I wanted to write about something serious tonight, but the woman is just too much fun.
It has been announced that Sarah Palin will appear in the tiny town of Point Clear, Alabama to give a speech at a fundraiser for the “Exceptional Foundation.” The Exceptional Foundation of Baldwin Country Alabama advertises itself as a 501 (c) 3, non-profit organization, dedicated to: “meeting the social and recreational needs of mentally and/or physically challenged individuals in Baldwin and Mobile counties.
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2. The Exceptional Foundation had approached Sarah Palin with four different proposals for appearing to help the foundation, each of which was rejected.
3. It wasn’t until the Exceptional Foundation agreed to pay her fee of $100,000.00 that the Empress agreed to come.
The blogger who wrote the above, one Malia Litman (who writes an anti-Palin blog- dreary work, but someone has to do it), believes that Sarah is victimizing the “Exceptional Foundation”, and maybe she is. If so, one can’t help but think that anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is an appropriate speaker at a charitable fundraiser deserves to get scammed. Litman makes much of Palin’s hypocrisy, but is there any older news? Cynic that I am, I can’t help thinking that a newly formed group with no prior history and no money to speak of, that lands Sarah Palin as a speaker, is at least a candidate for grifter status itself.
Assuming the Exceptional Foundation is on the up and up, this story illustrates something else about this great, glorious and clinically insane land in which we live. There are places where Sarah Palin is so universally popular that a charitable organization can invite her to speak without the risk of alienating a huge portion of its potential donor base. This is a sobering thought, made only slightly less sobering by the fact that the place in question is Alabama, where, to balance Lake Wobegon, everyone is below average.
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