Sports Angle to Sarah Palin Article in New York Magazine

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The article is a must-read. This quote comes from page 6.

Palin, Inc. The Revolution Will Be Commercialized

How Sarah Palin Has Become a Singular National Industry -- New York Magazine

Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it’s a position with a very big salary.

By Gabriel Sherman Published Apr 25, 2010

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The Tea-Party movement is Palin’s political base and a central part of her audience. Early on, it was a profit center, too, but politics and the profit motive had a near-disastrous collision in early February, when Palin showed up at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville to deliver her first significant public speech since stepping down from office. Landing Palin was the work of Judson Phillips, a smooth-talking Nashville defense lawyer who was active in the tea-party movement and wanted to make a business out of it.
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Phillips saw Palin as the linchpin of his new business, and was willing to pay top dollar. And since the tea-party convention was a profit-making enterprise, Palin insisted on her full fee.

Sometimes, for the right organization, Palin takes a pay cut. While negotiating with Phillips last summer, she was also in negotiations to speak to a Nashville group called Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a Christian organization that supports Israel. Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the group’s president, wanted Palin to headline a dinner in Nashville during the National Religious Broadcasters convention. ... “She was willing to come in and speak for <$50,000>, and that said a lot to me,” Cardoza-Moore says.

To help pay Palin’s fee, Phillips turned to Bill Hemrick, the founder of Upper Deck baseball cards, for a seed investment of $25,000. With Phillips, Palin struck a hard bargain. Her contract stipulated that for almost any reason she could back out and send a surrogate. “If we fart wrong, she is gonna back out on us,” Phillips declared in one planning meeting, according to a participant. “That’s how detailed this contract is.”

[joeybee12]

1. If we fart wrong?

I guess that means there's a right way to fart.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. Could the bendy-straws come into play somehow in farting "correctly"?

:shrug:

[joeybee12]

4. Maybe...that way you don't take in so much carbonation...

...and the fart is more "lady-like."

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. Oh great, a Moose-zilla from Wassilla thread in the Sports forum...

I just CAN'T get away from this media-WHORE. Couldn't you post a link to something less shrieky than a reminder of this "character out of a bad Disney movie" as Matt Damon so accurately described her---such as the sound of of a three-pronged garden tool scraping across a chalkboard?

[Auggie]

5. Speaking of Palin, did you know Bill Maher called her a MILF on Hardball?

"Moron I'd Like to Forget."

I think W.C. Fields would have gotten a kick out of that.

[joeybee12]

6. Damn...I can't rec...

...I'll have to remember that and claim it as my own.

[Auggie]

7. Update, Joeybee...

Actually, the line is "GOP Voters See Sarah Palin & Michele Bachmann As MILFs"

Here's the clip, at about 4:00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDsbxyLxQs

Matthews is stunned momentarily.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

8. Funny. Tweetie was dumbfounded when a hearty guffaw was in order.

From the vid in the link you supplied:

Conservative women, they're smarter than you and they're hotter than you...

Imagine being called out in public as 1) DUMBER than these two numbskulls with the combined IQ equal to that of a box of rocks, and 2) being told that these two UGLY AS SIN sorry RePUBE-likk-in excuses for "MILFS" were Hotter than you?

And the fvc@#ng douchenozzle Tea-Hadist MORANS cheered WILDLY, as if admitting "YAY!11!!11!! I'm ugly! HOORAY!!11!! I'm STOOPID!!1111!!1 YIPPEE!11!!11! I'm a REPIGLICAN!!!1111111



You just can't make this stuff up.

[joeybee12]

9. I'll have to check this out tonight...youtube is blocked at work...n/t