Posted on 12/08/2009 9:07:27 PM PST by MaxCUA
Clarence Page, of The Chicago Tribune, attended Washington’s Gridiron Club and met Tood and Sarah Palin: Palinpalooza goads media into laughter
Palin not only interrupted her book tour, dubbed Palinpalooza by headline writers, to speak to a roomful of those darned media representatives Saturday all gussied up in gowns and tuxedos, but she held her own against this year's Democratic speaker, the liberal master of pithy one-liners, Rep. Barney Frank of MA.
If Palin won the evening -- and even my own Hyde Park-raised, liberal wife believes she did -- it is largely because everyone expected Frank to be funny, which he was. Palin defied expectations. I was so accustomed to her attack-dog role in last year's presidential campaign and the angry spirits of many of her supporters in the tea party wing of her party, that I was surprised to see how cheerfully and gracefully she poked fun at herself without actually being Tina Fey in disguise.
A sampling:
--"It is good to be here and in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals. Or, as I call it, a death panel."
--"To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, this has to be the most extraordinary collection of people who have gathered to viciously attack me since the last corporate gathering at CBS."
--"I've been touring this great, great land of ours over the last few weeks. I have to say, the view is much better from inside the bus, than under it!" etc......
“she held her own against this year’s Democratic speaker, the liberal master of pithy one-liners, Rep. Barney Frank of MA.”
Fugly and the Princess.
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