Excellent news:
Yep, you heard that right: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will travel to Hong Kong for her first commercial speaking engagement, a keynote address at the CLSA Investors’ Forum September 23. Given that foreign policy was a soft spot for Palin during the 2008 campaign, this will give her a chance to boost her foreign policy cred (and she’ll be able to see Taiwan from her hotel room).
What on earth is the CLSA Investors’ Forum? Do these people handle money and financial transactions? Because anyone who would pay her to come speak shouldn’t be handling people’s money. Then again, it would explain the Wall Street crash.
BTW- I just love that she so blatantly quit her job to join the wingnut welfare circuit.
Zifnab
I eagerly await her opening remarks.
“Good evening, Chinese Investors. Or, should I say, in your native tongue, ‘Ching-Chong Ding-Dong’. Also.”
Lab Partner
You’re just assuming she’ll show up.
Deborah
Since I don’t believe she’s actually showed up for any of her ostensible headlining events–Republican fundraisers–I would suggest the CLSA get a refundable hotel reservation. And advertise the event with vague, non-suable terms like “possibly with Palin.”
My husband’s in Hong Kong just now; if his trip runs 3 weeks late he could go!
r€nato
…and right on cue there’s now a SarahPAC ad on the left. Fucking great. If we all click on those ads, it uses up their clickthroughs, yes???
*click click click*
Well, if we ever have the misfortune to have her as President somehow, there’s a silver lining: she’d quit halfway through her first term so that she could cash in on the lucrative speaking fees typically garnered by ex-presidents.
Left Coast Tom
@r€nato:
Yes, but who would she find as VP that wouldn’t upstage her? We’d be stuck with that loser as President.
Crashman06
@Zifnab: Oh man… Now the whole office is wondering why I was laughing out loud. Good work!
Lab Partner
“possibly with Palin”
Sweet.
drillfork
Here’s CLSA’s site:
https://www.clsa.com/about-clsa/history.php
Apparently the founders (both deceased) got their names out there by attracting the notorious to various events. Gary Coull’s Wiki page references an Elton John appearance.
Anyway, that’s where my 75 seconds of investigative reporting got me…
Deborah
@Left Coast Tom:
That’s a good question–who would she even select? I’m with Bachmann or Rich “Sparkles” Lowry.
IndieTarheel
Hey John,
Regarding your query, I decided to use my Google-Fu skillz:
Hmmm…
Deborah
@drillfork:
Well, Elton John can’t be her vice-president; he’d have to be PM in Britain.
PeakVT
That post is hilarious. The guy makes the talk sound like it could be the most important words uttered by a non-elected official since Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech.
tc125231
Oh come now. It’s not the wingnut welfare circuit for quitters and mouths for hire, it’s “the cream rising to the top.”
Even as a joke that sounds nauseating.
But she’s at the Money River now. Slurp, slurp.
Morbo
@Deborah:
“Anyone better?”
freelancer
@Morbo:
Ha!
PeakVT
OT: Oh my. Bush lied.
GReynoldsCT00
@Lab Partner:
What you said
asiangrrlMN
Stay the fuck away from Taiwan. They have enough trouble dealing with natural disasters without a visit from Typhoon Sarah.
The Raven
CLSA: https://www.clsa.com/index.php
Palin is very popular with people who you’d think would know better.
Barry
r€nato
“…and right on cue there’s now a SarahPAC ad on the left. Fucking great. If we all click on those ads, it uses up their clickthroughs, yes???”
I did 10; if everybody chips in, we could grab a thousand clicks from them.
PTirebiter
I’m pretty sure Miss Sarah has actually signed on as the bail-out cheerleader for the Confederate Lobby of Southern Aristocrats. They’re currently lobbying congress to back Confederate currency with the full faith and credit of the United States government.
It sounds like it’s pretty much a done deal, but there’s some haggling over the date when the adjustment for inflation should begin. I imagine they’ll compromise with a date somewhere in the middle of the battle of Gettysburg.
Da Bomb
Why can’t she just go and sit her ass down somewhere.
Do they have bridges to nowhere in Hong Kong? She is going to further prove to the Chinese why they should make us their lap dogs, and why our country is in the shitter.
Her head must hurt all of the time because of her stupidity. Now she wants to infect the world with her Forrest Gump-like mentality and incompetence. She fucking sucks!
/ end rant.
amk
Thus begins the roll-out of operation sarah for 2012. Corporates mounting their trojan horse. You can expect puff-pieces from rush, glenn, lowry and other shills at weakly standard in the coming weeks. Build-up sarahcuda has started.
romney, huckster, are you listening ?
Comrade Jake
So she’s going to appear before an audience of Chinese businessmen. A buxom lady who recently did a spandex-laden spread for fitness world.
Can anyone say, guaranteed turnout?
bayville
I agree with Deborah from above.
The unreported aspect of this announcement is whether Palin has been informed about this or not. My oddsmaking buddies say chances of her showing up is under 20-percent.
Expected excuse du’ jour: “family considerations” (i.e. Trig is ill).
Bubblegum Tate
@Zifnab:
She’s now learning how to say “you betcha!” in Chinese.
b/w
How long before she says “domo arigato” and asks which person in the crowd invented sushi?
Tsulagi
CLSA is 65% majority owned by Crédit Agricole, France’s largest retail-banking group. Why does she pal around with socialists?
JGabriel
Why would Credit Lyonnais / Credit Agricole pay Sarah Palin to speak? Is it a clever ploy by the French to keep Palin solvent so she can run for President in 2012 so she can destroy the USA?
Or do they just really like ironic comedy that much?
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srv
An interesting , like some ammalgamated credit unioun scheme.
Zifnab
@JGabriel:
Maybe this is only the beginning, and they eventually plan to train her up as the first Politically Successful Mime still capable of gaffing to a wide audience.
gopher2b
I think you’re missing the point. Can’t you see mainland China from Hong Kong?
CatStaff
@Comrade Jake: Based on the “now you see it, now you don’t” qualtity of her bust, I suspect her buxomness is about as real as her hair extensions.
Reminds me of that scene in “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” when the attractive woman takes off her wig, false eyelashes, fake butt, prosthetic leg . . . .
Awesom0
Why would Credit Lyonnais / Credit Agricole pay Sarah Palin to speak? Is it a clever ploy by the French to keep Palin solvent so she can run for President in 2012 so she can destroy the USA?
Or do they just really like ironic comedy that much?
Perhaps you have it backwards and Sarah Palin is an unwitting super agent designed by the USA to destroy China’s economy. Think about it: On the same day her speaking engagement in Hong Kong is reported, China’s stock market suffers its biggest loss of the year and analysts are predicting it could plunge as much as 25%
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b9e612aa-9654-11de-84d1-00144feabdc0.html
Furthermore, depending on her flight path, she may even be able to see N. Korea from her plane. By the time she gets back, she’ll be a modern day Metternich!
M. Bouffant
A less, shall we say, impartial take on Sarah’s first foreign vacation, from Right Wing News.
M. Bouffant
One more time.
SammyB
Uhhhh…..something is not right here…This is off the a link off of their home page
Kirk Spencer
An amusing, probably worthless but worth a ‘hmmm’, statistic.
The republican candidate with the most ‘hits’ in a google news search three years prior to election has been the final nominee since 1993. Let me expand that slightly.
Limit the following searches by year, with each year being the year after the presidential elections.
Do a search in that year for ‘republican presidential candidate’ to get all possible names.
Repeat the search adding each name in turn. (So for 2005 you’d do ‘republican presidential candidate mccain’ and ‘republican presidential candidate romney’ and, well, you get the idea). Make note of the number of hits.
For 1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005 the name with the most hits became the next cycle’s nominee.
Palin is presently the leader for 2009.
Note, please, that this is LOUSY predictive analysis – it’s just one of those interesting bits that mislead the unthinking in the long run. (I hope.)
mclaren
C’mon, guys, Asia-Pacific Markets is obviously a money laundering outfit for international drug profits. Their board of directors probably consists of the four biggest heroin growers in Afghanistan and the heads of the Mexican drug cartels.
Exactly as I predicted, Palin makes a dash for the cash. This creepy bimbo is all about the money. She’d step on her dying grandma’s face as she scrambled to snatch a handful of 20 dollar bills out of a passed-out drunk’s wallet. Here’s another prediction: after her political career sputters and fizzles out, she’ll wind up on late night infomercials hawking miracle diet pills and “male enlargement” creams.