No lipstick here
Oddsmakers, pols, kids, even strip-club owners: They were all piling on Sarah Palin during the run-up to her debate Thursday night against Joe Biden.
First up: former New York State Assemblyman and founder of New York Government Watch Arthur “Jerry” Kremer, who announced that he had sent Palin a free subscription to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
“Win, lose or draw Sarah needs help and there is no better source for objective information than the world’s most recognized books of knowledge,” Kremer wrote in a release. “Debate coaches fill your head with lots of unnecessary information and sometimes they are proven to be wrong . The Encyclopedia Britannica is considered an unbiased source of information and its maps clearly show where Alaska stands in relation to the rest of the world.”
Next, we noticed a poll by Shop the Vote, a public service campaign targeted at young voters via digital media. Organizers asked users in retail stores, online and on their mobile phones whether they would want Palin as their own mom. A whopping 83 percent said no, with 15 percent answering yes (perhaps they play hockey?).
BetOnline.com put out odds on Thursday’s debate that listed the Alaska governor as a 3-to-1 underdog to win the debate (with the winner to be determined by CNN’s exit polls). But perhaps more interestingly, the site took “over/under” proposition bets on the number of times Palin mentioned “Russia.” (The line was 2 1/2 times as of Thursday evening, with bettors favoring the over.)
The final bit of news comes to us from The Pony, a “gentleman’s club” in Memphis, which last weekend held a Sarah Palin look-alike strip-off contest. Jerry Westlund, who owns The Pony and 16 other such clubs around the country, said about 18 women turned out to compete, and “they really did look like her.”
He said the event wasn’t anti-Palin. “If I felt I could get enough people in here, I’d have a Joe Biden strip-off,” he said.
He said his biggest challenge was getting an ad placed in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose “bunch of right-wing publishers gave us nothing but grief.”
He added that he knows a bunch of club owners in St. Louis and tried to get them to do something similar while Palin and Biden debated there, but “they were all scared.”
