Appearing at Iowa Congressman Steve King’s Freedom Summit, star speaker Sarah Palin spoke from a binder of notes, delivering a string of one-liners designed to fire up conservatives while interspersing them with stock and sometimes garbled patriotic platitudes.

National media covering the event — and viewers watching it live on C-Span — lit up Twitter with running commentary on the linguistic twists and turns Palin made as her own Twitter account pumped out tweets directing followers to her political action committee, SarahPAC.

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Washington correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, Toby Harnden, called Palin’s speech, “bizarro.”

Entering to the strains of Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off,’ Palin pushed back against the litany of attacks against her recently; including allowing her son to use the Palin dog, Jill Hadassah, as a footstool and the more recent controversy over her holding up a sign reading “Fuc_ You Michael Moore,” with gun sights drawn inside of the o’s in Moore.

Along the way, Palin made references to President Obama eating dog as a child in Indonesia and accused the administration of not saving Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi.

In one memorable passage, Palin exhorted conservatives to take on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, claiming the Republicans “have a deep bench.”

“It is good that we have a deep bench and its primary competition that will surface the candidate who’s up to the task and unify and this person has to because knowing what the media will do throughout all of 2016 to all of us it’s going to take more than a village to beat Hillary,” she said.

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On Twitter, coupled with praise, commenters made their feelings known about the content of Palin’s speech, as well as the overall tenor of the speech.

I don’t say this lightly. This is the strangest speech I’ve ever seen Sarah Palin deliver. — Scott Conroy (@RealClearScott) January 24, 2015

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This Palin monologue is basically a celebration of victimhood, much like Scott Walkers, just not as linear or, you know, sane. — Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) January 24, 2015

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I cannot stress enough that this is *least amount of sense* I’ve heard Palin make. Not a Scott-Walker’s-charisma-level bar, either. — Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) January 24, 2015

I’ve heard hundreds of Palin speeches and this is easily in the Top 5 laziest and most frenetically incoherent. — Jeb Lund (@Mobute) January 24, 2015

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Palin: “This is to forego a conclusion.” lolwut — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2015

In Iowa, Sarah Palin has used half of her allotted time talking about herself and taking jabs at media coverage. — Byron York (@ByronYork) January 24, 2015

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Sarah Palin rambles incoherently for 10 mins before finally getting to an Obama-eats-dogs joke — Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 24, 2015

Sarah Palin: A noun, a grammatically incorrect verb, and a racist slur — Steve Dowdy (@Steverocks35) January 24, 2015

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End of the day, some empty seats, media buzzing over Palin bizarro, Walker triumph stories filed – not an ideal slot for @GovChristie — Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) January 24, 2015

Sarah Palin is now the rodeo clown sent out to get the crowd riled and make the real cowboys look better in comparison. — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 24, 2015

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Following Palin, Rick Perry sounds like Pericles — Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 24, 2015

“Thank you!” is DNC Communications Director Mo Elleithee response to Palin’s long address to #IAFreedomSummit #DNC — David Lightman (@LightmanDavid) January 24, 2015

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Video excerpt added (h/t dcmfox in comments) uploaded to YouTube by PalinGrifter2012