That's one nice "throw rug".
Posted on 08/30/2008 2:43:29 PM PDT by pissant
Sarah Palin posed for a photo spread in Vogue, but that's about as far as the glamour goes. She piles her hair up in a librarian's bun and wears what she calls "schoolmarm" glasses (one blogger compared her to "Tina Fey's sexier sister"). She was at one time a beauty queen, Miss Wasilla 1984, in her hometown, population: 7,000 or so. "We were really surprised when she wanted to do it," her father, Chuck, told the Vogue reporter. "That wasn't her thing." Basketball and hunting were more like it. Palin regretted the whole beauty pageant experience. "They made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn't believe it!" she told Vogue.
She tried being a sportscaster for a while, but ended up as a politician, or rather an anti-politician. She seemed to love to take on the good ole boys, to get in the face of the state's Republican political establishment and Big Oil, the two dominant forces in Alaska, at least until Palin came along. She smiles a lot and has a thick skin, laughing off reporters who write about her black go-go boots or leering bloggers, like the Washington, D.C.-based Wonkette, which dubbed her "the hottest governor in all 50 states."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
The throw rug on her couch is the skin of a grizzly bear shot by her father, a retired teacher turned "nuisance-control specialist" (varmint hunter for hire) whose pickup truck bears the sticker VEGETARIAN—OLD INDIAN WORD FOR "BAD HUNTER." (Palin herself is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association; for years, she or her husband caught all the fish or shot all the meat that her family eats.)
At the governor's mansion in Juneau, she got rid of the chef. The NEWSWEEK reporter asked her what working mother in her right mind would dismiss someone whose sole job was to cook for her family. She replied, "I don't want them thinking when I'm done being governor that it's normal to have a chef. It's OK for them to have macaroni and cheese."
ROFLMAO...HAHAHAHAHA, that's my new tagline. I love this woman's family.
Bump for later...it’s dinner time.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read this week!
Sarah has inspired a lot of new tag lines.
Great read! With Evan Thomas in charge of the liberal team of writers, there are a few obligatory hits on her. But she really comes through looking great.
Remarkable, coming from Newsweak.
The fact is, among other things, she’s a great subject for news writers to exploit. Which would you rather read, the adventures of Sarah Palin, bear hunter, or yet another piece of empty Obama worship?
[One of McCain’s closest advisers, Sen. Lindsay Graham, had been partial to Sen. Joe Lieberman]
Big surprise...not.
If it really was between Lieberman and Palin, then, I now know what it feels like to dodge a bullet.
Great article! I have a feeling that Jonathan Alter is pouting and giving Mr. Thomas the silent treatment.
Mooseburger?
You have NO IDEA how good they are! YUMMMMM!
Don’t I wish :)
I never ate beef till I was over 18. 10,000 wolves can’t be wrong, eat moose.
Most of it’s a very nice article. She sounds really neat, in fact! We already knew that, of course...
Yes indeed! I've been spoiled by 8 years of Dick Cheney, but when I think it might have been Lieberman, Palin's not so unpalatable.
LOL! Wouldn't be hard -- I'd been thinking the biggest challenge in debating Biden would be getting a word in edgewise! ;-)
Look at mine!
That's one nice "throw rug".
Good one!!!
Yeah, and Linsee wishes they were closer.
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