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Friday, December 19, 2008

2008 Wasilla Hillbillies

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:46 AM

A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation. Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance.

Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the Wasilla 18-year-old who received international attention in September when Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, announced their teenage daughter was pregnant and he was the father. Bristol Palin, 18, is due on Saturday, according to a recent interview with the governor's father, Chuck Heath.

Wasilla has become the other capital. Its opposite is Chicago, the current capital of the world.

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Oh Yeah? Well.....homos burned down Sarah's church!!!!

Posted by Retardlican on December 19, 2008 at 7:00 AM

Did those two ever get hitched, anyway? Or did that little craze die down as well?

Posted by Vasya on December 19, 2008 at 7:25 AM

The article doesn't say, but it's gotta be meth!

Posted by cracked on December 19, 2008 at 7:34 AM

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe...that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."-Sarah Palin

She must be so proud!!!

Posted by Rob on December 19, 2008 at 7:38 AM

weed or meth? Wasilla is known for both. Remember Matenuska Thunder Fuck or whhatever it was called?

Posted by Yardlie on December 19, 2008 at 7:47 AM

Well, the charges seem to indicate that it was either manufacturing or delivery of drugs. Of course, who knows whether that's the case or whether she just had a whole lot of drugs, but still.

I wonder whether this will be a story anywhere but the blogs? I’m sure it would have been during the campaign or if McCain/Palin had won.

Posted by Julie in Chicago on December 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM

One of the funniest parts: The article cited has had the on-line comments section disabled. Gee, I wonder why...

Posted by Dr_Awesome on December 19, 2008 at 8:16 AM

That's Main Street America right there!

Posted by Jessica on December 19, 2008 at 8:32 AM

I'm betting on meth.

Posted by pj on December 19, 2008 at 8:41 AM

Just goes to show that no one is safe from the drug war.

Posted by P to the J on December 19, 2008 at 8:54 AM

Sad. This could have been a plot line in Soderberg's Traffic.

Posted by CommonKnowledge on December 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM

Wal-Marts and meth labs: Small-town values, circa 2008.

Posted by flamingbanjo on December 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM

@4 Dead on. Great parenting going on in these small towns.

Posted by Fawxer on December 19, 2008 at 9:25 AM

Who's cool now? Yeah....you heard me....WHO'S COOL NOW MOTHA---

(The Guards! Flush that, cuz!)

Posted by Colton on December 19, 2008 at 9:34 AM

Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by Big Sven on December 19, 2008 at 9:42 AM

Chicago= Minas Tirith
Wisalia= Barad Dur

Posted by Big Sven on December 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM

o schadenfreude, why can't i quit you?

Posted by Max Solomon on December 19, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Who's going to host the Groom's dinner now?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM

She looks a little rough in her Anchorage Daily News photo, but I'd probably go home with her.

Posted by She's Looking Better, Every Beer on December 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM

my money's on meth. they don't call it 'manufacturing' when it's pot.

i love this story - of course it's sad, but so fucking irresistible

yeah that pic in the newspaper is pretty scary but it's the first time i've ever seen her. levi is sexxxy. the apple didn't fall so close to the tree that time.

this is too good to be true.

Posted by it's meth on December 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM

course - all big time Seattle and the cool kids has no meth prob ... that finger pointing is looking right back

this is strange pleasure at a working class mom with some drug fuck ups ... maybe life in prison ... esp. cause her son is a fucking very good looking horn dog stud at almost 20 ... another crime, cause she birthed him ... how how dare he enjoy getting laid at total ease and often without the Seattle hipsters permission ... the story of his teen love life should be a film ...

after all the sexal revolution did never extend to the frontiers of the know world, just north to Lynnwood...

reading this garble silly shit is like a bad cartoon of real people ... Ms. Johnson - get help - end enjoy your great kids ... Sarah CAN get you a good job ...

Brian, here from Anchorage

Posted by Brian on December 19, 2008 at 11:31 AM

mmmm There's notin' like Mom's cookin'

Posted by Levi on December 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Oh yeah and......

METH ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

Take that Seattle hipsters!

Brian, here from Anchorage

and Anchorage ROCKS TOO !!!!!!!!
WOOHOO!!!

Posted by Brian on December 19, 2008 at 11:53 AM

Uh...Brian,
Remember, this is the town that the Republican party put forward as morally superior and more American than the urban areas... I think we can agree that Wasilla isn't really our model vision of where we want civilization to go.

Yes, I do sort of feel sorry for mom in a weird way and the son. Maybe they never would have busted her if their lives hadn't intersected with the Palins and an expanded range of scrutiny that whirled in around them with the vp nod and the shotgun wedding story.

Posted by cracked on December 19, 2008 at 11:54 AM

P.S. Brian, you are right. The Johnstons (sp?) will have access to resources not available to others, if they are together enough to take advantage of them...

Posted by cracked on December 19, 2008 at 11:57 AM

Man, which grandmother will that kid be most ashamed of?

I'd have a hard time choosing, but I'd still go for Palin as the winner. For some reason, I doubt grandma #2 could muck up a sentence like Sarah no matter how much meth she was on.

Posted by Stoppin ze throwinze on December 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM

Guess who's coming to dinner?

Posted by eclexia on December 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM

What would vice-president Palin say?

Posted by elswinger on December 19, 2008 at 12:46 PM

@ 20 "Manufacturing" is indeed used in marijuana charges on occasion. Not sure what is on the books in Alaska. I am betting on Pot.

They do grow good weed in small towns, right?

Posted by Yardlie on December 19, 2008 at 1:02 PM