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Abe Greenwald has stone cold irrefutable proof that Frank Rich is totally wrong today:
Frank Rich, today, goes after Sarah Palin’s populism and calls it like it isn’t:
“This is about the people,” as Palin repeatedly put it last weekend while pocketing $100,000 of the Tea Partiers’ money.
Incredibly enough, this message is gaining traction.
But the only thing that’s incredible — as in lacking credibility — is Rich’s claim. Palin isn’t “pocketing” anything. She’s already explained:
“I will not benefit financially from speaking at this event. My only goal is to support the grassroots activists who are fighting for responsible, limited government — and our Constitution,” she wrote. “In that spirit, any compensation for my appearance will go right back to the cause.”
So suck it, Rich. In yo face. Boo-ya! Hah! High five, anyone? C’mon, give it up.
Now, sure, Palin could have done the obvious thing like give each of the 600 attending Teabaggers an immediate rebate of (lessee… $100,000 divided by 600 is….hmmmm….$166.66. Whoa, hey! Sign of the Beast almost. That won’t do.) but she needn’t sit there and write out six hundred checks which would each contain her autograph which is FUCKING VALUABLE, albeit discounted .
(Note: if the seller is listed as rlowrystarburst@aol.com consider the photo “used”)
No. Sarah Palin doesn’t have to perform any such act of good faith because, as Sarah might put it, “My word is bond, yo.”
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Oddly, the only one she hasn’t canceled is the one that contained the phrase ($100,000) that pays.
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Abe is one of those marks that grifters like Palin pray for: He’s sooo stupid and soooo head over heels that he actually implores the grifter to take him repeatedly and for all he’s got.
All Sarah said was that she would use that money to help the candidates. Now, if in the process of doing that, she calls upon outside political consulting, then it is only fair that said consultant gets paid! And, if the consulting firm chosen happens to be the 1 person corporation owned and run by Bristol that was recently created, well then, its Bristol that deserves the paycheck! And, of course, every person who donates to Sarah deserves some appreciation, so, in exchange, Sarah will buy her own book and donate her book to the financial contributor. She may not get the royalties, but it’ll sure help the book sales numbers!
In short, I have no doubt that she’ll give all this money back to the movement…after she skims some off for her daughter and her publisher of course. Of course, she, herself, won’t benefit…not directly. It must be laundered a bit first before it ends up in her checking account.
Think of the great bargains ‘the cause’ will get for its $100k! Bulk buys of “Going Rogue”, fees to political consultant Bristol Palin, a few $600/hr bills for working from her own home…
Bag News Notes has great little retrospective on St Palin of Wasilla. Basically, what the American Taliban (come tally me bananas!) is doing, is having a 3 year long “OMIGAWD that granny is sooooo hawt!!!11!!” moment. Just let me say that it isn’t “tax cuts” that is making Sarah over.
Boy, do I hate America.
She’s had some trouble giving donated money to worthy causes in the past:
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palins-empty-promises.html.
“Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by Republican presidential nominee John McCain as a reformer when he picked her to be his running mate, says she will donate to charity more than $1,000 in campaign contributions from two Alaska politicians implicated in a federal corruption probe…Sarah Palin did attempt to give the “bad” money to charity. The only problem was her ignorance of the laws governing her own state…Sarah Palin couldn’t give anything to charity (or anything else). She can’t touch that money at all because she’s not a candidate for any state elective office.”
Unless she figured out a way around this, she is full of shit. Well, I mean, she is full of this ‘specific’ shit right now, as she is pretty much full of shit all the time anyway.
A perusal of ebay brought up this little item:
“The infamous Sarah Palin XBOX 360 was autographed at the governors picnic on July 24, 2009, in Wasilla, Alaska, just two days before her resignation as governor of that state. You can own this 60GB, perfect-condition, one-of-a-kind item before her expected run for president of the United States of America in 2012.
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The Sarah Palin Signed Autograph XBOX360 Story:
My name is David Morrill. I live in Alberta Canada and I have always wanted to drive the Alaskan highway from my home near Edmonton Alberta, all the way to Alaska. This trip is about a 7000km / 4300mi round trip. I figured that since I was going up there anyway, I should try to see the most famous person from that state, so I timed my trip with the governors picnic in Wasilla. When the governors picnic took place there were hordes of people trying to see her, but I pushed my way through the crowd to the front of the line. When I was in front of Sarah Palin, I told her that I had traveled three days to see her and asked her to sign my Xbox360. She said it was the most extravagant thing she had ever been asked to sign. I shook her hand, removed myself from the crowd, and then I packed up my Xbox360 and headed home. It was one of the greatest thrills of my life to have watched Sarah Palin on CNN, SNL, Youtube, and then to see her right in front of me.”
For a cool $1,100,000 it can be yours.
But it doesn’t come with any games, so fuck it.
Money.
Something else — much bigger — Rich was stone cold wrong about too.
Ah, Sarah Palin: a veritable Pawlenty’s Highway of governorship.
Well, you pay for what you gets, I guess. God knows what a Missus (former) Governor Sarah P handjob would run. Me, I don’t care. Watching her wink gives me a four hour soft on.
It’s all too complicated for a simple progressive like me, so maybe someone with better Palin-fu can explain to me: how does she “serve the movement” by charging it $100K to deliver a “speech”? Wouldn’t it have been more helpful to NOT charge them $100K? Or deliver the speech and announce her gift of $100K from her PalinPAC? Does she really think her mere presence is a gift to the movement? Sure, the same way genital warts are a gift to your girlfriend…
I don’t care if she blows the entire 100 grand on lines of coke, but hopefully “the movement” will feel a little miffed when they realize that they paid that much for Palin’s “hand job” and aren’t going to see much of it ever again… if they still insist she’s God’s gift to the cause, well, then they really deserve her and this whole Palin/Tea Bag thing is a match made in heaven: 2012 will be in the bag for anyone who’s not Sarah Palin, deserved or otherwise.
Also.
I tune in here to see more pictures of the new dog and what do I get, pictures of a bitch.
I suppose we should watch the senate race in Nevada and if it looks like a Tea Party candidate can successfully split the race to help Harry Reid, then maybe we would find it useful to pay Sarah to bring out the Tea electorate to split Repub votes and help Harry squeak through between them.
Harry is apparently raising a lot of dough, so he could probably pay her directly.
Weird world we live in.
That “I won’t benefit finantially” statement still has me shaking my head.
That’s an impressive collection of links, but it’s worth pointing out the difference between someone intending to do something and then changing her mind, and someone never really intending to do something at all. Musicians cancel gigs all the time, sometimes even for non-drug-abuse-related reasons. Palin, on the other hand, will say things that are obvious lies, such as that the state legislature Troopergate investigation cleared her of ethical misconduct when it in fact did quite the opposite.
She’s counting on the news cycle forgetting about this pretty quickly, and that will probably happen in the short term, but it will return if and when she decides to run in ’12 and people start asking about where that check went.
Hey HJ, Where in the World Would Would the Wasilla Wonder ever Wind up With that Wacky idea? Though, hehheh, it did Work out pretty Well for a While in the 00s (through 04, anyWay), Wouldn’t you say?
As someone said elseblog, you can tell who are the best grifters: their marks will rise up to defend them.
This was hilarious; speaking of Caribou Barbie:
http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palins-new-secret-weapon.html