BREAKING NEWS: I SAW SARAH PALIN DRINKING A PINA COLADA AT TRADER VICS. HER HAIR WAS PERFECT.
Okay, we don’t have a Trader Vics in Hong Kong. And I didn’t really see her. But as promised earlier, she is in Hong Kong. And she gave her speech at the CLSA Investors Forum. Here’s how that went:
No big surprises then, though we did get an explanation as to why CLSA barred the media from her speech:
CLSA, an arm of French bank Credit Agricole, said it closed Palin's session to the media after she indicated that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present.
Ah yes. On account of the media always puts words in her mouth. Like “death panels”. And “moose burgers”.
If the WSJ is anything to go by (and how did they get in, by the way?), she didn’t say anything all that different than what she usually says - Obama is evil, Reagan was bitchin, China is a great trading partner apart from the whole Tibet thing, Alaska is awesome, best seafood in America, try the salmon, give us yr money, etc.
The Twitter coverage provides additional insight.
Like any good speaker, she also geared her talk to the audience:
We have much in common with Hong Kong. We’re both young and transient, independent and libertarian. Places that continue to show the world, the power and the resilience of the free market system at a time when too many are questioning it.
Presumably no one told her about our socialized medicine, public housing and govt-funded infrastructure projects. Because then she’d have to rewrite her whole speech again.
Or maybe not.
Alaska loves you,
This is dF
No big surprises then, though we did get an explanation as to why CLSA barred the media from her speech:
CLSA, an arm of French bank Credit Agricole, said it closed Palin's session to the media after she indicated that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present.
Ah yes. On account of the media always puts words in her mouth. Like “death panels”. And “moose burgers”.
If the WSJ is anything to go by (and how did they get in, by the way?), she didn’t say anything all that different than what she usually says - Obama is evil, Reagan was bitchin, China is a great trading partner apart from the whole Tibet thing, Alaska is awesome, best seafood in America, try the salmon, give us yr money, etc.
The Twitter coverage provides additional insight.
Like any good speaker, she also geared her talk to the audience:
We have much in common with Hong Kong. We’re both young and transient, independent and libertarian. Places that continue to show the world, the power and the resilience of the free market system at a time when too many are questioning it.
Presumably no one told her about our socialized medicine, public housing and govt-funded infrastructure projects. Because then she’d have to rewrite her whole speech again.
Or maybe not.
Alaska loves you,
This is dF