The non-denial denial: Palin (ap photo)
You know, asking for a podium stocked with bendy-straws and bottled water isn’t that bad. Bigger divas like Mariah Carey demand bendy-straws and Cristal champagne. The Smoking Gun reports the comedian Carrot Top demands a female masseuse in his backstage contract. Ew.
But when you fashion yourself as an unpretentious hockey mom from Wasilla then work off a speakers’ contract stipulating private jets and luxury hotels — well, reap the whirlwind, honey. But — there’s news! Those bendy straws? Palin told the New York Post the story was “goofy.”
“These stories were kind of annoying about what I asked for – bendable straws and goofy things like that,” she said. “It’s also bogus how much money I supposedly make.”
Pointing to her black lace dress, she said, “This is a consignment shop piece. You can ask [my husband] Todd. He’ll say, ‘Really, where is all that money?’ We live in Wasilla, Alaska. You can’t get more grounded than that.”
