"We have asked her to address US foreign policy, to discuss her views on governance, healthcare, and of course, China," Jonathan Slone, chief executive officer of the Asia-focused brokerage, said in an interview with AFP.After the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate told CLSA that she would have to adjust her speech if reporters were present, Slone said CLSA decided to close Palin's session to the media:
Palin was chosen to speak since she's a possible Republican candidate in the next US presidential election and because of her influential role in politics, he said.
"We are very pleased with her attitude towards us. Sarah could have come here and made a media circus," he said.Stone said that keynote speeches at the annual CLSA event have been closed to the media in previous years for the same reason.
"But we said to her, 'Look, we want you to give the most information to our clients. Do you feel comfortable doing that with the press around?'
"She said, 'If I do that with the press in the room, I will have to say different things.'"
Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have delivered CLSA keynote addresses in past years.
Our take: We strongly suspect that former Governor Palin told the organizers that she wouldn't criticize the Obama administration on foreign soil with the media in the room. She knows they would have reported that she "criticized her country" on foreign soil. So the CLSA people closed the session to reporters to allow her to speak freely.
Criticizing the U.S. on foreign soil is just fine with the Democrat-Media Complex as long as it's a lefty such as Jimmy Carter or some Hollywood moron doing it and a Republican is president. But if a conservative tried to do the same thing with a leftist Democrat in the White House, the press would treat it as the most heinous act of treason since Benedict Arnold switched sides in the Revolutionary War.
Update: At The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Eric Zimmermann suggests "Palin... may be trying to beef up her foreign policy bona fides in preparation for a 2012 presidential campaign."
- JP
I believe you are correct in your assessment, Josh.
ReplyDeleteThis is one smart lady!
It's a good thing Oblahblah wasn't around at the biginning of last century...he'd be trying to bail out the buggy whip manufacturers!! What a dolt.
ReplyDelete1. I think Gov Palin will address Obama's call for significant tariffs on the Chinese tire industry.
ReplyDelete2. China will be the world's largest economy within the next 20 - 30 years if not sooner.
3. China has tons of U.S. debt and has indicated a desire to sell a good chunk of it because of the financial and economic situation in America and the direction that Obama and the Progressive caucus are taking the U.S. economy.
4. Obama's eocnomic policies significantly hurt China's export industry which generated a significant portion of the China's annual GDP.
4. This talk is the first step in building a bridge between Gov Palin and China. She wants to get China behind her for her run for the Presidency in 2012. If she can do this it will bring in a lot of money into her campaign coffers. It will also help get China's powerful connections in her corner.
5. Like just about everything she does this is a brilliant move and it will get her off and running for 2012.
6. I think that there may be a couple of reasons that she wants this closed to the media.
7. Gov Palin through Facebook and now this is building a pattern of being able to communicate her ideas to the public and key money people without the involvement of the fringe media.
8. It seems to me that she will lay out her economic vision vis via China and possibly the rest of the world. This vision is without a doubt 180% different than Obama's. Why give the fringe media stuff to work with.
9. She of course as indicated will also talk about her energy policy vision and how it will be good for China and the rest of the world.
10. I expect that she will also address what is going on in the world visa via the Muslim terrorists and countries like Iran, Afghanistan.