This Is (Selectively) Outrageous!

Bet­ter sit down for this:

Sarah Palin ate at an upscale restau­rant in NYC two days before test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID.

I’ll wait while you blow into a paper bag and stop hyper­ven­ti­lat­ing.

Elio’s, an Ital­ian restau­rant pop­u­lar with celebri­ties and politi­cians, con­firmed with great sor­row and regret that they neglect­ed to check Pal­in’s proof of vac­ci­na­tion.

This is an egre­gious over­sight, giv­en that they reli­gious­ly check for all their oth­er patrons’ proof of vac­ci­na­tion!

What? How do I know that? Well, the media would­n’t be out­raged, and the restau­rant man­ag­er, Luca Guaitoli­ni, would­n’t be apol­o­giz­ing as if he’d grilled a teenag­er for Jef­frey Dah­mer. I’m sure the arti­cle’s authors checked on that.

Okay, I’m not see­ing it. Hang on:

Huh. I’ve read the arti­cle three times now; guess I’m just miss­ing it.

Any­way, I found this state­ment from the man­ag­er amus­ing and telling:

“We are tak­ing this iso­lat­ed inci­dent — and unfor­tu­nate over­sight —very seri­ous­ly.”

A sen­tence or two lat­er they add that Palin was there with a reg­u­lar patron of the restau­rant, who they refused to iden­ti­fy.

Iso­lat­ed inci­dent, eh? I’m gonna guess the iso­lat­ed part is that this is the first time any­one cared. Oth­er­wise we’d be hear­ing more about these oth­er iso­lat­ed and extreme­ly rare inci­dents (and notice that count­ing Palin, there are four Repub­li­cans on this list, lest you sus­pect I’m play­ing favorites):

• Let’s start with a quick sam­pling of Nan­cy Pelosi-relat­ed iso­lat­ed inci­dents:
  • Nan­cy Pelosi’s hair­cut
  • Nan­cy Pelosi’s post-elec­tion din­ner par­ty
  • Nan­cy Pelosi’s gym
• Next up: Andrew Cuo­mo!
  • Andrew Cuo­mo’s COVID “vic­to­ry tour”
  • Andrew Cuo­mo’s Thanks­giv­ing par­ty
• And a warm wel­come for DC May­or Muriel Bows­er!
  • DC May­or Muriel Bows­er ignor­ing trav­el restric­tions to go to a Biden speech
  • DC May­or Muriel Bows­er attend­ing a wed­ding unmasked in defi­ance of her own mask man­date
• Hon­or­able men­tion for CIA Direc­tor Mike Pom­peo, who host­ed 20 State Depart­ment par­ties with 900 atten­dees!
• Amy Coney Bar­ret­t’s nom­i­na­tion cer­e­mo­ny, which turned into a super­spread­er event
• Gav­in’s New­som’s lob­by­ist’s $450 a plate birth­day par­ty
• San Fran­cis­co May­or Lon­don Breed club­bing with also-unmasked friends
• Philadel­phia May­or Jim Ken­ney, who enjoyed a week­end in Chesa­peake, eat­ing indoors and unmasked
• Austin May­or Steve Adler, who attend­ed a large, unmasked wed­ding before jet­ting off to Cabo, also unmasked
• Den­ver may­or Michael Han­cock, who flew to Mis­sis­sip­pi to vis­it fam­i­ly for Thanks­giv­ing 20 min­utes after a Tweet urg­ing peo­ple to stay home
• 50 Cal­i­for­nia state politi­cos’ trip to Maui
• Dianne Fein­stein, caught on cam­era walk­ing through Dulles air­port unmasked after call­ing for a mask man­date for all air­ports
• Chica­go May­or Lori Light­foot, who vis­it­ed a salon after shut­ting down all oth­er salons
• Chuck Schumer press­ing the flesh unmasked in a crowd of masked peo­ple
• Michi­gan Gov­er­nor Gretchen Whit­mer, spot­ted unmasked in a bar with unmasked friends
• Ted Cruz and his fam­i­ly’s vaca­tion in Mex­i­co
• Los Ange­les Coun­ty Super­vi­sor Sheila Kuehl, caught eat­ing out­doors just after vot­ing to ban out­door din­ing

Yeah; except for these very rare excep­tions, Pal­in’s a heart­less mon­ster who could have killed us all.