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Related: About this forumSarah Palin delivers ‘bizarro’ speech to Iowa Freedom Summit and Twitter users react hilariously
Appearing at Iowa Congressman Steve Kings Freedom Summit, star speaker Sarah Palin spoke from a binder of notes, delivering a string of one-liners designed to fire up conservatives while interspersing them with stock and sometimes garbled patriotic platitudes.
National media covering the event and viewers watching it live on C-Span lit up Twitter with running commentary on the linguistic twists and turns Palin made as her own Twitter account pumped out tweets directing followers to her political action committee, SarahPAC.
One conservative columnist, Toby Harnden, called Palins speech, bizarro.
More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/sarah-palin-delivers-bizarro-speech-to-iowa-freedom-summit-and-twitter-reacts-as-expected/
Here is the bizarre speech:
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)*Definition of pidgin in English:
NOUN
[OFTEN AS MODIFIER]
1A grammatically simplified form of a language, typically English, Dutch, or Portuguese, some elements of which are taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
1.2 [AS MODIFIER] Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a non-native speaker:
we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish or pidgin English
"This is to forgo a conclusion"
Sarah Palin, circa yesterday, well paid and willing GOP official rodeo clown sent in early to get the bulls and the crowd all riled up before the main event of bulls and bucking Cowboys.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)some as yet unnamed degenerative disease where her ability to communicate in English declines with each use of a microphone...? Not that she ever had the capacity to communicate in English in the first place...
She is, however, serving as the poster child of what most Rs think about the value of the female population... and doing a real bang-up job of it too.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)again turn stupid into gold.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Her Ace card is victimhood, it play well for her among her witless followers. And stupid doesn't seem to hurt her among that crowd either.
I think the Repugs keep putting her out there to back up their unspoken of belief that women are stupid and vapid barbie doll figures who can speak (whether they are coherent is beside the point). Not that she's all that attractive, but she sure personifies the stereotype of what all the RWNJ seems to believe about women.
If she does come out with, "I have a problem" I will be very surprised... and I doubt she will be the one to announce it because in her self centered mind, she's perfect.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)karynnj
(59,503 posts)The main time most of us saw her was reading from the teleprompter at the Republican convention. This for a communications major, who had worked as I think a sports commentator, had to be something that was not at all new to her. It might be ironic that the Republicans claimed that our brilliant, articulate President needs a teleprompter -- when in reality it was their former VP candidate - likely chosen because of her looks and gender, not resume or vision.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)She was chosen for her hard-right religious views. John "My Wife Owns The Third-Biggest Beer Distributor In America" McCain was told he would never receive the Evangelical vote unless he took Sarah Palin - who was well-known in Fundamentalist circles for her religiosity long before she was inflicted on the rest of us - as his running mate.
It wouldn't surprise me if he had to cut a deal where he'd become "too sick" to continue in the job 25 to 26 months into it - because according to presidential rules of succession, if the VP becomes president with less than two years remaining in the term he or she can run for two full terms after the foreshortened one ends.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)I would assume that even if a President agreed to "become too sick" - it is an illegal deal and not enforceable.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The same holds true for fundies' kids - have you ever known one that wasn't a hell-raiser?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)It's incurable in many cases and appears to be epidemic in Republican states...
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)with the Rep. States... I live in one.
The upside to that is my ability to remain a comfortable introvert!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It is bearable here because I keep to myself, have a lot of privacy where I live.
And of course we have the web and DU and etc.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)That's how it works for me too.
IdiotsforPalin
(170 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Welcome to DU.
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)When the Daily Mail starts pointing out her inappropriate behavior, she's really on a down hill skid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2925162/Palin-s-meltdown-GOP-firebrand-rambles-stutters-teleprompter-error-leave-crowd-baffled-just-saying-s-seriously-interested-2016-run.html
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)Isn't she the one who lambasted Obama for daring to use a TelePrompTer?
This certainly wouldn't be her first instance of hypocrisy.
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)Somehow I doubt Sarah is big on self-reflection.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)It is good that we have a deep bench and its primary competition that will surface the candidate whos up to the task and unify and this person has to because knowing what the media will do throughout all of 2016 to all of us its going to take more than a village to beat Hillary, she said.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)cause you have to get one trying to decipher that mess.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)She's speaking in tongues. The spirit has infused her so deeply that now, she won't just be doing it in church, she'll be doing it everywhere.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)winging it kind of speech. The kind she specializes in.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Stephen Retired
(190 posts)Has she ever given a non-bizarro interview? Has she ever completed a non-bizarro sentence?
karynnj
(59,503 posts)As to interview - not that I know of.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)If she had the capacity to think about what she was saying she would not say anything. The best living example of double plus good duck speak that is solid with cliches, slogans, and platitudes.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)she gets to that state where she thinks she is glib, but sober people see her as someone just running words together in no order
PLUS
She has always reminded me of the middle aged woman trying to seduce the teenage boy.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I think she is stoned or on Xanax. She is fucked up.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)I can't listen to her. It hurts too much.
It IS fun reading the comments.
dhill926
(16,339 posts)"Sarah Palin: A noun, a grammatically incorrect verb, and a racist slur"
Quixote1818
(28,936 posts)That's her incoherent, folksy style summed up. Just multiply that a few hundred times and you have the speech.
George II
(67,782 posts)...in Alaska all but the first few months of her life?
greiner3
(5,214 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Her ideas are equally wrong.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)She is the kind of willing buffoon that works against the interests of women...and eventually herself.
Fucking moronic.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....they'll be huge material for SNL, Jon Stewart, etc.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)Maybe because "it" is all about Sarah.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)As a runner, there's no fucking chance in hell she got to the finish line without knowing the name of the race, unless she's a fucking bandit.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)jalan48
(13,865 posts)I think Sarah knows Joni is the new Sarah.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Esperanto to Remulak to Tralfamadore. What a fucking nut.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Speaks in tongues and smacks her lips. I can't bear to listen!
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Palinese
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)zebonaut
(3,688 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)I couldn't hang in there to hear the whole thing, but did notice her "tisking" at the end of some of her sentences (such as they are), especially at the beginning. What a disgrace that this imbecile has supporters.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)"And save a pretzel for the gas jets!"
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)c588415
(285 posts)gift that keeps on giving !
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)jMyNk8J1c8g
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)The Last Dem.
(76 posts)That was setup.
randr
(12,412 posts)The closest thing I can think of to treason is a vote for this snowbilly.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Leonard_Skinnard
(1 post)the fact that such a mouth-breathing scumbag ever made it onto a national stage to deliver a speech about ANYTHING more complicated than toilet-flushing or shoelace-tying is an utter disgrace to the history of Homo Sapiens.
she is a complete abomination.
mike dub
(541 posts)...and may I say: Welcome to DU!!!
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Palin is a disgrace to humanity and should never be heard from again.
Welcome to DU, and I look forward to your posts!