VIDEOS: Open live mic after Palin speech: “Now I know the dumbness doesn’t just come from sound bites.”

The tragedy of mental illness.

The essential point here has been entirely ignored–i.e., the video is a fraud. As soon as the “reporters” start talking, the background noise ceases, even though the video continues to show the after-speech venue. The audio was recorded in isolation (an otherwise empty hallway, an otherwise empty room, etc.) and dubbed over the video; the audio was not recorded live coincident with the video. This is NOT an open mic situation–it's a manipulation (and a poor one, at that).

Keith Olbermann (Mr. Illiterate) is right on when he says of Ms. Palin, “this woman is an idiot.” But liberals/progressives need to aspire to higher standards than those of the rightwingnuts. The truth is our principal weapon, and we lose the argument when we resort to making up stuff.

Unless (and until) the voices on the video can be identified and the whole thing verified, we ought to view it with a healthy dose of skepticism.

The Golden State. Always been nice to be here, always feeling such a connection here, a special place in my heart is California because this is Reagan country, and…yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California’s Eureka College* would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State. And it was here that, of course, Reagan became famous as an actor and then distinguished himself as such a good governor and then launched his bid for president. And then, of course, found his final resting place underneath the warm, blue California sky.

Correct, indy_girl.

That was part of the $2,000 she donated at the very last minute for tax purposes.

A grand to show her eternal support for Down syndrome children (cuz she's such a friend to the disabled, don'tcha know) and another grand to a group that pressures young women to have babies instead of abortions.

What little else she's spent on anyone other than herself and her family has gone to a few neo-con politicos.

wow…how did the reports even stay awake to listen to this speach. she's such an idiot

“(at least I don't have to see physical ugliness when I have to listen to her political and spiritual ugliness)”

somehow, that just doesn't work for me with her, and i just *love* women. i think it has something to do with the dishonesty and sheer mean spiritedness.

Frankly her speeches are sound bites strung together rarely making sentences.

GottaLaff, thanks a lot for linking to Palingates!

Palingates today published the full transcript of Sarah Palin's speech at CSU Stanislaus together with the video.

We have also exposed several factual inaccuracies, some of them highly embarrassing.

For example, she expressly said that Eureka College which Ronald Reagan attended is located in California – although it's of course in Illinois, where Ronald Reagan grew up.

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarah-pa…

Let see she made $93,000 for this “speech”, more correctly describe as a long rambling incoherent buzzword filled drivel. So just for that “speech,” being a good Christan and all she should donate $9,300 (10% tithing). Think she donates that much in a year?

Look out Sarah Palin haters, she can see the White House from her front porch.

Palin 2012

Why do people pay to hear this garbage? I just simply don't understand it. She is really an idiot and people just keep coming and paying to see and hear this BS. Hopefully they will wake up soon as she really has nothing to say. She is simply a gold digger and playing on her looks alone.

tjsmema

ummm…. Reagan and Palin in the same breath? Reagan actually finished his term as Governor of California and was quite intelligent. He had some good points but his policies you seem to be so fond of have actually bankrupted the country. 30 years of “trickle down” and deregulation caused the markets to crash nearly as bad as the 30's. Bush was player that furthered the philosophy that nearly destroyed the country. If you truly believe that Palin is the Saint you think she is – take a look at history first. When you have studied fully the period 1980 thru 2010, tell us who was able to save our country and who royally fucked it up. I'm sure you and I will disagree, but it should be fun.

Small , “efficient” government? Then what happened to her “government” when she was the Governor of Alaska or for that matter – Wasilla? When she left Wasilla after being Mayor – the town was nearly $10million in the RED. When she QUIT her job as Governor, the state – which when she took office had a surplus – was nearly $50 Million in the RED. The State of Alaska just found her “legal defense fund” to be ILLEGAL and ordered her to pay back nearly $400K of the money. “Sarah is Our Greatest American” – you need to either have a brain transplant or drink some extremely strong coffee. WAKE UP!

Is anyone really surprised? I think it should be a rule at all of Palin's speeches that the mike be left on and pointed towards the audience at least for 15 minutes after she is done “speaking”. What a load of crap!

how many necklaces did this woman have on?

did she quote de tocqueville? seriously? ah, hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I don't know what turnip truck you fell off of, but Palin's “small government” and “free markets” are just buzzwords for allowing corporations to do what they please without regulation or oversight. She has, at every turn, supported policies which benefit big business over hard-working Americans just trying to keep their heads above water. Now her “legal defense fund,” which she established to defend against those pesky ethics charges in Alaska, has been ruled “illegal” so she immediately started a new one–all after making 12 million dollars last year. I think you must be watching too much Fox News– your delusions are showing.

You make a good point. But I look at it this way. Sarah Palin has become a major political figure in despite her 5 college tour, despite taking on her own party in Alaska, and despite stepping down from her position as Governor. She could very well hold the Republican party hostage in 2 years, because she is beloved by a deep passionate core of conservatives who would follow her to the beaches of Normandy.

Good one. But in keeping with the chewing tobacco running down my chin, my fifth grade education, and my NASCAR-loving background (at least according to how I have been characterized here), I prefer a case of beer.

Sir! with your small mind and never will you have a chance to woo Palin. Palin is the essence of all that you stand for, hate and racism. You dumb SOB! don't care that she is ripping off everybody charging for even showing up and spitting out her hatred. To me Palin is like Hitler! She isn't pretty nor beautiful, but like a slimy blob appealing to a dumb ass like you. She is s0 fuc%%^ up. SARAH PALIN appeals to the , tobacco chewing dripping down the chin kind of man with a fifth grade education or less. They only listen to dumb racist Rush Limbaugh and nobody else! Most of them retreat to the bath room to releive themselves with fantasies of Palin! They get out their guns and dream of a pure American Land! Meanwhile we have a Black President in the White House and there isn't a dam think you can do about it CLETUS!!! ha ha ha.
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“comparing her's”? Did you attend the same 5 colleges as Sarah?

You forgot family values, the desire to complete what she started and fence construction… ;=)

Can you prove that she has never had an abortion? I have never seen her medical records that would show me that she was innocent of such a procedure. I require the medical records.

Well, so you like your own posts. You are truly Sarah's equal!!