Sarah Palin Backlash Brews Among ‘Going Rogue’ Fans
Rohin Guha
November 21, 2009
Who does Sarah Palin think she is, not logging face time with the weirds who vaulted her into the elusive echelon of celebrity from where she sneers down at the gotcha media? I mean, if not for them, we wouldn't be brinking on a new class of insurgence, one who conflates the Bible with Going Rogue and possesses a distinct fear of words. At a recent book signing, Palin was all like, "Whatever, bitch. I do what I want. I'll go to Ann Taylor and buy a smart pantsuit. What-everr." And then she sashayed away, signing no more books. Which is when that booing ensued. Video follows.
As you can see, the throngs were none too pleased, although the mistake could easily be made that they were screaming, “Four more years!” as in “Four more years, Obama!” Yes, they are a fickle lot, those Palinistas. The details are gory. Turns out that a local Borders had distributed 1,000 wristbands, which were good for back-of-book John Hancocks by Sarah Palin. Alas, trouble! Several dozen people’s wristbands weren’t so much honored, but torn from their wrists.
Groaned Joe America to an area news crew, “We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold, my kids were crying.” More acceptable places to wait line with your children: midnight releases of Twilight films or Harry Potter books. Or to get tickets from will-call at a Kylie Minogue show. But Joe America’s complaints don’t end there. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”
Another even more temperamental fan—Jolene America, naturally—told the same news crew, “We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed tonight. My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”
And so begins the backlash.
Comments (22)
Posted by Brent Holmes on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.18 pm
What actually occurred was this: A small crowd of fans were crowding around Sarah Palin’s bus to wave goodbye when it drove off. A couple of liberal activists--who planted themselves in the crowd--began yelling that they had been ignored, their books had not been signed. This was done in order to make it appear that Sarah Palin had ignored her fans--which was not actually the case. It was actually a deliberately staged show.
Posted by anonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.24 pm
Deliberately staged show? Like a teabagger party?
Posted by anonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.25 pm
What a bunch of losers. They’re just mad because they think they missed out on a collectable, signed first edition of a very, very valuable work of historic literature. But it’s all just a waste of wood pulp that could have better been used as a much, much softer and less scratchy toilet paper.
Posted by anonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.26 pm
What actually occurred was this: A couple of right-wing activists planted themselves in the crowd and began yelling that they had been ignored. This was done in order to make it appear that liberal activists planted themselves in the crowd to make it appear that Sarah Palin had ignored them. It was a deliberately staged show to make it appear that it was it was liberals who were staging the deliberately staged show.
Posted by Floridagrammy on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.28 pm
Brent...stop making things up!
Posted by annonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.40 pm
Really Brent? You were there? Or are you just making that up like the rest of the right-wing-nuts do?
Posted by anonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.54 pm
Brent,
I agree it was staged. I distinctly saw space aliens coming down to disrupt the crowd. Enough already with unfounded accusations against random groups, liberals or conservatives alike. Borders delivered too many bands, or Sarah for tired of signing .... end of story .... no conspirations, no aliens or mafia theory, PLEASE!
Posted by Jack in Danville on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 07.56 pm
What I like about Sarah Palin is how she brings out the worst in progressive bloggers. And you know what, Rohin Guha? She’s not even in control of that, you are. Is your sense of hearing so dumbed-down from listening to crappy low-fidelity mp3 you can’t distinguish there are only two or three voices screaming discontent? Are your eyes so glazed-over from surfing the web all day you can’t see no one in the picture is gesturing angrily?
Want to be a real journalist? Try renting a car, follow her bus around for a few days, talk to people at the events, and then write about what you really see, not a YouTube video everyone else in the world can see. I’ll even cut you slack on whatever point of view you want to report from. Just do something worthwhile.
Posted by scott on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 09.00 pm
Typical paranoid right response, ohhh its the liberal media, liberal conspiracy to make me poor, liberal activist plants.
She is your queen and if you havent figured it out she is out for #1, make the $$$, and fade out. She obviously cant even follow through on the job in Alaska and quit so dont you think she will quit on you?
You deserve her and I have no sympathy for the lady out in the cold, skipping her 9 to 5 job, and crying kids. you get what you deserve when you idolize a fringe simpleton like that.
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Posted by anonymous on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 06.51 pm
She’s an idiot. From one Republican to another she needs to go back to that gravel road, no streetlight backlot city that she came from and take the rest of her family with her. She cost the republicans the election and there is no way she can or ever will win a contest again. She is an embarrassment to the party. She is a joke and the label Any May from Wassilla meets New york is as fitting as Levi getting his two cents worth. She is not Presidential material and never was.