New Palin scandal: She owns her own tanning bed
posted at 12:40 pm on September 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Admittedly, if this was Silky Pony, we’d be rubbing his face in a mountainous pile of shinola.
And relishing every minute of it.
Sarah Palin brought one unusual accessory to the Alaska Governor’s mansion after moving in last year: A tanning bed.
Al Giordano’s NarcoNews first reported that Palin had the apparatus installed in the mansion in Juneau, and a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Roger Wetherell, confirmed the account to Politico.
“She paid for it with her own money,” Wetherell said in an email.
What’s the difference between Palin and our Silken hypothetical? Health reasons, maybe: Per Media Blog, it isn’t unheard of for Alaskans to try to stave off Seasonal Affective Disorder with a few minutes under the lights during the 24-hour darkness of the winter. See, e.g., this bulletin board thread on coping with SAD up north. Various medical sites advise against using tanning beds since they rely on UV rays, not the sort of full spectrum biologically active light found in light boxes typically used to treat SAD, but looking good is a therapy all its own, I guess. Second look at Edwards’s primping!
Seriously, though, do any readers have experience with this? And why are we focused on this today when there’s an even more shocking Palin revelation in the news?
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Juneau is several hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. Even in the dead of winter it gets about 7 hours of daylight.
Just another useless factoid.
factoid on September 16, 2008 at 1:11 PM
***SEXIST WARNING*** My only question, does she tan AU NATURAL or with a BIKINI??? Would love to be a FLY on the TANNING BED WALL… ***APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE, I don’t know what came over me***
pueblo1032 on September 16, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Depends on what you care to call “daylight,” factoid.
Dan Collins on September 16, 2008 at 1:12 PM
I would think that post-partum blues would be freakin’ tremendous in a land without much sunlight. Good for her.
However, I live in Florida, and cannot explain why folks here buy tanning beds…
Joan of Argghh on September 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Fact, you are incorrect.
Fact: Juneau may be the capital but it does not get nearly anyone for tourism via winter months.
Fact: Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer and 100 miles noth and south get about 4.5 hours of daylight in the middle of winter (solstice), As Fairbanks, Tok, Chicken, Fox and North Pole get maybe 1.5.
Fact, talk to an Alaskan before you state something. No one who is Alaskan likes or cares about Juneau.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Only if we can also talk about Obama claiming Ayers is just a casual aquaintence.
darwin on September 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Seems a lot of people want ‘Sarah’ eyeglasses frames. Now there will be a shortage of tanning beds.
News2Use on September 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Sorry, when I started to write my comment, there were only three up. Yes, I am slow at this.
rsb1 on September 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM
No Worries. Them pesky Alaskans are all over.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:16 PM
You know, this just might have something to do with that narrowing race in New Jersey….
jimmy the notable on September 16, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Like no-see-ums.
Dan Collins on September 16, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Hmm, no tan line pics, how disappointing.
Siekierski on September 16, 2008 at 1:18 PM
LOL, yep.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:18 PM
In Washington DC, the winter days are longer and sunnier (51% in November, 46% in December and January, 50% in February). Perfect therapy for Governor Palin’s SAD, and she won’t need the tanning bed!
Steve Z on September 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM
If this were Edwards, the tanning bad really would have cost 35 grand.
Jim Treacher on September 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Until about the end of April where many start to get the Break up blues and Fishing Season fever.
You do not want to be around an Alaskan with those issues. We will hurt you for bait and sun!
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Or bed. (Tanning is bad, though. Said the Irishman.)
Jim Treacher on September 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM
One is an airhead bimbo with no grasp of governmental policy choosen for the vp slot only on the basis of looks — and the other is the governor of Alaska.
PackerBronco on September 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM
One has a hot spouse?
BigD on September 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM
-Hmm, no tan line pics, how disappointing.
-My only question, does she tan AU NATURAL or with a BIKINI??? Would love to be a FLY on the TANNING BED WALL…
-I would like to get in that tanning bed myself. If Sarah wants to join me, that would be extra special.
-As a guy, I’m totally for naked chicks being sweaty. If ya know what I mean!
-Whoochie Mama! The face that launched a thousand snow machines!
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Wow, people are STILL acting like horny teenagers when they talk about Palin. Why is that?
Dave Rywall on September 16, 2008 at 1:26 PM
The HA ladies still dream of you, Drywall.
Chuck Schick on September 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I got a chuckle out of this excerpt from TPM Muckraker that I saw over at MM’s post:
Obviously, Kate Klonick doesn’t use Ebay where you can get a set of 4 high quality tanning beds plus one stand up model for the low, low cost of $19,000. Prices for what appears to be some good ones – $2K-$3K.
So in addition to asking where Kate Klonick
gets gougedshops, shouldn’t we question whether her candidate might be just as out-of-touch and frivolous as she is with money? He does seem to be spending his campaign money like a drunken community organizer with the same positive effect, meaning little to none.Dusty on September 16, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Because the libs are stuck on stupid. Really, this is completely irrelevant and ignorant. What, does having a tanning bed indicate she’s somehow not qualified to be VP??? Someone help me here, I can’t figure this bit of libtardology out!!
4shoes on September 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Seriously, like I said in the headline thread; I found $250 tanning beds on Anchorage’s Craigslist page…
liquidflorian on September 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM
True. But unlike Silky, Pain is actually a woman, so it’s not an issue. By the way, I wonder what kind of spa Silky has set up in his multi-million dollar home in NC?
m064404 on September 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM
It’s an American male ritual meant to purge one’s self of any residually latent homosexual tendencies.
The Race Card on September 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM
White people! ;-)
Do these things help metabolize Vitamin D? I suppose that would be a bennie also.
People did look a me funny, however, when I went to the tanning salon with less-melanated friends while stationed in Germany.
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 1:38 PM
*Video of Obama on his plane wearing his robert plant jeans, striking a pose while another journalist blocks their view*
Agent! … Agent! Agent sit down! Sit down! Agent!! Agent sit dow-how-how-hown!!!!!
…. why is that?
wise_man on September 16, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Too bad Sarah Palin isn’t like so many of our Senators and other pols spending her hard-earned money on hookers and blow.
Her piety…and vanity are an affront to all things scummy.
The Race Card on September 16, 2008 at 1:39 PM
I grew up in Alaska and you know what, if you don’t have a tanning bed you don’t get tan. In the winter time you have about 6 hours of daylight give or take (depending on how far north you live). I knew plenty of people who had their own tanning bed. It wasn’t out of reach of normal people and it seemed a reasonable thing to have if you didn’t want your skin tone to match the driven snow. So, yeah, it’s no big deal.
t.ferg on September 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Ouch!
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
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ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Baldi! Hugs to you pretty lady!
Well my Best Friend is a cute, short (vertically challenged as she and I like to say) Milk Chocolate woman who likes to go to the tanning booth due to SAD.. but to even out her color as well.
People up here who first start working at tanneries get use to the fact that many people tan… no matter who they are or the color of their skin.
:) if you ever come up here… I should take you to the place where you feel like your in Hawaii! One place up here even has SAND to lay in! LOL
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM
For them, it isn’t just SAD. The “permanent tan” of black people makes them particularly susceptible to Rickets when they stray too far from the equator. White people’s ability to have a tan OR NOT, based on how much UV we are actually receiving, is what allows us to live in low-UV latitudes without that particular vulnerability.
Not getting enough UV for their own bodies to produce sufficient D really doesn’t do anything for Michelle’s children, so it’s important that they have D-fortified foods or take supplements.
It really is serious business.
The Monster on September 16, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Edwards tanning beds would have cost his CLIENTS a lot of money.
Maybe his baby-mama has one in the new house?
L’Oreal has some self tanning products that are good. Maybe Sarah can get some cash on EBAY for the tanning bed.
originalpechanga on September 16, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Good thing you weren’t up here this summer. People are having some serious summer fever issues. I wish we had global warming.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM
So what, she paid for it herself, wheres the controversy in that?
Viper1 on September 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Monster, no matter HOW many supplements, etc. you take up here. You will still be crabby, mean, grumpy and all around pissy in the winter unless you don’t get some sun. Which means you stand outside in anywhere from 20 – -30 degrees with the sun like a 4 hours sunset, just to get some viatamin sun!
Tanning booths are easier, SAD lights work for many…. but that is just how life is up here.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Upinak: Yeah I hear it’s been a chilly summer. It is funny how people who have never lived in or been to Alaska seem to think they know something about the place. It’s different from the rest of America on so many levels – most people can’t comprehend it. I can say with certainty that most people from the lower 48 would go bat freaking crazy if they tried to live through a winter in Alaska – even southern cities like Juneau. I think most just couldn’t/wouldn’t stick it out. Heck a lot of Alaskans can’t stick it out and spend the winter traveling out of state.
t.ferg on September 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM
I heard Obama had a widescreen TV and a treadmill in his home! IN HIS HOME!!!
The SUPER-RICH ELITE!!!!
nottakingsides on September 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM
This is 2008, right? Is it bad to have a tanning bed, laptop, TV, workout equipment, etc.. IN YOUR HOME???
nottakingsides on September 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Uh, AP, you do realize that the reason we go after Silky, hell, why we even call him Silky, is because he’s acting like a woman?
Women have always, are biologically wired to put a higher level of importance on physical beauty than men do. That’s an aspect of femininity and is proper attribute for a woman to have.
You gonna start mocking her for putting on makeup?
Nice sideways cheap shot at Palin, though. Or more specifically, nice veiled attack on Palinmania.
spmat on September 16, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Uh, the difference is that one is a female and the other supposed to be a male.
ballz2wallz on September 16, 2008 at 1:54 PM
hey vacations are a nice thing. I try to get out to see the world once a year. This year I am saving it for Hawaii in 2010. I have already been to Washington (3 times), Florida, Michigan, Germany in the last year and a half. I am kind of tired of traveling right now.
But Alaskans are “sheltered’ we usually don’t get the brunt of anything, as you would know. I think more people leave for vacation just so we can see how crazy the world is before we jump back into the rabbit hole.
But you are correct, most do not cope with the winter… and summers very well up here. Heck even I have summer cabin fever because of the crappy summer we are having.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 1:56 PM
I will email. Sounds like a great place for a honeymoon. ;-)
baldilocks on September 16, 2008 at 2:02 PM
UPINAK:
Indeed it is good to get out of Alaska and see the world – and there’s no better time for that than winter. Of course if you have a tanning bed you can prep your skin before you go so you don’t burn lobster red at the first sign of sunlight when you arrive in Florida! (That’s what my friends with tanning beds used them for.)
I hope all this new interest in Alaska doesn’t prompt a whole load of people from the lower 48 to move up there and ruin the state. I guess the first winter would weed a lot of them out anyway. Unless they get their own tanning beds…
t.ferg on September 16, 2008 at 2:03 PM
ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
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I would suggest that drooling fools who post their horny little fantasies about banging their VP candidate are the ones who are hijacking the thread.
Dave Rywall on September 16, 2008 at 2:07 PM
There are a number of health-related issues that arise from Alaska’s high latitude and cold climate. Seasonal Affective Disorder is one, any condition related to Vitamin D deficiency adds to the list. Since Vitamin D is naturally synthesized through skin exposure to UV-B radiation, Alaska’s diffused level of direct sunlight (compared to lower latitudes) or low levels of sunlight in the winter and need to keep covered up to keep warm contributes to a number of potential health issues.
That list of potential health issues related to Vitamin D deficiency is longer than you might think:
* Infant mortality (low birth weight, pre-eclampsia)
* Heart disease
* Cancer (breast, colorectal, etc.)
* Cerebrovascular disease (hypertension, stroke)
You should recognize most of those as the leading causes of death from natural causes. A tanning bed would be a very reasonable investment in one’s own health in Alaska.
ironman on September 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM
WOuldn’t that also go for the Obamanuts who are changing their names? Get a grip idiot!
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 2:10 PM
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ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM
We’d talk about Obama, but then we’d have to interfere with the three-way he’s got going on with Matthews and Olby.
pt on September 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Running low on snark?
geckomon on September 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM
And to follow up The Monster’s and upinak’s comments, they’re correct that African Americans are at greater risk of the conditions I listed in my earlier comment – here’s the conclusion to a series of posts on the topic (many of the links will take you to the latest published research findings demonstrating the connection between the higher incidence of Vitamin D deficiency and the chronic conditions that disproportionately claim the lives of the black population in the U.S.)
ironman on September 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Edwards wouldn’t have paid for it with his own money (remember that we found out about the $400 haircuts because he paid for them with campaign funds).
Greg Q on September 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM
MY GOD! Why is that a person can buy a tanning bet and at the same time becomes a political issue.
WHAT THE IN THE WORLD WILL BE NEXT?
TomLawler on September 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Has anyone seen this? I seriously need to get some more coffee. I read it twice, and still cant find the part where Palin allegedly wants federal funds for this. Appartently, this bridge will ‘worsen some commuting and threaten a population of beluga whales.’ And then they talk about the bridge to nowhere.
wise_man on September 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Dave Rywall:
You’re just jealous that you can’t share your fantasy about banging your VP candidate.
JackOkie on September 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Right. Cause a stupid joke from an aid is actual substance.
Esthier on September 16, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Edwards is (allegedly) a dude.
Despite the leftist meme, there is a difference between men and women. One of which is: chicks with tanning beds? Cool. Dudes with tanning beds? Not so cool.
Professor Blather on September 16, 2008 at 2:29 PM
If the nutroots are hoping this will stick, they shouldn’t hold their breath. The fact is that a large chunk of American women like to take an occassional trip to the tanning salon (though most of them wouldn’t admit it).
Shoot! I live in Santa freaking-Monica, 8 blocks from the beach and, thanks to being stuck in an office 50+ hours/week (and my Irish/German heritage) I’m often pale as pale can be). I counter balance this with the occasional tanning session and there happen to be enough like-minded people in the area that I’ve got my choice of 3 tanning salons within walking distance.
The fact that she lives in a place with slightly less sun than SoCal makes hers far more understandable.
JadeNYU on September 16, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Zippity Doo Dah!
Zippity Yay!
Oh, my , my
I don’t give a crap!
Say, don’t nights last for 6 months in Alaska? WOuldn’t she be pasty otherwise? (And stop trying to keep sing the song with this sentence)
Mazztek on September 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Thanks all. I learned a lot from this thread.
Count to 10 on September 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Wise I have been talking about it in other threads for weeks.
What do you want to know.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 2:53 PM
WOuldn’t that also go for the Obamanuts who are changing their names? Get a grip idiot!
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 2:10 PM
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ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM
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Off topic.
We’d talk about Obama, but then we’d have to interfere with the three-way he’s got going on with Matthews and Olby.
pt on September 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM
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Off topic.
Dave Rywall on September 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I don’t get the “heart-ache” aspect of this.
She bought a used tanning bed. With her own money.
???
unmeritedfavor on September 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM
I’m sorry I missed you mentioning it, upinak. I just saw the linked story just now. Is this something that she asked for in 2005? Seems like the press is trying for every possible angle of gotcha conceivable on this. I tried to find the part of the story where they could pin this all on her, and the best they seem to have is a few quites from a disgruntled democrat in alaska that says that this bridge from one part of the state with people to another part of the state with people would ‘worsen’ commuting and harm whales.
wise_man on September 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM
wise, here is what you are looking for I think.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?s=8538753
and this:
http://www.knikarmbridge.com/
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Nevermind. it’s in the headlines section just now.
wise_man on September 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM
wise, ok get a map of where Anchorage is compared to where wasilla is. Almost right next to each other, other then the inlet in the way. It takes in some cases over an hour to drive around the inlet.
The new Knik bridge would be a toll bridge first off. It also would lin wasilla and anchorage fast then driving a 2 lane highway for over an hour…. AND save gas.
I gave you the links… let me know what you think.
upinak on September 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM
I think this story is just an excuse for liberals to think about Palin in a bikini.
Speedwagon82 on September 16, 2008 at 3:18 PM
my wife (girlfriend at the time) noticed a big change in me from the winter months to the summer months after I moved to Michigan from Arizona.. Michigan is cloudy pretty much all winter long and part of fall and winter too..
DaveC on September 16, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Thanks, I tried once and it didn’t really work, so I was really glad to read this sentence.
evenfarer on September 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Funny you should mention that… I’m sure you’re right that some moonbat will start that line, but in fact, if Gov. Palin used that tanning booth while pregnant, it was one of the best things she could have done not only for her own health, but the health of her baby.
Ironman is spot-on about the health problems that can occur from lack of sufficient Vitamin D. However, here’s one that’s not on the list: There’s evidence that children born to women who get insufficient Vitamin D while pregnant run a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. Links here and here, plus plenty more at Google.
<asbestos underwear on>
Here’s a point to ponder: In countries with authoritarian Muslim government, women are swathed in layers of black cloth and kept mostly indoors. How much Vitamin D are their unborn babies getting, do you think?
Mary in LA on September 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM
This^^
Imagine if we had known he was getting those haircuts to get “dolled up” for his mistress…….
Right-brained on September 16, 2008 at 3:33 PM
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ManlyRash on September 16, 2008 at 3:34 PM
When I read this yesterday, I immediately thought it was likely due to the human body’s need for some UV exposure.
The darkness during winters that far north is far worse than the cold.
I spent a winter in Kristiansund, Norway, which is a couple hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. We got 3-4 hrs of sunlight a day, but still had to drink cod liver oil as a vitamin D supplement in order to stave off depression.
Wingo on September 16, 2008 at 3:46 PM
I never wanted to be a tanning bed so much in my life.
*rimshot*
man, it’s good to see WWN has not left us completely. Unfortunate angle on that rifle, though… *shudder*
sulla on September 16, 2008 at 6:21 PM
The reason we’d give Silky jazz over this is because of previous behavior. With Palin, there is no story here.
You know why it’s being covered though? Desperation for dirt. I read the article yesterday and noticed they mention the plane she brags about selling, as an example of her taking a stand against excesses, and they attempt to make it sound like owning a tanning bed makes her some kind of hypocrite. Frankly I’m disgusted by the very fact that the story exists. A lot of people have their own tanning bed, so there is absolutely no story here.
She paid for it on her own – so no “money” scandal. They admit it was surplus from a gym, so mentioning that tanning beds can cost as much as $35,000 is stupid, dishonest, and ridiculous… but it’s an attempt to disconnect this real woman from the public by making her seem like some luxury obsessed elitist.
RightWinged on September 16, 2008 at 7:07 PM
“What’s the big dea? they get 7 hours of sun?”
Juneau gets less than 6.5 hours. So that’s a sunrise at 9 and sunset at 3:30. Effective light will be substantially less than that and the sun isn’t going to get very high. Noon will feel more like 9 or 10 am on the east coast. That truly sucks and everyone working regular hours will hardly ever see the sun.
libertarianuberalles on September 16, 2008 at 7:35 PM
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