Gold: The bendy straws and bottled water are the least of Sarah Palin’s pages of increasingly expensive requirements. Fulfilling all of her demands doesn’t guarantee a sensible or factual speech, as the fundraisers at California State University, Stanislau found Friday evening. Keith Olbermann addresses a major faux pas made by Palin regarding the life and education of California’s Gipper and Republican saint, Ronald Reagan.The mistake can
easily be attributed to lazy speech preparation, or to be charitable a smeared pen mark on her palm, palms which she
turned to the crowd, to show that she wasn’t ‘cheating’ with a teleprompter. Remarks from reporters picked up on a live feed after the event lead to the conclusion that a teleprompter and something of value to impart would not disappoint those in attendance at a Palin speech.
Protesting students wished to know how much the diva of ditzy was paid, and eventually found the contract which outlined her elaborate expenses, but only after dumpster diving. Page after page of the contract were filled with very specific details about the type and size of the private jets in which she must travel, all totaling $75,000. Palin added a scornful lecture to the students about the evils of wasting their precious time dumpster diving.
Their efforts weren’t such a waste, a more formal investigation is now underway, regarding the wisdom of hiring such an expensive diva in the midst of an enormous budget crisis.
Silver: Sharron Angle, call her crazy if you must, and you must. Angle is certain that she has the cure to our oil problems. As is the case with so many wealthy, unwieldy, and generous corporations, the answer must lie in regulation, or rather the fact that we’ve hobbled them with over regulatory policies. I see some campaign money coming her way!
Bronze: ‘US magazine’….believe half of what you see and none of what you hear/read might be wise in the industry which revolves around reporting all manner of irrelevant news of celebrities. In this case, ‘US’ managed to completely twist, turn, and convoluted a story about Jason Bateman waiting in line to buy an iPhone into a story of a pampered celebrity getting extraordinary service. Ironically the cause and source of the misinformation, and the brouhaha initially – was the paparazzi.