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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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To: kristinn

For those who keep saying another Civil War is coming....just more evidence that we’re already in one.


21 posted on 04/16/2011 8:05:22 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: kristinn

Reminds of the sheep and the hounds that Napoleon the pig had in “Animal Farm”, the book of cours.


22 posted on 04/16/2011 8:05:32 PM PDT by fella (n)
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To: All

God protect Sarah.
There is so much hate from the Libs, I’m afraid for her safety.


23 posted on 04/16/2011 8:05:57 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: kristinn

If this is mostly the Teachdr’s Union. God have mercy on our kids!


24 posted on 04/16/2011 8:08:41 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: dmet

The Republicans wouldn’t be so crass as to try to benefit from publicizing the DimRats outrageous conduct. What would McCain say if they did that? /s/


25 posted on 04/16/2011 8:08:43 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: Windflier

I want one!


26 posted on 04/16/2011 8:09:26 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: dmet
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?

If Donald runs he'll do something like that. The rest of them are even afraid to question Zer0's lack of a birth certificate, his past associations, his multiple names etc.

At least Trump is calling the usurper out.

27 posted on 04/16/2011 8:09:53 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: Rocky

The group of men mingling & periodically booing sounded like a herd of sick cattle when they all got going. LOL! They also looked like & had the same demeanor of some of our local school administrators. Hope they see the video & are embarrassed at how silly they look.


28 posted on 04/16/2011 8:11:55 PM PDT by PoplarBluffian
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To: kristinn; onyx

BTTT!


29 posted on 04/16/2011 8:15:28 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: onyx
I remember Castro was going to save the Cuban people by handing out specially bred mini-cows to every family so they could have milk. They stood about three feet tall and were created by Cuban geneticists.

When it was later determined that the people already had goats, the animals were left to die in pens.

Viva la Revolutione'!

30 posted on 04/16/2011 8:15:58 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: kristinn

She is *TOUGH*.

I would have punched that one big mouth, fatso with the gray hair butch hair cut....lol.

Loser thugs. UnAmericans.


31 posted on 04/16/2011 8:16:15 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: DaxtonBrown

My money is saved and waiting for HER ONLY.


32 posted on 04/16/2011 8:17:22 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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To: bray

LOL. I love your thinking, dearest Bray!!!!!


33 posted on 04/16/2011 8:18:12 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: onyx; potlatch; PhilDragoo; devolve

That speech is a classic! Fight like a girl!

For anyone who doesn’t like her voice...how else was she able to prevail over that vile thug mob?

If she was field-testing her punchlines, they all were spectacular winners. Let’s have some more!


34 posted on 04/16/2011 8:20:11 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: RightOnline
For those who keep saying another Civil War is coming....just more evidence that we’re already in one.

When do we take it up to the next level?

Proud of Sarah, not to mention Breitbart and the rest of the speakers and tea partiers in attendance. They withstood the union thugs without any violence, which is quite a task.

35 posted on 04/16/2011 8:20:37 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: blackdog
Those folks protesting her are cows jackasses!

Rebellion is brewing just like obama and his regime wants.

36 posted on 04/16/2011 8:21:25 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: patriot08

Praying non-stop for Sarah Palin and her precious family and for our Republic.


37 posted on 04/16/2011 8:22:37 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: DaxtonBrown

I’m wondering if Trump would like to pave the way for Sarah. It’s just a stirring in the back of my mind right now. Have to wait and see, I guess. But Sarah is echoing the same rallying cry that Trump has been giving. Trump’s initial focus for the “birther” issue was to scold the media. If Trump could totally disgrace the media over their treason on the eligibility issue, it could pave the way for Sarah. I don’t know; I just get the feeling that he’s leading the way through the blizzard so she can have a path already somewhat made - knowing the fiends she would be up against.

Sarah would make the better president, all other things being equal. But the media and the leftists thugs have shown that all other things are not equal. The leftists do not show the same respect for women as for men. That’s just a fact. They cannot think of a conservative woman as anything but a sexual object, to be “punished” and belittled through sexual degradation. They are rapist scum to their core.

Sarah has good answers. Trump has prestige and can get away with taking no prisoners. They each have something critical to add to the mix, for the benefit of the country. I just hope that our team fights together instead of each insisting they have to be the one to become President. We need to be a team now, more than ever before.

Dear Lord, please give each of these gifted people a humble servant’s heart that seeks to serve the needs of this country so we can live quiet, peacable lives. Give them and all of us wisdom and unite us in purpose to see freedom and justice flourish here. We have screwed up so badly in this country, Lord. Forgive us and heal this land, for Your sake and for the good of all. In Jesus’ name. Amen.


38 posted on 04/16/2011 8:23:29 PM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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To: onyx

“I would have punched that one big mouth, fatso with the gray hair butch hair cut....lol.”

Unfortunately, by the time the election comes around I think a lot of us will have plenty of opportunity.

You just know the left is going to do everything they can to incite violence every chance they get. Gonna be real ugly if/when they get it.


39 posted on 04/16/2011 8:23:56 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Well, I’m a girl so he and big-mouth males like him, had better watch out, because I fight like a girl!

Har!


40 posted on 04/16/2011 8:26:35 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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