• February 22, 2012

tragedy strikes in real americaIS THIS THE END OF SNOWBILLY GRIFTING? The jihadist conspiracy of elitist liberal shopping mall patrons struck with merciless force yesterday at Minnesota’s Mall of America: only 300 people showed up to attend the Sarah and Bristol Palin book signing of Bristol’s new memoir about her life as a drunk pregnant teenager. The family abandoned the stage half an hour before the end of the time slot because there was nobody left. So are we at last witnessing the sad finale of Real American Freedom? Our true patriots are no longer willing to give up fifteen of their last dollars to support the unemployed offspring of this screeching, nightmare opportunist woman. Wait wait, oh come on, uh, how about if Sarah Palin says, “The Constitution of the United States is fricking awesome” three times out loud to anyone in line? Will they hand her some of those crumpled, sweaty dollars in that case? 

From the CityPages:

The rules set up by Mall of America officials for Sarah and Bristol Palin’s book signing yesterday seemed to have been written in anticipation of an army of fans.

“‘Camping out’ is not allowed,” the rules read. “Beginning at 5 a.m., guests will be allowed to line up.”

But there was no teeming crowd of rabid Palinites at 5 a.m. And less than a half hour into the appearance of Bristol, Sarah and Todd Palin, the crowd had dwindled to a trickle of latecomers.

Palin has also dropped down to single digits among likely voters in a new Fox News poll. Can we say that America has finally started to quit Sarah Palin? Because we can’t say it any other way. [CityPages]

{ 294 comments }

WunkRocker June 30, 2011 at 10:40 am

Should have scheduled it at the Mall of Real America.

KeepFnThatChicken June 30, 2011 at 11:34 am

…which may explain why she didn't sign at a bookstore.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:27 pm

Or the book section of the Minneapolis Super Wal-Mart.

Lionel[redacted]Esq June 30, 2011 at 12:49 pm

A mall full of white people on hoverrounds?

genxr June 30, 2011 at 1:00 pm

You mean the hobo beans stand they set up in the rubble of the old I-35 bridge?

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 10:32 am

Let this be a lesson to… somebody.
What she should have done is had the event at a Costco, and given a free pallet-load of Little Debbie snack cakes with each book.

Dashboard_Jesus July 8, 2011 at 1:33 am

holy crap, 355 upfists? that's the biggest p-ness I've ever seen for a Wonkette commentater…well done Wunker!

freakishlywrong June 30, 2011 at 10:41 am

Well, she can always fall back on mud wrestling Michele Bachmann after her spectacular flame out.

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 10:41 am

She'll hire World Net Daily's lawyers and sue Tina Fey for $500 million for defamation.

mumbly_joe June 30, 2011 at 11:04 am

She'll hire World Net Daily's lawyers and sue Tina Fey for $500 million for defamation Identity Theft.

FTFY

Negropolis June 30, 2011 at 11:27 pm

LOL!

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 11:36 am

My Married Lover hates Tina Fey with the heat of a thousand suns for "what she did to Sarah Palin." I really cannot talk to her about this, at all. I have made no headway by suggesting that Fey's take on Palin was popular because it hit at something people recognized–nope, it was just plain character assassination foisted on a public that otherwise would have recognized Sarah for the good decent person that she is.

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 11:38 am

Tina did a lot to make Sarah look good… real good.

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm

How can someone consider Sarah a good decent person?

imissopus June 30, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Doc, don't take this the wrong way, but are there other women where you live?

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 12:18 pm

"it's complicated"

Also, the sex is fantastic. Also, too, there's the whole "caring" thing, which sometimes makes a partner's weirdass politics less impossible to deal with than one might think.

NotYerGaryBusey June 30, 2011 at 12:41 pm

It generally is with the crazy. That's the corollary to the maxim of "Never stick your dick in crazy" after all.

HELisforHEL June 30, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Oh dear.
Of course, she/he embraces the republican agenda, so I'm assuming that includes all the moral hoo-hah they espouse?
Just be careful, Doc. :-)

Beck_is_Trig June 30, 2011 at 6:45 pm

Eh…don't worry Dok…I got yer back, after all, I'm liberal enough to post on this site and occassionally get upfists and I was born and raised in mormon-hell, 90% GOP SLC. Yes, I did deflower more than one mormon girl…so, I know the pain of dealing with people with strange poitical and and/or religious views (in my case)…if the sex is good enough, it doesn't matter if she thinks Palin is more intelligent than a cinch bug or not (she isn't).

UW8316154 July 1, 2011 at 7:36 pm

The crazy chicks always give the best sex.

See Hunter, Rielle.

bureaucrap June 30, 2011 at 10:42 am

To be fair, they were having a 50% off sale at Lane Bryant, two storefronts away.

weejee June 30, 2011 at 10:45 am

Ladies' panties half-off is always an eye-catcher.

freakishlywrong June 30, 2011 at 10:51 am

Entendre is delish when doubled…

V572 [SSAN] June 30, 2011 at 10:54 am

And even moreso when grammatically incorrect!

//Sorry, Weejee. My inner word-nerd sneaks out from time to time.

weejee June 30, 2011 at 11:16 am

arr are matey, avast the pluralz

arihaya June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

and a promotion of Hoveround™ just the next stair

Lascauxcaveman June 30, 2011 at 11:36 am

I heard the refrigeration at Orange Julius had gone down (again) and they were giving away their stock. Like, everybody, was over on the other end of the mall, I mean, free Orange Julius!

flamingpdog July 2, 2011 at 7:33 pm

I didn't know he was in prison.
Sorry.

Barb June 30, 2011 at 10:42 am

Mall of America is the largest retail shopping mall in the United States with more than 2,768,400 million feet of retail space, over 520 stores, 50 restaurants and Nickelodeon Universe®, the nation’s largest Nickelodeon® theme park with 24 amusement park rides including a roller coaster that winds around the enclosed atrium of the mall.
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And somehow, is still smaller than Bristol's vagina.

Radiotherapy® June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

Yeah, but she was drunk and passed out in a tent. What did you expect.

NYNYNYjr June 30, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Ha ha. The no camping out sign was for Bristol.

CessnaDriver June 30, 2011 at 1:46 pm

She's do damned dumb she didn't realize that fabrication says that Levi raped her.

Her new meme is that it wasn't consensual, but it wasn't rape.

It's scary that they think that WE are that dumb.

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:32 pm

She made that story up to deflect attention from her actually getting preggers after Saint Sarah have him move in with them. You know, like every conservative family does with unwed kids, move in their horny boyfriends.

EatsBabyDingos June 30, 2011 at 10:50 am

Reminds me of the old drinking song from college, with the Frito Bandito tune:

Aye yi yi yi
Your mother swims out to meet troopships.

Lascauxcaveman June 30, 2011 at 11:42 am

Not just a Fritos commercial, but an actual popular folksong; Cielito Lindo.

You learn these things when you marry into a Mexican family.

One_who_wanders June 30, 2011 at 11:49 am

And a rugby song. . . .

CessnaDriver June 30, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Thanks for that….I almost coughed up a lung!

lou_sarah July 1, 2011 at 3:10 am

me too also!

mumbly_joe June 30, 2011 at 11:06 am

The difference being, that story about how the soon-to-be high school dropouts who got drunk and passed out inside the Mall of America? Probably true.

Arken June 30, 2011 at 2:32 pm

What? Nickelodeon Universe? What happened to Camp Snoopy?

Eve8Apples June 30, 2011 at 10:42 am

The bells on my special Andy Warhol 15 minutes of fame alarm clock are ringin' like Paul Revere on meth right now.

KeepFnThatChicken June 30, 2011 at 11:10 am

I evinced a tear, that was so wonderfully said.

PsycWench June 30, 2011 at 11:52 am

This is the very best sentence ever written on the Internet, possibly excepting those in Barb's diatribe yesterday about the gay bulling advocate.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 11:12 am

"Andy Warhol 15 minutes of fame alarm clock"

Unfortunately for all of us, that particular clock seems to have a snooze alarm, which the Palins have somehow figured out how to keep hitting.

LetUsBray June 30, 2011 at 10:43 am

Who knew getting Paul Revere wrong meant jumping the shark even with Dumbfuckistanis?

Lascauxcaveman June 30, 2011 at 11:44 am

They would have ripped her to shreds if she got the John Quincy Adams part wrong.

Buzz Feedback June 30, 2011 at 10:43 am

Wednesday is bowling/Red Lobster/Christian Science Reading Room night in Real America. No time for Sister Sarah.

Madfall June 30, 2011 at 10:58 am

No mules for Sister Sarah.

Beowoof June 30, 2011 at 11:53 am

Bite your tongue, with Bristol and Sarah moving to Arizona, how long do you think it will be before they are broke and heading down to Mexico to perform in some Bride of the Burrow shows?

Rarian Rakista June 30, 2011 at 11:10 pm

Soon I hope, I got a stack of old peso coins to throw.

EatsBabyDingos June 30, 2011 at 10:44 am

Soemwhere a gay cowboy in Montana is saying "St Sarah of the Stupids, I jus' caint quit you. No, wait, si se puede!"

Dern messicans.

TeaNuts June 30, 2011 at 11:10 am

Please don't use Montana and Sarah in the same sentence, it hurts our image. Sheep lie!

memzilla June 30, 2011 at 10:44 am

Next time, Mooselini should make sure that she puts her signing table next to a Hoveround™ charging station and a food court.

NYNYNYjr June 30, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Yeah, the signing was probably in the cobwebbed Waldenbooks that Mall of America denizens think is haunted. Just poor placement choice.

Barb June 30, 2011 at 10:44 am

I wonder if security had to fish Willow out of the fountain and make her put the pennies back?

widestanceroman June 30, 2011 at 10:56 am

That a female guard took her into the ladies room to "check" is disturbing.

Madfall June 30, 2011 at 10:59 am

To be fair, SHINY THINGS!

HistoriCat June 30, 2011 at 11:11 am

Oh Barb – your grifting skills need fine-tuning. Never bother with the pennies. Go for the silver coins – especially the quarters!

Barb June 30, 2011 at 11:14 am

Meet me at the Coinstar!

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 11:23 am

"Never bother with the pennies. Go for the silver coins – especially the quarters!"

Quarters are a lot easier to pick up no-hands, for one.

Radiotherapy® June 30, 2011 at 11:17 am

You can't have a fish picker in Minnesota.

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:34 pm

How do you do it? Every comment is such a gem.

JoeHoya June 30, 2011 at 10:44 am

"Dropped down to double digits" in the latest poll? Was she in triple digits before?

GunToting[Redacted] June 30, 2011 at 10:46 am

Remember, this is Fox Nooze, home of polls with results adding up to 187%.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 11:45 am

Not intended to be a mathematical statement.

Come here a minute June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

The previous Fox News poll had her at 130 percent, just behind Mitt.

SpurningBeer June 30, 2011 at 10:51 am

Since when is 8 not a double-digit number?

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 10:51 am

I figured it to mean "actual" supporters (under 100)… hell a college football team has more supporters… in their pants.

Dimitrios_M July 1, 2011 at 5:50 pm

If you had been properly home schooled you would know that 2 is the double digit.

Biel_ze_Bubba July 6, 2011 at 3:54 pm

"Double digits" means you need the fingers of both hands.

GuanoFaucet June 30, 2011 at 10:45 am

According to Palin's wikipedia entry, one million people attended this book signing.

Barb June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

We should go to Wikipedia and say that they stayed at a cheap motel, Big Dick's Halfway Inn.

LesBontemps June 30, 2011 at 10:53 am

Actually, the Alaska landmark is Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn: http://www.skinnydicksak.com/skinnydicksak/index….

DashboardBuddha June 30, 2011 at 12:15 pm

Girl, you are on fire these days!

arihaya June 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

wingnuts should've been quarantined in Conservapedia for internet's sake

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Including Paul Revere and John Wayne.

EatsBabyDingos June 30, 2011 at 10:45 am

Well, she can always go back to bobbing for "apples" in the Don's John.

ManchuCandidate June 30, 2011 at 10:45 am

Kinda expected this to happen.

Ohforcripessake June 30, 2011 at 10:46 am

I've said it once and I'll say it again..

DAMN YOU MCCAIN!!1!

JustPixelz June 30, 2011 at 12:55 pm

I know! I thought he was against torture. Yet he foists Sarah Palin™ and her family on us.

arihaya June 30, 2011 at 7:58 pm

in McCain's defense, during his 231 years of life, he never for even once imagine that torture can come in the form of a snowbilly grifter

weejee June 30, 2011 at 10:46 am

Lou Sarah is the bridge to nowhere.

Come here a minute June 30, 2011 at 10:46 am

I blame the lizard people.

Oblios_Cap June 30, 2011 at 11:32 am

Leave Rick Scott out of this conversation!

EatsBabyDingos June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

Maybe some crazy rock guitarist had all those Minniebraniacs in a Stranglehold, and they couldn't make it.

Monsieur_Grumpe June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

Apparently you had to buy a Sarah Palin book to get a Sarah scrawl and you had to buy a Bristol book to get a Bristol scribble. I think the Teabaggers were just intimidated by all that reading.

freakishlywrong June 30, 2011 at 10:53 am

Or, maybe after three fucking years the griftees are finally seeing the cracks?

Monsieur_Grumpe June 30, 2011 at 10:55 am

I hope so.

kissawookiee June 30, 2011 at 11:53 am

I don't know. Hollowed-out books are great places to stash your oxy, or to hide your ammunition from the British.

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm

>I think the Teabaggers were just intimidated by all that reading.
To be honest, so would I. o__O

Hagar7 July 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm

I don't think they read. I think it's just tough to hold two full-sized hardback books under your arm when you're already juggling the 2011 Special Edition Precious Moments Collection and three full shopping bags from K&G.

LesBontemps June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

Palin has also dropped down to double digits among likely voters in a new Fox News poll.

To be fair, she couldn't stay at 163% support forever, even among Fox viewers.

widestanceroman June 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

We grow some great people in our mall towns.

Sarah had to make bank on the day by having Tawd give dry hand jobs in the parking lot, while she pretended to be Bachmann and got some free clothes from Claire's Basement.

archikvetch June 30, 2011 at 10:48 am

Well, to be fair…

Screw that…. FAIL REDUX!

freakishlywrong June 30, 2011 at 10:49 am

Time to retire the bumpit, and the stuffed monkeys, beeyatch. See ya!

x111e7thst June 30, 2011 at 10:49 am

I guess people are starting to say nope to dope.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Finally, Nancy Reagan's plans come to fruition!

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:27 pm

Not "Yeth!" to meth?

nounverb911 June 30, 2011 at 10:49 am

At least the Palin's are consistent in their quitting.

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 10:49 am

All that friggin' bell ringin' drives folks away!

AMEN!! Thanks for not showing people… there is hope!

Monsieur_Grumpe June 30, 2011 at 10:50 am

And no one glittered her. How disappointing.

widestanceroman June 30, 2011 at 11:13 am

Once teh geiz dump you, you really are nobody.

exmartinette June 30, 2011 at 10:50 am

On any given day, the MOA has over 100k visitors, (no shit!) That means that at least 99,700 people who were already there actively avoided seeing the Palins.

Madfall June 30, 2011 at 11:01 am

And bless them every one.

cheetojeebus June 30, 2011 at 10:51 am

The savoring…the savoring.

Eve8Apples June 30, 2011 at 10:52 am

I suspect people were afraid to "camp out" anyway near the Palins fearing they would wake up hungover on cheap wine coolers and knocked up.

LesBontemps June 30, 2011 at 11:01 am

Don't forget the hookworm!

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 11:05 am

If you went camping and got all drunk, and woke up in the morning with a sticky, sore ass, would you tell anyone? No? Wanna go camping?

Eve8Apples June 30, 2011 at 11:31 am

Actually, that's the line Levi used to invite Bristol on the camping trip.

finallyhappy June 30, 2011 at 11:35 am

I have a friend(who must be losing it) who told me Bristol was raped and had been a virgin. I laughed – and then realized this person was serious. I told her that she needed to get some serious educational help if she bought that crap.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:47 pm

If that idea gains traction, wouldn't Levi have a good reason to file a lawsuit?

Nothingisamiss June 30, 2011 at 1:37 pm

I just realized this can be my next Halloween costume…go with a tent, a 6 pack of wine coolers and a funny look on my face.

Eve8Apples June 30, 2011 at 2:18 pm

Pick -up line — "Hey there, I could sure use some help pitchin' my tent."

SpurningBeer June 30, 2011 at 10:54 am

Show some skin, Sarah.

Not you, Bristol.

DaSandman June 30, 2011 at 10:55 am

The dream is fading, time to return with their shabby loot to Meth Town.

DerrickWildcat June 30, 2011 at 10:55 am

Thanks a lot Bristol for scaring away all the people that wanted to see your Mother!

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 10:56 am

Everyone defected, and went to Ken Layne's book signing instead. Yay!

CapeClod June 30, 2011 at 10:56 am

So after three years of jerking people around, America is finally starting to catch on?

Should I dare to hope?

Ohforcripessake June 30, 2011 at 11:14 am

No

HistoriCat June 30, 2011 at 11:15 am

Nah – the true believers just can't afford to buy any more books.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 6:52 pm

"Nah – the true believers just can't afford to buy any more books."

And despite much trying, they can't figure out how to change the channels on them. So that's kind of frustrating.

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 11:27 am

It makes me less Afraid of Life.

widestanceroman June 30, 2011 at 10:57 am

Nah, they shafted the maid as usual.

PsycWench June 30, 2011 at 11:00 am

On the ball, I see

Lascauxcaveman June 30, 2011 at 11:50 am

Not what she meant by "getting stiffed."

imissopus June 30, 2011 at 12:28 pm

But it made her a little testy.

Fare la Volpe June 30, 2011 at 12:39 pm

They knocked the price up just for Bristol.

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 10:57 am

Oh I think they can be proud that almost none of them showed up to see her.

widestanceroman June 30, 2011 at 10:57 am

I'd flame out for some lingonberry jelly.

SayItWithWookies June 30, 2011 at 10:58 am

Let's see — Bristol's a single mother preaching abstinence, fronting for a charity whose only purpose is to pay her, and her last big media appearance, on Dancing with the Stars, was under the category of "neither" — the dipshit's lucky she hadn't played out a loooong time ago.

fartknocker June 30, 2011 at 10:59 am

I bet Bristol Brisket Thighs is probably re-thinking paying cash for that palace in Maricopa, AZ. If she would have taken out an ARM, she could just not pay the bill and default – since quitting seems to be so easy for that family.

Minus the 500 idiots in attendance, thank you remaining people of Minnesota for not acknowledging these two tin-foil hat twittering twats with book purchases.

NorthStarSpanx June 30, 2011 at 11:01 am

Sarah's spectacular flame-out was prompted by her more-than-usual fucked up speechifying the day before at her Not-About-Me movie premier.
http://www.themudflats.net/2011/06/30/palins-rema...

What will it take for people to realize this family is simply crazy Valley Trash? Sarah shaving her head like Brittany but looking like Gabby's surveyor-mark shooter?

Goonemeritus June 30, 2011 at 11:01 am

The free market has spoken, expect a product re-tool in the near future. May I humbly suggest a blast from the past tour with other conservative legends from the past like Tom Delay?

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:47 pm

"The free market has spoken, expect a product re-tool in the near future."

*ponders*
Now let's see, which of her children hasn't been exploited enough yet?

LesBontemps June 30, 2011 at 11:02 am

184%. It's a Fox News poll.

Gleem_McShineys June 30, 2011 at 5:30 pm

It's FOX math we're talking about. Reasonably, we could even assume they are including the digit after decimal point., as in 26.4% is TRIPLE DIGIT SUPPORT!

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 11:03 am

New Mall of America signs (posted for this "event")

Absolutely NO drinking and sex on the roller coaster!

Please pick up your own wine cooler bottles

Do not shoot the stuffed wolves at KB Toy Store

Barb June 30, 2011 at 11:05 am

Wonder how many guys asked Brizzly to sign the book "Heywood Jiblomy ?"
Bristol, "No, I already know how to spell it, thanks"

I would have asked her to sign mine: "Anna Bortion" Bah, ha ha!

CapeClod June 30, 2011 at 11:05 am

TV converters on local access channels.

Mumbletypeg June 30, 2011 at 11:05 am

Is it possible to reach a level of Too Stupid for even Teh Stoopids to put up with anymore?

I think it's called The Law of Diminishing Ret[dacted]..

DemonicRage June 30, 2011 at 11:06 am

Sad, delusionary grifter! Still thinks she is the cat's pajamas! How fickle the public is!

Crank_Tango June 30, 2011 at 11:07 am

Mall libel!!!

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 11:07 am

"Mom, there's no one here. Let's go get some Zimas and a pack of smokes."

HistoriCat June 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

"OK – tell the help to pack up. And find out where Willow wandered off to – she's supposed to be looking after the brat."

AJWjr. June 30, 2011 at 11:28 am

2 packs a peace?

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:31 pm

"Mom, there's no one here. Let's go get some Zimas and a pack of smokes."

And some of those cakes we like.

Chillwaver June 30, 2011 at 11:10 am

"Camping out’ is not allowed”

This is bad news for Willow's bf.

fuflans June 30, 2011 at 11:11 am

looks like america quit sarah.

KenLayIsAlive June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

"Palin has also dropped down to double digits among likely voters in a new Fox News poll."

But her wikipedia says her approval rating is still in the triple digits.

PsycWench June 30, 2011 at 11:27 am

One "author" tried to use scientific notation but was shouted down because anything scientific is the work of the devil.

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Measuring is junk science.

KeepFnThatChicken June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

Wait… Sarah and Bristol were at a mall… trying to convince Americans to read?!

Terry June 30, 2011 at 11:17 am

No, not to read. Just to cough up money for Bristol's book.

Eve8Apples June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

1. Commemorative grifter coins featuring a picture of the Palin clan. On the other side, they read "Keep the change, I'll keep my freedumbs, you betcha!"
2. Wolf jerky made from Alaskan wolves gunned down by Snowbilly from a helicopter.
3. Bristol would make an excellent spokeswoman for Trojan condoms.
4. Palin rifle scopes so you can keep those damn librule, communist, 'Merikan hatin' politicians in the crosshairs.

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Palin rifle scopes surveying instruments

CapeClod June 30, 2011 at 11:16 am

Also, "Sarah Palin's Bag-O-Hammers" would be an excellent marriage of product and personality.

Tundra Grifter June 30, 2011 at 11:16 am

Quitters quit.

You just can't explain it.

AJWjr. June 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

This is not the hot dish you were looking for.

mrblifil June 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

Don't be in a rush. She still has yet to demonstrate her ping-pong tricks on YouJizz.

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 11:23 am

I saw enough banana cutters, vag-smoking, and peso shows in Bangkok and Subic to last a lifetime, thanks.

weejee June 30, 2011 at 11:20 am

Soon she'll be in a booth next to Pete Rose signing trading cards.

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 11:38 am

Maybe that's her latest grifting plan – she'll run for President, then make a bunch of anonymous bets against her own campaign while intentionally tanking it.

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Intentionally… NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:33 pm

Short her own campaign on InTrade, in other words. That gives me an idea…

riverside68 June 30, 2011 at 11:22 am

hoverounds?

cheetojeebus June 30, 2011 at 11:28 am

A series of 'blind leading the blind' tomes :

"American History for Dummies"
"Family Planning for Dummies"
" Plucking a Turkey for Dummies"

I could go on….

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 12:25 pm

my 1st choice, too, then bibles for history books.

mavenmaven June 30, 2011 at 11:23 am

Minnesota is Bachmann territory. They already have their own crazy person to applaud for when talking trash.

Goonemeritus June 30, 2011 at 11:25 am

I am somewhat surprised that it hasn’t been broken up into “true relics” to be worn around the necks of the faithful.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:56 pm

If/when President Obama gets re-elected in 2012, we may very well see that happen.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:48 pm

"worn around the necks of the faithful"

ATTN Judge Prosser

Pithaughn June 30, 2011 at 11:25 am

alright, from now on just tell us when they don't quit something or other.

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:33 pm

THAT would be news.

Serolf_Divad June 30, 2011 at 11:32 am

"Camping out’ is not allowed”

This reminds me of used car salesmen hyping their Summer Sale-Athon by adding the phrase "Door open to the Public at 9:00. Absolutely No Dealers Allowed!" to their Sunday circular ad.

Tundra Grifter June 30, 2011 at 11:58 am

Or the 1950's horror movie promotion: "Nurses will be on duty in the lobby!"

philpjfry June 30, 2011 at 11:33 am

"only 300 people showed up to attend the Sarah and Bristol Palin book signing of Bristol’s new memoir about her life"
Dawn is breaking in America. Finaly

imissopus June 30, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Our long national nightmare, etc.

Dr_pangloss July 1, 2011 at 9:22 am

Dawn of the (brain) Dead. We still have a few more years with the Tea Bagger crowd. They will likely get all patrioty again once the election cycle gets fully into motion.

neiltheblaze June 30, 2011 at 11:33 am

I never believed "people" generally were ever very much into Sarah Palin. She's a media creation, primarily – and they're the ones who loved her most because she is what they imagine to be so cartoonishly gosh-darn "folksy".

Most regular people have been laughing at her for a year and a half, and her "fanbase" is sort of like the same 20% who think the moon landing was faked and fluoridation is a Communist plot.

Selling bad ghost-written books to illiterates isn't really something you can do indefinitely. Actual readers don't care and the illiterates have no attention span. Maybe they're finally bored with her.

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Fluoridation is actually a capitalist plot to dispose of potentially dangerous toxic chemical waste by diluting it in the masses' water.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 1:47 pm

"Selling bad ghost-written books to illiterates isn't really something you can do indefinitely. Actual readers don't care and the illiterates have no attention span. Maybe they're finally bored with her."

She should have skipped the book thing and just sold used panties to her base. Same thing, really.

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:34 pm

And…we're back to scratch and sniff, I think.

GeneralLerong June 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Re that 20% figure that is forever bandied about….doesn't it give you pause that one in five of your fellow citizens is fucking insane and proud of it?

Are we supposed to be relieved or something that the figure isn't 50%?

Oh. Neurologists and behaviorists say the figure is actually is greater than 50%. Nevermind.

Thurman Munster IV June 30, 2011 at 11:36 am

Time for her and Todd to go back to AK where he can lick her wounds.

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Eeew…

AJWjr. June 30, 2011 at 12:20 pm

I could say something about the hellish gash that meat axe left, but I won't.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 1:51 pm

"Time for her and Todd to go back to AK where he can lick her wounds."

Is that wise? Shouldn't he just slap some disinfectant and strong antibiotics on "those" wounds?

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 6:52 pm

Ooh- that's a nasty gash, alright.

ttommyunger June 30, 2011 at 11:37 am

To be fair, that venue is just too large for her fans. Fox News reported thousands of Lard Rovers stranded in the parking lot and bowels of the site having exhausted their batteries riding at full tilt to see their Heroine.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm

"…riding at full tilt to see their Heroine."

That is the funniest mind picture!
"Hyeah! Hyeah! Hang on, Gladys, I'm gonna try something!"

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:14 pm

Maybe they were exhausting their bowels at a toilet somewhere?

ttommyunger June 30, 2011 at 7:22 pm

Hmmmm. “Depends”.

Native_of_SL_UT June 30, 2011 at 11:40 am

Still don't want to see her chin. Just the top of her head, please.

Weenus299 June 30, 2011 at 11:41 am

Bachmannia, all you Foster Babies! BACHMANNIA!!!!1!!!!

jus_wonderin June 30, 2011 at 11:41 am

Bag of Good Ole American Air. 9.99 and if you act now, you can get two Bags of Good Ole American Air for 19.00. Call now. Operators are standing by.

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 12:04 pm

That's $19.95… everyone knows everything is $19.95… just pay separate shipping and handling.

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Never mind that that air was in socialist haven Canada two days earlier.

jus_wonderin June 30, 2011 at 11:42 am

I can't wait to see who Sarah blames for the low turnout.

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 11:45 am

Comment on the Grifter's Facebook page:

I am an UN-APOLOGETIC AMERICAN!! I Pledge Allegiance to the FLAG of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and to the REPUBLIC (not democracy) for which it stands, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL. I grew up reciting this every morning in school. It is a shame we do not do this any more for fear of offending someone. I do not care if this offends someone because I am Proud to be American.

I bet that this person also recited the "not a democracy" part, too.

Also, too, and further, as a substitute teacher, I can attest that schools still require the pledge (In Idaho, at least). It's interesting to see the students' waning enthusiasm for the pledge when I sub in junior high schools–while I would attribute that to the kids seeing it as an empty ritual, no doubt it's LIBERAL UNION TEACHERS at fault…

Oh, and a lover of free speech replied to the comment above: " It should be mandatory – if you don't like it then leave this country!"

DaRooster June 30, 2011 at 12:13 pm

So, this person is gonna give up voting? Good…

I didn't even know what half of the stuff in that poem meant until I was about 15…

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Don't they realize that it's shockingly similar to the evil commie indoctrination that they all complain about all the time?

They say they want to be free, but I suspect they just want to be controlled by specific kinds of people.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 1:25 pm

I recited the Pledge every morning in school too. I'm also a veteran.
It didn't make me a retard.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:57 pm

"Oh, and a lover of free speech replied to the comment above: " It should be mandatory – if you don't like it then leave this country!" "

Good idea, but it doesn't go far enough.
What this country really needs is mandatory loyalty oaths, signed in blood, to declare the allegiance of all good Amurrcans to Jebus, America, the flag, and the Presid–
Um…

thefrontpage June 30, 2011 at 11:48 am

It was probably a bad idea for the Payins to set up their book-signing encampment in front of the Victoria's Secret store and the Sunny's Surplus store.

thefrontpage June 30, 2011 at 11:53 am

Here's a passage from Bristol Palin's book, Chapter 13:

"I actually got drunk with my mom and Todd a bunch of times. Mom likes weird old-people drinks, like Tom Collins, Manhattans, Whiskey Sours and those icky martini things, but she doesn't like flavors in her martinis!! How can anyone drink unflavored martinis!! Mom also downs about four Bloody Marys every Saturday and Sunday, and she puts a lot of Tabasco and Frank's Hot Sauce in them! Ew! Ick! Todd–I've always called him Todd because, well, you know, he's always been my very 'special friend,' you know, heart, heart–likes bourbon, whiskey and rum, and he drinks several shots of Wild Turkey and Southern Comfort with every meal, including breakfast! Some days, that's the only thing he has for breakfast!! Levi used to like to drink these fruity drinks like Mad Dog, Tinkled Pink and Boone's Farm. We have fun drinking in our family! Myself, I love screwdrivers. I could have a big ol' screwdriver every day, sometimes twice a day!!"

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:16 pm

If you were Todd, stuck with Sarah for life, you would drink too. Especially at breakfast!

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 10:00 pm

Yes, but Tinkled Pink? In the morning?

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm

"martini things, but she doesn't like flavors in her martinis!! How can anyone drink unflavored martinis!!"

A drink that tastes like raspberry lemonade, a butterscotch sundae, or Oreo cookies, may be many things.
It may even have good qualities in its own way.
It is not, however, a martini.

Chillwaver June 30, 2011 at 11:54 am

So let's see….300 people x $15 book = not enough to cover trip expenses. Sounds like Bristol is gonna get a Jury Duty call soon…

natoslug June 30, 2011 at 11:54 am

ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!!!!!!! Please, America, just ignore them until they go away.

One_who_wanders June 30, 2011 at 11:55 am

Defining deviancy down. Or in this case, dumb.

Maman June 30, 2011 at 11:57 am

glory hallelujah

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 11:57 am

I stole this idea from another Wonketeer (sorry can't remember who, but it was brilliant), it kind of fits:

"Listen, and understand. That griftinator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until your wallet is bled."

guangho June 30, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Nooooo! I need her and Michele Bachman to be the 2012 GOP ticket!

Steverino247 June 30, 2011 at 12:06 pm

A little perspective here. I was at the Mall of America in late 2004 when Sean Astin (the actor who played Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings movies) was there for a book signing. He had written a book ("There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale") about his experiences making the popular movie. The line was very long and the people polite while waiting. I was on the level above and pretty much directly over the podium they had set up. Any security was discrete and there were likely no problems.

So, for the Girfters to have only sold 300 books in that period of time must have been very much below their expectations. I'd say the word will get out to other potential venues very quickly and signings will be inside the actual bookstores from now on. No special set ups for them again. Ever.

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 12:08 pm

One does not simply grift into Mordor.

Barb June 30, 2011 at 12:32 pm

Loved Sean Astin in "Rudy"

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm

I liked him in Goonies. A good Oregon based film.

Steverino247 June 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Come to think of it, I want a sword that glows when Sarah Palin is near, too.

sezme June 30, 2011 at 12:07 pm

This is good news for John McCain?

imissopus June 30, 2011 at 12:09 pm

It's a good day to be alive.

Doktor Zoom June 30, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Hey, buddy, I've seen enough horror movies to know that you can never relax when you think the horrific zombie nightmare psycho grifter creature is dead. It always rises again and eats someone (usually the black sidekick) before it's finally subdued.

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Beat em or burn em. They go up pretty quick.

Madfall June 30, 2011 at 12:16 pm

In retrospect I should really have inserted Loboutin into my line somewhere.

AlaskaGrrl June 30, 2011 at 12:26 pm

The free market is now a librul socialist plot to keep Sarah and Bristol from getting all the Stupids to give them their money, though you won't know this as the lamestream media won't tell the truth.

starfanglednut June 30, 2011 at 12:27 pm

Spam, spam, spam, spam….

BlueStateLibel June 30, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Bitch Slapped by the Invisible Hand of the Free Market

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:36 pm

Probably didn't even notice. It's walleye fishing season.

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:24 pm

Pan-fried walleye…uhhhmmm…

prommie June 30, 2011 at 12:45 pm

I'm playing the "schaden frueden" part from Beethoven's Ninth real real loud! Thats the part that The Killers suddenly break into at the end of Mr. Brightside.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Reverse mortgages.

Lionel[redacted]Esq June 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Finally, our long national nightmare is over?

SorosBot June 30, 2011 at 12:52 pm

That's assuming there is a football season this year.

GOPCrusher June 30, 2011 at 12:52 pm

If the numbers that showed up for the book signing are indicative of the people that voted for Bachmann, someone needs to investigate how votes are being counted in that district.

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Dunno, my parents did a better job to help me understand math than my math teachers. Of course I still barely understand it anyway.

seppdecker June 30, 2011 at 12:58 pm

It happened to Yahoo Serious, and it was bound to happen to Sarah.

genxr June 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm

It's definitely time for Sarah to announce her candidacy.

Also, a missed opportunity for me. I could have asked her to sign my copy of Nailin' Palin.

genxr June 30, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Looks like the reading public is abstaining.

AnarchyWolf June 30, 2011 at 1:12 pm

That might make her followers head explode.

Redhead June 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm

"IS THIS THE END OF SNOWBILLY GRIFTING? "

No. That will never end. She quit this one gig halfway through because she's Sarah Palin and she never completes anything. I'm surprised she hasn't started just going by Sa Pa, so she doesn't even have to finish spelling her own name.

But she'll never GIVE UP grifting. She'll just quit gigs the minute they don't provide enough money/attention, and move on to the next one, leaving someone else to cover up for her and telling three different "excuses" for why she's leaving at the same time. It's the Palin way.

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:19 pm

She'll end up on late night TV, between the ads for fly-by-night colleges and the redneck knife segment on Home Shopping Network!

Steverino247 June 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm

This just in…
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/169213-palin...

Donate $100 and get a copy of the new movie. Gee, I seem to remember hearing she had nothing to do with the picture.

I don't know when the absolute deadline is on presidential declarations and filing campaign documents, but it can't come soon enough.

BaldarTFlagass June 30, 2011 at 1:24 pm

It's funny when embarrassing shit happens to people that you don't like.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 2:19 pm

"It's funny when embarrassing shit happens to people that you don't like."

So simply, and eloquently, and truthfully, put.

greenpatches June 30, 2011 at 1:27 pm

Looks like it's time for Sarah to look into Celebrity Apprentice.

problemwithcaring June 30, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Out in Middle Dumfuccinstan, where liberal arguments based in "logic" don't mean a thing because the citizenry doesn't know "things," the main draw of Lou Sara was the idea that she "made liberals so angry." Once the citizenry of glorious Dumfuccistan realized (after 3 years!) that liberals were pointing and laughing, but not at all upset by Sarah Palin, they dumped her shit like half-drank lukewarm strawberry lemonade from Sonics.

sportshort June 30, 2011 at 1:33 pm

Maybe Bristol could get pregnant again. By Todd. And Sarah could become a rescuer AND a victim. They could all go to heaven in a little row boat, clap hands.

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm

Trig could be the little man in the boat.

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:20 pm

Maybe all the females in the family can get pregnant, all-together and all at the same time!

Nothingisamiss June 30, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Amen and amen.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 1:41 pm

♪♫Discount Chins and Cheeks!♫♪

GortRay June 30, 2011 at 2:17 pm

If Screechin' Sarah, Bangin' Bristol and Re-Todd can't draw a big crowd at the freakin' Mall of Murica does that mean it's game over? Nah, I'm sure they'll come up with a new grift to drain TPers cash.

DREGstudios June 30, 2011 at 2:21 pm

Even cowgirls get the blues (when they stop making money.) Like mother, like daughter. Bristol is selling herself in any form or fashion just like Sarah, to make that money. Talk about some successful capitalists- all body and no brains. See what they’re willing to do for the cash at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecstas...

lochnessmonster June 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Kelly from The Office probably had a larg following when she went on her shopping spree there

DaniloTifoso June 30, 2011 at 2:34 pm

needz moar bellz ringing

krazyvladimir June 30, 2011 at 3:41 pm

To keep up with the family's grifting tradition, Todd needs to write a book. I wonder what the title will be.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm

"A Joe for Sarah's Shoe."*

*"Put yourself in her shoe’s Joe for one day."

Veritas78 June 30, 2011 at 8:16 pm

"Two Meth-Heads for Sister Sarah"?

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:28 pm

Help! I'm Being Held Prisoner!

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm

"If I Did It"

genxr June 30, 2011 at 4:38 pm

Oh to think of the life lessons we've all learned from Bristol's book.

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Yeah, don't drink cheap booze with teen-age boys when you've forgotten your birth control devices at home!

genxr June 30, 2011 at 7:49 pm

And if you do, don't write a book about it because nobody wants to read that crap.

WriteyWriterton June 30, 2011 at 5:21 pm

Maybe she was talking about being able to see "Russia House," the novel.

No? Never f*^#in' mind.

JackObin June 30, 2011 at 5:40 pm

Kinda reminds me of when Spinal Tap was left high and dry during a record store signing of "Smell the Glove". Maybe the Palin hicks can milk it for a few more years in North Dakota.

genxr June 30, 2011 at 6:26 pm

Does Trig get to kick Paul Shaffer in the ass? Cause that would be awesome.

CessnaDriver June 30, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Letting those scum into the MOA is an insult to the spirit of Metropolitan Stadium.

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 10:07 pm

Hubert would shit his pants.

Pres[EXTERMINATE!!] June 30, 2011 at 6:36 pm

The rules ensure that you have to buy a Mini-Grifter book to get an autograph from Mama Grifter…

You must have a copy of “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far” in order to purchase a copy of “America by Heart” and/or “Going Rogue” signed by Sarah Palin. Limit 4 books per guest.

toxicorange June 30, 2011 at 6:51 pm

No one came because Bristol's story hit too close to home.

ChessieNefercat June 30, 2011 at 6:58 pm

So they had little Tripp, the Bristol/Levi spawn with them? How lovely for him to listen to his whorish mother happily tell her mouth-breathing fans how much she hates his father.

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:18 pm

She has the runs?

zhubajie June 30, 2011 at 7:32 pm

Isn't someone in the brood going to run away, allege abuse or molestation or something, then write a scurrilous memoir?

__kth__ June 30, 2011 at 8:12 pm

"She never said she could see Russia from her house! She only said that sharing a strait with a nearly uninhabited part of the former Soviet Union qualifies as foreign policy expertise! Lieberals are so unfair!"

Barrelhse June 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm

Maybe Esquire could work on that one.

rocktonsam June 30, 2011 at 10:43 pm

speech sayin $he$ leavin public life to $pend more time with her family on the who gives a fuck about you channel in 5,4,3,…

Negropolis June 30, 2011 at 11:33 pm

I see she didn't have the guts to visit the Real Minnesota, you know, the actual cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

OldRedneck July 1, 2011 at 12:25 am

Reminds me of these memorable lines from "Tombstone:"

Curly Bill: Well… bye.
Johnny Ringo: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 7:44 am

Who says Wonkette never has uplifting articles?

Dr_pangloss July 1, 2011 at 9:18 am

Sarah Palin next seen lining her children up for Children's Crusade II to retake the holy land, for Jesus. Donate Now!

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 11:57 am

*inhales deeply*
Ahhhhhhh…
Smells like schaedenfreude…
And fail…
And comeuppance.

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm

Hey guys, Sarah was actually the victim this time! Had to happen eventually.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Serves them right for hiring Artie Fufkin to do their event publicity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5FwzRBc_Y&fe...

"Do me a favor, kick my ass."

comrad_darkness July 1, 2011 at 12:31 pm

I just had a thought. What if Sarah is naive enough to take another huge advance from the publisher and then spend it on stupid shit. Should could end up dead broke.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:32 pm

Needz moar dancing midget leprechauns.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 12:51 pm

"Palin has also dropped down to single digits among likely voters in a new Fox News poll"

Fortunately, the wimmenzfolk in that fambly are pretty used to poles by now.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm

I think everybody has pretty much gotten their nickel's worth of "Bristle with her clothes off" by now.

Arken July 1, 2011 at 2:31 pm

A long time obviously.

fitley July 1, 2011 at 11:31 pm

If I bought "The Chin's" book I would insist that Trigg sign it too. I'd settle for a footprint even.

translegalhistorian July 2, 2011 at 10:43 am

Wow. This incident of a mall populace exhibiting sanity might have been what it would have taken for Bill Hicks to say something nice about a mall.

carlgt1 July 2, 2011 at 3:58 pm

why does every Palin commitment end up with the word "half"?

Biel_ze_Bubba July 6, 2011 at 3:58 pm

Wine coolers, for sure.

freddymcmurray July 7, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Boner cream. Er, anti-boner cream, I mean.

tessiee July 1, 2011 at 10:44 am

The slightly more PG-friendly version of that maxim that I heard is "Never sleep with anybody crazier than yourself".
Fortunately or unfortunately, I'm just crazy enough to think that that narrows the field too much to bother with.

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