Open Thread – Brian Speaks
Oh, hooray. Another delightful tweet from Sarah Palin this evening. I would have ignored it if it hadn’t been for that last part where she quotes Rupert Murdoch.
Brian the Mudflats mascot does not have a Twitter account. It’s partly the opposable thumb issue, and partly that frankly, he’s a bit of a luddite. He’s more of the “picture’s worth a thousand characters” kind of guy.
go Brian
Here, here
Give me enough gravel and I can build an onshore drilling field too! Oh, Alaska, you provide so many gray area opportunities!
Brilliant: that’s Endicott Island you mean, yes?
Yeah, that ban was on deepwater drilling which happens in Alaska all the time…
Oh…wait…
Linda – waiting for your take on y’days decision. I know you had issues with how it seemed the process was working. Is how things proceeded in accordance with the statute?
It’s up now…but too much to fit in one post. I’ll do another one over the weekend. I just wanted to combat the major spin points first. I don’t want those to become “the meme.”
Instead of Twitter, can’t they just call it “Twit” for her?
Wait – you mean there isn’t any ‘safe’ onshore drilling in AK already?
I see Brian’s “bones” have progressed well. Cheers darlin’!
Ha, Brian is sticking his tongue out at her.
Ha, Ha Irishgirl – so he is!!!
Am going to Stanislaus manana. Will have a Mudflatter sign and who knows what else. Please connect with me whoever of ya’ll are there. Should be fun.
will we get a boots on the ground report? can’t wait to read all about it!
Can’t wait for you all to report back!!
Can’t wait to hear back! Email me at akmuckraker(at)yahoo(dot)com!
What’s this “we” crap?
Murdoch is Australian.
not since 1985 – he’s a naturalized american citizen. and a lousy one at that.
only because he couldn’t get the broadcasting license unless he became a citizen. I think that regulation needs to be updated and retroactive.
Alaska is the USA’s Fort Knox????? What happen to the one in Tennessee?
This is Sarah Palin we’re discussing. Geography, history, mathematics, law, science, literature, personal responsibility, the capacity to tell the truth, all of it is beyond her comprehension and grasp. Nothing that smacks of mental effort will ever furrow her brow dontcha know.
I agree. Whatever school awarded her a high school diploma should be forced to write “What were we thinking?!” on a chalkboard one thousand times. It’s not “onshore” when BP created their own personal gravel island. Sheesh.
Well, there you have it: AK is to be plundered for her riches and not preserved for her resources. We pretty much knew you felt that way all along, Scarah, but nice of you to put it in writing for all to see.
Exactly my thought! Um, Sarah? Fort Knox, Tennessee is the USA’s Fort Knox.
Sigh, you’d think Sarah would at least get the simplest fundamentals of spatial reality right. But then again with her that may be asking too much.
Whoops, looks like I made an ignorant boo-boo in my last post. Make, that Fort Knox, KENTUCKY. Maybe I should get my own fundamentals of spatial reality right before I criticize the anointed one.
Murdoch should STFU already oh and Sarah too!
Brian says, Go away.
of sarah, we aren’t going to forget your ethics violation just because you offer us yet another mindless tweet. i am with brian on this one.
AKM, I hope you are not calling Brian a Luddite in comparison to Scarah!
Sarah Palin, the High Priestess of Mental Masturbation, continues to keep her name and face, in front of us all by any means possible. I was always taught that it was improper to laugh AT a person, but Sarah is the exception.
Please make her go away! I prefer anonymity over ignominy.
anonymity, ignominy; those are words the HPMM doesn’t understand. i have been thinking of Sulla recently. so i think i ought to run for dictator, forget about being president. that’s no fun. once i am dictator i will sort them all out. never fear. Murdock and Ailes will be at the top of my list for sorting out. don.t worry i shall not be a vicious dictator. they will be put work serving the poor. they will build homes for the homeless (nice homes not cheesy shacks) and their fortunes shall shared out among all Americans equally (let’s see, writing numbers….adding,subtracting, multiplying and dividing)…hmmm. that comes to roughly one million dollars per person and one hundred million dollars for me. i get a larger amount because i am the dictator. and our Brian will have all the sweet young grass he can eat and all the sweet young lady moose he can nuzzle.
thanks for the picture of Brian AKM.
I’m surprised she isn’t quoting her best buddy Tony Hayward. I need my life back let’s drill, baby, drill. It’s 3 am, god delivered a wake up call. It is the disaster in the Gulf. S’error isn’t able to take the call. Her phone is tied up with her selling her soul to some right wing fringe group.
No matter how much the world changes, the Republicans never do. They always have the same plan. Drill baby, drill.
“We” didn’t buy Alaska to protect the moose? Do you have to own property to behave like a responsible, intelligent human being?
Wonderful comment!
Rupert Murdoch and his $$$$ is S’error’s god. What the “F” ever happened to being good stewards of god’s creation?
Not part of her religion. Her religion is herself and money, with some lip service to a god she purports to believe in.
Well, see, Wolf Pack, it’s not about stewardship, it’s about Dominion.
(Dominion = Power, eh?)
I’m thinking those of us Left Behind will be way better off after the rapture….
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This ones for you Sarah,
As sung by the Bellamy Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIlYAVznYU&feature=related
Jesus Is Coming And Boy Is He Pissed
Well He walked on the water and He raised up the dead
And we teach all the children that He died for our sin
But something’s gone wrong, this world’s in a mess
Jesus is coming and boy is He pissed.
He’s looked down at the homeless and the rape of the land
He’s seen the preachers and lawyers with blood on their hands
Politicians beware ’cause there’s a loophole you’ve missed
Jesus is coming and boy is He pissed.
In a world gone mad He’s watching it all
And the meek shall inherit and the mighty will fall.
It’s ashame what we’ve come to and we cannot go back
And the train bound for glory went down the wrong track
Soon the love in His heart will be the rage in His fist
Jesus is coming and boy is He pissed.
So the whole place can rumble and it floods like a curse
And the hatred and crime you know it only gets worse
These warnings do heed, no more and no less
Jesus is coming and boy is He pissed.
Raising a toast to Shadows Heart in anticipation of Jesus’ coming. i would love to see Him come and give them a good thrashing like He did with those moneychangers at the temple. i bet those good old boys never got over that beat down.
When, oh when, Is she gonna listen….and realize God is trying to close that door she keeps pushng against ????
You misunderstand the woman. “No” doesn’t register. “No” is for everyone else. She’s more special than anyone. God is her lackey, not her lord.
OT, but thank you for your kind words on my weepy day, benlomond2. Your wife and I are lucky to have supportive guys, for better or for worse, bless your hearts.
When I get what DH Happy calls UMS (Ugly Mood Swings), usually either uber-weepy or uber-aggressive/hostile, I think about Kitty, the mom on That 70s Show, and smile and roll my eyes, and then remind myself that this too shall pass. Then I go cry some more or take a nap or rip weeds out of the garden by the roots (ouch!) or, well, you get the idea. I’ve always been a bit of a late bloomer, but, the hot flashes started 8 years ago, for crying out loud! (Too much information? Sorry about that. Let’s wrap this up.)
Have you heard the riff on “ketchup, with natural mellowing agents” from Prairie Home Companion? When I’m really struggling, Happy tells Littlebird to bring me a bottle of ketchup…and a straw!
Make it a big ole bendy straw…and Smile when you say that! I know my flying monkeys are around here somewhere.
Happy Friday, ‘Flatters.
L’Shalom
Those weepy days ain’t all that fun. Hot flashes in summer ain’t fun either. But hot flashes in winter have reduced my heating bill by one third! I kid you not! I keep the thermostat at 64 in the winter and would turn it lower if it weren’t for the parrots.
Hope you are better today. Watching this mess unfold in the Gulf with more bad news revealed every day is enough to make God weep.
“Watching this mess unfold in the Gulf with more bad news revealed every day is enough to make God weep.”
Amen.
Wednesday was the weepy one. Yesterday was almost a (bi-?)polar opposite, and today is beautiful with nothing pressing, so I’m heading out for the pool and gardens shortly. Water, music, sunshine, fresh air, and the yardwork workout are the best medicine lately…along with the Mudflats booster shots.
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no worries !! and with 3 females in the house, it’s been interesting….(understatement !!)
wish I’d known about the ketchup bit a while back..
but she gets a bit “testy” when I offer at times…”I’m a guy, what do I know about a woman’s body…” chortle!! and that’s as faf as I go on THAT subject !! ( evil grin !!!)
well, off to make breakfast and then “gear up” for trip to Turlock…should be interesting…boots, yellow boots..where DID I put them…..
looking forward to boots on the ground reports
Happy trails and safe home.
Have a good trip and do lots of protesting!
Before I packed up my camera and all my sign stuff for the day’s Event I figured I should check in with you Ben. Looks like it is an ” All systems GO “..?
I don’t see anything in the headlines that says she has QUIT on this Speech… yet.
Road Trip !!! See you there ben.
Remember…Wave your ‘ checkbook ‘ at her… you are sure to get a smile THAT way.
thatcrowwoman- they aren’t “hot flashes,” my darlin’ — they’re POWER SURGES; a marvelous redirection of innate energy, talent, intellect, compassion, and focus!
beth.
Power surges, eh?
hot flash : power surge :: stumbling block:stepping stone
I can work with that. Thanks, beth.
poor dear Crow. i know what you are going through. my sis used to laugh at me but laughs no more.i was there when the first flash hit her. she was pitiful. i tried not to laugh. i really did try.
Welcomed her to the “fan club,” did you?
Once upon a time, I was sitting in a faculty meeting in a new (to me) school, when WHOOSH! There it is! I proceeded to mop my brow (and upper lip and neck and….) and fan myself most vigorously. Shortly thereafter several colleagues of color were fanning themselves and looking relieved. They took me aside afterwards and explained that they were raised not to be the first one to start fanning…it was considered…well, I’m not sure what, exactly, but not quite Proper, somehow. Apparently, once somebody starts to fan, it’s acceptable to follow suit. I was appointed chair of the “fan club,” because if anyone was feeling the need, they could give me a signal and I’d start fanning…always willing to help a sister in distress.
I have to share this story…. 20 some years ago I was working as a weatherization energy auditor for a nonprofit. I would be the first person in to run the tests and write the work orders for the weatherization crews. One day in the coldest part of winter with snow and ice on the ground, I was sitting in the kitchen of a delightful widowed woman of color. We were going over my test results and the work orders I had written when also of a sudden, she leapt out of her chair, pulled of her shirt, opened the back door and started fanning herself with it. She looked at me and said “I’m sorry baby, these hot flashes are gonna cook me from the inside out!”
now that is the best story ever. love it. sis came over last night and started taking off her clothes at the door. hysterical.
AKM, you have the cover for a book: What Alaska Thinks of Sarah Palin. Perfect! Can I order my copy now?
I love the way she is trying to distance herself from off shore drilling. Which I believe “Drill baby Drill” was all about. What a fraud.
Brian is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Dear AKM:
I think you got the wrong end of the guy. Don’t you think Brian’s rear view would have been more appropriate to show her (and him) what he really thinks of this lying, grifting fraud?
Hahaha.
Heh heh…good one.
poop moose candy for $P
Brian, I love your picture. Exactly the perfect expression for every occasion! Thank you. Good thing you are not an Illinois moose. Yesterday was the first day in over three weeks that we did not have an extreme heat warning with heat indices reaching over 113*. Totally unnecessary heat, in my opinion. Spent the day outside off and on eradicating crispy plantings and relocating snakes back to the woods from the garage AGAIN. Decided to leave the skunk snoozing on the cool concrete under the porch glider. Thud. I did give it a stern look, though. That animal needs to get going. I am all for finding somewhere cool to ride out this heat, but when UPS won’t deliver past the sidewalk, and who can blame him, somebody needs to go home!
Ahhhh, Brian, the strong, silent type, speaks and proves to the world that he is smarter than Sarah. Lovely picture AKM. Thanks for the morning giggle. Glad I remembered not to have any coffee in my mouth while reading this.
It’s my day off today and the predisone has done wonders for me. It’s even reduced the aches I usually have in my legs from being on my feet all day at work. I feel wonderful today. My neighbor and long time friend of 20 years has the day off today as well and we are taking a field trip to a nursery today. Hope everyone is doing well.
Such a handsome moose, Our Brian.
Does anyone else get an overwhelming urge to scratch him behind the ears and down his cheeks, and sweet-talk him also, too, or is that just some more crowwoman crazy? Tall, dark and handsome…the strong and silent type …and generous, too, offering granny feckin’ fraud those raspberries for her word salad vinaigrette!
what’s not to love?
Hey, $arah, leave Our Moose alone!
Palin now joins the chorus of right wing loons blasting the BP escrow account as one step closer to Hilter-like tyranny:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/25/palin-sowell-hitler/
Brian giving her the raspberry of shame. Love it.
“We didn’t buy Alaska to protect the moose”
Yes. Right. Hey Discovery Channel – please give this woman a show about the natural wonders of Alaska!! Oh right, you did already. Feel kinda silly about that now, don’t you?
Jerks.
sponsors for the show:
BP
Pebble Mine
Alaska Big Game Trophy Hunters
Think Murdock had to have duel citizenship in order to own an American company. Wasn’t this guy in England, before he came to the US? He’s like the guys that go Bar hopping.—-Looking for someone to S#$$%^^!.
Let’s see, wouldn’t Sarah’s little tweet about moose be a great line to include on a commercial during her ‘show.” Wish some nonprofit could afford to do it — nah, rather they spend money where it counts. Still, the mind dreams.
At least we know that she and Murdoch have bonded through mutual ruthless insensitivity. That she would favor the raping of the land over the land and its creatures tells us a lot about how hardened her heart is and how greedy her soul has become.
Her parents did a lousy job of raising her: part of being a good parent is teaching compassion and respect for all creation. That’s not a Christian concept; it is simply practical common sense. You don’t want your children ruining the earth that supports them.
Bah – if Sarah’s face reflected the quality of her soul, we could not bear to look at it. Sad to say, but her beauty is a thinning veneer that will eventually peel off revealing her inner rapacious soul.
Oh, sorry Sarah – let me explain —- rapacious means you have an “aggressive, predatory, insatiable, and unprincipled desire for possessions and power.”
See, Sarah, see – dictionaries are fun, and they have lots and lots of words that describe your miserable little self.
applause!!!
applause!!! from me, also, too
“You don’t want your children ruining the earth that supports them.” Unless you believe we Are living in The End Times and those who are Right with God are ’bout to go to heaven, so bring on Armageddon, the sooner the better.
Oy, vey. I was brought up to believe in Tikkun Olam, that we are God’s partners in taking care of and repairing our world. Wonder if they sing that hymn about This is my Father’s World in her church?
nope Crow. they sing Onward Christian Soldiers.
marching as to war…
Brava!
LOL Brian!
Methinks you remember whatzername has no clue what “safe” means..
“My Turn: DEC developments show Palin did not walk her talkBy Richard A. Fineberg | My Turn
“I promised that we would protect this beautiful environment while safely and ethically developing resources, and we did. We built a petroleum oversight office and a subcabinet to study climate conditions,” former Gov. Sarah Palin proclaimed at her farewell address in Fairbanks July 26.
But recent developments at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation sully her claim.”
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080409/opi_476223119.shtml
And quoting whatzisname?
More LOL-ing!
Rupert Murdouche owns Direct T.V. Change to cable or Dish and keep money out of his pocket.
what we did in our house is we switched to no tv. it’s been wonderful…and you can watch almost anything online these days.
I can see no cable, no Direct, no Dish from my house.
(hat tip to Harry Shearer).
I’m an analog kind of girl in the Digital Wonderland.
I don’t have cable or dish either. I mostly watch our local PBS station anyway. Lots of wonderful programing with far more interesting shows about Alaska than Sarah’s craptacular series would be.
Great photo of Brian. A picture really is worth a thousand words – or 140 characters.
Just a little Tee Hee for the OT:
I was proofing a comment I was about to post at another site and had to correct something I wrote about Sarah Palin’s “rack record”.
Sigh. Maybe I should have left it in …
Flyinureye strikes again! LOL
http://tinyurl.com/256j48w
Vanity Fair picks up Palin’s tweet:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/sarah-palin-thinks-everyone-should-read-this-article-comparing-obama-to-hitler.html
Once again, it is the blog which has the most information! I am so tired of our media. I searched this morning for news of Stanislaus, and each MSM entry had the same, watered down crap with no real information. Bloggers – keep up the good work – you may be the face of our media future.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/sarah_palin_to_deliver_93000_s.php
“After months of back and forth in which it was revealed that administrators at CSU Stanislaus were actively seeking to conceal how much it was showering on high-priced speaker Sarah Palin — and portions of the her contract with the school turning up shredded in a dumpster after administrators claimed they did not exist — the former vice presidential candidate will finally deliver her speech at the university tonight. By the way, she’ll get $75,000 plus $18,000 toward transport and accommodations. And the bendy straws she demanded for her in-speech beverage. “
$18,000 for transportation and accomodations. That is $3000 more than what I am projected to earn this year working full time. At least I can sleep at night and live in my own skin.
We didn’t buy Alaska to protect moose. We bought it to do a favor for the Russians who needed cash. (maybe Murdoch needs a history lesson too, also) Having bought it, we have to decide what to do with it. Protecting moose should be part of that plan.
Amen. Moose and all of the other critters that were here first.
I cannot understand why people cannot see that we are not supposed to be dominant over our fellow creatures but meant to live in harmony with them. Even the mosquitos get this. Wake the f*ck up you crazy people. The more you mess with nature, the worse things get. We start scr*wing around with the natural balance and suddenly we then have to try to control it to make up for our scr*wing around with it and it becomes a big, ugly, vicious cycle. In the end, we will discover that we have only scr*wed ourselves.
I have just returned from subsistence fishing where we only took what we needed (regardless of what our permit said we could take) and then sadly watched as some people around us whooped and hollered about how many fish they caught (knowing full well that their freezers are full of fish not eaten last year). Oh well, at least the dogs reap the benefits of people emptying their freezers of last year’s fish to make room for this year’s.
Nobody knew about oil when we bought Alaska. They were too busy trapping animals into extinction then. Then there was whaling…and then came the Gold Rush and the advent of mining. Now it is oil. What next? How toxic can we human beings be?
Murdock doesn’t live here. He doesn’t have a clue about how or why most people live here. SP has done more damage to this state than anyone could have possibly imagined in a few short years. Now she is backed by almighty big dollars. Oh I pray that she comes to my neighborhood on her Discovery sightseeing tour of Alaska. I will put that tweet on a huge sign and be sure that the cameras can see it. In fact, there must be some mudpup pilots out there who could do a fly-over with a banner behind their plane.
You can say that again Brian.
omg akm, you crack me up.
brian is a bit of a luddite.
i had to look that word up-does that put be in the same
class as sarah?
i was laughing- now i am worried.
I hope people are still posting on this (open) thread because this US News and World Report column is an excellent smack down of our favorite boob:
http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2010/06/25/sarah-palin-jumps-aboard-the-obama-as-hitler-train
Students at the Turlock campus have been fenced off from the area ex-gov A$$hat will be speaking.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/sarah_palin_welcome_on_cal_sta.php
**** With Sarah Palin due to speak at CSU-Stanislaus today, students at the Turlock campus tell SF Weekly that they’re essentially being barred from their school.
“They’ve fenced in our campus. Students and faculty are not welcome on our own campus,” said Ashli Briggs, a senior and vocal critic of Stanislaus bringing the former Republican vice presidential candidate to campus — for $93,000 — to celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary. Yellow-shirted private security officers “have told students to keep moving. You’re not allowed to loiter.” ****
O yeah …this is going to go over really well….
The Twit is just her twitty self – she doesn’t have a script on her hand or anywhere else for protesters. She’s afeared of them. She’s nothing but a coward. From what I gather, the protestors been planning all along to walk to campus. Here’s another one updated at 4pm PST. Doesn’t mention the lockout, but does mention some protest signs.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/24/1225640/palin-brings-message-to-turlock.html
They’ve got some good boots on the ground coverage going on over at the PG site.
Just saw a twitter post that said the Turlock Anti-Palin march has gotten underway.
Also saw these two posts that cracked me up:
“Sarah Palin writing ‘tax cuts’ on her hand is like the Coyote writing ‘roadrunner’ on his.”
and
“The monkey Sarah Palin uses to tweet for her is hilarious. It’s like English but with lots of monkey angst”
ha!
7:21 pm, California time. Another Palin Fence Watch: I was on California State University, Stanislaus campus just now, a few blocks from my Turlock home. The campus is located within a residential area in Turlock, so Turlock is not, as the Christian Science Monitor story claims, a nearby town. News helicopter flying over the campus, scads of media trucks and vans, reporters everywhere, local police cars crusing by and parked all over campus, a tall chain link fence closing off a large area around the student center. The area fenced off includes the library, science buildings, and most of the other classroom buildings nearby. “The campus is closed”, a yellow shirted security guard manning the fence, told me. I counted a gaggle of 25 Tea Party folks waving “Sarah’s our Girl” signs along Monte Vista Avenue in front of one fenced off campus entrance. None of the Tea Party folks I asked were from Turlock. One guy said he was from Modesto. About 100 feet futher down the same street were a group of about 10 high school students who had ridden their bikes over to the campus were showing their “Pro-education, Anti-Palin” hand made signs and cheering excitedly when passing motorists honked and waved in support.
About 100 or so demonstrators protesting the event walked around the newly put up campus fence and stopped at places to talk to reporters. Oil references, like “Drill Baby, OOPS!” were very evident, as well as signs specific to the campus fundraising issues surrounding the event. (The shadowy Foundation finances do not appear to be going to scholarships.)
The rest of Turlock seems completely uninterested in the whole event. Benches along the artificial mountain stream shaded by redwoods and dotted with real granite boulders that runs along a section of the Crowell Street side of the campus were frequented by several generations of local residents feeding ducks and watching about five Black Phoebes darting along the water catching insects to feed their begging juveniles.
thanks riverside- good reporting.
Must have been 5:21 pm, not 7:21, bifocals.
gung ho cheerleader attitude
doesn’t exactly disguise
soul of pure snark.
Listening to Palin’s speech. When she got to the “dumpster-diver” part, she got really animated. But I couldn’t understand how she got from Teheran to dumpster in under 30 seconds.
Transcript and interpretation pls!
Just got home from CSU… give me a bit to recover and I’ll start talking …LOOOONNGGG Drive !!
I heard that the best part of Palin’s speech tonight were the live mic comments by reporters and/or camera crew afterwards. One of the comments was to the effect that “Now I know that the dumbness isn’t just in the sound bytes.” Another was “How do write a story about that?” Those comments will be all over the internet by tomorrow. LOL.
Sounds like her actual speech was typical manic word salad hooked together with the bulk of the unabridged edition of Bartlett’s Quotations. Thrown in for good measure were Hitler, Kennedy, Reagan, Neda, and the “dumpster-divin’” students at CSUS. She couldn’t resist slamming the students who found her contract with CSUS in the University trash. Hot mess of a speech.
….and the event was 50 years of education at CSUS…. way to stay on the topic, Sarah !!
When I saw pictures of Palin walking into the room at CSUS, I couldn’t help but think that she needs to learn to comb her hair or have someone else do it for her. Then I came across this clip which claims she had her hair styled to look like a rat’s nest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4o0gCvRsVU
But the thing that really got to me was how she was dressed. A little too casual for almost 50 year old person in the public eye. Heck, I dress casual, but I’m not going to be filmed for national TV. Could somebody please tell Palin that she is past middle age and shouldn’t be wearing her teenage daughter’s clothes anymore.
I think she didn’t pay her hairdresser and her do got repo’d
I salute Ben and HiG and the others who made the trek to Turlock to join the protest. I just couldn’t convince myself to do the 90-minutes-each way drive. Just lazy, ’cause I know some folks came from further away.
As a sort of penance, I tried to watch the live feed of her speech. This was only the second time I had ever listened to her voice — up until now I’ve managed to limit my exposure to quotes and the occasional transcript-salad, except for Turkeygate. I must say, it wasn’t quite as screechy as I had been led to expect. Possibly, the iffy feed sound quality may have served as a damper. And, interestingly, the Fargo accent was almost absent (the country does have eye-dills, though). I could not watch the entire thing, but I did have a few take-aways:
1. When she’s reading (and, boy, do I mean reading — someone teach this broadcast journalist how to use a teleprompter) a prepared speech, the word salad is substantially less tossed than when she ad-libs. However, at least in this speech, there was very little evidence of conceptual organization. There were segments that almost made sense, but no linkage among them — like a coke-fueled ramble through the speaker’s areas of interest.
2. Even when not tossing the salad, she has almost no speaking skills. It’s just: open mouth; emit words until it’s time to stop; stop. No sense of pace or dynamics, no modulation, no pauses in the parts I watched. It’s like Fruitloop-by-the-foot: y’all bought a half hour of words, here they are, adios. The only time she showed any emotion was bitching at the girls that found her contract.
3. Someone should tell her that Track hasn’t been her “teen-age” son for a year and change.
4. Regrettably, after watching about half of this dreck, and reading about the rest, I’m beginning to rethink my belief that Quitty will never mount a serious Presidential effort. She’s starting to quote (and misquote) politicians. She invoked Thatcher and St Ronnie MHRIHF — and evidently felt she had to explain to the audience who Thatcher was. She’s starting to try to identify herself with rightie icons. I am optimistic enough to think that “mah fella amurkans” would never be so insane as to elect this sociopath, but I’d be happier if the possibility never arose.
Evidently, she got a standing O (and some lovely open mike comments). I’ve been to charity events, back before I became retired and poor, and everybody gets a standing O. For two reasons. First, you (or your company) paid big bucks for your place. The meal and wine were really good, but probably only worth a quarter of the total price. If the big deal was a speech, well then, it must have been a humdinger, because otherwise you just got gypped.
Second, you have to stand up to leave anyhow.
Did I use a bad word? I just posted a probably-too-long comment without saving it first, since this isn’t Huffington Post. Ah, it wasn’t that insightful.
were you there ? HIG was looking for ya…..
The unflattering open mic comments by reporters after Palin’s speech prompted her “hounds of hell” to descend on the Fox news station which carried the speech. FOX40 came out with a statement that it was not their reporters. They even helpfully included a link to the comments. Haha.
Take a look below at how the university “accommodated” the press. They wouldn’t allow them in the room with the ex-GINO half-wit half-term governor. Between miles of temporary fences erected to keep protestors and students alike away from her venue AND parking the “free press” in a media room with poor audio, the university and Palin couldn’t have shown their disdain of the 1st Amendment, the tradition of the free press, and academic freedom more strikingly. What do you have to hide, Mrs. Palin? (other than you’re a paranoid numbskull, of course)
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“First, FOX40 News was the only station streaming a live signal from CSU Stanislaus during Sarah Palin’s presentation. Friday, we were told by officials organizing the speech that we were not permitted to beam a live signal direct from the dining hall where Sarah Palin was presenting; instead, we were offered the opportunity to aim a FOX40 camera at a projection screen inside a room for assembled media down the hall from where Sarah Palin was due to speak. We were cautioned by the organizers of the event that there was an ongoing audio situation.”
http://www.fox40.com/news/capitolpulse/ktxl-news-palinstatement0625%2C0%2C2576995.story
What a bunch of crap. She is such a coward.
Disdain for the first ammendment indeed! They say they wouldn’t give the student paper a media pass either.
That institution should be ashamed. They better be liking their 200 grand because this may backfire in their faces to the point where they will never make another penny. If I were a student I would transfer. If I were alumna, no money for them ever!
Re: Rupert being a citizen. Has anyone seen his birth certificate? : )
It is early afternoon hereand my eyes are tired,but, was that picture a moose or Sister Sarah sans make-up?