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Palins Performance Art
Uncorrected closed caption transcript, just cut-and-pasted from C-SPAN. It seems to lack an ending but otherwise pretty good window into the madness.
I THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT IS SO GREAT TO BE BACK IN IOWA. WE HAVE GREAT MEMORIES HERE. MANY TRIPS THAT WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO TAKE HERE. THE 2008 CAMPAIGN. THEN EVEN MORE FUN, THE TEA PARTY RALLY WE HAD. THAT WAS FUN. WE HAVE HAD FRIED EVERYTHING YOUR STATE FAIR. OF COURSE, ONE YEAR THINKING THAT AFTER THE SAY ARE, I WAS GOING TO WORK SOME OF IT OFF, WE DRIVE UP TO STORM LAKE. I THINK THERE IS A HALF MARATHON GOING ON. I CAN GO INCOGNITO AND GO SEE THIS RACE. INCOGNITO. IT MEANS FOR ME NO MAKEUP.
[LAUGHTER] IM GOING TO SCARE LITTLE CHILDREN. I AM RUNNING THE RACE AND JUMP IN THERE. IM INCOGNITO IM THINKING. IM RUNNING IN PEACE. NO ONE IS TALKING POLITICS. I CANT TALK ANYWAY. BUT NO PRESS THERE WITH SUSPICIOUS THINKING OF THEIR SIGNALS, SHE IS IN IOWA, WHAT IS SHE DOING? THEY ARE GOOD AT SENSING WHO IS COMING, WHO IS GOING AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF YOUR STATE. IM RUNNING, BUT NO PRESS BUGGING ME IF I WANT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT OR NOT. THAT WAS THE YEAR OF THAT QUESTION. JUMPING INTO THE RACE, IM RUNNING ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. BOOM, THEIR IM ACCUSED OF RUNNING THE RACE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. I FIND OUT THAT OK, IM IN IOWA, THE RACE HAPPENED TO BE CALLED THE JUMP RIGHT IN AND RUN RACE. I GOT A MEDAL. THE PRESS IS LIKE YOU ORCHESTRATED THAT. IM LIKE OH YEAH, ASKED TODD. ANYWAY. MY BEST MEMORIES ARE OF THE WONDERFUL FRIENDS WE HAVE MADE HERE, GOOD PEOPLE, HARD WORKERS WITH LOVE FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY. THEY SHOW YOUR WORK ATHLETIC WORK ETHIC. EVEN DRIVING BY YOUR HOMES WITH FLAGS WAVING ON THE FRONT PORCHES, ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT I THINK A LOT OF YOU MAY BE FOUND OUT THERE ON YOUR PORCHES CLINGING TO YOUR GUNS, YOUR GOD, YOUR CONSTITUTION. IT IS BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE OF YOU THE REST OF THE COUNTRY KNOWS THIS PART OF AMERICA AS THE HEARTLAND. LAST TIME I WAS HERE TO CAMPAIGN
, IT WAS FOR ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS WHOM WE HAVE MADE, AND YOU KNOW HER, THE SOLDIER, THE FARMER, A GOOD NEIGHBOR, AND BACK THEN I CALLED HER A PISTOL PACKING HARLEY RIDING MAMA GRIZZLY. NOW I AM THRILLED TO CALL HER YOUR SENATOR, JONI ERNST.
» OTHER FRIENDS, IT WAS HERE IN IOWA THAT I FIRST MET A BIG BURLY, BUT KIND OF SHEEPDOG
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gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Do you think people are still going to send her money?
Mz Pip
(27,436 posts)She has a loyal following of people who keep replenishing her PAC money. She teases them with a potential run; they send her money; she winks. They hang on her every word.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Try and diagram one of those sentences, and you'd pass out.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Whenever someone brings her I find my link to the Colorado meeting in which she is clearly on something and the people I point to it think I'm exaggerating and now I can't find the link. If someone has it, I would very much appreciate it.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Sarah was (trying to) read infantile hateful garbage written by actual speech writers. She's hilarious for the inept delivery. Her backers & writers annoy me more. They're mean, rotten & nasty.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Thank you and yes, she's obviously high. Did she just spend some time with Rush? Where are her handlers, they must be cringing?
Not only does God not drive parked cars, but neither does anyone else.
Man she is hammered.
I just sent that link to my phone so I can bust it out when someone says she should be president.
drray23
(7,627 posts)That for her electorate this is what passes as educated. I do not think it bothers them the least. If you point out that she can not put two words together in a coherent sentence they will reply that the "liberal media" is out to get her or that out of touch intellectuals are not real patriots.
Even Chris Matthews got fooled by Sarah Palin. During the elections he kept saying she is smart because she can draw crowds and galvanize the gop base. I guess he could not accept the simpler explanation which is that she us simply dumb. I suppose her voters feel a connection there because of that.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)to turn even well deserved mockery into victimhood into cash.
Palin is a human alchemist, turning Stupid into Gold.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Great bumpersticker.
and so true.
a kennedy
(29,644 posts)malaise
(268,910 posts)psychobabble - nothing less
Something is seriously wrong with that semi-literate idiot.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)and I mean that seriously...there is no doubt in my mind that any good Psychiatrist would diagnose her as one...
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Trust me. They have no problems. It's everyone else who does. If people would just do what they should, they wouldn't have to do what THEY do.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)but they still NEED one...
And they're the ones who cause others to have to go, if you're unfortunate enough to be around one long enough. I think I could be around Palin for about 5 minutes before my head started hurting.
malaise
(268,910 posts)Her physical deterioration is also visible - she's on something!
She and Cruz have a lot in common - both have delusions and both are bat shit crazy.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)It's always possible that the highly paid makeup artists when she was campaigning were able to make her look better than whomever is doing it now, but the unicolor face and sort of rat's nest hair is strange. People do age, but she looks odd.
Ramses
(721 posts)"THEY SHOW YOUR WORK ATHLETIC WORK ETHIC. EVEN DRIVING BY YOUR HOMES WITH FLAGS WAVING ON THE FRONT PORCHES, ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT I THINK A LOT OF YOU MAY BE FOUND OUT THERE ON YOUR PORCHES CLINGING TO YOUR GUNS, YOUR GOD, YOUR CONSTITUTION. IT IS BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE OF YOU THE REST OF THE COUNTRY KNOWS THIS PART OF AMERICA AS THE HEARTLAND"
pacalo
(24,721 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Prefacing that with "My fellow Americans", and tacking on "Thank you, and may Jesus and his daddy, God, Bless America".
A pre-made State of the Union.
elias49
(4,259 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)I don't remember her sounding quite this disjointed in 2008.
LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,324 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)I'm not quite sure how this person has managed to stay out of rehab let alone remain a public figure.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Sheepdog taste good. Maybe that was Harold. Either way we park the sleds.
pa28
(6,145 posts)Send resupply ASAP. And food.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)a ghost writer for everything she says....the problem is....she is TERRIBLE at delivering a monologue.....it comes out as these strung together word clouds for her....and she is just Narcissistic and deluded with grandeur enough to think what she just did was a spectacular performance of the monologue!
sarge43
(28,941 posts)It died half way there, raving mad.
brer cat
(24,556 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)but WTF was that shit?
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)No good answer.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)perhaps been inspiration for some satire of his imo
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)THAT, BECAUSE OF YOU THE REST OF THE COUNTRY KNOWS THIS PART OF AMERICA AS THE HEARTLAND. LAST TIME I WAS HERE TO CAMPAIGN
, IT WAS FOR ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS WHOM WE HAVE MADE, AND YOU KNOW HER, THE SOLDIER, THE FARMER, A GOOD NEIGHBOR, AND BACK THEN I CALLED HER A PISTOL PACKING HARLEY RIDING MAMA GRIZZLY. NOW I AM THRILLED TO CALL HER YOUR SENATOR, JONI.....
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)She used to compete in beauty pageants, and for some reason the promoters insist on letting the contestants answer scripted questions. The contestants are rated on their answer, naturally, but also on their tone, expressiveness, poise, and just how many buzzwords they an cram into their allotted time. If you remember the Miss South Carolina (such as) blatherfest, you can see it in all its dubious glory. She got verbally tripped up early on, then just started hitting all the buzzwords and phrases she'd memorized.
Gov. Palin is the natural end product of a career spent mouthing buzzwords and catch phrases. Skim over her oral diarrhea and spot them for yourself: we have been blessed, evil media on the lookout for her, etc., etc., rounding off with mama grizzly.
betsuni
(25,456 posts)We have had fried everything
Your state fair, of course
One year thinking
That after the say are
I was going to work some of it off
We drive up to storm lake
I think there is a half marathon going on
I can go incognito
And go see this race
Incognito
It means for me no makeup
I'm going to scare little children
I am running the race and jump in there
I'm incognito
I'm thinking
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)betsuni
(25,456 posts)but the last line is one too many. I'm thinking.
2naSalit
(86,526 posts)it's hard to tell what all that chicken scratching on her hands is all about after a few too many cocktails!
This, folks, is what we are destined to see as the example for the crap explanations we can anticipate from the current Congress until we manage to oust them. They don't think we deserve better and this is proof... just plain old BS spewed into a microphone. What matters is who is doing the spewing because content is sooo passe anymore.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)that everytime Sarah Palin t's off a speech writer she ends up with word salad. She's too stupid to notice what was written for her makes no sense whatsoever.
NuttyFluffers
(6,811 posts)she just needs a bit more onomatopoeia.
FSogol
(45,473 posts)Follows the daily routine of 'Track' Mulligan in Wasilla, Alaska....
muriel_volestrangler
(101,300 posts)very caribou barbie
much fail
ballabosh
(330 posts)And I;ve worked as an editor, I'd be hitting the sauce hard. Or killing myself.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)and it'll blow up.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)"Oh Fuck No!"
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)If she did, then I seriously think that she needs to see a neuropsychologist to evaluate her for speech and language issues; and I'm not joking.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)For her audience, it's not so much about the words making sense all together. Her 'theme' is division no matter what she says, and she uses the trigger words that her audience has been conditioned to latch onto..."us against them" all the time. They eat it up as she performs for them; elevating herself to a level of self-importance the rest of us find absurd, nonsensical, and disturbing.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Although he term hysterical is falling out of use as a clinical term.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)sounds like a perfect fit.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)That is all.