Roger Ebert Challenges Sarah Palin To Debate With Coffee Party Founder, Annabel Park

Renowned film critic Roger Ebert took to his Twitter account last week to challenge former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin to talk with Annabel Park, founder of the Coffee Party Movement.

"I'd like to hear this young woman in conversation with Sarah Palin. I'm very serious," the prolific tweeter and Chicago movie maven posted on Friday, along with a link to a February video of Annabel Park explaining the Coffee Party's mission.

On Monday, Park lent her support to the proposal in a Facebook post that recommended a few details of such a potential encounter.

Roger Ebert thinks I should be "in conversation w/ Sarah Palin." Actually, I'd like to debate her. The debate can be a fundraiser for the victims of the Gulf Oil Spill and 99ers (unemployed ...for over 99 weeks, not covered by the benefit extension). What do you say, Sarah? -- Annabel

The Coffee Party describes its mission as pushing for "cooperation in government," with the understanding that "the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will."

In the video accompanying Ebert's original tweet, Park explains the makeup of the group:

"We really have a collection of people who value diversity -- are diverse -- and we're completely comfortable with the changing demographics of our country. I think that it's human for people to be nervous about changes in their neighborhoods and in the demographics of this country, but it's not something that should be encouraged, and it certainly should not be an opportunity for political gain. I think, really, the politicians that are exploiting that fear and anxiety for political gain, they're really the worst."

The potential confrontation between Sarah Palin, a conservative heavyweight and Tea Party champion, and Annabel Park, a growing voice in the progressive movement's reaction to people like Palin, has quickly sparked interest. On Tuesday morning, Facebookers launched a group called Annabel Park v. Sarah Palin Debate.

Comments

[OleLadySquawking]

04:13 PM on 08/31/2010

Palin couldn't debate another woman, she couldn't flirt and wink her way through it with out getting slammed.

[mamala4]

01:40 PM on 07/30/2010

Never going to happen....she can't fit all the answers to the questions she knows before the debate on her hands...besides as she said to Joe Biden and Gwen Ifill, I am not going to answer the questions you ask.

[Yurdelite51]

07:35 AM on 07/30/2010

Sarah Palin is a "conservative heavyweight" in whose book? Heavyweight will never describe this woman's brain power or influence.

[Safire]

07:27 AM on 07/30/2010

Ah, put a sock in it! First, I REFUDIATE everything you have said. Second, you wish with all your heart that The View would give you the time of day, but you would only go on there and embarrass yourself!

You take shots at the President to be noticed, like publishing your silly photo with your silly dime-store red white and blue bracelet, as if to say, see, see I am patriotic. How come you didn't wear your tacky cheap-looking over sized flag pin?

You are fading into nothingness! Fading, fading, fading. Let's see how much money you can squeeze out of your followers with your second fit-for-the-trash-as-it-comes-off-the-press book. Everybody knows you didn't write this book either. You, my dear have no relationship with non-made up words, and can't string enough together to make a coherent sentence.

The only thing barely genuine is the front cover of your likeness after bondo applications, and much photo-shopping! I am sure your desperate bagger-boys will get a rise out of it, and toss a few bucks your way.

Oh, BTW, Prez Obama does not know you exist.

[Lorelei Shark]

01:56 PM on 07/29/2010

Ah come on - Palin can't do anything without a TelePromptHer and all the questions given to her in advance so she can have her people look them up and write the answers for her. lol.

[Woody Brown]

01:42 PM on 07/29/2010

The tea party...the coffee party?
Heck, Sarah, I'm havin' a key party--wanna come?

[imnofred]

11:40 AM on 07/29/2010

Sarah Palin will never do any kind of debate unless it on Fix News and she knows the questions beforehand. A debate anywhere but Fix News is "lamestream media" and they will ask those pesky "gotcha" questions because everyone is out to get poor Sarah.

[Robert Turner]

11:09 AM on 07/29/2010

And I challenge Sarah Palin to do something.

Constructive.

That doesn't involve mangling words, gutting turkeys, or exceeding salmon catch limits. I know... reach for the stars, right?

[Fretslayer]

10:38 AM on 07/29/2010

Welcome to Coffee Tawk, I'm your host, Lina Richmond.
We tawk about dawgs, dawtas...no big whoop.

[DSOTM]

10:36 AM on 07/29/2010

How is this for a challenge, Jon Stewart, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity do a celebrity Jeopardy with all winnings going to charities.

Here is the one catch, all categories will pertain to these subjects: US History, European History, The Constitution, US Presidents, The Congress, Journalism and English Literature.

My prediction is Jon Stewart will be the only one making it to the final Jeopardy round.

[Fretslayer]

10:41 AM on 07/29/2010

My prediction is that Jon Stewart will be the only one willing to go in front of a massive audience and have his IQ tested in such a manner. LOL!

Plus... Come on... You know darn well that 1/2 way through the show, when he as -$3,000 Glenn Beck will bust into tears and go into a rant about how the Founding Fathers NEVER (he knows, he was there and knew them all first hand!) intended for answers to be given in the form of a question. Communist-Fascist-Marxist-Libera-Acorns are the only people who would do such a thing! *sob* I love America.

[Skaterx999]

01:21 PM on 07/29/2010

Fan-freakintastic.

[Vivian Alicia Evans]

04:09 PM on 07/29/2010

Love it.

[DSOTM]

10:34 AM on 07/29/2010

Sarah in an open debate, OMG I have to get off the floor from laughing so hard.

[Vivian Alicia Evans]

04:10 PM on 07/29/2010

Too funny, I think I peed my pants.

[cloudmaker]

10:28 AM on 07/29/2010

This headline is incorrect. You can't use "Palin" and "debate" in the same sentence.

[Downrivers]

11:35 AM on 07/29/2010

Only if she's gone fishing with Todd

[Downrivers]

11:38 AM on 07/29/2010

as in "honey, let's use Trig for debate"

[Vivian Alicia Evans]

04:10 PM on 07/29/2010

Good one.

[PC812]

03:09 AM on 07/29/2010

It'll never happen. Palin couldn't even handle softball questions about what magazines she reads. And benefiting people who are unemployed? To Palin, that's freeloading.

[Fretslayer]

10:42 AM on 07/29/2010

In what regards PC812?
*wink*

[Democrattothecore]

03:08 AM on 07/29/2010

Sarah Paylin would kill herself before even thinking about the word "debate" and "Sarah Palin" in the same sentence.

[Fretslayer]

10:42 AM on 07/29/2010

Oh come on.
Give Sarah a bit of credit.

She knows debate is the thing do with dehook or else you can't catch defish!

[LiberalLee]

07:37 PM on 07/28/2010

This is of course a lovely fantasy, but Mrs. Palin would never agree to it.
Firstly, she as cowardly as they come and doesn't dare step in front of an audience that hasn't paid ( ie isn't in love with her) to hear her disjointed ramblings.
Secondly, a debate is utterly out of her ability range. If this was a call for who can deliver the snarkiest playground-style taunt, she might have stood a slim chance, but to explain and defend a postion then refute ( and we all know her problems with THAT word) her opponent's position...
Well, a cold snap in the netherhells would occur before that would...
Lastly, while I'd pay to see it, I'd insist not one penny went into her greedy little fists. A charity perhaps, but not the Grifter-in-Chief.