Sarah Palin

I Just Became Vegetarian By Accident!

For one meal only, but still, it was alluring and educational. See, I dropped by some Indian dive in the West 20s for a quickie lunch the other day and ordered the $6.99 special, which involved three roti, two vegetables, soup, rice, and condiments. For some reason, I thought roti were balls of ta ... More >>

The Amazing Wisdoms Of The Homeless Man On My Corner

No, he's not the person in the above image. He's camera-shy--and in fact told me he'd like to only go by the appellation "H.G." As in Homeless Guy. And he's got some great things to say. To wit: "If you're happily married, then you're not doing it right."

Leave It to Palin to Brighten Up Your Saturday with Dogs and Cocaine

It's been almost four years since Sarah Palin made her way onto the national stage at the Republican National Convention. But, since the defeat of her and McCain in the election, we have been gifted with the constant recurrences of the Alaskan personality. Yes, we DVR'ed Game Change, too.At fir ... More >>

Julianne Moore Has Been Offered The Mother Role In The Carrie Remake!

Fresh off playing Sarah Palin, Julianne Moore has been offered the role of another crazed fanatic--Margaret White, the title character's bible-thumping mom in Carrie, the Kimberly Peirce-directed redo of the 1976 classic based on the Stephen King book. That's the one about the outcast who learns "i ... More >>

The Last Half Hour Of Cabin In The Woods Was...

Perhaps the grossest thing I've seen since Sarah Palin's candidacy. The horror thriller's final 30 minutes are packed with blood, guts, mucous, noise, banging, screaming, flying objects, and more blood. Some might take this as a warning, but the vast majority of filmgoers will probably see it as a ... More >>

Things Sarah Palin Didn't Know! A Scary List!

I don't have room to print all of them. Even though the Internet is infinite, my fingers would eventually give out at a certain point. So let's just name the things Sarah Palin didn't know according to HBO's Game Change, the riveting film which has been running over and over again to drill her clu ... More >>

Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin: The Early Buzz

Next month, HBO will start airing Game Change, starring Julianne Moore as vice-presidential-wannabe-turned-reality-star Sarah Palin, and it's too early for reviews, but some buzz is already filtering out like horny moose on the tundra.

Halloween Is On A Monday This Year!

​And that's even more of a nightmare than the day is supposed to be! It means that, after an entire weekend of dressing like Sarah Palin and scaring little children while untangling yourself from all the cheap faux spiderwebs from all those house parties you crashed in hopes of finding an app ... More >>

Sarah Palin Had a 'Fetish' for Black Men, Once Snorted Coke Off an Oil Drum, Says Enquirer

​Joe McGinniss' highly anticipated tell-all about Sarah Palin, which you will want to be buying after this -- it's out September 20 -- may actually merit all that anticipation. According to the National Enquirer, which seems to have gotten ahold of a galley of (or some savvy publishing sources ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate the Unprecedented Success of Sarah Palin's (10-Theater) Movie Opening

The Republican 2012 Presidential race, which has given us so much pleasure, remains in flux. Mitt Romney holds a lead, but is unacceptable to "the base" because he once tried to help uninsured sick people; thus, various fringe candidates compete ferociously (and that is the right word) for the right ... More >>

Sarah Palin, Flawless, in The Undefeated

Sarah Palin Emails: The (Not-So) Greatest Hits

​This afternoon gives new meaning to the term "news dump," as six boxes containing 24,199 printed pages of emails -- weighing 250 pounds -- from Sarah Palin's half-term as governor of Alaska become part of the public record. For each publication that filed the necessary open law records paperw ... More >>

Fox News Uses Image of Tina Fey Playing Sarah Palin for Sarah Palin Story

​Hoo, hoo, Fox News is so funny! Instead of using an image of the actual Sarah Palin in their news report about how Palin was "50/50″ on running for president in 2012, they used a picture of Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. We presume this was an accident. In other Sarah ... More >>

Sarah Palin Denies Flubbing Paul Revere Story

​Remember how Sarah Palin has absolutely no idea what that Paul Revere guy did back in the Civil War or whatever? He didn't shoot guns or ring bells, contrary to Palin's opinion. But she's sticking to her guns. Palin appeared on Fox News this morning to defend her historical accuracy, saying "I di ... More >>

Sarah Palin Gets Goosebumps From Ellis Island, Eats Pizza With Knife and Fork

​Last night Sarah Palin met Mr. Donald Trump for dinner at Famous Famiglia's in Times Square, where the two -- horror of horrors -- ate their pepperoni pizza with a knife and fork (a knife and fork!). Today, Palin has continued in her authentic experience of our great city by touring Ellis and ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Emails as Governor Coming Soon; New York Times Read Goldman Sachs Emails

​Maybe this really is the age of WikiLeaks. Transparency, hacks and secrets of all stripes are currently getting big play in media news, ranging from the travails of Anthony Weiner's penis to shady New York Times snooping and the Freedom of Information Act at work. We've seen the latter in the ... More >>

Sarah Palin and Donald Trump Will Dine Together in NYC Tonight

​Sarah Palin's top-secret bus tour will include a stop in New York City tonight, where she'll visit her friend and fellow Republican/reality TV-star Donald Trump at his apartment in Trump Tower before heading out for dinner with the onetime possible rumored presidential contender. Ah, to be a ... More >>

Roger Ailes of Fox News Thinks Sarah Palin Is a 'Stupid...Idiot...Loose Cannon,' ...or 'Smart'

​The cover of New York magazine this week features another Fox News/Republican party exposé from reporter Gabriel Sherman (see also: "Chasing Fox," Sarah Palin), this time focusing on the network's boss Roger Ailes, who never fails to make an interesting (and infuriating) subject with his pro ... More >>

Common Goes To The White House: In Which Okayplayer Hater Sarah Palin Gets A-Moralizing

​In case you haven't been paying attention to Sarah Palin's antics lately (in which case: good for you), she recently got mad on the Facebook and the Twitters about noted rapper Common Sense performing at a White House poetry event. Like everything Palin says, this is gross and wrong. She appa ... More >>

Trig Palin 'Retarded' Post Removed From Wonkette; Outrage Chases Away Advertisers

Mad Mom​Trig's Crew is really freaking pissed. Yesterday we noted the growing outrage directed at the very often hilarious politics blog Wonkette and writer Jack Stuef, who perhaps took it too far when he wrote a relentlessly mean, but still satirical post about Sarah Palin's son Trig, born wi ... More >>

Sarah Palin Was Known As "Sarah Barracuda"

​ Hey, maybe she still is, for all I know. Anyway, that's one of the revelations in the E! True Hollywood Story about the former Alaska Governor, airing on April 21 at 10 PM ET/PT. Here are the juiciest quotes the show culled from various experts who've observed the scary lady in action. *A ... More >>

Independents Think Charlie Sheen Would Be a Better President Than Sarah Palin

​Charlie Sheen or Sarah Palin? Charlie Sheen or Sarah Palin? Apparently we are not the only people struggling with the difficult question of which of those two incredibly qualified, sane, intelligent, politically savvy personas we would elect president. Thankfully, there has been a poll, and w ... More >>

Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin!

​Sarah Palin was the wrong choice for Vice President in 2008, but Julianne Moore seems like the right choice to play Palin in Game Change, the HBO movie that will cover the sweep and drama of that particular historic election. Yes, I know, Tina Fey already nailed the role, but no doubt this f ... More >>

I Went a Whole Month Without Writing About Sarah Palin: It Was Easy and Awesome!

​Charlie Sheen is basically Sarah Palin. (For one, they're both way more famous since becoming sort of unemployed.) That's why, feeling complicit as a writer on the internet in the national obsession with Palin -- who Sheen is temporarily the new, more pure version of (in a drug sense) -- I de ... More >>

Sarah Palin Getting the Silent Treatment For February

​By one man at least: Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used his column space at the end of last week as an opportunity for mild self-flagellation, admitting that since the 2008 election, he has written about Sarah Palin in 42 column and in "dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radi ... More >>

Let's All Get Behind Sarah Palin!

​Not literally. That sounds mildly dirty. Just as supporters. If we can rally around the whack job and help her get the Republican nomination in 2012, then we're totally safe for four more years! She'll lose!

Joan Rivers: My Palin Jokes Cost Me A Fox News Booking

​My favorite comic, Joan Rivers, recently joked that Sarah Palin should go to another planet and get out of our faces, and that people are right to blame her for the Arizona shootings because "she's stupid and a threat." Next thing you know, Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends show cancelled h ... More >>

The Other Potential 2012 Presidential Candidates Clear Sarah Palin's Hurdle

​While Sarah Palin bemoaned the state of public discourse as it flew from sorrow and mourning to finger-pointing, the nation itself grabbed a popcorn bucket and sat back while she attempted a curious, teleprompted defense. Some commentators are questioning what effect her bloody awful choice o ... More >>

Watch Sarah Palin Breathe As Art

Proof she is not a robot, or: nightmare. Both? Digital editing trio Wreck & Salvage have put together this bonkers clip of Sarah Palin's breaths during yesterday's controversial "blood lust" speech on Jared Loughner's Arizona shooting. Remix culture, guerrilla art, viral video -- whatever it means t ... More >>

Sarah Palin is Now the Face of the Arizona Shooting and a Victim of "Blood Libel"

Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.Six people were killed when Jared Loughner started shooting in Arizona on Saturday, while Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains hospitalized. Sara Palin was also a victim and she wants everyone to know. In her first public statement on t ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Moronic 'Blood Libel' Claim in Jared Loughner/Gabby Giffords Horror

​America's mainstream press is so polite, so scared. At least the overseas papers know when to call "bullshit" during coverage of the Jared Loughner saga. Sarah Palin's claim of being a victim of "blood libel" is so ludicrous as to defy belief. Or as Damian Thompson, blogs editor of the Telegraph ... More >>

Sarah Palin Pulls Video Amid "Blood Libel" Backlash? Plus, the Presidential Glow of a Fancy Teleprompter! (UPDATED)

​It quickly became the story of the day, just like she wanted, but then things got uglier. Sarah Palin appears to have pulled her video response to the Arizona shooting from the site Vimeo, which now shows zero clips under Palin's name. Palin's use of the term "blood libel," which usually refe ... More >>

Let's Give Sarah Palin a Break

​Just this time, OK? It would be very comforting to be able to blame Sarah Palin for the horrible Arizona shootings, but it would seem a little hypocritical since we always say you can't blame rock stars and their crazy songs for various teen tragedies that are often ascribed to them by right ... More >>

Sarah Palin: Master of Her Domain? Sounds Like Another 'Blood Libel'

Grab it while it's hot! The domain bloodlibel.com is available. (Check out the "related" searches--a bloody howl!) Master this domain before Sarah Palin does. Put yourself in the middle of the noisy, futile debate over Palin and the even crazier Jared Loughner.​

Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves

After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>

Critics Can't "Refudiate" the Evolution of English

And it's getting bigger!​Sarah Palin may actually be right for once! After people teased her about her freakish creation of the word "refudiate," she tweeted, "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Gov. Palin's efforts are part of the new ... More >>

The Dumbest Quotes of 2010

​"I am not a witch" - Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell, who is also not employed. "It may be a blessing in disguise" - Evangelist Pat Robertson on the Haiti earthquake that killed possibly more than 100,000 people.

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Sarah Palin's Publisher Suing Gawker: Are the Pageviews Worth the Price? (UPDATED)

​HarperCollins is suing Gawker Media for publishing excerpts of Sarah Palin's new autobiography, America by Heart, before its release date. On Thursday, Palin tweeted: "The publishing world is LEAKING out-of-context excerpts of my book w/out my permission? Isn't that illegal?" Gawker's respons ... More >>

Review: Sarah Palin's Alaska is "Special," Just Like Her Family

http://tlc.discovery.com/​The average American Sunday of many is something like: brunch, nap, football. This Sunday, however, might look a bit different, because now Sarah Palin might cross your channel-flipping path, hunting wild animals to kill in cold blood while she balances life as an Ala ... More >>

If It's President Palin in 2012, Will You Move to Canada?

​Tell me the truth: If the absolute worst-case scenario happens, all good sense is thrown to the tundra, and for some crazy reason Sarah Palin ends up in the White House in two years, will you end up in Saskatchewan?

Vanity Fair Reporter's Palin Misstep is Minor, Not "Yellow Journalism"

Never went to J-school​ In the middle of the week, Vanity Fair made the massive profile, "Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury," available online. Like anything related to the ex-governor and former vice presidential candidate, the article proved to be a lightning rod for for supporters and det ... More >>

Beware the Wanging Chad: Levi Johnston Officially Registers for Wasilla Mayoral Election

​It's a great day in politics when the public is accepting of no better a revenge plot than the one Levi Johnston is clearly putting forth at the expense of the Palin family by running for Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Trends: People Dressing as Animals for a Cause Are Creeping Us Out

Here is an actual mama grizzly. ​Tuesday Trend Watch! Here are two recent people-dressed-as-animals videos that disturb us in very different ways. In the first, "actual" mama grizzlies (who aren't actually mama grizzlies but actual moms dressed as not-really-actual bears employed by actual pol ... More >>

Sarah Palin Denies Teacher-Hating Eye-Roll, Tells "Left-Stream Media" to Stay Classy

​A video has been circulating today in which a local woman with an enormous Worst Governor Ever sign confronts Sarah Palin at the high-security filming of her Discovery Channel show in Homer, Alaska, about, basically, selling out. As you might expect, the conversation the clip captures is utte ... More >>

Sunday Evening Link Dump: Lindsay Lohan's Meth Addiction and Sarah Palin's "Cojones"

Needs more meth​• Lindsay Lohan will head straight from jail to rehab at Morningside Recovery for 90 days, in order to be treated for addiction and bipolar disorder. According to a source, "methamphetamine and opiates are her 'drugs of choice,'" which makes cocaine and alcohol feel really le ... More >>

Sarah Palin's New Book Makes Bold Political Statement With Flag Pin/Flag Bracelet Combo

She totally went there.​The ghost writers have howled, and the publishers have followed suit: Sarah Palin's new book cover for America By Heart has been revealed by Harper Collins, and now you can be well prepared to duck and cover from the inevitably oversaturated front racks at Barnes & Nobl ... More >>

Sarah Palin Pleas to "Peaceful Muslims," Needs a Better Twitter Editor

​It's almost not fun to harp on Sarah Palin's online foibles. It still is, though. Today, she took to her biggest soapbox, Twitter, to say insensitive, condescending things about Muslims. And with made-up words, no less. "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it d ... More >>

Will Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston Make It? We Calculate the Odds

​Since, as Us Weekly informed us all (including, apparently, Sarah Palin) yesterday, Levi Johnson has finally offered to make an honest woman of Bristol Palin -- and Bristol has accepted! -- we're been wondering: How does Levi's proposal fare in light of all of the impressive proposal efforts ... More >>