From The New York Times:
The former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidential candidate [Sarah Palin] has been traveling the country in recent weeks, promoting her book and disparaging Democrats, the Washington establishment and the media elite. Huge crowds greet her wherever the bus entourage takes her.
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Well, Saturday night, if all goes to plan, Ms. Palin’s book tour will take her someplace else: the Gridiron Club’s winter dinner in Washington. For those who don’t know, the Gridiron dinners are among the most exclusive of Washington events where the city’s media elite — to borrow a phrase — share dinner, drinks and bonhomie with elected officials, political leaders and other members of the governing elite.
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Ms. Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate under Senator John McCain of Arizona last year, is one of two guests speakers, who in years past were invited to provide typically humorous speeches. The other speaker this year is Representative Barney Frank, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts.
Oh, to be a fly on one of those walls!
It’s difficult to imagine two people who have more diametrically opposed view of the world (not to mention personalities and senses of humor). All the ingredients for an absorbing evening of theater and politics.
Except these dinners are strictly off-the-record. Nothing that happens is supposed to leave the room — though with journalists being journalists, and Washington being Washington, it’s a good bet that you’ll be hearing something about this by Sunday morning. Perhaps Ms. Palin will break the news and boast of her appearance at the dinner to her Twitter followers.
That is, if Ms. Palin shows up. […] Ms. Palin has routinely missed – some might say no-showed – a few big appearances in Washington since the 2008 election. She bagged an appearance before the White House Correspondents Association, citing flooding in Alaska, where she was governor at the time. And she ended not appearing at a gala Republican fundraising event for the House and Senate Republican committee in June after at one point denying that she had ever accepted the [invitation].
I wish all of her speaking engagements were strictly off the record.
i’ll join you in that wish, don. maybe we should tell santa. 😉
Can’t she see his workshop from her house?
silly me. i forgot that alaska is out first line of defense against santa.
Wait til she figures out she can’t bar the media from this one…
😆 but i bet she made sure they won’t be allowed to ask any questions before she agreed to appear.
Barney “What planet do you live on” Frank & the Queen of Quitting together?
Oh that’s a laugh riot in & of itself.
i just hope barney is on after her, and i hope he doesn’t hold back. she won’t get most of his jokes, because they’ll be way over her beehive.
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This is even weirder than Alan Grayson and Ron Paul both favoring auditing the Federal Reserve. Now, that’s an odd couple!
i did an odd couple dvd cover when david boies and ted olson argued on the same side of the prop 8 case in california.
i wonder if she is going to dump copies of her book on the unsuspecting crowd…
sadly barney will be on his best behavior – the deference showed this woman is sickening
He will be on his best behavior, but you know he knows she has the intellectual heft of a dining room table. 😉
i know some end tables that are smarter than she is.
Knock on wood… errr the table I guess 😉
Sandy
😆 hi sandy!!!
i’m so happy when you stop by! 😀
I try to toss out some sarcastic comments now and again! Sometimes it’s way over my head but always able to chime in with SP on the table. 😉
the reviews are in, and they go anywhere from there being polite applause for her to her being hilarious. it depends on the source. the more conservative the writer, the funnier she was. her speech was written by an ex-speechwriter for al gore, by the way.
i would rather see them in an unscripted free-for-all. barney would pulverize her. she can read from a script, but she can’t think on her feet.
I heard some guy hurled a tomato at her and got arrested. Though I think it was rude, I wish he’d have hurled something with a little more oomph.
Like a small, poisonous dart.
i heard that, too. i have a poster picked out, i think. i wish he had hurled capt underpants at her. two birds, one stone.