The Palin Resignation Speech: Not Hurt, Just Very, Very Angry

by bartleby the scrivener | CBS has got the story on Sarah Palin's farewell to the governorship, wherein she lashed out at the media. 

In her nearly 20-minute speech, which directly preceded incoming governor Sean Parnell's swearing in, Palin had only a few words to say about her successor, but she had plenty of advice for journalists.

"You represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy," she said. "Democracy depends on you, and that is why-that's why our troops are willing to die for you. So how about in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up." ..The heated tenor that Palin employed to lash out at the press and others who she said were "hell-bent on tearing down our nation," was the exclamation point on a dramatic turnaround in her relationship with the media, which had once been something close to symbiotic.  (CBS).

Akmuckraker at Mudflats has the full transcript.  As Akmuckraker says it's all crazy good.

My own sense is that there's another "dramatic turnaround" unreferenced by Palin already in the mail, as the media gears up to push the case for Palin in order to engender more exciting brawls.  The fact is, the media is just as useless as she says, though not for reasons that have anything to do with her bruised ego.

The fact is, she's still just stringing words together, Bush-style.  From The Politico:

[S]he offered some rabble-rousing lines and partisan red meat.

She went after reporters but also what she called the Hollywood “starlets” who rail against gun rights and the “partisan operatives” who filed the ethics complaints that helped drive her from office.

She even aimed her fire at an undefined group who she deemed insufficiently patriotic.

Some in this group, Palin said, “seem to just be hell-bent on maybe tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism and suggesting American apologetics.”

As for the “starlets,” Palin seemed to be alluding to actress Ashley Judd, who targeted the former governor on behalf of an environmental group for supporting aerial wolf hunting.

Warning of “anti-hunting, anti-Second Amendment circuses from Hollywood,” Palin said advocacy groups “use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets.”

She offered such individuals this message: “By the way, Hollywood needs to know: We eat, therefore we hunt.”(Politico)

I don't suppose there's really any hope she'll go away for good, anymore than there's really any hope that we're done with the Bush dynasty.  And I'll say this for her: she's way more fun to mock than Jeb.  So please, please let her be the Republican nominee. Or....no, don't! 

TBogg:  "yes we are very very afraid of Sarah Palin and please don't make her the Republican nominee in 2012 because her awesomness is unstoppable."

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