According to some of the comments following the article, the event was canceled because the tickets just weren’t selling, and the organizers concocted this “rhetoric” ploy as an excuse to avoid admitting that.
That and it conflicted with a debate with Ronald Reagan’s name attached to it. She couldn’t suffer the blasphemy of not sucking the Ghost Dick of the Gipper when given the opportunity.
Mind-boggling at first, but upon closer examination, almost masterful. Of course it’s a silly, obvious lie that anyone the most credulous moron would immediately and instinctively discount---- but more than satisfactory for its purposes, when your core constituency includes the most credulous morons.
It must be liberating enjoying that sort of “freedom of expression,” utterly divorced of anything resembling reality or truth, and knowing your army of simpletons will prostrate themselves to lap it up.
It looks like they weren’t going to be able to sell enough tickets to pay Palin’s fee, so they contrived this stupid “rhetoric” excuse to save face.
The real story here is the growing indifference to Palin, even on the right. Her second book recently tanked in sales, and now she can’t give away tickets for public appearances. She’s becoming the Taylor Hicks of politics. She’s so 2009. The teabaggers are all into Michele Batshit now.
From Sarah’s hometown: Don’t get mad: reload!
Whoda thunkit? 
Declaring something a “____ Free Zone” (which is a pretty stupid practice, I’ll admit) does not mean that all instances of ______ evaporate now and for all time. It is possible, after all, to fire up a butt in a “smoke-free facility,” and the unanimous community designation of your skull as a “thought-free zone” obviously doesn’t completely preclude the occasional stillborn notion from oozing in through its foundational cracks. It’s up to all of us to prevent it from happening, and I encourage you personally to continue to do your part.
Yeeep. (In my best Hank Hill drawl) 
I suppose you missed the point. We’ll see what Chef has to say. Until then, before you consider attempting to lecture me any further, I’d encourage you personally to kiss my rosie red rectum! :rolleyes:
Just when it seemed you couldn’t get any lower.
Would that be the tiny small unanimous community of frustrated intelligentsia dopers? Those bed-wetting liberals seething with hatred because their ideals continue to die on the vine of political idiocy?
That community? Puhleez. Now ask me if I care possibly care any less.
Now that I seem to be getting lower, that is. 
Palin/Nadir for Presinedent 2012!