Sarah Palin has some kind of photo-op outside of Fox studios, and the internet responds to her hate filled CPAC speech.

I am not sure who arranged this, or what for, but here is Palin leaving Fox after her appearance with Chris Wallace yesterday.

As far as I can tell there is no video of this event on the internet, and these pictures only show up in two places, so I am not sure who took them, or why.

However I DID  receive links to some rather interesting take downs of Palin's CPAC speech, that were sent to me by loyal visitors and that I thought were worth sharing.

First we have the ever entertaining Wonkette, which starts their deconstruction thusly:

From 4:42 p.m. until about 5:19 p.m., if you can imagine surviving that long, Palin speechified in the Marriott Ballroom at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Wonderland Amusement Park [& Conference Centre -- Ed.] about all sorts of truth-defying, lie-inducing, reality-denying, delusion-inspiring wonders of unreality. Thus the only way to accurately, objectively–yes, objectively–report on this delusion is call it Deconstructing Sarah Palin.

Wonkette does not hold back in their description, and demolition, of Palin's rabid attacks on the President, and his policies, and takes great pleasure in pointing out how far removed from reality they were.

This is similar to how News Corpse approaches her ranting, and points out her top ten hack attacks and lies:


1) [Obama] promised to transform America, and that’s one promise he kept, transforming a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. 

Remember how shiny America was in 2008 when the McCain/Palin ticket was so soundly defeated? The economy was in free fall, we were bleeding jobs, and there were two wars in progress. Obama took command of this ship after Bush and the GOP had already run it into an iceberg, and he has managed to keep it afloat and steer it back into safer waters. 

2) When I listened to his State of the Union last month, I was really struck that he barely mentioned unemployment. 

Which State of the Union was she listening to? It certainly wasn’t the one Obama delivered where he mentioned “jobs” 33 times. Her dreadful comprehension skills may explain why she was unable to answer a gotcha question like “What do you read?” 

3) He’ll invest your money in bullet trains to nowhere, but he’ll stop Boeing from building airplanes anywhere. 

It takes balls for Palin to reference the “bridge to nowhere” that was a boondoggle she supported in her home state of Alaska. And it’s no less ballsy to berate initiatives like high-speed rail that would create jobs and improve the infrastructure for commerce. Also, The NLRB decision to oppose Boeing’s plan to to move their facilities to South Carolina was intended to save the jobs of workers that Boeing proposed to abandon in Washington state.

Very good stuff there!

The Atlantic went a step further and discovered that despite her feral attacks against Obama, that many in the crowd at CPAC were less than impressed with her appearance:

Palin's speech was received ecstatically by the capacity crowd in the CPAC ballroom. But in interviews, many audience members said they were glad she wasn't a candidate for president, and some said she'd lost her hold on their attention. 

 "I was very pro-Sarah when she ran, but I'm not sure about her anymore," said Lisa Everington, a defense employee from Richmond, Va. "She had a focus before. Now, I don't have a clue what she's supposed to be about." 

It is kind of interesting to me that so many journalists were surprised by her fast and loose use of lies, and that she was so hateful toward the President.  I assume that since I have been listening to her Fox News interviews, and breaking them down for mass consumption, that I was less taken aback by her speech, and in fact found it to be pitch perfect for the crowd at CPAC.

The question right now is will this give her the exposure she was clearly seeking to launch a comeback of some sort, like a new book or reality show?

I have no doubt that she is done with politics, but let's face it, she's running out of money and has to do SOMETHING to inspire people to loosen their purse strings and continue financing her bizarre lifestyle.

Bristol's reality show disappeared without a trace, Todd's "I can ride a snowmachine" show never even got off the starting line, and Palin's political punditry is barely covered by the press these days, despite the insane things she is prone to say.

I would say that desperation is now a permanent house guest in that crazy ass compound on Lake Lucille.