Sarah Palin NRA Full Speech 2013, Quotes Shakespeare, Threatens To Chew

May 3, 2013 – Taking the stage in a t-shirt that read “Women Hunt” in pink lettering, Sarah Palin riled up the crowd at today’s NRA convention in Houston, Texas. Palin spoke for more than 12 minutes about her strong defense of the Second Amendment and other conservative principles. She even attempted to recreate her popular “Big Gulp” moment from her CPAC speech earlier this year by pulling out a tin of chewing tobacco and threatening to “dip” on stage.

Like Michele Bachmann did on the floor of the House last week, Palin quoted her own version of Shakespeare during her speech. As paraphrased from Henry V, “Those who are asleep in their beds,” Palin said, you know who they are, they tend to go by acronyms–CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT–one day, they will think themselves accursed that they were not in this fight with us.”

Palin also went after President Obama for “exploiting tragedy” by bringing the Newtown families to Washington in an attempt to pass the Senate gun legislation. At the same time, she accused the president of ignoring a separate tragedy. “We could use a bit more emotion, by the way,” she said, “of what goes on every single day on the streets of cities like Chicago and New York.”

Later in her speech, Palin turned her ire towards Mayor Mike Bloomberg, recalling her “Big Gulp” stunt at CPAC. “Now I see that the mayor of New York now wants to ban public displays of legal tobacco products,” she said, referring to the mayor’s push to keep cigarettes and other tobacco items hidden in stores. Palin then pulled a tin of what appeated to be chewing tobacco out of her pocket and said, “Don’t make me do it.”

 

Sarah Snarks Back

After the Washing-post ran a parady post as real news, declaring Sarah Palin had gone to work for Al Jeezera  Sarah had to get her snark in …

What started as a condescending “cautionary tale” about Sarah Palin’s mixing of celebrity and politics quickly became a cautionary tale about mixing contempt for Sarah Palin with desperation for the traffic her name will generate.

Suzi Parker of the Washington Post‘s She the People blog reported Tuesday that Palin, in an attempt to “stay relevant,” would join the Al Jazeera America network, to “reach millions of devoutly religious people.” The only problem is the report comes from “The Daily Currant,” a parody site whose lead story today is “Catholic Church considering Jerry Sandusky for Pope.” A sampling of the original “report:”

After leaving Fox News, Palin said she was hoping to reach a broader audience with her message. When contacted by phone, Palin said Al Jazeera – with its extensive international network – offered her the best opportunity to broadcast to millions of people.

“As you all know, I’m not a big fan of newspapers, journalists, news anchors and the liberal media in general,” Palin said. “But I met with the folks at Al-JaJizzraa (sic) and they told me they reach millions of devoutly religious people who don’t watch CBS or CNN. That tells me they don’t have a liberal bias.”

Now, the original item has this correction appended to the top:

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Sarah Palin planned to contribute to the Al Jazeera America news network.

The article clips out the erroneous bits, but John Hayward has reproduced them as they were, with the silly quote and all:

Late last week Al Jazeera America announced the former vice-presidential candidate would be joining their news network.

“As you all know, I’m not a big fan of newspapers, journalists, news anchors and the liberal media in general,” Palin told the Web site The Daily Currant. “But I met with the folks at Al-Jazeera and they told me they reach millions of devoutly religious people who don’t watch CBS or CNN. That tells me they don’t have a liberal bias.”

E.M. Zanotti offers the upside:

The good news is, the Washington Post is still interested in digging up the hard news on failed Vice Presidential candidates from five years ago. They’re really that tenacious in their reporting. And you have to be in this day and age of the Internet and technology and smart phones and whatever. You really have to be at the top of your game on things that happened in 2008. They are important to the face of political discourse in America. And if you stop reporting them, Julianne Moore will have absolutely no reason to do a sequel to Game Change.

And, they’re dogged about it. More than an hour after other media reported the mistake, the Washington Post Twitter feed sent this out:

Sarah Palin’s plan to reach ‘millions of devoutly religious people’ through al-Jazeera wapo.st/Y6Bt7A

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 12, 2013

Iowahawk takes the downside:

Leftwing satire headline: “Palin to work for Al Jazeera.” Rightwing satire headline: “Al Gore sells CurrentTV to Al Jazeera.” #SatireisDead

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 12, 2013

Sarah Palin responds:

Hey @washingtonpost, I’m having coffee with Elvis this week. He works at the Mocha Moose in Wasilla. #suziparkerscoops #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

@suziparker Nah. Turned ‘em down. Their $22 million offer was too low…. just kidding. Really. #suziparkerscoops #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

A @washingtonpost writer once promised not to write about me for a month. That was a good month for me. #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

Tea Party Now Has A Home

Tea Party now has a home … Romney has set a course to solve our problem. Commie Obama has to go. And then the work begins.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday she‘s excited about Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, and predicted that it will invigorate Tea Party voters who were lukewarm about his candidacy.

“I think a lot of, maybe Tea Party patriots have understood, wisely, that they’ve had no choice — of course they’re going to go with anybody but Obama,” Palin said on Fox News. “And now yes, I believe there will be a strengthening, more enthusiasm.”

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said a Romney-Ryan ticket “will certainly offer an alternative to the vision that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have for America.”

Palin said Obama’s philosophy is based on “growing government and taking away personal freedoms” while Romney and Ryan offer a “sound and secure vision for America that understands the free market, it understands what it takes to get the economy roaring back.”

“With Paul Ryan, who’s known for his conscientious concern for our budget and for getting America out of debt, this makes it tougher for Obama to do his continual distracting and dividing and pivoting off the economy because this ticket represents this campaign is about the economy,” she said.

Asked what Ryan and his family have to look forward to in their introduction on the national stage, Palin said he will be scrutinized and vetted, but that “there are a lot of us who will have his back and we will call out the media for their lies, for their distortion as they try to thrash his reputation and his record.”

Echoing themes she’s raised before, Palin said she felt Sen. John McCain‘s campaign staff didn’t always support and defend her in 2008.

“I felt, Shannon, that when I was thrust into that spotlight, didn’t have a whole lot of people in the McCain campaign who had my back and would correct the media because they had a lot of friends in the media and they wanted jobs with the media afterward — they didn’t really defend what I really stood for,” she said.

Watch Palin’s full appearance below:

Watch Sarah Palin Make Her ‘Today’ Show Debut: ‘Failed Socialist Policies’

During her debut on NBC’s “today” show, Sarah Palin didn’t sound too gung-ho about Mitt Romney as the GOP presidential candidate, but she insists that anyone is better than Barack Obama in the White House. And NBC‘s Matt Lauer didn’t mind making her feel welcome in his own special way.

Anybody “would be infinitely better than what we have today,” Palin said Tuesday during an interview during the show’s first hour before she co-hosted the second hour.

The 2008 vice presidential candidate was responding, sort of, to host Matt Lauer asking if she is happy with Romney as the presumptive Republican nominee.

When Lauer asked her why voters should put Obama out of office when recent signs suggest things are improving under his economic policies, Palin replied: “They aren’t getting better fast enough.”

She also made sure to repeat the mantra “failed socialist policies.” And Lauer made sure to remind her that as co-host she’s now part of the “lamestream media.” In fact, he even asked if the GOP nominee should pick a VP that has more experience than she had when she was “plucked from obscurity.”

We‘ll update the story with more video from Palin’s debut as it becomes available.

UPDATE:

Today has posted additional Palin clips. There’s a compilation, which features Palin having some fun at her own expense:

Palin Time !!!

Sarah Palin-affiliated law firm made early-state deadline inquiries — October 28, 2011 is the last day to file for the New Hampshire primary … First ‘last filing’ in the nation, So that’s it.

The current thinking in GOP election law circles is that the first hard cut-off for entering the race is Oct. 28, 2011 when presidential candidates who hope to appear on the ballot in the New Hampshire primary would be required to submit a filing fee from a federally registered presidential campaign committee

Repossessed!

Sarah’s road trip:

And chasing up the rear … the lamestream

 

Truth, It Always Wins, It Just Takes Longer

Remember when the Left erupted in Outrageous Outrage over Alaska’s attempts to cull the troublesome wolf population by shooting them from aircraft?  Do you recall when animal-rights groups painted Sarah Palin as a “brutal” and “unethical” sadist for sanctioning this strategy?

Game On???

Fatal Flaw for Romney? One hour before Romney started hos speech announcing hos run for the presidency in New Hampshire … Palin takes to the stage down the road and proclaims Mitt Romney may have a fatal flaw … RomneyCare.

Palin Is On The Loose, And We Don’t Know Where, Until After She Has Gone.

“This isn’t a campaign bus,” Palin said, according to reports. “This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.”

For supporters and reporters looking for more details, Palin isn’t providing them. Palin’s staff has been unresponsive to reporters’ requests or told them to check the SarahPAC website, which updates with information only after she’s stopped somewhere.

Palin’s Rumored New Home in Arizona Revives 2012 Speculation

The prospect of Sarah Palin running for president is, increasingly, dismissed by a political class that sees her facing weak poll numbers — Palin’s camp is, at least, holding preliminary talks about how a campaign would look if she decides to run. One early decision, a source says: It would be based in Scottsdale, Arizona, very near where Bristol Palin recently bought a house in Maricopa.