The Alaska Republican Party has done the worst thing possible to Gov. Sarah Palin — quote her verbatim.
The party posted on the Internet a speech by the Alaska governor, former vice presidential candidate and Moosehunt Barbie. CNN and other media outlets made sure it got out to the world.
In the speech to the Anchorage Lincoln Day Dinner, Palin blamed her campaign loss on the news media. The entire speech is a daisy chain of cliche and repetition and redundancy and cliche. Here’s a sampling:
“Some in the media actually participated in not so much the ‘who-what-where-when-why’ objective reporting on candidates and positions, those five W’s that I learned when I had a journalism degree so many years ago in college, when the world of journalism was quite different than it is today,” she said.
“No, things have changed,” she continued. “But complaining? Or whining? Absolutely not. But I am going to call it like I see it. It doesn’t do any good to whine about any of this. But I can call it like I see it. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble when I speak candidly, and I speak from the heart and I do such a thing. But I am going to.”
“And there was that media slant this go-round,” she said. “And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, ’cause we got that on the battlefield also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complaining, but dealing with reality.”
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Nothing says “Lincoln Day Dinner” like complaining about the free press.
I hope Palin doesn’t make a run for the White House. I can’t listen to such drivel for the length of a campaign. Not complaining, but dealing with reality.
Full story here.
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