Luxury Bad
I can’t wait to see what happens when they find out about Gore’s boat. TPM sees red over Palin’s tanning bed:
On the campaign trail, Sarah Palin likes to brag about how she put the Alaska state jet on eBay and fired the governor’s personal chef. One item that doesn’t appear in her stump speech, however, is the personal tanning bed Palin had installed in the governor’s mansion.
This morning NarcoNews reported that that a tanning bed had been installed in the governor’s official residence in 2007, sourcing a Department of Transportation employee familiar with renovations at the mansion. This evening, Politico’s Ben Smith reported that Palin had paid for the tanning bed with her own money.
Now, Palin’s own gubernatorial spokesman Bill McCallister has confirmed to TPMmuckraker that a tanning bed had been installed in the governor’s official residence in 2007, and that it wasn’t paid for with state funds.
“She paid for it herself,” McCallister told TPMmuckraker. “It was surplus from a local athletic club.”
The news of Palin’s luxurious purchase — beds can cost as much as $35,000 — presents a sharp contrast to the blue-collar persona she projects on the campaign trail.
Yeah, but according to this site, most of them a lot less, between $1,000 and $4,000. Anyway, it’s her money.* Someone tell TPM it’s dark half the year up there. There’s that seasonal affective disorder thing, maybe the tanning bed cheers the governor up. Imagine how much book banning and teen-mom-program slashing she’d be doing if she was in bad mood. There are Microsoft workers who swear by their sunlamps … subsidized by your computer’s browser … and those whiners are nearly a thousand miles south in sunny Seattle. OK, rainy Seattle, whatever, it might as well be the tropics.
Us maggie’s all over it now. Hey, they need to find art that looks tanneder:
Same thing with tan-scandal-breaking Narco News, the drug legalization advocates who are so worked up about cancer. The woman is trending dangerously wan in their shot.
Malkin: PDS Alert
Related, not so different. Gateway: La Oprah won’t have Palin on. La Oprah will not be a platform for pols.
* Couldn’t just get herself a 100-foot bio-solar houseboat, could she? Nooooooo. In fairness, Al Gore’s already saved the world and prevented untold strife, hence the Nobel Peace Prize. Palin, meanwhile, is out there declaring war on Russia. You know, if she had more experience, maybe she could get a sleazeball slumlord to flip her a mansion of her own to put that tanning bed in.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:30 pm on Monday, September 15, 2008
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September 15th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I laughed when I saw the story at Memeorandum.
Obama voted 4 times against saving babies from infanticide, and his first act upon taking office would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, reauthorizing partial-birth abortions.
And all these fools can get up about is a tanning bed?
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September 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
The stupid thing is, sun lamps and tanning beds are for personal health in Alaska, where the sun doesn’t shine all year around. I spent a year in Alaska, and I had to deal with the problem myself. Fun it ain’t.
Stick these complaining bozos in near to total darkness for months on end, without some artificial sunlight, and they will be even battier than they are now.