She works HARD for the money: Palin BOMBS as guest speaker at...A WINE WHOLESALER'S EXPO???

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sarah Palin Spoke At A Wine Wholesalers Expo, For Some Reason
First Posted: 04- 8-10 05:31 PM | Updated: 04- 8-10 05:49 PM



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/08/sarah-palin-spoke-at-a-wi_n_530934.html

Hey, kids! Did anyone wake up today thinking to themselves, "Sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's appearance at that Michele Bachmann rally was sure swell, but for the sake of being complete, I'd sure like to know how her April 6th keynote speech at the Wine And Spirits Wholesalers of America's 67th Annual Convention and Exposition went?" Well you're in luck. It apparently did not go well, and did not make much sense.

And look! Some guy apparently liveblogged the whole thing, or something?

Here comes Palin!

Big hair, white jacket. And now a salute to the "beautiful people working so hard in Nevada."

Heck yeah, I want to speak at this convention! Three bad wine puns in a row: "Going rosé", "stand on a wine box (instead of a soap box)", "in good spirits".

Apparently Todd is in a snow race this weekend. Wow, this woman could have been president. Shudder.

(Editor: What is the crowd's reaction?)

TOTAL SILENCE

She just made up a Ronald Reagan quote. And now she's talking about the deficit, using "heck" a lot. If her commercial fishing business is in trouble, she'd fix it, not borrow money.

Ha, that "going rosé" pun isn't even hers, it's Slate's Mike Steinberger, from a January article in which he wondered: "Why is Sarah Palin keynoting the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers convention?"

Back to the "liveblog":

Back to the speech. She just pointed out that in spirits, quality grapes produce quality wines. Does she know wine is not spirits?

"Think of cultured yeast as a mentor." That was an attempt to link winemaking with the habits of successful people.

She keeps focusing on small business. An interesting choice, given the crowd. Oh, here comes energy policy. She wants nuclear power and offshore drilling, instead of giving money to "unstable regimes".

(Editor: I want nuclear yeast!)

Now, more than ever, I am thinking of cultured yeast as a mentor.

By the way, the Wine And Spirits Wholesalers presumably paid between $75,000 to $100,000 for that so, hooray! Recession is over!

[Atman]

1. I think it's particularly funny that they used the Obama typography/graphics for their backdrop

But we HATE Obama! Kinda sorta. Sometimes.

:rofl:

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[Hawkeye-X]

2. I am almost positive it was worth the money - and noticing Republican are bombs, literally speaking.

Why the hell would the wholesalers waste paying Sarah Palin that much money, and get silence. Guaranteed their next expo they sponsor will their attendance be significantly reduced by 75%.

[DJ13]

3. You would think drunks would be her natural audience

[Berserker]

5. Fuck off

I'm a drunk and I hate her

[Robb]

8. LOL

Best post of a long day. :toast:

[DJ13]

10. Great answer!

:hi:

[Capitalocracy]

14. I'll drink to that

but not wine:toast:

[Initech]

15. Fuckin' a! Cheers yo!!

:toast:

[lunatica]

20. I hate her when I'm drunk

[patrice]

22. DU - zy!!!

:rofl:

Thanks for starting my day out right!

[lonestarnot]

23. Snort

:rofl:

[Generic Brad]

6. They drink wine - not Kool-Aid

:beer:

[Ignis]

29. She's difficult enough to understand while sober.

[lame54]

30. She's the reason I drink

[KonaKane]

4. It's a strange world where some glacierbilly can snag 100 large for a speech

and not knowing dick about she was talking about, and all the mega talented people I know who are living hand to mouth.

Weird world.

[HipChick]

7. interesting pattern...she bombs everytime she's speaking outside of her base crowd..

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

12. yes, exactly my thought

why was she hired, for what purpose, and why is she being shoved down everyones throat. I wish it was a joke but this doesn't seem to be.

[tanyev]

9. She must have hired one of the writers from the short-lived FOX news "comedy" shows.

[gratuitous]

11. Once the word gets around

This is not a very bright woman, nor is she a particularly polished speaker. I'm sure the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers program committee is going to get a great big fat earful for their dreadful choice and a waste of the group's money. Next year they should book Lewis Black.

[MzNov]

13. Are we sure it wasn't "Whine and Spirits" convention....

I know, I won't quit my day job.....

[Fumesucker]

16. The yeast is considerably more cultured than she is.. n/t

[Initech]

17. How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?

[CurtEastPoint]

18. This is interesting. The Wine organization donates more to dems than pubs

As head of a political action committee that will dole out about $1 million by Election Day, Craig Wolf made a critical decision a while ago: He decided to shift his group's donations so that two-thirds will go to Democrats rather than, as before, to Republicans.

"I'm looking for people who support our issues," explained Wolf, president and CEO of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Inc. of Washington, D.C., which two years ago gave only about a quarter of its campaign contributions to Democrats, according to figures compiled by the Campaign Finance Institute, a Washington- based think tank.

[zbdent]

19. "cultured yeast as a mentor" ...

hell, cultured yeast would make a better President than she ...

[druidity33]

21. People who know wine

tend to be a little more cultured than your average Palinite. It's an anecdotal observation on my part, but i can't say i'm surprised that a group of serious Wine people would find her rhetoric ridiculous. I just wonder how it is they ended up inviting her. Who got her this gig?

:shrug:

[Walk away]

24. The people who booked her must think their attendees are MORONS!

Do the folks who ran the event really think the members of the Wine And Spirits Wholesalers of America's are Teabaggy idiots? If I were them I would hire other event planners.

[patrice]

25. Winemakers forgot SP, with her remarks about nukes, spent her formative years in a church that HOPES

for somekind of End Times untra-cataclysm that destroys the United States, except for Alaska, and propels them and theirs into Divine Power . . . ?

But then, maybe Winemakers know this and look forward to it too.

[LibertyLover]

26. Cultured yeast has more intelligence

than Ms. Palin. And it doesn't quit halfway through the job. Next year the people who plan the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers convention may want to consider inviting cultured yeast to give the keynote speech - the Gods know it will be a better speaker than Palin.

[progressoid]

27. What's the appropriate wine to serve with a Palin speech?

MD 20/20?

[Blue Owl]

28. What's that, a whine and whoresaler's convention?

Sounds like an event tailor-made for the likes of Palin