Round-up: Flap over Sarah's CSU speech, cont'd

According to practically the entire Internet, two students at California State University-Stanislaus recovered (from a Dumpster) portions of the Washington Speakers Bureau contract between a foundation at their university and Sarah Palin for a speech she is scheduled to give on June 25. California's Attorney General has announced his department will undertake an investigation into the whole affair, centering on financial accountability. "This is not about Sarah Palin," according to his statement. Read more about the matter from a state politics angle at the San Francisco Chronicle, here. UK's The Guardian has posted a .pdf version of the discovered contract, but the UK's Telegraph has better details about what the requests are: among other things, that "the speaker" be provided four airline tickets (two first-class) from Anchorage to the site, or use of a private jet, accommodations at a "deluxe hotel" (good luck finding one of those in Turlock, the home of CSU-Stanislaus), and that at the engagement, the podium be stocked with bottles of still water and bendable straws and that all questions from the crowd be pre-screened. However, a quick opinion tidbit from The Washington Post argues that those requests aren't really out of the ordinary, and that Palin could be demanding much more than what the documents show. In other words, it might only be a matter of time before her contract riders start looking like Mötley Crüe's.