2008
Sarah Palin Is a Dirty Liar
Sarah Palin claims she’s a Seahawks fan and a member of the team’s Seahawker Fan Club.
But Palin also told a columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that she:
adopted the Pittsburgh Steelers because of the team’s success in the 1970s and because there are no major professional teams in her state.
A real Seahawks would never support the Steelers after they stole the Super Bowl from the ‘Hawks in 2006.
What else is Sarah Palin lying about?
Comments (21)
More sports pandering to Penn by the McCain-Palin ticket, McCain did that same bullshit, changing his story about naming Packers linemen while a prisoner, to Steelers linemen when he is in Pennsylvania.
Posted by vooodooo84 | September 15, 2008 12:31 PMseattle is alaska's mecca. disloyalty to such an institution...tch tch. to me she's just another family from outside posing that they are alaska.
Posted by Jiberish | September 15, 2008 12:33 PMi was so going to vote for her until i learned this.
Posted by max solomon | September 15, 2008 12:35 PMwe got pimp slapped by the niners. =(
where was that d in overtime?
Posted by SeMe | September 15, 2008 12:38 PMWhy are you using the old logo?
Posted by DOUG. | September 15, 2008 12:38 PMI wasn't going to vote for her until I learned this.
Posted by Mr. Poe | September 15, 2008 12:38 PMWell, that almost makes her likable. The seagulls suck.
Posted by A Non Imus | September 15, 2008 12:48 PMWhere's my hat tip for mentioning this four days ago?
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/sarah_palin_is_a_seahawks_fan
Posted by Jason Josephes | September 15, 2008 12:54 PMOh please. If the Seahawks were SO great, they would have been better yesterday! That was SO two years ago- GET over it!
Posted by CattyMaran | September 15, 2008 12:55 PMYesterday- Steelers won!
Seahawks lost!
No ref. to blame it on, folks, they're just a better team!
Here's You Tube about McCain's Steelers lie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5bTBhFs9r8
Here's the original lie:
http://kdka.com/politics/Republican.John.McCain.2.767089.html
Posted by Ms. Yinzer | September 15, 2008 1:02 PMThese things will not play out well in the Steel City. You may be able to lie about a bridge from nowhere, but you don't mess with the "Stillers".
Listen, I know math is hard, but the Steelers won by 11 points, not 7. Care to discuss that one time when Willie Parker smoked your entire D line? Or that neat little gadget play that completely caught them off guard?
It's been 2 1/2 years. You lost to the better team. Get over it.
Posted by BR | September 15, 2008 1:03 PMI think this has more to do with the fact that PA is a big swing state. WA not so much...
Posted by MEC | September 15, 2008 1:04 PMAs a Browns fan - and a Hawks fan - that's an extra nail in the coffin.
It was nailed shut long ago, but now that the hockey mom has come out as a Steeler fan, well...words cannot express my deep disgust!
Posted by Hal | September 15, 2008 1:04 PMJonah --
If you'd 'Shopped in a tear on the Seahawk's eye you'd have had Slog gold. As it is, she's still a panderer. Can they revoke her membership?
Posted by Al | September 15, 2008 1:21 PMThank you for using the real logo. The new angry one sucks.
Posted by 474N | September 15, 2008 1:28 PM"What else is Sarah Palin lying about?"
oh, just everything. that's all. why do you ask?
Posted by nicole | September 15, 2008 1:31 PMAren't all fans of big time sports outright begging to be dicked around? Well?
Posted by elenchos | September 15, 2008 1:46 PMPandering like that doesn't work in Pennsy. Rendell has been elected Gov. twice and he's a dyed in the wool Eagles fan not one of those govs who switches hats when it's politically expedient depending on where he is in the state.
Go Birds! Cowboys suck!
Posted by PA Native | September 15, 2008 1:51 PMGetting caught lying about something trivial but emotionally resonant like which football team you support might actually gain some traction with independent voters. Someone needs to call her out on it. Since you'll never get a chance to ask her a question, an ad featuring "she even lied about what football team she roots for" might be a game-breaking play.
Posted by Fnarf | September 15, 2008 3:04 PMWe won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November !! Go Hillary 2012 !!
Posted by clintonsarmy | September 15, 2008 3:10 PM@18 - yeah, but you're talking about the eastern part of the state. Western PA, especially southwestern PA, is a whole 'nother ballgame (so to speak). There are some Steeler fans there who are rabid enough and shallow enough that, if they were undecided, her declaration could be enough to sway their vote. I'm not proud of that fact about my hometown, but I have to acknowledge it.
The only place I've seen more mindless, rabid fans are in the states that have SEC college football teams. When I was in Alabama working during Gustav, I saw two people at a gas station almost come to blows because one was wearing Auburn gear in Alabama territory. In Baton Rouge, people start tailgating on Thursday for a Saturday night game. During the second week following Gustav, people were more concerned about whether the North Texas game would have to be played in Texas than they were about when schools would reopen, and a bunch of students and other random people volunteered entire days to clean up around Tiger Stadium so it could be played in BR.
It's a sickness, really.
Posted by Sheryl | September 15, 2008 5:43 PMComments Closed
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