Soundbite: Two Elderly People Walk Into A Death Panel…

“It’s good to be here, though, really, in front of this audience of leading journalists and intellectuals — or as I like to call it, a death panel.”

— Sarah Palin at tonight’s Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C., where journalists and politicos gather for some light-hearted ribbing, roasting, and making jokes about false, damaging rumors about the health care bill meant to frighten and alienate elderly citizens. She also joked about life after the McCain campaign (“The view is so much better from inside the bus than under it“) and why she agreed to address the dinner (“At least now I can put a face to the newspapers I do read.”

Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists’ dinner [AP]
What Sarah Palin had to say at Saturday’s Gridiron dinner [Miami Herald]

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