Palin “Blows a Rack” at Bowling Expo

Another easy payday for the Queen of Queasy Metaphors, as Palin addresses the annual meeting of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America. If you ever wondered how bowling relates to God, the Founders and the concept of a Democratic Republic, you can keep on wondering. The best case Sarah can make is that bowling is as ubiquitous as drugs, kudzu and workplace infidelity:

“Bowling has an honored place in our culture and is interwoven with our sense of community in our country. Go to any town or city and you will find bowling – it is truly a slice of Americana,” said Palin. “Bowling has been able to evolve, innovate and capitalize on changes in culture to keep alive and flourish. Through the entrepreneurial spirit of its proprietors, bowling has seen a new resurgence and has never been more popular.”

But wait—it gets worse. The Philadelphia Examiner records this deathless koan:

“I enjoy running and as I thought of that sport, how that contrasts with the community of bowling and I think of it as a community. Any sport that shares shoes truly in my mind is a community.”

Fuck the English language. Fuck the flag. Fuck the shared history. It’s all about the shoes, Babe.

Also, according to the Examiner, “Palin recalled her youth when her father set pins in Idaho”:

“My Dad was on a Thursday night bowling league,” she said. “He bonded with his buddies. I have memories of that point of my life which mean very, very much to me.”

Sully finds that remarkable, since Sarah was only three months old when her family left Idaho and moved to Alaska…which may or may not provide anecdotal confirmation of the popular expression, “In Alaska, no one can hear you bowl.”

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 07/02/10 at 05:06 AM • Permalink

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Well, she lies all the time, and she’s not particularly bright, so it must be hard to keep it all straight.

Speaking of lies, crikey, I think her latest Facebook post must break some kind of record for the number of lies per pixel. Unbelievable.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/02/10 at 08:09 AM

Looks like the gazillions pouring into the Palin coffers just aren’t enough to keep the wolves from the doors:

Family’s headed home for Bristol Bay commercial fishing season. Mission: slay salmon to help family biz hum along. Buy"Wild Alaska Seafood”!

5:52 PM Jun 30th via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Comment by YAFB on 07/02/10 at 08:34 AM

Sully finds that remarkable, since Sarah was only three months old when her family left Idaho and moved to Alaska

Nice catch.

Now, don’t fuck it up, Sully, by suggesting that she’s conspiratorially concealing the fact that she’s actually 60 years old.

Comment by Steve M. on 07/02/10 at 10:34 AM

Bowling has been able to evolve, innovate and capitalize on changes in culture to keep alive and flourish.

You mean like this?

Comment by Steve M. on 07/02/10 at 10:56 AM

“I enjoy running and as I thought of that sport, how that contrasts with the community of bowling and I think of it as a community. Any sport that shares shoes truly in my mind is a community.”

She’s really going all-out for that caddy scholarship, isn’t she?

Comment by Tom65 on 07/02/10 at 10:56 AM

Oops—sorry, I think I omitted the NSFW (and NSF people who blanch easily at elderly flab).

Comment by Steve M. on 07/02/10 at 10:57 AM

In fairness, Steve, it sounds like Sarah’s Dad was a pin-setter when he was in high school, and had a Thursday league night later on in life, which Sarah could have witnessed. Then again, given that Sarah tends to remember a lot of shit that never happened, Sully could be spot-on with this one.

@Betty Cracker—Yeah, I read her speech extract on Facebook, and I didn’t even know where to begin. Someone needs to remind Sarah that the only time the DOD budget ever actually shrank was under Dick Cheney’s cost-and-personnel cutting crusade as DecDef under Bush I, and that—on Sept. 10, 2001—Don Rumsfeld announced that the DOD could not account for $2.3 trillion worth of purchases it had made with taxpayer money…an admission of wasteful, inefficient procurement that would have been the Big Story of the year, had it not been for the events of the following day.

Her whole spiel is one long, non-stop lie, but it’s getting to a point where debunking her bullshit requires a full-time staff.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/02/10 at 11:09 AM

She’s really going all-out for that caddy scholarship, isn’t she?

How abour a Fresca, Danny?

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/02/10 at 11:13 AM

Oops—sorry, I think I omitted the NSFW (and NSF people who blanch easily at elderly flab).

No shit, SteVe. ;-) Once again proving that clothes are the middle aged person’s friend.

Comment by marindenver on 07/02/10 at 12:50 PM

Actually, I was fine with everything on that page until I saw the words “buffet meal.” Then I totally urpped-up a hairball.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/02/10 at 12:56 PM

She thinks runners share their shoes? Or runners can use bowling shoes? Either way, that’s ... um ... weird.

Comment by Quicksand on 07/02/10 at 01:01 PM

I’ve always wanted to be a golf club.

Comment by kre8tr on 07/02/10 at 01:12 PM

Sorry, kre8tr, they don’t accept Catholics at the Youtheran Center.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/02/10 at 01:28 PM

Alaska blogger Phil Munger yesterday left the following comment on Palingates on our “Las Vegas bowling speech” story:

“She also claimed in her speech, “There were a lot of cold nights where I’m from where after basketball games we would meet at the bowling center.”

The Wasilla bowling alley, on the Palmer-Wasilla HWY, was completed in very early 1985. Before that, there were no lanes in Wasilla. By the time the lanes were in, she had given up basketball, and was somewhere between her 2nd and 3rd college.”