by now we've probably all heard about sarah palin spending $150,000.00 in the last 6 weeks on clothes.


October 23, 2008

by now we've probably all heard about sarah palin spending $150,000.00 in the last 6 weeks on clothes.
but let's think about that, or let's at least put it in perspective.
maybe even just say it again: sarah palin has spent $150,000.00 on clothes in the last 6 weeks.
she's a humble soccer mom? a frugal reformer?
ah boy, $150,000.00 on clothes? from money that was donated to the republican party?
that comes down to roughly $3,000.00 a day as her clothing budget(not to mention that $5,000.00 went
to buy clothes for her separatist husband, todd).
granted, she's looked pretty good, and as a new yorker i'm pleased that she spent most of her rnc clothing
money here in manhattan(yes, it's ironic that the alaskan soccer mom's spending has mainly benefited
retailers here in good old new york city).
but how do republicans reconcile 'soccer mom/frugal/reformer' sarah palin with 'i spend $150,000.00 in 6 weeks
on clothes' sarah palin?
i dunno, if i had donated money to the republican party(which, you've probably figured out by now, i didn't)i think i'd be kind of pissed
off that my vp candidate was spending $150,000.00 of donation money in 6 weeks on clothes.
remember the outrage when it was revealed that john edwards spent $400 on a haircut?
$400 would buy you roughly 1/15th of the red leather jacket that sarah palin was wearing recently.
i guess the new joke/line will be 'what's the difference between a pit-bull and sarah palin? a $5,000 ferragamo
dress from saks fifth avenue, paid in full by the people who donated to the republican party.'
-moby

bliss

Submitted by chobs on October 24, 2008 - 12:48pm.

wonder how much you spend on worthless crap?

we know your rags to riches storyline.
could make for a good coen brothers film.
it was a struggle, no heat and ramen noodles for dinner.

you are such a hypocrite, do not ever run for ANY political position. Your cut and paste rants about politics are tiresome. I do hope Obama wins so then you can go on about the last 8 years and loose face/

ps, your recent music and rants fatigue most of us.

you monger like the whole lot.
you used to be the dogs bollocks.
now, just a monger.

sleep well

zx \

The difference is Moby earns

Submitted by james on October 27, 2008 - 12:04pm.

The difference is Moby earns his money, it wasn't given to him to spend on something else. I can understand buying new clothes to look presentable as a leader of our nation, but spending that amount of money on red leather jackets and other stuff to just look "cool", that's just wrong. She should be ashamed of herself. I wonder how much of the Alaskan tax payers dollars went to buying Sarah more dead animals to wrap around her body?

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Actually it was reported

Submitted by mikeysgroove on October 23, 2008 - 5:31pm.

Actually it was reported that $75,000 of that was spent in Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis while she was sequestered here preparing for the RNC. I'm just sayin.

With no connaction to the story

Submitted by Inbal Brownstone on October 23, 2008 - 10:21am.

But i realy didn't know where to write it;

Moby come to israel!!
Israely people have to see your concert!
I just sew one on TV and I realized how much we need you here!

sorry on the interruption [:
Have nice weekend you all...

Well, to be fair, that's

Submitted by newmonkey on October 23, 2008 - 9:54am.

Well, to be fair, that's like a cheap pair of shoes for Cindy McCain.

living in the fish bowl

Submitted by sacred dignity on October 23, 2008 - 9:02am.

moby, you're in the "entertainment industry". surely, you can understand the importance of "projecting an image" to your audience that your publicist, agent, record label and concert promoter wants them to see.

i'm almost certain your tour manager brings along a case full of "clunky kissinger-jarvis cocker spectacles" and ironic t-shirts with him for your gigs.

tell me i'm wrong.

would it make you feel better if palin arrived at campaign rallies in an old Subaru wagon complete with Phillips exeter and the Darwin walking-fish decals on the rear, wearing a seasoned Patagonia fleece jacket?

$150k to make-over an entire bridge-and-tunnel townie family into members of the "eastern establishment" shouldn't come as a surprise to you given your proximity to soho.

i mean $150k on allowances and travel expenditures is not as egregious as obama spending close to a $1 million of his campaign money on acorn to commit massive registration fraud on our democratic process. it's not like palin's armani outfit is being investigated by the fbi in 13 states the way obama's acorn is.

at the end of the day, politicians are "actors". some are better than others. the real leaders are not visible. they hide behind private institutions such as the federal reserve, the council on foreign relations, the bilgerberg group and the trilateral commission.

To look presentable is one

Submitted by newmonkey on October 23, 2008 - 9:52am.

To look presentable is one thing; to use that much of DONATED money on your wardrobe is ridiculous.. especially since they've been branding the other side as elitist when the other side uses their own money to buy their clothes; not directly out of campaign funds.

I don't spend near that amount on clothes and never have to go out in "an old Subaru wagon complete with Phillips exeter and the Darwin walking-fish decals on the rear, wearing a seasoned Patagonia fleece jacket."

And as for your acorn bullshit.. I'm not even going to bother.