Hockey Moms Break Out Their Canceling Sticks Over Us Weekly's Sarah Palin Cover

(Sept. 5) -- Sarah Palin not only won over the hockey moms with her Republican National convention speech -- she won over the tabloid reading crowd. Subscribers of Us Weekly, who somehow are not yet familiar with the tabloid's record of taste and accuracy, are canceling their subscriptions en masse after this week's Sarah Palin cover story with the blaring headline "Babies, Lies & Scandal."MSNBC's Scoop is reporting that the magazine "is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue." A well-placed industry source told MSNBC that he or she is "hearing it's 5,000, maybe more" cancellations, while another said it may be closer to 10,000. A spokesperson for Wenner Media, who publishes Us, said "it is completely false that we are losing 10,000 subscribers," and also denied the 5,000 cancellation rumor. What US likely didn't expect was a complete 180 by Palin and the McCain campaign. "When Us went to print Monday night, it looked like the ticket was falling apart," an unnamed magazine editor said. "They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water."