Unemployed homemaker Sarah Palin took a temp job in Hong Kong today talking about a bunch of stuff that the press wasn’t supposed to cover, but they did, because they hate Baby Trig.
Among choice quotes:
"Many believed that with China liberalizing its economy, greater political freedom would follow, but that hasn’t happened," she said. "The more open [China] is, the less we’ll be concerned about the military buildup and its intentions."
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She also spoke about how Alaska once shared a land bridge with Asia. And she noted that her husband’s Eskimo ancestors crossed that bridge. "To consider that connection that allowed sharing of peoples and bloodlines and wildlife and flora and fauna, that connection to me is quite fascinating," she said.
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She talked about the recent protests of ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs, Chinese labor conditions, and Tibet. Mrs. Palin mentioned Charter 08, a document signed by prominent academics and dissidents calling for greater democracy and openness in China.
Wow. Dazzling.
It’s a shame that John McCain did not allow Sarah Palin to show off her incredible grasp of foreign relation– Oh wait, He did:
Palin was slated to spend the rest of the day touring Hong Kong, repeatedly asking to have lunch at a Panda Express (where they eat with sticks! awesome!), and then jetting home before one of her daughters gets pregnant.
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“To consider that connection that allowed sharing of peoples and bloodlines and wildlife and flora and fauna, that connection to me is quite fascinating”
Jesus H. Christ, she is goddamn and stupid and moronic and idiot.
Also. Imbecile.
“[…] She noted that her husband’s Eskimo ancestors crossed that bridge.” Then Sarah continued, “now that I’m so totally not into him and his snow machines any more, I’d really like to rebuild that bridge to the West and see Todd head off into the sunset.”
Also. I bet she was kept busy wondering if the Panda they served at Panda Express was fresh or canned, and whether it would taste more like wolf or moose…
“To consider that connection that allowed sharing of peoples and bloodlines and wildlife and flora and fauna, that connection to me is quite fascinating,” she said, adding, “And if I’m lucky enough to be named Miss U.S. American, I will work every day to continue sharing that flora and fauna with all the peoples of the world for peace, and the children, and the planet.”
“Maybe you’re hoping to hear me discuss the derivations of the formula for effective rate of protection, followed by a brief discussion of the monetary approach to the balance of payments,” she said. “If time allows, a quick summary of factor price equalization. Maybe some thoughts on quantitative easing, but that’s for next time. Because I have spent my life closer to Main Street. That’s what I want to talk about is that view from Main Street,” she said.”
Please run in 2012. Please, oh please.
You know. By exalting the land bridge that occurred some 16500 years ago, she is essentially blowing off the cretinists.
Did she pop out of a huge cake before she read her speech?
You know. By exalting the land bridge that occurred some 16500 years ago, she is essentially blowing off the cretinists.
Of course, she was talking to one of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth, not people whose memory extends back one week.
I wonder if she convinced the Chinese to give up their government-run socialist/Nazi health care system so they could stop pulling the plug on grandma.
I wonder why she didn’t open the floor for questions?
Teleprompters: A gift from God.
Perhaps she did, but the audience was simply stunned speechless by her awesomeness.
I wonder how many months it took them to pound those lines into her head.
As tempting as it is to dream of Sarah moving to Hong Kong permanently, the Chinese would never forgive us, and I’m afraid it would be war. The 101st Fightin’ Keyboarders would write songs of praise to her for instigating the Armageddon/Rapture/WorldofWarcraftComeToLife as they hid inside their parent’s armoirs from the draft dodger military police.
It must have been easy for Palin to do impressions (Did she do the Ku Au Tseng Yuen?) of “one of the densest urban areas in the world” because she is without doubt one of the densest human beings in the world.
*Is “densest” even a word? I thought it was “most dense”.
Has Palin been checked for tertiary syphilis yet? She’s just not right.
No, Dennis. Not dense. “Most Dunce” was the award bestowed upon Sarah by the people of Hong Kong as she boarded her plane home. “Great to see you,” cried the little kids, “Greater to see you go!”
The Bering Land Bridge of the Pleistocene era? That was a Bridge to Somewhere with all kinds of cool flora and fauna and Eskimos and stuff. I’m sure that was very educational for these big money boys in Hong Kong.
Is that video above or below sister Boom-Bah’s cheerleading video?
I’m with Purivada on explaining a lack of Qs for her to A:
Quitter even went to college to learn how to read a Teleprompter, oh I guess they call it “journalism” nowadaze. That was her career for a few years, also, as well, or something.
Yet Repubs developed the Teleprompter ding against Obama. Funny, that.
I’m interested in her thoughts on her own, and everyone’s for that matter, “bloodlines” back to our Motherland of Africa. Since she’s into the Asian connection, why not keep going back more, Sayrah?
Wouldn’t anybody?
Here’s my favorite part:
“Two US delegates left early, according to AFP, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.” He declined to be identified.”
I guess I’d just read transcripts of her speeches, Couric interview etc., which are stunning by themselves. This audio really brings home just how far in denial Republicans must’ve been about her.
But cracking open a fresh roll of Reynolds Wrap, I can’t help but wonder whether TBogg posted this following Latimer’s recent book release teaser quotes just to make W look wise and prescient!
Huh?
thingwarbler @ 2 –
As an Alaskan hunter she surely knows that Panda tastes like Polar Bear.
Mmmmmm… Polar Bear.
Heh! I bet that they had to anesthetize her translator before he or she could keep a straight face.
I ate with sticks yesterday.
Not much for lunchtime conversation, them.
We all know what the matter is (matters are?) with the Grifter from Wasilla, but what the hell is the matter with this group who decided to pay her a small fortune to talk gibberish at them? What do they gain? Is it just ticket sales because the freak show always outsells the cheapo rides at the fly-by-night carnival, or do they gain something by signing her up for their welfare roll? I’m honestly confused. If this had been a right-to-life event, a homo-hating funfest, a “values” seminar staged by the men at Concerned Women for America, I would get it. But these were international financiers or something, right? I get that they might profit from an unregulated market, but surely they know that if she ever gets anywhere near the levers of real power she will destroy everything – that can’t be good for profit can it?
The only way I’d pay to see Sarah if they let the audience poke her with sticks.
You know, not everybody in the world, for example, such as Iraqi kids, have maps of the world. So, such as, not everybody would know about the the land bridge that isn’t there any more. And that’s why we have to drop maps on them.
“Ms. Palin blamed the U.S. Federal Reserve’s low interest-rate policy of previous years for setting the stage for last year’s global financial crisis. She opposed appointing the Fed as the chief overseer of systemic risk in the U.S. financial system. “The words ‘fox’ and ‘henhouse’ come to mind. The Fed’s decisions have created the bubble,” she said.”
Ummmmm, no. I can’t argue that Alan Greenspan’s policies contributed to the problem, but at bottom it was all about the greed. A bunch of people found a way to make billions of dollars by trading in fictional securities, and by the way, this happened on George Bush’s watch, not Barack Obama’s. This woman is a complete idiot, and the fact that Scheuneman was able to get her to read a teleprompter does not change that fact. As another commenter stated, “Run, Sarah, run!” I can’t wait…until she has to speak WITHOUT the script.
Don’t these conferences always have a comedy act?
Palin was also permitted to deliver the ceremonial coup de grace to the luncheon’s main course, a monkey that was decapitated just prior to to being served.
They were hedging their bets.
“Chilled monkey brains!”
Oh, sorry, that was in India.
Please, let this continue and prosper.
The packaging of a true idiot will fall apart once again in the sunlight of true critique.
No amount of designer clothes or canned speeches can hide the shallow vessel of empty slogans and meaningless tripe.
Run, Sarah, run!
Hahahaha. She had zero desire to be Vice President in 2009. But she’s going to love, love, love being lionized and paid big bucks for reading whatever is put in front of her by the kind of conservative who still thinks we need lots of F22s.
She was mayor of Wasilla, she’s a happy moose killah,
She’s a diva, she’s a harpy, she’s a con.
Yes we are all “sort of” sharing bloodlines but I don’t believe we all descended from {”Black”) people in Africa….
Yeah, well…participate in this from National Geographic. It’s only a cheek swab. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
There is only one race – the human one
According to the WSJ report, she was criticizing Obama’s foreign policy decisions. Didn’t somebody say it was wrong, in fact traitorous, for Americans to criticize the sitting president from a foreign location? Of course, that was the Dixie Chicks, who have a lot more gravitas.
“She talked about the recent protests of ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs,”
“Wait, wiggers?….. Like Levi?…… They have those in China?”
Yup. it’s borderline but lets hear it for the odds that “uighurs” was spelled phonetically for her benefit
You are all the best, I am in awe. Please let me hang around.
Sometimes, people can read other people’s words on subjects they don’t understand and not sound dumb.
This was clearly not one of those times.
At first glance that could pass for a cloven hoof she’s got there…
There is only one race – the human one
Speciest.
I’m picturing many, many readthroughs of that part of the script, not unlike distinguished guest actors on the different Star Trek series who were confronted with phrases like “reverse the polarity on the quantum slipstream”.
I only saw some excerpts but the scraps I saw had her bashing China and centralized government and praising Japan, I can see her speechwriter laughing as he inserted these zingers into a speech that was to be delivered within a partially autonomous Hong Kong by some chick who was clearly clueless about the historical and political context of either. But somehow I don’t imagine representatives of the Party were amused.
Or maybe they were amused despite themselves:
“The wonder of the dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all.”
A good depiction of our Sarah and a policy speech.
there was no “slipstream” on ST. that was from “andromeda,” the show developed by roddenberry’s wife. really, i’d bet even Palin knows they used a warp drive on ST.