• February 15, 2012

Awhile ago, a few months ago, at least, some boring consulting group, “CLSA,” invited Sarah Palin to come and speak at some annual consulting conference, in Hong Kong. This was only interesting in so much as Sarah Palin was inevitability going to cancel. So naturally everyone forgot about the fact that this was even happening, because what even is Sarah Palin, at this point? Well guess what, it is time to UNFORGET about it, because CLSA would now like the MSM to know that this will be a secret speech about secret things that will not be leaked on the Internet, at all, so everyone should just go ahead and reforget about even trying to report on it. “We are not disclosing the topic of Sarah Palin’s presentation at this point,” said Simone Wheeler, CLSA spokesperson and future plaintiff in what is sure to be a comical breach of contract suit against Palin. [CNN]

{ 67 comments }

ManchuCandidate September 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Sarah Palin is an ancient Chinese Secret?

dijetlo September 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm

So the chances are good she’ll cancel, the group of Asian Businessmen will instead spend the time eating sushi off the naked bodies of Australian hookers, and we will all be none the wiser?

Who said there is no God?

Smoke Filled Roommate September 14, 2009 at 1:56 pm

“Thank you all for coming. Ahem. Me Chinese, Me Play Joke, Me Put Pee Pee in Your Coke!”

wx insider September 14, 2009 at 1:57 pm

I hear she’s telling investors to put their money in truck nutz

Mahousu September 14, 2009 at 1:57 pm

[re=410435]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Calgon, take her away!

norbizness September 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Will she, clad in a plain gray business suit, jump into a filing cabinet and emerge wearing a stars n’ stripes bikini and toting a submachine gun (after the malfunctioning cabinet is pounded by an anthropomorphic cat)?

Wait, that’s Hong Kong Phooey.

V572625694 September 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm

How much could anyone trust an investment firm that thought Sarah Palin would have something useful to say about investing?

I feel obliged to repeat my previous post on this topic: Wouldn’t it be great if the suckers investors of CSLA Pacific Markets interrupt Sarah by repeatedly chanting, “Show us your tits!”

slappypaddy September 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm

you betcha even babble spass doesn’t know what she’ll be babbling about, and even after she finishes — if she even does it — she still won’t know. nobody else will be able to figure it out, either. even. also.

RoscoePColtraine September 14, 2009 at 2:01 pm

This was Sarah’s decision. So Sarah is afraid of how much we will marvel at her financial prowess and savvy?

SayItWithWookies September 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm

I don’t really care what’s in her speech anyway — the primary reason I want it on film is so I can enjoy the translator(s) going apeshit trying to turn her words into some sort of coherent series of ideas.

hobospacejunkie September 14, 2009 at 2:03 pm

[re=410446]V572625694[/re]: I would so download that torrent, just to see what they look like after 13 kids and a botched lift or two.

Lascauxcaveman September 14, 2009 at 2:04 pm

And although she is fluent in Mandarin, her heavy Alaskan accent will it all but untranslatable for the poor MSM anyway. Also.

ChernobylSoup v2 September 14, 2009 at 2:04 pm

I just got back here after reading the bit about how the wingtards hate the Darwin movie and just had an epiphany (revelation?) of galactic (biblical?) proportions. The wingtards love Sarah Palin because she convincingly disproves Darwin’s natural selection nonsense once and for ever and ever amen.

Redhead September 14, 2009 at 2:05 pm

[re=410438]dijetlo[/re]: the group of Asian Businessmen will instead spend the time eating sushi off the naked body of Levi Johnston…
*fixed

hobospacejunkie September 14, 2009 at 2:06 pm

[re=410451]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I’m afraid we may be disappointed on that score. Unfortunately English pretty much reigns supreme as the lingua franca of the business world. I hope I’m wrong, though. Also.

GreatOldOnesParty September 14, 2009 at 2:06 pm

“I’m quite honored to be here in Japan, also.”

Decker September 14, 2009 at 2:07 pm

We are not disclosing the topic of Sarah Palin’s presentation at this point.”

Can’t disclose what you don’t know. Why should she write pay someone to write a speech she’s not gonna give?

Dear sweet levitating Jeebus, I hope she does go and decides to improvise once she mounts the dais.

Min September 14, 2009 at 2:08 pm

She’s pretending to be inscrutable.

Scottie September 14, 2009 at 2:10 pm

I’m guessing this little talk will be virtually live cast via the internets and etc.

TGY September 14, 2009 at 2:12 pm

According to a reliable source (Wikipedia), CLSA is known for:

“Introduction of research reports that go beyond the numbers to ‘tell the story’, and the use of colourful and sometimes irreverent “cartoon” covers.”

So, my guess is they want to get a few good doodles out of her.

wx insider September 14, 2009 at 2:14 pm

I can see Hong Kong from my house

freakishlystrong September 14, 2009 at 2:16 pm

TORT REFORM1!!

bored with gravity September 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm

[re=410463]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Well, when Sarah Palin starts speaking in English, she can give speeches to the business world. Golly, you betcha. Also.

Better American Than You September 14, 2009 at 2:21 pm

I note from their web site that: “CLSA has signed a MOU with Shanghai Guosheng Co. to launch a domestic RMB investment fund in the Shanghai Pudong International Financial Centre Region.”

Maybe Sarah Palins wants someone besides Levi Guousheng in her Pudong.

qwerty42 September 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Maybe they thought they were getting Tina Fey.

Spiro Agnew September 14, 2009 at 2:24 pm

The women barely makes sense in English, I can’t wait to see what the Chinese symbols for, death panel, Truck nutz and David Letterman are.

Gopherit September 14, 2009 at 2:25 pm

It’s gonna be on guttin’ salmon, donchaknow.

Lionel Hutz Esq. September 14, 2009 at 2:39 pm

A little internet research uncovered the title of her speech:

Visual Sighting of Foreigners is the Key to Good Foreign Policy, You Betcha.

dave666 September 14, 2009 at 2:42 pm

[re=410445]norbizness[/re]: hong kong fooey was a dog…sheesh

MARCdMan September 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm

It’ll involve a large, shaggy dog and ping pong balls.

Johnny Zhivago September 14, 2009 at 2:46 pm

I will help bring her up to what, three countries she’s visited?

McDuff September 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Speech topic: The Danger of Unchecked Chinese Immigration to the United States.

“You mean this isn’t the Conservative League of Southern Alabama convention?”

Bruno September 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm

I am worried all this ferrign experience will make Sarah less Merikun.

Bruno September 14, 2009 at 3:01 pm

If the topic of the speech is secret, how do we know she’s speaking at all?

the problem child September 14, 2009 at 3:08 pm
DustBowlBlues September 14, 2009 at 3:08 pm

[re=410446]V572625694[/re]: Big win.

I’m thinking she’s getting like a million or so bucks, but I hope those suckers didn’t pay her ahead of time nor even give her a significant deposit.

If Bible Spice is scheduled to make her “speech” after cocktail hour, V5 etc. definitely has this one figured out.

SlouchingTowardsWasilla September 14, 2009 at 3:09 pm

You guys keep confusing the events she cancels with the ones at which she actually appears. If they pay her $50k+ she shows up. The freebies, meh, only if she feels like it and even then she has to get free tampons or something.

Guppy06 September 14, 2009 at 3:16 pm

[re=410446]V572625694[/re]: “You lie!”

DustBowlBlues September 14, 2009 at 3:22 pm

[re=410580]the problem child[/re]: Excellent investigative journalism. Why can’t the MSM do such fine work?

Joshua Norton September 14, 2009 at 3:22 pm

nobody else will be able to figure it out, either. even. also.

If nothing else, it will be payback for having those of us who have suffered through the exasperation of trying to understand the unintelligible Chinese to English translations of user manuals.

Carson September 14, 2009 at 3:23 pm

She can see China from there.

DustBowlBlues September 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm

[re=410595]Guppy06[/re]: ““You lie!””

Am I the only one who thinks of Lucy Liu in Kill Bill II every time they hear this?

Darkness September 14, 2009 at 3:28 pm

We are not disclosing the topic of Sarah Palin’s presentation at this point

It’s not difficult to guess. Either she’ll be herself and talk about snowmobiles and lucrative endorsement contracts or she’ll try to be serious and end up on a lengthy digression about how easily it is to confuse total energy production, total energy consumption, total liquids production, gas equivalents, and crude oil, even for the “world’s foremost expert” in these things, dontchaknow?

Servo September 14, 2009 at 3:28 pm

She’s helping to build a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. Just give her the country!

Dangerous September 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm

The secret title of her presentation:

“How to Fake a Pregnancy and Get Away With It Because MSM Is Afraid to Ask Questions”

the problem child September 14, 2009 at 3:39 pm

[re=410609]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Actually, I don’t think there is a single investigative journalist at that website. It appears to be largely business related. However, to their credit, they have mastered da google, which apparently the MSM has not, yet.

Bruno September 14, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Sarah, Hong Kong is great for shopping. And you can buy lots of fake handbags and watches.

(someone please alert customs, I am sure she does not know her duty-free allowances. Even better, maybe she’ll bring back some rotting whale meat they can arrest her for)

ShiningMathPath September 14, 2009 at 4:30 pm

she’ll answer a question or two about U.S.-americans and do some fancy pageant walking

RoscoePColtraine September 14, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Will Sarah tell a funny anecdote about her Mongolian baby?

thehelveticascenario September 14, 2009 at 4:59 pm

[re=410451]SayItWithWookies[/re]: She’ll be translating it herself as “ching chong bing wong”.

Rotundo September 14, 2009 at 5:11 pm

[re=410484]TGY[/re]: They no doubt are curious to see if we are as totally out of our minds politically as they have seen in media reports. No doubt they will get the direct report from the horses’ (pick your orifice here_____) and shortly China and the rest of the civilized world (or should that be just “the civilized world” will drop T-Bills like hookers drop lepers newly detached private parts.

TeddyS September 14, 2009 at 5:11 pm

URGENT: ADVANCE TRANSCRIPT

“Am happied to be in this Hong Kong place and have fortune cooky at meal, Grasshopper. Honk Kong is wonderful little British island where foreign people speak American and it is a strategic importantly against Communist China. We all know Red Pekineses hate democracy and run over children like my little boy Tribble and third-graders with big tanks. Chinese must be stopped in Korea before spread commies to all of Asia and Alaska and we support our troops. I did not know 50,000 Hongy dollars was not the same as 50,000 real dollars so ha-ha-ha you screwed me…you wish. I go next to the real China, Taiwain, and shop there, you ‘betcha.”

ShiningMathPath September 14, 2009 at 5:14 pm

[re=410758]thehelveticascenario[/re]: you speak naughty monkey too?

Oldskool September 14, 2009 at 5:18 pm

I can see those poor guys leaning forward in their chairs to hear her whispering because she thinks the whole thing’s a secret.

Bruno September 14, 2009 at 5:43 pm

[re=410790]Oldskool[/re]: I hope if the media isn’t there, she’ll let her true seld hang out.

Can someone secretely tap her sayin’ “whitey”

slowuncle September 14, 2009 at 6:07 pm

An embarrassment of riches (think Joe Wilson, Michelle Bachman, Glen Beck) means that I can barely stifle a yawn when Sarah crosses my mind these days. My entertainment threshold is just so much higher than it was during the halcyon days of French fruit flies and Putin “rearing his head”. Wow. Tina Fey. It all seems so long ago…

Scooter September 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm

The first line of Palin’s speech has been leaked:

“Hello Big Boys! Me now bore you long time!”

zhubajie September 14, 2009 at 7:12 pm

[re=410469]Decker[/re]: She’s going to go to the podium and speak in tongues.

rocktonsammy September 14, 2009 at 7:27 pm

whichever set of lips she uses, pure gold.

zhubajie September 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm

Maybe she’ll tell them all about sex tourism possibilities in Alaska. There are lots of perverted Chinese businessmen who’d like to try out fat, pale, Americans. It’d be a change from the Asians, Russians, etc., in Wanchai.

Take her to Wanchai! Introduce her to some US servicemen on liberty and see what happens!

zhubajie September 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm

You know, at these kinds of banquets, Chinese people like to drink toasts. They also like to get the foreigner drunk. How do you think Sarah will behanve after 10 shots of 120 proof baijiu?

Bruno September 14, 2009 at 7:46 pm

[re=410933]zhubajie[/re]: The Chinese also like to make you eat live eel, and if you finish they give you more. Much more

worrierqueen September 14, 2009 at 8:49 pm

“I am here today to talk about death camps, no not yours, ours.”

Better American Than You September 14, 2009 at 11:05 pm

[re=410939]Bruno[/re]: Oh, Sarah has eaten plenty of eel in her day, gulps down a couple of nice big “congers” now and then. But never, ever try to pry her electric eel out of her, uh, hands.

desertwind September 15, 2009 at 2:24 am

Recently(ish), somebody on a financial blog somewhere wrote that CLSA has a tradition -in a sort of dadaist streak vein- of hiring pranksters for their big conventions. Or, conversely, to prank their speakers. Also.

Their very well paid speakers.

Could be interesting. Or not. Unfortunately, CLSA just may want to avoid the headache and play it straight.

I think link to story was on HuffPost. Sara fans went ballistic all over his comments. The guy kept responding “I’m just a financial writer. I live in Shaghai. I KNOW CLSA. I’m not bashing Sara Palin” etc. But, the know nothings didn’t wanna know nothing.

nailinpalinnow September 22, 2009 at 3:40 am

Palin’s Hong Kong Speech Has Been Leaked In Advance (warning Comedy Ahead) : )

http://nailinpalinnow.blogspot.com

ante meridiem September 23, 2009 at 10:26 am

That’s okay.
I was only going to listen to William Shatner‘s beat performance of Sarah’s speech, anyway.

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