When she entered the ballroom of the Riverside Hilton, the 3,000 or so people packed elbow-to-elbow in their banquet room chairs visibly stiffened; she brings an itchy electricity in her wake, a sort of restlessness that’s reflected in her speech, which is relentlessly upbeat but sort of lurches from topic to topic without transitions.
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Yep, the Republicans are definitely in town. Last night, for the first time in my life, I saw an orderly queue for the streetcar.
Also from Gambit, the video "Great Performances: I Am the World" by New York Magazine.
The coverage of the meeting by the two big local newspapers is
H/T to Adrastos at First Draft for the links.
I saw enough of this speech on Countdown last night to get the gist of it. How can people believe anything she says? As Keith has said two programs in a row. . . the woman is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteI love the crack about the queue. Tea Partiers being orderly???
Susan, I'm realizing now that although the Teapartiers had not yet named themselves, they were already well-organized at the time of Mary Landrieu's town meeting. If you recall my post, a few were not at all polite to me.
ReplyDeleteshe...sort of lurches from topic to topic without transitions.
Ain't that the truth?
You should take a cue from the Mad One and offer time off of Purgatory if we can make it past 30 seconds of anything she says. Her voice is beyond irritating--like fingernails on a blackboard.
ReplyDeleteBooCat, I am not clergy. I have no power to grant indulgences. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteActually Sarah's speech in it entirety is not really different from the condensed version, except that the shorter version is - well- shorter.
Perhaps you could contract with sympathetic clergy to grant indulgences for you. Where La Palin (more like Impalen) is involved, it might no be too difficult.
ReplyDeleteBill Maher had the best retort to her last speech in which she asked, "So, how's that 'hopey-changey thing' working out for you?"
ReplyDeleteHe said, "Pretty good, Sarah. How's that 'Hooked on Phonics' thing working out for you?"
She's pathetic.
Thanks Elizabeth. Best laugh of a so far pretty funny day.
ReplyDeleteEye-ran! The "hopey-changey thing" has elicited a good many laughs across the media.
ReplyDeleteLove her put-downs of Obama for his lack of experience. "Community organizer and as a part-time senator and as a full-time candidate". Clearly irony, not to mention seeing ourselves as others see us, is not in the woman's make-up.
ReplyDeleteQuery - isn't it about time spell-check quit underlining "Obama" as an error? A Republican plot? Any other explanation?
Lapin, I've wondered about the continuing indication of misspelling for Obama's name'
ReplyDeleteWait! I'm using Google Chrome now, and there is no red line under Obama.