Rock star Sarah Palin spends $150K on clothes, trashes hotel room, bites head off puffin
October 22, 2008 by William K. Wolfrum
NEW YORK CITY — Rock star Sarah Palin, fresh off her performances on “Saturday Night Live” and “The 700 Club” went wild in New York, sources close to this blog say. Palin went on a wild $150,000 shopping spree for clothes, trashed her hotel room and hurled a television out the window onto the street below before biting the head off a puffin and then calling Barack Obama a socialist buddy of terrorists.
“The room just stank of moose urine and Spenard,” said an anonymous worker at the Omni Hotel in Manhattan. “We’ll probably never get the rock salt and polar bear feces out of the curtains.”
The NYC is just the latest spree for Palin, the Rock star who is running for the vice-presidency for the Republican Party – previously she ran up a tab of some $20 million during her time as rock star mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and fired a city worker who upset her husband, Todd, a famous snowmobile racer.
Some have blamed Palin’s meteoric rise to the top of the political world for her increasingly eccentric behavior. In the last six weeks, the former TV journalist has called the majority of Americans “anti-American,” and called Democratic Presidential nominee a socialist who “pals around with terrorists,” while whipping up hate at her daily concerts.
But sources close to Palin – who has surrendered her work as Alaskan Governor to members of John McCain’s campaign – say it’s par for the course for the rock star politician.
“We’re used to it,” said one Alaskan, who refused to be named for fear of retribution. “I mean, she built a $26-million road in the middle of nowhere that leads to nothing and no one uses, after all.”
Still, many seemed focused on the $150,000 shopping spree, which comes at a time when 80 percent of U.S. states report job losses, home foreclosures continue, and some families fore go prescription drugs in order to end meet. Nonetheless, the Palin camp remains defiant.
“She’s entitled to it,” said Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow.
Despite the rock star behavior, Palin continues to be a huge draw, with her concerts generally outdrawing McCain’s. Nonetheless, the source at the Omni Hotel remains unimpressed.
“There are chunks of halibut and salmon everywhere,” said the source. “And seeing a headless puffin is just sad. That’s really not right.”
–WKW
I purchased a pair of jeans two weeks ago, about $35 I think.
I could spend $150K on clothes and accessories in less than an hour. Easily. I am green with envy.
I also have lots of foreign policy experience.
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