So WHO (or what) THE FUCK IS SARAH PALIN, You ask?
Now, besides her ultra far right political views like ‘The jury is still out on Global Warming’, her support of teaching creationism in schools, outlawing nearly all abortions (even in cases of rape or incest) and prohibiting same-sex marriage and other far out positions in the political arena....What else do we know about Sarah Palin?.............................. Well how about a Top 10, heck lets do a Top 11 list of Weird Sarah Palin Facts!
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 1)
In her late teens/early 20's Sarah Palin attended 5 (some say 6) different tertiary institutions in as many years. Her excuse for going through so many different colleges in search of a modest (journalism) education... She"didn't like the weather." Okay.
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 2)
When it comes to dating the opposite sex, Sarah Palin prefers to turn to God .. Stacia Hagerty, a former Palin College dorm mate said that she once asked Palin for advice on a male partner, according to, believe it or not, financial news service Bloomberg:
Hagerty shared a dating dilemma with Palin one day. ``I'm going to go back to my
room and say a prayer for you,'' Hagerty recalled Palin saying. When Hagerty
felt better the next day, Palin credited the prayer.
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 3)
There will soon be a Barbi style Sarah Palin toy doll. It will be complemented with GOP Snow Mobile Racer! An M-16 rifle and dead Moose. The doll will even talk with such fun phrases like:
- "I'm a pitbull with lipstick!"
- "My family is off-limits!"
- "What is it the Vice President actually does?"
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 4)
According to the blog LA Progressive, Sarh Palin is a racist. She was apparently heard slurring Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama after his defeat of Hillary Clinton while enjoying food at an Alaskan eatery:
"According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively."
The exact slur: "“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
Wikipedia defined Sambo as "a racial term for a person with mixed indigenous and African heritage in the Caribbean, also for a Black, or South Asian person in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is considered a racial slur in the US and UK."
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 5)
According to Gather.com, Wasilla, the tiny town Palin was a mayor of for ten or so years is the "Meth capitol of Alaska".
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 6)
Sarah Palin ain't to fan of libraries. While the mayor of the super tiny town of Wasilla in Alaska tried to fire the City Librarian, Dorothy Emmons, for not removing “objectionable books” (you know those evil books on people like Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, stuff on feminism, evolution, geography that tells us the world is definitely over 40,000 years old, clearly evil stuff like that).
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 7)
Despite the McCain camp using ads against Barack Obama that claim he is nothing more than a celebrity phenomenon, in the days after she was announced as the McCain VP choice, Sarah Palin raked up more google hits that Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Michael Phelps and Barack Obama combined.
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 8)
In modern US political history, it appears that the longest a candidate for President or Vice President took to hold a press conference is 10 days. That's was held by Thomas Eagleton, who was asked to be George McGovern's 1972 running mate. Blogger Andrew Sullivan sums it up best when he asks, "This is a pitbull with lipstick? More like a cowering chihuahua."
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 9)
She sure is a divisive "pit-bull with lip stick", so much so even her closests friends are not even sure that they will vote for her in the November election.
At least three of Palin's friends from Alaska told "Good Morning America" that they weren't sure who they would vote for in the presidential election in November.
"I support Sarah as a friend, and I can't necessarily say who I'm going to vote for," long time friend Patti Ricker said. "I haven't made up my mind yet. And, you know, I don't know what's going to happen. But, you know, I am pro-choice and I don't agree with everything Sarah says either. But, again, I haven't ... committed to voting for anybody. I haven't decided yet."
Wanting to take Polar Bears off the endangered species list and abortion were the main Palin pal concerns with her politics.
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 10)
She likes to pray to God about just about everything. Speaking to her home town Wasilla Assembly of God church, Palin asked the members to:Pray for the construction of the $30 billion natural gas pipeline....Pray for the military men and women overseas, "that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for -- that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
Weird Sarah Palin Fact 11) She's got some, well, pronunciation issues. Sarah Palin is no doubt gifted with a high pitched winy Alaskan accent. So for her big GOP convention speech last week, the writers had to come up with a way for Palin to pronounce that wonderful word, "nuclear" correctly. George W. Bush used to (still does?) have the same problem when fear mongering about rouge states and the potential for well to do folk accessing radioactive material in the future. According to the New York Daily News, "new-cle-ar" was used on the teleprompter in place of "nuclear" for the part where Palin ripped into Barack Obama for a perceived lack of national security cred.
