Dem Opts For Paid Palin Speech, Valerie Jarrett Is Not Amused

A couple of gems plucked from Lynn Sweet's column today. Last time I posted on Valerie Jarrett, many of us out here were mocking her for suggesting the White House was just "speaking truth to power" by taking on Fox News. I doubt she would have appreciated it, given her response to a recent Palin speech.

... Palin mocked Obama by asking "how's that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for ya?" I asked White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett recently what she thought of Palin's dig.

Said Jarrett: "Making fun of the folks' real, sincere hopes for change that Americans across our country felt, I don't know that making fun of that is constructive. I prefer we would say, 'Come and think of constructive solutions that really improve our country.' I think people are tired of being made fun of."

Awww. But it seems some Democrat folks don't mind Palin's sense of humor. A prominent Democrat is vice chair of a group paying Palin 100k to raise money for a parking lot. The speech sold out on the first day! Truth to power, baby! Right on!

The speakers bureau representing Palin pitched the college for an event. Eureka took a pass but the board at Five Points -- whose vice chairman is Steve Brown, the spokesman for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois -- used the Eureka opening to land her.

Comments

[Sissy Willis]

Sarah Palin, a uniter, not a divider? ;)

[Anita]

Funny & interesting!

[Anita]

Bill boards & TV reporting everywhere about Hope & Change!

http://www.kctv5.com/video/21176438/index.html

[callingallcomets]

Actually, to be fair, I did blog about this on Feb 2nd...
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/02/glad-that-palin-is-coming-says-illinois.html

[Ugh]

Isn't Valerie Jarret just SO mature? I'm just so impressed with her talking-point brain. Go back to Chicago small-timer and practice your preachy superiority there.

[Warren Bonesteel]

So, she's become Sarah "Give me the money" Palin, now? $100K for a speech to raise money for a parking lot?

ok, fine. Make some money, Governor. I don't have a problem with that.

The problem is with trying to be a national political contender while supporting the corruptocrats you once claimed to be working against. (Who do ya think will build that parking lot? Unemployed laborers or unions who are in bed with Illinois Democrats?)

[Joseph Brown]

Excuse me Bonehead...I mean Bonesteel, but didn't you get the memo that a large portion, if not all her speaking fees go to charity? Besides, she doesn't have her own personal Yellow Cab to flitter all over the world Like the little boy in the WH.
Hopey-changey? Working out real well for a bunch of Chicago thugs in the administration, isn't? Like Communists, Marxists, common leftists and dare I mention slum lords like Val?

[neomom]

We are also not terribly sure she is trying to be a political "contender".. I don't think she knows yet. Personally, I don't think she'll run. But if the IL Dems want to give her 100K? You Go Girl!

[NeoKong]

"Said Jarrett: "Making fun of the folks' real, sincere hopes for change that Americans across our country felt, I don't know that making fun of that is constructive. I prefer we would say, 'Come and think of constructive solutions that really improve our country.' I think people are tired of being made fun of."

Uh hoh please....
Listen to the big leftie White House insider get upset that people are being made fun of. Mocking people who disagree with you is White House policy. It is how Obama got elected. It is the one strand that binds the whole Democratic party and all their leftie media hacks together. We only need to look at the way Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers have been treated.

[Warren Bonesteel]

Be careful about dehumanizing your political opponents. That way lies tragedy and destruction. Following that path will lead you to become the very thing that you presently despise.

The right complains about the rhetoric and sophsitry of their political opponents, while engaging in and excusing the same behavior in themselves.

Once a society walks that path, the end result is predictable...and it leads only to death and destruction.

[Scott Jacobs]

To be fair, Madigan would poke something like this along if for no other reason than it would piss off parts of the Illinois (read: Chicago) Machine.

He's never been a fan or friend of Quinn, Durbin, or even Obama... I suspect this was an intentional slight, and I am all for it.

[greg]

Interesting how thousands are willing to pay to attend an event that includes Palin, 6,000 at Salina KS, 5,000 in Little Rock, 4,000 in Redding CA, 2,000 in Daytona Beach, thousands are willing to camp out over night in below freezing temps to get a book signed, and even more thousands show up for free events, such as her recent rally with Perry, close to 10,000 showed up on Super Bowl Sunday. Perry rallies prior to that and since the Palin rally, average about 200 or less. Now, compare that to the 2,000 who showed up in downtown Boston, the heart of liberalism, to see 0bama campaign with Coakley, and the tickets were free. A week or so ago 0bama and Biden were both at Univ of Tampa, and drew only 2,000 to an arena that would seat 3,000. Again, the tickets were free, and they couldn't even give them all away on a college campus. Oh, 0bama's campaign stops for Reid in Henderson NV 1,500 at a high school gym, and 650 at a casino in Las Vegas. In the battle of the crowds, Palin is winning hands down.

[Uncle Ralph]

Would it smooth any ruffled feathers just to let Palin have the speaker's fee, and give Jarrett the immortality. "The Valerie Jarrett Asphalt Parking Lot" has a ring to it, don't you think?

[Holly]

How else could Steve Brown, the prominent Democrat, generate sufficient interest for the fund-raiser? If he had invited Obama to speak, he would have to pay the usual SEIU and ACORN Astroturf mob to come just to get a modest audience. After all when Obama campaigned for Coakley, he could not even fill a hall with supporters.
With Palin, tickets for the fund-raiser sold out in a day.
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[Dave in Houston]

Only some with lockjaw couldn't find this funny. The Democrats don't have anyone who could draw the people they need, so they turn to Palin. When you got it, you got it. It ain't braggin' if you can do it, etc., etc., so on and so forth. Baby, she got. Use it or lose.

This made my entire day. Go Sarah. The thought of all those stewing Democrats is just priceless.

[Bogdan from Australia]

So in minds of leftist morons like BONEHEAD, Sarah Palin, a private citizen should do all that stuff for gratis. Like Mother Theresa, perhaps. And of course reject any suggestion of running for THE OFFICE. Then Leftoids would begrudginly accept her as a human being.

And what ridiculous degenerate that WH Commie Valerie Jarret is. After throwing the mud at Sarah and her children for the last twenty months by the ORCS of her Boss, Obama, Jarret is now lamenting about "making fun" of the "people".

[Mary Lou Welz]

I have a letter into Bill Clinton asking him how much of his speaker's fees went to charity.
Palin should keep the fees for the purpose of __________whatever.

Palin has COMMON SENSE and a high verbal score on any standardized IQ test.
Let's keep it real Socialist Democrats. No one smart is going to be a Marxist Commie Freako in America. If you are, that tells me that you have no COMMON SENSE or STREET SMARTS. (google Seven Intelligences by Strinberg ).

Palin in 2012
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[furious]

Bonesteel:

Be careful about dehumanizing your political opponents. That way lies tragedy and destruction.

Sez the side who throws the first punch -- always -- and then runs and hides behind Teacher (not "Treacher"). And not clear on how adding a "-y" to "hope" and "change" dehumanizes someone, unless under some bizarre ethical construct demonstrating the emptiness of of an opponent's rhetoric (or suit) renders them less than human. Rather than simply, you know, demonstrating what an empty suit they are.

Nice to know Mrs. Palin is still taking up substantional real estate inside Progressive heads.

[joated]

"Said Jarrett: "Making fun of the folks' real, sincere hopes for change that Americans across our country felt, I don't know that making fun of that is constructive. I prefer we would say, 'Come and think of constructive solutions that really improve our country.' I think people are tired of being made fun of."

Has she never attended the daily press meetings with Mr. Gibbs?

[FeFe]

I've given up hope Valerie Jarrett will reveal where Jimmy Hoffa is -- now, while she is in the White House or on her deathbed.