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September 02, 2008

National Enquirer Has Palinmania, Too: Hyping a Fairly Minor Story Into a Scandal that Will Rock America!!!
— Ace

A vicious fight between Palin and Bristol!

Actually, Sarah Palin wanted Bristol to get married shortly after the Republican convention, the National Enquirer claims, and Bristol didn't.

My God. A mother and daughter fighting over wedding plans. And "pressure" involved in the whole situation!

Next coming scoop: Bristol doesn't think Levi is taking an "active enough" role in their wedding plans; thinks he spends too much time playing X-Box; couple fights about getting a 1988 Camaro Levi swears he'll "totally restore" or a "cute little Mini Cooper [she] saw listed on Craigslist."

Not sure what she's waiting for, but unless the Enquirer has a bit more than this, they really don't have much at all.

More tabloid nonsense, as Us Weekly, which didn't have any interest in the Edwards baby scandal (a real scandal, note), suddenly seems very interested in political baby stories.

Check that out. . Sarah Palin has taken exactly one bad picture in 25 years, and it just so happens that Jann Wenner used that for his "scoop."

By the way, Us Weekly is published by Jann Wenner, ultrapartisan Rolling Stone has-been best known for publishing reviews of Black Crowe albums written by college students, and one of its parent company's (Time-Warner) executives has been sending out helpful little emails to everyone pushing this US Weekly scoop. That executive used to work for the Clinton White House.

Hit Michelle's link above to see how they covered Barack Obama a couple of months ago. Layers.

Thanks to Allah and AQ.

The Tabloidization of Palin: The strategy is to deny her any credibility or gravitas by turning her into a tabloid soap-opera star.

Could it work? Sure, it could. But they have a lot running against them, too.

Let's sort of remind them:

Bristol Palin, a 17 year old girl, is not, in fact, running for Vice President, and probably is not even eligible for the position until she successfully passes Civic Studies.

I know Obama would like to run against Bristol Palin. He might actually have more experience and gravitas than she does.

Then again, she's quite young. In a few years, Barack will be salivating to run against Willow.

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3 Thanks, big guy.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at September 02, 2008 07:57 PM (14k+t)

4 My family, has been pushing me to get married and have kids since I was 23, if not earlier. Whats the story the Enquirer thinks they have?

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 07:57 PM (ul7te)

5 The comments on the US site of this story are wicked pissed - 500 strong. I didn't even realize they had a site.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 07:58 PM (81eVm)

6 I sent a screen cap of the commentaries calling Palin a Bitch, HO, Slut and the baby a Bastard to the California Milk Advisory Board which was advertising on the top of the US Weekly webpage, I recommend we send similar emails to the other advertisers, its about $$$$

Posted by: Jawbone at September 02, 2008 08:00 PM (r/OHH)

7 US Magazine: the celebrity rag for readers who think People is too cerebral.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 02, 2008 08:01 PM (RVqgr)

8 Ace and crew:

Thank you. I cannot tell you what it is, but it just seems like everything is coming in waves. When Sarah finally weathers all this, I have a feeling that she will finally be innoculated from the attacks.

I mean, PUMAs are already lining up to turn the nation over to McCain/Palin.

Posted by: M.H.R at September 02, 2008 08:03 PM (Z9IOH)

9 OT but this is hilarious At a town hall meeting at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del, ignored pleas from his staff to wrap up, and riffed for an hour and 15 minutes. The evening was full of Biden-isms, including the inevitable Obama/Osama slip, made when Biden was discussing the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border "where Obama, Osama Bin Laden lives, and Obama wants to go to get him."... "Ive got to tell you, Im tired," Biden continued. "Let me tell you. If youre looking for a very sophisticated, Harvard graduate who went to Columbia undergrad and was president of the Law Review, hes totally intellectual. Baby, you aint seen nothing yet. This guy is steel. This guy is steel, and I assure you that." http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe-n-2.html Oh, and there is more, much more at the link

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 08:06 PM (81eVm)

10 yeah, yeah, Us and the nytimes are still smarting from being "scooped" by the Inquirer on the edwards love child story.

The "IN A WORLD" movie and insurance voiceover guy, who's name escapes me now, just died this week, but in his memory, I think he could do the best justice to this:

"In a world.... where even the National Inquirer wouldn't run the same nytimes front page, above the fold story about McCain's alleged 10 year old affair...

In a world... where a strong, successful woman is trashed by media feminists and liberal chattering class for having the temerity to have a Down's baby and still pursue a challenging career....

In a world...

ah, hell. you know what I mean.

Posted by: moflicky at September 02, 2008 08:10 PM (dMvVO)

11 WHAT'S THE LIE?

I see the "baby," and I see the "scandal," but i don't see the "lie."

Do you they mean the lies coming from the hyenas on the Left?

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 08:11 PM (eGRG+)

BTW, Jann is a guy (like Dominique de Villepin) as I only just discovered via Google:

http://tinyurl.com/62ubuf

I wonder if he's kept his circulation since this old Jossip item? (And there's a typo of Us as Ua Weekly under the cover pic, Ace.)

Posted by: andycanuck at September 02, 2008 08:12 PM (qKkaY)

13 "More tabloid nonsense, as Us Weekly, which didn't have any interest in the Edwards baby scandal (a real scandal, note), suddenly seems very interested in political baby stories."

Uh... you mean political baby stories involving candidates' children, right?

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 08:14 PM (hawOV)

14 btw, I just want to repeat that Us Weekly think it's important for us to know that Cindy McCain's half-sister will be voting for Obama, not McCain.

That's Scandal-icious!!!

Posted by: Bart Scandalicious Hussein McBush at September 02, 2008 08:15 PM (eGRG+)

15 I guess the Enquirer's story on Plain isn't quite as sewn up as their John Edwards story "Via Media Blog, re: Levi Johnston The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant. "This is just a bonus," Johnston said."

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 08:16 PM (81eVm)

16 The media want's to get into Sarah's freakin' amniotic fluids. The are demanding the McCain campain allow DNA testing on Palin's family.

The Media. Dude! The same Media protecting Elizabeth Edwards and shit? They're Demanding DNA?

Wa-Po: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203144_pf.html

Posted by: The Chewbacca Defense at September 02, 2008 08:16 PM (nuuDA)

17 "Jann is a guy"

Yes, but he's not a man.

Posted by: Kensington at September 02, 2008 08:17 PM (xFNQx)

18 BTW, Jann is a guy (like Dominique de Villepin) as I only just discovered via Google:

Actually, Jann is more of a guy like Milky Loads.....

Posted by: wiserbud at September 02, 2008 08:19 PM (L6xbC)

19 Oh good, that will get the Wal-Mart vote for Palin - and Mac. You know they won't vote for Obama.

Posted by: Patrick Joubert Conlon at September 02, 2008 08:20 PM (dRSKH)

The "IN A WORLD" movie and insurance voiceover guy, who's name escapes me now, just died this week, but in his memory, I think he could do the best justice to this:

His last name is LaFontaine, I think his first is Jim, but I'm not sure, and he died early in the morning of the 2nd.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 08:23 PM (ul7te)

Then again, she's quite young. In a few years, Barack will be salivating to run against Willow.

Yeah, but he's shitting his pants at the thought of facing Piper.

Piper has the executive walk, and the big faced handshake DOWN!

Right there, she is just a little less experienced than Obama.

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 08:26 PM (ul7te)

Scandal!!

In one of the last pictures at the McBlogette post, Piper Palin prefer's a Strawberry Crispy Dip on her vanilla Ice cream cones.

If she likes vanilla ice cream thats all cool, but why can't it be a Chocolate Crispy Dip?

RACIST!

Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 08:31 PM (ul7te)

23 I'm voting for Willow - that other guy will be way too old and out of touch!

Posted by: rsb1 at September 02, 2008 08:32 PM (jqm25)

24 Piper has the executive walk, and the big faced handshake DOWN!

That, and she can make hippies burst into flame with her mind.

Posted by: krakatoa at September 02, 2008 08:33 PM (TO2rG)

25 Never mind, never mind. I look at the cover picture of Palin holding the baby and I light up. I look at the cover picture of Michelle "Count Chocula" Obama and a little involuntary shiver goes through me. And if an intellectual heavyweight like what I am reacts that, what's the average Us reader going to do?

Posted by: S. Weasel at September 02, 2008 08:43 PM (Dy8+A)

26 Man oh man, that Jann Wenner is a total asswipe. A major fag, too, NTTAWWT...

Posted by: Dogstar at September 02, 2008 08:51 PM (6AcsH)

27 The average US reader is going to EAT THAT STUFF UP.

Women love that stuff. Even US would not run it if they didn't think it would "White Trash Britney and Kfed" Palin. Which it will. It isn't going away. It's biased and BS, but no one cares. Because it will work.

Palin is already a joke, Cheetoh-covered Britney (even though of course she's not) because the Media repeats it until everyone believes it. All they'll run is "scandal" about how her baby isn't hers, and such, depriving McCain's campaign of any use of the media to criticize Obama.

McCain's only way out ... is to get even dirtier. Accuse Obama of secretly approving this, and go after him and his family. Tit for tat. Ask if Obama is still on Cocaine. If his daughters know Daddy smoked Crack. Stuff like that.

Posted by: whiskey at September 02, 2008 09:33 PM (4878o)

28 All these rags are owned by Obamanoids , or by Clintonistas doing rumor control for Oink and Boink .

Posted by: crackdaddyO at September 02, 2008 10:16 PM (iot9F)

29 Sarah Palin has taken exactly one bad picture in 25 years, and it just so happens that Jann Wenner used that for his "scoop."

I wouldn't be surprised if the photoshop crew at US gave her a little "help" to make her look worse. Fags like Wenner can be such bitches.

Posted by: spork at September 02, 2008 11:09 PM (/mVOU)

30 McCain's only way out ... is to get even dirtier. Accuse Obama of secretly approving this, and go after him and his family. Tit for tat. Ask if Obama is still on Cocaine. If his daughters know Daddy smoked Crack. Stuff like that.

Hell yes. I say go for it. Obama's working this like the Chicago machine scumbag that he is. He gets in front of the cameras to say the right things but his operatives are working this garbage as hard as they can. Trash that blow snorting, pot smoking, cock sucking, marxist shitbag without restraint. Gut the son of a bitch.

Posted by: spork at September 02, 2008 11:14 PM (/mVOU)

victoria.rose@usmagazine.com

tell her what you think about the Jann Wenner hatred attack on Sarah Palin.

Posted by: pc at September 03, 2008 12:43 AM (S7zPk)

32 I for one am thrilled to hear that cocaine addict and closet homosexual, Barrack Hussein Soetoro Obama is running for president. It fills me with a special pride to know that the son of an unwed, teenage mother from Kansas and an alcoholic, bigamist, Kenyan communist would be considered for the position of leader of the free world. I'm especially gratified that he was a long time member of a racist, hate filled church, where both he, his wife ,and his two young daughters were indoctrinated in hatred of other races, and America itself! Hope and change my friends!

Posted by: Carl Hungus at September 03, 2008 01:00 AM (IK4dH)

33 " The strategy is to deny her any credibility or gravitas by turning her into a tabloid soap-opera star."

Sounds like a familiar strategy -- kinda like, say, denying someone credibility or gravitas by turning him into a celebrity on par with Britney and Paris Hilton.

You weren't so mad about this tactic a few weeks ago were you? Mwahahaha

Posted by: T at September 03, 2008 01:51 AM (cdXRG)

34 And let's not forget that it was Wenner's rag Rolling Stone that airbrushed AlGore's package to make him look more 'Alpha Male'.

Posted by: Tim at September 03, 2008 03:11 AM (3Wewy)

35 denying someone credibility or gravitas by turning him into a celebrity on par with Britney and Paris Hilton.

True that, troll. Palin can take it though, Obama, not so much.

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 03, 2008 05:06 AM (evdj2)

36 "Palin can take it though, Obama, not so much."

She can take? We'll see when (of if) she takes ONE question from the press.

Posted by: t at September 03, 2008 05:09 AM (nuj25)

37 I guess the question(s) I'd like to see asked and answered are:

When did Osama, I mean Obama stop beating his wife while in the throes of titanic cocaine induced rages?

Also, was it four or five underage teenage mothers that Osama, I mean obama raped in the Chicago public housing project he was allegedly trying to help with his "activism"?

Isn't it true that b.hussein's family doesn't have a family pet because barry slaughtered it in some sort of satanic/muslim ritual under a full moon during ramadan a couple years back?

Why is it that Osama's, I mean Obama's children bear a striking resemblance to Sherman Helmsley? Is it at long last true that Osama's, I mean Obama's wife strayed from the marriage because barry was frequenting the bars/clubs up on North Halsted in Chicago?

Important questions, people- they need answers.

Oh, and jann wenner- possessor of a cock similar in size to that of a gerbil, which predictably enough he has intimate knowledge of. Shit eating, fuckheaded no talent drooling little prick, it's obvious his mother enjoyed bookaki with him in his awkward prepubescent days- that is to say, last year.

Just trying to help with the cursing. Now fuck off, shitheels.

Posted by: hey, wada minnit at September 03, 2008 05:16 AM (ez7V0)

38 We'll see when (of if) she takes ONE question from the press.

?!? Are you, in fact, brain damaged?

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 03, 2008 05:18 AM (evdj2)

39 Thank you wada minnit. Brightened the morning a little.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at September 03, 2008 05:55 AM (yGVfg)

whiskey, you are a pathetic piece of shit. With the same line of shit every fucking comment.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 03, 2008 06:05 AM (6AcsH)

Sounds like a familiar strategy -- kinda like, say, denying someone credibility or gravitas by turning him into a celebrity on par with Britney and Paris Hilton.

You weren't so mad about this tactic a few weeks ago were you? Mwahahaha

Except that actual tabloids that report these things are trying to turn her family in negative trailer trash celebrity status. McCain's ad pointed out that the press was trying to turn actual nothingness into postive celebrity status. See the difference? What am I saying, of course you don't.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2008 06:24 AM (m2CN7)

Another thing, look at the US sub-headlines -"investigated for firing of sister's ex husband"

The ex husband was not fired. The Commissioner was replaced.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2008 07:49 AM (m2CN7)

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