. '' `` The big government , the big debt , Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending spree is over . You 're fired , '' she said , prompting cheers from the crowd . Are you there or at another Tea Party ? Share your video , images Palin 's speech Saturday echoed many of her recent appearances at Tea Party events as she promoted `` common sense conservative values '' and decried `` elites in Washington '' and big government spending . She addressed recent criticism of a post on her Facebook page that called for conservatives not to retreat in the wake of the health care vote , but `` reload . '' Some critics have suggested the post encouraged violent acts against those who voted in favor of the legislation . `` Let 's clear the air right now , '' she said . `` We 're not inciting violence . Do n't get sucked into the lame-stream media lies about Americans standing up for freedom . it 's a bunch of bunk that the media is trying to feed you . Do n't let them try to divert '' attention from the issue . Other expected speakers included Gov.
Searchlight , Nevada -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin kicked off a Tea Party rally Saturday in Sen. Harry Reid 's hometown , encouraging disgruntled Americans to `` take back our country '' while attacking what she called the `` Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending spree . '' `` There 's no better place to kick off the Tea Party Express than Harry Reid 's hometown , '' Palin said at the rally , dubbed `` Showdown in Searchlight , '' aimed at conjuring up support for the Senate Majority Leader 's defeat in November elections . Activists -- some of whom are calling the gathering the largest retirement party in the world -- hope it will carry a strong symbolic message . Reid , the Senate majority leader , is credited with helping push through Congress the controversial health care bill that President Barack Obama signed Tuesday , as well as the `` fixes '' measure that passed Thursday . `` Washington has broken faith with the people that they are to be serving , '' Palin told the crowd , which numbered in the thousands . Palin said the message to government leaders was `` loud and clear