Oh! So *that's* what going rogue means! (Palin bans cell phones, cameras, laptops, etc from speech)

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/palin-rogue-bans-cell-phone... /

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is notoriously sensitive to media criticism. Even so, to many observers this move may seem drastic.

Hoping to keep a "low profile" on her upcoming trip to Wisconsin, the one-time GOP vice presidential candidate decided to ban all press from covering her speech. She further issued an edict against cell phones, cameras, laptops and recording devices of any kind, CNN noted.

During a radio interview, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate called the restrictions "bizarre," especially coming from a self-described "rogue."

She's a freakin' cartoon. A badly drawn one, too.

[aquart]

1. My goodness, what can she possibly be afraid of?

[Johonny]

2. pretty soon she'll be demanding 100 K up front to talk to an

empty room.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. Making those secret spy glasses and fake hearing aid mics good buys

She'll only make people get more clever with their recording devices. We are beyond being able to control that.

[Occulus]

9. Oh, there's already something a whole lot better than that

Try the PULSE Smartpen. A friend of mine got one of these after I showed it to him on YouTube. I want one, but I can't afford a toy like that right now without a reason to get it.

Seems like it would be awesome for a situation like this, though.

edit- this thing:



It also has a translator built in- it's not very good, but I'd really really like to be able to have my pen say something vulgar in, say, Spanish, during one of her awkward pauses. I think this could do that. 'Puta madre' in the pen's clinical push-one-to-access-billing voice would suffice very nicely.

Imagine something like ten reporters writing "fuck off" in English and having their pens say the Spanish aloud at the press conference. It's comedy gold.

[msanthrope]

4. Who does she think she is, Scalia? n/a

[smalll]

5. Banning cell phones? As long as she bans track suits on airplanes as well, all I can say is --

GOOD!

A bas les shitblobs!

[bugfragged]

6. She should also ban anyone with better short and long term memory...

...than the teabaggers, in case people are interviewed later.

[SoCalDem]

7. Only Sarah Palin would concoct a "Secret Book Tour"

for invited guests only

She's so afraid that someone will tape or report on the stupid shit she says every time she opens her pie-hole

[dmr]

8. Harder to catch her lying about the lie she told about another lie she lied about

Of course I'm waiting for the loyalty oaths next.

[logosoco]

10. Another thing to add to the list of things that make her "unPresidential"

[Roland99]

11. She's just filtering out the filter, you betcha!

[livetohike]

12. Just a prelude of the Palin presidency and her vow to

"protect our freedoms". Reminds me of a manager I had years ago who said, "I believe in teamwork as long as everyone does as I say."

[Raschel]

13. Remember her boast of transparency?

[livetohike]

16. Yes and the only thing transparent is her brain

[Are_grits_groceries]

14. She apparently has little knowledge

about how small and clear recording devices can be.

[noamnety]

15. Other Palin demands:

1. There will be no microphone at the podium where I'm speaking
2. A fully opaque screen will be erected between myself and the audience so they cannot see my image during the speech.

[Are_grits_groceries]

17. I'm wondering if

she will allow them to use electricity.

[mitchum]

18. Gold medal winner in the Special Olympics of political discourse

[niyad]

19. and exactly how is this ban going to be enforced? does she have secret service protection?

sarah, got news for you--unless you are the pres or veep--which, thank all the goddesses you are NOT, NOBODY is going to pat me down or search my belongings to get in to see some idiot spouting drivel.

does she know about lapel-pin cameras, etc?

[bertman]

20. Next thing ya know she'll be banning English teachers and grammarians from her speeches.