Comments on: Palin’s Been Punked?

By: tizzielish

tizzielish — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:33:25 +0000

I just tried to post an entirely original comment but received a message that I was posting a duplicate comment.

By: tizzielish

tizzielish — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:31:25 +0000

I am actually a little freaked out that a group of serious, rich investors are interested in anything Sarah Palin has to say, willing to pay her a big fat speaker’s fee. I am sure she is not being punked. I am willing to bet that the event organizers understand their audience and this audience wants to understand the phenomenon that Sarah Palin represents.

Investors want to understand the forces going around disrupting town halls, throwing tea-bag parties (how bizarre is it that reactionary conservatives use the image of tea-bagging . . . don’t they know that ‘tea-bagging’ is a vulgar slang, referring to a sex act involving a man’s testicles?!).

It is sad, and scary, that this frightened fringe represents a threat to our social order.

I am sure Palin was invited to this event because the rich people attending it want to size her up. Some of these rich people are going to be donating campaign money in 2012 and they want to check out the race horses.AND they want to understand this movement, to see how it might affect their profits.

Palin’s rise is coming on the same crest as tea-baggers and town-hall disruptions. Remember how she growled that Obama was palling around with terrorists and how the crowds responded by calling for his murder? That is her base, the angry mobs inciting violence.

We are all wise to pay close attention to this frightened, and frightening, fringe. This is why the rich investors hired Palin to speak. They want to size up the geopolitical situation.

By: Bystander

Bystander — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:15:45 +0000

Sarah gets paid $100,000 for 20 minutes, to read someone else’s speech, or deliver her own word salad. I guess the question of who got “punked’ is in the eye of the beholder. Sarah has never hesitated to make a fool of herself, and now it is for big bucks.

CLSA paying a compeltely unqualified ditz to appear, as a joke or not, tells me they lack respect for their company, their clients and themselves. Not anyone I would want to do business with.

By: Fran

Fran — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:09:27 +0000

It doesn’t matter if Sarah delievers the best speech money an buy. It will still be funny and she will still be a joke. When somebody like Bill Clinton is invited to address a group like this, they are expecting unique, interstesting insights that can only come from someone with his intellect and lifetime experiences. Sure the thoughts may be integrated into a speech with the help of pros that flows better, explains things more clearly and adds some humor, but the insights themsleves come from the speaker. Everybody knows Palin has nothing of value to contribute on matters of international financing. If she manages to say anything that sounds intelligent on the subject, it will still be funny coming form her, because they will realize the words are written for her. And really, who could she find to write something that these people would find worth hearing? This isn’t a political speech, or a talking point disguised as editorial. This is a group of people who are at the top of their field. They have read all of the books, and heard all of the talking points. They are looking for something they haven’t heard. A paid speech writer can’t deliever that. And if by chance her handlers find a group of brillant economic thinkers to work with a speech writer to come up with something, it will still be funny to hear Palin try to deliver them. There is no way she can win. She will still be the joke.

By: kris

kris — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:08:34 +0000

I don’t think its as much of a Punk’d, although that prob has something to do w. it, as it’s PR/Marketing genius, they’ve just brought so much attn: to their company, so I’m pretty sure however much $$$ they’re paying Palin they’ll make back with new clients and or leads.

By: KaJo

KaJo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:48:48 +0000

“Palin Derangement Syndrome”: If anything, that describes See4Pee and TS fan to a T.

I think we should be using that term to describe them as often as possible, to the point where it becomes the reality, rather than how the right-wingnuts use it. Thanks, Michelle Malkin…

By: The Right Reverend

The Right Reverend — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:39:52 +0000

If this makes Murdoch, FOX, and Beck look like fools, so much the better.

Even in Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ, there’s an article about the stimulus having a positive effect
(BTW, whenever a friend says “Wall Street Journal”, please be sure to correct them by saying “You mean ‘Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal.’” Just so everyone’s clear it’s not an unbiased source of news… makes the stimulus news even better…

I hope someone makes some sort of recording!

She was punked before… by radio DJs. She isn’t bright…

Aussie Blue Sky: I hope someone reminds Palin about the abortion issue. It’s the one topic she will show up at an event for instead of crapping out. Indeed, it’s the only Supreme Court topic she knows. She won’t be able to keep her trap shut about it, even moreso than usual. That way, if this whole thing is a joke, it can become a bad joke when she tries to chastise the whole crowd and say her values are better than theirs. Laughed at AND booed for bringing her holier-than-thou attitudes to the Orient? She’ll deserve it.

By: Progressive In Virginia

Progressive In Virginia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:51:50 +0000

Maybe she’ll talk about “youth in asia” and “debt panels”

By: Mother Who Thinks

Mother Who Thinks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:14:23 +0000

I can’t understand why she isn’t irrevolkably tagged as a hypocrite. Traveling to Chinese soil should absolutely horrify her “pro-life” values and supporters.

Oh wait. She’s BRILLIANT! She will take on their 1 child law and its consequences – 1/3 of the pregnancies in China result in abortion. Trig would never have been born because no one can afford a retarded child – he would have been a late term forced abortion. Children are financially responsible for their aging parents.

Chinese women of means used to be able to bypass the law by having their babies in Hong Kong but they are no longer allowing that.

Yeah, that’s the ticket: Sarah to lecture Chinese on the evils of abortion.

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:25:45 +0000

I found this on HP and spit my coffee……….

Borat has been hired as a body double to do some pageant/pagan walkin, and blowing a few toots from the flute..