so much for the hockey mom label

beachdweller

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/palin-booed-at-nhl-game-in-philadelphia/

October 11, 2008
Palin booed at NHL game in Philadelphia
Posted: 09:28 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town's NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the arena, drowning out most of the cheers in support of the Republican vice presidential nominee.

As Palin stepped onto the ice before a capacity crowd to drop the puck, joined by her daughters Willow and Piper, the arena's jumbotron flashed a futile message to the thousands of notoriously harsh Philadelphia sports fans in attendance.

"Flyers fans, show Philadelphia's class and welcome America's #1 hockey mom, Sarah Palin," the massive electronic message board pleaded, to little effect. Booing quickly erupted when the smiling candidate emerged from a tunnel leading onto the ice, muffling the applause of any Palin supporters in the crowd.

Some in the audience simply gave her a thumbs down gesture. Others called her names.

Palin spent about a minute and a half on center ice, posing for pictures with Flyers captain Mike Richards and New York Rangers assistant captain Scotty Gomez, an Alaska native. The crowd commotion was sustained for her entire time in the rink.

Palin's showing did not appear to help the Flyers, who looked hapless in the first period, giving up four goals to their rivals from New York. The governor stayed to watch the first two periods with family and staff in the box of Flyers owner Ed Snider, and by the time she departed the Wachovia Center for her hotel, the Flyers had narrowed the lead to 4-2.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

it being philly i'm suprised she wasnt pelted with beer cans. i do feel bad for her poor kid walking out with her. i hope someone told her before hand that her mom would be booed mercilessly.

CHANGEinWAVES

MrSmith wrote:

it being philly i'm suprised she wasnt pelted with beer cans. i do feel bad for her poor kid walking out with her. i hope someone told her before hand that her mom would be booed mercilessly.

I agree, we can be quite brutal here!

know1

That's pretty classless.

beachdweller

know1 wrote:

That's pretty classless.

I agree, Palin needs to clean up her act, and it is definitely an act.

She doesn't speak for the majority of the country, nor the majority of women, let alone the fact she doesn't speak for the majority of Christians, and now we know she doesn't speak for the majority of hockey fans in Philidelphia

SoonForgotten2

Have a look 'n listen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TgDanmWkg

jimed14

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I agree, we can be quite brutal here!

philly fans booed Santa! and pelted him with snowballs!!! I'm glad they upheld their stellar reputation!

Open

Makes me feel good as a hockey fan...She was giving our sport a black eye.

VOLITION

sports and politics don't mix. The owner of the Wachovia Center is a Republican and a big time Mccain supporter. He had no business thrusting his political views at fans.
They both got what they deserved.
Bitches!

CHANGEinWAVES

jimed14 wrote:

philly fans booed Santa! and pelted him with snowballs!!! I'm glad they upheld their stellar reputation!

what?? u got a problem with that??
*u know that's not REALLY santa right?;):eek:

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

VOLITION wrote:

sports and politics don't mix. The owner of the Wachovia Center is a Republican and a big time Mccain supporter. He had no business thrusting his political views at fans.
They both got what they deserved.
Bitches!

yeah pretty stupid move.

jam_head

VOLITION wrote:

sports and politics don't mix. The owner of the Wachovia Center is a Republican and a big time Mccain supporter. He had no business thrusting his political views at fans.
They both got what they deserved.
Bitches!

haha so true

ediger

MrSmith wrote:

it being philly i'm suprised she wasnt pelted with beer cans. i do feel bad for her poor kid walking out with her. i hope someone told her before hand that her mom would be booed mercilessly.

I was thinking the same thing. You'd have to imagine that when Palin was picked at the VP candidate, she had a long talk with her kids about what they may hear over the next little while. Then again, I may be giving her intelligence too much credit. After all, I have heard her speak...

VOLITION wrote:

sports and politics don't mix. The owner of the Wachovia Center is a Republican and a big time Mccain supporter. He had no business thrusting his political views at fans.
They both got what they deserved.
Bitches!

Couldn't agree more

blacknapkins

My husband turned the game on, not aware that Palin was going to be there, and as I ran into the room (expecting the negative response she apparently got,) all we got to hear was music turned way up for the television broadcast.

Did her people really expect her to be welcomed? And as for her daughters, it's apparent (at least to me) that sheltering them from the harshness of politics is low on her list of priorities. Yeah, she's mother of the year.

NMyTree

MrSmith wrote:

it being philly i'm suprised she wasnt pelted with beer cans. i do feel bad for her poor kid walking out with her. i hope someone told her before hand that her mom would be booed mercilessly.

She's a mindless twit to drag her kids out there with her.

Unless she's completely and thoroughly brain-dead, she has to know what a controversial figure she is and the kind of reception she will be often greeted with. Especially when it's not an arranged and heavily guarded Republican event (where they can shut out a large majority of their opponents).

What kind of mother drags those kids out there with her? What a mindless twit.


P.S. LET'S GO RANGERS !! !!!

cincybearcat

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I agree, we can be quite brutal here!

Philly fans would boo Mother teresa.......and a kitten...probably a puppy....

blacknapkins

Here's the local coverage.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081012_Palin_hears_plenty_of_boos.html?adString=ph.news/news_update;!category=news_update;&randomOrd=101208071938

cincybearcat

blacknapkins wrote:

Did her people really expect her to be welcomed? And as for her daughters, it's apparent (at least to me) that sheltering them from the harshness of politics is low on her list of priorities. Yeah, she's mother of the year.

Why not?

As far as your last comment goes, it's just assanine. So, you don't think anyone with kids should run for office? Please. This kind of statement is close to sexist. No one has ever said anything about Obama and his kids...or any other male candidate and the kids. I guess this is one area that I'm glad Hillary has succeeded as she has.....more to come though.

What exactly is the mother of the year anyhow? Do you have to stay home with your kids?

chromiam

I was at the game and there were just as many people standing and clapping as there were boos... but of course that doesn't make a great story.

blacknapkins

cincybearcat wrote:

Why not?

As far as your last comment goes, it's just assanine. So, you don't think anyone with kids should run for office? Please. This kind of statement is close to sexist. No one has ever said anything about Obama and his kids...or any other male candidate and the kids. I guess this is one area that I'm glad Hillary has succeeded as she has.....more to come though.

What exactly is the mother of the year anyhow? Do you have to stay home with your kids?

My objection is to celebrities (political or otherwise) who parade their kids out as part of their "brand."

inmytree

I love how she used her kid at this event:

http://www.eandppub.com/2008/10/hockey-mom-pali.html

Fox also revealed: "The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, 'How dare they boo Piper!'"

pathetic....

beachdweller

chromiam wrote:

I was at the game and there were just as many people standing and clapping as there were boos... but of course that doesn't make a great story.

stories I saw said the same, but also said the boos were the loudest

beachdweller

I'm curious, did her son play hockey? Cause to be a hockey mom, you actually need to have one of your kids play on a hockey team, you can't just label yourself blindly...oh wait, this is politics, yes you can.

sweetpotato

beachdweller wrote:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/palin-booed-at-nhl-game-in-philadelphia/

October 11, 2008
Palin booed at NHL game in Philadelphia
Posted: 09:28 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town's NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the arena, drowning out most of the cheers in support of the Republican vice presidential nominee.

As Palin stepped onto the ice before a capacity crowd to drop the puck, joined by her daughters Willow and Piper, the arena's jumbotron flashed a futile message to the thousands of notoriously harsh Philadelphia sports fans in attendance.

"Flyers fans, show Philadelphia's class and welcome America's #1 hockey mom, Sarah Palin," the massive electronic message board pleaded, to little effect. Booing quickly erupted when the smiling candidate emerged from a tunnel leading onto the ice, muffling the applause of any Palin supporters in the crowd.

Some in the audience simply gave her a thumbs down gesture. Others called her names.

Palin spent about a minute and a half on center ice, posing for pictures with Flyers captain Mike Richards and New York Rangers assistant captain Scotty Gomez, an Alaska native. The crowd commotion was sustained for her entire time in the rink.

Palin's showing did not appear to help the Flyers, who looked hapless in the first period, giving up four goals to their rivals from New York. The governor stayed to watch the first two periods with family and staff in the box of Flyers owner Ed Snider, and by the time she departed the Wachovia Center for her hotel, the Flyers had narrowed the lead to 4-2.

maybe the crowd was looking for a pit bull in lipstick, hoping it would have a better grasp of the issues than she does.

sweetpotato

cincybearcat wrote:

...What exactly is the mother of the year anyhow? Do you have to stay home with your kids?

not at all. but you can't USE them to further your career then expect them not to be fair play. THAT'S what disqualifies you, putting them in that position to begin with.

don't look into the camera at the RNC all cross-eyed holding little baby Trig or Turnip or Truck or whateverthefuck the child's name is, and claim that a mccain administration will "fight for special needs kids" - when in reality mccain has voted countless times AGAINST more funding for special ed programs- and then expect that people aren't going to question why YOU'RE not giving little Troll more TLC yourself. it's disingenuous, cheesy and condescending. like everything else about her.