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What We Saw of Sarah Palin (Crowd video of Madison rally shows what Palin overcame during speech)
Ann Althouse ^ | Saturday, April 16, 2011 | Ann Althouse

Posted on 04/16/2011 7:40:15 PM PDT by kristinn

YouTube video by Meade.

Note by Kristinn: The ten minute video was shot from the periphery of the crowd at the Madison Tea Party rally during Sarah Palin's speech. The union members and their supporters did their best to drown out Palin with jeers, chants, horns, bells, boos, etc.

While Palin is not seen in the video, having watched her speech live I can appreciate how poised she was under the steady barrage of noise trying to shut her down or throw her off her game.

Andrew Breitbart, who introduced Palin at the rally, wrote at Big Government of the profane sexual abuse the union members and their supporters hurled at Palin and her family when they arrived for the rally:

But there was another group also there to greet us; the shock troops sent by Richard Trumka and president Obama’s Organizing for America...

The TV cameras showing the speech caught little of this phalanx of thugs that we had to walk through. Middle fingers flew and the trendy talking point insult of “Koch Suckers!” was everywhere. Sarah Palin was called names that made me wonder if Bill Maher was writing for this mob. Apparently, women-hating sexual mockery is acceptable if directed at the right, even if that woman’s children are present.

Through it all, Palin triumphed, with Reuters headlining a commentary: Palin in Madison: Veni Vidi, Vici.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: madisonteaparty; sarahpalin; taxdayteaparty2011; teaparty; wisconsinshowdown
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1 posted on 04/16/2011 7:40:19 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: onyx; nutmeg; rabidralph

FYI.


2 posted on 04/16/2011 7:41:01 PM PDT by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: kristinn

Thanks Kristinn...

Gee. Makes me want to run out and
burn my conservative card. NOT!


3 posted on 04/16/2011 7:45:56 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; kristinn

Adding to kristinn’s list of Palin pingers.


4 posted on 04/16/2011 7:46:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: kristinn

Not a Palin fan, but these Leftists are still lower than pond scum.


5 posted on 04/16/2011 7:50:19 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The epitaph of the GOP: Less constitutionally-principled than Donald Trump.)
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To: kristinn

Pretty sick that they met her and her family with such vile comments. Very mentally sick people.


6 posted on 04/16/2011 7:52:06 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: kristinn

For those who don’t know, Ann was herself the target of the vile multi-page manifesto from a demented stalker during the occupation of the Capitol when she had the audacity to call the those stinking pigs what they were.

From Breitbart’s comments it was clear the nasty union/liberal/progressive element was out in force as they’d promised they would be to disrupt and try to deny our side from enjoying the same right to peaceful assembly they were given.

Well, they can just Go to Hell!

Sarah Palin didn’t miss a beat, she wasn’t drawn off message one iota by their mindless babbling and screamed insults. She was magnificent!

As were all the speakers. And Sarah, Andrew, Donald Trump and a few others are showing us the way - the way to take it to Obama and rather than sit back and make nice “across the aisle” deals with “our good friends” - it is GAME ON! We are the Majority and we are Silent No More!


7 posted on 04/16/2011 7:55:58 PM PDT by bigbob (u)
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To: kristinn

Oh really? And I’ve been reading some of the lib bloggers reporting that those vile Tea Partiers were saying mean things to them.

Reports about the number of Tea Partiers and union thugs are mixed. (Union thugs say they had more people there.) Any ideas?


8 posted on 04/16/2011 7:57:45 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: kristinn

Wow, that is one brave woman. If she runs, I’ll be there.


9 posted on 04/16/2011 7:58:10 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: kristinn

I hope the Republican Party uses images of this and other outrageous actions by the Dims and makes an ad showing the difference in civility... and then asking...

Which group of people is like you?
Which group of people are you comfortable with?
Which group do you want to be in control of this country?


10 posted on 04/16/2011 7:58:24 PM PDT by dmet
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To: kristinn

Leftists are ugly - inside & out.


11 posted on 04/16/2011 7:59:16 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Jo Nuvark
Gee. Makes me want to run out and burn my conservative card. NOT!

Still got mine, right here!



12 posted on 04/16/2011 8:00:24 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: kristinn

Thanks. She is a courageous woman. And once again the union thugs come off looking really bad. It looks like some of those same thugs have added their negative comments to the YouTube thread pertaining to the video.


13 posted on 04/16/2011 8:01:26 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: kristinn

They should be mad their union bosses wasted 3 million of thier pension funds on a losing election.

Pray for America


14 posted on 04/16/2011 8:01:34 PM PDT by bray (Has Oboehner surrendered to his master yet?)
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To: kristinn; 1_Rain_Drop; 4woodenboats; 6323cd; Abbeville Conservative; abigail2; ...
Thanks very much, kristinn!

"We're flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us.

So now he's shouting, all aboard the bullet train to bankruptcy."

"GAME ON"!!


15 posted on 04/16/2011 8:02:50 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: kristinn

Things go better with Koch.


16 posted on 04/16/2011 8:03:37 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: kristinn

I was impressed by her speech and I’m impressed by what she faced down to give it.

She fights. Say what you want about her, she fights. She has more nerve than just about anyone I can think of in the GOP establishment. Where were they? Absent?

Thats right. AWOL in the fight of the century.


17 posted on 04/16/2011 8:04:18 PM PDT by marron
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To: anniegetyourgun
Leftists are ugly - inside & out.

How true!

18 posted on 04/16/2011 8:04:26 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: Rocky
Thanks. She is a courageous woman. And once again the union thugs come off looking really bad. It looks like some of those same thugs have added their negative comments to the YouTube thread pertaining to the video

... and too stupid to know that all they are doing is making campaign commercials for Gov Palin. Idiots. Prepare to lose the mushy middle...

19 posted on 04/16/2011 8:04:44 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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God Bless Sarah!

*GAME ON*

20 posted on 04/16/2011 8:05:22 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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