Ted Belman. Contrary to what the media would have you believe, the people in attendance loved the speech. As Palin often says, she wasn’t interested in the media’s opinion of her, she was interested in the opinion of Iowans who will vote in the first Republican primary. In that she succeeded admirably.
By a Palin supporter
By now I’m sure most of you have read or heard of Byron York’s hit piece on Governor Palin’s speech in Des Moines this Saturday. (I won’t link to it because it’s gotten enough traffic as is.) I’ve learned one way you can tell if a journalist is being fair in an article is by whom they quote. Byron York quotes one Iowan by the name of Sam Clovis, who trashes Palin’s speech along with other nameless “activists”.
[York wasn’t alone in trashing her. A search of her name in the last 24 hours reveals a preponderance of articles which also trash her with words like, rambling, incoherent, stumbles, slips into self parody etc.]
You may think, “Wow, by listening to the words of these so-called activists and the journalists who picked up their thoughts, everyone there must have hated the Gov’s speech!” However, in the very next paragraph York states a conflict of interest that should have disqualified Clovis from being quoted at all. Clovis was a candidate who ran against Joni Ernst in Iowa for the Republican Primary and lost to her miserably. Governor Palin endorsed, rallied, campaigned for Ernst and helped raise her national profile. Did this important tidbit keep York from not quoting someone with a political ax to grind? Of course not, because he had an agenda and wanted the speech to appear the way he wanted not the way it was received.
And how was it received? All you have to do is look at the standing ovations Governor Palin received at the beginning of her remarks and after her speech’s conclusion. Iowans are extremely hard to impress as far as voters go. They know they have a special role in Presidential elections and see candidates all the time, so it speaks volumes about the Governor’s speech when it was given the ovation it did. The fact that so many “activists” for other campaigns trashed it shows the effect it had on the Freedom Summit’s attendees. In fact, in conversations with multiple people who were on the ground in Iowa, they’ve told me they were hard pressed to find anyone who would say something negative about the Governor’s speech. We have learned since 2008 to take what the media says with a healthy dose of skepticism and it appears this will not change as we head towards 2016.
SarahPAC had a fundraiser later Saturday evening and there were several important Iowans present as well as other great Americans. Rafael Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz, Congressman Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Congressman Steve King of Iowa, Bristol Palin, Jason Recher, Iowan Becky Beach and Puppy Jake were all present. Governor Palin also had a long conversation with Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Did Byron York quote these folks to get a sense of what they thought of Palin’s speech? No. But by judging the looks on their faces they loved it.
@ mrg3105: He is enough of an Isolationist to be considered anti-Israel.
@ honeybee:
Sorry HB you know I hope I was just kidding. 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7YLFB0Sfu8
@ yamit82:
My preference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2BkomH8XI
@ honeybee:
honeybee Said:
I prefer Cerveza Corona and or Bohemia Lager 😉
yamit82 Said:
” A bum by any other name is still a bum” Shakesbeer.
@ honeybee:
I agree Joy killers.
Dicha Yamit82:
A man sitting in a rocker on his front porch day after day for hours at a time would be called by his neighbors Lazy.
Same guy in a boat and a Fishing Rod would be called a Fisherman.
yamit82 Said:
Dichas of Deborah: ” Men would be hunting, fishing and living in caves, if it wasn’t for women”
Joseph Rapaport Said:
Because she knows how to shoot!
Why is everyone so afraid of Sarah. Maybe it is her
unwavering dedication to the truth (emet). It would
be wonderful to have someone like her in the WH. I guess
that is what makes me love Moshe Feiglin so.
All good and well, but its Rand Paul that is the one to watch.
He is a Republican that sounds close enough to what many swinging Democrats like to hear.
Our Rabbi likes to say the man is the head of every Jewish home, the wife is the neck and the head always turns where the neck goes.
honeybee Said:
Where don’t they run the family????? 😛
yamit82 Said:
He is an American Indian Klinket I believe, the women run the family . The men fish , he’s a commercial fisherman. hunt and stay out the way. I have watched him on a TV show where he was living in the wild. He was quite self-contained man use to being alone.
honeybee Said:
He is built and drop dead good looking.
Won’t argue the point frankly I never noticed. He is the invisible man totally subservient to his domineering bossy wife. He is the invisible man and she is his cash cow.
yamit82 Said:
have you ever seen Palin’s hubby??? He is built and drop dead good looking.
@ AlisonH:
It was a blatant sexist remark when uttered without apparent context.
I thought she was referring to here Hubby who seems to fit the role.
“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent” This quote from Sarah Palin’s speech was ridiculed by the lamestream media but she was paraphrasing a quote from a speech Martin Luther King gave in 1967:In short, over the last ten years the Negro decided to straighten his back up (Yes), realizing that a man cannot ride your back unless it is bent. (Yes, That’s right) We made our government write new laws to alter some of the cruelest injustices that affected us Ha, the idiots on the Left fell right into another Palin trap! She made fools of the media again.