Bendy Straws Are Presidential
Sarah Palin spoke to students at California State University last week and some students found a copy of her hospitality rider contract in the trash. Saint Sarah has gotten used to the life of a well-paid celebrity already.
Here are the four strangest–or most outrageous–provisions in Palin’s.
(1) The Lear Jet A.P.’s Robin Hindery reports, “Among other perks, Palin will fly first class – if she flies commercial. If not, ‘the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger …,’ the contract specifies.”
(2) The Bendy Straws Politico’s Glenn Thrush pithily summarizes, “Palin demands first class, bendable straws.” Wherever she speaks, bendable straws must await her at the lectern.
(3) All Questions & Guests Pre-Screened Hotline pulls out the big news-worthy detail: Palin “requires that any questions she gets from the audience be pre-screened. In fact, even questions from a moderator are to be pre-screened, according to the document.” Additionally, “Any guests at private receptions must be pre-screened.”
(4) The Three Hotel Rooms The rider stipulates, “Customer agrees to provide the Speaker and party with accommodations of a pre-registered one-bedroom suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel.” What constitutes a “deluxe hotel” is not clear.
Notice how careful she is to avoid anyone who might ask her real questions. Really, why does anyone still think she is going to run for president. It’s a whole lot of work and you have to meet with the un-screened little people.
Tags: Sarah Palin
The bendy straw thing is important – she needs to bend the lipstick marks out of camera view.
Can you imagine a straight white straw with a throbbing red lipstick mark on camera? Or a mug or water bottle?
When I was in college, TV gasbag Morton Downey Jr. came to speak (bellow?) on campus. I believe his contract rider stipulated that the school would provide a bottle of Dewars, a case of beer and a pair of red socks. No bendy straws, though. He was quite entertaining and didn’t want any questions pre-screened.
Actually, she is going to be speaking in June.
The foundation denied that they had a contract shredding party but the students went through the trash. At issue is what the school foundation is planning on paying Palin to come to campus. They have refused to say.
I don’t understand why conservatives (or neoconservatives, which is what most of them really are) are so excited by Sarah Palin. Her support for John McCain in a primary campaign suggests that her job is to support the GOP establishment, even as she pretends to be an antiestablishment political figure. She is doing far more damage to the nonpartisan Tea Party movement than Keith Olbermann ever could.