Media barred from covering Palin’s speech in Hong Kong.
Media barred from covering Palin’s speech in Hong Kong.
When Hong Kong-based brokerage group CLSA announced that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin would be the keynote speaker at its annual conference, many observers wondered if the arrangement was just some sort of joke, noting that Palin’s most notable foreign policy experience is being able to see Russia from Alaska. Unfortunately, we may never find out what Palin tells the audience of international investors. AFP reports that her Sept. 23 speech will be closed to the press. “Some of our keynote sessions in previous years were also closed to the media. So this is not the first time,” said a CLSA spokesperson. “Ms Palin has not yet confirmed with us the topic of her speech.” Palin’s trip to Hong Kong will be her first visit to Asia and her first paid speaking engagement since leaving office.
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The Roast of Sarah Palin
September 14th, 2009 at 12:31 pmOh… I suspect… somehow, we’ll get the gist of her remarks…
And it will be… ***Comedy Gold***
Can’t… wait…
September 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pmBut but but she is an energy expert
Bwah
September 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pmI do not care about this woman!
September 14th, 2009 at 12:34 pmPalin: “No media?! Then, I want TWICE the money!”
September 14th, 2009 at 12:35 pmCaption: Now for my Bahbarah Streisand impression
September 14th, 2009 at 12:35 pm***
“Ms Palin has not yet confirmed with us the topic of her speech.”
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i don’t think it’s going to be on
“abstinence only” sex education
for teenage boys and girls.
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September 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pmThey probably know she will either quit or not show up. So they are trying to protect them selfs from being fools, well biggie fools.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pmWho in their right mind would have Palin give a speech? Who would pay to hear anything this woman has to say? She was a failure as a VP candidate, she quit her job as Govenor. What words of wisdom could she give to anyone? Unreal.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pmMaybe the Press not being there is for the best; hopefully that will reduce her tripe floating around and give us less of her non-sense and lies to have to refute.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pm.
Confucius say…
… When in Red State, do as Red State.
I’m just glad Sarah found a Red State, Red enough.
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September 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pmMedia barred from covering Palin’s speech in Hong Kong.
Thank goodness for being spared her inane, psychotic drivel.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pmThere goes Sarah again, pallin’ around with communists…
September 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pmYou can’t have the media around when you are discussing how to move jobs to countries where they pay 10 cents/hour.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pmNice to see Palin accomodating her Red China masters. (yes, I’m well aware that Hong Kong enjoys limited autonomy and has a slightly freer press than the rest of the Mainland. Palin would still fit right in with Chairman Hu)
September 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm.
Will is be like 2008…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4055475701520885985#
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September 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pmI just wonder what she’ll do for the talent portion …
/snark off.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:44 pmMaybe she will like Hong Kong so much, she will stay. Can you see Russia from Hong Kong?
September 14th, 2009 at 12:45 pmIt won’t matter, Palinspeak translates into moron in any language.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:46 pmRupert Murdoch has very close ties with the group that Palin is speaking to, and we know that Murdoch has Palin under lock and key at the moment. Otherwise, she would have been shrieking out against almost-son-in-law Levi for his expose in Vanity Fair.
Reading NOT to be missed:
September 14th, 2009 at 12:47 pmhttp://palingates.blogspot.com/
Dogfather@13, LOL! Lord knows how much Sarah blames the MEDIA for all her troubles. Now she is going China, I guess she doesn’t have to worry about that, does she?
September 14th, 2009 at 12:47 pmPerhaps it will be a speech on the evils of BIRTH CONTROL! Or the Joys and Success of good parenting?
September 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pmPerhaps when she comes downstate to whore her new book she can get that same arraingement of the interviews being closed to the press. Wait? She already has a standing press free invite on fox news!
September 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pmSays Who says:
Kill yourself. Stop burdening decent human beings with your monumental stupidity
September 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pmHouse of Roberts says:
It won’t matter, Palinspeak translates into moron in any language.
LOL>>>> yes she would say something like I can see commies from my podium as she looks around.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pmI hope that dumb broad has someone to fly here there. If she had to find her way to Hong Kong she would only arrive there by accident. Is Joe the Plumper (sorry, Plumber) going along to help her prepare her speech? Maybe John McCain could fly her there. He is, after all, a crack pilot having wrecked just six Navy jets. I am surprised that no press is invited. Think fo the ace reporting that we could get from Beck, Boortz, and Limbaugh.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pmDeath Panel = Panelist
Death Palin = Palinist
Palin Panel = Palinistos
September 14th, 2009 at 12:51 pmMore fodder for Tina Fey and her career. Many another Emmy?
Sarah really is the gift that keeps on giving.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pmCheck out this website and scroll down until you see the photo of Palin Condoms for sale on the streets of NYC.
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/09/13/new-york-city-mudstock-brian-the-moose-meets-the-naked-cowboy/#comments
September 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pmSo Sarah’s finally dipping in to that speaker tour cash. Good for her.
Anyone fool enough to shell out hard cash to invite her to speak gets whatever they deserve. Like the too-likely chances of her not showing up at all.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pmI’m pretty sure it was a rambling run-on bunch of idiot speak, don’t cha know, you betcha, palln’ around with terrorists, show me the money.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:56 pmSleigh Poo says; Good for Sarah Red Comrade Palin
September 14th, 2009 at 12:56 pmSarah’s going to Hong Kong. Tom Delay is ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Blago is doing Karoke. The band REM comes to mind. Its the end of the World as we know it, and I feel FINE!”
September 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmJust a reminder: Most folks in Hong Kong speak English. So they’ll have less trouble than most in determining how stupid she is.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmIts PLS as in laff Sludge Poo
September 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmUh, I really don’t think we’re missing much. And I hope the media remembers this when her book comes out.
September 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm***
WHERE’S YOUR ACORN STORY? I CAN’T FIND IT
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sorry baker,
i beat you.
.. … …
better luck next time.
:)
September 14th, 2009 at 12:59 pm.
Sarah had to travel to China to meet a “REAL” Communist.
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September 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pmSo we won’t be able to hear Palin…….And the problem is????
September 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm“Palin’s trip to Hong Kong will be her first visit to Asia”
OB-Nitpick:
Last time I checked, Kuwait was in Asia, and that’s IIRC where she made her big “head of the Alaska National Guard” trip/photo-op last year which gave us all that hilarious/terrifying picture of her with the protective eye-wear and the M-4 carbine.
Just wanted to keep the record straight, as I am a firm believer in clarity of communication at all times.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmIf only the media was banned from any of her speeches or appearances in THIS country. It would be so nice NOT to have to hear her drivel
September 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmfor this media whore that is the kiss of death
September 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pmSays Who says:
PDS is front and center! LOL!
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So… you’re a fan of the Babbling, Incoherent One…
“They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Why am I not surprised?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:04 pmSorry guys. She devil was in Iraq, a country in Asia.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:04 pmOtherwise I don’t give a F–K.
Says Who says:
Dont you ever just sit down and cry about how stupid and pathetic you are? Afterall it will never change. You will ALWAYS be stupid and pathetic
September 14th, 2009 at 1:05 pmPeter C says:
I just wonder what she’ll do for the talent portion …
Maybe she’ll pick up coins without using her hands and deposit them in a “made in China” piggy bank.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:05 pmThe majority of those attending the conference are from all over the world and likely speak English, seeing as English is becoming the universal language of most European and Asian countries. Too bad that we Americans have so many who CAN’T speak proper English, let alone have familiarity or fluency in a second language.
I’m embarassed already to have foreigners exposed her to. I expect her speech will be written by Kristol and she’ll use a teleprompter………just so she doesn’t lose her place in between her winks and flirts.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pmIts hard to believe SayRah PayIn has gone socialist…
September 14th, 2009 at 1:07 pmGranny@49, Don’t forget, “You, Betcha!” The woman is an embarrassment. Maybe it is a good thing the MEDIA is banned. If she makes a major Faux Pas, we won’t hear about it.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:09 pmThis may be why there will be no press coverage:
Perhaps the Chinese are under the mistaken impression that Palin is some kind of stripper-act with balloons and a small dog. I mean, such activities for men are fine behind closed doors in China, but are vile perversions if publicized.
Facetiousness is now off.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pmWell, if there was ever an event that said:
I’m going to say something that will hurt America and I don’t want them to hear it”
This is it!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pmIf we don’t get Sarah Palin making her Hong Kong speech, perhaps we can get Tina Fey doing a sketch of Sarah Palin making her Hong Kong speech.
After all, Palin says the media just makes stuff up anyway…
September 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pmWhy Palin? Because nothing says “credible” like serving half a term as Governor of a state.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pmTo quote David Bowie from China Girl:
September 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Palin Pole Dance:
http://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/palin-is-poll-dancing-again/
September 14th, 2009 at 1:18 pmThis invitation to speak is symbolic of the whole mindset of the teabagging far right. They are a joke that goes right over their head.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:20 pmPalin CLSA Speech Leaked!
From the Kitchen Office of The Governor of the Republic Of Alaska
Well hiya, Honk Ong.
Ya know, I always wondered where Sushi came from, and now I know. Hey congratulations on gaining your freedom from those Commies in 1999.
As a foremost expert on Energies and such I asked my son Trig if I should accept your offer to speak here tonight and he said hell-yeah!
Ya know the only thing more precious than a child, is a vision of an economic that ensures the greatness of achievements so the taxpayers freedoms remain free, like our founding fathers did before our childrens future, which is what I’m fighting for but the media won’t let me because they keep making things up also and I wish they’d just quit it ya know?
Because Governing Alaska is just a leetle bit more qualifying than organizing black kids, you betcha, so that’s why I’m not quitting because basketball moms know the difference between helicopter wolf-hunting and clothes-shopping and when you read all the newspapers like I do you have to ask yourself the hard questions and get things done while protecting your shores because, as a mother, I have a fridge magnet that inspires me every day to keep going and keep fighting for things that are need to be done so that our kids can’t be indoctrinated by the nay-sayers who aren’t real Americans from which we can learn politics as usual isn’t what I’m all about and we should all ask ourselves, in what context? Also.
Thank You.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pmThis Just In: John Ziegler is attempting to smuggle himself on a cargo ship to obtain footage from this speech for his “collection”.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pmSarah who?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pmHas ‘enry ‘iggins taught her to speak yet?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm@59 5th Estate
ROFLMAO – Love it!
September 14th, 2009 at 1:30 pmPerhaps it’s just an acknowledgment that it’s not newsworthy . . .
September 14th, 2009 at 1:33 pmFor the talent portion, perhaps she’ll play the flute for them, or provide a flirty whiff of other kinds of blowjob.
This ought to be completely misleading for the CLSA hacks. They’ll have a very interesting notion of our political “leadership”, to say the least. If she happens to meet any CPPRC cadre she ought to do well; they ought to be able to sit around and swap twisted doctrinare cliches for hours.
Murdoch or someone may have been able to get some PR pros in with her to keep her quiet and to craft and rehearse a speech, like the Sainted Ronnie Ray-Gun’s ’speech’, frequently referred to by poli-sci types as “The Speech”. SaraSpeech will be debuted in HK and then have minor variant forms delivered all over hell and half of Georgia, campaigning for Rs and herself right into the 2012 primaries.
She has to have a set-piece speech. Let her speak off-the-cuff, or ad lib, and she goes right off the rails every time. Cray zee…
September 14th, 2009 at 1:36 pmMan, they are going to be so angry when Tina Fey doesn’t show up.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:41 pmGreatGranny2B says: @59 5th Estate, ROFLMAO – Love it!
Glad you liked it. I just took some bits from Paul Krugman, Noam Chomsky, Winston Churchill, pasted it into my word-saladizer and selected Palin from the Format dialog box ( using a Right click of course).
September 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pmsomeone should pay for levi to go at the same time.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pmSarah can’t speak on economic issues without a net apparently.. gee what a surprise. I’ll bet her speech will be fully recorded and released to some news organization within a hour of the engagement. Gotta love the electronic gadgets that are small as a matchbox these days!
September 14th, 2009 at 1:45 pmPerhaps the Chinese Losers Social Anomalies thought she had a decent stripper act??
September 14th, 2009 at 1:45 pmI really do think this CLSA invite is a brilliant joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLSA
September 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pmThe trip is for entertainment at the US expense. Look even the Chinese need a good laugh now and then. Tina won an award and Hong Kong just wants to see the person the US could have had as VP. You can bet someone will be selling the tape of Sister Sarah’s comedy act. I know the Russian President will buy the tape for a good laugh.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:51 pmWhat an embarrassing person to represent the US.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:03 pmShe’s queen of the Teabaggers.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:04 pmI wonder if she know about China’s population control policies that encouraged parents to abort female fetuses or else kill them off after birth. Then again I wonder if she knows China isn’t predominantly Christian.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:06 pmPilotshark thinks (#8) she probably won’t show up.
Of course she’ll show up! She’s just doing this to put on her resume as “Foreign Policy Experience” for her 2012 run.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:09 pmIs it just me or does Sarah Palin look like HypnoToad?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:13 pmHey, Rich H (#77): the HypnoToad is a better communicator than Sarah. : ) (Unfortunately, there’s no physical resemblance – that would be great.)
September 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pmI don’t know, from that picture above, they both have the same crazy eyes and she does seem to have some hypno skills with the right wingers.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pmWatch out world war III.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pmBut we need to see the Fancy Pageant Walkin’!
September 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pmIt’s OK – we already know how much Palin lies.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:35 pm-
No, someone can’t read the teleprompter; it says: “going LONG GONE.”
She can see China from there.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pmFrom Russia one can see Hong Kong.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:42 pmHow’d you like to find out your investment advisor was getting advice from Sarah Palin?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pm@ 77 & 78. Rich H & HomerSexual. Pardon me, guys, but I think there’s better evidence that Dork Armey is the hypno-toad. He looks like it, he sounds like it, and he has idiots pouring money into FreedomWorks and his other endeavors like it’s just tea from a baggie… (they are obviously under some sort of hypnotic suasion).
September 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pmOh it’s ok for her to speak secretly to Communist.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pmSomeone PLEASE leak a tape of the speech. PPPPLELLLLEEEEEAAAASSSEEEEEE!!!!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pmSahu says:
Last time I checked, Kuwait was in Asia, and that’s IIRC where she made her big “head of the Alaska National Guard” trip/photo-op last year which gave us all that hilarious/terrifying picture of her with the protective eye-wear and the M-4 carbine.
September 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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Only technically. According to the State Department, it’s in the Near East, not Asia, which is generally regarded as East Asia. Yes, it’s all one contiguous land mass, but by that definition Portugal is in Asia as well. And Africa would be, if not for the Suez Canal.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:26 pmI am sure she will wow the crowd with the ping pong ball routine.
5th Estate, that was classic!
September 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pmWhy in hell would a “Hong Kong based brokerage group” have any interest at all in hearing a speech on a topic yet to be determined given by nanookie of the north? Let me see….a bunch of rich fat cat businessmen based in Hong Kong who could probably pay enough money to the U.S. government to get Bernie Madoff a weekend pass and plane ticket to Hong Kong would rather have Sarah Palin in their midst?
September 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pmSarah Palin’s Motto: I was born stupid.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pmI will live stupid.
I will die stupid!!!!
They’ve released a preview of Sarah Palin’s prepared remarks to the CLSA:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
(snark!)
September 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pm90 – it sounds better in Latin:
Prognatus bardus, ago bardus, intereo bardus!
(Born stupid, live stupid, die stupid!)
September 14th, 2009 at 3:49 pmosage says:
Why in hell would a “Hong Kong based brokerage group” have any interest at all in hearing a speech on a topic yet to be determined given by nanookie of the north? Let me see….a bunch of rich fat cat businessmen based in Hong Kong who could probably pay enough money to the U.S. government to get Bernie Madoff a weekend pass and plane ticket to Hong Kong would rather have Sarah Palin in their midst?
The real reason is way better than that: entertainment value. She’s basically subbing as a comedy act, and doesn’t even know it.
These CLSA people sound kind of awesome, actually.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:53 pmLeftside Annie,
September 14th, 2009 at 3:57 pmYou’re right. It does sound much cooler in Latin. Thank you.
Rupert Murdoch has Palin practicing her speechifying for the western world. Read here:
September 14th, 2009 at 4:11 pmhttp://nailinpalinnow.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-sarah-in-little-china-murdoch-will_3138.html
Give a speech? I can think of some other things that Sarah can do with that mouth.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:40 pmHigh level staffers hinted that a first draft had been titled “Chinese, Japanese, Dirty Knees, Look at These” but would neither confirm nor deny…
September 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pmPalin’s theme song:
Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and youre okay.
Money, its a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think Ill buy me a football team.
Money, get back.
Im all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, its a hit.
Dont give me that do goody good bullshit.
Im in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a lear jet.
Money, its a crime.
Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that theyre
Giving none away.
h/t pink floyd
September 14th, 2009 at 5:21 pmHong Kong is part of China. A free media need not apply.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pmkwsventures says:
Yeah because we believe it is the Chinese Gov that is barring reporters. Is it PAINFUL to be as stupid as you are?
September 14th, 2009 at 7:42 pmThe folks at CLSA are no fools. They are fully aware that Palin can energize the tattooed, toothless Republican constituency. What they don’t realize is that many Americans are sick and tired of the exultation of ignorance. Not only did Palin prove during the election that she was unfit for the office of V.P. She also proved that she was probably unfit to hold the office of Governor. She was an albatross around McCain’s neck. She couldn’t answer questions from an eighth grade social studies quiz. Palin schmalin. She’s largely irrelevant!
September 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pmI, for one, am glad it’s a media-free event. I no longer have any interest in what she has to say.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 16th, 2009 at 11:44 pmI hope that this dumb broad isn’t dumb enough to believe that her remarks in this “closed to the press” speech won’t be recorded or otherwise taken down. CLSA will no doubt regret their invitation after about five minutes of her usual blubbering. What see will do is provide the usual YouTube entertainment. I wonder who makes her travel arrangements? I doubt she can find Hong Kong on the map.
Ye gods!
September 21st, 2009 at 9:58 am