AlterNet: How Does Sarah Palin Make Millions While Saying Some of the Dumbest Things Imaginable?

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AlterNet / By Daniela Perdomo

How Does Sarah Palin Make Millions While Saying Some of the Dumbest Things Imaginable?
As the oil spill grows, Palin extols off-shore drilling. Is she a performance artist, a shrewd businesswoman or just incredibly dense and lucky? Likely all of the above.

May 3, 2010 |


You've got to hand it to Sarah Palin. She is nothing if not devoted to spouting her tired, nutty talking points. Indeed, it doesn't matter what's happening in the world, Palin will deliver what the right-wing masses want to hear, especially if they're paying big bucks for it -- which they usually are.

In her latest gig, the Tea Party darling has truly outdone herself. On Saturday, in a speech to a Republican crowd gathered in Kansas City, Palin declared that off-shore drilling will be the linchpin in the United States' efforts to achieve energy security and overall prosperity.

Talk about bad timing.

Since April 20, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil rig has been spilling oil into the Gulf Coast at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day. Already, the spill is about the size of Puerto Rico. This environmental disaster is expected to ultimately be much worse than the last big oil spill, caused by Exxon Valdez in 1989 off the coast of Alaska, Palin's very own home state.

You almost want to hope against hope that Palin hadn't heard of Deepwater Horizon yet before she started harping about off-shore drilling as the solution to our nation's problems this weekend, but she actually referred to it -- calling it "very tragic" before adding: "I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry." Fantastic.

Ladies and gentlemen, is Sarah Palin a performance artist, an incredibly shrewd businesswoman or just very dense and lucky? Signs points to all of the above. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/news/146713/how_does_sarah_palin_make_millions_while_saying_some_of_the_dumbest_things_imaginable_

[BrklynLiberal]

1. There is an entire crew of them...Beck, Hannity, O'Lielly, Cavuto,

the list goes on and on...

[katandmoon]

2. Seriously, does he *really* need to ask? She owes it all to her apperance and

a craven press that is afraid to call bullshit on her.

[sharesunited]

3. P T Barnum understood American gullibility 150 years ago.

[Irritable Liberal]

4. Too many fools

and too few in the media brave or aware enough to call them on their BS

[imnKOgnito]

5. It's not lack of bravery or awareness.

It's complicity.

[cyclezealot]

6. Definitely...

Puppets know what to say to ingratiate themselves with their string pullers.