Decoder: Sarah Palin’s Keynote Address At The Tea Party Convention
Decoder: Real white people, that is. Real racist white people who aren’t really good spellers and who are resentful about having an African-American President.
Sarah Palin: Now, in many ways, Scott Brown represents what this beautiful movement is all about. You know, he was just a guy with a truck and a passion to serve our country.
Decoder: A guy without pants. A guy who did bottomless stuff. A guy who let it flap in the breeze. Also: Pointing out that he owned a truck makes it look like I’m connecting to working-class people, when I’m collecting $100K for a speech.
Sarah Palin: The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. This is about the people, and it’s bigger than any king or queen of a Tea Party. And it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a Teleprompter.
Decoder: But not bigger than a charismatic woman with notes scribbled on her hand.
Sarah Palin: The stakes are too high right now, and your voice is too important. So work hard for these candidates, but put your faith in ideas.
Decoder: Or vague buzzwords and catchphrases that have no real meaning.
Sarah Palin: Because that’s not how radical Islamic extremists are looking at this. They know we’re at war. And to win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lecturn!
Decoder: I don’t like professors, with their gotcha questions. They were always giving me bad grades at all five of the colleges I attended.
Sarah Palin: And you know, it’s no wonder that our President only spent about nine percent of his State of the Union Address discussing national security and foreign policy, because there aren’t a whole lot of victories that he could talk about that night.
Decoder: He hasn’t started any cool wars yet.
Sarah Palin: Just like you…probably just so tired of hearing the talk talk talk…Tired of hearing the talk!
Decoder: Although I can’t shut my resentful piehole for five minutes.
Sarah Palin: We need clear foreign policy that stands with the people and for democracy—one that reflects both our values and our interests, and it is in our best interest, because democracies—they don’t go to war with each other. They can settle their differences peacefully.
Decoder: Actually, democracies do go to war with each other. I am a complete fucking idiot–a complete fucking idiot with a $100K check in my pocket!
Tags: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown
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