PDS Alert: Us Weekly and friends are at it again
Photoshop: David Lunde
Left-wing bloggers have unearthed a new, Deep Important Issue to wield against Sarah Palin:
The personal tanning bed she installed at the governor’s mansion in Alaska.
She bought the used tanning bed from a health club with her own money.
So, what is the point?
Oh, wait, there is none.
But it’s a great opportunity for Palin-haters to mock her looks again and for Obama cultist publisher Jann Wenner to use Us Weekly to bash Palin again:
Some of the nutroots haters seriously argue that Palin’s tanning bed is a sign of “elitism” akin to John Edwards’ $400 haircuts.
Here’s the TPM Muckraker blog clucking its tongue:
“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.”
Can they be more out of touch? Tanning beds have long been derided as “white trash” and “redneck.”
The “elitist” thing to do would have been for Sarah to have hired a personal umbrella carrier to shield her from the sun.
Next up: Us Weekly and company investigate the Sarah Palin’s eyebrow waxing appointments, Todd Palin’s beard grooming preferences, and the children’s dental hygiene habits.
America must know the truth!
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Allahpundit points out the health benefits of tanning beds non-Alaskans have ignored. Having lived in Seattle for more than three years, I know exactly what light deprivation does!
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On a related note, Us Weekly has now gone to Amazon.com for help in boosting its sagging circulation after its Palin-bashing debacle. (Guess the five-free issue offer from the rag’s customer service department flopped.)
A reader sends the e-mail notice he received yesterday from Amazon.com.
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Tanning beds arent for just white trash! But they will make your skin look like a catchers mitt down the road!
Maybe because they’re running the only serious campaign in town.
Oh, that would be a disaster for her. All they would need to do is pull up that old “cartoon” from England in the 1770s, with the parasol slave, and then accuse her of wanting to bring back slavery. They don’t need to prove anything, just accusing her is enough, as proof.
I’m guessing that a majority of US Weekly readers use or have used a tanning bed.
Insulting your readers, check. Unhinged attacks against conservatives, check. Watching your profits go down the tubes, check.
Welcome to the MSM US Weekly.
Hey! I just ordered a DVD from Amazon and I didn’t get that “Special Offer” for the crap US Weekly! I feel cheated – I didn’t get my chance to email Amazon and cancel the order due to them being in bed with an outfit like those lie merchants for the left!
Oh well, maybe next time.
DCM
Are they suggesting Obama is more qualified because his tan is real ?
Speaking with my psychologist hat on: Alaska’s geographic location means they have longer hours of dark in winter. One of the best ways to combat the effects of lots of hours of dark is – exposure to light sources. And tanning beds are a good way to do just that. (I actually had a student once from Alaska whose family did that too.)
Sarah needs to sell that thing. We don’t need two people on the ticket with skin cancer.
Exposure to ultraviolet light from tanning beds increases the bodies vitamin D production naturally. Used in moderation a very healthy thing to do. Avoid supplements when ever possible.
I too received the US offer from Amazon. I declined and replied back: “I will not subscribe to US. I am Sarah Palin.”
US doesn’t quite get it. Most people I know could give a rat’s patoot if she has a tanning bed. The important part is that she didn’t use taxpayer money to buy it.
My recommendation to my friends is to pick up the Weekly World News (not in stores anymore:( )if they want the news that really counts – or come to Michelle’s place, of course.
happy_mama @ 6:30
You beat me to it. It could be there to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Send this reported to Fairbanks for the month of January, then ask them about tanning beds.
As a random note, my mother bought a tanning bed. It cost her 2K, and was a bargain compared to driving to a tanning salon.
Now, imagine you’re in Alaska, where the sun isn’t always up in such a fashion that you can get a healthy tan. Salons probably make a fortune up there in the cities, and gouge the price like mad.
A tanning bed?
You nailed it, happy_mama!
Above the Arctic Circle, you start to approach the 6mo day/6mo night cycle, affecting mood and vitamin D production.
Maybe they can go after her for buying a winter coat too! Boots? Mittens? Long underwear?
Gosh! What will they think of next?
Palin Derangement Syndrome has turned into a psychosis.
I love the smell of utter Democrat fear in the morning (or afternoon, evening, night….)!!
Hey Dems!! Ever hear the expression “never let ‘em see you sweat?”
Any chance of US magazine doing a piece (pun intended) on Biden’s hair plugs? How about it, Wenner?
Obama – sinking like a rock.
Maybe it has something to do with NO sun for 6 mos. out of the year!
The Sarah Palin Phenomenon is doomed.
But it’s not because of her lack of foreign policy experience or her deer-in-the-headlights look during part of her interview last week with ABC’s Charles Gibson.
The primary reason why the Palin bubble will burst is that the media will decide that they are bored with her. They’ll need to move to shine a light on a fresh issue or individual.
So the media is in control now? Who writes this crap? How many bong hits do I have to take before I dare reach this level of writing mastery?
You may be onto something there. Recall a National Geographic article, before they turned PC on Siberia I think, and there was a photo of a group of children huddled aroung a UV light, the purpose of which was to use the UV light to stimulate/provide (??) which they would otherwise be deproved of due to the long winter: i.e., little to no sun.
Wow, has noone explained to these ingrates that Alaska doesn’t get the same degree of Sunlight as even Massachusets or NYC get? Wow what a bunch of idiots.
Ooops! Needed to put a comma between PC & Siberia.
Perhaps a reason for Alaska to secede?
These people have had their heads up where the sun don’t shine for so long they should buy a tanning bed.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: Tanning beds, great way to make moose jerky.
Actually, this isn’t an attack on Sarah Palin.
It’s a clever way to sell Tanning Beds.
There is a very real problem in alaska. People suffer depression due to lack of sunlight during the winter. Above the polor circle it is dark for months at a time. washilla during the winter is lucky if it gets 6 hours of sunlight. I see no problem with this.
I love the line
Classic propaganda! Liberals all over the world will be claiming she actually spent $35,000 and making fun of those who claim she’s just an ordinary person who made good.
Using the truth to tell lies. Not just anybody has the skill. Bet they’re proud of it, too.
I still think our side is winning this personality contest. What? It’s a Presidential election…since when?
Cue lgm rushing in with his “real issue”…3…2…1
I knew Sarah Palin’s tan was too good to be true!
I just looked on ebay and there’s a tanning bed for $1,895.00
I bet Sarah paid even less for hers.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: His Royaldopeyness is toast.
I don’t give a rats ass about a tanning bed! I want to know why we are being told how bad our economy is, and how many new jobless we have everyday, but these congress vermin are pushing for more visas for 3rd world refugees?
Sarah’s my girl and if she wants a tanning bed that’s fine with me. But when she starts going to fundraising dinners in Hollyweird that cost $28,500 just to eat we may have to ask her to tone it down but she’d still be my girl.
Maybe she needed the tanning bed for medical reasons. If Your not getting enough sunlight, the bodies biological clock gets out of whack, making it almost impossible to sleep. I’m sure they don’t get sufficient light in Alaska throughout the year. Is this the best they can do to make her look bad? Hard nose journalism at it best! Maybe they can search Al Capone’s vault for another one of her tanning beds!! Call Jerry Rivers, and the Bigfoot hunters!!!!
Tanning beds are for elitists? Damn! I didn’t know that. Back in the Army of the US of A, a buddy had tanning lights and would rent tanning time to the PFC’s, and NCO’s of the company. A couple of dozen of us looked like we were from Miami. But that was 1962…..
Every time I see one of these nutcase claims, I am reinforced in my feeling that “we” have the right team today. If that is the worst they can dig up, they must be running scared. And Track Palin not being able to manage his temper on the hockey rink,,,,, The dummies are too sissified to realize that in Ice Hockey, you slam or be slammed. It is the game.
Keep up the petty, puny claims,,,,, makes for some chuckles during the day.
Lefties are loonies.
nuf sed
The whole, tanning beds can cost up to $35,000 bit is hilarious.
What if I wrote an article for a newspaper that went something like this:
“It was discovered today that Barack Obama purchased an SUV for his estate in Chicago. SUVs can cost up to $150,000…”
Now how fair is that, if the model of SUV turned out to be a Ford Escape Hybrid?
“Sarah Palin bought a used car and drove it to and even parked it at the governors mansion. The news of Palin’s luxurious purchase — automobiles can cost as much as $1,000,000 or more — presents a sharp contrast to the blue-collar persona she projects on the campaign trail.”
Oh NOES!!! She IS an elitist.
Have these freaks not noticed? It’s DARK in Alaska a lot of the year. That is because the SUN is below the horizon, and the “day” consists of just a few hours. A lot of people who live in the Northwest use sun lamps, a slightly smaller version of a tanning bed perhaps, but a device that compensates for the overcast in places like Seattle. I make a prediction: it will only be a matter of hours before someone makes a connection and accuses Gov. Palin (or someone in the family) of suffering Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which is usually treated with exposure to the sun…or an equivalent like a sun lamp or tanning bed. Forgive me for making that connection so some troll can dig it up, but I’m certain some poor Left trash will figure it out soon. Even though its bogus.
Contrast Palin buying a tanning bed with her own money (she’s out of touch!) with Obama’s $28,500 a plate fundraiser (crickets chirping).
The MSM needs to be run out of town on a rail.
Dear Us Magazine,
We know it’s been a tough couple of weeks for you, but it doesn’t have to be this way. We can help you, but only if you reach out to us and give us a chance. We can help you end your self-destructive behavior, but only if you want us to.
Signed,
Your friends at the suicide hotline
*out*
THAT is the best they can come up with, my oh my oh my. All that money spent to find dirt and a tanning bed is it?
OOOOOKAAAAYYYY, can we get back to the election now?
I see josetheguerila #33 beat me to it.
Anyway, if you are determined to mind something negative, you’ll find it. Does she use a pencil? What’s the matter, doesn’t she believe in sparing the trees? Is she a ludite who doesn’t know about pens? Oh, the mind of a liberal is a scary thing.
Runnin’ scared, all of them. I hope the MSM gets wind of the facts about the sunlight hours in Alaska in winter, and maybe they should go back to jr. high biology to refresh their memories about this natural source of Vitamin D in the body. Not to mention combating Seasonal Affective Disorder, as has been noted as well. UV is also good for babies w/jaundice.
This is LGM’s “real issue”???
Don’t you just love the smell of dem desperation? I wish I could can it and sell it as a room deodorizer. I’d be an overnight millionaire.
Yeah… Tanning Beds…
While there are reports that Obama tried to end run his own country’s foreign policy by delaying the US-Iraqi troop withdrawal deal for his own political gain.
this is such a stupid story. as people have mentioned already, there is such a thing as seasonal affective disorder. people use tanning beds to combat it. now they’re going to write a story about how sarah is a depressed neurotic!
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-9-2005-80961.asp
It annoys the elites when the sweaty masses crowd their distinctiveness too closely. They want to be imitated but only from a distance and badly enough that anyone can tell the difference. Next they will get in a panic at the temerity of a conservative consuming all their precious arugala. BTW, I like the stuff, makes a tasty salad.
It all boils down to jealousy and fear.
The Democrats-feminists fear Vice President Palin because she breaks the mold of their ideal of the emancipated female: she proves a beautiful, conservative woman can be a smart, athletic wife and mom of five while also successfully holding political office!
It’s sad that feminists-Democrats would savage and penalize this woman for not being a childless, man-hating liberal with the appearance of a runner-up in a Jane Hathaway lookalike contest (apologies to Nancy Kulp), but that’s their problem – not the electorate’s!
BTW: I don’t think Tina Fey did herself any favors in trying to diminish VP Palin’s intelligence on SNL: Fey’s dark circles around her eyes really stood out without her signature black frame glasses and the up-swept hair really elongated the distance between her eyes and chin line.
Watching the libs froth and fray over Vice President Palin is getting to be so much fun I’ve actually considered voting Republican just to demonstrate my undying support and admiration for her.
Unfortunately, I do not support President McCain.
Oh well. Go Sarah anyway.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’d like to know if the people who wrote this report have a tanning bed in their home. As well as when was the last time they visited a tanning bed. Anyone? Anyone?
The point is … Republicans want us to vote for Palin because she isn’t an arugula eating elitist. Well, it turns out that she’s a personal tanning bed owning elitist.
Of course, arugula is healthy and tanning beds cause cancer. Arugula involves less wasteful spending. And wait until you find out the real truth behind the hockey mom story.
Real issue: Palin doesn’t know much about policy. McCain said Palin is an expert on energy because Alaska has oil. Palin said that Alaska supplies 20% of US energy. It’s actually under 4%. Alaska does provide almost 15% of US oil.
My father was stationed in Alaska in the late 40s. One of the pictures I have of him from that time was sitting of him in front of a sun lamp. If you don’t get enough sunlight you can’t stay healthy.
My father was the only son of a farmer and a mill worker from the deep south. If “Us Weekly” wants to call that elitist then go ahead. But, somehow that arugula-eating, terrorist-loving, putz from Chicago is a “regular joe” to them.
Next, I suppose they will tell us Sarah Palin used her own money to buy, gasp, red meat and consumed it in the Governor’s Mansion!
Herd of lgm’s.
Well you got me there, now lets see obamas experience in energy policy. (crickets)
Listen carefully: that mass clicking sound you hear is liberal talking point triggers being pulled, and liberal meme firing pins striking against … nothing.
They’re out of bullets, folks. They just haven’t figured it out yet.
Oh thats right, Palin was only in charge of one of the biggest energy producing states in the union, whew, for I second there I thought LGM had a valid point for once. Strange how the DNC seems to think Palin is running for president isn’t it?
I have more than one middle class friend who has a tanning bed in their home. Most of them bought them used for less than $2k. So now I guess by your definition, someone living in a town of 35,000 people in a semi-rural midwest area with a BA, making a family income of $50k a year and raising their 1-2 children is now an elitist??
You REALLY need to get out more!!!
How long did it take for your brain to be completely turned to mush at some leftist university? Glad I finished my degree in 3 years.
What I want to know is how many illegal aliens were oppressed by the greedy, warmongering capitalists growing that arugula? Was it “certified organic?” Was it “free range?” Inquiring minds want to know….
Can you imagine the howling over here if Joe Biden had a tanning bed? John Edwards (whose scandal I notice made the cover of “liberal” Us Weekly).
Palin tanning means something because it goes to the heart of her style/looks over substance. She can’t be bothered to talk to reporters, shows zero knowledge of the world or our country besides rehearsed talking points, because obviously she finds tanning a better use of her time than reading.
Sorry, I know reading and having an education is elitist, which is why Todd Palin makes a better spouse than Michelle Obama.
If Biden had a tanning bed he’s apply SPF 50 sun block and then use it.
“Click.”
I think quite a lot of women (and more than a few men) use tanning beds, whether they admit it or not. Here in Oregon, where 9 months out of the year the sun is commonly mistaken for a UFO, I see way, way too many women with nice tans for there to be any other explanation.
If I ever open my own “brick-and-mortar” business establishment, a strong candidate would be to set up a tanning salon. Much money to be made there…
That cartoon fits liberals like a glove.
The more they attack Palin, the better she looks. Right now my wife will no longer watch Oprah or Barbara Walters. Walters treatment of McCain is classic over the top arrogance.
That howling would be in your head because none of us would care.
She has been on many news shows and will be on more.
What do you base this on?
Typical left wing baseless smear.
Fixed the only substantial part of your post. You’re welcome.
Really, you mean just like the Sun? Do you just make this stuff up or are you busy reading AMA journals?
And they’re not going to any time soon, since they’re so afraid of guns.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
No, dude, what we howl about is Biden’s son and brother milking their relationship with Joe to make scads of money as lobbyists. And we get upset about Obama claiming to have slept through church every Sunday for 20 years. And we don’t appreciate his launching his political campaign in the house of an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
Joe Biden in a tanning bed? Frankly, none of want to THINK about that picture.
Oddly enough, none of you leftists care that Obama sat in a church where the self-serving, arrogant pastor railed against this country claiming to KNOW God’s will. But, you try to make hay over the fact that a humble Sarah Palin actually prayed she might discern God’s will and be strong enough to do it! Go figure.
That comment has totally made my day!! Thank you aj! Someone should send that comment to Gov. Palin. She would get a kick out of it.
It seems so obvious… The sunlight or lack there of! Where I live we are socked in by fog much of the winter. Sometimes not seeing the sun for months. Once, a week or so, I take a day trip to the mountains and get above the fog. A day in the sun does wonders. But, what do you do when there is no sunlight to drive to? Buy yourself some “sunlight.” If I was a resident in Alaska… I’d probably have one tucked away someplace, for those long, dark winter months.
So you cared about John Edwards’ grooming (I admit, hilarious) but wouldn’t pay any mind to him tanning?
Re: the media’s lack of access to Palin.
Why do you think the campaign won’t let her talk to the media? Read the writing on the wall: five colleges in six years, doesn’t know the first thing about the Bush Doctrine, thinks lowering taxes is a change in policy from Bush. The woman is uninformed and unintelligent.
Someone please prove me wrong. Seriously.
what i don’t understand is what obama is hiding. NO ONE gets so distressed when people start looking into their background without reason. most of us have warts, but few of us have warts so huge they can’t be seen in public. what is the democrat presidential nominee hiding and why can’t anyone look at hi records? we can look at mrs palin’s background, and have including warts.
Funny thing, RSS, that she’s obviously smarter than many in government, since she actually vetoed legislation she agreed with on the sole basis that it was unconstitutional?
We finally get someone running for office who cares what the Constitution’s limitations are, and people want to call her “uninformed”, unintelligent”, and “elitist”?
America is worse off that I though if that’s the case, and someone like Sarah Palin is just what the doctor ordered to fix it. Shame we have a Democrat at the top of the ticket.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Oh, and I wonder what exactly is so bad about lowering taxes …
That one’s got me REALLY scratching my head. Good for America at all levels, good for the economy, good for deficit and debt reduction, but somehow still bemoaned as bad by liberals.
***SHRUG***
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Wow Alaska is like Important to Americans. What has Chicago turned out lately other then community organizers?
http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/governor-sarah-palins-alaska-what-do-we-know-about-it/
Let’s see, my choice is:
A) vote for a War hero and a VP from Alaska that bought a tanning bed with her own money, or
B) vote for an arugula chomping elitist that hangs out with terrorists and his pork barrel hair plug pal that’s been endorsed by every despot regime on the planet.
What to do what to do?
If this is the best that attack squad that has descended on Alaska can come up with, McCain picked the right person for veep.
You mean like tax returns and public records?
Talk about throwing stones from your glass house.
Glad we’re all thinking the same thing – she’s in frigging ALASKA!!! I’d probably go *nuts* without some rays from a tube in the wintertime.
[irving]
Classic propaganda! Liberals all over the world will be claiming she actually spent $35,000 and making fun …
Yep. Can you imagine if they’d said something like, “Obama bought a used Ford Pinto in his schooldays. New automobiles can sell for $100,000 and up…”
Please explain.
The liberal’s/feminist’s hypocrisy comes through loud and clear.
1. They are for choice.
2. Sarah Palin made a choice. The trouble is, it wasn’t the choice they want so they demonize her.
Go figure!.
Ah…… she clearly articulared the basic premise of the Bush Doctrine as it relates to an imminent threat in the EDITED version released by ABC. The unedited version, if you care to read it, makes it even clearer.
What seems evident is that on January 20, 2009, Governor Palin will have herself thoroughly prepared to assume the presidency if needed. I’ll bet you my house she will be better prepared than Obama would be. That’s intuitively obvious.
Anyone want to ask The Messaiah what the Logan Act is? He obviously does not or considers himself above it.
She has done at least 2 major interviews. Just because she doesn’t answer every stupid question from reporters doesn’t mean anything.
Your point? This proves nothing except she likes to travel.
Which one? This point has been debunked many times.
Obama also wants to lower taxes, does this make Obama like bush?
Another smear.
Vice President Palin is an excellent candidate for any office. President McCain, for all his shortcomings, has run an excellent campaign, keeping his mouth shut at approriate times, and saying EXACTLY the right things when opening it. There were a few mistakes in the early going, but Barack Oblahma has pretty much handed him the presidency, showing pretty early on that he was little more than a lightweight, if even that.
President McCain is showing us just how much truth there is to the old saying, “give a man enough rope, and he’ll hang himself”.
Maybe this has something to do with why Sarah Palin doesn’t get out any more than Biden (which is actually BS – watch her on TV tonight), who hasn’t been all that accessible, either. But sitting back and letting the Oblahma campaign and other liberal nutjobs make all the mistakes has worked wonders as a strategy so far, so why would anyone want to change it?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
When I go to stores I move the US Weekly behind other magazines.
No, Mr. So-smart-I’m-in-a-position-to call-the-Vice-President-uninformed, YOU go find out for yourself.
If you’re so “informed”, you should already know.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’ll say one thing , these idiots are persistent. They keep digging and digging and all they come up with is egg on their faces.
How is he going to find that on huffpo, daliykos or democratic underground?
In expecting him to think for himself, you are probably expecting too much.
I hope you wash your hands afterwards.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I heard that she actually traded the government jet to get the tanning bed – and jets can cost in the millions!
To the lib-trolls: you really have to admit that your arguments have become incredibly vacuous. Tanning beds have become substantive to you? Really?
Moron did you read Krauthammer’s last editorial? Nah, you didn’t; did you?
Maybe they can cost up to $35,000, but you can also buy them on eBay for $2,000.