by Teh Nutroots | The New York Times' "Slapshot" covered this, but we prefer Deb's piece: "Hockey Mom Gets Booed at Hockey Game." Deb's posted the video. Boy howdy, did she ever.
Wonkette comments:
Hey McCain-Palin campaign: not to say “we told you so,” but in fact to say “HA HA TROLLOPS, we told you so,” Sarah Palin was not received well by Philadelphia hockey fans tonight when she dropped the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers’ season opener. Liberal gotcha journal the New York Times describes the chorus of boos as “resounding (almost deafening).” This video is staggering. We’re fairly certain that the arena music is turned up louder in a vain attempt to drown out the SONIC WALL of booing.
But then...John Cole kind of put it into perspective. I hate it when that happens.
For the record, I would not read into anything regarding the booing. This is Philly. Remember this?
Atrios, calling it a "stupid stunt," also says it was inevitable.
Anyway, as everybody knows Philadelphia fans boo everyone. How much Sarah Palin's booing was political (as in, we hate Palin), how much of it was just booing the injection of politics into the game, and how much was simply booing because that's what Philadelphia fans do I have no idea. The point is that from the moment it was announced everyone knew she was going to be booed.
Whatever, there is now footage all over the internet of what sounds like every hockey fan in Philly booing Sarah Palin. So ha ha ha anyway. I felt kind of bad for the kid. Like Atrios said, Palin shouldn't have dragged her into it.
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