Today Sarah Palin brought her Tea Party Express to Boston.

During her speech she rolled out her usual suspects.

“Drill baby. Drill,” Palin said and the crowd chanted her slogan calling to expand domestic oil drilling.

A couple weeks ago President Obama announced that he too wanted to see more domestic oil exploration.

The crowd was about 3,000 people. Most people weren’t native Bostonians, but Tea Partiers who’ve been following Palin’s Tea Party Express national tour.

At least half of the crowd couldn’t hear Palin because the volume was turned down so low only those near the former Alaska governor could hear what she had to say. All of the other speeches were delivered loud and clear.

Many of those from Boston were either just curious or outright opponents of Palin and her Tea Party followers.

“Fake America welcomes Sarah Palin,” one sign read – referring to Palin’s claim that “real Americans” don’t live on the east coast, despite the obvious reference to the Boston Tea Party that is a fundamental symbol employed by the Tea Party.

As usual, the message of the Tea Partiers is confusing. They claim to be against taxes, and at the same time supportive of the Iraq war.

While Tea Party followers are sensitive to accusations of racism, at least subtle racism was on display today.

“Don’t tax me bro,” said one Tea Partier’s sign. Not overtly racist, but if Obama weren’t black, the word “bro” probably wouldn’t have been employed.

One can’t help but wonder where the anger over taxes was during the Bush Administration. Obama hasn’t raised taxes, and if anything, additional tax credits have resulted in lower taxes under Obama.

Perhaps they just don’t like a “brother” managing their money.

Update: The “Don’t Tax Me Bro” sign was likely a reference to University of Florida taser incident in which a man said to the police, “Don’t tase me, bro, don’t tase me!” I didn’t catch that reference, but there you have it, likely no racial connotation meant here.

Tina Fey is a hoot, but when she does Sarah Palin she’s rididonkulously hootie. Here’s her as Palin doing a commercial for the Sarah Palin Network.

Last week on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren,” former half-term Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is “interviewed” by Van Susteren who clearly has arranged this setup question with Palin so she can use some of her “zingers” against President Obama and health care reform.

Read the entire story on Examiner

Rumors have been gurgling on the Internet since 2008 that Sarah Palin is not the mother of her son Trig. There’s been no hard evidence that Trig isn’t her son, but there is some compelling new eyebrow raising evidence that something fishy is going on here.

An Alaska blogger, Gryphen, has been all over Palin for years. Yesterday he published a story “A Tale of Two Babies by Sarah Palin.” In it Gryphen provides photographic evidence that the baby Palin lugged around just after she allegedly gave birth to Trig in April 2008 is not the same baby we see her schlepping around today and on the campaign trail in 2008.

While it’s not true that photos never lie – check these out. Take note of the alleged Palin baby’s ear.

These photos were taken during the baby shower.

Now here’s a close-up of the baby’s ear Palin claims is her baby.

Here are the photos Palin took at the shower with her alleged son and introduced him to the world.

Here’s the baby trig on the campaign trail in 2008. Now he has perfect little ears.

The deformity that the baby Palin held in the baby shower would not go away on its own. Doctors interviewed by Gryphen said that surgery would not have been done until the baby was 4-years-old. And even if surgery were done on a baby, there would be scaring and the ears would not be perfect.

Gryphen said that he interviewed several doctors and all of them said that there is no way the baby at the baby shower is the same baby Palin had been toting around on the campaign trail.

I showed the baby shower picture to a number of medical professionals, including an Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist, a physician, an audiologist who specializes in children’s hearing issues, and a pediatrician (None of them knew they were looking at a picture of Sarah Palin’s child). Each agreed the ear is visibly malformed. I asked them if this defect could “heal” or disappear on its own. “Of course not”, they each replied. I then showed them pictures of Trig Palin’s ear from the campaign. Again, none knew they were looking at a photograph of Sarah Palin’s son. I asked all if it could possibly be the same child, four to five months later. The answer: “No.”

This begs the question – why did Palin lie? What’s her motivation to go to a baby shower with one baby and then campaign with another child? It doesn’t make any sense. These photos are the best evidence that Palin was lying about her baby, but they present more questions than they answer.

Well, maybe the mainstream media will pick on this and see where it leads, but I doubt it.

Also interesting is what Palin’s doctor did to perpetrate this hoax, if it is one. Her doctor’s name is Cathy Baldwin-Johnson. Alaska’s State Medical Board should look into any wrongdoing by Baldwin-Johnson. If not felonious, she certainly could have acted unethically. Visit Alaska’s State Medical Board Web site or file an official complaint with the State Medical Board here.

Read Gryphen’s story “A Tale of Two Babies by Sarah Palin.”

Here is Sarah Palin’s Facebook posting made on Feb. 17, 2010. In an effort to maintain the public record, Palin’s entire message is published here. It was downloaded from Palin’s Facebook page on Feb. 17, 2010 at 11:04 a.m. Eastern.

Stimulus Bill Anniversary Proves Not-So-Stimulating
Feb. 17, 2010 at 7:04am

One year ago today, President Obama signed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus package and handed our children the bill. What did we get for that massive price tag? Many promises, but the promises have proven false. On this stimulus anniversary, Washington needs to hear our message that Americans expect, and deserve, better.

Americans were promised the stimulus would keep unemployment under 8%. It’s now well over that. We were promised it would be targeted and pork-free. It’s been loaded with pork, corporate giveaways, union bosses’ goodies, and other manners of waste. We were promised there would be no fraud, but our government now tells us it can’t even verify the eligibility of people applying for the $325 billion worth of stimulus tax provisions. We were promised there would be strict oversight, but billions of dollars apparently were allotted to congressional districts that don’t even exist. We were promised it would provide “green jobs” for Americans, but 80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China! We were promised it would help state governments weather the recession, but states receiving the stimulus bait will be in worse fiscal shape now because local governments will be on the hook for new unfunded mandates and continuation of government programs they couldn’t afford in the first place – as many of us governors warned state legislatures.

One year later, we see plainly that the stimulus was not a well-thought out plan. It hasn’t revived our economy; instead the debt-ridden package will prove to be a drag on our economy. It hasn’t put us on the path to a better future; instead it’s unfairly mortgaged our children’s future and stolen opportunities from them. It hasn’t strengthened us; instead it endangers our freedom and security by making us even more beholden to foreign lenders. The legacy of the stimulus isn’t jobs or economic growth – it’s more dangerous debt.

But there is hope! And this hope lies in draining the swamp in D.C. and sending Commonsense Conservatives to Washington who understand the need for fiscal restraint. Those who are willing to rein in spending, respect Constitutional limits, and repeal the stimulus should get our support, and those who have been part of the problem should be replaced.

In this election year, we’ll see many daring Davids take on entrenched Goliaths. Just one of these many brave souls is a northern Wisconsin patriot named Sean Duffy. He’s running in Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district against a liberal Goliath who’s been in Congress over 40 years now and has the dubious distinction of being the author of the stimulus bill. To commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the stimulus, Sean Duffy is holding a fundraising “money bomb” for his campaign so he can replace the career politician who drafted this government-bloating behemoth.

If you’re frustrated about the waste in the stimulus bill, please support a solid fiscal conservative who will work to repeal it. Please visit Sean Duffy’s website and help him help us correct the mistakes of this past year.

On this first anniversary of the stimulus, let’s send a message to the big-spenders in Washington by helping Sean Duffy unseat the author of the stimulus. Let’s put government back on our side and get to work revitalizing America!

- Sarah Palin

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=307630368434

Sarah Palin is fuming mad. The Fox cartoon show “Family Guy” made a crack at her and she’s told her daughter Bristol to take it public and make it personal.

According to Palin’s Facebook page, watching Sunday’s “Family Guy” episode “felt like another kick in the gut.”

Who knew she was a fan?

Evidently, her daughter Bristol “was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother.”

Let’s pretend that this isn’t a horribly worded sentence, and move on to the issue of “Family Guy” and the alleged mockery.

What’s got Palin in such a hissy is a scene in which Chris, the cartoon character teenage boy played by Seth Green, is on a date with a girl, Ellen, who has Down syndrome.

What happens is that Chris asks Ellen what her parents do for a living and she says that her mother is the former governor of Alaska.

How is this mocking a two-year-old baby with Down syndrome? Only the Palin’s can answer that, but clearly the former governor of Alaska thinks the joke was a cheap shot directed at her son Trig.

However, Sarah Palin was just too irate to even issue her own response, so she had her daughter Bristol take this one.

On Sarah’s Facebook page, Bristol said that it’s OK to poke fun of her because she can take it – she’s developed a “thick skin.” But when insults are hurled at her young brother Trig, who was born in 2008, that’s just too much for her to take lying down.

Bristol said that people with “special needs” should be treated, well, special.

“Their lives are difficult enough as it is,” she said, “so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?”

But did the “Family Guy” writers actually mock the baby Trig? The character, Ellen, is a teenage girl – not a two-year-old baby. Yes, she appears to have Down syndrome, but so what? The jokes seem to be more about two awkward teenagers on a date, and one half of one sentence refers to Sarah Palin.

Is it really mocking someone to have a character in a cartoon comedy that is somewhat similar to them?

Is the character of Cleveland mocking black people?

Well, maybe it is, but isn’t that the point of true equality?

Isn’t it a good thing that we can have a guy in a wheel chair, someone with Down syndrome, a black couple, a pervert, rich people, a goofy mayor and a complete moron all on a show making fun of our entire culture, including Sarah Palin?

Or perhaps it would be better to just pretend “those” people don’t exist? Maybe it’s easier for us as a society to ignore our fellow citizens with Down syndrome? It’s just wrong to talk about them – they’re different.

I think more people with Down syndrome should be on television and in movies – comedic roles, dramatic roles or whatever. They’re here too, and they’re just as much a part of our culture as a black man, a nitwit, a cop in a wheel chair and Quagmire.

Well, you be the judge. Here’s the complete transcript of the scene that’s got the Palin’s all riled up and a video clip below.

Chris: “Well I’m glad we’re finally going out Ellen. I’ve really liked you for a long time.”

Ellen: “Hey, what the hell do you think you’re doing?”

Chris: “Sitting down.”

Ellen: “Get up and pull my chair out for me.”

Chris: “Oh. Goodness. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

Ellen: “That’s better. Are you going to be this rude all evening? You haven’t asked anything about myself.”

Chris: “Oh um. Sorry um. Uh. So what do you parents do?”

Ellen: “That’s better. My dad’s an accountant and my mom is the former governor of Alaska.”

Chris: “That’s cool.”

Ellen: “It’s real cool.”

This post was originally published on The Neal Jeremy Show blog and reprinted here with permission.

Here’s the complete video of Sarah Palin’s speech at the Tea Party Convention on Feb. 6, 2010. Palin is the de facto leader of the Tea Party movement. The speech sounds like she’s planning for a presidential run in 2012.

There are two questions. Who will she pick as a running mate and what will the new political party be called?

When and if a transcript becomes available, it will be posted here.

The last time the Republican party was this disseminated, disorganized and dysfunctional was 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal. I was too young to remember – only five days old when Nixon’s crew broke into that Democratic National Committee office – but I’m going to guess that Americans were sick of Republicans after Nixon’s shenanigans and President Ford’s pardon. In 1976, Jimmy Carter was seen by voters as unique, an honest man in a sea of corrupt politicians. Unfortunately, Carter’s popularity plummeted when the people decided that being a nice guy wasn’t what they wanted. Carter became a one-term president. Just like 30 years ago, the Republican party is in a shambles following eight years of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, two wars, 9/11 and a crippled economy. And just like 1976, voters in 2008 elected a president because he seemed different and campaigned on hope and change. Will President Obama become the first one-term black president?

What should be scaring Obama and his supporters is that while the Republican party has been shattered, they can still tear his policies to shreds. Obama was elected because he promised to end the war in Iraq and reform health care. The war sponsored by Halliburton, Bechtel and Blackwater is still raging and health care reform is already so compromised that real reform seems unlikely.

Like Carter, Obama is trying to be the nice guy and Republicans are taking advantage of that by punching him in the face whenever they can. Sarah Palin accused Obama of wanting to kill her son because he has down syndrome (I know what you’re thinking, why does Palin keep complaining about the media talking about her kids, when she never shuts up about them). But rather than coming out strong with a message decrying these false accusations as ridiculous and educating the public on what health care reform will actually look like, Obama and the Democrats are going to pull the “confusing” section of the bill on setting up living wills.

The Republicans don’t control the White House or Congress, yet they continue to dominate the news cycle and have a stranglehold on Obama’s policies. If they can hold on for a couple more months, Obama’s window of opportunity will close, next year’s elections will get going, and there’s a real possibility that Obama could become the first one-term black president.