Sarah
Palin is the 2013 Wuxi Expat of the Year.
The
announcement was made by Kenneshaw “Hui Shan” Landis at a press
conference held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Gambay's Pub
II in Wuxi's Nanchang Jie Bar Street area.
Landis
defended the decision. “I am sure there a few who would question
the decision to name the controversial conservative firebrand the
Wuxi Expat of the year, but we have many good reasons. For one
thing, we have a lot to answer for in decisions we have previously
made in giving out the award. We have to make up for the fact that
we caught up in the euphoria of the Obama election of 2008 and named
him the Wuxi Expat of the year of 2009. And in 2012, we named the
execrable blogger Andrew Cowlinch the Wuxi Expat of the year. Wuxi
Expats were right to riot after that decision – Archduke Sir Harry
Moore was cheated. We wanted to give Moore the 2013 award but he
refused to accept nominations, and suggested that we name Sarah Palin
in his stead. Impressed and shamed by his chivalry, we immediately
bowed to his request and gave Palin the nomination. Of course, Sarah
was head and shoulders above the other nominees most of whom were
effeminate in some way or questionable in morality in another.”
Landis
then spoke for an hour praising Palin. He praised Palin for “her
supreme good sense,” “not being Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or
Hugo Chavez,” “her excellent work on television,” “her
defence of Phil Robertson,” “her solid admiration for the spirit
of freedom prevailing in the Wuxi China Expatdom,” “her defence
of the unborn,” “her fabulous good looks,” “her being like
Archduke Sir Harry Moore if he would have been a female,” and
“setting an example of all other Wuxi Expats about how to be.”
For
her part, Palin said that receiving the 2013 Wuxi Expat of the Year
award was a bigger honor than being asked to to take
vice-presidential spot on the 2008 Republican Ticket. “And while
it was a great regret to have lost the 2008 election, it pales with
the disappointment I feel that I never got to be the mother of
Archduke Sir Harry Moore's children. Don't get me wrong, my husband
Todd is a great man and would certainly earn a spot in the Wuxi Expat
Hall of Fame if he lived in Wuxi, but Sir Harry is a stud with his
tousled locks of black hair, his golden smile, and his statue of
David physique.