West Hollywood Considers Ban On Sarah Palin Drag Queens: McCain Campaign Calls Ban Anti-American. Attempt to "Squash Republican Vote"

In what should send female impersonators and gender benders falling off their 4" heels and back to the costume drawing board for this coming October 31 dress fests, city officials in West Hollywood, CA are considering a last minute ban on gay parade and party goers posing as Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.

"It's not that we're against dressing up as Sarah," said West Hollywood mayor, Mayor Jeffrey Prang. "It's just so tacky. It's just that it's like impersonating Marilyn. There's no challenge. Bangs, heavy rouge to build those high cheek bones and those awful glasses. Voila...you're Sarah. We expect our residents to lead the way, not come up with something every drunk notary in Toledo will be wearing."

While the rest of America's optical and cosmetics shops ready extra stock in preparation for a run on Palin glasses and lipstick, the McCain campaign calls the West Hollywood ban an obvious attempt to squash the Republican vote in California.

"You're not hearing them banning Joe Biden drag queens," said Palin spokesman, Tucker Bounds. "Pro-American Halloweeners would never READ THE REST OF THE REAL SCARY POLITICAL STORY HERE.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NOTE: THE MAYOR JEFFREY PRANG MENTIONED IN THIS LOVELY LITTLE PIECE IS NOT THE ACTUAL MAYOR JEFFREY PRANG, WHO HAS FAR MORE SENSE THAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS FOOLISHNESS. SATIRICAL OR NOT. Steve

Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com

Comments

[timm]

So this is a joke right? how about putting jokes back on the joke site.

[HoldenLitgo]

Yeah, let's put all references to Palin on the joke site. She surely doesn't belong on the politics sites.

[Adrienne Williams - Huffpost Blogger]

I'm sure someone will do it in Chicago, there's a drag show coming up...

[pulpstress]

Well, if they're going to ban Palin costumes because they're not imaginative, like Marilyn Monroe costumes, then they're going to have to ban those costumes too, are they not?

It seems only fair to me.

[moosetacos]

I don't think you're getting the point.

[majorteddy]

Nobody mentioned the broom, what about the broom?

[rr52]

So Sarah should like the idea that she is being impersonated by drag queens? Does the Christian Conservative Right agree with that?

[rpr]

Any sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality :)

[Pogopaws]

Too true--amazing how low some parties have sunk. Swift would have a fied day with these yahoos.

[matthensley]

I think McCain should suspend his campaign and demand that Obama repudiate...eveyone? I'm not sure who he should repudiate...this whole thing is too stupid to even make a good joke.

[lejman]

i'm confused...is west hollywood pro america, or was that north hollywood?

and mccain campaign calls a ban against sarah palin drag queens an anti-american attempt to squash the republican vote? how did the mccain campaign even find a confluence with drag queens?

that red kryptonite again. bizzarro world at its finest.

[Puller58]

Man, what a drag. ;)

[blood1]

Okay, I bothered to real the whole article, which is more than I can say for the McCain campaign...may all their operatives in West Hollywood will show "how contemptous" this act is by showing up for the parade....and then complain LOUDLY when they don't win the Best in Costume award.

This is really funny and once again the GOP is so busy "responding" to anything with SP's name that they missed the whole point. Surely they have a sufficient number of IT individuals that can both run the search engine AND READ.

If this was April, it would be April Fool...but since it isn't, the GOP appear to be proven to be Fooled in October.

I needed a little humor today, so thanks GOP!

[ebanks84]

I can't believe you guys are taking this seriously. It was only a joke by the drag queens themselves it seems because the real Mayor said he never said a thing like that.

Come on guys, it was a good laugh. Geez!

[TullyMars]

Actually the Dick Cheney Drag Queen gig is a little more tacky... I'm just sayin

[SteveDenver]

Yup yup, youbetcha

[bayside]

Dont think so.. We didnt hear this outrage when everyone and there brother dressed up as clinton or hillary or nixon. They just to get over their little hurt feelings like we had to..

[scmucas2001]

I think the biggest question to come from this issue is why is Tina Fey the "tag photo" for this article?

She is a gorgeous woman...or is she?

Dun Dun Dun!

[tlily]

"You're not hearing them banning Joe Biden drag queens," said Palin spokesman, Tucker Bounds.

Huh? Drag queens dressing up as Joe Biden? I don't quite understand how that would work. Perhaps I'm being dense, but I always thought that drag queens are men who dress up as women.

[EllaBee]

OH Lawd! Poor Tucker

[midknightryder13]

DINGDINGDINGDING! No more calls, please -- we have a winner! (I was trying to figure THAT one out myself -- talk about being unfamiliar with the concept...)

[Texas4Blue]

lol; I think...?