nytimes dot com front page....why?

[spanone]

www.nytimes.com

[MNDemNY]

1. 'cus it's funny???

[shadowknows69]

2. I thought that was the Post's job.

[spanone]

5. a wide-ranging talk about governance, economics and U.S. and Asian affairs.....now that's funny

[MNDemNY]

12. Yup

[spanone]

3. there's palin lover in the underground....why else unrec?

[berni_mccoy]

4. Man, she even has the Deer In The Headlights Look!

[spanone]

6. sarah is speaking on U.S. and Asian affairs...my dog knows more than she does

[Overseas]

7. Could be because Sarah Palin has been punked again.

http://www.businessinsider.com/sara-palin-just-another-clsa-practical-joke-2009-9

Hopefully Sarah Palin realizes she's been invited to Hong Kong almost certainly as a practical joke.

CLSA, the Asia-focused broker who invited Mrs. Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference, is well known for their cheeky takes on investment research.

In the past, they've polled Asian fortune tellers for index targets, hired anime cartoonists to draw Japanese research, and generally love to push the boundaries between entertainment and analysis. They are a real research firm, it's just that they love to sprinkle in some hilarity every now and then as a smart marketing gimmick.

Sarah Palin is this year's big laugh for them.

[spanone]

9. msnbc said she was paid in the low 'six figures' an expensive joke

[Overseas]

13. Not really. Marketing gimmicks cost money. //nt

[Ian David]

8. FUSP!

[WCGreen]

10. If these guys are international investors and pay

a "low six-figures" to listen to her 10th grade civic take on the world, no wonder the worlds finances are in such a shambles...

I wouldn't trust them with my money...

[spanone]

11. i suspect there's an international group that would love an airhead in charge of things

bu$h* helped them all get richer

[meegbear]

14. Because

[glowing]

15. Good Lord, what is that woman wearing. You can't tell me that's what she

honestly wore for an international review... Rather than Hot librarian.. she looks like the librarian. Dork.

[Sal Minella]

16. It's the "Busboy- in- high- class- restaurant" look.

Except their oversized, shapeless jackets are usually pressed.