Sarah Palin's Freedom Summit speech the day after.

Just one of a number of SarahPAC graphics cobbled together from the few lucid moments of Palin's speech.

Now as all of you know I am certainly not new to Palin's word salad. And I have transcribed some crazy ass speechifying in my day. But last night may have been the most batshit craziest of all the batshit crazy that came before.

I have to admit that while I listened to a good portion of it before putting together my last post of the day yesterday, kind of skipped ahead at certain points just to get the general idea and did not listen to the entire thirty five minutes until this morning, and I have to admit I kind of wish I never had.

But don't take my word for it, just take a gander at what other news outlets had to say.

First the Daily Mail felt certain that Palin's teleprompter had frozen, and that it was to blame for her incoherence: 

Republican firebrand Sarah Palin is rarely at a loss for words but became unmoored on Saturday in Iowa after her teleprompter froze and left her without portions of her prepared speech. 

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee flipped through a binder of notes and strung together a series of one-liners – and some of them made little sense. 

'The man can only ride you when your back is bent,' she said, as audience members looked at each other quizzically. 

'So strengthen it! Then the man can't ride you, America won't get taken for a ride, because so much is at stake.' 

Addressing the controversy over the virtues of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and the 'American Sniper' film that tells his life story, she shouted: “Screw the left in Hollywood!' 

Others claimed that her teleprompter was workign just fine, with Palin supporters stomping their feet and screaming that she was not using a teleprompter, because their heroine doesn't fucking need them!

Right Wing Watch took Palin's word salad at face value and called her out over her unmitigated attacks on the Left: 

Palin said that Republicans need to prepare for attacks from the liberal media, which seeks to “crucify” conservatives, warning that liberals use Saul Alinsky-inspired political tactics, such as charges of “racism” and “sexism.” 

Republicans should reject these “Orwellian” and “disgusting charges from the left,” Palin said, before calling on conservatives to label liberals as the real racists and sexists: “Reverse them, for it is they who point a finger not realizing that they have triple that amount of fingers pointing right back at them revealing that they are the ones who really discriminate and divide on color and class and sex. We call them out. We don’t let them get away with it.” 

She urged conservatives to expose the “real war on women with truth because we can handle the truth,” explaining: “It is they who defeat women, they shackle them to the good old boys running Washington, pimping this promise that they have to provide for these little ladies’ every need, because ‘there, there, a woman is just not capable.’” 

Oh yeah, that's pure Palin. 

And while others, like Crooks and Liars took note that Palin went out of her way to call the President a "boy," the Des Moines Register tried to polish the mooseturd up a little for public consumption: 

Beyond the Iowa references, Palin's 35-minute speech was a free-form reflection on Republican presidential strategy, Democratic dishonesty, personal slights, the glory of the United States and its military, and several other subjects.

Nice try, but we know excrement when we see it.

Other news outlets were not so charitable, and decided to post their observations unvarnished.

From Hot Air: 

The order of speakers got juggled around too, and led to a strange up-and-down effect at the end. Sarah Palin, who was supposed to be the keynote speaker, gave a crowd-pleasing but stream-of-consciousness address. She offered support for King for his part in the revolt against Boehner, which got a large round of applause. However, her speech seemed to run out of gas after a few minutes, and the audience responses thinned out notably. 

What in the hell is she talking about?

 Politico was even more blunt:  

Sarah Palin, who has been teasing the press with hints she might actually run for president, appeared to end much hope of that Saturday by delivering a 33-minute speech of such incoherence that even veteran Palin-watchers were puzzled. 

Some sample lines from Palin: 

“Screw the left and Hollywood!” 

“Coronation, rinse, repeat.” 

Obama “is so over it. America, he’s just not that into you.” 

“The man can only ride you when your back is bent.” 

I would provide some context, but there wasn’t any. It is possible she was improperly inflated.

However it was another reporter from the Des Moine Register who summarized it best: 

Sarah Palin's speech was like passing a burning wreck surrounded by ambulances on the highway. You know you should just keep driving, but you can't help slowing down to look. If she had ambitions for 2016, she should pursue them somewhere besides Iowa.

The Democratic Party's response to the speech was both short and sweet:

You know way back in 2009 I predicted that someday Sarah Palin would have destroyed herself so completely that she would be reduced to late night one liners and $200 questions on Jeopardy.

I think that after this performance that would actually be more than she could possibly hope for. 

Personally I cannot help but find it ironic that on the weekend during which Palin has tried so hard to create buzz about a possible 2016 presidential run in order to convince news outlets to start taking her seriously again, that she ends up giving them all the ammunition they could possibly need to continue painting her as a laughingstock and an embarrassment to the Republican party and to the country at large.

Though to be honest I can't say I am surprised.