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According to Newsweek
McCain advisors showed up at Palin’s hotel room to meet with her and Todd during the RNC and she entered the room in nothing but two towels (one wrapped around her wet hair).
Via DailyKos
So what’s the point supposed to be here? After just about any football game you can see whole lorckerrooms full of men in towels on TV! And in many parts of the Northwest (Alaska tends to count) with it’s long Scandinavian and Russian influences (saunas and hot tubs anybody?) answering the door in a towel isn’t that big a breach of etiquette. Compared to, say, letting a visitor wait outside while frostbite or hypothermia sets in.
Call me on this if I’m missing something but this seems like one of those “we’re pretending we’re shocked because you’ll enjoy pretending to be even more shocked” items.
There’s plenty of stuff not to like about the Palin family approach to governance that would probably be more interesting to hear about.
Update: Seriously, this is just one more reason for stuff like Half-nekkid Thursday — “naked under your clothes” knee-squeezing twittery vs substance has got to stop
Update: Digby nails it.
Ok, that’s it. I agree that Sarah Palin is a disaster. She was a terrible choice for VP and undoubtedly cost McCain votes among those who couldn’t believe he’d choose someone so unqualified. I hope we never see her again. I shed no tears for her loss.
But this obsession among the gasbags and the wingnut operatives with this story of her greeting these (apparently very, very delicate) male McCain advisors in a towel is just sexist crap.
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Those who were in charge of McCain’s campaign, including the man himself, chose her for her looks and robotic, unresponsive stubbornness. They are in no position to complain about what they got. And they are pigs for trying to make something out of this towel thing.
Unless she flashed you her privates and gave one of her winks, it doesn’t mean she wanted to fuck you in front of her husband, fellas. She was covered. Grow up.
