{"id":287694,"date":"2010-02-06T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65529"},"modified":"2010-02-06T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T01:59:30","slug":"live-blog-palin-speaks-at-tea-party-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287694","title":{"rendered":"Live Blog: Palin Speaks at Tea Party Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2664\" title=\"palin_FLYTRAP\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/35\/files\/2010\/02\/palin_FLYTRAP2.jpg\" alt=\"palin_FLYTRAP\" width=\"227\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party Dinner, t<a href=\"http:\/\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/02\/valentine-day-warm-up-pork-not-palin\/\">he high point of controversy-plagued Tea Bag Nation convention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspense is delightful, for surely the <a href=\"http:\/\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/05\/first-dude-paid-in-boxer-shorts-for-secretly-running-alaska\/\">news of the First Dude&#8217;s emails<\/a> have reached the Tea Party citizenry. How will they react to Palin? With gushing love? With suspicion that perhaps the precious Sarah is not all she&#8217;s set herself up to be? Or will they blindly embrace her for want of a better idol?<\/p>\n<p>What themes will she touch on? And just as importantly, what rhetorical devices will she employ? The wink? The folksy faux poet? The brave frontier woman?<\/p>\n<p>Join us in deconstructing Palin as we liveblog her speech&#8211;both MSNBC and CSPAN are carrying it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65529&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_65529\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party Dinner, the high point of controversy-plagued Tea Bag Nation convention. The suspense is delightful, for surely the news of the First Dude&#8217;s emails have reached the Tea Party citizenry. How will they react to Palin? With gushing love? With suspicion that perhaps the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}