Palin "indicated that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present"

[Jackeens]

Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is expected to speak about US foreign policy and China in her first keynote speech outside North America .... Palin, mocked during last year's presidential campaign for her lack of experience in foreign affairs and for her verbal gaffes, is due to address hundreds of financial big-hitters at the CLSA Investors' Forum on Wednesday.

"We have asked her to address US foreign policy, to discuss her views on governance, healthcare, and of course, China," Jonathan Slone, chief executive officer of the Asia-focused brokerage, said in an interview with AFP. Palin was chosen to speak since she's a possible Republican candidate in the next US presidential election and because of her influential role in politics, he said.

But CLSA, an arm of French bank Credit Agricole, decided to close Palin's session to the media after the former Alaska governor indicated that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present, Slone said. "We are very pleased with her attitude towards us. Sarah could have come here and made a media circus," he said. "But we said to her, 'Look, we want you to give the most information to our clients. Do you feel comfortable doing that with the press around?' "She said, 'If I do that with the press in the room, I will have to say different things.'"

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9773a6028cbfd3f93a04aa1f37c2801f.551&show_article=1


What "different things", one wonders, will Sarah say in the absence of the press? :shrug:

[spanone]

1. well the media seems to have supported her lying up to this point, why stop now?

[trumad]

2. Calling Tina Fey...

[Democrats_win]

3. Way to be two-faced, Sarah! Did she learn that in Sunday School?

[Beaverhausen]

4. Why is she in any postion to talk about US Foreign Policy?

I know they invited her as a joke but for fuck's sake - this is nuts!

[tridim]

5. Fancy pageant walking?

[zulchzulu]

6. What in the hell does Palin know about "US foreign policy and China"?

I know they invited as a joke, but just what does someone like her, as a frickin' quitter, have ANY legitimacy in talking about foreign policy of ANY kind. She got her passport in 2007. She is an idiot.

[Ozymanithrax]

7. Two possibilities...

(1) She would have to remove the most egrigious lies.
(2) She would have to say things that conform to her fraction of the electorates ideas, or they my reject her as a poser.

But mostly, she doesn't want anything that can be used in an add against her when she runs i 2012. She wants to get the big bucks for speaking but does not want anything she says to be hung around her neck.

[Orsino]

9. She would would have to have copies typed. Crayon can be hard to read. n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

12. Give one stinky wink and people won't notice the speach...

But, really, she can read a good speach when it is in front of her. Of course, there is a difference between reading and comprehension.

[lurky]

8. Camera phone? If anyone reading this happens

to be at this event, let me just say please please please please!

For the good of the nation and humanity, please find a way to record her comments and get them on the internet! Even an audio recording with your Blackberry or iPhone would be an invaluable gift to the world.

Considering all the absurd and dangerous public statements she has made, voluntarily, in front of a camera, I can't even begin imagine what she could say that would be too shocking for the media. The world must know!

[subcomhd]

10. to standard American English? nt

[asjr]

11. Is this for real? An asian brokerage firm

wants Sara Palin to tell them how to make money!

[Ozymanithrax]

13. No, they are paying her to speak so if she becomes President...

she will remember them. It also expands her foreign relation portfolio, or that is what they will say if she runs in 2012.

Think of this as a bribe for possible consideration later, or like sponsoring an athlete so he can claim he is a amateur who did not use athletic skills professionally.

[Tx4obama]

14. I want to know what she is telling the communists that the press can't hear! n/t

[thelordofhell]

15. I hear that they are asking her to deliver her speech

dressed in a Princess Leia slave bikini.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. With reporters present, she'd need more pauses for the laughs

Palin has been asked to provide her views on China? That should be rich. Unfortunately, it looks like we won't get to share in the fun.

[old mark]

17. She can see China from her house - She will tell them all about how

Obama was born in Africa, which is not a country, but several different ones, unlike China which is one country except for Taiwan which is small.
Sarah has now read magazines and learned a lot, and she will tell the truth to the Chinese, you betcha.

Evidently the Chinese government is even more crazy than I ever thought....
Rudy Guliani is next?

mark

[rd_kent]

18. Hmmm, she hiding something? You betcha!

[rd_kent]

19. Hmmm, she hiding something? You betcha!

[donheld]

20. Someone better start sneeking a camera into her speeches