Nails and a chalkboard: Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck kickoff ‘Taking Our Country Back’ tour
It’s not every day that people in America’s heartland hear “Redneck Woman” Gretchen Wilson sing Heart’s “Barracuda” to Sarah Palin.
On Saturday, nearly 5,000 people in Tulsa attended Glenn Beck’s and country singer John Rich’s kickoff of the “Taking Our Country Back” tour.
The three-and-a-half hour show featured Beck with his chalkboard and Palin with daughter Piper in tow heralding what’s wrong with America. The consensus? Washington.
“We are going to be remembered as a country so riddled with debt,” Beck, wearing a homey blue-and-white checked shirt and jeans, said. “People thought magic pixies would come down in the likeness of Tim Geithner and everything would be okay.”
One woman continually screamed, “I love you, Glenn!”
“You’re a Godsend today,” the talk-show host said to the crowd.
Beck may be a celebrity. But Palin is a superstar and a potential 2012 presidential candidate.
Oklahoma 2010 candidates worked their connections all morning to weave their way backstage for a Palin photo op.
“It’s good for fundraising,” said one state senator.
For all of Beck’s lecturing about the country’s founding fathers, the crowd craved Palin. Floor seats for the event cost about $150. As one woman said, “It’s not too much for me to see Sarah.”
The crowd jumped to its feet when Rich, who performed at the 2008 GOP convention in Minneapolis, introduced Palin. She walked across the stage in a sleek black coat with silver sequins edging the bottom and jeans and stood in front of a translucent podium.
“Oklahoma, do you love your freedom?” Palin asked.
Palin told the crowd about John McCain’s campaign staffers’ often low spirits. She thought they needed a pick-me-up. The answer: Gretchen Wilson. So she hit the campaign trail along with Rich, who sang the political anthem “Raisin’ McCain.”
The first thing that must occur in the United States, says Palin, is to boost the economy. She chided President Barack Obama, Senator Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for their borrowing, spending and taxing.
“They keep digging this big dark hole,” she said. “That’s generational theft. It makes us less secure and less free. I don’t know about you but that ticks me off.”
In her Oklahoma speech, Palin was less fiery than in more recent ones including a February event Little Rock, Ark. – her first at a political fundraiser.
She quoted Reagan’s “less government, more common sense” approach frequently to applause.
“He did not apologize for America,” she said.
She encouraged Washington to look at Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future.” Ryan, a rising star, could be competition for Palin in two years. He has been touted in some conservative circles as a possible presidential candidate.
“There’s nothing wrong with saying no to President Obama,” she said about Ryan.
Palin enjoys dueling with her critics. She’s sarcastic. She’s cute. And the crowd eats it up.
“I write it [notes] on the palm of my hand and I wish Washington would tattoo it across their forehead,” she said. “I got busted for using the poor man’s version of the teleprompter.”
Three things she wants Washington to understand: tax cuts, energy independence and lifting America’s spirits.
She loves to scold nemesis Obama, too: “No, thank you, Mr. President, you can keep that change.”
At the end of Palin’s speech, Rich asked the former vice presidential candidate to remain on stage during a tribute to Oklahoma’s fallen veterans. She watched a screen scroll the names as a former American Idol contestant sang Mariah Carey’s “Hero.”
After the tribute, Rich sang “The Good Lord and The Man” while Palin clapped her hands and introduced herself to the band’s fiddle player. Piper Palin joined her mother on stage and held her hand.
When the song ended, Palin grabbed the hand of a grieving mother who lost her son in Iraq last year and walked off stage with her. And she didn’t leave after her speech. During Rich and Wilson’s set, Palin stood slightly off stage enjoying the show while the nearby crowd snapped photos with their cell phones, especially during “Barracuda.”
In her speech, Palin said that America needs to hang on until November. But the Palin fans can’t wait until 2012. When her black SUV rolled out of the convention center with police escort, about 50 admirers – many holding her best-selling book – waved good-bye to her.
“We need Sarah Palin,” one woman said to another.
“Amen,” she said.
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
Loading ...
OBAMA’S PURPLE LIPS
What is the deep dark shocking secret behind Obama’s purple lips? Is it disease? The smoking of weed? Google my name ApolloSpeaks (one word) and read my piece: The Secret of Obama’s Purple Lips
Get lost, troll.
WHA COLA YO LIPS BE TODDY?
Sorry, don’t speak retard. unless that’s racist.
I wonder how many comments on this thread were paid for with ACORN or SEIU thug funds.
thefrank means a Faux News “million”, this translates to a thousand.
Oh wow, I see what you did there. You took Fox News and changed it to Faux News so you’re implying that it’s not real. That’s so clever dude! Did you think of it yourself? I’m really impressed at your level of intellect. Are you going to be at the Media Matters sauna later? Will there be lotion?
Right. We’re the ones that exaggerate our numbers, not ACORN, Code Pink, or Cindy Sheehan.
We have NPR, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, the NY Times, Boston Globe, and pretty much every other major newspaper in our pocket.
…and they’re ALL going belly up…a whole lot of nothing…is still…NOTHING
from his earlier post, I guess ‘deosil’ translates into ‘comic book guy from the simpsons’: “the faux news-covered teabagger rally was without a doubt the worst protest ever. rest assured that i was on the internet immediately to register my disgust throughout the world; the only redeeming aspect of this gathering of orcs was the Viggo Mortenson-like reporting of distinguished, noble, handsome and attractive Huffpo reporter Micheal Carmicheal, whose name, a sylliballistic palindrome (Micheal/Car/Michael – same forwards and backwards) I must not speak … and for whom my love must, alas, remain unrequited.”
“In my Frodo Baggins-way, my mindthought skills must be turned back to my halfling character in the current adventure – but I’ll need more experience points to advance to the next level…”
Idiot douchebag.
Phranc != Frank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8
Yup only a few thousand. And your use of “faux news” denotes a lack or intellectual integrity on your part. You make your self irrelevant when you use it.
are cons people or simple caricatures of fools?
I see the Leftists have been throwing Olbermann-style temper tantrums all over this thread today. Too funny!
watch out, or you’ll be crowned the “Worst Person In The World”.
I can see it now:
“It is unbelievable that in this day and age, someone spewing forth such bile is allowed to walk the streets as a free as a bird. You should be jailed for the use of your McCarthy-ite tactics to suppress dissent and denigrate the views of right-thinking people.
If you had any shred of dignity and honesty, you would apologize for satirizing and ridiculing these hard-working Americans, and turn yourself in to the closest constable for treason!
You are a disgrace to baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and unicorns.
Will you apologize for characterizing calm, reasoned views as ‘rants’?
Will you?
WILL YOU, SIR!
Wow .it’s hot in here today. The tea party originated because the American people have had it with both parties. They get into power and lose their minds and:forget why they are really there (to represent us!) It seems that this occurred with the Obama administration at WARP SPEED. I saw someone with a t-shirt on today, and the message reminded me of the tea party point of view. It said…………….Got Integrity?
Wonder who voted against integrity??????????????
Our first woman president. Doesn’t that have a great ring to it? You want to know who terrifies these liberal scions? These princes and princesses of progressivism? She’s smart, she’s beautiful, she’s not a phony and she doesn’t have to obfuscate and hide who she is in order to fool Americans into voting for her. She doesn’t vote “present” and she doesn’t try to have every issue both ways. She isn’t willing to promise whatever it takes to get elected so she can do whatever she wants and there are some thing we know she won’t be doing.
She won’t be going worldwide apologizing because we aren’t socialist enough for the ivory tower liberals of America (whose days are now numbered)…
She won’t be asking the U.N. for empty sanctions to solve our security issues…
She won’t be spending money like she was Barack Obama on the cocktail circuit…
She won’t be advocating government-controlled health care…
She won’t be asking us to give up our rights so government can control us…
She won’t close Club Gitmo so that socialists in Europe feel better about us…
She won’t walk away from our commitments to defend freedom…
She won’t tolerate the likes of ACORN, the ACLU, George Soros or the Chicago Machine; she’ll be coming for you and if you have been doing the dirty work, you are going to be held accountable.
In the end, the thing liberals fear the most (and many so-called Republicans too) is that accountability is going to land on them, expose their games and put the conspirators in jail. Some of them are going to swing from a rope and it is doggone time we cleaned up the mess.
Sarah Palin means the game is over, Obama is a one-term Jimmy Carter-brand loser and the aspirations for the progressive agenda for the coming generation will be destroyed.
If I were a liberal loser I would be scared too.
How’s that hopey-changey thing working for you now?
Seems like we already have a “woman” as President!!
http://www.breitbart.tv/jarrett-explains-why-obama-being-womanly-is-a-good-thing/
The Tea Party movement seems to be a myriad of cut-and-pasted ideas stretched and twisted to intoxicate and delude even the most astute Americans. It’s a study in Burlesque to say the least. The Opera Buffo Glenn Beck is the Falstaff of Fox News, the Dogberry of the Modern Dumbass movement in America. He took the trophy away from Rush Limbaugh, thanks to Beck’s Tea Party tomfoolery disguised as serious journalism. Thanks to the investigative reporting of Michael Carmichael, distinguished writer for and contributor to the Huffington Post and manager of the Planetary Movement, we learn that the Tea Party movement is funded by the likes of Bill Koch, an oil billionaire from Wichita, Kansas who happens to own Georgia Pacific and other mega corporations as well. According to Carmichael, a personal interview with a Wall Street Insider revealed that Koch funded a busload of 2,000 low-income demonstrators from Pennsylvania to go to Washington where Koch paid to put them up in motels for the big demonstration that Glenn Beck said a million people (it was less than 10,000) attended. Liar, Liar, pants on fire, Glenn. You bucking to displace O’Reilly, or what? In addition, it was learned that Koch also paid for low-income Tea Partiers to go to Nashville to hear Sarah Palin address the National Convention. Koch’s income, reported to be 100 Million dollars a month, apparently bought a lot of plane tickets and hotels for those poor people who wanted to come to Nashville and protest the high taxes we have to pay to our government. Real grass roots people on long green steroids will move the patriot in you every time. But who cares, pass the caviar and champagne, dude.
“Washington where Koch paid to put them up in motels for the big demonstration that Glenn Beck said a million people (it was less than 10,000) attended.”
You’re a complete and utter moron. Not just for citing a HuffPo columnist as your proof of outstanding journalism (although that is pretty funny by itself), but this claim of 10,000 is so easily disprovable. The pictures from the event are right there for everyone to examine. You can freaking count heads if you’re that much of a loser (or you can just compare the pics to other gatherings there). The immediate comment from the fire department was that it was 75,000 people, but that didn’t count all the people who couldn’t fit into the area.
Seriously, go back to your beloved HuffPo where you can say stupid things and nobody will call you on it (because you’re all so desperate to believe it).
As some one who was actually there unlike all the reporters who make such bogus claims about how many were in DC on 2-19 it was about a million. Deosil doesn’t have a clue as to what, who or how many people partake in the TEA parties. They lie with a mission. It’s like when Olberman says it is all white people. They know their words aren’t true.
You have NO frickin clue what a million people looks like. I live in DC. I was here during the last teabagger rally. There was not even close to 1 million people here. Were you here for Obama’s inauguration?? THAT was a million people – and is shut the farking city down. The teabag party brought a few hundred thousand – if that.
badmotherfarker
The Tea Party is not a person, there were no famous people talking, and it drew close to a MIllion People. Thats astonishing, no matter how you spin it. You dont get it because you are too far left to understand, its the beginning of the end for the Dems and November will show you Liberals when “We the People” Talk its best to listen.
You sound so angry. Do you need a hug?
Do you know what’s really funny? The first comment on this thread claims that there were less than ten thousand people. You didn’t comment on that in any way, but when someone says he was there and is sure it was a million, you angrily react, saying it was only a “few hundred thousand.”
So we’ve got three people guestimating. One says it was less than you’d see at a college basketball game and one says it’s more than you’d see at any other event and the one you’re so incensed that you leave a profanity enraged comment about (well, assuming the words you make up are supposed to be profanity) is the one who might have overestimated by a factor of 2 or 3 (not the one who underestimated by a a factor of 10). I guess this is you again demonstrating your capacity for fair and impartial examination of the facts and coming to a decision without regard for your political biases.
I do know what a million people looks like and I said it almost a million people. Obamas inauguration was more then a million people. They also made a mess unlike the 9-12 protest. DC wasn’t shut down because of the amount of people it was shut down for security reasons just like it was for Bush.
Calling them teabaggers only makes you look bad, not them. But if you want to be seen as an intellectual fraud by all means keep it up. You make your self irrelevant.
thephranc
I do know what a million people looks like and I said it almost a million people. Obamas inauguration was more then a million people. They also made a mess unlike the 9-12 protest. DC wasn’t shut down because of the amount of people it was shut down for security reasons just like it was for Bush.
——————————————-
Even the organizers of the event are not as delusional as you:
Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the organizer of the event, stated on stage that ABC News had reported 1 million to 1.5 million protesters in attendance. ABC News later published an article saying that they were misquoted by Kibbe, and went on to report that 60,000 to 70,000 had attended the event, citing the unofficial D.C. Fire Department number.[19] After comparing photographs of Saturday’s protest with previous events, FreedomWorks revised their crowd estimate to be between 600,000 and 800,000.[17][37] Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, one of the organizations that sponsored the march, said the group estimated the crowd at 75,000 in the morning and from 200,000 and 300,000 as the day went on.[17]
Farouk El-Baz, a Boston University research professor and expert on crowd estimation, told the LA Times that his informal research from media coverage indicated 75,000 as the peak attendance. El-Baz noted that, because there seemed to be no aerial photos of the event, reaching any sort of rigorous estimate might be impossible. The Washington Metro reported 87,000 extra riders that day as compared to the average ridership.[17]
better listen to him guys: he’s a biochemist expert on global warming.
Hey, BMF – since you claim the crowd was as few as 75,000, would you like to go on record as calling bullschtuff on deosil’s claim of 10,000?
I didn’t claim the crowd was as few as 75,000. I was arguing that it was NOT 1 million. And even the organizers themselves are stating as much.
So, go ahead and call BS on the claim that there were 10,000 attendees.
Whassamatta, BMF? You chicken? Maybe you should rename yourself CMF!
Oh, puhleeze… go scoop that crap someplace where people are stupid enough to believe it….like back to HuffPo where the lies originated.
Your left wing Talking points dont work on intellegent people. We know the routine and dont even consider what it is you have to say.
Beck and Palin are the best pair to rally the Tea Party Members, its a breath of fresh air, not this Washington Deal Making, Pork Filled Congress and White House we hear bloviate every day. Its old and corrupt and we dont want it any more
This goober sounds like the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
Palin and Beck are the Dumbee and the Dumber.
Hey, guy, is that you or the cancer talkin’? you feelin’ ok?
Just in case anyone forgot, tomdoff is the guy who told us all that, although he is dying of cancer, he regularly laughs at himself and his situation, to find the good and the humor in this crazy life.
He revealed his sickness after expressing sadness that Dick Cheney didn’t die from a heart attack. After he wished death on our former Vice President, I mockingly said it would be funny if he died of cancer. Little did I know he was already suffering from this malady.
Imagine my shock and disgrief at finding THAT out.
Shoot him a reply and ask him how he’s feeling. I’m sure he’d appreciate the good wishes.
Get well soon, Tom!