Early reaction to Sarah Palin's Hong Kong Speech

Catherine Yu Yeun Chen posted the following on Sarah Palin's Facebook page:

"I have really great news, a friend who attended the Forum where Mrs Palin made the Keynote Speech at the CLSA Investor's Forum, just while ago, said: Sarah Palin was received with the biggest round of applause it took 3 minutes at least before she was able to start her Speech and that the Speech itself was brilliant and astute and that she took China to task aggressivaly but without been offensive or rude, and she answered many questions brilliantly and smartly after the speech itself, and she was looking beautiful and relaxed and again received a standing applause, but my friend can not tell me anything about the speech-address, it is CLSA rules, and it is up to Sarah and the Organizers to decide whether the speech will be available for public reading."

The following tweets are from cellomonkey (not a Palin fan):

#Think sarah palin will wink at me tomorrow?

#Anticipation building as palin prepares to speak at clsa forum in hk.

#Sarah palin pretty in pink today.

#Palin ties her lineage to asia by saying todd is part eskimo.

#She takes a stab at policy speak since she's from main street.

#Palin pushing "common sense conservatism - a respect for history and tradition and common sense."

#Palin: "mccain and i came in second in a competition of two!" shes funny.

#Palin preparing for 2012 bid by evoking reagan, lauds hkg as model for free mkt economy.

#Palin seemingly campaigning but i wonder how many of us are actually us citizens.

#30 minutes in, im not sure palin has said the word "china"

#"nukular"!!!

#The guy next to me is reading a macro strategy report.

#Palin critizes cutting of defense budget while china and russia are beefing up.

#Palin attributes asian economic prosperity to american commitment to security in the region.

#Palin hopes to integrate india into asia... hrm.

#Palin warns against rise of a one-nation asia, citing missles pointed at taiwan.

#Palin: "it is in the interest of our safety for china to work out its contradictions"

#Wow, palin is lashing out against china "we hope for china to rise responsibly"

#palin has found herself a spot on hu jintao's to-do list [Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China]

#Palin says "i have a husband, yea, i think i coulda used a wife" on being asked "how do you do it"

#Zuckerberg gets props from palin for embodying american ingenuity.

These tweets are from Cameron Sinclair (casinclair, also not a Palin fan, but his impressions of the speech treat her fairly),  apparently also a scheduled speaker at the event:

#Kind ironic. Sarah Palin will talk foreign policy (wed keynote) and I'll speak about lack of US policy during Katrina (thurs keynote).

#Checking keynotes sched for this event in HK. I'm firmly in between Sarah Palin and Sheryl Crow. A sentence I never thought I'd ever write.

#Funnily enough palin and my talks are the only ones closed to the media. Mine is probably lack of interest.....

#So far six outlets want me to speak on camera right after the Palin talk today. Silly politirazzi.

#Stimulus failed will keep unemployment high - Palin.

#Fed is immoral - Palin

#Palin calls self common sence consertative - quotes Reagan and Thatcher as 'getting it right'.

#Palin suggests her cost cutting in the Governors house shows her fiscal conservative.

#Palin suggests GOP has sold out since Reagan and are as bad as the liberals. They lost principles.

#Cap and tax (trade) will cause unemployment. Say it will cost $1800 per Americans and cause no change.

#Palin pro Nuclear and energy independance advocate. Tap the god given resources of America and not foreign entities.

#Natural gas IS the future - Palin

#Palin wants 'all of the above' energy policy to ween ourselves off natural resouces. Says we need to 'drill'

#Death panels - governments not being honest. Can't increase healthcare and cut costs - Palin

#Palin says drill. Say death panels were a way to show mainstreet what is wrong w gov plans

#Palin listing all deaths caused by twisted vision of terrorists. 'this is a war' - Palin suggesting the surge pushed the war out of Iraq.

#Palin says Pelosi and liberals stopping Obama from making right decision to increase troops in afghanistan.

#American defence of Asia has allowed it to prosper - Palin

#American military precense in Asia has allowed it to prosper - palin.

#Folks walking out on palin as she's running over Q&A time.

#We can help intergrate Asia and India -Palin.

#Palin says China key to global push out of recession. China needs to be responsible stakeholder. (and free).

#China needs to ease off Taiwan and to back off supporting Sudan and Zimbabwe. Notes Tibet issue - Palin (on a tear)

#Palin wrapping up saying local Chinese wanting more freedom in China. 'No one worrys about India and it's growth'

#Palin - notes Charter 08. Anyone!

#Palin wrapping up.

#Last 20 min of Palins talk on china us relationships and free trade. Current US gov are anti-open and anti-growth -palin.

#Palin says us must recognize we must lead by example not words. Americans are suffering and frustrated dems exempt themselves from hlthcare.

#Palin says tea party movement are democrats and republicans and fighting the good fight.

#Palin notes bush changed view on china - notes we are interconnected and need to put diplomatic pressure on china. Says taxing tires was bad.

#Local elected officials need to be heard. GOP will be re borne through locals - palin.

#Government need to stay the heck out of salary decisions - palin.

#Palin - Chavez is Castro lite. We need to play hardball with Cuba.

#Palin on Todd and schedule - 'i needed to have a wife' (ouch)

#Palin on Twitter - I love it!

#Palin - facebook is a success story of US ingenuity. Shows 'we still got it'.

#Palin shows picture of son on stage. Then exits.

#Nothing like being attacked by press leaving 'it was awful and right wing, wasn't it' - ask to comment, I said go on Twitter....

#Dear @CNN your reporter is the only one trying the sweet tactic to get a quote. Not working either.

#Hey ms Palin, I'll let you tweet my keynote tomorrow lunch. I'm talking on Katrina and school reform through public/private partnerships.

#@cellomonkey my pics sucked. My keynote tomorrow will have 180 more slides than Palin.

#@Tx4Obama no problem didn't realize I was one of only two tweeting. Had to find alt. Network to send.

#ok speech with occational hits. Interesting Palin attacked GOP more than Dems.

Sinclair posted a suprisingly unbiased summary of the Palin speech at HuffPo here. The Wall Street Journal's even-handed coverage is here. The New York Times' treatment of the Palin speech is cold-day-in-hell positive here (a must-read!). The usual negative take from CNN, the Clinton News Network, is here. Euro-socialist AFP's negatively-slanted article is here. A biased AP report is here, and a very biased Bloomberg story is here.

- JP