NY Post's Page Six Sarah Palin Smear Dismissed

When you know you are on a losing streak, you try to take out your opponent via the knees right? 

Well the New York Post, a liberal rag of mindless entertainment, decided to write a “I Hate Palin because I don’t think she can sell herself and I think she is dumb” article again. I think that the New York Post and their writers are scared that they are losing money… and have to print this drivel to get some money in.

What cracks me up is how the NY Post is just frothing at the mouth concerning the speaking circuit and the amount of one hundred thousand (100,000) per speaking engagement, which if you think about it really isn’t that much.

Per NY Post:

Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot."

Now, seeing this, we all understand that speaking engagements are going to “cost”. But if you book a building, with around 1500 seats would be about 67.00 a piece. BUT since you have to have money to rent the building which could be 25,000 for a day, which would cost in the amount of 17.00, I don’t see how this would be a problem? People pull out 100 dollars for just about anything anymore. So charging 100 to 150 dollars per speaking engagement, per person really isn’t that bad.

Also, let us talk about Speaking Engagements that include a nice dinner. Everyone knows you buy the plate before hand for whatever speaking engagement it is. So let’s say you want to hear Sarah at one of these. It is all priced out via the building it would be in, the price of employees, food and set up as well as the strip down and the speakers cost as well as the commission. Well we have all seen these types of dinners where you can pay up and including ten thousand (10,000) dollars per plate! So a room for 500 people. You have 100,000 for speaker, 50,000 for food and service, 15,000 to rent facility. So round it up to 200,000 thousand for cost of all and the cost of the plate for the Dinner Speaking Engagement is a whopping 500.00 dollars per person!

Whoa. I think the New York Post should have thought this through before they typed their smear article out.

-u

Editor's comments:

Page Six, the section of the NY Post where the smear appeared, is nothing more than a big gossip column. Gossip columnists hate Sarah Palin as much as radical leftists do because she is the antithesis of the Hollyweird glitterati they love so much. Their stock and trade is rumor and innuendo, not facts, which are (or at least used be) the stuff of journalism. The NY Post has traditionally been the most conservative of New York's three major newspapers, and the Palin-bashing engaged in by Page Six has more in common with the editorial content of the NY Daily News than the serious (i.e., news) sections in the Post.

Even liberal New York magazine, where no fans of Sarah Palin are to be found, dismisses Page Six's anonymous "source" in its Daily Intel column, titled "Why We Doubt ‘Page Six’’s Sarah Palin Story":

This story is suspicious for a few reasons:

1. The source is openly hostile to Palin, belittling her in almost every quote, so his/her intentions seem fairly suspect. Calling Palin a "blithering idiot" and saying the only people who'd want to hear her speak are "interested in moose hunting" doesn't really add credibility to your claims.

2. Politico reported about a month ago that Palin had received over 1,070 speaking invitations, which is a lot.

As was the case with Levi Johnston's Vanity Fair smears, even liberals aren't buying Page Six's pack of lies because it simply defies common logic. In light of the heavy demand for former Governor Palin  as a speaker, the gossipists' claims are pathetic.

- JP