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Garth Johnston
Published Sep 19, 2011
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Well, that's rather offensive! Last week reports surfaced that, according to a new tell-all book, Sarah Palin once bedded NBA player Glen Rice. And because this is former VP candidate and half-term Alaskan governor Sarah Palin we're talking about, the story got lots of media attention. And among all those talking heads it seems that one Mike Tyson gets the cake for most offensive public response, which he gleefully shared with KWWN, ESPN's Las Vegas affiliate.
Ready to start your week off feeling dirty? Let's cut to the NSFW, highly unpleasant, tape:
Beyond adding "wombshifter" into our lexicon (it isn't even on UrbanDictionary, yet!) its hard to take much beyond sadness from quotes like "“Glen Rice is a nice, mellow, docile man, non-threatening guy. You want someone like Rodman — yeah baby! Let’s get that donkey in here now. [laughter] Just imagine Palin with a big old black stallion ripping. Yeehaw!”
Ignoring the fact that Mike Tyson is about the last person in the world who should be speaking about political figures, this is pretty disheartening. You'd think by this point somebody would have taught the pigeon-loving boxing champion a tiny bit of self-censorship. Oh, wait. Mike Tyson. Never mind!
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