(CNN) - So just what does it take to get Sarah Palin to speak at your fundraising gala?
A "deluxe" hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet ("Lear 60 or larger"), pre-selected audience questions, and "bendable" straws – not to mention the $75,000 in cash.
That's according to Palin's speaking contract with Cal State Stanislaus – ordered to be released by a California judge this week after the state school refused to make the document public last June.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown began an investigation in April into whether school officials were trying to avoid public disclosure laws by discarding documents. A state senator asked for the probe after he said the school refused to turn over some requested records concerning the event.
The university argued it was not compelled to release the contract because Palin was speaking at a fundraiser for the university's private, non-profit foundation.
But Stanislaus Superior Court Judge Roger Beauchesne disagreed, saying the foundation ultimately was a branch of a public entity and therefore documents relating to its business must be made public pursuant to public record laws.
"The reasonable inference from the evidence produced is that the university, in its official capacity, has 'used' the contract…in the conduct of the public's business; therefore, said contract is also a public record," Beauchesne wrote in his opinion delivered earlier this week.
Much of the contents of the contract had already been revealed: the school had previously disclosed how much it paid the former Alaska governor and portions of the contract were discovered in a dumpster by students last April.
Still, the document provides a revealing picture of the types of demands an A-list speaker can make, and serves as a reminder that no detail is too small to omit - from the lighting ("should be at a comfortable, but appropriate production level"), to the water ("unopened bottled still"), to the lectern ("no plexiglass or thin lectern please").
The June 25 speech came after months of controversy amid charges the financially-strapped school was paying too much to secure Palin.
But the Alaska governor's speech ultimately brought in record amounts of money for the foundation, and a school spokeswoman called the gala "the most successful fundraiser in the university's history."
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Yeah, tell me again how she's one of us.
She's worth every penny. She's incredible and just what this country needs.
Pre selected questions becuase she is not smart enough to answer real ones.
It sounds like you're complaining. PLEASE EXPLAIN THE EXPENDITURES OF OBAMA AND HIS FAMILY'S VACATIONS and the first lady or next t0o last first lady about all her aides?
Mama Grizzly is certainly an expensive bear. And to think Sarah would want people to see her as "THE HOCKEY MOM". Can you imagine?
She has certainly reached far without any education!!! What is this telling our children – you don't need to work and study hard as you can reach far without any education? A sorry state
Once, again, why do we have to keep hearing about this woman? Who cares what she says. If the republicans put her in office, all we will hear is big mouth comments. Where is the conservative view point on big mouth women?
So now can CNN and the rest of the media world start ignoring this FRAUD.....?
What is it gonna take for this Despicable person to go away and stay away.......?
I'm sure her "fellow union brothers and sisters" can appreciate her terms and conditions, not to mention her fee. (MGINO) Mama Grizzly in Name Only.
Is she paying God to let her in heaven after all the blatant lies?
Sounds a bit out of touch with the "average American." With schools facing budget cuts, you've got morons like Palin pinching them for every penny they have.
What a waste of money. Someone who cant speak complete sentences, and doesnt know how to use commas correctly. She really needs hooked on phonics and schoolhouse rock. She is an embarrasment to the Republican Party.
All I can say, there are some DUMB Americans out there. I wouldn't pay this idiot one brown cent to hear her talk about absolutely nothing that is constructive. I know she is laughing all the way to the bank, she could care less about working middle of America. She is an opportunitist who get high praise and boost from people who hate President Obama. She has made a career out of her disrespectfulness to most. I guess she is the rock star of the republican party, after she criticized President Obama of being the exact same thing. Hypocrisy on steroids!
No wonder she quit as Governer of Alaska ... the pay is better being a lunatic right-wing talking head!
Seriously, do you expect anything less from a self promoting huckster and charlatan like Palin?
See the Tea Party and Palin's fans as they really are at LATFTP dot com
What is our country coming to?
Boy, the dollar sure doesn't buy as much as it used to, does it.
Well, that is certainly more lucrative than full-filling her duties as governor. What a sellout!
Not a bad days work for basically uttering the same tea party rhetoric over and over. I love the pre-selected question clause. Heaven forbid if she has to think on her feet.
She needs to give 50% to McCain – LOL. This woman is all in it for the money just like her brother Beck of False News.
She should fly coach, Hotel 6 ( no light left on) use a drinking fountain like every one else, give local and nation press full access. Pay, maybe 10-15 dollars. With all this, she would be over payed.
Pre-selected questions so she can write the answers on her hand, and she stills gets them wrong...
Oh, if we are going to throw stones for politicos for giving speeches – please tell me what Bill Clinton makes. In this day and age, $75K for someone as good as Sarah Palin is a bargain. And please do not begrudge her about her books. I seem to recall a one-speech, "present" voter Illinois State Senator writing two books – making a lot of money – and that was all fine and dandy. KEEP GOING SARAH – now she's taking on the unions that no one else has the "cajones" to do.
pre-selected audience questions......I love it!
She's just one of the folks, you betcha. I want a "Leer" jet.
Wow thats a high paid...... umm, speaker.
Please God, let me see the sign: Palin 2012
Hope they think they got their money's worth!
She's worth every penny... to the Democrats.
Is anyone really surprised by this!! Sarah Palin is only interested in how much money can she make.
She cut and run on the citizens of Alaska when she realized fame and BIG BUCKS was more important than staying the course as their governor.
why is this news? Every big political celebrity gets large sums. Bill Clinton gets well into the 6 figures to speak. Who cares?
Yep, she sure is different from those money grabbers in government.
SO WHAT???? HOW IS THIS NEWS?!?!?!?! I wonder what Billl Clinton's speaking contract says he requires? Last I heard he was $200k+ to speak, and I'm sure he doesn't stay at a Red Roof Inn. The media's tireless effort to paint Palin as an "elitist" is going to fail in spades! Come November, you'll see just how in touch the mainstream media is with America.
Yep – she quit to help the people of Alaska (all 4 of her family members).
Just the usual "Joe Six pack", "jist ordinary folk " stuff.
Must be the Democratic Liberal Judge that's amking the issue here. Speakers ask this kind of stuff all the time. why is this so special??/
POLITICS at its' finest!!!!
Way too much money to pay for a circus clown!
So what the news here CNN .. Palin is self employed and in this country.. you are still allowed to earn as much as possiable. Do you have a problem with Al Gore making 100 million off of global warming ??
Pre-selected audience questions? Why am I not surprised!
Ah, Ms. Palin, they are still after you after all this time. Please watch your every step. They will not rest until they not only destroy you; but your family as well.
THEY can't stand the fact that you are more popular now than when you were running for vice-president. And, THEY include both men and women. How shameful! Ms. Palin, you need to continue persevering and calling a spade, just that, a spade, and most of all, continuing to speak your mind.
By the way, this comes from a life-long Democrat.
CNN, why are you obsessed with this woman? Does she scare you? Get back to journalism please. Enough with the National Enquirer reporting.
And they managed it totally without funds from me. Wonderful.
One more point, did anyone bother to autneticate the documents found in the dumpster? Computers can generate autnentic looking documents today...
Shame on Cal State Stanislaus University. Wasting money on a worthless piece of dreck. Palin is filling her own pockets, gertting expensive plane rides and God knows what else, using funds that should go to students education. Shame, shame, shame.
I just don't get it. I would not pay one red cent to see that woman. I can watch Sesame Street at home (apologies to Sesame Street).
Now this is what is being spent with "Public" school money, huh? They are paying thousand of dollars to a woman with a limited vocabulary and mind set! A divider and whack jab to speak???? She doesn't even know 75,000 words. shame on this school in these economic times, they could have given a kid a scholarship to go to school with that money it would have been much well spent.
$75.000.00? You'd literally have to PAY MEbig bucks to listen to her speak.
Pre-Selected questions??? What a shocker!!!!!
wow. are you happy now?? Whats the big deal?? So afraid of Palin are you??? Ha ha
she does not know how to suck from a straight straw??????...now, you tea tards, taliservatives, talipublicans.....who is the ELITIST?????....the more you get to know your idol the less she appears to be .....she is more a comatose iliterate and opportunist....and who is paying for the trip to DC this weekend???? the Koch bros or the mushroom looking armey with his oversized hat.???.....pay up suckers.
The same libs who are foaming at the mouth over this had no problem with Michelle Obama needing 30 five star rooms for her vacation in Spain.
With the way Democrats are in America today, it is no wonder that Sarah Palin needs her water to be unopened. It is not like even 1% of them have the decency and values that every Republican has.
Wonder if Beck is getting the same price for her "participation" in his Carnival Show in Washington, DC this weekend ? Money is the American Way isn't it ? You betcha, Ole!
Now if we could only get someone to release Obama/Soetoro's Long Form B.C., Occidental records, Harvard records, applications for student aid, medical records, etc. we might find out who he really is.
Just goes to show how many stupid people there are in this world to pay that kind of money for this twit, and you know they are all Repubs.
Only pre-screened questions. That way she can run her answers by Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck before she shows up! Really America? This is the best and the brightest? And she ridicules Obama who went into the Republican caucus and took un-screened questions. Any reporter who meets with ANY public official should refuse to provide the questions up front. There's nothing wrong with, "I'm not sure, can I look into it and get back to you?" We'll never get an honest public official again if we can't ask them anything we happen to have on our mind.
She is a grafter, how long is going to take for those who think she is "something good" to realize she is in it for the MONEY. She is to stupid to be Governor, and God forbid Vice President. So she has found a few morons to pay her to stand up in front of people and show just how stupid she is.
She is an idiot and anyone who pays to listen to she garbage is twice as stupid.
Now we are begining to really understand why the un-American half governor quit on the good people of Alaska. Shame on her, and she wants to be the president of what country? sure not the greatest nation in the world.
It seems to me that Jerry Brown has not enough things to do in the great state of California, never mind the crime, drugs, rapes, theft , and of course the gangs of Cali, let's go after arah Palinn a person that does not even hold a political ioffice, you know Jerry w you were useless back in the 60's and 70's and you are still useless today what a jerk and a poor example to your father.....
AND she thinks she represents the "common people". This woman is a hypocrite of monster proportions.
So, Sarah Palin requests "pre-selected audience questions." I'm shocked because whenever she answers impromptu questions she always sounds so brilliant. I wonder how many "pre-selected answers" she can manage to write on her palms.
Pre-selected audience questions. Yup, Sarah has to be prepared for trickk questions like "What do you read?"
I find it astounding that people would actually pay to listen to her tangle-brained self-absorbed poison-tongued gibberish. These must be the same people who have right-wing propaganda talk radio going all day long to find out what their opinions are.
I don't care how conservative/Republican you are (I am conservative), you have to see that Palin's political aspirations are done. Her image has been tarnished beyond repair.
Pay to hear her answer pre-selected questions? No way. I would rather watch the impromptu conversation she had recently with an Alaska school teacher – that was far more important.
Is this article supposed to be a revelation ? Let's see – how much do the other clowns get for a lecture – like Bill Clinton, or Beck, or Limbaugh, or any other shallow media celebs ? Bottom line: if people are stupid enough to pay for it, they get what they deserve.
"Leer 60 or larger"
Hahahaha. The shrieking cow can't even spell Lear right. Have a nice day!
how can sara palin's events set records when she dumb and stupid
That is cheap compared to most of the political folks and speakers out there.
I beleive they wanted the info for political reasons only and since it was requested by democrats, I know i', right.
Can someone explain to me what the appeal of this woman is? I just dont get it.
do you think bill clinton speaks for free? how do you think he paid for chelsea's wedding? how do you think he paid the huge legal bills from his problems at the end of his presidency? not on what he saved from his salary as president or hillary's salary as secretary of state.
Pre-selected audience questions...nuff said.
$75,000 to listen to an idiot spit-out tired, folksy BS? Ah, the American Dream.
So how much it does it cost to shut her up and make her go away forever? That what America wants to know.
I wouldn't pay one bendy straw to hear this woman lie and babble incoherently.
Sarah and Tim McVeigh would have made a great team.They could have had a wonderful militia and run forPresident in 2012.
I told yall she is a crook, not only she is an idiot, she is a crook.
And now she's going cry victim because the "liberal" media exposed her for the fraud she is.
I thought they couldn't find the contract? What a court order will do!
This is the famous meeting/photos of her first gig with botox. She looks like she can't move her face!!! Those deep lines are goe around her mouth.
If it would work to keep her mouth shut and that high pitch sound from coming through then we would be all set.
Lincoln is going to stand up and walk away when she starts talking tomorrow at the Mall!! Poor guy.
Frankly, I am not surprised. The American public created the entitlement in this woman to make such demands, and now we are stunned to see what she asks for. Frankly, the only thing that offends me is that my tax dollars are going to pay for such a speaker. I have no problems with Palin sayin what she wants on her shows, etc, but I don't want her speaking to kids and poisoning their minds with her politics. She's the worst speaker I have ever seen on TV, and can only imagine that it's even worse on person.
HAHAHAHA No thin lectern, so as not to reveal her fat ass? And, couldn't somebody on her staff be savvy enough to spell *Lear* correctly? Palin is SO out of her league, she needs to go run for Wasilla mayor again, against her on-again, off-again, would-be son in law.
What else is new ? The woman is only interested in $$$$$ and the idiots who listen to her and/or buy books she did not write are just that: idiots.
Old news – get something interesting
Please, please expose her. Anyone that can show this money grubbing, self centered, ego maniac for what she is. Why does she need a certain airplane and first class, because she' s a regular person like the rest of us? No it's because she's full of you know what!!! She is one of the most dihonest, self absorbed person that sucks these zombies into her cult!!! They can't pay their bills, yet they wil follow her right off a cliff! Show the country the contract-we can't wait to see it.
Money Talks ! Always !
Is she one of the top 3% of rich people who need the Bush tax cut be extended?
Surely she makes much more money now than while worked as the governor of Alaska. $$$ True Captialism in parade $$$
Well, I should Palin my new career now. Oops! I create a new verb.
So it takes a "deluxe" hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet ("Leer 60 or larger"), pre-selected audience questions (well duh!), and "bendable" straws – not to mention the $75,000 in cash – to get Caribou Barbie to speak at your function? And she has the nerve to say that she represents the views and values of average, blue-collar working men and women?? This sounds more like the demands of a petulant diva or a rock star!
I love the pre-selected questions. All that dough and benefits for pablum. People who buy into this woman are proof of the dumbing down of America.
She certainly has a high opinion of herself, for someone who quit her job mid term and started a rampage against anyone who thinks differently than she does. I wouldn't give you $75 gs for her AND McCain.
Wow, so record fund raising happened! When will the people in this country embrace INTELLIGENT life again? Gee, that would require that those attending these things really THINK and become AWARE of how they are being led by special interests only interested in lining their own pockets. Wasn't the Bush administrations last eight years of severe damage to the nation enough? Please, use your heads folks and don't buy into tax cuts that in the end will only HURT you!!
I dislike Sarah Palin as much as any other intelligent person, but I don't see why this is newsworthy from a political standpoint. Many, if not most, in-demand speakers have riders similar to this. She's more of a celebrity (what are we coming to!?) than a polician these days.
So Cal State Stanislaus spent 75,000 for Palin to speak. Wow. I think that is waste, fraud, and abuse.
Waste and fraud: Palin
Abuse: The poor audience listening to her inane speeches
Everything's copasetic with me regarding her contract. It just defines who she is. Spoiled wind-up doll that has to stick to rehearsed topics. People used to pay good money to see the freak show at the carnival. Guess they still will.
So she's doing this out of the goodness of her heart – Aww.
Diva. I wouldn't call her a political diva because she quit that. I wonder how the tinfoil people feel when they find out they've been duped by this idiot.
Shocker! Pre-selected questions? Ha! And she still has to write the answers on her hand...
Pre-selected questions? She wouldn't know what to do without that in the contract. The only thing good about this woman are her looks. She's one hot grizzly mama but about as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
"the document provides a revealing picture of the types of demands an A-list speaker can make" So? They can ask for whatever. If the foundation used the money wrong, then it is the foundation's issue, not Palin's.
A "deluxe" hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet ("Lear 60 or larger"), pre-selected audience questions, and "bendable" straws – not to mention the $75,000 in cash."
Sounds more like EXTORTION to me..........
How is some Wasillabilly Twitta Quitta blowhard worth this much???
Oh wait – I get it – she only preaches to the choir of like-minded tea-tards who hang on her every unintelligible nonsense string of words....
Ill speak for 20.00...save your money
Pre-selected audience questions....
Right - she doesn't want to get sideswiped by one of those questions she couldn't possibly answer like "What magazines do you read?"
Is this supposed to be news CNN? Or just another dig at a Republican
Ah yes, just one of the little people, motivated only by her desire to save America. If she really cared, she would do it for free, or cost, or at least, economy-class seats.
Big deal this is small compared to other speakers! Is she suppose to do it for nothing? Get a grip!
No one in their right mind would pay to see, or hear this cretin. Wake up America. This idiot is not, repeat, not on your side, and does not have your interest at heart.
I do not understand as to why this wicked lady, and stupid brain on the news.....what is taking here???? She is totally stupid and bum....nonsense for the nation....no wonder this nation has been despised so much...by even third world nations...
The hockey mama grizzly can't live without her bendable straws.
Palin = Joke
Anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is out there for the good of the country is a fool and deserves to be separated from their money.
Palin is in this for Palin. She's cashing in before her moment in the sun fades.
"Look at my pretty hair and wonderful clothes – aren't I cute – look at me". That is her persona. Looks like the Republican Schmidt, McCain Campaign Director had it right : D I V A!
"Preselected audience questions" Really? You're kidding, Sarah Palin? Is that so she can write the appropriate talking point answers her people (you know, the ones who can actually read) feed her on her hand? Wow CNN, you almost have a record number of Palin stories on the Ticker today. Like I've often said, "Sarah Palin, brought to you by your friends at CNN. Sarah's personal news organization!"
The contract clause "pre-selected audience questions" pretty much says it all about this woman's level of intelligence.
The article forgot to include the other contract clause about not allowing any cameras to get close enough to see her cliff notes written on her palms!
Sarah – you are such a joke!
pre-selected audience questions?
sure is nice to know people are honest about
the issues they will face in public.
Big money, smart business, pea brain
And why is this so different than what other politicians demand when speaking at various events? Just ask Bill Clinton how much he charges, as well as other ex-governors and Vice Presidents!
Can you say "Prima Donna," boys and girls?
And how many tax dollars were wasted to "reveal" the specifics of a speaking engagement contract? This partisian nonsense has gotten completely out of hand. I don't care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is ridiculous!!
Okay, that is ridiculous. Who is Sarah Palin? A governor who quit her post before her tenure ended. This woman is not worth Monopoly money. I wish people would stop listening to her. She has nothing of substance to say. Now, repudiate that!
Such a DEAL! For HALF that price I'll come to speak to your group- and I even know geography and current events. I can't see Russia from my house, but remember I'll come for HALF of what she's asking!
Sorry my fellow Americans. This woman so called Sarah Palin is the money monger. (sorry I never thought I would use such words in my entire life, but am forced because of her behaviour)! If one would try to think that she was once a governor, she talked with various people before she quited her job. She was not charging not even a single penny then, how come after not having any responsibility she is going after the gold (money)! She is totally the person anyone can describe! Absurd!
Even though this should once and for all end the "She's one of us!" crap that her supporters like to endlessly repeat, they'll find some way to justify it.
And could someone please for the love of god inform this woman what the First Amendment actually means?
They got a good deal considering the money she brought in. of course her detractors hate her more than they care 4 education and any good the money will do. pretty evil of her to bring in that kind of money 4 a university. totally transparent scheme. right wing conspiracy if u ask me.
Compare that to what Clinton gets for his appearances, and it's chump change. Good for you, Sarah. If you can get it, get it.
This compulsion and plain hatred towards one woman is indeed what I call a sickness that has gone beyond simply one woman running for office but something far worse in what seems to be a liberal desire to crush this woman no matter what. We have Trumka up in Alaska attacking her yet I seem to have missed her name appearing somewhere on the Nov. ballot. This contract would never have been in dispute with any other speaker, and only because it is her was it brought into question. As a woman, I don't agree with everything she says or does, but I certainly can not tolerate this blind hatred toward anyone. It is worse than what we witnessed Obama supporters do to Hillary Clinton during the primaries.
didnt she dispute and make fun of the facts of this when they were leaked? again, just looking out for number 1, no matter how many lies/fibs have to be told. don't want to seem fickle, sarah, your adoring public might find out the truth about you...
".....not to mention the $75,000 in cash."
In cash!! She demands CASH!! That's like being paid under the table; trying to avoid claiming the entire amount as income on her tax return. Oh, Sarah you are quite the greedy slickster! I wonder how many other speaking contracts she has signed for cash payments – probably all of them.
"You pay me $75K, I only claim $5K of it, then that leaves $70K I can hide from Uncle Sam. And if I did that for ALL of my appearances and speaking engagements, yippee Todd, we're rich!!!!!"
Some of these organizations that agree to pay her in cash are raising a red flag to their accounting and audit departments. Let's see Slick Sarah's tax return!! She'd most likely be under the jail for tax evasion or in a "deluxe" cell suite with "bendable" straws.
Just think, that $75,000 could have gone to students who have had their classes cut and graduation schedule completely dismembered leaving them further in debt, longer without a degree and stuck taking classes that hardly count towards something they find interesting. But hey, at least Sarah picked up some g's!
That's called sticking it to your followers. Palin is a female version of Lonesome Rhodes.
Yeah, she is just a "regular middle class person" right? You betch! (wink, wink)
I can't wait to read all the "Obama teleprompter" wing nuts trying to spin this story in Palin's favor.
This woman is a moron, it was ok for Dr laura to repeatedly use the n word but the word retard is off limits. Sarah Palin is a retard and no one can refudiate that
Of all the things we are facing today, give it a rest! Who cares what or how a private citizen makes there money. Don't have of the political people end up flying from here to there speaking and making a killing for screwing up the country
"Pre-selected audience questions"
What a phoney, but we would not to confuse her with real questions
And the GOP is still thinking of running her against Obama?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
pre-selected audience questions"
Pre-selected questions? I'm not surprised in the least.
Sarah Palin deserves an A-list order just like everyone else. Why would she not? CNN's attempt to villify this American Patriot are so stupid. I hope the American Public sees through this! Sarah Palin demands no more than anyone else on her level. I wonder why CNN doesn't look at the democratic leaders demands for p[ublic speaking? Could it be that CNN is biased?
Good to see her making money for doing really nothing while hard workers lose there job.
I am now for Palin! If this is common everyday down home grow your food cut your grass you betcha Republican Family Values, I want a Piece of the American Peach PIE!!!!!
But its not a secret that she attacks obama and the dems for the money she earns, this woman is a total appology to all women, she does not stand for what women stands for, her only concern is sarah palin.. there is no fact no figure in all her press releases... women all over America should repudiate this moron for disgracing them.
Bendable straws! That's outrageous! Doesn't she know there is a recession?!
I am not at all surprised that someone like Sarah Palin would request pre-selected audience questions so she would have plenty of time to read and understand them first and then ask her assistants for good answers! If she did not have that opportunity, her ignorance would be exposed again...
You know what? Everyone that has a speaking contract has things like this in their contract! Look at those too. Why are you always picking on what the women want?
Smells like another of her coverups,just like the fact she favors bashing baby seals to death for their fur.
Did she sign it and say "GOTCHA". I guess she is showing yall she is ot so dumb after all.
The tragedy is that people are showing up to listen to her.
"Pre-selected audience questions".....how utterly pathetic. Please, go back to Alaska. There's a role in "Housewives of Wasilla" waiting for you there, and you don't have to worry - all the lines are scripted, just like your speeches, which are nothing more than sound bites tacked together with no substance in between.
"Brought in Record Amounts". Those words speak volumes. Good for her! I would change agents, however, Bill Clinton get a heck of a lot more.
no surprise there.....nitwits can't answer real questions.
Good. I think she deserves even more than this flimsy contract.
This hate filled truth twisting wench isn't worth 75 cents. This shows what a "USER" and greedy hag she really is.
If Americans are dumb enough to give Sara Palin their money then more power to her. i would not give her a dime of my money.
Her presidency is sure going to be interesting!
If the event is run by or for the benefit of a public institution, then there needs to be some disclosure about what was done in the planning and contract for the events. Given what she is about, it would be nice to know.
Deluxe suite, first class ticket or Lear jet, pre-slected questions, bendable straws? AND 75,000 in cash. Not bad for your average hockey mom. And republicans actually believe that bogus nonsense as to why she quit as governor of Alaska. People get real.
The State of California provided the Lear Jet, High Class Hotel and $75,000 of tax payer money for an appearance by her? First: That is really stupid. Second: Where are the Republicans, complaining about how CA is broke and the Dems are breaking it. It is well known the County where she spoke at that branch of the U. of CA, is Agriculture 100%, and over run with Republicans. I guess Republicans feel comfortable blowing the big tax payer bucks, as long as it is on them. Hypocrites!
Yep, she's "Common Folk"; and NEVER forgot where she came from.
Is anyone really surprised by this? What distrubs me more is that, if Palin had no problem with this or truly didn't think this was egregious, then why didn't she just provide the documentation to avoid a court struggle?
Why would anyone pay to hear this nut job speak? And she is so "green" with her flying demands and I am not even going to comment on the "bendable" straws... Stupid people amaze me; no they repudiate me!
I wonder if the parents of the students being "exposed" to this type of rhetoric approve and if her fee is coming from the already ridiculous tuition? Who decides what kind of brainwashing our students receive along with their normal studies?
I would never pay one red American penny to this despicable woman. What is really sad is that she is saying NOTHING! She gets paid thousands of dollars to spew hate and ignorance! What a cushy career to have! Anybody with a tongue can talk the hate-filled garbage she spews. Talking hate requires no skill. She only says what her hate-filled followers want to hear. She could care less about her followers nor America. Palin is a power hungry, money hungry, idiotic scum bag. While I'm not calling her a Nazi, her rise to fame and power reminds me of Hitler's rise. I'm not afraid of Sarah personally. I'm afraid that her hate-filled speech has the power to whip up and incite more hatred from her followers that will sooner or later lead to tragic violence. It's just a matter of time. For those who don't believe this, read up on the history of the rise of the Nazi's in Germany in the late 1920's.
So what is the big deal. Clinton gets all the associated benefits plus a $200,000 fee for a short 1 hour or less attendance and speech.
Pre-selected questions so that she can prepare and not screw up-as much. We all know how well she does if asked to think on her feet.
If she runs for president how is she going to survive. The media will lambast her if she tries to pull that stunt
Good. Suck the GOP dry before 2012!
This is nothing copmpared to Clinton. Take a look at his.
Interesting how the self-proclaimed friend-of-the-common-people has morphed into a spoiled little princess. It reminds me of those mega-church evangelical preachers. The right-wing continues to be a freak show.
This is why she does it... money, just like Beck and Limbaugh... laughing all the way to the bank
Any schools that are being subsidized by TAX PAYERS should not be allowed to pay this AIR HEAD. Schools could be using that money to provide schoolarships to students who need help the most financially.
Come on CNN-Report that all the Politicos do the SAME thing-Get off this Palin and Bush bashing-EXTREMELY OLD!!!!
So, this is the champion of average working people. A person who doesn't know the first thing about work, and gets paid more for one short speech, the same speech she gives everywhere she goes, than most people in this country get paid in a year. What a joke.
She's just one of us, you betchya.
What exactly qualifies her as an "American Patriot", dianne? Is it the bendable straws or the preseleceted audience questions?
I think people that listen to her should pay her, it is their prerogative. If you work the whole two years in construction or a coal mine, your two years of work are just as important as hearing a bitch speak for 45 minutes. After all, God knows rich Republicans need more money than the rest of us.
Don't forget to also pay the insurance and oil companies extra too, God knows they need your money more than you do too.
I want to, from the deepest recesses of my soul, thank John McCain for putting this woman in the National Spotlight. Thank you John McCain for putting our country at risk by choosing this intellectually bankrupt, ironically "Patriotic" yet espoused to a separatist and frequent abuser of engish diction. There is no doubt that you had "Country First" in mind when selecting this one.
Really Sarah?? Lear 60 or larger? $70K to "speak". You claim to represent "Real Americans".....YOU HAVE FOOLED SO MANY
Please Run in 2012.
Is anyone really surprised by the Half Gov. Palin's gall? Even specifying the minimum size of the private jet. She has the republicans snowed for sure. They are so infatuated with the half Gov. that they can't see any of the Truth. Also the fact that she'll only answer preselected questions isn't a surprise either, we all what happens when she's asked real questions. Half Gov. Palin is nothing more than a GOP speech whore who is divided our great country by leading the blind sheep republicans to slaughter. I am a little surprised that her contract didn't also include her menu and wine list though, also.
Vote NO in NOvember to the party of NO.
This is nothing compared to how much money the Koch brothers are funneling her way!
The trustees of the college should be fired. WHY would a higher education STATE-funded institution hire an idiot to speak to the students. And WHY would they accede to such outrageous demands?
Why does anyone still continue to support this person? I wonder how many of them do so out of blind hatred for President Obama. To those persons I have some advice… Anger, fear and hatred are no substitute for logic and reason.
I cant see paying her anything but to shut up.
Why are some people so interested in what she has to say, shes not the brightest star in the sky. Well what can we expect we voted Bush for resident!!!! Next we'll vote Gomer pyle for president.
Of course she has to have a selected audience and pre screened questions because she is a moron. Ask her about anything substantive and she can't answer, like who is her favorite founding father-"all of them" answers the Queen of Dumb. Nothing in this article is a surprise.
I wish she would just go away-fly away to one of the Poles in her Lear Jet and stay there.
That anyone is paying more than 1 dollar to see her speak is mind blowing. She has nothing constructive or intelligent to say – Good lord can you imagine had she become VP? what a doofus!
For another $4,999 they could've got Bush...
Boy Sarah is a hypocrite. It's a scary thought to me that her speaking was worth soo much money and that the school received so much money because of her speaking. Frankly if enough Rich American's like her so much we could very well end up with her as President or Vice President. If this happens the middle class will disappear. If you suck up to the ones with money, you'll do okay. Otherwise, welcome to the poor house, if your lucky enough to have a house.
Palin can be bought. If she becomes the president or vice president she will be little more than a puppet for the rich and greedy
If it barks like a dog and is a female.........
It is her business if not illegal, I don’t care. Although she could be my boss, however, the question is if she is worth holding an office even in a lowest office in a smallest city. I feel sorry for those folks who are still listening to Mrs. Palin, especially those who spent their money at her speech.
How is she not an elitist? Private jets, predetermined questions, $75000.00 a speech. Doesn't sound like someone from "real America" to me. I'd call her a R-tard, but according to her that's not covered by the first amendment (unles you're Rush Limbaugh, then it's satirical) only the N-word is covered by the first admendment. And once someone has said the N-word11 times, they should not say sorry, rather, they should "reload" (whatever that means).
Why's it now supposed to be a positive attribute to come from a podunk village, and call yourself a grizzly bear?
And why are modern, educated women from big cities somehow out of fashion?
Nancy Pelosi is far less extreme and polarizing than say, Newt Gingrich, or Tom Delay. But Nancy is somehow evil?
But you take a hillbilly woman from Hicksville, Nowhere, with a minimal resume, and somehow, she's the next great white hope, for some reason...
I think some of the strategists are making a mistake, considering most of the population lives in or near big cities, where women like Pelosi are slightly better-respected than mama-grizzley-Palin-types who go huntin' & chewin' tobacco. –WTF does that even mean - mama grizzly? Whatever...
There should be no surprise here. She left office to make money. The untold truth of the far right wing media is just how much cash is in it for them. Glen, Rush, Sean and Company make tens of millions of dollars a year banging on the administration. That is what "political entrtainment" is all about. They can cry all day about how it is all for the good of the country, but it comes down to the Benjamins in their pockets.
Palin will do anything for money..... there's a name for that.
Dosent sound much different than what Obama demands
Someone referred to this windbag as an "American patriot"? She's the perfect example of what's wrong with America right now. A shift to the far right is as bad as a shift to the far left. We need moderates to run this country, not idealogues who try to push their personal agendas. If a university wants to spend money on this loon, so be it. Sounds like they made a bundle because people like to watch freak shows, so what? I have to say I question the standards of any university bringing on someone as ignorant as this; seems counter-productive to education.
Haha bendy straws.
Seriously, anyone who takes this woman seriously is just as bad as she is. I knew from day one of seeing her, without any rhetoric in the background. She's just... not a good egg, nor a smart one.
"pre-selected audience questions"
Of course, because if anyone asked her a real question she wouldn't be able to answer it.
I like bendy straws. I stipulate them in all my legal contracts.
Preselected questions? Not fine when Palin does it but quite swell when Obama does, eh liberals? Can you say Hypocrisy, boys and girls?
This woman walked away from her duties in Alaska because she knew she could make bundles in other ways. Obviously, Sarah is all about money. Forget public service...it's all a gimmick!
She's a politician – she is in it for the power and the money.
pre-selected audience questions = coward
Amazing the hate this woman causes from the democraps. She must be hitting some nerves to get this reaction. I'd like to see Clinton contract but then what good for the goose is not not for the gander.
When was the last time Pres. Obama held an unscripted press conference?
I thought she was the most idiotic individual in the country, yet I was wrong. Anyone paying to see her or who thinks she's worth following is far more touched in the head.
I can't believe the university took so long to comply. It's an embarrassment so it's not surprising. The pre-screened questions, hotel, and airfare is a joke! The pay, not as much, if people want to throw away money, let them– just not at the tax-payer's expense.
As for those of you comparing her $75,000 to Clinton... she was a governor who walked away. Clinton was a governor. And then a president. Twice. Clinton, Bush, Bush... all former presidents make money afterwards. They don't get paid that much in office. But they make their purse as speakers, authors etc. I don't hold that against them– Democrat or Republican. It's their right, and they earned it. Palin, has not. And the presidents often throw their weight for fundraisers too-look at Clinton and H.W. Bush during Katrina. Look at Carter on his humanitarian missions. Do they take a large share- yes- but they also help. Same as other celebrities. So there should be offense at her paycheck, and it is unequal to Clinton OR Bush.
It is very sad that empty brains like this woman are allowed to shape public policy in the country. No wonder we are in a recession. The idea that the tan man (Boehner) who can bearly express himself is eyeing the House Speaker's seat make me sick. I do hope that sense prevails in November.
What beats me is how much hate Mama Grizzly has been able to spew. Its just sad. Did I mention that she will be spewing insults again at the mad man – Glenn Beck's rally tomorrow. It will be a spectacle of ignorance.
John McCain's legacy. This woman is a total imbecile. Ask her if she is still looking out her backdoor and seeing Russia?
Good lord! Who'd believe we're truly hurting economically when morons would pay to go hear that dingbat speak?!?!?!
It's called Judeo Christian, " a man for himself" translation-being greedy is okay. " God created all men equal" translation minorities are not men so its okay to enslave them body, soul and the mind. "Equal opportunity for all" translation but you have to identify your skin color to get the equal opportunity. SO SARAH IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS GREEDY SHE IS JUST EXCERCISING THE HYPOCRICY IN JUDEO CHRISTIAN!!
I would be the happiest man in the world if I never heard the words Sarah Palin ever again. Please realize that 90% of the public thinks you are nothing but a joke. And the other 10% was sure Bush was the best president ever.
I don't know why everyone's gone so nuts over her demanding pre-selected questions. George Bush had the same thing during is "ask president Bush" sessions during the 2004 campaign! And just look at all the good he did! You freedom hating libs really crack me up.
I am hoping that at the end of this year that the IRS is going to very carefully scrutinize Sarah's Tax Return. This could be very interesting if they release the results!
Sarah Palin is a total joke. And that joke is being played on Americans who think she has ANYTHING of substance to offer this country. She DESERTED her constituents in Alaska, she's not well informed at all on any political or social issue, her "endorsements" of political candidates are worthless, and her own party, the GOP, would love it if she would just STFU and go home.
However, she a perfect example however of capitalism at work: "the least amount of service for the most amount of profit."
YMMV.
Would they make this big of a deal if it was a democrat? Pre-selected questions no big deal; at least she doesn't need the teleprompter to tell the audience her answer.
This is pretty standard for most of the sought after speakers minus the flexible straws. Its not a big deal. Its politics for those seaking to get this contract language brought out public and nothing more.
For the morons who keep using the "Well look at how much Bill Clinton and other speakers charge" red herring, keep in mind that Bill Clinton and other speakers HAVE ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING IN THEIR LIVES. At least they finished their terms in office.
Sarah Palin is no one.
My only question is, will she play "Free Bird" at the encore or will she just stick to the new material?
Anyone who would pay money to listen to this women speak is mentally challenged.
As long as right wing neocon nutjobs worship her, she can demand those high prices. It worked for Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly and the rest of the hypocrits.
So, in the end, there was nothing unusual about the contract. Once again, a comotion over nothing. NEXT!
And for what? Geez, what a waste of money. This woman should just go away somehwere.
Apparently she doesn't spend any of the money on educating herself or read on the plane. She's as dumb as ever.
To:
Lone Rider August 27th, 2010 12:49 pm ET
"Dosent sound much different than what Obama demands"
How do you know what, if anything, PRESIDENT Obama "demands"?
to Lone Ranger – What does Obama demand? Get your facts straight. And please – don't ever compare that nicompoop to our intelligent, compassionate president. She's beneath even wiping his butt.
I will Palin to shut up and go away
@Steve(the real one) Your comment, like so many of Palin's just shows how little you know. Obama, as with any other President, holds press conferences without knowing the questions. They call on the reporters pool in a specified order and never know what they are going to get asked. Get your facts together before blabbering your ignorance.
I wouldn't pay her a penny or waste my time listening to her illiterate speeches since there is clearly no substance behind her thinking, logic and reasoning. Then again, a fool and his money are soon parted.
To 'Steve the real one'......................when and where have the President's questions been precreened?
This is almost funny in a twisted sort of way. Wow, for someone who is supposed to be pro America she sure demands a lot from people in order to speak at their functions. Especially a fundraiser. You would think out of the goodness of her heart she would have been happy to do it for a lot less. Perhaps then she might gain some respect. Just goes to show you that most all politicians are filthy liars. You betcha!
If people are dumb enough to pay, I'm sure they'll think they got a good deal. She only appeals to the teabbager types so let them pay.
I have to chuckle about all of this. I'm taking a stab at this, but I believe most public speakers have demands, as do actors and singers and the like. Palin is no different. For anyone who thinks anyone of these public figures is like you and me, you are sadly mistaken. None of them are. All of them are used to someone else providing for their needs. Can you blame her? She went from Governor of the largest (by land) state with (I believe) the smallest population to being able to shop in stores they don't even have in Alaska. This is pretty heady stuff.
There are other things I don't like about the woman, but I don't begrudge her earning a living. I don't like the fact that she didn't fulfill her obligation to Alaska by serving as their governor until the end of her term, but as someone who doesn't live there, it didn't affect me. If she demands $75,000 to speak and she gets it, well, more power to her.
Now, the preselected questions: I haven't heard that Obama has done this, but I'll give the comment writer the benefit of doubt and say he has. So did Bush and I'm sure so do a lot of our government officials when they speak. What do any of you expect? They don't want to be hit with an uncomfortable question during a speech. None of them want to look bad. It goes with the territory.
I am confused about her lectern request: ("no plexiglass or thin lectern please"). Anyone know why? What's the difference? As I've never seen her speak, does she pound on them? Is she scared she'll break it? It seems like a strange request, but if someone is willing to grant it, I guess I shouldn't really care.
Regarding the comment about Obama's vacation plans, please look up the facts. He pays for his own vacations. Every president in modern history has taken vacations, so get off it.
And, a lot of First Ladies have aides – Hilliary, Laura and now Michele. It is a very public position and they are expected to represent our country at functions – and they don't receive a paycheck for it.
I worry about this country as I think the haters on both sides are going to slowly destroy it.
Anyone surprised?
1. Half-term Governor
2. Absentee mother. Honestly, her children must think she's two dimensional since they only see her on TV
3. Divisive
4. Greedy
'nuf said
I might pay $75,000 to see her naked, as long as she promised not to open her mouth...
The entire education system iin California is in shambles, and this broad takes $75,000 to talk about how bad the economy is. I guess freedom ain't free.
Spiteful skank. She's just another Republican hypocrite. "We're for the people!" What people? Billionaires, that's about it.
There are a couple of comments that President Obama demands similar items and pre-selected questions. Where did this come from? Provide a link that proves it.
Y'all need to stop drinkin the tea! Pre-selected questions and CASH? She's smart but in the way a used car salesman is. Sure is purty though!
Why in the world is this an issue for her to have these demands, but it's not an issue for all the other public speakers in this country who have the same (if not more) types of demands. Most of the better known speakers, in fact, have even higher price tags on their contracts than Sarah Palin has. You people are pathetic hypocrites. Face it...she scares the liberals to death because there's no one in your entire movement who comes even close to having the influence she has...and since she's a female and is this popular, she scares you even more because there's no ONE female in your ranks who comes close to the influence Sarah has. NOT ONE!!!
Do the math...
If Sarah Palin requires a fee of $75,000 per event, in addition to other expenses for the private jet charter, venue fees, planning, security, etc., etc., that surely comes out to well over $100,000 – $200,000 per event.
If there are 1000 attendees per event on average, each paying an average of $100, there’s $100,000. –So, something smells very fishy about the numbers.
We need to ask, who is REALLY sponsoring Palin’s events?
(The RNC, BP/Big Oil, Bluecross-Blueshield?)
Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money.......
Its all about the cash baby. She figures she may as well cash in on her stuipd under educated followers. They will suck up anything she is sellin'!
How 'bout a sex tape next? Perhaps a cook book on how to cook moose? Her own reality show with Todd maybe? How 'bout a make up line? An MTV video? No? A text book about politics? She could write the text books for Texas since they have decided to create their history now......
She is so irrvelant, but, yet she sure is managing to make some high dollars isn't she, kinda like The Situation from Jersey Shore....they ought to hook up and brain storm on how to reem the American public, now there's a good team huh?
Pre-selected audience questions. What a surprise!
Yep, this is a woman of the people, for sure.
Party on dopy tea party people. She's all yours.
Suckers!!
of course, nothing less for the Queen of Lies
oh and to TOP SGT:
Explainging the difference:
Obama is your President. This nut job isn't anything.
Is that the contract with Glen for her appearance at tomorrows sham rally?
The unfortunate fact is that sex and trash talk sells and palin is taking this to the bank not unlike ladygaga, the national enquirer, radio shock talk jocks and many others that realize they can cash in on stupidity. And more unfortunate is the fact that so many Americans are buying. The rich elite in the country are undoubtedly happy to have these sick individuals raise the smoke screen they need to hide the fact that they with their greed are sucking up every penny they can while eyes are focused on the palins of the world. So much BS around palin and immigration reform while the US economy continues to suffer and top level executives continue to rob the country blind of millions of dollars. Housing, health care, retirement and even social security are plagued with problems yet these areas get little media coverage compared to the sideshows put on by palin, the Arizona governor, sherrif arpasswhole, the texas wranglers, john mcCan't and the like!!!
"There is only one God, His name is Profit and Money is His Messenger."
Haha there is NO free lunch.
@soneill August 27th, 2010 11:55 am ET
She's worth every penny. She's incredible and just what this country needs.
Really? We need a public citizen (not even a politician mind you) dividing the country along class and race lines with lies and distortions? Are you sure? I mean America already has a great big stain on it – she just adds to the mud.
I don't think so and neither do a majority of Americans.
So, what is the point? besides continuation of dump Palin by the media?! How much president Clinton gets for a speech? etc. etc.
Enough with this bias!
Give Palin credit from cashing in on her "15 minutes". Of greater concern is how easily so many have been suckered in by her.
Yeah. We wouldn't want her to take pre-selected questions like Obama. Of course he acted stupidly and screwed that up, so he just doesn't have Questions asked anymore.
And of course, he never became a millionaire prior to being elected President. Oh, wait, yes he can, and yes he did.
You guys are proof that education doesn't equal intelligence and age does equal maturity.
"Compare that to what Clinton gets for his appearances, and it's chump change. "
Umm... Clinton was President for 8 years, and completed terms as Arkansas Governor before that. He graduated from Yale and was an Oxford Scholar. Since his Presidency he has been involved in numerous and serious philanthropic causes. While you may not agree with his beliefs, policies or personal decisions, he has way more depth and insight on both public policy and political issues than Palin ever will.
Sarah Palin gets "chump change" because she is, in comparison, a chump.
I live for the day when Obama and Palin are in a debate.
yea...LOL...She's really a "Real American"... give us a break.
hey Soneill....
stop thinking with your head and start thinking with your brain.
Yeah Sarah is one of us. Just like everyone else in America who has to get up in the morning and go to work at a job they may not like. I know there are thouse out there who will insist that she's an ELITIST, OPPORTUNISTIC, HYPOCRITE, but that's just unfair, you betcha!
anyone who would agree with this nut job is just as hateful and racist as she is.
NO FAILIN' PALIN EVER
@Steve (the real one)
WHEN has Obama had pre-selected questions??? Obama is the one who holds internet chat forums live where he does not know what the questions will be. There have never been any reports of him having pre-scripted questions.
You must be thinking of GW Bush. It's really amazing how so many of the prominent republicans have to go in knowing what questions will be asked. Bush even complained about this openly at a news conference once. But the Democrats, very few if any demand this. Obama is the most prominent that does not because he is capable of thinking on his feet.
The comment section is a daily census of the smartest and dumbest Americans.
Pro-Palin= dumbest
Real-World Americans=smartest
This woman is an idiot as is anyone who thinks she has 1 thing to offer America. Every day there is proof that the only talent she has is milking this unbelievable opportunity granted to her by fellow idiot McCain.
And everyday there is proof that Americans are dumbing down in record numbers.
Sarah Palin has a right to demand whatever she feels she can get for her speaking engagements. The problem is the Not-for-Profit college spending revenue that should be used for improvements to college and curirculum and to provide services for its students, especially those who need financial assistance, rather than spend it on an political ideologue.
Ridicolous! A Governor who quit and let her state down for self gain, why should she get all this glory? And now her daughter is going on Dancing with the Stars? It must be the think Alaskan air...
Hey Lone Rider and Steve (the Real One),
Citations, please, on obama and other "liberals" demanding pre-selected questions? I think you're consuing the current president with his predecessor...
I wouldn't pay 0.75 cents to hear this swine snort out her hate rhetoric.
where's the figures for Clinton? and the other country-destroying liberals? Why are you always on Palin's case, CNN? ...hhmm....I guess it's part of the supporting OBama and his liberal agenda gameplan.
I would have done the speech for $200, a case of domestic beer and a ticket on Greyhound….
WHAT.....$75,000 to hear this thing you call palin to say nothing? Just unbelievable,i wouldn't pay 75 cents for this shinny turd.
People...People...People....
If the GOP gets their hands back on the White House, Congress and Senate, they will punish Middle America like we've never seen before – you know...for voting them out of power. They will attempt to bully all of you to never vote GOP out of power again. I shudder to think what that would be like. And while the Dems aren't much better at leadership, at least they won't punish people for voting the other side.
run, you frightened Anti-American liberals, run!
"Pre-selected audience questions." So she can write the answers on her hand in advance.
But Nancy is somehow evil?....
Nancy isn't evil. Boner just wants her job so he's spinning that now.
At least she is earning her money, unlike our current president.
Why are some commenters compairing what she makes to what Clinton makes. Sarah Palin is nobody, Bill Clinton is the best president to have stepped on the White House on the last 100 years. And he did it all while being blown. Now you have to be smart to acomplished that.
Does her contract stipulate how many lies per minute she must spew?
What does this story have to do with Obama vacations you rightie propeller heads?
It just prove how dumb Americans are. Who would give a dime to listen to this bimbo fro the republican party AKA domestic terrorist.
" the $75,000 in cash."
Do you hear me 75k in cash!!!!
Get it Sarah! GET IT!!!
AND AGAIN, THAT'S IN CASH!!
Think about all of the candidates she has shown up for. They gave up $75,000...IN CASH.
can't be bothered with checks, they might bounce
The state of the Republican Party
NOBODY CARES! She's a has-been, a quitter, and a nobody!
I would never go as far as to call this woman smart, but whoever told her to quit office and go on the speaking circuit WAS pretty smart. Now Palin makes bundles spewing her nonsense to idiots who actually listen to her nonsense. She knows she could never run for office again, so why not make some cash?
Doug how long have you been on meds? Seems like a long long time! if you call you Repuds decent you are on something strong dude! First of all Michelle Obama, First Lady!!!!! Who paid for her trip versus Palin, half governor who get paid to lie, steal and cheat! The Grand ole poop Party!
A no-name college, in the middle of nowhere for a nobody. Fitting.
She keeps this up she'll be like Princess Pelosi pretty soon. You know, making the taxpayers foot the bill by force.
She is a phoney with no convictions. It is all smoke and mirrors. She wants GOD to be on her side. I think she has it reversed. She should be on God's side.
those low life imbeciles.........President Clinton not clinton.......former President.......that does not compare at the slightlest with a former mayor and a quitter, former President Clinton has a foundation which helps millions of people around the world, what does she offer? zilch, nada, zero, if you do not know, SHE TAKES, does not give.......and please do not show your ignorance, besides, what does President Obama and his family have to do with the alska hag??????
Comparing Palin to Bill Clinton, common on people. She wouldn't even hold a candle light to Buddy...
Oh, whoa!!! Whoa is me!!! Here I was thinking she was with us little people!! I thought they were "leaving the light on for her" at Motel 6.
Before everyone gets on poor Sarahs case too bad, think about why she demands some of those items.
First class is understandable–Otherwise she might have to rub shoulders with common people or worse yet, Democrats.
The Lear Jet, also understandable–The organizers might have wanted her to bring her ego along, and God only knows how large a jet that would take.
Pre-screened questions is a given–Look at the incredibly stupid answers she has given when hit with trick questions like "What do you read?". She cannot and will not be ambushed and set up like that again.
Bendable straws is a deal breaker–She could die of thirst before she fogured out how to use a regular straw.
No plexiglass is easy–You can't take a chance on an aroused Conservative seeing her legs and storming the stage overcome by l
lust
See, it is all easy to understand.
The worst thing about this story is the fact that anyone, much less a lot of people, want to see her at all. Don't those people know a snake oil salesman when they see one? Don't they read? How much more obviously bankrupt can her failed policies be?
The Alaska hillbilly is just after the money that all she care about. She not smart enough too answer questions on her own,so she got too know befor hand want people going too ask. That how dumb this hillbilly is.
Sarah Palin needs to get a restraining order on the media, because their obsession with her is downright "stalker-ish" and beginning to border on creepy.
You can tell who the Democommunists and the media fear the most by the direction of their arrows.
No wonder she's appealing to the least educated in America and telling them what they want to hear. She's taking you idiots to the bank!
Who is the celebrity now? I can see her hypocriscy from my house!
That is someting all presidents do and have a right too as being leader of this country. Are you complaining because this is OBAMA or are you complaining that our tax money goes to presidents taking vacations? Somehow it probably doesnt bother you when its the person you like who is the POTUS. So stop whining like a spoiled brat over this issue.
Can we see Bill Clinton's speece contract please?
Hey...it sounds a lot like an Obama Town Hall....when Dems still had the courage to actually HOLD a Town Hall.
This woman is almost as inexperienced as Obama, foolish as Biden and has the champagne taste of Princess Pelosi. She would fit right in with the current thugs in power.
This is what happens when America is "dumbed down" as it has been over the last decade or more. Anyone who would acquiesce to these stupid demands (the pampered, vacuous Caribou Barbie needs her deluxe hotel suite because an ordinary room is not good enough) is not educated enough to realize that she has nothing to say and nothing to contribute to society. The dumber we get, the more of a premium we place on anti-intellectualism, the less we value education, the sooner we become a third-rate nation. If this happens, it will be our own fault for cow-towing to idiots like Palin. You will not be able to blame this on Obama or anyone else.
Just as you stated in the article, this is what "A list" speakers get and sometimes more.
"pre-selected audience questions"...LOL! She's a fraud!
Hey Sally, were they preselected questions that Obama faced when he met with the Republican members of Congress?? He wiped the floor with those guys. Face it, Obama is head and shoulders above anything the Republicans have offered or are offering to us. Palin is a complete joke.
Seriously, would you want this phony speaking to your kids at school. She is a terrible example as a human being and offers nothing. This woman is a vindictive, unqualified, incapable quitter. No one would even know her name if John McCain didn't desperately grab at straws because he felt he needed a woman to run with him.
Quite the phony conservative Palin keeps proving herself to be. How's that socialistic money being spent on public universities feel lining your pockets–eh Ms. Palin?
I am totally not surprised by these details.
It IS all about the money. After all she is a politician. Not a very good politician, but she does see clear opportunities to make a buck for anyone willing to pay to see her. Personally, I wouldn't go see her for free let alone pay for it but that's just me. I know a few other might, but not many.
It's showbiz. That's all it is–and it pays a heckuva lot more than public service. Sad, but politics has veered off into, what used to be, the entertainment business. Evey pol that comes along now wants to be bigger, louder, flashier and more provocative than the last. Where are the quiet, thoughtful, humble, intelligent politicians? They're all drowned out by the hysteria and cacophony.
She lives just like the rest of us "real Americans." Hates the lamestream media, but will get a boatload of cash for a reality show. it's all one big bizzaro world. And mentioning this dim bulb in the same intellectual breath as Obama is quite the joke. President of Harvard Law Review vs. I needed 5 schools to get a bachelor's. Obama will make his big money after he serves like all presidents VS. "The Quitter" who ran away from a boatload of ethics violations.
what does bill clinton's contract say?
T'anks fer nut'in, John McCain!
Oh how I wish this woman would go home to Alaska and raise her family. She is way past her 15 minutes of fame!
Who is a bigger idiot here – Speechmaker or people who come to hear her? Hard to say. Wonder whatever happened to that ethical probe against Sarah. Another ethical problem, eh? But no surprises becasue Sarah Palin and Ethics have nothing to do with each other. They are total strangers. Morals? Speak English!
Gotta love the down-home, country feel of $75,000 and a private jet ride for a few hours of "work". She's a "true American" and just like the rest of us!
To Hal West. You have a lot of nerve comparing this half term governor Palin to President Bill Clinton.
She is disgusting. I know half wits who like her because they say she is pretty and is a good mother (based on what info, I don't know). These are pro choice Faux News watchers. Nuff said.