Palin’s Saturday Speech Still On, Tea Party Founder Says
EmailABC News’ Sheila Marikar and Shushannah Walshe report:
Sarah Palin has not canceled her keynote speech for the Tea Party of America’s Saturday rally in Indianola, Iowa, according to the event’s organizers.
Ken Crow, the founder of the Tea Party of America, told ABC News this morning that he “hung up with [Palin's] people five minutes ago” and “she’ll be here on Saturday.”
“Gov. Palin is a lady of her word and impeccably honest,” he added. He admitted that the organization’s encountered “a couple of errors” in planning the Sept. 3 rally.
“I’m naive when it comes to politics and what you are supposed to say to and not say and my crew and I are rookies at this sort of thing,” he said. “We made mistakes and now we are fixing them. It’s all good.”
Multiple media outlets reported this morning that Palin had backed out of the “Restoring America” event, but still planned to be in Iowa on Saturday. The rally’s undergone a lot of upheaval this week: Failed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell was invited to speak before Palin, then had the invitation rescinded, and on Tuesday night, “humbly re-accepted the re-invitation” to speak, according to her Twitter account.
Crow called the handling of O’Donnell a “mistake.”
“I didn’t handle it the way I should have,” he said. “We handled it incorrectly.”
Palin seemed locked into giving the keynote speech earlier this month when her political action committee put out a Web video of her recent appearance at the Iowa State Fair that ended with the words, “See You Again September 3rd.”
The former governor of Alaska is also slated to appear at a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire on Monday, Sept. 5.
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Isn’t Crow the same schmucklet who said O’Donnell was off the roster, then back on, because “we panicked”?
I guess he’s a true case of “you are what you eat.”
Posted by: Barack Like Me | August 31, 2011, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
You can literaly smell the fear coming off the liberal media…. yet this this NOTHING compared to the terror seen from the zombie liberal sect.
Whomever the republicans elect in the primary will go on to become the next president. Nobody’s questioning that any longer (zogby,PPP,Rasmussen) and I for one hope that person is Palin.
obama will go down in history as THE most pathetic excuse for a Commander in Chief in this nation’s history. Congrats on that one liberals ……
Posted by: Max Leygrume | August 31, 2011, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
often read how Palin followers love to ” smell the fear’ when commenting in reference to liberals as a whole .
Posted by: bipartizan | August 31, 2011, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
Well….. it stinks.
Posted by: Max Leygrume | August 31, 2011, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
And yes – it’s in reference to liberals as a hole .
Posted by: Max Leygrume | August 31, 2011, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
Ken Crow is NOT the founder of the Tea Party in any way shape or form. I met him in Iowa in June or July and he actually told me to LIE to people while on the campaign trail! Be suspicious of this guy big time. He is NOT what he appears to be. Period!
Posted by: xlaurenstephens | August 31, 2011, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
@XLAURENSTEPHENS: Curious. WHAT did he tell you to lie about and to whom? If Ken Crow (and by extension, his crew) are attempting to pull some fast ones, they’re not being very subtle about it. So is it simple bungling ineptitude…or something else?
I don’t know which to hope for. I’m sick of the dishonesty from everybody political. But the last thing we need is a bunch of bunglers getting in power. Again.
Posted by: Tom Cavness | August 31, 2011, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
If you are Tea Party, you are a terrorist. Sarah Palin is a mouthpiece for the Tea Party which represents nothing but hatred and dissension. Her rhetoric and violence-inciting imagery IS a form of terrorism and a prime example. She held Jared Lee Loughner’s hand while he murdered people with his misguided sensibilities. I was compelled to draw a visual commentary showing her handing him the gun on my artist’s blog at
She’ll go to any lengths and keep spewing her insanity for that attention (and the money of course.)
Posted by: Brandt Hardin | August 31, 2011, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
At Brandt Hardin- Wow what are you a wizard? After all of the facts came out this guy was a nut case and a leftist. He would have been a best friend of any leftist/communist and would gladly do their bidding. If Palin were to hand him anything it would have been a Bible.
Posted by: bcorp | August 31, 2011, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
@Brandt Hardin: I challenge you to find even ONE piece of “violence-inciting” imagery or rhetoric from Sarah Palin. And no, the stupid “target” map doesn’t count since Dem’s have been using it longer than Reps. Brandt, you are a perfect example of the Liberal “mob mentality” that’s so prevelant in your party today. You’re capable of taking in all the facts, ignoring them, and making up your own conclusions that go totally opposite of the facts. In otherwords, there’s no sense in talking to you about anything. So why am I wasting my time? For the edification of OTHERS reading this that may not be quite so far gone as you. Good luck in your fantasy land.
Posted by: Tom Cavness | August 31, 2011, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm