I Win at Sarah Palin Bingo
03 Oct 2008 | Filed Under: Domesticities + Politics
John and I stayed up to watch the Vice Presidential Debate, and at the suggestion of Maman Poulet, we decided to play Sarah Palin Bingo. Suzy also offered up a feminist political drinking game, but once she and I realised that it was late and we were old and were going to have to play with cups of tea instead of shots, we decided it wasn’t worth it.
So bingo it was. And every time Palin used some predictable conservative dogwhistle phrase, I got to tick a box on my card. To my great annoyance, the woman banged on and on and on about natural gas, pipelines and energy independence, but never actually said “foreign oil.” Eventually, however, I was able to yell BINGO! with the predictable arrival of the National Guard.
The second time I got to yell BINGO I decided that I owned Sarah Palin’s ass. In the grand tradition of Alaska, I am now considering auctioning her off on Ebay, because I certainly don’t want her.
Do I hear one dollar?
Katherine says:
On eBay? It’ll be like the plane, won’t sell and will have to be seriously marked down and sold at a loss.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:14 amroosto says:
Hey, Not to be a jerk or anything, but I don’t think that ‘bailout’ was ever said. They were both pretty careful to call it a ‘rescue’ at every chance they got.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:15 am(Stumbled upon this from twitter election feed on #vpdebate)
heather says:
she actually DID say evil!
shame though, she mentioned the media.. she didn’t say gotcha journalism.
gratz on your bingo win :)
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:15 ambl says:
i played the bingo game too - lots of fun. although it’s not fair that there’s only one spot for “maverick” and she must have said that word 50 times.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:19 amG. Nichols says:
I’m not sure I see the point here. How could anyone debate without using the words ‘Obama’, “Bailout”, along with the others? Sarah did an excellent job tonight, she came across as a real, likeable human being, not as a phony like Biden(with his plastic smile). She spoke to us, not Biden, and not the suck-up moderator, whose writing a book with Obama as a central figure. She used Maverick a few too many times, but what do you expect. Mom would have loved her because of her stance on Special Needs kids.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:47 amSabrina Dent says:
G. Nichols, the point is simple. It’s an entirely partisan game. Surely it isn’t hard to figure out. Five weeks ago Palin couldn’t even find Iraq on a map, and the potential for her to fall flat on her face pitched against Biden was enormous. And potentially, hilarious. You did see the Katie Couric interview, right? And the out takes?
I absolutely respect your right to vote as you see fit, but while she may have spoken to you, she certainly didn’t speak to me. I’m one of those annoying East Coast liberals in whom she has so little interest. I don’t know what she considers to be the heartland of America, but I consider it to be Zabar’s. Sarah Palin wouldn’t know what to do with me if she tripped over my knock-off Gucci handbag.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 4:58 amJohn Handelaar says:
Ever notice how comments like that usually don’t bother putting a name to themselves or at least — as in this case — don’t post a link?
I mean, it’s almost like they don’t want to put their own reputations against their comments.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 5:02 amJohn Keyes says:
I’m surprised 9-11 wasn’t mentioned.
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 7:48 amTheChrisD says:
Let’s see what the first offer will be: and it’s 50c.
Now, you can take the 50c, or take the other offer that you don’t know the amount, but if you do take the second choice, there’s no going back.
The second offer can be anything from 1c to $2.50.
So, 50c. Take it or Leave it?
Friday, 3 October, 2008, 1:45 pmTariq Juneja says:
i was a little piqued to see what they had to say - but not so much that I bothered. The game must have made it bearable! I find Sarah Palin to be very very scary in a Margaret Thatcher kind of way….God bless America because alot of us that grew up loving the US just don’t enjoy visiting as much as we used to….
Saturday, 4 October, 2008, 2:29 am