Too bad. There were some GREAT comments on those other "pulled" threads. :(Oh, well. Check out Governor Palin's HIGH HEELS in this picture, from Yahoo! NEWS:
Does CSPAN show the dinner at a later date??
The new rabscuttle?
>>Biden would be “selling his book, Going Rogaine.” <<
Wait for the Eternally Offended to get all bent out of shape. Heck, the only person who makes fun of my looks more than my wife is ME!
Liberals have no pure sense of humor, just cynicism and snideness.
Gridiron singer portraying sarah -”take back your clothes I’m on the loose go tell katie couric to field dress a moose”
Good jokes. Steve Schmidt is a POS. McCain would hire a democrat to run his campaign.
This few line comment from Twitter did not belong in the topic activism and had to be moved. The activism topic is reserved for Free Republic Activism and Chapters.
Also, unless you are Andrea Mitchell, your using your FR nickname instead of the original writer of the Twitterberry on Twitter comment, is not appropriate. Your FR name has been removed from the writer’s name space.
How do you know its amazing if theres no video or audio of it
Three cheers for Palin.
They don't get it, do they?
Now THAT is funny, any way you cut it!
From another tweet: Palin said “her parents came to the Gridiron dinner unexpectedly—please don’t treat them like the Salahis.”
Another was that “the view from inside the bus is better than the view from under the bus.”
Too bad. There were some GREAT comments on those other "pulled" threads. :(Oh, well. Check out Governor Palin's HIGH HEELS in this picture, from Yahoo! NEWS:
sry didn’t see other posts “pulled” here are other jokes from event from John King’s twitter page:http://twitter.com/JohnKingCNN
Gov Palin good laughs at song spoofing her as “dangerous dame”. She joked can see russian embassy from hotel room.
about 2 hours ago from Echofon
Gov palin speech done. Full of funny zingers. Says if McCain won, Biden book would be “Going Rogaine”.
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Palin Gridiron speech Steve schmidt dig\joke: “if I need a bald campaign manager, I guess all i am left with is james carville.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Palin jokes big announcement: “tomorrow I am going to Iowa ......noon to 3p at barnes & noble “
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Gov palin at gridiron jokes normally dem speaker next but: “McCain campaign staff asked if they could have that time for rebuttal.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Gov Palin opens w joke about first McCain mtg: she has lenghty concerns re goby bailouts and wall st practices and he says “you betcha “
Palin joke in speech re book travels : “the view is so much better from inside the bus than under it.”. Her parents in for speech
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Palin jokes book title debate included “the audacity of the north slope.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Gov Palin praises tough media qs but to gridiron jokes, “just trust your intuition and when you don’t you end up in a place like this.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
And let it be known that Barney Frank is tanking up there.
From the WSJ:
With Humor, Palin Attempts Media Truce
Former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, never a big fan of the mainstream media, stepped into the lion’s den Saturday night and attempted to call a truce, of sorts.
Ms. Palin spoke at the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of Washington journalists where parody and satire are the required entertainment form, and made light of her jousting with the Fourth Estate.
“Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts,” she told the assemblage of senior Washington journalists. “And when you don’t, you end up in a place like this.”
Ms. Palin also made light of the intramural warfare that broke out within the John McCain presidential campaign after she became his running mate–a warfare that made great copy for many of the journalists who were in the room at a Washington hotel. Ms. Palin implied she was happy to be beyond the campaign experience, and to have survived the not-for-attribution attacks from McCain campaign aides that followed. She said she is enjoying, by contrast, her current tour around the country to promote her new book. “The view is so much better from inside the bus than under it,” she cracked.
One of her jokes referred to the famous strains between her and Steve Schmidt, the McCain campaign manager famed for his shaved head. “If I ever need a bald campaign manager, all I’m left with is James Carville,” she joked.
She also got in a dig at her vice presidential campaign rival, Joe Biden, saying that if she had won he would be the one on book tour. Taking off from the title of her book (”Going Rogue”), she said Mr. Biden’s book likely would have been entitled “Going Rogaine,” a reference to the vice president’s hair-challenged profile.
But despite her history of tension with the Fourth Estate, Ms. Palin closed with a reference to her own background as a journalism student and sports broadcaster and a tribute to the importance of journalists and their role in keeping politicians honest.
Sarah Palin at the Gridiron Dinner takes shots a self, journos
By Lynn Sweet on December 5, 2009 8:14 PM
WASHINGTON—What! Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, palin’ around with a group of elite journalists? She was, the Gridiron Club winter dinner, where she took shots at herself and the journos in the audience.
I’m taking a quick break from the dinner to file this, so I’m not ready to say yet if she has given one of those speeches that turned around her image. But in her 11 minute, 36 second speech, she did no harm to herself. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) speaks in about 15 minutes.
Some of Palin’s lines:
“You betcha. Who talks that way?”
On deciding to speak to the Gridiron Club “Sometimes you just got to trust your instincts. And when you don”t, you end up in places like this.”
“At least now I can put a face to the newspapers I do read.”
Palin cracks wise at Gridiron dinner
In an 11-minute speech before Washington’s Gridiron Club at its Winter Dinner, Sarah Palin tossed a few barbs at the gathering of journalists, comparing them to “death panels.”
“Sometimes you got to trust your instincts, and if you don’t, you end up in a place like this,” said the former GOP vice presidential candidate.
Palin, in a smart black suit with what appeared to be a fur-lined purse, showed up after a book signing in Fairfax where she said fans were lined up in the snow. During the cocktail hour, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) held court by the appetizers while Palin set up about 20 feet away by the ballroom doors.....
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30242.html
To funny:
While the Gridiron winter meeting is usually a small, low key affair, Palin’s appearance attracted a crowd of 195 — about double the average attendance of Gridiron members and their guests.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30242.html
but...but...but I thought she was a “joke” and “needs to leave the room” Have the elites ever been so 100% wrong like this before or is this history in the making?
Here’s USA TODAY Susan Page’s twitters:
At #gridiron, Barney frank on Twitter: “maybe I lack intellectual curiosity but I don’t care what Claire mccaskill has for lunch.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
Barney franks worries Obama reelection slogan can’t be: “things would have sucked worse without me.” #gridiron.
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
At #gridiron, Barney frank proposes reality tv show for palin-McCain: “John & Sarah minus 8.” says his show would be “king of queens.”
about 1 hour ago from Echofon
At #gridiron, barney frank introduced by satiric “we 3 kings.” is “very flattered to be the 2nd Jew to have that song dedicated to” him.
about 2 hours ago from Echofon
At black tie #gridiron, #palin parents slip into back of ballroom to hear her speak. They get round of applause. So does she.
about 2 hours ago from Echofon
#palin said if GOP ticket had won last year, she would be veep and Biden would be “selling his book, Going Rogaine.” #gridiron about 2 hours ago from Echofon
More #palin at #gridiron: said she was addressing “leading journalists and intellectuals, or as I put it, a death panel.”
about 2 hours ago from Echofon
At #gridiron, #palin said “sometimes you’ve got to trust your instincts and when you don’t, you end up in places like this “
about 2 hours ago from Echofon
At #gridiron, Barney frank says he’ll have benefit of 2nd position: #palin will speak 1st.
about 4 hours ago from Echofon
at #gridiron reception, #palin in chic black suit with fur trim and purse. Asks how long women have been allowed in club. A: 1974
about 4 hours ago from Echofon #
No moose on the menu for tonight’s #Gridiron dinner w/Sarah Palin. However, there will be mousse. Chocolate.