I'm not sure what's weirder–Sarah Palin's insanely strange resignation speech, or that, until the zoom-out, it looks as if Palin's speech is being witnessed by UFOs.
Near as I can tell from that bramble of words, she resigned because of one or all of the following:
a) she didn't approve of a joke (which of many jokes she means, I'm not entirely sure)
b) she can make a bigger difference for Alaska if she's not in charge of it (might be true)
c) the troops are selfless
d) politics is hard
or
e) something to do with basketball
She kept saying she'd explained her reasons, but darned if I can figure out what reason she actually gave. This will be a headscratcher unless there's an indictment or affair involved.
Happy Fourth?!?
ADDITIONAL:
Did she quit to become a full-time victim of a liberal conspiracy? A look at her Twitter page says that's the best guess so far. Talk about playing only to the base.
It's either that or a desperate ploy to not fade away if Theory A (indictment) or Theory B (affair) turn out to be red herrings. Or red salmon (the latest tweet actually says Todd is back to "slaying salmon & working the kids").
Often the best policy is to ignore attention hounds, on the other hand. No matter where they turn up.
ADDITIONALLY ADDITIONAL:
I finally figured out what this speech reminded me of. It had all the coherence of George W. Bush, but it had such overtones of another flaunter of justice I think in future we might refer to this kind of speech as a "pre-Nixon"–she's very irritated and angry, it seems, just like Tricky Dick, but before she's been caught doing anything. It's all strange beyond reason. That very strangeness is highly likely to kill off her political career, leaving her to just the "salmon-slaying." The only real losers in that scenario are the salmon.
