Reporter Doni Greenberg tells us what it was like to sit in the audience with a bunch of hard working rednecks while Sarah Palin pranced around onstage in a tight little skirt.Sarah Palin received a rock star’s welcome at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference where she spoke before the first of two sold-out shows at the Redding Convention Center this afternoon.
That’s 4,000 people who paid between $54 for a balcony seat to $74 for a floor seat. I had a floor seat - second row, so near the tower of speakers that I followed the example of people around me and wadded tissue in my right ear to reduce the volume.
She endeared herself to the logging conference crowd by holding her hand up to show what was written on her palm: “Loggers rock!” - an apparent dig at “lame-stream media” who recently ridiculed her for writing memory prompts on her hand. And toward the end of her talk she complimented logging industry folks when she referred to an administration that talks about green jobs.
“You guys were doing green jobs before green jobs were even cool!” (WTF?)
Um, you know I hate to nitpick, but I don't believe that Sarah Palin quite understands the definition of "green jobs".
Perhaps somebody should tell her that a "green job" is NOT where you take an ax and kill something green. It is when you work a job that helps to improve our environment and does not waste our precious resources. Chopping down a tree is the exact opposite of having a "green job".
No wonder Palin's approved method of predator control was shooting wolves from a helicopter and never spoke out when gassing cubs in their den was suggested. "Pretty easy to control them once their dead. You betcha!"
After that stunningly stupid statement Palin went right into her right wing rhetoric.
- “Washington needs to stop lecturing and start listening.” (She lectured to the audience.)
- “We need basic common-sense government with fiscal restraint and limited control.” (Says the woman who does not have any common sense and hired a lobbying firm to procure 27 million dollars in earmarks while she was mayor of Wasilla.)
- “We need to stand up and tell government to back off.”
- “Sometimes I wonder if anyone in Washington has ever run a business.” (Yes actually quite a few of them have.)
- “Washington wants us to think this is all over our head. Obviously, they want us to sit down and shut up.” (They keep telling me I am dumb but I am really quite....wait that is written on my hand someplace....oh here it is....insurgent...so wait its kind of smudged...intelligent..yeah that's it!")
- “Washington needs to walk the walk.” ("And run the run, and crawl the crawl, and hop the skip, and other nonsensical phrases like that.")
- “We need an all-of-the-above approach to drilling, digging and mining, and support for nuclear energy.” (Oh I take it back, I guess she really does understand "green jobs". This speech brought to you by "Earth Rapists of America".))
- “A lot of green is wishful thinking … in the meantime we have to drill here now and tap into our plentiful supplies.” (Yeah let's not think about saving this planet when we have not yet completely used up all of its resources or polluted all of the environment. Let's wait until we all have to "walk the walk" because there is no more gasoline to power our cars, or "crawl the crawl", because the air is too poisonous to stand.)
Perhaps if this group would think with their brains instead of their "wood" they might be able to see through her moose shit. But hey, THAT is what the short skirts are for.
Of course if they had done that they would have been standing outside with this group.
