Palin Lifts From Gingrich in Anchorage Speech

[bluestateguy]

Source: Huffington Post

Sarah Palin's speech delivered in Anchorage on Wednesday -- the one in which she declared "screw political correctness" and wondered why "we have to pussyfoot around our troublesome foes" -- repeatedly lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley without attribution.

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Palin: First, I think what we're going to learn tonight via Michael is that Ronald Reagan's ideas were the right ideas and all we have to do is look back at his record, his economic record and his national security record to know that his ideas were right.

Gingrich/Shirley: What should Americans learn from this remarkable man and his remarkable Presidency?...The "right" ideas really matter (the left was wrong and Reagan was right about virtually every major public policy issue and the historic record is clear for those willing to look at it).

After that, Palin acknowledged that, "Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan...." (Recently? It was four years ago.) Without mentioning Shirley, she quotes and paraphrases from the article at length:

Palin: He said, regarding your dad Michael, he said that we need to learn from his example that courage and persistence are keys to historic achievement and with Reagan's example, D.C. politicians calling the shots for our country, they had better rely on the good sense of the American people and bag their alliance on the entrenched bureaucrats and the elite self-proclaimed intellectuals, and the smug lobbyists who dominate Washington, and the liberal media that is imposing its will on Washington, embracing that status quo, that business as usual..

Gingrich/Shirley: Courage and persistence are the keys to historic achievement. ... Relying on the good sense of the American people beats relying on the elite intellectuals, entrenched bureaucrats and smug lobbyists who dominate Washington.



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[grannie4peace]

1. screw the pig!

[curiousdemo]

15. This explain her going to five Universities in six years.

She kept getting kicked out of Universities for plagiarizing. She and this guy (Pluto) have something in common while in college, they shared a 0.0 GPA. She did da pluto...did da pluto!

[awoke_in_2003]

18. Yeah, but Bluto had personality and character...

her, not so much.

[Kievan Rus]

2. One whacko steals ideas from another whacko

[Submariner]

3. Bible Spice is a plagiarist too?

Oh dear.....

[izquierdista]

5. Can't call it plagarism

Since they all read from the same page. If she was capable of new ideas, well then she wouldn't be a Repub.

[TVofM]

10. Palin is a "post turtle"

If you don't know the story, google it up!!

[MADem]

4. That's like thinking you are swiping a hamburger, only you're taking a round brown thing

from a shit patty salesman....

[louis-t]

6. I thought they weren't going to "look back" anymore.

Oh.....

[baldguy]

7. They both got the same talking points.

[Snellius]

8. This has been going on forever.

This is nothing new. Politicians are stupid. They say, if you are smart and ambitious, you go to N.Y.. If you are attractive and ambitious, you go to L.A. And if you are ambitious but neither smart nor attractive, you go to D.C. Sarah, unfortunately, is too dumb to know it. Bush in his early speeches used to rip off none other than Bill Clinton all the time.

[yellerpup]

9. "screw political correctness" Sarah Palin.

Someone, please call the exorcist. This church-going woman has been taken over by a potty mouth demon that needs to be driven out. Break out the canes!

[JenniferJuniper]

11. Screw Sarah Palin!

But I guess that's really what it's all about for those fat old white wingnuts, innit?

[grannie4peace]

12. you hit the nail on the head!

[yellerpup]

13. She's a FOWWN (fat-old-white-wing-nut) fantasy.

I think you may be right. Fantasy is the only part of a woman they can handle.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. Luckily...

Bobby Jindal knows a thing or two about exorcisms. We should introduce the two

[yellerpup]

20. Get out the gris-gris bag and brew up a little juju

for Bobby and Sarah. Love to see them on the same ticket--with Cheney!

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Those two on the same ticket...

would be much-to-much to wish for

[yellerpup]

22. While we are wishing....

might as well be for something we really, really want!

[time_has_come]

14. bah, who cares. It's an echo chamber. Anyone expect anything else? n/t

[ecstatic]

16. Boy do I want to "screw political correctness" right now

Sarah Palin, you are one stupid $!^(#

Actually, Ms. Palin is lucky that political correctness is in place.

[and-justice-for-all]

17. blah blah blah..irrelevant wench...nt