PALIN FAMILY SHOCKERS: WHAT SARAH'S REALLY HIDING! Nat. Enq.

[jazzjunkysue]

PALIN FAMILY SHOCKERS: WHAT SARAH'S REALLY HIDING!
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

Well, this is not in the first 4 pages, so I figured I'd put it up. This is seen in all grocery stores. Much more widely read that the NYTimes, and it grabs you in line, every time.

“I’ve partied with him (Track) for years,” a source disclosed. “I’ve seen him snort cocaine, snort and smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed.”

The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity status to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”

“He finally did what a lot of troubled kids here do,” the source divulged. “You join the military.”

Another family friend revealed pre-prego Bristol was as much of a hard partier as Track was.

“Bristol was a huge stoner and drinker. I’ve seen her smoke pot and get drunk and make out with so many guys. All the guys would brag that the just made out with Bristol.”

When Sarah found out the teen was pregnant by high schooler Levi Johnston, she was actually banished from the house. As part of the cover-up, Palin quickly transferred Bristol to another high school and made her move in with Sarah’s sister Heather 25 miles away!

Also, confirmation about her affair 10 years ago.

[Phredicles]

1. Affair with whom, the first dude's business partner?

Enquiring minds want to know!:P:evilgrin:

[Cheap_Trick]

5. wasn't it hubby's boss

and kid's HOCKEY coach?

[dchill]

62. Oh, so THAT's what a Hockey Mom is!

:shrug:

[Diane R]

2. This might resonate with the 'low information' voters who don't watch news shows.

[John Q. Citizen]

7. They do, however, check out at the grocery store...

[jazzjunkysue]

10. "Low-information voters"= New Palin fans. She makes them feel smart.

And informed.

They're such sheep.

[OneGrassRoot]

47. Good point. This hits the very people Palin appeals to. n/t

[crazy_vanilla]

3. you mean

Sarah the Perfection had an affair!?!

[Imagevision]

17. Levi Johnston, the baby's dada, isn’t too happy about his impending shotgun nups either.

[RagAss]

61. Tough shit Levi... Your life has hit a plateau.....

[dkf]

4. Is the entire article up anywhere?

Anybody buy this issue?

[jazzjunkysue]

11. I have it. I just saw it in the store today.

Most of the article is online.

[FreakinDJ]

6. "Look Ma, they got Wheels under the WhiteHouse"

[RagAss]

8. The Aristocrats !

[XemaSab]

30. "And then the sister starts snorting coke off the brother's johnson...."

"...while the dad's boning one of the huskies and the mom is trying to literally hold in her unborn child on the airplane by force of will, then the agent says 'What do you call this act?'"

:hide:

[jberryhill]

31. We do not have Aristocrats in the US /nt

[RagAss]

48. LOL. .. only about 2% of DUers get the reference...

:bounce: :bounce:

[Imagevision]

9. A must read for all hockey/soccer moms everywhere...

[jazzjunkysue]

13. It's a "How To" if you're into sex, drugs, affairs and cronyism.

Threw her out of the house! Wow. That kind of family value I can do without.

[merh]

37. speaking of cronyism

Check out this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7058395

And my post 17
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7058395#7062590

[AnotherMother4Peace]

50. and also now on the home page of MSNBC

[Fran Kubelik]

54. I'm a soccer mom and object to this characterization

You don't win votes by demeaning the audience you are trying to sway. Not all "soccer moms" or "hockey moms" are idiot Nat'l Enquirer readers.

[merh]

59. Look - Palin did it to herself - the too oft repeated bad joke

about the pitbull and the hockey mom. So stop with this and if folks are as thin skinned as you remind them of her joke and then deal with the issues.

[Fran Kubelik]

63. What I am saying is we should be dealing with the ISSUES and not name calling

Palin being a hockey mom is the least of her negatives, if it's a negative at all.

[EstimatedProphet]

65. Quite

We're not going to get anywhere if we make "soccer mom" or "hockey mom" a criticism in and of itself. That's silly.

[PinkyisBlue]

67. Posters are making fun of the term "hockey mom" because that is how Palin has described herself.

I don't think they mean to insult all hockey or soccer moms. Of course we should all be dealing with just the issues; however, it is amusing to see how the self-proclaimed super-mom (and religious beacon) has had major problems with her kids. I'm glad the National Enquirer is an equal opportunity exposer of personal foibles and doesn't just go after Democrats (like so much of the media does). She has really set herself up for this with her 'holier than though' personna.

By the way, I'm a soccer mom and am not offended in the least be attacks on "hockey mom" Palin.

[NoodleyAppendage]

12. This is VERY GOOD for us. The same people who respond positively to McGramps ads read tabloid trash

Any mode of information that targets the impressionable and plants the seed of doubt is fine by me. Bring on the tabloid drama!!!!

J

[davidpdx]

14. Personally I don't like the National Enquirer

I'd like to see a more reputable news organization verify this stuff. If they do, we need to get this out there. The family values Palin preaches is not what she practices.

[Mabus]

22. At the same time

the National Enquirer stays on sale for a week. All across America, at gas stations, bookstores, grocery stores the headline stays the same for a week. It gets in their brains, even if they don't buy it. That's part of the insideousness of them. ;) With daily papers, the headlines & stories change and people don't remember the headlines as well.

fwiw, the story that Clinton had a black love child started in the tabloid (The Globe's) headline and became well-known enough that Joe Klein included it in his book "Primary Colors". The story got wider circulation because of the movie. Then there's the Gary Condit saga. His career ended because of the scrutiny and insinuations that he was involved in Chandra Levy's death.

[progressivebydesign]

26. The Nat'l Enquirer is rarely wrong. They pay for sources and have a HUGE research team.

Their snarky comment back to McCain in regard to Palin was that THEY actually vetted Palin, unlike McCain. They have some serious dough and serious attorneys checking out the stories. It's rare that they ever have to backtrack. There's a reason why they rarely get sued.. Gosh, remember when McCain Campaign said they're suiting NE for the Palin stuff a few weeks ago? And yet.. this new issue hits even harder.

[proud2BlibKansan]

52. Tell that to Carol Burnett

Burnett drew attention in 1981, when she sued the National Enquirer for libel after the tabloid newspaper described her alleged public drunkenness, purportedly with Henry Kissinger. Burnett was particularly sensitive to the accusations because of her parents' own alcoholism. The case was a landmark for libel cases involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict for Burnett was reduced to about $800,000 on appeal, and eventually settled out of court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Burnett#Lawsuits

[mascarax]

58. Burnett Factor

Once the Enquirer lost to Burnett, they changed their ways...and they really do employee a big staff, lawyers, etc. in order to avoid losing any future law suits. So, yes, they lost to Burnett (and rightly so, from what I read), but to my knowledge, that was the last case like that for them. They're not stupid, and they're not the Weekly World News (lots of alien stuff). As a matter of fact, I think they actually end up bartering with certain celebrities to NOT print their dirty laundry. In return, those celebrities give them exclusives about something or other.

[onenote]

64. so I guess these recent stories were true?

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/bill_clintons_secret_mistress_revealed/celebrity/64991?CFID=212990&CFTOKEN=79cb7390ada5721e-AA844347-FF70-A07E-9CFC5B0FE18919FE

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/patrick_swayze_cancer_weeks_live/celebrity/64581

Yes, the Enquirer doesn't get them all wrong. Even a blind pig and all that...

But defending the veracity of the Enquirer (particularly when its story is backed by unnamed sources) may come back to bite you if/when the Enquirer decides to print some rumor about Obama or Biden, which is almost to be expected since their main goal is to sell their rag.

[dkofos]

66. Sorry but the NE has credibility with these people since they took Edwards out.

We should all thank Edwards for taking one for the team.

[otohara]

15. Oh Vey - They Are Prime Fodder

for magazines like The Enquirer - I may start praying to all Gods out there to keep these people as far, far away from Washington DC as possible.

[Imagevision]

16. “Levi realizes he’s stuck being with Bristol because her mom is running for Vice President.”

[Zambero]

19. Once Palin and her running mate are defeated come November...

Levi will breathe a huge sigh of relief, drop Bristol like a hot potato, and quickly revert to his earlier MySpace "F---ing redneck who hates goddamned rug rats" persona.

[CarbonDate]

23. He'd better leave the state.

Palin will still be the governor there, and she can still make him feel pain.

[iconicgnom]

18. The Nat Enquirer finds anonymous "family friends" willing to smear, for $$$. How classy.

[physioex]

20. Not necessarily....

Although I am no fan, they were responsible for exposing El Drugbo.....

[FreakinDJ]

21. How is that different from McSame's 527s

at least Obama didn't have to launder soft money to finance a clandestine 527 smear campaign

[iconicgnom]

43. It isn't. Your point is?

[TexasObserver]

38. I can't believe you're standing up for Palin, a corrupt politician and serial liar.

If you are offended, maybe politics is not for you.

[iconicgnom]

42. You're out to lunch. I wasn't "standing up for Palin"

And that National Enquirer cover was selling the muck from a cesspool, not anything I'd recognize as "politics".

[TexasObserver]

44. No, I'm informed about poltical matters.

Unfortunately, you're not.

[iconicgnom]

53. Well, you're certainly opinionated about things you know nothing of.

[TexasObserver]

55. You're the one representing for the GOPalin, and I'm the actual lifelong Democrat.

DU has given me the ability to place on ignore posters who have nothing interesting or informative to say. That would be you.

buh bye

[iconicgnom]

57. You're out to lunch. I wasn't "standing up for GOPalin". buh bye

[Kokonoe]

24. This will hurt the republicans campaign

It puts a wrench in her carefully narrated image, while she spends the next few weeks in hiding, to learn b*sh circle lies.

[progressivebydesign]

25. I tell ya, those NE this week are selling out all over! I've seen like ONE left in the rack.

They're selling like hotcakes.

Tho I'm loathe to discuss her teens... it makes sense, from my parenting a teen, that if the boyfriend is a stoner then the girlfriend is as well. I know this for a fact that girls don't get together with drunk/stoners if they aren't doing it themselves...

Palin is a nightmare. Her crappy-ass parenting should disqualify her from the VP slot. How fucking dare the MSM try to sanitize the truth about her parenting skills. It matters.

[Imagevision]

27. Who/what did the national Enquirer expose accurately within the last 15 months? and

later the M$M followed that story? Anyone recall?

[MsTryska]

33. is this a rhetorical question?

cuz i think i know the answer...

[physioex]

34. It's not the National Enquieres role to do any of those things....

The only thing they are there to do is to sell their magazines as the checkout stand. However they were accurate on a few occasions. And the bigger issue isn't the Enquirer but the failure of the MSM to pursue the stories.

[progressivebydesign]

35. Ummm John Edwards for one... do the research on the others, they're there. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Yeah, it's funny to see Edwards avatar beside the National Enquirer thread.

[jazzjunkysue]

51. My Edwards avatar is not coming down. I still believe he is our rescuer.

Affair be damned. I'm not marrying him. I feel bad for Elizabeth, of course. But we would be in much better shape now if he hadn't messed up with that affair. He would have fought harder and won the nomination.

I like Obama, but the race issue is proving to be a tumbling block nationally.

[crankychatter]

28. so, you want "celebrity?" we got celebrity... sleaze-o-rama of your favorite stars

great

so this time... can I vote at home with my remote, in my pajamas, eating fritos and pounding cheap beer?

We need to get our candidates some of those spandex, super hero uniforms the "champeen wrasslers" wear, eh?

[New Dawn]

29. K&R - Republican family values, etc.

[Bobbie Jo]

32. What pisses me off...If this was Obama's family, it would be over.

What a load of crap. :grr:

[casus belli]

41. She's the last best hope they've got...

and they look willing to go down with the ship. You can't tell me that we're the only ones who see she's unfit for the job. They know it too, but they want so badly to believe it that they're willing to divorce themselves from reality to see it through. No, actually on second thought it's worse than that. They're putting their country at risk during a very critical time in our history so they can keep driving for four more years. She's not just unfit to be VP, she would be unfit for even a high level cabinet position. It flies in the face of reason that the party of hyper-patriotism - who deride their political opponents at every opportunity as "on the wrong side of history" - is willing to put every single American in harm's way by electing an imbecile to be ready to assume the presidency if John McCain expires.

I don't blame them as much for trying it, as I do the media not doing their duty to call them out on it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

56. I guess Mitt Romney's not too happy he thought it was his

[Hekate]

36. Dems should not get their hands in this muck. Let the NE do what it does so well...

Don't count on them for anything like accuracy, as they freely mix fiction with fact. They hurt whoever they target--such as John Edwards.

If the low information voters pick up on this stuff, fine. If the MSM decides to investigate, fine. But imo Democrats should not be using the NE as any kind of "source" for our statements about McCain-Palin.

Hekate

[UK populist]

39. Hi, I'm in the UK and the link doesn't work ADVICE please.

All I get when I hit the NE link is: Page unavailable/under construction.
Is anybody else getting this or is it just because I'm in the UK.

[Submariner]

40. It works. Maybe your UK ISP has a block on it? Welcome to DU

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

[mainer]

46. And the Enquirer goes to the heartland!

This may be the only way to get through to the red states.

[Tutankhamun]

49. In terms of credibility, The Enquirer's main problem is that people

confuse it with the (now defunct but once hilarious) "Weekly World News" and other knockoff tabloids.

People hear the word "Enquirer" and reflexively start spitting out their own headlines: "Space Aliens control Disneyland....The President is a robot...World to end in 2007..."

That's the greatest challenge to its credibility.

The Enquirer busted Gary Hart and John Edwards when nobody else could. We'll likely be seeing a lot more of Sarah at the checkout line between now and November.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

60. I wonder if the N.E. will release the juiciest stuff before the election

They may just hope for a Palin victory. A McBush-Palin administration in the White House would be a gossip mag bonanza. Between Cindy McCain's drug shenanigans, McBush's temper tantrums and Palin's completely dysfunctional family, they'd have stories to last a lifetime.