Palin decries 'Dumpster divers' at Calif. campus

[Robert DAH Bruce]

Source: AP / MSNBC

TURLOCK, Calif. — Sarah Palin leveled criticism at California's attorney general and others raising questions about her visit to a cash-strapped university, telling supporters that students had better things to do than dive through Dumpsters to find out how much she earns speaking.

The former Alaska governor's headline address Friday night at the 50th anniversary celebration at California State University, Stanislaus has drawn criticism and scrutiny since it was first announced. It also attracted sizable donations for the public school.

Officials have refused to divulge the terms of her contract or her speaking fee, and some details only came to light after students fished part of what appeared to be Palin's contract from a rubbish bin.

"Students who spent their valuable, precious time diving through dumpsters before this event in order to silence someone ... what a wasted resource," she told the crowd dining in the campus cafeteria.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37933044/ns/us_news/

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Call me crazy, but the words "Sarah Palin" and "dumpster" kinda go together.

[livetohike]

1. The fact that she comments on this means it bothers her

It's all about her...one day her clown act will be over. But she's not acting - she's being herself and that's a very ugly soul right there.

[AlbertCat]

11. But she's not acting - she's being herself

I think she's acting, an not being herself. It's just she sucks at it. You see right through it, as most intelligent people do, so it is invisible to you. I see it because I used to work in film and TV and I recognize acting when I see it. I don't think she really cares about anything she says she cares about... and she's no "soccer mom" either.

[livetohike]

15. I disagree. I believe she is as stupid as she appears and she

is not acting. She is a person who has gotten by on her looks alone. I think she has low self esteem and that causes her to be mean spirited and ready to put down everyone who disagrees with her "vision" of America. So far, no one has confronted her to her face with her idiocy and ridiculous assertions.

If she knew how many people were laughing at her while pretending to hang on her every word, she would crumble like a cookie in the hand of a two year old.

Besides, why would anyone actually want to appear so ignorant?

[bjobotts]

57. You'rre both right.She is stupid and she is acting but not at being stupid. A stupid phony

[hay rick]

56. Separated at birth.

Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin. They both make me cringe before they even open their mouths.

[PufPuf23]

60. Who do you think her 'handlers'?

Who gives Palin her message?

If she meant for office and is elected who pulls the strings?

[Dulcinea]

23. Sarah Palin, Official Rodeo Clown of the GOP.

Aren't her 15 minutes up yet? :boring:

[livetohike]

25. What a great photoshop that would make!

She can pop out of a barrel :-).

[ashling]

46. At a GOP

bondage club event.

[Voice for Peace]

53. she could pop out of a dumpster!

[Travis Coates]

33. Would it bother you if someone got ahold of your financial records?

She's a nut job but I have to give her this one

[livetohike]

39. Palin was speaking at a public university payed for with

taxpayer dollars. It's not her financial records, it's the payment and other bennies she required to speak there and I believe the public has a right to that information

She's a whiner, "oh poor me, I am such a victim", and she lashes out at anyone who dares criticize or question her, as if she was a Queen instead of an almost half-term Governor.

She wants the limelight, she deserves the scrutiny.

[Not Me]

41. When she is being paid by public funds

the public has every right to know how the money is being used.

[Travis Coates]

42. Ok I'll agree W/ that NT

[wordpix]

49. the point is, the university is cash-strapped so people want to know what sister sarah's being paid

Makes perfect sense to me - they are not going for her financial records but for her fee that a cash strapped university paid her ---when they could be paying for a speaker who really accomplished something great, or for solar research instead.

[felinetta]

38. Yes, she definitely obsesses about herself. Thanks McCain for possibly putting her in the WH.

[Spyderama]

2. The Deep Darkness of Her Soul

The ugliness of her soul is very deep.

<http://palinbabygate.blogspot.com/2010/03/babygate-timeline.html>

<http://www.e-tabitha.com/2009/12/assholiness-validation.html>

[onehandle]

3. Quitter, go away. News is for news. nt

[Mz Pip]

4. People paid $500 to listen

to her snarky blather. I can think of better ways to spend my money. Getting my armpits waxed would be less painful than listening to her shrewing.

[Fumesucker]

5. According to El Rushbo that's how poor kids are supposed to eat..

If they happen to find something interesting other than food in the course of dumpster diving, should they then just ignore it? :shrug:

[BrklynLiberal]

17. That was my first thought...Maybe they were looking for something to eat...and just happened

across her documents..

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[EFerrari]

28. Some students can only afford to attend part time.

You have to give them credit for not giving up on their degree. :)

[K8-EEE]

34. I know plenty of people who have worked to put themselves through school

And it takes like 8 years, if you work full time and pay your own bills! It is to be commended....

[sunnybrook]

32. You are really hostile

Against non-traditional students. Nothing like thinking in a box, everyone lives this cookie-cutter life, where you get out of high school, go directly to college, get your 2.5 kids in the suburb, some meaningless career, retire at the appropriate age, and die. Not everyone's life goes that way, and regarding your snarkiness, this is not directly related to intelligence. One of my closest friends is a 75 year old woman that works full time and attends a prestigious university half time. Non-traditional students are much more common in an era when people change careers numerous times. And some of us did not have mommy and daddy sweeping us into college at the age of 18.

[K8-EEE]

35. Agreed...I returned to college at age 40!

And it took years to complete the degree because I was working & had kids and took 1 or 2 courses every semester. So what? It's never to late to get an education. I really was a much better student in later life because I valued the education more and was doing it for me not because my parents expected it of me.

[skepticscott]

40. Not any more

our rather transparent troll's posting career has been ended early.

[Bitwit1234]

50. What would he say when

he TOLD kids to go dumpster diving and then the spookswoman (deliberate) of the republicans tells them not to. Can't have that they ought to get together huh.

[Stargazer09]

6. Did the "sizable donations" cover her fee?

It's pretty sad that anybody would donate money to a college just because the college had her give a speech there.

The key words were "public school." That makes every expenditure eligible for public scrutiny. The fact that the officials are hiding the truth speaks volumes.

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[tanyev]

7. Miss 5-Colleges-In-6-Years is scolding college students for wasting valuable, precious time?

Srsly?

[truthisfreedom]

8. How's that bitchy complainy thing goin' for ya Sarah?

The rest of us aren't really hearin' anything but the shrill.

[madmom]

9. But but..didn't rush tell them too? Maybe they were looking for something to eat.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. I don't know why she's complaining.........

Fox news channel in a well known dumpster.
A fair and balanced trash recycle bin.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. drill baby drill. nitwit,

[stlsaxman]

31. dive baby dive.

[DWinNJ]

13. What I don’t understand is

If this is a document she didn’t want revealed publicly;
Why would she have brought the contract with her and dispose of it, unshreded, in a campus dumpster?

She probably posted a sign on the side of the dumpster indicating the contract was in it so she could comment on students digging it up and play the victim card.

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[SOS]

36. How it got into the dumpster doesn't change her vicious paranoia

Idiot Palin says that finding out how much she gets paid is an effort to "silence her".
What total (and typical) rubbish from Caribou Barbie.

She spoke. Absolutely no effort was made to "silence" her. She is a paranoid liar.
It's amusing that this dimwit blabbermouth thinks she is being "silenced".

[Frank Cannon]

14. Garbage talking about garbage

Fascinating.

[Alcibiades]

16. I think those kids have a future in journalism

This is far better journalistic practice than much of what the right has tried to foist off as "journalism."

[on point]

21. The correct phrase is 'foist on us'; not 'off'

Just a friendly correction to help unknowing readers and halt the slide in English.

[minnesota_liberal]

24. Thank you! (n/t)

[Alcibiades]

63. If it's not the case that either is acceptable, it will be soon

Google "foist off" and you get 81,100 results, including various online dictionaries that list it as correct English. "Foist on" returns 46,300 results, again including dictionary entries.

This is not to say that you're wrong, of course. "Foist on" sounds more correct to me, and I've probably been confusing "foist on" with "fob off", but it would appear lots of other folks have been doing the same. Eventually, these things that originate in error become correct usage, as the online dictionary results already seem to acknowledge. Nonetheless, as someone who takes pride in the quality of the writing of my anonymous internet postings, I am filled with shame.

More to the point, though, although I haven't checked, I'm sure there are probably more serious perversions of the English language out on the internet, quite possibly in this very thread, quite possibly in this very sentience.

[on point]

64. no matter how many people think something is true doesn't make it so...

The base meaning of foist is to force something on someone else, or to perpetrate a fraud on others. By root definition this has to be 'on', otherwise the phrase makes no sense no matter how many people are getting it wrong these days. If it ever passes into English in the way you say (descriptive use rather than prescriptive use), it would have to give up its root meaning and just be a collection of sounds. I suspect people have confused it with 'pass off', meaning to make people believe the fraud successfully. Not at all the same meaning.

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[AtheistCrusader]

18. I'd rather hang out in the dumpster than with her.

[Lil Missy]

19. That woman is an idiot.

[activa8tr]

44. You're quoting someone very dear to my heart, but I'm sure Keith doesn't mind ! n/t

[Bigmack]

20. Spoken like someone who has never "dove"...

I have found real treasure in Dumpsters... not out of necessity, mind you.

I am convinced that there is nothing that people will not throw away in this consumer society.

Read the book "Empire of Scrounge" and/or visit their blog.....

http://empireofscrounge.blogspot.com/

[niyad]

55. let's see--an 8 ft walnut entertainment stand, bookcases, lamps, china, huge flower pots. . . .

just a few of the things I have rescued from dumpsters.

[Bigmack]

65. So ya wanna play, huh?...

Sterling silver tea set... Worm-drive Skil saw... complete set of horse harness for wagon - including collar - all in great condition... oil-filled radiator heater... complete rudder system for a Hobie Cat 16.... like that.

I can't be too specific about my greatest haul this last winter, but the packages were from Amsterdam thru London, unopened, the packing slips totaled $384. All new... ahem... glass and wooden objects for smoking, seeds - with special labels attached, and electronic scales. Dunno how it made it thru Customs.

Divorces are hard on the participants, but a pissed-off wife often throws his tools away.

I love our country... in so many ways.

[minnesota_liberal]

22. Sarah shooting the messenger

Palin can't defend the fee she gets for babbling incoherently and reciting talking points. Nor can she justify the perks she demands while on such jaunts. So all she can do is whine about those who uncovered the facts.

Of course, this brings up another great example of right-wing hypocrisy: Privacy isn't important when the NSA wants to spy on all of us but is suddenly a big deal when it affects one of them.

I thought my "HALF BAKED ALASKAN" bumper sticker would go the way of the Pet Rock after the McCain-Palin express crashed and burned. But as long as her yapping is still newsworthy, my bumper sticker is still relevant.

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. Why in the world was she chosen to speak at this event?

LOL

[wordpix]

51. no doubt b/c she represents the T-party point of view, i.e. the idiot's POV

[activa8tr]

43. Bless her gold-digging heart!!! She's such a lovely, lovely ...

piece of SH*T!

[MissDeeds]

47. +1

You nailed it!!!

:rofl:

[ashling]

45. "Because college students have better things to do

dontcha know. They could be learnin stuff, which really too would be a waste of time, when they should probably be, you know, reading up on other colleges that they might, ya know, want to attend next semester, so they don't have to be around, ya know, all the minorities and such, you betcha."

[lib_wit_it]

67. !!

:yourock:

[Shining Jack]

48. "how much she earns speaking. "

If it's more than a quarter then she's overpaid.

[Blue Owl]

52. What are confused young conservatives supposed to do?

First we have Rush encouraging dumpster-diving, and now Sarah Palin telling them not to?

Who will tell them what to think???

:evilgrin:

[benld74]

54. We can always thank McCain for this IDIOT

[minnesota_liberal]

62. or McCain's campaign advisors

I understand that she was not his first choice.

[lunatica]

58. She's not bright enough to come up with that line

I think someone feeds her her lines. Todd maybe? Funny how we never hear a peep out of him.

[PufPuf23]

59. Cockroaches flee from bright light.

This is my first Palin post ever.

That Sarah Palin is a prominent person and was a Governor and a losing candidate for VPUSA says much about whether we are truly an enlightened Democratic Republic or a compromised M$M monied aristocracy and military empire where a puppet is sufficient.

[Vidar]

61. As Ann Richards said of Bush Sr., Sarah was born with a "silver foot in her mouth."

[donheld]

66. Isn't that where John McCain found her?

[Robert DAH Bruce]

68. The reporter at the event said it best:

"Now I know, the dumbness doesn't come from just soundbites."

[704wipes]

69. Fuck. Her.

preferably with someone else's dick.