Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks got his hands on the hard copy of Sarah’s resignation speech. Yes, the actual speech written in her own words and complete with handwritten notes on the pages themselves. Cenk discusses the copy and provides a very plausible reason for Sarah’s poor public speaking habits. One I’d not heard before.
My favourite observation is when he picks up on Sarah’s claim that she asked her kids if they wanted her to quit as governor and she got “four yeahs and one hell yeah”. He wants to know how Trig could possibly have had an opinion at all. Fair question eh?
My favourite quote comes in the discussion of Sarah’s latest photo-op in the running mag: “If you don’t want people talking about Trig – don’t put him in pictures with yourself like ‘Hey look at me! Aren’t I a great mom!?!’ And by the way – nobody but you is talking about Trig.”
The sound bite from this eighteen minute analysis of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech that I hope resonates loud and strong through the halls of the Republican Party is found at the very beginning when Cenk says he listened to the speech and immediately thought “Wow. It wasn’t her handlers. She’s really stupid!”
Cenk Uygar may not be the most polished news commentator, but I’ll take his word over Sarah’s any day.
The Young Turks evidently is competing for a spot on MSNBC. I wish them luck 
To comment on this post scroll back to the title: TYT Sums Up Sarah’s Resignation: “It’s about the money Lebowski” and click the word comments just beneath. – Thanks, OzMud
July 13, 2009 at 9:43 am
Palin is a threat to American democracy b/c of her ignorance on the issues and her desire to establish a theocracy here. After John McCain chose her as his running mate I started reading foreign newspapers online and discovered that in France, England, Russia, Italy, Canada, and other countries people didn’t understand how some Americans could back Palin for a position as important as that of VPOTUS. We were the laughing-stock of the industrial nations of the world. There was also a lot of fear about what America’s foreign relations would look like if the McCain/Palin ticket won the election. Most Americans were unaware of this fear and a lot of them didn’t care as long as Obama didn’t win the election.
I read the results of a poll on reality on the WashingtonMonthly web site today that shows that reality is mostly a liberal condition. This seems to explain why Palin’s supporters are oblivious to her faults. I fear that should Palin run and win in 2012, it will only be after she is sworn in and begins governing that her supporters will see what a big mistake they made, but by then, it will be too late, and we’ll all have to live with it.
July 13, 2009 at 10:21 am
I wish more people would notice that $arah Palin mentioned “4 years ago” in that July 3rd speech as if she thinks she’s already served her 4 years as Governor.
Delusional, for sure.
But no wonder she thinks she’s a “lame duck” (although no 1st term governor is ever a lame duck).