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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
Screenshot from the video:





If, for some reason, the image doesn't work, here is the URL;

(UN)patriotic Progressive
81 posted on 04/17/2011 12:42:27 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: dsutah


Too bad some didn't wear something like this:




82 posted on 04/17/2011 1:10:02 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: kristinn

just so you know: I came, I saw, I conquered.


83 posted on 04/17/2011 3:47:56 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: The Wizard

Veni Vidi, Vici. I came, I saw, I conquered.


84 posted on 04/17/2011 3:49:26 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: Qbert

That last is also why Trump is polling so well among Republicans / conservatives.


85 posted on 04/17/2011 4:10:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: kristinn
Thanks for finding that. Ann Althouse does a great job of commentary and finding interesting angles to our political stories.
86 posted on 04/17/2011 6:19:08 AM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.conservativedna.com/)
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To: kristinn; rabidralph

Thanks for posting this. I heard that this was going to happen.

The comments on YouTube are something to see too.


87 posted on 04/17/2011 6:24:01 AM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: sauropod

Hey, Mister! Great to “see” you!


88 posted on 04/17/2011 6:42:48 AM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.conservativedna.com/)
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bttt


89 posted on 04/17/2011 7:48:37 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
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To: kristinn

Wow....so much stupid in one little area.


90 posted on 04/17/2011 8:02:40 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Catsrus

Thats what I meant when I said “gonna get real ugly.” They are going to do it. They already have on a smaller scale in Wisc. striking a reporter and others on camera, etc. Others were more seriously beaten.

Look at the couple hospitalized in Louisiana a few months back having been assaulted outside a Republican fundraiser.

No, we must never initiate violence like that. It is totally wrong. That said, any man/woman that stands there and takes a beating or runs away so that ‘cooler heads prevail” is just inviting more of the same against others.


91 posted on 04/17/2011 8:55:26 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: kristinn

From reading the comments on the video page I conclude it’s pointless to try to reason with these people.

The answer is Nov. 2012...turnout..turnout..turnout.


92 posted on 04/17/2011 9:27:44 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: LibsRJerks

“Wow — I take back my own personal comments on her voice quality. Who wouldn’t have to yell twice as loud to drown out those cows . . .”

The leftists showing their high tolerance for the First Amendment once again. (/sarc)


93 posted on 04/17/2011 10:01:17 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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Oh, what brave, manly men. They think they’re going to scare Sarah away? I think they just fired her up.


94 posted on 04/17/2011 10:21:47 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: kristinn

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;

Sarah Palin is the Ronald Reagan of our times.


95 posted on 04/17/2011 3:05:56 PM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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To: Just A Nobody

FYI.


96 posted on 04/17/2011 6:05:57 PM PDT by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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