Posted by
Ron Devito on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:43:48 PM
by Upinak
www.thepalination.com
When you know you are in a losing streak, you take out your opponent via the knees right?
Well the New York Post, a liberal rag of mindless entertainment,
decided to write a “I Hate Palin because I don’t think she can sell
herself and I think she is dumb” article again. I think that the New
York Post and their writers are scared that they are losing money… and
have to print this drivel to get some money in.
What cracks me up is how the NY Post is just frothing at the mouth
concerning the speaking circuit and the amount of one hundred thousand
(100,000) per speaking engagement, which if you think about it really
isn’t that much.
Per
NY Post:
Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per
speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers
in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because
they think she is a blithering idiot."
Now, seeing this, we all understand that speaking engagements are going
to “cost”. But if you book a building, with around 1500 seats would be
about 67.00 a piece. BUT since you have to have money to rent the
building which could be 25,000 for a day, which would cost in the
amount of 17.00, I don’t see how this would be a problem? People pull
out 100 dollars for just about anything anymore. So charging 100 to 150
dollars per speaking engagement, per person really isn’t that bad.
Also, let us talk about Speaking Engagements that include a nice
dinner. Everyone knows you buy the plate before hand for whatever
speaking engagement it is. So let’s say you want to hear Sarah at one
of these. It is all priced out via the building it would be in, the
price of employees, food and set up as well as the strip down and the
speakers cost as well as the commission. Well we have all seen these
types of dinners where you can pay up and including ten thousand
(10,000) dollars per plate! So a room for 500 people. You have 100,000
for speaker, 50,000 for food and service, 15,000 to rent facility. So
round it up to 200,000 thousand for cost of all and the cost of the
plate for the Dinner Speaking Engagement is a whopping 500.00 dollars
per person!
Whoa. I think the New York Post should have thought this through before they typed their smear article out.