Did Sarah Palin plagiarize her recent speech in Anchorage from Newt Gingrich. You betcha!

This comes from Geoffery Dunn on Huffington Post:

Sarah Palin's garbled, often incoherent 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"--was largely lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley.

Can you believe that? The crazy ass speech that AKM, Shannyn, and I sat through last Wednesday night was originally a creation of Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley?

But Newt is not an absolute moron so what did Sarah do to his original words that made it seem to bat-shit crazy? She "Palin-ized" it!

Here are a couple of examples:

Palin: 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.

Gingrich/Shirley: Relying on the good sense of the American people beats relying on the elite intellectuals, entrenched bureaucrats and smug lobbyists who dominate Washington.

Palin: He stood strong on his knowing that the framework through which he believed that positive change that framework for our kids, it was freedom [sic].

Gingrich/Shirley: Successful governance means having a framework through which to lead the American people. For Reagan, that framework was freedom.

Palin: [Reagan's] vision for the Cold War?--we win, they lose.

Gingrich/Shirley: On the inevitability of the Soviet Union, Reagan responded with a then shocking vision for the Cold War--"we win, they lose."

If I were Newt Gingrich I would sue.

I remember as I sat listening to this speech leaning forward and whispering to AKM, "well at least we know she wrote it", because it was so incredibly bad that I just assumed that she must have made the whole thing up. So now that I know she actually used source material that was at the very least comprehensible, I am even more amazed at how incoherent her actual speech turned out.

I must give a hat tip to my fellow sufferer Shannyn Moore for bringing this to my attention and of course to AKM for doing the original transcription of the speech which allowed Geoffrey Dunn to make this little discovery.