WASHINGTON -Comedian Mary Walsh (dressed as her TV character - Delahunty) button-holed the former Alaska governor at a recent book-signing in Columbus, Ohio, only to be strong-armed away from Palin by a cabal of security guards.
The action was documented for Tuesday night's "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," but four days later, Walsh was still marvelling at her close encounter with one of the most controversial politicians on the planet.
"We told her we're from Canada, and we're just looking for a few words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so tirelessly to destroy the socialized medicare that we have,"(a comment meant to be satirical humor) Walsh recalled.
"Four huge big burly guys started pushing, and I pushed back, but I got her attention, and she told us to keep the faith, something like that, and said we're all trying for the same thing."
After being kicked out of the book-signing, Walsh and her crew then waited outside at a loading dock close to where Palin's bus was parked. When Palin emerged from the Borders bookstore, Walsh,(still in her TV character Delahunty )- dressed in a more toned-down version of her trademark warrior princess costume - called out to her.
"Hey, remember us, we're the Canadians! We came all the way here from Canada!" Delahunty yelled. "When we asked you that question, we didn't hear your answer."
Palin strolled over, looking down on Walsh and her crew to tell them that "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system (one of our basic rights) and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit."
"Basically, she said government should stop doing the work that private enterprise should do," Walsh said.
In addition to those comments, Walsh said, she found it equally bizarre that no one was allowed to ask Palin any questions at the book-signing.
"It was great fun, but also very strange," Walsh recalled.
"We're in a bookstore, at a public event, in a place one would think was a bastion of free speech. And no one was allowed to ask questions. What are they afraid of?"
Needless to say Canadians don't look forward to Ms Palin possibly becoming the next president.
The Canadians have nothing to fear from this foolish woman, she can't run her household let along a country, I think we Americans have learned our lesson when G.W. Bush was President.
ReplyDeleteWe are hoping and praying Mr.Obama can get a health-care system like Canada's working for us here in America.
As I recall,Mrs. McCain called her a trailer trash hooker with no taste.Mary Walsh would have pass out from boredom if Palin had said something to her she don't make sense.
I got my video and I laugh so hard my side hurt, played it over and over it was so fast,again,thankyou
I wish Palin take her bullshit and peddle it somewhere else.
ReplyDeletePalin makes me so fucking annoyed.She knows nothing about Canada or our system of government and she dare to give a bullshit opinion like that.
ReplyDeleteDamn that high speed internet....HA!
Hi ...Love the high speed hahaha
ReplyDeletePalin knows nothing about America..
ReplyDeleteShe is a joke,she has no morals, even her 2nd kid is going the same way, hell they learn their shit from her.
I'm glad Americans feel that way about her too.Frankly I'd be scared if she was in the White House.
ReplyDeleteThe boyfriend [Levi] is writing a book.
ReplyDeletePalin was flaunting her daughter and boyfriend as if that's something we want our daughters to do...get preggie, she should have played that low key.
ReplyDeleteHow ya doin??Baked all your Christmas cookies yet??Put more rum on the rum cake??
ReplyDeleteOne thing I like is British desserts.Their plum pudding is steeped in brandy and then doused in brandy and set on fire.
Also English trifle is made with lots of sherry in it...Yum
They are finding some beautiful new species.
ReplyDeleteYou can get drunk just eating dessert in an English household.
ReplyDeleteThe only noteworthy thing Levi ever did in his life was fuck Palin's daughter.He doesn't have one other achievment.
ReplyDeleteThat whole family is dysfunctional.
ReplyDeleteI did not realize however that Palin had a Down's syndrome baby.She has my heartfelt sympathy for that.
Rum on the cakes, they are for Xmas
ReplyDeletehope I can get through tomorrow.
I will start my Xmas cooking around the first. I am up to my ass getting ready for tomorrow.
Thanksgiving ans Xmas is to close together.
She has mine also, she should stay home and take care of him. Palin acted as if she was proud her daughter had a baby, she looks so country.
ReplyDeleteIf she was President and had her first state dinner, she would be dressed in a sweat-suit and rubber boots.
They were never able to go that deep in the ocean before.Some of the species actually eat crude oil and methane off the floor of the ocean to survive.If they could come to the surface they could clean up all the oil spills.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately they would not survive without the tremendous pressure on their bodies. They would explode or just come apart.
I can't find the puppies, did you find them some good homes?
ReplyDeleteYes your holidays are too close together.
ReplyDeleteWe have Jaye's birthday party this Sunday .Peter's taking the whole family out to dinner.I'm looking forward to it.
My mother's birthday comes right after Christmas when I'm broke and tapped out of ideas.
I found it funny when the puppies sat on someone's face or on a lady's boobie but a couple of people told me they were annoying. What do you think??
ReplyDeleteIf you like them I will get some new blog pets.
ReplyDeleteI like them, but we do aim to please...they would slide their butts , but it's up to you,some think they were cool,but we want to keep everyone happy.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you get a "Lady" that has everything.
ReplyDeleteHow about a small Ivy plant. Do you have Tea Roses, could get a small one to set on a small table or chest in her room.
I just saw Obama pardon a turkey from execution for thanksgiving.He gave him a new lease on life and wished him luck in the future.He petted the turkey and his daughters were there and thought it was very funny.
ReplyDeleteI know Jaye will enjoy her party and Peter loves spoiling her.
ReplyDeleteI love the way he includes his kids. He is a great role model, so far.
ReplyDeleteA living plant is always a good idea for most people but Nana has a brown thumb and doesn't want the responsibility.She does have everything.
ReplyDeleteI can't give her the one thing she wants.
You don't have to get new pets if they annoy our readers. I am find the way we are, you always come up with different things, and they all are cute.
ReplyDeleteI notice you said "so far"
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like people are just waiting for him to fall on his face.He is going to fail at something sooner or later.
I know what she wants also.
ReplyDeleteHow about some funny looking socks or funny slippers like the twins gave Jaye. You can buy a cute vase with a stopper in it and put a little liquor in it like Vodka and put a ribbon in her favoriate color on it.
They just don't want a black man in office, we all have short coming , but he is doing better than the last white man we had in office...I say give him a chance..
ReplyDeletethey fight him over everything.
Now you are talking. Warm fuzzy socks are a great idea.She will use them .She loves practical gifts and how did you know Vodka was her favorite Booze?
ReplyDeleteThat's another thing that's wrong with America, we don't see the person, just color. I think they should take a history course.
ReplyDeleteThey had a jug of moonshine in one hand and a gun in the other, got the native american drunk and finished him off with the gun.
You told me ...it would relieve her pain better than her meds.
ReplyDeleteI sleep in my fuzzy socks when it's real cold.It's not the cost , but the love that goes into buying the gift.
ReplyDeleteyou are right on all counts.The racism in your country stinks.We're in the new millenium.We should put all that negative shit behind us. This is a new world where we should all pull together.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about gifts too.It's all about the thought you put into it.
My family loves him, and they think Micheel's butt is too big and his little ass gonna fall in.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally,I sleep in my fuzzy socks too.If it's twenty below freezing or more I wear two pairs.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll go to a little accessories boutique I know at the mall and get her a nice hat, gloves and scarf too,all soft and warm.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be Nana's warm fuzzy Christmas.
I always get her books she is a great reader.
ReplyDeleteWe all read voraciously.Even the twins would often rather read than play video games ,especially Jakey.
I won't be buying Palin's book thoughunless I get it as a joke for someone I don't like too much.
ReplyDeleteYou know I told you about my mama's ancestry my father's creole ancestry, and I am very proud just to be here.
ReplyDeleteGil told me I should research the creo;e history and make a post,I would be surprise at what I will find.
The history of the Creoles is a very exciting one indeed.They were aristocrats.
ReplyDeleteIf someone give me Palin's book I wiil beat their ass with it.
ReplyDeleteI buy a lot of books for the girls.
Their brains needs the workout not their fingers.
Reading keeps their mind active.
I think Nana will love her gifts, you put a lot of thought into it.
Originally Creoles in louisiana were white and of French ancestry.Later Creole came to mean people of mixed background French/African American/Native Indian.
ReplyDeleteI caught the last of a story on TV and we do have quite a bit of mixture.
ReplyDeleteBefore the louisiana Purchase your state was French owned territory and it was very French.It had that French continental flavor you can still find in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteWe are suppose to be french creole, hell that was a long time ago, I told you about Josie running the "ho" house and her her hubby loved the dark meat.Who knows what happen along the way.
ReplyDeleteWe had to study American history.
ReplyDeleteCanadians, historically,are French or English or French/English.We have so many immigrants from other countries now we're in the minority and our aboriginal people are making a strong comeback.
A lady wrote a book about her life here, I will find it, I think it was Laura Plantation, she married a whtie guy from up north and moved away and no one knew she was mixed. She was at a ball and s a black band was playing and she knew one of the guys, and her kids didn't know she was mixed.
ReplyDeleteHA! Now I know what Aboriginal people do when it stay cold and frozen, Damn I would make a great Aboriginal.
ReplyDeleteHey...Dave just said Adam Lambert is coming on his show next.
ReplyDeleteMy daddy's grandfather was a sea captian and they say he was the love of Josie's life, Josie had a daughter named Rose, she was my daddy's mama.
ReplyDeleteAdam is singing a song now on Dave.
I'd like to read that book.I'm sure it's the same story for a lot of people of mixed heritage who were light skinned.Many lived as white folks.I don't blame them.White folks got all the advantages.People of color got nothing but contempt and grief.
ReplyDeleteDave just let him sing..I tuned in so I wouldn't miss Craig.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to the bookstore, maybe they can help me, Barnes and Noble.
ReplyDeleteThere was free blacks and they had slaves. Why can't we just realize we are all the same, all bled red blood.
ReplyDeleteMy mom's dad was a sea captain also.He owned some ships and had some businesses on shore too.He was quite wealthy and my grandmother bankrupted him because she hated him.It was an arranged marriage.
ReplyDeleteGee our lives seem dull next to Joses's and my grandparents.
ReplyDeleteThe worst people were the chiefs of the tribes in Africa.They sold their own people into slavery for a few beads and baubles.
ReplyDeleteBlack people weren't completely blameless in slavery times.
There was a Swiss scientist in the early eighteen hundreds who was commissioned to find out if slaves were related to humans or to monkeys.Somewhere I have a book of the photographs he took of first generation African slaves.The sadnes and hopelessness in their eyes made me cry I couldn't look at them again.
ReplyDeleteThey had good times.
ReplyDeleteDon't know what happen, if he had a family or not when Rose was about 14/15 he sailed back to England and never returned, don't know what happen to him.
My daddy/mama is older than Nana.
ReplyDeleteWell Toots,I'll let you go to find your comfortable bed.I put our fleece sheets on today so you can bet your long johns it's getting colder.I'm so glad. It was scary because it was so warm.
ReplyDeleteAll is good ... have a good night and dream of sugar pluma dancing in your head.
ReplyDeleteGoodnite....PIC
Have sexy dreams...night.. PIC.
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