I have to say this - I think the Palin fight in Alaska: Publicity stunt

[LynneSin]

The Palin's do not think like normal people do. Sarah Palin's career seems to be someone who happens to be at the wrong place at the right time which took her from mayor of a small town in a small state (Ok yes Alaska is a big state but the population is smaller than Delaware) to governor of that state, almost a heartbeat away from 2nd in command of our country and now the darling of a bunch of racist idiots who want to return our country to it's racist origins.

Even if the guests weren't aware of the stunt I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't somehow planned for the publicity. Something just seems awfully fishy about all of this and I can't figure out what it is but it just seems all too planned. One thing Sarah Palin has honed over the past 6 years and that's how to keep her name in the news even though she hasn't been relevant for a long time. Sure there's the teaparty that still loves her but even Faux News has grown bored of her. My guess is the Palin Network News isn't getting the subscribers the way they thought they would.

Thoughts?

And btw I could be wrong it happens.

[LynneSin]

4. btw welcome to DU

I know that's what I thought too - the celebrity thing.

Plus who the hell rents a stretch hummer anymore these days unless they are going to a prom, getting married or at a Las Vegas party. If it's not one of those 3 things that just screams trashy tackiness although credit to Track for knowing he was going to be drunk and not driving.

[brucefan]

2. Sounds plausible to me

After all,that's what grifters do!

[FSogol]

3. I doubt it. Their older kids seem to be out of control. Sounds like Track started

something and Bristow ended it. Add in screeching from Sarah and chest puffing from Tawd and you have a news story.

[LynneSin]

6. It's the stretch hummer that bugs me in this whole equation

Who rents stretch hummers these days unless you're going to a prom, a wedding or in Las Vegas. It just seems odd that some random night in Anchorage Alaska the kid is renting a stretch hummer, but kudos to the fact that Tract knew he was drinking and did have alternate transportation. It's almost like he knew he was going to show up at this party and he was going to do it in style so he got the hummer. Else why not just hail a taxi cab. I assume they have those in Anchorage Alaska.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Maybe Palin bought the thing with her loot from working at Fox.

Wouldn't surprise me.

[LynneSin]

11. Or all that donor money from the 2008 campaign

They did go thru alot during the campaign to spruce up Sarah.

[FSogol]

17. Sarah tasted the highlife during the campaign. Remember all the designer clothes in the belly of

the plane? Todd thinks he is a superstar in the snow machine racing circuit. I imagine they thought they'd be greeted as superstars instead of unwanted guests/pests. Add the fact that Bristow (or Willow)'s ex was invited, mix with alcohol, and you get an eventful Saturday night.

[JHB]

19. Your equation may be missing the 'crassness coefficient' for the Palin clan

I may lack sufficient information for a proper estimate, but off the cuff it doesn't seem out of bounds for a stretch hummer to fall within Track Palin's notion of 'traveling in style'.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. It was Todd's birthday.

I can see renting a stretch limo for a birthday.

[bullwinkle428]

28. You rent a limo when you plan to consume alcohol in mammoth quantities.

[LynneSin]

30. I can't afford a limo if I'm drinking that much

I just get a cab instead

[tularetom]

5. You know, I wondered the same thing

I don't think it's possible to be too cynical when it comes to thinking about how greedy and manipulative Palin can be when it comes to keeping her name in the news.

But it will reflect very poorly on her if it comes out that it was all a scam. So either way, she looks like an ass.

[LynneSin]

8. honestly I am on the fence about it. Maybe because it is the Palins I assume it's fishy

There's alot of dishonesty that comes from that family.

[J_J_]

7. This happened last weekend- it is a distraction story for the corporate media

yes, the Palins are drunken idiots...

but it seems more likely the media google searched the Palins for a distraction from all the bullshit and warmongering they have been passing off as 'news'


Working really well on DU....

[Demit]

20. A longtime Alaska political blogger broke the story.

She got a tip from someone in Wasilla. However it spread to be national news, I'd say the antics of a former candidate for Vice President of the United States (god, typing that still sends shivers up my spine) is pretty newsworthy.

[J_J_]

24. yes, I read Amanda Coyne regularly

She broke the story tuesday


I get that these people are nuts and very representative of the other nutters in their party,

however, the US is getting ready to cluster bomb people for the next three years

I think it is much more important for our national well being that we stay focused on stopping our government from killing in our name with our money.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. They say there's no such thing as *bad* publicity.

However, if this was a stunt - which is possible - it will endear her only to the knuckledragging keyboard warriors who were already typing one-handed in their parents' basements. And she already has that base. Being involved in a drunken brawl with her whole trashy family won't up her cred with the Establishment if she's seriously thinking of trying to get back into politics. Or even if she wants to be taken semi-seriously as a "pundit."*

*I have always found it a bit ironic that "pundit" is derived from Sanskrit for "wise man."

[KittyWampus]

12. Absolutely, same as Duck Dynasty idiots saying some racist crap right before Christmas

their junk wasn't selling…. say something racist and the idiot teabaggers buy the junk in support and to make some kind of statement.

[Demit]

13. Except that she tried to say she was traveling that day.

I read that in the comments to one of the blogs that carried the story. On the other hand, somebody suggested it was possibly her that called the cops. So yeah, in her twisted mind any publicity is good publicity, if it continues the grift $. Then she'd have another example of how the liberals and/or the lamestream media just can't stop talking about her! Pathetic family.

[arcane1]

14. Showing up in a Hummer limo is certainly not an attempt at being low-key

That's for sure!

[Orsino]

15. Not deliberate, I would say.

But at the least, a disregard for polite behavior driven by C-list stardom is a factor.

[Enrique]

16. she was on Hannity after it happened

she would have made sure to have Sean ask her about it if she wanted attention.

If you say, "that would have been too obvious," remember who we're talking about. 12-dimensional chess isn't her game.

[brooklynite]

18. Occam's Razor...

Given the choice between...

1) a bunch of idiots act like a bunch of idiots

and...

2) a bunch of idiots craftily think out and enact a plan to given on of them publicity while not getting arrested

Which is more probable?

[hifiguy]

43. This. 2) gives them credit

For vastly more brains than they have ever exhibited. Dopes are dopey and act accordingly.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

21. I think it actually happened in just the way it's been reported.

Those Palin's function like a thuggish clan and thugs is what they are and how those Palin siblings were raised.

Uncouth, uncivilized ,back woodish ,unmannerly thuggish people they are . And those people are not capable of holding up to or sustaining the public appearances of a normal american family as would be viewed or billed by their handlers.In short they are what they are and cannot pretend to be anything other than what they are.

And if you were too look back at some of the doings of those people,news articles of their thuggish behavior, when those Palin's were on the campaign trail after Sarah Palin was selected for vice presidential candidate, you will see as was stated they are what they are. They are thugs.They are a thuggish clan and they operate as a unit.

They refer to the most of us as lower 48'ers , you know, the civilized sector. And they see their selves more or less as isolationist with all kinds of gang buster ideas about how this country should be run. Thugs they are.

No,- Palin is not PR smart and that ordeal was not part of a Palin PR plan. They are what they are and what they are is a clan of thugs.Uncouth is a mild way of putting it.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. Not in defense of the Palins by any means

but EVERYONE up here refers to you guys as Lower 48ers or, more commonly, Outsiders.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

34. I know what you mean,

I am attempting to point out the views of isolationist money grabbing power driven thugs ,not the views of decent folk from the state of Alaska. In short, those Palin's are not real people but they seem to be able to fool real people into believing they are real as real can be,same as anybody else. !

In Washington state we see peoples in Alaska more like good neighbors ! And as is expected, there are always some bad apples in the bunch !

Regards to those Palin's,expect the unexpected and or that of the abnormal.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Awwwwww, thanks.

We love you, too. I sometimes think of Seattle as South Anchorage.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

39. Thankyou too !

and it is just to the south !

Neighbors !

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I don't.

This IS the Palins.

[LynneSin]

27. I know you and you are from Alaska so your opinion should be regarded much higher

than mine!!

[Blue_In_AK]

31. We've been following their antics for eight years,

people in the Valley for longer. There was a time when she was seen as spunky, and I did like the way she socked it to the oil companies when she was governor, but the family has always been gossip-worthy, even before the national fame.

[LynneSin]

33. It was the same for us with the Bidens

Except Hunter, Beau and Ashley Biden rarely took stretch hummers to parties where they got shit-faced hammered and beat-up on the party guests. They were actually pretty well-behaved kids, I heard Ashley partied a bit but was pretty low-key for the most party.

[Tikki]

26. I totally agree with you LynneSin..and the networks know and play along for ratings...

It is just sad she has groomed her children for this kind of farce.


Tikki

[J_J_]

29. Isn't this the idiot that told Obama to Go Big or Go Home on bombing innocents in the middle east?

The same idiot that was chosen by that other idiot John McCain who is on the US media every day also telling us to BOMB BOMB BOMB Iraq

(well that 'joke' song was about IRAN at the time, but now he wants to join sides with Iran)



If nothing else, this should prove, anyone on this side of bombing ISIS cause the media told them.....is a complete moron.

[kcr]

32. I think we would have seen the video by now

But then again this could be my disappointment at not seeing the video by now talking.

[LynneSin]

35. That's the other thing that is stumping me

If it wasn't planned there would have been a video by now. I can't imagine the Palins would have been able to contain dozens of cell phones like that. And surely those people would have know they could have went to TMZ and gotten a higher bid.

[kcr]

36. I read somewhere that Sarah was buying up the cellphones to delete the videos

I can just see her doing this. The whole thing is insane. Peeling off the bills. "I'll give ya a hundrud!"

[Sheldon Cooper]

38. What's interesting to me is who Bristol chose to punch.

If I understand this correctly, she punched the father of the young man who used to date Willow. Why did she punch him? Was she pretty sure that he wouldn't hit her back, and therefore the risk of getting her ass kicked was considerably lower? If she'd punched another woman, she could have had her ass handed to her and that would sure be embarrassing! Either way, they are the trashiest* people and god bless John McCain for giving them to us.

* not in the -white or -trailer way

[Brother Buzz]

41. Sounds like Korey Klingenmeyer, the host of the party got tagged

<snip>

The owner of the house, Klingenmeyer, was trying to head them off at the pass. He approached them and told them to leave. Bristol, according to Thompson and other witnesses, planted her feet, "stood straight up, brought her arm back and cold-cocked him right in the face," Thompson said.

And then she did it again, about six more times, before he pushed her away, and she fell, and Todd appeared.

"I was thoroughly amazed at the restraint Korey showed. He’s a total gentlemen," Thompson said.

<snip>

http://amandacoyne.com/politics/eyewitness-comes-forward-on-palin-brawl/

[Sheldon Cooper]

42. Ah I see. I misunderstood.

They're still a bunch of drunken a-holes though, aren't they?

[Brother Buzz]

44. Yes, and I would have counted the Sporks after the Palin clan departed

You know what I mean, Vern?

[Sheldon Cooper]

46. Bahahaha!

[wandy]

40. It could be a publicity stunt or tacky personal behavior.......

or the general effects of too much alcohol, it could be just normal Teapublican family values.
Sarah does follow the rule that even bad publicity is publicity!

Why do we expect these people to act normal, be civilized.
Teapublicans its their nature. Any dirty deed you get away with is either publicity or shows leadership ability.

[get the red out]

45. Possible

I don't put much past the Palins. They are more than sneaky.