no, I'm not kidding.
While going through the check-out lane, again with no wait, [Helen Rappaport] told the clerk she forgot to get some grape tomatoes, which she loves, so she would be right back.
That's when the bells went off.
The clerk told her they had no tomatoes that day.
No tomatoes? At Costco?
As she was leaving, she noticed a man with a store manager's name tag and asked him why they had no tomatoes. He informed her the store did have tomatoes, but they were taken off the shelves for a few hours.
It turns out that Palin had been pelted with a tomato at an earlier stop on her book tour and the management at the Costco was determined it wouldn't happen here.
Somebody hit Teh Cuda with a tomater and it didn't make the evening news? Golly, I'm shocked.
The third gotcha is a tad more serious. SPI's Joel Connelly caught Sarah supporting the initiatives to fight the global-warming she is currently and famously denying exists.
As President Obama tries to curb global warming in the hothouse of Copenhagen, Sarah Palin has butted in to claim that climate change occurs naturally "like gravity," while warning that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will mean "job losses" and "economic costs."
The hot air emitted by Palin takes off from two unflattering assumptions: Americans have the attention span of hummingbirds, and can be counted on to forget even recent history.
A few weeks before she mounted the national stage, in July of last year, then-Gov. Palin told her state:
"Alaska's climate is warming. While there have been warming and cooling trends before, climatologists tell us that the current rate of warming is unprecedented within the time of human civilization. Many experts predict that Alaska, along with our northern latitude neighbors, will warm at a faster pace than any other areas, and the warming will continue for decades."
The governor did what a forward-looking leader should do. She created a subcabinet group to look at "carbon-trading markets" and examine "the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy." She's now bashing scientists and telling Obama to stay away from Copenhagen.
Hummingbirds? That's giving us the benefit of the doubt, isn't it? Mayflies might be a better analogy. They live one day.
Is it written somewhere in the GOP Oath that Republicans have to be hypocrites? Cause it seems like they all are.
UPDATE: (12.19.09) It seems that Sarahcuda has quit again. This time she quit her vacation because the meanie press picked on her visor. (Via Norwegianity)
As potentially clever as her hat trick might have been, it has led to an outcome that is pure comedy. She actually quit a vacation. And, for someone who has spent much of the last few months desperately seeking adulation and celebrity on a protracted book tour, the complaint that she had to curtail her vacation because too many people were noticing her rings rather hollow, does it not?
I'll say. And while we're at it, Mark also had a link to a Think Progress post on Teh Cuda. Seems that after counseling Canada that it "needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit,” a Canadian hospital which was going to pay her $200K for a speech (the immediate question arises: Why would they do such an idiotic thing?) cancelled the gig.
Go figure.
Pathetic juvenile tittle tattle-you should be ashamed of yourself writing such crap
Posted by: emjay | December 18, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Sorry, I got stuck back on the hidden tomatoes in Costco. It seems like a person could still find SOMETHING to throw in a place like Costco. I guess the courageous tomatoe tosser hit a cop instead of Sarah, so it didn't go so well for him, what with the assault charges and all. Why does Sarah get to be protected from us but not vice versa?
Posted by: vwclown | December 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM
emjay: Oh, I don't know. Don't you think our next president is worth covering as she goes for the gold?
vw: That's a helluva good question. As for the first part, eggs come immediately to mind. Apparently Sarah's "people" have so little imagination that they can only predict something that's already happened.
Posted by: mick | December 19, 2009 at 01:02 PM