Good Morning America - witness to the Thrilla in Wasilla Speaks

[powergirl]

"She (Bristol) was punching him (another man) in the face like six times, it was an assault if I've ever seen one, "Eric Thompson said, adding he was among 70 guests at the birthday party in Anchorage Sunday.

"It wasn't a light punch either, she was really hitting him. I'm surprised he just sat there and took it."

. . . (Cut)

"I heard Sarah Palin yell do you know who I am? All of us could not believe it. We thought we were watching an episode of Jerry Springer," he added.


A video at the link has the man talking about the ensuing mêlée. Enjoy!
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palins-family-allegedly-alaska-house-party-brawl/story?id=25452917

[liberal N proud]

1. The Palin gang is prime candidates for the Jerry Springer show.

A real class act!

[father founding]

11. not wnough class

Even the Jerry Springer show has enough dignity not to put this clan on.

[shenmue]

2. Hoping someone has phone vid of the actual fight

'Cause that could help put more Republicans in jail.

[lpbk2713]

3. They don't have it in them to rise above the White Trash level.

WYSIWYG.

What you're looking at right now is what they will always be.

It's ironic that the half governor used the "lipstick on a pig" phrase so much.

[Warpy]

4. The only class that family has is LOW class

It's just a shame that Sarah had so many kids brought up so badly.

All that's left is as much whining to the press about being covered by the press as the press will cover. The woman just can't walk past a camera or microphone.

My own family is filled with bipolar disease and spectacular alcoholism and we've never had a donnybook. The Palin family must be a worse piece of work than any of us suspected.

[hootinholler]

10. "White Trash"?

DU should be above that shit, it is an offensive anti-poor slur.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Oh yeah? Happy Holidays a bit early...

[hootinholler]

20. I seriously thought better of you. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Just showing you public opinion is on our side.

[hootinholler]

33. Our side?

Please Continue. Oh and don't include me when you say our.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. "Our", as in classic blue collar Democrats.

[Dragonfli]

44. Not the working poor ones (most blue collar these days) my comfortable friend /nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

49. Oh yeah,...we really should fish for the asshole vote.

[leftstreet]

50. Wait. Working poor people are assholes?

Wha..?

This is confusing

[Spitfire of ATJ]

52. Oh for,...is this an excercise in being obtuse?

[Dragonfli]

60. No, your slip was clearly showing friend. /nt

[Dragonfli]

59. The working poor are assholes?

No wonder you conservadems abandoned the poor and focus solely on the 100 grand and up "middle class", you just plain hate all of us.

I guess you don't need any city votes either as the state of most cities have us working poor as the vast majority these days. I guess you should suppress the vote outside of the gentrified areas and suburbs in an attempt to win like the Reaganite admirers that you snobs are.

[louis-t]

5. Waiting for the spin that will inevitably come.

"Bristol was perteckin' her little brother, me, the flag, her father, 10 homeless children...."

[NuclearDem]

6. GMA, always covering the super important stories.

[KamaAina]

7. "Thrilla in Wasilla" FTW!!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. I laughed so hard I had sweet tea coming out my nose on that one!!! n/t

[randome]

39. Just to be clear, you were drinking sweet tea at the time, right?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[underpants]

24. Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

As was posted on one if the threads yesterday

[MannyGoldstein]

34. Should be labeled NSFW

Everyone was wondering what was making me laugh so hard!

[davidpdx]

47. Smoke like a buttafly, drink like a tree

[joeybee12]

8. You can take the trash out of the trailer park, but you can't take the...

...trailer park out of the trash.

God, I hope there's video.

[hootinholler]

12. Someday you might understand just how offensive that is. n/t

[joeybee12]

14. I doubt it...nt

[RebelOne]

27. Totally offensive to me.

I live in a mobile home and am insulted by the term "trailer trash."

[VanillaRhapsody]

51. I have lived in several of them and I am not....my parents are in a triple wide right now.

you know very well it doesn't mean everyone living in a trailer....

[Dragonfli]

43. The working poor are hated by the comfortable faux liberal class

as much as they are hated by the more overtly conservative comfortable class.

It is the tell that gives them away every time and why they never speak of the poor but rather only the beloved "middle class".

Thanks for sticking up for those of us that don't have the money to dine out, take vacations, have multiple vehicles (or even the one) and usually can't accept medical care for lack of co-pay cash.

[hootinholler]

46. You are a treasure

I'll not soon forget from whence I came.

[Tsiyu]

57. Does anyone have a picture of the home Palin lives in?

Is it a trailer?



I didn't think so.

Like I tell people who reference Deliverance, it ain't the poor people ____ing you in the a__.

If our moral value and our social value are solely dependent on the style of house we live in, many on this board would be judged positively with the McMansion owners like Palin. And her house, by the looks of it, would make her the holiest of the holy.

What a fine house. A fine person must live inside of it.

Fine people have fine homes.

If your home is expansive and acceptable, you must also be acceptable. What a GOOD person you are!

Like Sarah!

No lot rent or creepy trailer on that patch of Alaska.

[Inkfreak]

64. +1. Thank you (nt)

[ProfessorGAC]

65. And Still They Are Classless Pukes

No surprise, though.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. $150,000 wardrobe holding a Big Gulp.

[Enthusiast]

29. Mr. Drysdale was a paragon of virtue compared to Mitt Romney.

I'm just saying.

[packman]

15. Will Hannity discuss this tonight?

Wonder how he'll spin it into "It's Obama's Fault". Probably along the lines of Obama should have provided Post Traumatic Stress counseling for the family after losing the election. Sent them to Hawaii, given them gov. jobs or such.

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. 'Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, we do, and that's precisely why we don't give a fuck about you."

[LynneSin]

19. The man sat there and took the punches from Bristol for a reason

If the guy laid one finger on Bristol he would have had criminal charges against him and probably landed in jail even if he was defending himself.

When the Ray Rice video came out (The football player who knocked his wife out cold) the other famous elevator video was playing again - the one with Jay-Z and his sister-in-law Solange Knowles. In the latter video it was Solange who was doing the attacking and if you watch Jay-Z he pretty much stood there and I think tried his best to keep her away but never once fought back. I had read some comments about the Rice video that what we didn't see was that his wife had provoked him before the punch had happen. Rice would have been smart to have walked away.

In the case of this guy with Bristol Palin - this guy knew who was attacking him and knew if he even laid one finger on him he'd probably land up in a jail and be enemy #1 with the Right-Wing media. For him it was best to not fight back - he was smart, just like Jay-Z was and Ray Rice wasn't.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. Wait and see if he ends up in jail anyway.

[powergirl]

58. That is exactly what happened

No the Palin folk are stripped of any "noble" motives.

[kairos12]

21. Combatants probably treated courtesy of ACA.

[JEFF9K]

22. You've got to be prepared for the right hook ...

when dealing with conservatives. THAT and hitting below the belt.

[Dawgs]

23. Thanks McCain. You should be proud. n/t

[etherealtruth]

37. Foisting the Palin's on us is something for which there is no redemption... no forgiveness n/t

[bullwinkle428]

25. The video footage of this incident CANNOT come out fast enough!

[FlatStanley]

26. The entire Wasillabilly Saga is a Jerry Springer show.

[frylock]

28. I'M SARAH FUCKING PALIN!!!

[freshwest]

63. Perfect.

[gratuitous]

31. If only Mrs. Palin had a media platform to get her side of the story out

Waitasecond. She does, doesn't she? I wonder when we'll be treated to her take on this?

[Bette Noir]

36. She said on Facebook that she was in Houston.

When a local cop said, no, you were there; I saw you, she deleted his post.

[Egnever]

45. Wow really she lied about being there?

That's as big a story as the incident IMHO.

[Jester Messiah]

38. We're barreling towards Idiocracy.

I've already seen some of her fans exclaim that it's about time there was a politician who wasn't afraid to "whoop some ass." Gods help us...

[toby jo]

41. Kinda what I figured ...

[Mike Daniels]

42. It's beyond comprehension that her "base" still thinks she has a chance to be POTUS

Wishful thinking can only carry one so far before it crosses over into delusional. The fact that the GOP and Romney completely froze her out in 2012 (while Romney courted Nugent -a WTF moment in and of itself) just shows how much little regard in which she's held by the national GOP leadership.

[Initech]

40. Thrilla In Wasilla!!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

48. Actually, it was the Thrilla in Anchorage

but it doesn't have the same ring.

[Rex]

53. Evidently Bristol moves like a butterfly and stings like a bee.

Thrilla in Wasilla!

[Renew Deal]

54. "Thrilla in Wasilla"

[tanyev]

55. Moosa Notra.

[Ilsa]

61. Another post said that Thompson, the man being

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Interviewed, was fired from his job at McKenna's, where the party was, because he allowed himself to be interviewed.

Correction: the party was at Klingenmeyer's.

[chrisa]

62. The real question is, why is this newsworthy?

Why are these attention-seeking losers getting what they want? Who cares about the Palins anymore.

[randome]

66. Palin and Rubio bring out my inner bully. I want to see them humiliated over and over again.

Just speaking for myself, of course.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[chrisa]

67. Imo, though, I don't think they're humiliated at all. They're loving this.

Every chance to get in the limelight they'll take, which translates to more appearances on shows, reality TV deals, etc. It's all about attention and money.