!!!LOL!!! - Palin has 'Open Mic' Problem - Much Hilarity!

[kpete]

Run time: 03:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnNCtliUVI   Posted on YouTube: June 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: PalinPalooza Views on YouTube: 317   Posted on DU: June 26, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 2650

 
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/26/879530/-Palin-has-Open-Mic-ProblemMuch-Hilarity!-UPDATE-x-2

"I feel like I just got off a rollercoaster."
"She didn’t finish a statement."
"I don’t know how you’re gonna make a story out of that." "Well, that’s the story."
"Did she even make a point?"
"Lots of Reagan."
"Just put as many random quotes in as you can."

[tridim]

1. This one time! at band camp.. nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. I couldn't listen to the whole thing

:)
Plus, she really sounds like she's reading rather than speaking.........

[AlbertCat]

4. Got 0:37 into it. It's like 2000 patriotic platitudes per minute!

Empty.

[Alpha Numeric Wanda]

13. Ugh, couldn't listen either

Couldn't someone just tell me what she said off-mic so I can decide if it's worth listening to her drivel to get to it?

[rfranklin]

3. I sent an email to the news director and lauded him for the commentary...

on Palin's speech, noting that it was "fair and balanced."

[Plucketeer]

5. Sarah's dumber than a rock

But not SO dumb as to turn down a hefty fee to vocalize for 30 minutes. :crazy:

[formercia]

18. $100K to hear a bag of hammers rattle.

No, wait. She's dumber than a bag of hammers.

[Bucky]

6. I'm sorry, but did she say "In the words of Reagan 'a shining city on a hill' "?

She just doesn't have any educated people on her staff checking facts, I guess. The quote (and the idea) is from Jonathan Edwards.

[Demoiselle]

9. Did Reagan credit Jonathan Edwards when he made that speech?

Just curious.

[Bucky]

12. GFE. But I don't recall that he misatributed it.

like I did when I said "Jonathan Edwards." It was actually John Winthrop about 100 years earlier. Anyway, anyone vaguely familiar with US history should know the concept of America (and more specifically Massachusetts) as a shining city on a hill goes way back to before the Declaration of Independence. Out of everyone on Palin's staff who looked over her "speech" no one had the wits to say "Wait, these aren't Ronald Reagan's words."

[formercia]

16. ".... no one had the wits to say "Wait, these aren't Ronald Reagan's words.""

.. You would have to be witless to even consider a job on her staff.

[Demoiselle]

17. Oh, that explains why I couldn't find the quote when I looked him up!

(I wasn't being snarky, I had no idea who said it. Except that I could imagine Reagan coming up with it on his own.)

[cynthia]

21. first JFK, then Reagan

are given nods in Wikipedia:

Modern usage

On 9 January 1961, President-Elect John F. Kennedy returned the phrase to prominence during an address delivered to the General Court of Massachusetts:

...I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arbella three hundred and thirty-one years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a perilous frontier. "We must always consider," he said, "that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us." Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill — constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities. For we are setting out upon a voyage in 1961 no less hazardous than that undertaken by the Arabella in 1630. We are committing ourselves to tasks of statecraft no less awesome than that of governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, beset as it was then by terror without and disorder within. History will not judge our endeavors—and a government cannot be selected—merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these. For of those to whom much is given, much is required.<2>

President Ronald Reagan used the image as well, in his 1984 acceptance of the Republican Party nomination<3> and in his January 11, 1989 farewell speech to the nation:

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.<4>

[Jack Rabbit]

7. The ultimate Sarah Palin tape

Now we know why she calls it the "lamestream media." They cover her.

[Demoiselle]

8. The only thing missing from the "commentary" afterwards...

"Holy shit, this thing is ON!!!"

Why, if the msm actually sees her as a idiot, do they spend so much time covering her?
Oh, nevermind.

[spicegal]

10. I believe they call that flight of ideas. The woman is nuts..

Plus, that sing-songing vocal inflections drive me crazy.

[onlyadream]

11. who are the guys talking at the end?

[Tx4obama]

14. Here's more info

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x479408

[AmericaIsGreat]

15. "America is great, because she is good"?!?!?!?!

lol, Sarah Palin

[Rmbn]

19. I almost hope she does get elected in 2012

Just for the tragic, catastrophic comedy

[Ganja Ninja]

20. "I don’t know how you’re gonna make a story out of that."

How about telling it like it is. Sarah Palin is a waste of America's time. She has nothing of value or insight to offer. No solutions of any kind for any of America's problems. No vision of any kind.

She's full of vague happy talk about America, conservatism and the GOP. She blathers Ronald Reagan stories and she promises to "shake up Washington DC" and that's about the gist of her act. There's nothing more to see or hear and there never has been or will be.