From Timothy Egan in his Grifters Tale in The New York Times:
If Palin truly believed in the Tea Partiers and their discontent, she would not be charging $100,000 to stoke their fears [at an upcoming convention]. She can do that for free, on Fox. And what policy solutions does she offer the troubled middle class? Tax cuts, like the ones that caused this massive deficit to begin with? Preventing new regulation of the banks that got us into this horrid economic collapse, under the guise of “less government”?
She has nothing to offer but honeyed words, the syrup for suckers.
Say what you will about Tea Partiers, but many of them can see through this scheme in Nashville. “Smells scammy,” wrote Red State Blogger Erick Erickson, no friend of the media elite. Others are boycotting it, citing the $549 price for the convention, or the single night tab of $349 to hear Palin.
You could even see a bit of suspicion creep into Glenn Beck, Palin’s enabler on Fox, during the strangest of interviews a few weeks ago.
Beck to Palin: “Who’s your favorite founder?”
Palin: “You know, well, all of them.”
Beck was skeptical.
Yes, women can be grifters too.
Guess Beck's not a complete nut, even if he is mad as a hatter.
Brodner brilliantly illustrates this idea, along with the heavy promotion of gold that Beck and other right-wingers encourage, in the Gold Standard, and throws in Sarah as well. It's astonishingly good, I think.
