Sarah Palin related Halloween treat today
This afternoon, we took our friend Marie’s daughters Trick or Treating here in Boystown (they went as Hermione Granger (older girl), with the kindergartener dressed up as Crookshanks), where all the local merchants dressed up and passed out candy and there was a lovely Alice in Wonderland themed children’s party at Space Park on Roscoe, just off Halsted. The weather was brisk, but lovely, with lots of colored leaves bustling about and actors dressed like Wonderland characters running through the neighborhood bringing everyone to the park for fun.
Very well done.
Lots of great kids’ costumes, heavy on the Disney princesses for girls and the Star Wars clone troopers for the boys. Lots of adults following the Wonderland theme with many a Mad Hatter or Playing Card walking around.
We stopped for lunch afterwards at Nookie’s on Halsted and Buckingham, probably our favorite restaurant on Halsted — and it was packed today. The tables were close together and of course we couldn’t help overhearing what the people next to us were talking about.
That’s because we listen to other tables’ conversations in restaurants and always have our little notebooks ready to catch the interesting bits we like to share with you (“It’s called eavesdropping, bitches, and just admit you do it already,” says our friend Panda, who is not always wrong).
Well, the booth next to ours was a group of Boystown boys, who will all most likely be various shades of undressed tonight, being a relatively mild night for Halloween, which falls on a Saturday, which also coincides with the “clocks falling back an hour”, meaning it’s going to be all-out-nuts in Boystown this evening.
The guys were munching on carrots and cucumbers and no dressing, no sauce this and that, so undoubtedly they’ll be stuffed into Speedos with little room for a pulled pork sandwich or stack of pancakes in their bellies.
Because the girls were with us, and were talking about all the different kinds of candy they got today, we didn’t catch all of the conversation but our little ears shot up when we heard the guys talking about Sarah Palin…and Levi Johnston posing nude in Playgirl (or is that online for Playgirl, as the magazine doesn’t really exist anymore).
We braced for another round of Palin hate from low information fops, as is standard operating procedure in Boystown. Instead, we were treated to something unexpected that went something like this:
“Did you hear Levi’s posing nude in Playgirl and they say it’s going to be full frontal. He’s taking dick pics, totally.”
“You know what, I don’t like Sarah Palin, I don’t like any Republicans, but that kid is a jackass.”
“Do you see him on TV the other day. He’s a mouth breather. He sits there and just says, “Yah, that’s right” to whatever the reporter is asking him. Like Katie Couric or Don King or whomever. He just agrees with what they say, like, “Levi, did Sarah Palin call her son Trig, “That retarded baby?”, and Levi says, “Yah she said that”. It’s like he just puppets what they tell him to say.”
“Yah, and Sarah let him live with them and supported him because he has no job and his family are losers, and look how he thanks her. That kid is trash.”
“I totally want to see his dick, though.”
“Yah, me too.”
“Wonder if he’ll do Sean Cody next.”
“What else has he got to lose?”.
The guys clearly meant “Larry King”, not Don King, but you get the idea. And for those of you who don’t know, Sean Cody is a website featuring young amateur guys, who claim to be straight, doing all sorts of interesting things you can imagine. Several guys on that site ended up working at MiniBar and other places around Boystown, including a few of the gyms as personal trainers. “Sean Cody” is like saying “Xerox” for generically making copies, but in this case it’s “being naked for pay on a website”.
We have no doubt Levi Johnston will go gay for pay in a year or so. He has burned all his other bridges.
We can only hope he does this, too, because it will further remove him as a weapon to use against the Palins in 2012.
Hopefully, you can see what a big deal all of this is already…95% of Boystown hates Sarah Palin because few of these guys think for themselves, and most of them just parrot whatever Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Daily Kos, or Moveon.org tell them to say. The ones who read anything other than profiles on Manhunt might pick up The Advocate for their daily two-minute hate on Palin. Almost all of them regurgitate “things my friend who is smart told me”, all claiming Palin is the new Anita Bryant.
And, yet, something magical happened today…these guys actually, without knowing it, established a new boundary in their irrational hate.
Unlike Reagan, unlike Bush, unlike Gingrich, with Palin there’s consideration for her as a person, as a mom, as a grandmom, even if it’s totally subconscious and unacknowledged. Read what those guys said…they don’t like Palin, but they think Levi Johnston is a jackass for allowing himself to be used as a weapon against the woman who did so much for him. There’s a quiet, almost silent, empathy for Palin entwined in that.
These guys won’t vote for her. They’ll keep making fun of her, keep repeating things Tina Fey says about her, and will try to browbeat everyone they know not to vote for her in 2012…but there is a line there that the Left can’t cross with Palin.
There was no boundary with Bush. There remains none with Reagan. In Boystown, you could dress up as Bush or Reagan and have someone pretend to rape you in the street and people would cheer. As sick as that is, it’s true, and the twisted minds in Boystown could probably come up with a lot worse.
We don’t know what the boundary lines are with Palin, but the reaction to Johnston proves they exist – while also showing even low information fops know the MSM is behind the attacks on her, looking for patsies to use in their scripts, telling them what they need to say to damage Palin.
It’s impressive the Boystown crowd picked up on this.
Of course, abruptly, they moved on to talking about all the cute guys they saw out last night at Scarlet and MiniBar and how they were going to be 110% cuter than them tonight when they went out in THEIR costumes. We went back to eating our lunch and telling little Chloe and Kat about what Trick or Treating was like back in the 80s in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Rochester, where three of us grew up.
We finished lunch and walked outside to a gorgeous day remembering that last Halloween was the final day we spent in Chicago together before hitting the road and going to different states as DeMcCrats for McCain. There were a lot of Sarah Palins in costume last year…a lot of liberals who thought it was funny to dress up like her and be jackasses, to make fun of her.
We’re sure they’ll be some out this year too.
And the year after that, as well.
But, it’s nice seeing that there IS a line people won’t cross with her. A line that means there’s something special about Palin that no one else is talking about, that Reagan and Bush and others don’t have…something that could be a powerful weapon in her campaign in 2012.
Palin’s a regular, decent person and even her biggest haters in Boystown can’t deny that. We’ll write and think more about this in the future, but we just wanted to share the anecdote above with you — as we wonder if you, too, have had any experiences like the conversation we just accidentally on purpose overheard.
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Reverend Rabble Rouser has some great Halloween out in the country pics over at her web site.
http://rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/happy-halloween.html
So – for your enjoyment, I have the following photographs, sent to me by my cousin, who got them heaven-only-knows-where (somewhere on the internet). The headline of the emails was, “When Farm Kids Get Bored,” and who happen to be a bit creative (who knows if these were even done by kids?).
I was riveted by this piece, HB. Thank you for evincing a Halloween afternoon in Boystown. The girls are lucky to have you guys. And I’m cheered to hear that there’s actually an uncrossable line in the anti-Palin invective fest.
Luckily, no one in community has spoken a word about Sarah Palin; at least not in my midst. But then, I avoid political chatter like the plague, since I inadvertently plunked myself down in the middle of the Utopiaville district of Tucson.
Anyhow, thanks for this post. Enjoyed every word of it immensely!
*this* community
I think its the White House owned media that cares about Palin. They want to destroy her.
Most normal folk – vapid or not – could care less.
Except the Dem MSM keeps shoving it in our face, like Levi’s nudes and Octo-Mom!
and Jon Gosselin…what a jerk..
Thanks Stacee, I wanted to mention that, but I don’t follow most celebrity news so I couldn’t name him.
Breaking from Wicked Gay Blog.
http://wickedgayblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/breaking-levi-johnston-on-fence-about.html
Levi Johnston on the Fence About Playgirl Shoot
Also from that site….
Gee I didn’t know….
Bea Arthur leaves $300K to gay youth……
and….9 Steps to Casting A Good Spell….
Garlic -
We live up in one of the white liberal districts of Phoenix and I know what you mean about avoiding political mono-discussions. My husband had a job down your way for a while and we thought about moving there (figuring zipped lips was a fair trade for being out of LA east), but the company went chapter 7 a year ago and was among the vast majority who couldn’t get on the government tit. (No, not bitter, just vehemently anti welfare for business. Why the heck people wanted to vote money for Jerry Coangelo and Bill Bidwell still puzzles me.
Well I declare, do you suppose FLOTUS dressed up as a PUMA ? LOL, PBO dressed as a President, I think…..
Some WH party photos here and see for yourself:
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween-at-the-white-house/
Thanks Denise.
Do we dare peek?
I did!
Michelle is dressed as a PUMA!
She’s real unhappy with her beard!
happy halloween all. I enjoyed the evening. My grandkids came by to show me their costumes — I had “Alice” the “Mad Hatter” “Darth Vader” and a very small pirate. They were so cute……….
Is there any way to get through to the LOW INFORMATION FOPS about her?
Thanks for sharing that good news. Maybe there is hope for decency afterall. I am always brokenhearted what the media do to Sarah. No matter WHAT she does, they hate on her and try to paint her as a bad person. And it does remind me of the hopeless situation Hillary found herself in when Bill was caught in the impeachment crosshairs. She didn’t create the controversy, but she couldn’t avoid it either.
M-of-T…your post reminds me why so many PUMAs support Sarah Palin as well.
Sarah and Hillary are so real and empathetic because they faced heartache (and embarassment) and did what was best for their families. That tenacity transcends party lines…and goes to the type of leaders (and women) they are.
FWIW, I think Hill will ‘make here move’ soon. She is the only one talking tough about Pakistan…err “Pock-eeee-stahn” and she is the only will doing the heavy lifting in the Administration.
Thanks for reporting on this. Nice to know that even the haters have some decency. The only thing that gets me through the Levi eruptions is knowing that Sarah is tough as nails. She certainly does not deserve any of this. But in some ways it reminds me of what Hillary went through when Bill was in the impeachment crosshairs. She couldn’t do anything about it, and in the end, she emerged as even stronger, and more sympathetic than before. I pray the same thing happens to Sarah.
Sarah Palin just crushed criminal RINO Newt Gingrich and his fellow corrupt Republicans by causing their candidate, the radical Obama supporter Dede Scozzafava, to DROP OUT OF THE RACE IN TEARS leaving the door open for the true GOP candidate Doug Hoffman.
The criminal Gingrich has just crawled to the feet of Mrs. Palin with a last second endorsement of Hoffman, who should now win delivering a major blow to Obama.
THIS IS HUGE.
Write about Mrs. Palin’s great victory over corruption, and her big step forward in her attempt to take over the GOP!
This can’t be true. The MSM said she was too stupid to do this. (giggling as he types)(ahh, more wine! giggle giggle, chuckle chuckle).
Excellent commentary. I can’t believe they call Larry King, Don King and say things like “my friend who is smart said…”. Sorry but that spells “clueless bimbo”.
I hope the guy was good looking at least.
Thanks for your Halloween update. The rain stopped here late afternoon, and it was cold and still damp, but we still had well over 100 (120ish) kids (we usually top 200).
So many cute little ones; not as many teens and older kids. Polite, saying “trick or treat’ and thank yous!!! I was happy to get alot of those as I sat by my jack-o-lantern in the driveway (have alot of steps up the front of our house…and I sit down on the level so no one trips over their costume in the dark.) No political costumes (no Obamas, dang!); alot of Princesses; clone troopers; baseball players (kids wore summer uniforms–economy???) my fave was a ‘nerd’ who collected his candy in an old briefcase (he had pocket protectors and tape on fake black glasses; with pants too short and too tight…he was funny!)
I grew up in Pittsburgh too (but didn’t get to Trick or Treat much…lived in S. Oakland…not a ‘good’ neighborhood…alot of Section Housing 8. Even back then.
Friends I went to school with were ‘North of Forbes’ so they always had sweet Halloweens
Its funny, I read this today after going out for HaIloween last night. I really notice a lack of political costumes here as well. I live in West Hollywood, CA and Halloween here is a real event, they had 400 – 500 thousand people out on Santa Monica Blvd last night. Echoing this column, there were almost no politically themed costumes.
Halloween in Hollywood is great, it’s a huge crowd where you can stumble around drunk (like I used to) or push your 2 year old around in a stroller (like we did last night). Even in a crazy scene like that, its still the kind of place our two year old loved. You would see four drunk guys dressed like Marie Antoinette mugging for cameras, then spot our son and come over and coo over him. It was fun, we weren’t in costume and at one guy yelled “Look, they are dressed like straight people !!”.
Here is a link to a news report -
http://bit.ly/2AHwLW
In all of that, you would always see “Bush as Hitler” costumes in past years – a lot. Last night there was only one, a group of guys dressed like a “tea party” like rednecks with NASCAR caps with tea bags hanging off them, with signs that said things like “Youth in Asia Killed Grandma”. Kind of funny, but it was really telling that it was the only political theme in hundreds of thousands of people. It REALLY tells you the momentum isn’t with Dr Utopia – its with the Sarah Palin side.
Back during the election my best friend said Palin’s everything that’s wrong with America. It made me cry, because I see A LOT more of myself in Palin than I do in…oh, I don’t know, Michelle Obama.
To his credit, he quickly realized he crossed a line and changed the subject, but I don’t forget what he said.
Levi may not be aware that his frank and beans are about to be ogled by a bunch of guys.
Hey Levi. Playgirl magazine is purchased by gay men. Women don’t buy it.
Snort snort..
Watch the butt sots on this whore.
He took advantage of a 17 year old girl and didn’t use protection.
Now he has abandoned his child.
This will naked parade will backfire.
They kicked him out because he’s a radical lefty who comes from a druggie family.
He needs to change his name to “moonbeam”.
I hope lots of men send him fan mail.
This is going to be good. .snark