Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin confirm that Sarah Palin’s honorarium for speeches is $100,000, two first class plane tickets and one economy class ticket. On the west coast she cuts the cost to $75,000, and she waives it for charitable events. But that backs up a week of rumors More…
Perhaps the strangest thing about the National Tea Party Convention’s quasi-blackout on media coverage is the innocuous nature of the stuff organizers don’t want covered. Here, for example, is the work-in-progress list of the breakout sessions that reporters won’t be allowed into.
The Leadership Institute: “Grassroots on the
Getting into Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” meant walking through a steady rain into the Ronald Reagan building, a sprawling downtown trade and convention center where the economic conservative group FreedomWorks, which helped organize a number of Tea Party protests, had rented a foyer and More…
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