National Enquirer: The Sarah Palins Scandals: Call of the Wild

[RamboLiberal]

Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has hushed up a series of scandals including her own brother-in-law's shocking criminal past!

After the Alaska governor was named John McCain's running mate, she disclosed her husband Todd had been arrested for drunk driving in 1986 - but not that his brother James Palin was involved in a devastating hit-and-run that inflicted multiple injuries on a female pedestrian.

Court papers obtained by The ENQUIRER show that James Palin, Sarah's brother-in-law, was busted as a 20-year-old on Feb. 15, 1989, in his Dillingham, Alaska, hometown - after a major drinking binge.

According to official records: James, in a drunken stupor, slammed into a woman with his vehicle, stopped, pulled her out from underneath it - and then callously sped away, leaving her injured on the side of the road like Alaskan road-kill!

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Blanche Kallstrom, Todd's mother, sued the U.S. government for negligence and took the suit all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court - which ultimately ruled against her.

The suit sprang from a series of claims and counterclaims originating from a tragic mistake in 1993 in which Blanche, Sarah's mother-in-law, accidentally served a child a lye-based detergent, thinking it was fruit juice.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_scandals_call_of_the_wild_/celebrity/65443





Oh and the Enquirer says they have Bristol Palin drug video shocker. What are these people - the white trailer trash of Alaska? Oh and don't forget she was fighting to keep the bars in Wasilla open till 5am! Where's MADD?

[tblue]

1. Glorified trailer trash.

Nothing more.

[RebelOne]

20. Excuse me, but the term "trailer trash" offends me.

I live in a mobile home and do not consider myself "trailer trash."

[Cha]

23. I know..there's lots of good people who

live in trailers. Sorry, trailers got such a bad rap.

[RamboLiberal]

28. Nobody called you trailer trash

its just an expression. Maybe DU needs a dictionary of expressions we can't use here cause someone is sure to get offended.

I get tired sometimes of trying to be PC on DU.

[tblue]

52. Agreed. 100%.

[WCGreen]

61. No kidding...

[Better Believe It]

29. That What Rich Whites Generally Call Poor White & Black Working Class People

I don't like the term.

[RamboLiberal]

33. Oh grow up - I was just having fun with the Palins

sometimes DU is the no fun site for all the people who get offended by every friggin' term someone uses.

Maybe we need to petition Skinner for a feature on DU we could look up terms before we post that some DU'er finds offensive.

Do you really think that someone who hangs out at DU and votes Democratic puts down poor people?

[DeschutesRiver]

38. You are fine on it, from where I come from

My grandma lived in a single wide in an inner city trailer park. Most of the Okies on my dad's side did too. They weren't trailer trash, but you can bet they called out the real deal trailer trash when they saw it.

Trailer trash isn't about a place or a doublewide per se. When we were starting out and flat broke, we lived in a real tiny "house", which neighborhood was filled with "trailer trash" living in those houses. Back then taxes were high (honestly? like 60%+++), our interest rate was 14% on the stick-built home we owned, in the trailer trash neighborhood, and yeah, surprise you had to have a substantial down payment - oh, and land loans without a home on them were almost non-existent. Despite that, we saved and scraped and bought a piece of land - and the only money left over would buy a doublewide, like an old one with metal sides, coming straight out of the trailer park after the older owner didn't wake up one morning. The price was right, and like I said, one side of my family were good trailer park people.

Made quite a splash at the law firm we worked at then. Yep, couple of lawyers, but it worked for us (couldn't have afforded to build a home on acreage at that time - strapped for sure). We are far far from that now, but don't think that if an economic downturn blew our house apart, that if it made financial sense again that this old half okie, half canadian independant old woman wouldn't go put some money down on another one.

Trailer trash is, for me, a completely recognizable "state of mind". I know trailer trash when I see it, and was confident enough even when I was starting out in that doublewide to know I wasn't trailer trash. And to still call the real trailer trash down the street by its proper name. And I still call out trailer trash when I see it today.

[DeschutesRiver]

39. And an omg to the article - her MIL served up lye detergent thinking it was fruit juice?

I am speechless. There is no way the smell wouldn't have given this away, unless you were on the tail end of a drinking binge.

What child did momma-in-law serve this concoction to? Is this MIL a working part of the Palin family posse that is now in charge of Sarah's kids while she and Todd play absentee parents?

I wouldn't raise my dog like this.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

64. Why not take the word "trailer" out and just call trash TRASH?

Not a nice thing to call anyone but some people deserve nothing better.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

50. It is an ignorant and insensitive thing to say

White trash can come from the "best" of homes and neighborhoods- take the Palins for example

[tblue]

53. Bwaaaaaaahahaha! There's no good euphemism for that, is there? Tell me, and I will use it.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

56. I am afraid not.

Sometimes it is the only phrase that will do. I rarely use the term but those Palins are the personification of it.

[tblue]

51. I never called you trailer trash.

Some of my best friend live in mobile homes. And none of them is trailer trash.

[roguevalley]

41. My aunt and uncle lived in Dillingham and there is a volkswagen

still stuck down in a pothole that opened up in breakup and swallowed it whole. :)

[crazy_vanilla]

63. I sooooo agree

To think this person could be my Vice President :argh:

[rndmprsn]

2. not sure why anymore, but kick nonetheless

[MadrasT]

31. Funniest subject line ever.

"not sure why anymore, but kick nonetheless" :rofl: :hi:

[rfranklin]

3. Yes, and that's why the Republican base loves her....

They hate people who are more intelligent, more educated, more thoughtful than they are.

[ShortnFiery]

4. "Bristol Palin drug video"

:wow:

[billyoc]

6. Which one's Bristol, again? It's like trying to pick out individual Spice Girls.

The one on the left? :shrug:

[RamboLiberal]

10. The pregnant one - n/t

[BigDDem]

46. She's the one that missed the "Abstinence Only" lecture

[billyoc]

59. Yeah, I hear that wasn't a very popular lecture in Alaska.

:rofl:

[vaberella]

27. There's a drug video?! Of Bristol? I can't participate in this.

This family is out of control.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. I've seen that one.

It's Bristol Palin clearly inebriated,topless, talking to the camera, lying on the floor while messily eating a cheeseburger.

[PunkPop]

5. lol

This is just plain fun.

[BonnieJW]

7. The Palins are a soap opera.

More and more of this stuff is going to surface.

[grannie4peace]

8. i thought their stories on her were about over!!!!

this means i'll have to buy more NE's

[sabra]

9. and the best "dirt" they had on Obama was that he sat on a public board with Bill Ayers

[Solomon]

15. A board helping people in poverty no less.

[ailsagirl]

11. I never thought I'd say this but KUDOS to the Enquirer!!!

:woohoo:

They're always next to the checkstands at supermarkets-- hard to avoid!!

:evilgrin:

[PearliePoo2]

12. I hope the National Enquirer's photo editors

carefully check their mail if they put out a Bristol on drugs video.
(just remembering what happened when their cover showed "Jenna and Tonic" falling down wasted)

[KathieG]

13. Classy family...yikes

:eyes:

[RamboLiberal]

14. Gawd - we have to keep them out of D.C. for their sake

Imagine the scandals if they hit the big city! They could be a new sitcom!

[KathieG]

21. The real life Beverly Hillbillies eeks!

[Imagevision]

58. K&R!

[BlueIdaho]

16. Now you know why Edwards "owned-up" to his affair.

The Enquirer will give you a chance to end the story - but if you don't take it, they will bury you.

Now I wonder just what demographic reads the Enquirer...

[seabeyond]

17. lye-based detergent, thinking it was fruit juice.... wtf. and these people will preach

and judge me. i dont think so.

[Blaze Diem]

18. What a bunch of hillbillies..Would you want them as neighbors??

Who the hell voted Mz Trailer trash Palin to the office of GOvernor??
Did she ride in on Bush/Cheney coattails??
Fuckin bunch of loonies.

[seabeyond]

19. she was announced fri morning. check her out three days. by sunday i concluded

exactly that. trailer trash

and i am really nice and dont like to say that, BUT, really, trailer trash are proud of being trailer trash and they really work hard at it. so really to them, not an insult..... wink

[Blaze Diem]

22. You are exactly right.

to them its not an insult.
Someone once compared them to the Griswolds cousins on the movie 'Vacation'.

yea.

[vaberella]

35. No more posioned Kool-Aid to the American people. Out with Palin & Co!!

That needs to be made viral, but this family is a poison on the American people.

[seabeyond]

37. agree.... n/t

[Imagevision]

24. National Enquirer Glorified trailer trash? -> but ok to expose John Edwards

get a clue.

[Neshanic]

25. The Alaskan Hillbillies. Cindy McCain I am sure LOVES this gang her husband drug up.

[anneboleyn]

47. Watch her around Palin - she clearly can't STAND her! She stands at least five feet away n/t

[RamboLiberal]

26. Interesting tidbit in Huffington on Bristol & Levi

At the Alaska rally for Sarah:

Second, sitting three-quarters of the way up the bleacher was Bristol Palin and her eighteen-year-old impregnator, Levi Johnston. Once I noticed them, I kept my eye on Bristol and Levi. What I learned provoked an odd empathy for the awful pickle Wasilla High School's hockey stick wielding homeboy now finds himself in.

Bristol and Levi sat shoulder-to-shoulder. But not once did they look at each other, speak to each other, or in any way acknowledge each other's physical presence. Not once. For an entire hour. Instead, Bristol stared straight ahead and Levi had the glazed look of a trapped feral animal.

Then when Sarah wound up her autograph signing and the people sitting in front of him on the bleacher began climbing down, Levi stood up and, without looking at or speaking to his betrothed, turned in the opposite direction and walked away.

What I took away from that is that the People Magazine spin about how excited the happy couple is about their upcoming nuptials and Levi's "Bristol" finger tattoo is the Karl Rovian nonsense that anyone who thinks about it for a scintilla of a second intuitively knows that it is. If McCain-Palin lose, my easy bet is that there will be no nuptials. But if they win, the hand Levi dealt himself by having had the poor luck to knock up the daughter of the Vice President of the United States (at the time who could have known?) will have to be played out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-craig-mitchell/this-weeks-palin-primer-f_b_127074.html

I'm betting that Levi and Bristol won't get married - it's only the story till the election to make it look good.

[vaberella]

32. You lost me at, "impregnator".

I'm not surprised by this. This is a shotgun marriage of the modern ages that will create the seed of hate. It's horrible. Kids marrying because they got pregnant and basically ruined their lives.

None of these kids will be happy, and they'll make that baby miserable. I can see where you say they won't get married. But I doubt that. I think they will get married but much like the Britney Spears' sister sistuation, someone will cheat OR they'll get a divorce in 2 years time.

[AzDar]

30. Todd 's Mother, Lucretia Borgia Kallestrom, "accidentally" served a child

poisoned fruit punch?

Seriously...WTF???

[vaberella]

34. Are you kidding?! Oh my lordy...she may be voting Obama, so I'll give her a pass. ala Rove. n/t

[KayLaw]

54. How does that happen?

She came upon a glass of lye-based detergent and decided to serve it to a child? Strange!

[madamesilverspurs]

36. Remember when

referring to a community (or family) as "Peyton Place" was a horrible epithet?


Crap, I just really dated myself, didn't I?!

[RamboLiberal]

43. LOL - dating myself - I know the reference and thought of using it n/t

[catnhatnh]

60. Well this is just another Peyton Place...

...and you're all Harper Valley Hypocrits...But DAMN she looked fine in go-go boots....

[Teacher in SC]

40. I've been buying the National Enquirer to be sure they keep digging into the Palin dirt.

I've NEVER bought it before!

[RamboLiberal]

45. I gave the 2nd week's copy to my Palin loving neighbor

on the pretext of her interest in another article about a dog. I bet her and her hubby who incidentally was for Hillary read the article. We talk friendly politics over the fence so I'm still working on them.

[tanyev]

48. Yup, yup. Back door Obama campaign contributions!

;)

[Imagevision]

44. National Enquirer with official documents, looks real to me...

[Blue_In_AK]

49. OMG, I remember that case with the detergent.

In fact, I think I might have done some work on it ... I'm trying to remember which lawyer I was working for way back then, but that sure does ring a bell. It was a very, very sad situation.

[Bunny]

65. Did the child die? The article doesn't say.

:shrug:

What a classless family. They are truly the bottom of the barrel.

[Blue_In_AK]

66. I don't believe she did, if I remember right.

She had some severe damage to her throat, however. I wish I could recall all the details. All that really sticks out in my mind was that it was a very tragic accident, and I felt really bad for everyone involved.

[Bunny]

68. Thanks. It really does sound very tragic.

[Imagevision]

55. Trailer trash!?!? - say that when you see the second palin installment of National Enquirer

[Skidmore]

57. Do not underestimate the Nat. Enquirer. Honest to goodness truth...

today when I returned from volunteering at the Obama headquarters, my neighbor lady met me in the drive way with a National Enquirer in her hand. She was really upset. Now this woman is the member of a pentacostal church and she had her husband are among those people who vote the way the pastor tells them to. Needless to say, I was amazed to see them show up at the caucus and caucus for Hillary. I think she is genuinely concerned about the nation and very much has grown to dislike the Republicans. Her husband, who blasts Limbaugh on his outside radio all the time, I strongly suspect was one of the foot soldiers of Operation Chaos, based on things I have observed him to do and heard him say. Anyway, she points to the article on the Palin scandals and asked me if I had read it. I told her I had read about it. She told me I should read it and that "this woman is dirty." She said she can in no way vote for her and had encouraged her mother to vote for Obama also based on the information in this article. I went to hand her paper back to her and her husband came out of the garage. She told me to read it and I could return it to her when he wasn't around. She nodded and told me that the Enquirer ahs been right about other political stories and she didn't see any reason to question this one. It wasn't about UFOs and alien babies.

That experience was an eye-opener.

[regnaD kciN]

62. Palin is OVER, folks...

We have bigger moose to hunt.

[GreenPartyVoter]

67. How do you accidentally give a child lye-based detergent to drink?!