You know, as cynical as I am, I never thought I’d see “9/11” and “tickets are available” in the same paragraph.

Really, BT? Never thought the Quitter and Aimee Semple McBeck would grift the rubes for payola over 9/11? Where ya bin, my friend? I’m only surprised that it took them this long.

Wow. Glenn Beck or groceries? Tough call.

“Grift the rubes for payola” — well played.

They ain’t gettin’ a red cent from me unless they burn a few Ko-rans!

I do rather enjoy how the Queen of BabbleOn says that “anyone from ‘outside’” is invited to be ripped off, too. As they say in the south: why how nice.

bless her heart!

They ain’t gettin’ a red cent from me

commie!

Are funds raised this way a political contribution for Sarah? Or can she spend them on personal stuff?

Any mention all the profits are going to charity and the 9/11 victims families?

Yes.

I’m being facetious. good q about charity.

The sad news for “anyone from ‘outside’” is that they don’t have any of that free government/ oil money

the Queen of BabbleOn

gave ‘em to pay with.

If so how much overhead will the event have and will Sarah and Glen get a piece of it?

It’s about as far from “ground zero” as they can get and still be on US soil, so they are being respectful. Also.

acc. to the link,

There was no indication to whom or what the proceeds will go.

If you read the Vanity Fair piece this month on Grifterella, you’ll see that her ‘charities’ are set up about six weeks ahead of time to scoop up the money, with local frontmen in charge; then they are disbanded before the next reporting period comes along. In other words, we don’t really know where the money for these things goes, except we know that the ‘organizers’ are heftily reimbursed by the charities for speakers’ fees, presumably including Caribou Barbie’s.

And if she flies east of the Mississippi River from Alaska, she gets a bigger private jet than a common Lear. Also.

I was serious Sarah likes to go shopping and has very expensive tastes she is getting money somehow by not working. Paying to here Sarah speak well thats welfare I have seen Sarah blow the Katie Couric interview Sarah has no ideas and no ability to answer questions much less debate.
Paying to watch her read from the back of her hand those prices seems sad. The GOP needs new blood they don’t seem to have any leaders with new ideas.

Yeah: just no idea where all that good grift will go. I know those 2 shills; they’re both a “piece of work,” so I’m sure they’ll both get a “piece of the action.”

Neither Glenn Armstrong or Bible Spice does it for free. No prostitute ever works for free, doncha know.

$225? A bargain, considering that it’s a two-fer. However, it’s gonna blow the meth budget right out of the water…

Indeed rapacious fraud, Caribou Barbie, is all & only about money for her. But hey, if the rubes wish to shower Grifterilla in diamonds, why should she just say no?? After all, prosperity Xtianity says: the more you rip off the rubes, the more Hey-zeus smiles upon you … or something like that.

It’s even worse than what you are so eloquently describing, BT.

Palin and Joe the Teabagger are leading a procession from the Wasilla Sports Complex that Palin built when she was mayor (saddling the residents with their biggest debt obligation ever) to the Dena’ina Center, probably picking up some guns in Eagle River along the way.

Sanity, however, can be found here.

It’s a great gig. They’re selling, people are buying. What can I say?

Ok why isn’t the the Justice dept investigating this fraud across state lines is a federal crime. If anyone can milk a charity and give just a drop of cash to help people and so far we have no proof of even that then maybe the charity laws should be changed.
The Rev Moon, Scientology the Mormons and Catholics all get tax free charity money then spend it on politics.
I think a complete ban on that practice should be put in place.
Or we can just take away their tax exempt status treat the churches as what they are PACs that recruit er convert voters and count their help as political contributions that means the donors must be listed.

There will be some hungry( stupid) people there.

I say let them go for it. When they bankrupt the rubes, they might have to face their wrath.

Breaking: War ain’t such a great idea.

I hope someone makes some money by taking people on a Sarah Sojourn of church fires, meth labs, fired and reinstated librarians, etc.

Will Glen be selling his new book at the rally will the book sales be donated to charity? Will Sarah be selling her book there? Should Dems be doing *cough*charity events rather than fundraisers too?

I like seafood, but I need a break from all the fishes and loaves.

Indeed. In all seriousness, if the masses wish to pay Glenn Ostean & Bible Spice tons of their hard-earned munies to listen to that pair spew rubbish, why argue with it?

I am not sure if she is crazy or on drugs. Whats sad is that rush, Glen have drug pasts and they act like they are still high Ann Coluter, Michelle Malkin etc I can’t tell if they are crazy or high.
The GOP vote is motivated by emotional appeals and the GOP uses hate and lies to do it.

Undoubtedly both will be shilling their “books” and the money will go directly into their pockets. No charities need apply.

It is offensive to financially gain off of tragedy.

The crazy way they act is as old as the hills. Early last century Bible-thumping snake handlers acted in much the same way (in all seriousness), and the masses eagerly responded to that. It’s no accident that Beck’s had this “sudden conversion” to being a tent-show revivalist. It’s quite lucrative.

IOKIYAR

I think we need spies on the ground any local pups up for it or maybe the front pagers can go and claim the cost of the ticket as a business expense.

OK, but why, really? Just watch Beck’s MLK rally, and you’ll learn all you need to know. It’ll be pretty much the same thing, I’d bet.

Thats BushSchadenFreud enjoying making money off of other people’s misery ( I invented the word ).

Just to confirm yes they are selling the books, yes racist signs, t shirts etc will likely be shown if not sold at this safe closed event unlike the open MLK rally. Just to confirm that recording devices will likely be banned.
We are the Lake we report facts.

demagogues, all.

nothing new. the saddest part for me is the people I know personally who listen to them. really sad.

ET will likely be all over it (or one of his buds). I’m sure we’ll hear more.

Here we are:

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/69780

Looking forward to reading about tent-show Beck having his Jimmy Swaggart moment.

OT, but definitely red meat for FDL:

I just called Baron Hill’s campaign office to ask him to sign a pledge against corporate influence. This was in response to a Move On campaign.

I identified myself as someone that had made GoTV calls for him in 2006.

His staffer said I shouldn’t be “fucking wasting time” with meaningless pledges, we should be making calls to help Democrats in the fight of their lives.

In response I said that by not being accountable to his former volunteers and constituents, a…nd having his staff curse them he was alienating his base and would reap the whirlwind.

Well, aren’t spectacles like this one what the Beckerheads like to spend their Socha Scurty checks on?

Also:

Austan Goolsbee will be taking live questions on the economy at 3:00 PM EDT. (Link is currently live stream of Obama speaking).

Plus if we can get photos in I want pictures taken. There were some allegations at Sarah’s Rosemont Illinois event the local Mob was in attendance. Rosemont is a mob town the old mayor was trying to give them a gambling casino license.
It was reported on a small blog that the Cicero Illinois Mob sent in their police PR hack who is connected to Sarah’s Rosemont Illinois fundraiser.
Dupage and Mchenry counties are more GOP and don’t have mob ties why raise money in a Mob town?
I wonder if the local Mob will show at the Glen Sarah event?

Maybe ET needs to look at local police FBI suspected criminal and convicted criminal photos if he can get a camera in and play who’s the felon?
The Mob may or may not be in Alaska but someone runs the Meth trade. Sarah was Mayor to the biggest Meth town in Alaska and did nothing about the drug problem doing nothing is the same as covering for them.
Since her job was to get rid of them. After all how real estate values do tend to sink if the whole country knows your town is the biggest Meth town in the state.

The Palinites and Beckerheads will be having orgasims in their seats at teh event. Things will be sticky afterwards.

“I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin

Wow. Thanks for the info.

What is it with the “f bombs” and Dems these days?

Are their heads so far up their butts that they really really don’t get it, or are they just so arrogant that they don’t care?

What you describe is interesting bc, it seems to me, it’s not as much of a part of the Kabuki show.

But punching your “supporters” over and over again in order to “make them” vote for you?? Wow. I have to say, even I’m kinda taken aback by that.

ET, based on the votes cast, says that henceforth, July 3rd of each year shall be observed as Sarah Palin Quitter Day.

Or just Quitterday!

Is there anything they haven’t exploited for personal or political gain? We’re talking some serious low life characters here.

Hill is going to lose to Sodrel. His staff is frustrated, and feels like I should be a good soldier and just work for him regardless.

The staffer brought up his votes for the recovery act, health care, and cap and trade. I said I appreciated those votes, but that his communications during the Energy and Commerce markup made it clear that he had worked for a worse health care bill, and he didn’t do a good job explaining why a public option was a bad idea.

Speaking strictly for myself, if I paid $5 to listen to them talk about things they know nothing about, including patriotism, sacrifice and 9/11, I’d surely remember it for the rest of my life – though not in a good way. That being said, I agree with those that say that the rubes that pay the fee to listen to the quitter and the ex-druggie are probably doing the right thing by trading their rent money for a chance to conflate duplicitous speechifying with doing something positive. Imagine the lovely living room furniture or, perhaps, house that this might buy either of the fearsome twosome.

good point. They still have a ways to go before catching up to Cheney and his war for oil gambit.

hell hath no fury worse than a rube confronted with evidence of the con’s duplicity…

Sarah has a new pair of red shoes all picked out and a purse to match. The kids get nothing.

… and not enough money to pay the power bill the next month.

When they sink to Cheneys’ level they’ll be qualified for a high public office.

If you take away their right wing extremest hate radio netork, their hatred of all things foreign or different, their hatred of tax money for the poor, the young, older citizens and veterans and their hatred of Obama, they dont have anything left. Just empty suits and empty skirts. What will Palin.s sequal be called “going commando”? What a joke the Republican “Party of No” has become. And why are Democrats sitting on their hands…I hope the Right Wing Ed Koch financed zealots are not allowed to get away with this !!!

Just to confirm yes they are selling the books, yes racist signs, t shirts etc will likely be shown if not sold at this safe closed event unlike the open MLK rally. Just to confirm that recording devices will likely be banned.
We are the Lake we report facts.

Or at least likely facts.

I’m listening to O as I type this. Boy, he’s good. Damn socialist though. Doesn’t know enough to charge for this. Palin and Beck can teach him a thing or two.

yeah, encountered all kind of DNC types yesterday who’s gotv/outreach repetoire included “temper tantrums”, “whiners”, “Naderites who are never satisfied !”
oh, and several admonitions to put on my big girl pants

sure, where do I sign up ? oy

David Dayen has a fresh cross-post up: Business Community Wants Bush Tax Cuts on Top of Business Tax Cuts

I’m doing GoTV for Prop 19. maybe will make some calls in remaining primary races – the PCCC has been good about sending me opportunities thanks to my making calls for Bill Halter.

I wrote off Baron Hill after the 2006 election. Blowing off a volunteer as he did in 2007 is a sure way to alienate me.

somebody had got to sneak in a recording device. Hell those things come on the end of a pen these days.

I was just amused by all the baseless “likely” speculation and then the declaration that “we report the facts”.

No harm done.

Don’t you think Joe Miller will be there too? Sort of help with the campaign.

You know pretty soon some of the other wingnuts are going to get jealous. Guys like Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Hannity could be getting pissed off. Sarah, you and Glen need to share the wealth here.

trashy quitter parasite. no words are vile enough to describe these teabagging fucks.

one word – Quitterday. The official holiday lasts 16 hours and 10 minutes…

Don’t you think Joe Miller will be there too?

My understanding is that Miller will be at the Wasilla mini-grift and will convoy with The Quitter into Anchorage for the Beckathon.

Blue Texan…thanks for the post!

I have consciously decided that my approach to these asshats is to not give them any space in my mind or thoughts…perhaps if we suck the energy out of their windbags, they will just wind up being dryed out, lifeless bags…useless! Bye…

Or as it’s known in political yoga, The Ostrich. That, a special chant, and maybe some ruby slippers, just might work. /s

@ dosido, onitgoes, TCU

Well said, I bow in your virtual directions. Demagogues is the word, making malicious use of the power of people’s own hopes, fears and dreams. Bearers of false witness.

Esp. like the line about hell having no fury like a mark who catches on to the con just after getting ripped off. They’re loading the electorate with all kinds of hideous energies that will find their way to ground.

FoxNation.com had a nice headline about how Obama is an asshole who won’t go to Ground Zero for 9/11. My first guess? “Oh, he’s going to the Pentagon instead.”

That’s the only time you’ll ever see Fox News imply that the Department of Defense is worthless.

I wonder if Ticketmaster is going to charge their usual exorbitant service fees.