Lol..headline should have read "philadelphia to Palin - PUCK YOU"

[radfringe]

Extra, Extra! Palin Gets Booed in Philadelphia
Forbes 10/11/08
http://blogs.forbes.com/trailwatch/2008/10/extra-extra-pal.html

Palin Gets Booed in Philly! This is sure to be the headline splashed across television and newspapers Sunday morning, the day after the Republican Vice Presidential candidate and hockey mom from Alaska drops the puck at the ceremonial face-off for the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener on Saturday night at the soon-to-need-a-name-change Wachovia Center. What will be missing from the news: the jeers were deserved.

[Lasher]

1. Not a good week for Palin.

Well boo hoo. Stupid is as stupid does.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

2. Maybe she'll get called for Lame Misconduct

Let's go Refs! :rofl:

[OakCliffDem]

3. The crowd will be chanting in union

We paid to see you drop and FVGK, not to see you drop the PUCK!

[CreekDog]

4. good. though getting boo-ed in Philadelphia is not really indicative of anything.

these people boo-ed Santa. :rofl:

[tom_paine]

6. Typical sterotypical nonsense. Believe that bullshit if you wish.

But let me tell YOU something.

Before it came out that the Bushies had Bushified the Department of Justice muchthe way the Nazis Nazified THEIR executive agencies, and was using it against the "Liberals", just like the Nazis did, in 2003 Philadelphia SAW RIGHT THROUGH IT.

I'll say it again, when most Americans had their heads up their asses in 2003 and still thought BushCheney was an honorable Christian man, Philadelphians, through their street-smarts, saw right through the lie.

It was in all the papers. Suspicion runs high that Bushie FBI frames Democrats right before election for propaganda purposes, basically.

And the Democratic Mayor won by a LARGER margin because Philadelphia was smart enough to see through Bushie Lies in 2003. Was smart enough to inuit what 99% of Americans are STILL clueless about, that the charges, even IF there was some truth to them (there is usually a grain of truth that the Bushies wrap their lies around...Plausible Deniability, the mother's milk of ALL evil tyrants, not just the Bush Cabal), were a politically-motivated attempt to subvert elections.

Which later investigation in 2006-2007 showed was completely 100% correct.

What was YOUR town doing in 2003? Waving flags and saying how noble and honorable BushCheney was?

So you might want to think about that before making your bullshit Philly jokes.

By that standard, the standard of seeing-through-tyrant's-lies, Philly has always been a fantastically smart town that is very savvy and tough to fool. Tougher by far, than the rest of the Imperial Subject Populace of Amerika.

Think about it. What was the consenus of YOUR town in 2003? That BushCheney should get a statue on the Courthouse Lawn?

[bmbmd]

8. So-

they didn't boo Santa?

[tom_paine]

10. Oh no. Philly fans booed Santa, all right. For being drunk and bedraggled.

(this was all when I was a little kid, so don't blame me)

Now don't get me wrong. Philly Fans can be an ornery bunch. Funny thing is, when fans in NY or Baltimore or Denver do the same kinds of stuff, and they do...FREQUENTLY, there's NEVER bitching about the horrible Denver Fans or the horrible New York Fans.

And yes, as I understand the story, the Philly Fan Base was in a bad mood from a winless season that would have gotten us the OJ Draft Pick.

True to the Philly Curse, the Eagles then won a game or two, Buffalo got OJ and the rest is history.

This is what lead up to it. It may well be that a perfectly dressed and clean Santa may have gotten the same treatment. But apparently the stadium managment because of some sort of pich, pulled "Drunk Scraggly Santa" basically out of the stands, and basically made him the halftime show.

Remember, this was the 60s, when such things could still happen. Never happen today though... management pulling someone out of the stands and on-the-spot making him the Halftime Show. Hell, in the 40s, the President of the Eagles, Bert Bell, used to answer his own phone!

So, yes, the Philly Fans booed Santa and this I will not deny.

I don't think that Philly Fans are very different from other Big-City fans, but we get treated like Democrats on Fox News, so to speak.

[Mandate My Ass]

13. Spot on, tom_paine

except for one detail. I saw a documentary last year that had an interview with the booed Santa. The Santa that was hired to come to the game showed up drunk and puked on the nice Santa suit they rented for him. Someone saw a guy sitting in the stands with his own homemade Santa suit on and they asked him to come out onto the field at half-time instead. His suit was really cheesey and I think his beard was just white paper taped to his face...hence the booing.

Philly fans will boo Sarah Palin fer shewr. :evilgrin:

[psychmommy]

15. tom nobody beats jersey fans.

do you remember the infamous snowballs and batteries at the football field in secaucus? also some of us jerseyites are philly fans. my thought is that hockey fans may be a little more conservative than the other sports fans. but, i may watch some hockey so i can see the trainwreck in action.

[CreekDog]

14. Jeez, lighten up, my family is from Philly and it's my second home

I love Philadelphia and I also love how you guys are dumping your Republicans out in the suburbs.

Doesn't sound like you are from South Philly or you probably would've taken my remark as a compliment.

That said I have no doubt they booed particularly loudly for Sarah Fallin' Palin.

and you ask about my town's voting and if we have Bush/Cheney statues on the Courthouse lawns :rofl:. not likely. our city hall is actually modeled on Philadelphia's (South S.F. is a separate city from SF, in a different county and separated from SF by San Bruno Mountain).

and I'll take not just my city's voting, but the 7 million strong Bay Area's voting over almost any city.
the entire region voted against putting Arnold into the Governor's mansion in 2003, by 65-35, we voted for Kerry 69%. If we were a state, we would be a mid sized state and the bluest one out there.

The Bay Area is the largest blue/liberal area in the country. Philadelphia votes very blue, but since this is a contest --not only is San Francisco and Oakland bluer but our suburbs have been bluer for years.
My city, though suburban, voted for Kerry 74% and we've voted blue since Dukakis.

[tom_paine]

16. OK, point taken. These are stressful times and humor is not the first thing on my mind

Being right about shit I prayed for years to be wrong about does that to a person.

But that is no excuse and you are right. But I am happy I clarirfied the old Philly Boos Santa story for anyone who happens to read.

And does it piss me off that Philly Fans get treated like Democrats on Corporate Media, where if a Democrat does something it's AWFUL but when a Bushie does the SAME THING, it's understandable and they get a Free Pass.

And I am still rightfully proud of the collective Philadelphia's sniffing-out by intuition and street-smarts the Corrupt Bushie DOJ pre-election Ops against Democratic targets right before elections.

Even though it resulted in a wider margin of victory for (yecch) John Street, the principle in this case was more important that the man.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Ed Snider will regret calling for a Mother-Pucker at tonight's game!

That is all.

[Myrina]

7. ... just goes to show ...

... that hockey fans aren't all neanderthal freepers like the McLame Campaign apparently assumed they would be.

I live in a fairly red area and have seen 3 'Hockey Moms for Obama' bumper stickers in the past few weeks, and even though I'm not a mom, am a hockey fan and would LOVE a bumper sticker similar.



:) Go Philly!! She should have got a 'Game Misconduct' and been tossed from the building for Unsportsmanlike Conduct. :rofl:

[JBoy]

9. I will bet money she doesn't show up.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

11. Oh, I hope she does.....

I am actually quite curious as to what the reaction will be.

Wish I could be there.

[Postman]

12. I bet she gets cheered.

Hockey isn't about peace-making and other liberal ideals, Palin is a self-described Hockeymom- a common thread with the fans in the stands, and this is Philadelphia - a fairly conservative area - not what you would consider a bastion of liberalism (Constitution birthplace means nothing when nobody follows it)...

If she gets booed, Thats a sure sign that McCain/Palin are going down in a massive fireball....

[itsrobert]

17. She will probably be holding Trig

Nobody is going to boo a woman carrying 'her' baby.