Daily Wrap Up – Showing Some Skin.
27 05 2009Wow. If there was a theme for the day, it would have to be “skin.” Who knew there would be enough of it to do a whole wrap-up on the “unwrapped,” as it were.
First, the governor herself. (She’s sitting all the way on the right)
~~Photo by Shannyn Moore~~
Seems that the governor had another one of her wardrobe challenged moments. Standing in front of the closet, on the way to a veterans’ memorial event that commemorated members of the Alaskan military who paid the ultimate price for their country, where hundreds had come, some from thousands of miles away, she chose…. a teeny little mini-skirt and peep-toe pumps. And after accepting the invitation at the last minute, too late to even be included in the program, her-legginess asked to sit right up on stage. As my mother used to say, “There is a time, and a place for everything.” There’s even a time and a place for a mini-skirt and peep-toe pumps. But a veterans’ memorial isn’t it. Check out the post from Shannyn Moore who was at this event, HERE.
Second, we have Levi Johnston. (He’s the one standing)
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There is a time and a place for half-naked diaper changes, and actually GQ Magazine is that time and place. So kudos to Levi for knowing his audience, and not showing up topless at a memorial service. The rest of the article promises to be quite interesting. Among other things, it seems that The First Dude offered the First Daughter a shiny new toy if she dumped the father of her child. (using best game show announcer voice) That’s right Bristol Palin, you could be driving away in…a neeew CAAARR! Maybe if she had dated somebody super-scary she could have gotten an iPhone too.
And finally – The Great Cleavage Cover-Up!
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Remember when Andree McLeod, activist, filer of ethics complaints and former Workforce Development employee sent a memo to the Commissioner of Administration and Palin’s Chief of Staff talking about the inappropriate dress of some of the young ladies in state offices? And then remember how those emails mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Anchorage Daily News gossip columnist Sheila Toomey? If not, you can refresh your memory HERE. Well….apparently, the email documents on this issue, which McLeod requested to see, have become top secret classified! We may never know exactly what clandestine messages transpired on the issue of cleavage, because all the correspondence that happened after the receipt of McLeod’s original email has been “redacted” by the governor’s Administrative Director. Here was the reason given:
I am redacting the records based on the executive deliberative and process privileges. The Alaska Supreme Court’s decisions in Gwich’in Steering Committee v. State 10 P. 3d 572 (Alaska 2000), and Doe v. Superior Court, 721 P. 2d 617 (Alaska 1986) , among others describes these privileges. These privileges apply to the records I am redacting because these records reflect predecisional, deliberative communications between Governor Palin and her closest aides, as well as among those aides.
Whoa. That’s some fancy cleavage cover-up. Citing the Supreme Court? “Predecisional deliberative communications?” I’m thinking it’s safe to say that the content of the emails wasn’t, “Yeah, I guess we’d better ask everyone to reread the dress code.” It seems awfully coincidental that one of the recipients of the leaked email is the same guy (Chief of Staff Mike Nizich) that said he hoped those who filed ethics complaints against the governor (like Andree McLeod) would experience “backlash” (like having email communication passed on to the Daily News)?
Seems like if the governor was going to think “cover up” it should have been at the Veteran’s Memorial.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:44 AM
I meant, defense fund…..sorry for the error.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:53 AM
Sarah is just promoting the Alaskan bush….
Sorry…I just had to…
May 28th, 2009 at 6:03 AM
I think the now-blurred baby boy bits may be the reason this post disappeared for a bit earlier. Just sayin’.
May 28th, 2009 at 6:31 AM
150 sjk from the belly of the plane Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 5:53 AM
Sarah is just promoting the Alaskan bush….
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Hahaha……..yeah , we could have some real fun with this……
May 28th, 2009 at 6:40 AM
In fairness to Governor Cougar, she may well have been headed to hook-up night at the local hotel bar when a war (memorial service) broke out, and she was called into service….
May 28th, 2009 at 6:46 AM
I saw photos of her at the memorial service, and she wasn’t wearing a mini skirt, did she change? Or did her skirt just ride up to look like she was wearing one while being seated?
I don’t have a problem with trashing Palin, but I don’t think she was wearing a mini skirt.
And that Alaskan Bush comment was very funny, naughty but funny.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:19 AM
I don’t think I’ll ever brag about living in the Alaskan bush again!
May 28th, 2009 at 7:21 AM
She left herself open for it!
May 28th, 2009 at 7:51 AM
This confirms the criticism that Sarah is (George) “Bush in a skirt”. Ok, this is too much fun, must move on….
May 28th, 2009 at 8:00 AM
LOL
May 28th, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Bystander – Funny you brought the “Cougar” thing up. As always , it’s fun to refer to the urban dictionary :
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cougar
May 28th, 2009 at 8:04 AM
@#153 Bystander – thanks for my opening laugh for the day!
May 28th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
*154 Zggy – if your skirt rides up that high when you sit down, it’s too short.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Hahahahaha…………
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ckBlasgNSzg/SMQsffLFKEI/AAAAAAAAHaY/wP25M3-sLQk/s400/Sarah+Palin.gif
May 28th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
#161 lue5000, too tight yet, too short no, also too
May 28th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
I would have to agree, that when picking a skirt for a serious event, it’s a good idea to do a test “sit-down”, if only to make sure that you don’t need to shave/wax a bit higher. Especially if it’s a new skirt or one you haven’t worn for a while (and might be a bit tighter or looser than last time you wore it.)
Honestly, I even mention it, except that she appears to have been wearing other clothes in different pictures from that day, and they appear to be more appropriate, if ugly (not counting the shoes, of course).
May 28th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
I remember Sarah attending a function in the Lower 48 shortly after she returned from the failed VP stint. The news clip of the event showed her at the podium in mid-calf leggings.
Even tho she is not a professional it would be great if someone would at least instruct her how to dress like a professional. Clothes should not be distracting from the event. They should be a non-issue.
But, like Richard Kinky (Big Dick) Friedman says, “You can lead a politician to water, but you can’t make them THINK!”
She is a sleazy dresser.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
“I wouldn’t even mention it”
May 28th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Good thing sarah did not have a stop at a zoo on her appearance schedule that day , or this could’ve happened.
http://www.yaplakal.com/uploads/post-3-12423683177685.jpg
May 28th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Haa ha ha. I can see her panties! Just lighten the photo a bit.
Hmmm, was W.A.R. (almost Attorney General) present, I wonder?
May 28th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
I seriously hope she doesn’t even attempt to run in 2012….it would be a tremendous waste of money. Sarah, do the right thing and go away.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
By the way I’m pretty sure that symbol on the front of the podium is supposed to be a cross.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Gee, I’m not even a state governor (and hardly a fashionista), but even I know this one, Problem Child: “I would have to agree, that when picking a skirt for a serious event, it’s a good idea to do a test “sit-down”.
I’ve done the ’sit-test’ dozens of times, and I can’t imagine me putting on that skirt, sitting in a chair and having my current hubby, former hubby, BFF, Mom, Dad, sister, or any of my friends or collegues see that much thigh and say, “yeah, that’s fine for a memorial service for fallen soldiers on Memorial Day”.
The skirt *was* too short (or tight, or otherwise ill-fitting, but same result)and I think, once she got there, she figured that out. She seems to be sitting very stiffly, as though she was (quite rightly!) trying to make sure nothing more got exposed than what already had been.
Remember, she didn’t RSVP her attendance in advance, so maybe she didn’t really have it and the seriousness of it on her radar while she was getting dressed. I bet it never entered her pea-brain that she would be sitting, exposed, for long enough time periods for people to notice her legs and a bit too much thigh. And how inappropriately distracting it would be.
Then again, I could be full of stuff that comes out the south end of a north-facing horse.
But in any case, here’s how I see it:
A) if she, with full knowledge of what she was doing, chose to go with that wardrobe choice (implying she passed up other choices), then she was definitely trying to grab photo-op attention from attending this event, which is reprehensible and only goes to further Bob Poe’s assertion that she is ‘narcissitic’.
B) if that’s all the skirt/dress/non-jeans-or casualwear she had with her ‘on the road’, then she didn’t plan ahead, was not organized enough. Didn’t think ahead.
C) if she made the wardrobe selection at home and failed to even think about the ’sit-test’, well, she overlooked something that ANYONE in the public eye should know to think about before choosing a skirt (or dress) to wear for a public occassion. Again, it’s the not-thinking-ahead part that doesn’t give me confidence in her.
None of these three reflects well on her.
Sure, everybody can make a mistake every once in awhile, but in what I call NormalLand, people who make mistakes a) acknowledge them; b) apologize to the appropriate person(s)/group; c) make some convincing statement that they will not do it again.
Odds we see any of that from Gov. Palin?
May 28th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Zero to none!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
austintx @139, where did you find that? Still LMAO
May 28th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
175 Terpsichore Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
austintx @139, where did you find that? Still LMAO
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169 ?? A friend e-mailed it to me a while back and I thought it was perfect for this and dug back and found it. I laugh every time I look at it.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
OMG—-I love the elephant exploration photo. Thanks for the laugh austintx.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
177 trisha Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
OMG—-I love the elephant exploration photo. Thanks for the laugh austintx.
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Is that the perfect picture for a caption contest , or what ??
May 28th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Surprised she didn’t show up in a bikini trying to out do her new best friend, Ms Prejean.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
It seems to me the arguement to be made is that the leaked email has already been “made public” to someone, by either a participant/recipiant of the emails or Scarah’s administration.
SO, I don’t see how they can “close” the door on these. It’s already been made public domain. A select “few” can not have “privilege”.
And where is the story on emails or information being leaked (read that fed) from the gov’s office? sloppy, sloppy, sloppy! I think Sheila Toomey should be charged for using classsified information if the emails were not allowed to be made public. She violated the gov’s redact ruling. Is that like stealing classified info? selling it? lol (we know it was freely given and made public to slam Andree)
(at least this leak tactic (most likely, but ya never know, lol) will not be attempted again, silly gov and Mag, for trying to be sly but not really suceeding, lol.) Good for Andree to take them on for it.
And what will happen to the Eddie Burke requested emails? hmmmm…….will they take forever? will there be a “fair” and “equal” process used, as in “redacting” ? we shall wait and see……..also too, will the charges be the same? they better show impartial treatment or it will be yet “another” ethics charge, rightfully so, just warning Mag Forkedtongue.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
I couldn’t resist posting this, seeing as cleavage is a topic!!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/28/tennis-star-simona-halep-to-have-boob-surgery-to-improve-performance-on-court-115875-21396332/
May 28th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
somebody with some time please check into the Supreme Court “cases” they are referring to, it would be fun to see what they are “basing” their “redacting” excuse on.
Dontcha think? this could be fun, lol, what information, so important that it made it all the way to the AK Supreme Court are they comparing dress code emails to, lol.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I’d say for a professional it’s a bit too much leg, but she’s proud of em isn’t she.
on the gov’s web site, until they read this, lol
http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=332
May 28th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
154 Zggy – if your skirt rides up that high when you sit down, it’s too short.
Or too tight and that is why it rides up so high when you sit down.
But really, she has been on stage all her life in a way.
She should know better and I am still shocked that she learned nothing from the excellent hair and makeup people and the stylists who dressed her. Nothing.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:20 PM
IrishGirl – Seeing that first pic. made me think of this :
Mass–energy equivalence was proposed in Albert Einstein’s 1905 paper, “Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?”, one of his Annus Mirabilis (”Miraculous Year”) Papers.[1] Einstein was not the first to propose a mass–energy relationship, and various similar formulas appeared before Einstein’s theory with incorrect numerical coefficients and an incomplete interpretation. Einstein was the first to propose the simple formula and the first to interpret it correctly: as a general principle which follows from the relativistic symmetries of space and time.
In the formula, c2 is the conversion factor required to convert from units of mass to units of energy. The formula does not depend on a specific system of units. Using the International System of Units, joules are used to measure energy, kilograms for mass, meters per second for speed. Note that 1 joule equals 1 kg·m2/s2. In unit-specific terms, E (in joules) = m (in kilograms) multiplied by (299,792,458 m/s)2.
from wikipedia.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:26 PM
austintx,
I thought you would appreciate that pic…and I just knew it would make you think of Einstein!!!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
It seems to me the arguement to be made is that the leaked email has already been “made public” to someone, by either a participant/recipiant of the emails or Scarah’s administration.
SO, I don’t see how they can “close” the door on these. It’s already been made public domain. A select “few” can not have “privilege”.
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The e-mail that was leaked/ released to the Ear was the cleavage complaint e-mail between Andree and that GINO staffer. Logically, there couldn’t be any executive deliberative process privilege. It was a response to a citizen complaint.
However, the internal e-mail discussions at the GINO’s office might possibly carry that privilege, if the GINO and her staff are considering what to do about the dress code policy, whether to change it, how to go about enforcing it etc.
So yes, a few can have privilege, and some might not, even if they were all in the same e-mail “string”.
Are they abusing the privilege claim to avoid embarrassment? Almost certainly.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Irishgirl, austintx, If I was wearing that poor girl’s sports bra, I’d be thinking of reducing my mass to improve my energy, also, too.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Has anybody here ever read any E.F. Benson?
One of my fave silly British comedy of manners writers…
For those of you who have, I’m becoming more and more convinced that Sarah is Lucia.
(And re: Say NO to Palin’s pic link…Who sits in parking lots to sign bills????? There’s something in the way she’s sitting in that picture that makes me think of a little girl playing grown-up empress…Unbelievable…)
May 28th, 2009 at 1:05 PM
From the open thread:
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Madcity Chick Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 12:39 PM
A different shirtless Levi photo w/baby is up on the CNN ticker. They’re a little late on the story, but they have a different pic than the one we’ve seen.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/28/report-todd-palin
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But, in breaking news, they have the information that Todd is Sarah Palin’s wife!
May 28th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Maybe she didn’t try the sitting down with the skirt at home. However, as soon as she sat in the car she would have known it was a problem. But then she asked to be seated on the stage. A better move would have been to do a walk on as she seemed to always do during her campaign appearances.
It does seem that she had two different outfits that day. Maybe this was the one she was wearing for work.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
MRRROW, sandra!