Sarah Palin delivers ‘bizarro’ speech to Iowa Freedom Summit and Twitter users react hilariously

[Quixote1818]

Appearing at Iowa Congressman Steve King’s Freedom Summit, star speaker Sarah Palin spoke from a binder of notes, delivering a string of one-liners designed to fire up conservatives while interspersing them with stock and sometimes garbled patriotic platitudes.

National media covering the event — and viewers watching it live on C-Span — lit up Twitter with running commentary on the linguistic twists and turns Palin made as her own Twitter account pumped out tweets directing followers to her political action committee, SarahPAC.

One conservative columnist, Toby Harnden, called Palin’s speech, “bizarro.”

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/sarah-palin-delivers-bizarro-speech-to-iowa-freedom-summit-and-twitter-reacts-as-expected/

Here is the bizarre speech:

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[Fred Sanders]

1. A celebration of victimhood and pidgin English.

*Definition of pidgin in English:
NOUN

[OFTEN AS MODIFIER]
1A grammatically simplified form of a language, typically English, Dutch, or Portuguese, some elements of which are taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.

1.2 [AS MODIFIER] Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a non-native speaker:


we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish or pidgin English

"This is to forgo a conclusion"

Sarah Palin, circa yesterday, well paid and willing GOP official rodeo clown sent in early to get the bulls and the crowd all riled up before the main event of bulls and bucking Cowboys.

[2naSalit]

5. Perhaps she suffers from

some as yet unnamed degenerative disease where her ability to communicate in English declines with each use of a microphone...? Not that she ever had the capacity to communicate in English in the first place...

She is, however, serving as the poster child of what most Rs think about the value of the female population... and doing a real bang-up job of it too.

[Fred Sanders]

6. I think she will announce she truly has some kind of real illness, claim to be the victim and

again turn stupid into gold.

[2naSalit]

7. Maybe so...

Her Ace card is victimhood, it play well for her among her witless followers. And stupid doesn't seem to hurt her among that crowd either.

I think the Repugs keep putting her out there to back up their unspoken of belief that women are stupid and vapid barbie doll figures who can speak (whether they are coherent is beside the point). Not that she's all that attractive, but she sure personifies the stereotype of what all the RWNJ seems to believe about women.

If she does come out with, "I have a problem" I will be very surprised... and I doubt she will be the one to announce it because in her self centered mind, she's perfect.

[L0oniX]

22. Oh noes ...the dog made her do it.

[karynnj]

43. It may be that this was always the way she spoke without prepared talking points

The main time most of us saw her was reading from the teleprompter at the Republican convention. This for a communications major, who had worked as I think a sports commentator, had to be something that was not at all new to her. It might be ironic that the Republicans claimed that our brilliant, articulate President needs a teleprompter -- when in reality it was their former VP candidate - likely chosen because of her looks and gender, not resume or vision.

[jmowreader]

57. She wasn't chosen for either

She was chosen for her hard-right religious views. John "My Wife Owns The Third-Biggest Beer Distributor In America" McCain was told he would never receive the Evangelical vote unless he took Sarah Palin - who was well-known in Fundamentalist circles for her religiosity long before she was inflicted on the rest of us - as his running mate.

It wouldn't surprise me if he had to cut a deal where he'd become "too sick" to continue in the job 25 to 26 months into it - because according to presidential rules of succession, if the VP becomes president with less than two years remaining in the term he or she can run for two full terms after the foreshortened one ends.

[karynnj]

62. Wow - Her religiosity did not translate well to her offspring!

I would assume that even if a President agreed to "become too sick" - it is an illegal deal and not enforceable.

[jmowreader]

63. You know what they say about the preacher's kid

The same holds true for fundies' kids - have you ever known one that wasn't a hell-raiser?

[olegramps]

48. She would make more sense if she shoved the mic up his ass and farted.

[2naSalit]

51. LOL!!

[catbyte]

49. Yeah, I believe it's called "dumbassitis"

It's incurable in many cases and appears to be epidemic in Republican states...

[2naSalit]

53. Totally agree

with the Rep. States... I live in one.

The upside to that is my ability to remain a comfortable introvert!

[dixiegrrrrl]

55. Exactly!

It is bearable here because I keep to myself, have a lot of privacy where I live.
And of course we have the web and DU and etc.

[2naSalit]

70. Yup,

That's how it works for me too.

[IdiotsforPalin]

50. It's called alcohol

[2naSalit]

52. That would be the most obvious answer.

Welcome to DU.

[Siwsan]

2. The Daily Mail said the teleprompter froze, sending her into an incoherent ramble

When the Daily Mail starts pointing out her inappropriate behavior, she's really on a down hill skid

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2925162/Palin-s-meltdown-GOP-firebrand-rambles-stutters-teleprompter-error-leave-crowd-baffled-just-saying-s-seriously-interested-2016-run.html

[2naSalit]

8. So she had to resort to trying to read her hands!

[Sanity Claws]

15. TelePrompTer?

Isn't she the one who lambasted Obama for daring to use a TelePrompTer?
This certainly wouldn't be her first instance of hypocrisy.

[Siwsan]

16. I know - pretty funny

Somehow I doubt Sarah is big on self-reflection.

[n2doc]

42. Karma is a you know what

[SummerSnow]

3. lol....

[underpants]

32. Like this ONE sentence

“It is good that we have a deep bench and its primary competition that will surface the candidate who’s up to the task and unify and this person has to because knowing what the media will do throughout all of 2016 to all of us it’s going to take more than a village to beat Hillary,” she said.

[SummerSnow]

34. yeah, like THAT one. I'm going to call it migrane speech....

cause you have to get one trying to decipher that mess.

[Rozlee]

65. Give her a break.

She's speaking in tongues. The spirit has infused her so deeply that now, she won't just be doing it in church, she'll be doing it everywhere.

[jtuck004]

4. I wonder if Quitter willl quit before she runs up a bunch of unpaid bills, or after? n/t

[CJCRANE]

9. It's a stream of consciousness, making it up as she goes along

winging it kind of speech. The kind she specializes in.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Stream of UNconsciousness, more like it.

[Stephen Retired]

10. Has Palin ever made a NON-bizarro speech?

Has she ever given a non-bizarro interview? Has she ever completed a non-bizarro sentence?

[karynnj]

44. yes - her speech at the Republican convention - that she read from the teleprompter

As to interview - not that I know of.

[gordianot]

11. I am convinced she drinks although not drunk here she has had a couple stiff ones

If she had the capacity to think about what she was saying she would not say anything. The best living example of double plus good duck speak that is solid with cliches, slogans, and platitudes.

[rurallib]

28. exactly what I am thinking

she gets to that state where she thinks she is glib, but sober people see her as someone just running words together in no order

PLUS
She has always reminded me of the middle aged woman trying to seduce the teenage boy.

[libodem]

41. Seriously

I think she is stoned or on Xanax. She is fucked up.

[freebrew]

45. Aren't platitudes Marsupials?

I can't listen to her. It hurts too much.

It IS fun reading the comments.

[dhill926]

12. my favorite...

"Sarah Palin: A noun, a grammatically incorrect verb, and a racist slur"

[Quixote1818]

13. Bingo!

That's her incoherent, folksy style summed up. Just multiply that a few hundred times and you have the speech.

[George II]

24. I just want to know why she puts on that phony "southern" accent, having lived...

...in Alaska all but the first few months of her life?

[greiner3]

14. Monty Python - Mr Gumby - "My brain hurts!"

[Enthusiast]

17. Her speaking is very hard to listen to. Irritating.

Her ideas are equally wrong.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

18. That woman always reminds me of Serena Joy.

She is the kind of willing buffoon that works against the interests of women...and eventually herself.


Fucking moronic.

[ErikJ]

19. MLK's take

[George II]

20. I'm voting for her next year - can't WAIT for her State of the Union addresses....

....they'll be huge material for SNL, Jon Stewart, etc.

[L0oniX]

21. The DNC thanks Palin for her extraordinary blather. Please proceed.

[George II]

23. More like, "please proceed, half-Governor"!

[lumpy]

25. Sarah's audience does not appear to be very enthused.

Maybe because "it" is all about Sarah.

[AtheistCrusader]

27. I wonder if Taylor Swift approves of the use of her song here.

As a runner, there's no fucking chance in hell she got to the finish line without knowing the name of the race, unless she's a fucking bandit.

[Jester Messiah]

29. Her infantile babble makes Poppy Bush seem erudite by comparison. [nt]

[magical thyme]

30. "Sarah Palin: A noun, a grammatically incorrect verb, and a racist slur"

[underpants]

31. "following Palin, Rick Perry sounds like Pericles"

[Fred Sanders]

37. Pericles must be deeply offended and will surely strike anyone down to name him in the same sentence as Perry.

[jalan48]

33. I lasted about two minutes..

I think Sarah knows Joni is the new Sarah.

[PADemD]

35. How did she get a degree in Communication?

[dixiegrrrrl]

56. Wink wink...nudge, nudge...

[The Wizard]

36. Speaks in tongues that range from

Esperanto to Remulak to Tralfamadore. What a fucking nut.

[Generic Other]

74. She sucks her teeth after every sentence

Speaks in tongues and smacks her lips. I can't bear to listen!

[zebonaut]

38. I don't call it the "heartland" I call it Dumbfuckistan

[tclambert]

39. Palinese, from the Urban Dictionary:

A hard-to-decipher language that originated in Wasilla, Alaska. Believed to have first been spoken and heard in the 21st Century, it is characterized by use of moronic oversimplified phrases such as "Russia's in my backyard," "gotcha journalism," "death panels," "lame stream media," and "you betcha."


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Palinese

[thesquanderer]

40. It kind of works as Slam Poetry. (n/t)

[zebonaut]

46. Followup: From That point to this point. (MSNBC)

&sns=em

[samsingh]

47. the star of the repug party is beyond stupid

[MissDeeds]

54. Cringe worthy

I couldn't hang in there to hear the whole thing, but did notice her "tisking" at the end of some of her sentences (such as they are), especially at the beginning. What a disgrace that this imbecile has supporters.

[Still In Wisconsin]

58. This honestly sounds like a "bad lip reading" video

"And save a pretzel for the gas jets!"

[zebonaut]

59. A Disjointed Speech about....... Nothing.

[7962]

60. What speeches of hers ARENT bizzaro?

[c588415]

61. Thank you Sen. John McCrap for giving us progressives the

gift that keeps on giving !

[zebonaut]

64. Yes; the Heartland:

jMyNk8J1c8g

[truebluegreen]

66. And her teleprompter broke! Priceless. nt

[The Last Dem.]

67. " And her teleprompter broke! Priceless."

That was setup.

[randr]

68. People who voted for her should lose their voting rights

The closest thing I can think of to treason is a vote for this snowbilly.

[rbrnmw]

69. Comedy gods please let her win the Rep nomination.

[Leonard_Skinnard]

71. this woman is so incredibly stupid and boorish

the fact that such a mouth-breathing scumbag ever made it onto a national stage to deliver a speech about ANYTHING more complicated than toilet-flushing or shoelace-tying is an utter disgrace to the history of Homo Sapiens.

she is a complete abomination.

[mike dub]

72. Couldn't agree more, Leonard Skinnard!!! Great post!!!

...and may I say: Welcome to DU!!!

[Terra Alta]

73. I agree 100%

Palin is a disgrace to humanity and should never be heard from again.

Welcome to DU, and I look forward to your posts!