The National Enquirer: Palin Family Shockers: What Sarah's Really Hiding!

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER: PALIN FAMILY SHOCKERS: WHAT SARAH'S REALLY HIDING!

PALIN FAMILY SHOCKERS: WHAT SARAH'S REALLY HIDING!

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER’S exclusive ongoing investigation of GOP VP Nom Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin’s goes far beyond a mere teen pregnancy crisis this week!

The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Sarah's oldest son, Track, was addicted to the power drug OxyContin for nearly the past two years, snorting it, eating it, smoking it and even injecting it. And as Track, 19, heads to Iraq as part of the U.S. armed forces, Sarah and her husband Todd were powerless to stop his wild antics, detailed in the new issue of The ENQUIRER, which goes on sale today.

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Another family friend revealed pre-prego Bristol was as much of a hard partier as Track was.

“Bristol was a huge stoner and drinker. I’ve seen her smoke pot and get drunk and make out with so many guys. All the guys would brag that the just made out with Bristol.”

And the ENQUIRER also learned that Levi Johnston, the baby mamma’s future wedded dada, who was glad handed by John McCain at the GOP Convention, isn’t too happy about his impending shotgun nups either.

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Meanwhile, as members of the Palin family’s war viciously over “Trooper-Gate” and claims of Sarah’s extramarital affair have turned the political race into a chaotic arena of threats, denials and vicious attacks by political black ops, The ENQUIRER has discovered shocking new details about the red-hot affair scandal!

more (you decide if it is garbage) at:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_palin_family_shockers_what_sarahs_really_hiding/celebrity/65407

to take the car in for an oil change, so when I'm done, I'll just leave it there for any who want it...

Palin is an instant celebrity. She's a Disney system creation, like Britney or the Jonas Bros.

Palin's celebrity is designed to distract from McCain's objective weaknesses and to mobilize the Right-wing base. We can do little about the latter, but we need to recognize and deal with the power of celebrity.

At this point in the game, we're dealing with the 5-10% Undecided vote -- it's not about sweet reason and being nice, anymore. It's about celebrity scandal.

The Obama campaign needs to deal with Palin as celebrity by creating a stronger counter-spectacle - the celebrity scandal.

Villify her for what she obviously is -- a crazy End-Timer with loose personal morals.

Should we feel guilty?

Sorry, Republitards. if the National Enquirer's Right about Sarah Palin, It's Fair Game.
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 01:23:19 PM
What's fair for John Edwards should also be fair for Sarah Palin...

Glenn Beck just can't leave poor ol' John Edwards alone. Seems like every time I tune into the wing-nut lip-flapper, he's pummeling the Edwards stallion like the story of the pol's infidelity broke yesterday, bewailing how the MSM sat on the story while the National Enquirer spewed far and wide the tale of Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter, outing their suspected, but still unproven, love child. Yet, those mean old, liberal MSMers are all over Sarah Palin like maggots on week-old road kill.

Thing is, Becky's harping on the Edwards case, and the comparison to Palin, makes for a double-edged blade. That's because the National Enquirer floated a rumor having to do with Palin in the edition of the rag still on the stands, and it's likely not one Becky will be fond of, if it turns out to be true.

"Sarah Palin's Dark Secrets!" screams the header over a pic of Old Man McCain and Palin. In it, there's a quick rehash of Wootengate or Troopergate -- the scandal currently being investigated by an Alaska legislature-appointed legal beagle that features Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner Walter Monegan, reputedly because he wouldn't fire Palin's redneck in-law from the state troopers. The piece also alleges that Palin was frantically working to get her preggers daughter Bristol hitched to Bristol's baby-daddy Levi Johnston before news of the pregnancy popped in the press.

...more here
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2008/09/sorry_republicans_if_the_natio.php

Being up to their eyeballs in family strife doesn't disqualify them from wagging their fingers at liberals and claiming they all have "dysfunctional" families.

My Dad is a Freewill Baptist Evangelical Preacher, straight out of the Appalachian Mountains of SW VA. I am the only daughter and have 3 brothers. My Dad, was SOOOO strict on me, him being a preacher and all. I suppose that's because he was really afraid that I would get pregnant and embarrass him I suppose. Getting pregnant, back then especially, was a REALLY bad thing (It still is with these people).

Anyway, my point is, when you have these evangelicals being so strict on the kids, not teaching any sex education, only that getting "that way" (a SW VA term for pregnancy before wedlock, to this day), only makes a child rebel. I know I did. I wasn't allowed to watch TV (it was bad, and we didn't even know the word cable back then), couldn't go to the movies because of the "sin", couldn't got to high-school football games because you might run off and commit some kind of "sin", you name it, it was all "sin". So, as I said, I rebelled. I would sneak out my window at night, just so I could go out and do something with friends, I would drink just out of curiosity I suppose. I wanted to have fun, go and do things other kids were doing, so, I found a way to go about doing that. Being a evangelical preachers kid was not fun, was very stressful, and all I wanted was to turn 18 so I could get the heck out of the house and not have anyone control me. That's what it all was, CONTROL.

So, maybe, just maybe, if the Palin kids have been out partying and getting "that way", maybe it has something to do with their religion? Most kids from back then that I went to church with were just as wild as I was.

Lower 48 snob, here!

they think they can too. They just do it at a teenage level.

This is war!!

The Palin makeover of her family was ESSENTIAL to the McCain Campaign, and the truth likely explains why she is being withheld from questions by the Press.

If these allegations pan out, it is not a matter of if but when Palin's popularity takes a big hit.

Right now I think the McCain people are trying to run out the clock and keep things hidden until election day.

I seriously doubt there's much truth to any of it, but will the subsrcibers believe it? Probably.

JOHN EDWARD'S BABY.

They got this one right...and they nailed it completely. They have been digging on Palin and IMO they found dirt.

JMHO

on Earth many times and been interviewed by NE. ;)

Do you believe that?

"I seriously doubt there's much truth to any of it, but will the subsrcibers believe it? Probably."

The Pubbies have been trolling for votes from superficial gullible people who listen to their BS without thinking about it or fact-checking it against reality. Well, that also describes the target audience for National Enquirer scandal-mongering.

Live by the sword; die by the sword.

...and I, myself, once lived in a mobile home park; these guys are looking awfully familiar! :-) Add a little meth to this and you have my former neighbors!

Otherwise... pfffft.

to just make shit up about your opponent and smear him with it and then when confronted with the bullshit value of the attack, just move right on to the next smear. That never works.

Moreso than the so-called Mainstream Media.

If you're looking for photos or video of the occurrences, then you've got a long wait

I'll put my money with the Enquirer, rather than the puff pieces that are floating around the corporate media.

M$M though not *THAT* new, doesn't have the experience covering this sort of crap back in the days that tabloid journalism was confined to grocery checkout stands. So, National Enquirer probably knows a bit better what they can cover and not push too far so as to get sued to put them out of business. Now the M$M might get sued for worse missteps, but they have a bigger piggy bank to take money out to cover their losses than the smaller tabloid media outfits.

meanwhile McAsshole is all upset big time over Obama's lipstick on a pig or pitbull, oh wait that was palin who said that, remark, and running an ad claiming Obama wants to give the sexed to preschoolers before they get the readin-ritin-rithmatics. McAsshole's VP wants to get rid of the sexed entirely and impose her abstinence bullshit on all of our children, but we cannot talk about what a mess her fambly is with all of her fundaloon fambly values 'cause that would be wrong.

No. We cannot go there.

checking the truth of their stories. They may build them up a bit, but essentiall they are true because they have been sued so much. Remember the Edwards story? Enquirer broke it, no one believed it.

The National Enquirer gets stories that other people don't because they offer wads of cash to drivers, cleaning people, secretaries, etc. Its been said that the janitors are ones who really know what is going on.

The Enquirer also is a big business. They would have a great deal to lose from printing lies.

I heard one time that the tabloids like to keep parts of their stories in reserve. If a person threatens to sue them for libel, they put out the additional information and threaten to print that.

That's not an admonishment of you for posting this (I had been wondering what had happened with the NE's "Edwards team").

But I'm pretty sick of all things Palin right now.

will override good parenting. I'm sure that all of us know families, maybe even our own, where teens engaged in some pretty reckless behavior even though it went against all the teachings, family values and good examples that they had grown up with.

foundation is Firm, what they have learned through their parents deeds and not words, the rebelliousness doesn't have to be as extreme as being outlined about Palin's kids. If she thinks she is above the law, her children will feel exactly the same.

As I said, she is being Marketed as a Super Mom and that Fantasy has to be exposed if there is anything there for exposing.

If people voted based on "the issues," the polls would be 90-10 Obama right now.

If National Enquirer can do it, then :party:

...after all, IMO, it is the LIVs who are going for McBush and Palin and who seem to have turned the tide as of late. If anything is gonna get to them, it is something they most likely read all the time ~~ and this would be one rag IMO that would be a staple in most of the LIV homes.

JMHO

It's a believable rag now!

maybe I'll go buy my first copy :)

I'm just glad its out there.

Everyone who stands in a check out line will at least see the headlines.

HOUSEWIVES!!!! The ones the media are always claiming to be SOOOOOOOOOO in love with her!

I'm surprised the kids are as well behaved as they are.

I don't need the national enquirer to tell me that Levi Johnston isn't happy about his future shotgun wedding. It was all over his face at the convention. He was very visibly uncomfortable with the whole dog and pony show.

When Sarah found out the teen was pregnant by high schooler Levi Johnston, she was actually banished from the house. As part of the cover-up, Palin quickly transferred Bristol to another high school and made her move in with Sarah’s sister Heather 25 miles away!

http://www.nationalenquirer.co.....rity/65407

square that with what Palin's said about Bristol:

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,”

It doesn't actually matter whether they
live in a trailer or not.

works against the truth.

:spray:

Republican attack machine pounding on the door screaming "Libel Law Suit"... The NE does not always win their Libel law suits but you can bet that if anyone knows libel law its is the lawyers for NE. They must think they have enough to hold the Republicans at bay.

I don't subscribe to rumor and sensationalism, but even after that added to the Edwards thing...I mean I can't throw away what they say as false.

it was true and that intended malice by publishing it. Of course they win most of their suits.

Her teenage kids, I mean.

I sure as hell can say that when he was a teen, the Palin kiddos are who I would have warned him about. And about Bristol? I would have gone out and bought the condoms for him myself if I thought he was anywhere near her.

JMHO

Accckkkkkkkk!!!!!

This is the role model family? Sorry to hear about the kids issues though. Really tough to here since they were probably trying to find something that was lacking at home. I feel that Sarah Palin is a barracuda in all areas of her life. Her lack of stewardship of the environment and aerial killing of wolves and bears to help keep the caribou and moose for the high rolling hunters is one example of her ruthlessness! I am not impressed with her at all as one mother to another! Best of luck to her kids in their futures.

"The best hard news on the planet"
Such a sad day that the most accurate and investigative reporting comes from Jon Stewart and The Enquirer.
What a bizarre and fucked up nation we are living in!

but HAD to post it
see what sticks?

peace, kp

I'm not above it.

1) John Edwards

2) "Place a classified ad in the National Enquirer. This weekly tabloid has excellent circulation at 2,760,000." (from their website)

if the pitbulls at NE are on a live story, they WILL FIND something...

Whenever they have had judgements against them, they ended up making more back in increased sales than they had to pay out.

You're thinking of the Weekly World News. It's the classic pulp black-and-white rag which provides entertainment for general audiences.





The National Enquirer has much higher journalistic standards. It's printed in color and mainly aimed at female audiences, and specializes in exploitation and reinforcement of female stereotypes.

i am a victim of short-term checkout-aisle memory loss...

You're confusing that paper with other tabloids at the checkout stand.

Perhaps because I just officiated at a funeral service for someone who OD'd on OxC. I wonder how I would have turned out in that family environment.

If the NE can stay away from connecting space aliens to palin they just might help
carry Obama to victory lane with these hard hitting reports on the issues.

claiming to be the father? You know, the "black" kid... Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

And I'm absolutely PISSED this woman is going to tell the rest of the country how to raise our children AND make choices for our bodies.

Great rethug values there!

And YES - if Palin is going to parade her family around, touting her 'family values', then absolutely they're fair game.

I'm making the sexist assumption that mostly women read NE. My grandmother loved to read it. Maybe it will get around the retirement home set. So did Palin have a negative or positive effect for McCain in the older crowd? Are the retirees buying her kool aid?

I'm making the sexist assumption that mostly women read NE.

There is nothing sexist about your assumption at all. I'd call it an observation.

The National Enquirer's stock in trade has always been the reinforcement and exploitation of stereotypes about women, which are embraced IMO most strongly by a (very large) subset of women than they are by men.

Whatever the ultimate effect on the vote, the NE is likely to realize their real intention in publishing this salacious stuff, which is to sell more papers.

Q: Does the use of drugs or alcohol in a parent before or during pregnancy cause children to have Down syndrome?
A: No. Down syndrome occurs at conception, so nothing in the pregnancy can cause Down syndrome to occur. As for prior to conception, the research all shows that drug or alcohol use does not increase the risk of having a child with DS.

http://www.ds-health.com/faq.htm

She wants to destroy the country. Paybacks are only fair.

It may be untrue and unfair, but too bad. Deal with it.

Remember Brendan Behan's famous quote:

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."

The NE is giving the Republican ticket free advertising. Its target audience, basically middle-class stay-at-home moms, tend to vote less often than many other demographic groups. This issue of NE could motivate more of them to register and vote, and it's a crapshoot who they will vote for.

:eyes:

Maybe I will buy the NE.

The shit that keeps piling up about that family is starting to get surreal.

:rofl: :popcorn:

here is no more and no less that what untold thousands of families face on a daily basis. I don't think I would be wrong if I guessed that many DU families have found themselves in similar situations. It has nothing to do with politics and shouldn't be used as a campaign tool.

But if Palin - ends up the potential Commander and Chief of the strongest military power in the history of the world - someone who believes that we are living in the "end of times" and America is mandated by God to lead the Battle of Armageddon -countless children and families will be facing a far greater threat then some nasty rumors from tabloid scandal sheets.

Just imagine the potential consequences of such a person controlling the launch codes of the world's largest nuclear arsenal - capable of obliterating the human race.

it figures it would sneak up on us...

forget Russia, North Korea, Iran/Israel, etc....

let's give a fundie whackjob the red phone, the keys to the briefcase, and the big red button...

Stanley Kubrick was WAY TOO GENEROUS in his take...

The children of the ruling class invariably grow up to become oppressors of the working class and social parasites.

She is the one who has made her own parenting an issue - even though we know kids sometimes do stuff despite having "good" parents, she can't get a pass on this. Imagine if it had been Chelsea Clinton, for God's sake - the Clintons would have been crucified!

have been crucified, but I don't think we can rationalize our bad behavior by holding their's up as an example.

" The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”

I'd say Track deserves whatever public exposure of his bad/criminal behavior that comes out. That's the difference between him and Chelsea Clinton. She did not engage in criminal behavior.

for Vice President of the United States on the platform of "small town values". Blame Sarah Palin not us I don't care how you spin if these rumors are true this women has some serious issues going on at home.

... so, it's a family tradition.

Track was supposedly born just shy of 8 months after Sarah and Todd eloped. Hasn't the right wing always trashed unwed mothers (while stressing abstinence and not giving them the tools they need to keep from getting pregnant) ... now, they're celebrating the preggers-before-marriage Palins!

Hypocrites hypocrites hypocrites. Den of vipers. With lipstick.

God why don't repubs get it that obama is the one with values?

I know the military had to lower their standards under Bush, but I'm still surprised they would accept an Oxycontin addict.

Both are against long-standing policies.

1. They may be sensationalist bottom feeders, but they are very heavily lawyered up and almost never lose a lawsuit. Anything that appears in it has been vetted by their legal staff. Why do you think they got some anthrax?

2. You have to go beyond the sensationalist headlines and read the actual article. Very often, when they don't have facts to back up their teaser headline, the actual article turns out to be pretty mild.

OPRAH'S SECRET AGONY!
Her best friend in the 6th grade didn't invite her to a birthday party.

BARACK'S AFFAIR THAT HAS MICHELLE WORRIED!
She doesn't care for some of his previous girlfriends.

We don't even need to bother the blogosphere with this stuff. Let the NE lay it all on the low information voter. That's how they earn their money.

That was a biggie.

About anything except selling papers.

usually would leave Rethugs alone.

They published the Bush as a drunk stuff but the MSM would not pick it up ~ until it took 5 men to hold him up in China and still MSM was mostly silent.

They had a big article on Hillary but thanks for our side, the MSM was silent as well.

If they keep it up like this they could be known as "fair and balanced" more than the "MSM."

Right, their goal was to sell papers, that is the goal of corporate owned MSM as well.

The Globe and The National Examiner have cover stories about Oprah and Michelle Obama being at war, and Obama's family secrets. So an interesting mix.

I don't know if there has ever been such a trashy family running for office. I think they're even worse than the Bush family. x(

nt

The publication of trashy trash about the trashy Palin family is likely (IMO) to endear "ordinary" people to them as to alienate them.

I predict the net effect of the NE article on the outcome of the election will be a wash. It probably won't be possible to prove whatever effect it has.

they're going after Biden's daughter

this isn't necessary; there's enough about Palin's sleazy political life to suffice

hey, DUers....leave those kids alone!

Yes, it can be abused - just as sugar, pay-per-view and Cheetos can be abused - but pot itself IS NOT BAD.

It saved my eyesight, as my medical tests have proven beyond doubt.

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At first I thought they got pulled (cuz the repubs have done that thru the corporations before), but there was one.. sad.. little copy left on one display. Now mind you, there were at least 8 to 10 displays in this market, and all gone but one mag.

Oh.. and the best thing is that the others "ladies" mags with Palin and her children-as-props were stocked to the max.

She is the gift that keeps on giving.

that she is!

They lie about everything. I will not all of a sudden, no matter how much I would like to, start believing them on this. It would be like suddenly believing what the Republicans say when they start talking bad about each other.

:thumbsup: :-)

Fold open to the appropriate page; read while waiting to get your hair done or see the doc, making comments like "I can't believe what a slut McCain picked, can you?" Or "this woman can't even control her own kids; how can we trust her to run the country?"

I said that all along: when it comes to this kind of trash-talk, we don't need to clutter up the DU board once the Enquirer has it in their sights.

DU and the Dems in general can go after Palin and McCain on policies and records.

Hekate

I think I love you (sung like the Partridge family!)

:yourock: