Rangers Fan To Drop Ceremonial First Puck At Flyers Opener

Philly Edge checks in with a reminder about Sarah Palin’s ceremonial puck-dropping at the Flyers opener. It seems Michael Klein wrote a little ditty on Sunday about a near faux paus by Palin her last time in town:

Bobbi and Garry Adair of Montgomeryville were on a down elevator last Sunday at the Westin in Center City - he in a Phillies shirt, she in a Donovan McNabb Eagles jersey - when the door opened.

In stepped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (left) and her security guys. Palin wore a New York Rangers sweater with “Palin 08″ on the back.

Bobbi Adair greeted the veep candidate and asked what she was up to.

Going for a run, Palin replied.

“Not in that shirt you’re not,” Adair says she told her.

Which explains why Palin jogged in a green No. 5 jersey, topped by a pink cap. News anchors later praised her sartorial sense.

I can’t believe the Adairs. Could you imagine how funny it would be if Sarah Palin ran around Philadelphia for a photo op with a New York Rangers jersey on? It’d be front page news for weeks. And the team the Flyers play opening night? Of course: The New York Rangers.

Will Bunch is predictably hilariously upset about all of this: “Flyers fans should be outraged — even conservative ones, because this misuse of a hockey game for his political agenda is flat out wrong.” That’ll be five minutes for misuse of a hockey game.

Great Moments In Blogging

I can only echo the question asked in the comments: “Why is there a giant can of beans in the picture?” Pretty much all the other comments are people bashing Will Bunch for being liberal and other random political comments. Okay, back to wondering about the can of beans.

Will Bunch To Release Reagan Book In ‘09

Oh, man, this is pretty excellent: Next year, Daily News writer/Attytood writer Will Bunch will will release a book on Ronald Reagan. Naturally, it will attack the idea that Reagan was a king among men and should have things in every county named after him. Congrats, Will!

As you might know from this, I’m no fan of Ronald (and Nancy) Reagan and how they harmed America with horrible drug policy. Ronald Reagan could have torn down the Berlin Wall with his own two hands and I’d still believe he did more harm than good. (Not that it was just Reagan; I’m ready to jump through my TV every time I see Bill Bennett with his commentator spot on CNN.)

Sorry, too serious there for a second. Bunch’s blog post contains a lot of links and facts and opinions and really I decided to skip to the hilarious comments.

will has finally realized that his true talent, is in tearing republicans down, even dead ones, it is so much easier than contributing anything positive to the world.

Ha ha ha. I love Internet commenters.

The myth of Ronald Reagan: Coming to your bookstore in 2009 [Attytood]

Hillary Clinton To Never Stop Running

Whoo! With all the national attention on Pennsylvania, Will Bunch is picking up exclusives like it’s 2005 and norgs are all the rage.

And he even made a new friend in A.J. Daulerio, as in “I’ve been talking to some people today like my new friend A.J. Daulerio.” (Hey: Congrats on the new job!)

Bunch has had a lot of awful media coverage to work with recently, so things are going well out in the blogosphere. Anyway, Daulerio and Bunch both say that Hillary can’t win the election even if she wins every single vote anywhere ever and murders all of Obama’s pledged delegates. Bunch asked her about it and she essentially gave a nonsense answer that didn’t mean anything. I assume it means our new president is going to be John McCain.

Comcast, Senator Team Up To Screw You

Hey, guess, what, fellas? Will Bunch has quite the scoop! Turns out Arlen Specter doesn’t really care about you, or the Eagles, at all! Yes, apparently he only cares about people who give him money, making him a politician.

As you may have read earlier, Specter wants to investigate the NFL for Spygate because he just loves fair sports so much and there hasn’t been much else going on in Washington. Ha ha, that’s just what ol’ Arlen said, though, and I hope you knew it wasn’t true since a politician said it.

Bunch writes that two of Specter’s biggest donors are Comcast and lobbying firm Blank Rome, who lobbies for Comcast. Comcast, as you know, is in a war with the NFL over the NFL Network. (Isn’t it cute when multi-million dollar corporations fight?) This is probably why Arlen Specter is angry about the NFL’s exclusive deal with DirecTV, yet silent on Comcast SportsNet’s refusal to sell the channel to satellite systems.

Basically, all it means is a politician is screwing you over. But you already knew that.

Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think [Attytood]

Will Bunch Clearly Not Being Paid By Word

Hey, I like it. Short and to the point.

Attytood

Rick Santorum Makes Inquirer Debut

Rick Santorum’s much-anticipated Inquirer column debuted today, and the paper didn’t even bother to put his name at the top of the article online. Good start.

After the jump, I dive in to the Santorum.

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Super Huge Pop Star Censored By Government

Hey, everybody, Will Bunch has our newest thing to boycott: It’s Star 104.5! Or, rather, Alice 104.5. Wait. Maybe it’s the station that simulcast WJJZ 106.1. Oh, wait, Rumba 104.5?

Wait, that’s right, I actually wrote about this before. (In the previous paragraph, I forgot Sunny 104.5, but that was in my article.) Anyway, Bunch says the station, now on an alt-rock format, was told by its owner not to play the new Bruce Springsteen song!

Yay! The new one that sounds just like “867-5309/Jenny”? Are they maybe worried about being sued by Tommy Tutone? Oh, no, wait, it’s his new track “Magic” which the always-reliable Fox News says Clear Channel has ordered its stations not to play.

Like Springsteen, these “older” artists have been relegated to something called Triple A format stations — i.e. either college radio or small artsy stations such as WFUV in the Bronx, N.Y., which are immune from the Clear Channel virus of pre-programming and where the number of plays per song is a fraction of what it is on commercial radio.

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Ladies Love Cool Will

Will Bunch (of Attytood fame) has his own t-shirt now! And it’s in ladies’ sizes, too!

Ow owwwwww!

Attytood T for ladies [PhillyNewsStand.com]

Local Blogger On National Television

Not sure how I missed this last week, but apparently Philadelphia’s own Will Bunch was on Keith Olbermann last week talking about how the government is doing all they can to scare the shit out of us. Congrats, Will!

Bunch was on to talk about the terrorist dry run cheese scare from last week; as you may remember, a bunch of bricks of cheese were found at airports across the country. Supposedly, this meant Osama bin Laden himself was headed this way to kill a few more thousand people. Well, apparently all of it was untrue, none of the cheese found was linked to terror attacks, blah blah blah. Bunch wrote about how a CNN anchor actually said “Just kidding” on a Saturday newscast. Also, apparently an old woman who had some leaky ice bags or cheese or something was asked: “Do you know Osama bin Laden?”

Anyway, that’s the background, here’s the clip.

You might say Will has a voice for print. I try to avoid television appearances — it’s been ridiculously easy, nobody has tried to get me on TV — since (1) I stutter and (2) nobody could understand my mumbling Philadelphia accent anyway.

Keith Olbermann Updates The Nexus Of Terror And Politics - Creating Terror Scares [Crooks & Liars]
Told ya so, Part 1: CNN says “just kidding” after terror scare [Attytood]