"Sarah Palin snorted cocaine off 55 gallon oil drum and had affairs with NBA star.".

[Fuzz]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037211/Sarah-Palin-dabbled-cocaine-month-affair-husbands-business-partner-Sensational-claims-new-book.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


Sarah Palin snorted cocaine off a 55 gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with friends and had elicit affairs with a top NBA star and one of her husband's business partners, a new book sensationally claims.

In revelations which could strike a devastating blow to the controversial politician's hopes of joining the 2012 presidential race, Mrs Palin is said to have taken the class A drug with her husband, while smoking marijuana at college in secret liaisons with one of her professors.

<snip>

Mrs Palin, 47, had a one-night stand with Miami Heat basketball star Glen Rice less than a year before she eloped with her husband, the book claims.

[Bosso 63]

1. "a 55 gallon oil drum"?

Now that's just strange.

[madokie]

9. any smooth relatively flat surface will suffice

Not that I know that or anything

[dmallind]

16. while you can put oil in 55 gallon drums the much-ballyhooed usual is 42 gallons

[WinkyDink]

10. Really? You've never seen behind a commercial building?

[bluedave]

2. ok

Now I have a LITTLE more respect for her.

[sufrommich]

5. lol. nt

[SpiralHawk]

3. "elicit affairs"

Hmmmm - how is that done?

Gotta try me some of them there Republicon Family Values...

[tanyev]

4. Looks like the Palinistas are busy giving the article comments up or down clicks.

Give them some DU love if you have the time.

[chrisa]

6. Riiiiight...

lol

Someone has a vivid imagination.

[In Jest]

12. The Daily Mail is a tabloid, isn't it?

Sometimes, rags get it right. But I don't think this is one of those times.

[WinkyDink]

13. It is a daily newspaper, not a weekly "National Enquirer." Perhaps you could actually READ it from

to time?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

Just because a story is "sensational" doesn't mean it is therefore untrue. Clinton denied Monica, Edwards denied Rielle, Dubya lied about WMDs.

PEOPLE LIE ABOUT UNPLEASANT TRUTHS.

(11 posts on DU, and this is one? Okay, then.)

[WinkyDink]

7. Do people not remember that she was A SPORTSCASTER pre-politics? People in show-biz have been

known to dabble in drugs and affairs!

"After graduating, she worked as a sportscaster for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage,<33><34> and as a sports reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman,<35><36> fulfilling an early ambition.<37>"
(Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Early_career_and_marriage

[hlthe2b]

8. McGinniss claims he only shared advance copies with Trudeau,

Andrew Sullivan and the eldest Johhny Cash daughter (?) Rosanne Cash. So, how, then did the daily mail supposedly get this. (Yes, I know that McGinniss or his publisher may be talking out of both sides of their mouths, but still....) The book doesn't come out until the 20th, IIRC.

[WI_DEM]

11. So this is the Joe McGinnis book? didn't he move next door to her in Alaska?

[Fuzz]

14. Yeah, that's the guy.

[Kali]

15. who wasn't snorting coke back then?

still fun to watch any family values types have their past get the light of day treatment, though

[tridim]

18. I never snorted coke, and I was of prime age in the 80's.

But I must admit that I'm the only person I know that didn't at some point.

[Bluebear]

22. Gee, me! What a square eh

[devilgrrl]

32. I wasn't. Only yuppy social climbing assholes and jocks did coke in the 80's.

Two very good reasons to stay away from it.

[Kali]

35. I might fit in the asshole category

but yuppy social climber never described me:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

37. seriously - the coke heads were always dicks.

Who'd want to hang around jerks like that?

BTW, my opinion isn't about you. Just so you know.

[firehorse]

40. I associate coke heads with stock traders and bankers.

[eridani]

63. Indeed. Pot was much cheaper

One of the grad students I knew back then paid his out of state tuition by dealing, and gave me a free sample. Seemed a lot like strong coffee without the jangling. I told him it was a nice high, but sure the hell not a $100 high.

[SpiralHawk]

34. Not everyone has Republicon Family Values. I did not snort then

...and I don't snort now.

Likewise, for the good of my soul I eschew Republicon Family Values, and embrace regular old American Family Values. But then, unlike the RepubliCons, I need honesty, honor and integrity in my values...

[Blue_In_AK]

53. Not only snorted coke,

but had one-night stands. I think they're making a big deal out of not much in this article (and McGinniss, too). The only issue here is the hypocrisy, but then I've never heard Sarah say that she didn't sleep around a little when she was younger.

[Ian David]

17. Breaking: Sarah Palin is Not Racist

The author writes that after college Mrs Palin developed a 'fetish' for black men.

She allegedly had a tryst with basketball star Glen Rice in her younger sister Molly's University of Alaska dorm room, while she was dating Todd and just nine months before the couple were married.

Mrs Palin got pregnant with Todd and they eloped in August 1988.

Their son Track, the oldest of five, was born eight months later in April 1989.

<snip>

The athlete is said to have confirmed the night of passion in Mr McGinniss's book.

[NoodleyAppendage]

19. Just because you like black co** doesn't mean you are not a racist.

Objectifying African-American males for their supposed and mythical sexual prowess is a form of stereotypical bigotry. Sarah, if this happened, did not make it open to others, did she? No, she didn't. Why? Because she feared it would bring shame upon her, not because of the one-night stand, but because it was with an African-American.

J

[Nye Bevan]

20. It's Twue! It's Twue! (nt)

[Ian David]

27. Sarah von Schtupp. n/t

[msanthrope]

45. I miss the DUzys..you won the thread. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

25. This is true

:)

[Ian David]

26. Yes, I know. Same goes for Lou Dobbs and Strom Thurmond. n/t

[UTUSN]

21. K&R #9, wow the 19th & 20th of September gonna be big: Charlie SHEEN *and* this book!1 n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

23. Glen Rice, huh?

I'm impressed.

[hunter]

24. I think they deliver cocaine to Alaska in 55 gallon drums.

Quality control is hard work.

[hobbit709]

28. I've snorted cocaine off weirder things than that.

[Terry in Austin]

30. Let's see... rubber chicken, snorkel, feather boa, stuffed giraffe, waffle iron...

Check. Check. Check, check... and check.

I think the rubber chicken was actually in the waffle iron, however.

:party:

[hobbit709]

31. you left out various body parts.

:rofl:

[Major Hogwash]

36. Big deal. I've never even heard of Glen Rice.

And this will be the 2nd time someone says "Who?"

:rofl:

[Safetykitten]

29. Could that title be the other way around? People are upset about this!

maybe she had sex with the 55 gallon drum and snorted an NBA star.

Trying to ask these questions tactfully of course.

[FourScore]

33. Who cares? She's irrelevant anyway. n/t

[Atman]

38. Anyone that age who DIDN'T snort coke off of something...

...probably isn't to be trusted anyway. It was a different time.

.

[RebelOne]

39. I snorted coke in the '80s, so I do not condemn anyone else

who has. I cannot even think of doing it now because I have high blood pressure and it would probably kill me.

[johnnie]

41. Personally I don't care what she has done

But I welcome all the shit that is going to mess up her base. She still has followers and a lot of those people will freak out over this kind of tabloid shit. You have to understand that this is the only type of "news" those people understand.

Yeah, who cares who she slept with or what she snorted? Actually her teabaggin' followers do and anything that shakes them up is fine with me. Sadly we need to play hard ball once in a while and put away our liberal ways for a bit and put this shit out there. I sometimes find it interesting that so many here rag on Obama for not playing hard ball, but when we have a chance to do it our progressive thinking gets the better of us and we back down. Sometimes I think we are just too "groovy" for our own good.

Just some thoughts.

[hlthe2b]

42. That, I think is the point...

The schadenfreude we get to indulge in, is hardly unearned by Ms. Palin. I would defend her right to privacy from her life before politics, if only she didn't feel she had the right to dictate the lives of others.

Yup, she (and her followers) are in for a bumpy ride. But boy, haven't they earned it.

[LadyInAZ]

43. please just more attention

We dont need her in office screwing it up further.... go sit down

[Vinca]

44. Who cares? And who's Glen Rice?

[B Calm]

46. Her racist republican base will care. She's history!!

[Vinca]

47. Oh . . . just googled him. Nice looking guy, but obviously not the right color for the GOP.

[kwolf68]

48. Geeze

The media will fly with this garbage and it will be used as an example of how the "Liberal media" is out to get Republics.

So when some actual news does get produced, it can be dismissed unless it meets GOP approval.

Who Palin is banging before her marriage means nothing to me...and I frankly don't care if she does coke. What I care about is her policy viewpoints and how they need to be kept tucked safely away from Wash DC.

[Scurrilous]

49. Glen Rice just crashed many Republican male's fantasies.

:o

BTW..I'd be more impressed if she'd snorted the coke off Glen Rice.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. So what?

I'm still not going to buy his book.

[B Calm]

51. LOL

[The Genealogist]

52. How's that druggie/sexy thing working for ya, Mrs Palin?

[Raschel]

54. That has got to be one of the funniest headlines I've seen here! lol. SNL, you've just been handed

some great material.

[sfpcjock]

55. I think this happened already with the Bush girls...

:rofl:

[deaniac21]

56. Makes her sound better to me.

[Broderick]

60. Really?

The epitome of hypocrisy warms you?

[Jennivell]

62. How is it hypocrisy?

Show me where she's said "don't have sex with black men" or purported to be a fire-breathing Drug Warrior. I've seen the marijuana thing before, and I think she's even admitted it herself. It's not even illegal in Alaska. And this whole "ZOMG she had sex with a black man!!1!" poutrage kind of reeks of racism in itself.

I agree with the poster you replied to. It humanizes her, and ALMOST makes me start to like her just a little. If it's true, that is. Which we'll of course never know with stuff like this. Those who want to believe will, and those who don't won't. And that's how it'll stay, barring actual video footage of said incidents.

[NICO9000]

57. I really doubt she was ever loose enough to do coke and go out with black guys

Just sayin'...

[fascisthunter]

58. loose enough.... ? Oh, she's loose enough alright

loose in the head and if you think she doesn't like sex or getting high, well lets just say this: people who are tightly wound up, are always ready to go all out on EVERYTHING.

[Old and In the Way]

61. Unpossible.

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Probably just a phase, though....

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[ecstatic]

59. So now we know how she finally graduated

from her fifth college! Paging Maury Povich...!