Tea Party Convention’s Keynote (Palin) and Other Events Will Be Televised

[Beaverhausen]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/tea-party-conventions-keynote-and-other-events-will-be-televised/

Tea Party Convention’s Keynote and Other Events Will Be Televised
By KATE ZERNIKE
The revolution will be televised.

Planners of the National Tea Party Convention, billed as a coming together for the conservative grassroots groups who sprang up in anti-stimulus protests last year, announced late Sunday that they would broadcast main parts of the convention, including the keynote by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday night.

The organizers suggested that they saw the broadcast as a solution to some of the criticism leveled at the convention over the last several weeks, as sponsors and participants have pulled out and grassroots tea party activists have complained that the ticket price — $549 — is too expensive for members of a movement that holds fiscal conservatism as a core value.

Activists had also raised an eyebrow at Ms. Palin’s speaking fee, which reports have put at $100,000. Some former volunteers for Tea Party Nation, the for-profit social networking site behind the convention, have said that they resigned in protest over the ticket prices, and accused the organization of trying to profit off the movement.

And Tea Party Nation was criticized for limiting access to only those news organizations that it believes have given it “fair” coverage, a small group reported to be Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, BreitbartTV, World Net Daily and a few others, although organizers had said they were working to open up the convention to more media.

[AlinPA]

1. The media is building the teabagger party. nt

[BOSSHOG]

2. Another attempt at the Ku Klux Klan to go mainstream

Paying palin to speak. Maybe the ultimate sign of insanity.

[jaysunb]

10. My VERY first thought.

:evilfrown:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Close.

TeaPartyBag Convention’s Keynote and Other Events Will Be Televised


Don't let them squirm out of it now.

[katanalori]

4. please oh please

let there be a Q&A following Palin's speech. Then she can SHINE, I tellz ya!
Just like she did with Couric and Gibson.

[theothersnippywshrub]

8. Teabaggers would be asking the questions.

The questioners will praise her effusively and bizarrely before asking whether she is in favor of destroying the United States of America.

[hatrack]

5. What, on the Pay Per Puke Channel?

:eyes:

[theothersnippywshrub]

6. I am surprised Palin is willing to have her speech televised.

I would not be surprised if she cancels the speech.

[HipChick]

7. I bet she has no choice..

they need to make up the money somehow..

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. The de-evolution will also be televised. nt