Last night the National Hockey League Fans have voted -- at least in Philly -- with their voices and the hockey mom got no love. In fact, in the city where a man in a Santa Claus outfit got booed 30 years ago, Philadelphians -- some, as you see in the righthand corner of the accompanying photo hoisted "Obama/Biden" signs, rained the boos down on her from the rafters. Here's a CNN account of the story.
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town's NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the arena, drowning out most of the cheers in support of the Republican vice presidential nominee.
As Palin stepped onto the ice before a capacity crowd to drop the puck, joined by her daughters Willow and Piper, the arena's jumbotron flashed a futile message to the thousands of notoriously harsh Philadelphia sports fans in attendance.
"Flyers fans, show Philadelphia's class and welcome America's #1 hockey mom, Sarah Palin," the massive electronic message board pleaded, to little effect. Booing quickly erupted when the smiling candidate emerged from a tunnel leading onto the ice, muffling the applause of any Palin supporters in the crowd.
Some in the audience simply gave her a thumbs down gesture. Others called her names.
Palin spent about a minute and a half on center ice, posing for pictures with Flyers captain Mike Richards and New York Rangers assistant captain Scotty Gomez, an Alaska native. The crowd commotion was sustained for her entire time in the rink.
Palin's showing did not appear to help the Flyers, who looked hapless in the first period, giving up four goals to their rivals from New York. The governor stayed to watch the first two periods with family and staff in the box of Flyers owner Ed Snider, and by the time she departed the Wachovia Center for her hotel, the Flyers had narrowed the lead to 4-2.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
philly.com
Last note, though: Boos to the anti-Palin protester who yelled, "let's stone her old school" and to those anti-Palin protesters who flasahed a middle finger responding to a resterateur who flashed the group a peace sign. Keep the protests peaceful!
1 comment:
Hah!!!
What was Ed Snider thinking?
Philadelphia is as solidly Democratic as Dublin is solidly Catholic.
And what was Caribou Barbie doing draggin' her kids along? Don't they have homework? Don't they even go to school? Or are they going to drop out, like their future brother-in-law?
John Cleese was right....she's little more than a good looking parrot.
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