Sarah Palin's book tour - wanna meet her?

anakin said:
that's exactly how i feel about bush. like, he could be my uncle and i'd be fine with that (my parents are republicans after all!).. but once you bring politics into it, it'll never end.

people can never agree to disagree when it comes to politics and other heated topics.. sigh. :shrug:
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exactly. why beat your own view down into a politician's throat? If you're that serious about it.... simple - RUN FOR OFFICE! :)
 
I am offended that they didn't put the star on the right city (dallas and ft hood are way off!)
 
Jiro said:
me too. I don't like her political stance very much but as a person? Same as everybody else. I don't hate her. She likes Alaska and she likes to hunt and do outdoor stuff. So do I. at least that's something we share in common. :wave:

if we get into political discussion.... we're gonna have some serious problem :lol:
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or any other way. ;)
 
Would I want to meet her? I think I'd have more fun breaking my foot with a hammer. :)
 
Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

Part of the thrill of a publicity campaign is when it becomes the news. Note that both Fox and MSNBC are accused of using false or altered images.

From Yahoo:
Fox News again accused of airing misleading video - Yahoo! News
Thu Nov 19, 3:36 pm ET

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.
The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog
 
Foxnews do apologize, especially the commentators when they realize a mistake and own up to it. That can't really be said for others in the MSM.
 
It doesn't look like she'll be in my area.

Glenn Beck was in town tonight in person (at a book store). He'll be back in January with Bill O'Reilly.
 
kokonut said:
No, but Richland, WA is your closest one, KM05. About 270 miles for you.
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Hello, Kokonut. :wave:

:ty: for pointed out about closest city, but the first post didn't say a speicalized address for Richland, Washington on November 30th. It only said "TBD" under the city in Washington. I don't know what it mean. I never heard of that name. Is it a name of place or something?

But I just calculated it on my map. It said around 268.110 miles and the time is around three hours and fifty-five minutes; from my home to the Richland (without an specialized address). So it is four hours that is a kinda of too far to reach there. I prefer to save my money since I already have a plan for Thanksgiving next week. Cos I will have to drive all the way to Kalamath Fall City in the Southern Oregon. It is six hours total (inculding lunch time and break times).

I really wish to see her in person. Oh, well. Again, thanks for your help! ^__^

PowerON - Haha, very funny. Yeah, I think she's cool lady. :)
 
kokonut said:
Not even by a few hundred miles, Reba?
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Not unless I overlooked something. I didn't see anything near Charleston, SC. I'm not going to travel "a few hundred miles." :lol:
 
I have no interest in meeting her. We would have almost nothing in common except that we are women.
 
Again, the MSM desperate attempt to somehow hurt or tarnish her image by not telling the full story.

I’ve been told that yesterday there were supporters in Noblesville who stood in long lines for hours in the cold and rain, and the book signing event ended without a chance to say hello to everyone who showed up. I am so sorry. We are working on a solution for those who were left behind.
I apologize.
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Sarah Palin: Not Enough Hours in the Day | Facebook

How come the article don't follow up on Palin's apology and her attempt to get back with those left behind?

Secondly, what does a book tour has to do with "running a country"?

What do you think? Some might ask -- but not me -- if she can't run a book tour, how can she run a country?
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Thirdly, do you know how many books she signed and for how long? How come the article does not mention that, Vampyrox? She signed about 1000 books that day vesus a planned 500 at Columbus. Maybe it had to do with keeping schedule with her next stop? With 1000 books to sign might not sound alot but try and do that consistently. Let's say 5 sigs per minute, which is generous. That would be 300 books in an hour or about 4 hours worth of constant signing.

Why is the MSM so afraid of her? Especially when you have an Obama organizing group who says that the Palin book tour is “dangerous.” Cute by hilariously laughable not to mention desperate.

President Obama’s political operation took a shot at Sarah Palin today, accusing her of lying on her media blitz.

“It’s dangerous,” Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart said of Palin’s book tour...
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Stewart asks supporters to help raise $500,000 to “push back against Sarah Palin and her allies.”
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Obama group attacks Palin to fundraise - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Question is, dangerous to whom? Man, you can actually smell the fear in the Obama administration about little ol Sarah Palin.

LOL.
 
KarissaMann05 said:
Hello, Kokonut. :wave:

:ty: for pointed out about closest city, but the first post didn't say a speicalized address for Richland, Washington on November 30th. It only said "TBD" under the city in Washington. I don't know what it mean. I never heard of that name. Is it a name of place or something?

But I just calculated it on my map. It said around 268.110 miles and the time is around three hours and fifty-five minutes; from my home to the Richland (without an specialized address). So it is four hours that is a kinda of too far to reach there. I prefer to save my money since I already have a plan for Thanksgiving next week. Cos I will have to drive all the way to Kalamath Fall City in the Southern Oregon. It is six hours total (inculding lunch time and break times).

I really wish to see her in person. Oh, well. Again, thanks for your help! ^__^

PowerON - Haha, very funny. Yeah, I think she's cool lady. :)
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Yep. Thanksgiving week will scale back the number of people to show up at her book signing event. Also, "TBD" means "to be determined", that is a time will be determined soon for that date.
 
Palin in black and white
Editor's note: LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. He is the winner of the 2009 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism and the 2008 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association award for column writing.

Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- Sarah Palin's book tour came through my city the other day and I scooted over to the mall, looking to get an autograph and a handshake.

Unfortunately, I got neither.

I wasn't in line at 5 a.m., so I wasn't one of the 1,000 or so people who obtained the special wristband necessary to gain access to the rogue one.

However, I did get a lot of strange looks from the line, which I guess was to be expected. After all, I'm a black man with dreadlocks and, judging by the racial makeup of most of the cities Palin has scheduled for her tour, it doesn't seem I'm her target audience.

I'm not suggesting that she should avoid going to places like Noblesville, Indiana, or Washington, Pennsylvania, both with overwhelmingly white populations. It just seems that in going to few diversely populated cities, she's purposefully steering clear of minorities. I mean, what author with a $5 million book deal avoids promoting books in large cities?

Palin's curious tour schedule takes me right back to some of the more disturbing displays during last year's campaign, when people at some campaign rallies at times made racist remarks.

This is not to say I believe Sarah Palin is a racist. But she said or did very little to address the racist ugliness around her during the campaign. In fact, she egged it on with her smiles and nods and calculated silence. She knew she was in the midst of a dangerous fire but, instead of dousing it, she opted to feed it and bask in its warmth and light, exchanging the ethics she talked about for the votes she lusted after.

Holding different views from an opponent on abortion or the economy is one thing; saying "He's not one of us" in reference to then-Sen. Obama, or ignoring the chants of "Kill him," is totally different. That's not about a healthy debate over policy. That's using equivocal language and timely silences to massage racist views under the guise of rallying supporters. It's irresponsible, it's immoral and it's dangerous.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has found a near-35 percent increase in antigovernment militias and white supremacist groups since 2000, and the center said opposition to Obama's election has only increased the phenomenon. There was even a Facebook poll -- quickly taken down -- asking if the president should be killed.

A lot of this has nothing to do with Sarah Palin, of course. As long as the sun shines, there will always be potentially violent racists festering along the fringes.

But for all of her speaking out in high-profile interviews -- against David Letterman, Newsweek, charges about her campaign wardrobe -- I have yet to hear Palin so much as acknowledge that some of the activity and chants at her own rallies were unacceptable. Or that the images and hateful race-based rhetoric circulating now -- such as trying to link Obama to al Qaeda because he's a person of color and his middle name is Hussein -- is unacceptable.

You don't have to be black, or a Muslim, or a Democrat, or even a maverick to denounce such talk -- just a person with a conscience.

As a Midwesterner with some Southern roots, I actually have a lot in common with Palin. I've hunted with dogs, fished, had a kid in hockey, I go to church on Sundays and, having worked in New York and L.A., I've had my fair share of run-ins with elitist, liberal snobs.

This is why I am so profoundly disappointed with her. Instead of using her popularity and influence to highlight our similarities and move the nation forward, she has allowed some of the nation's most painful wounds to be re-opened to advance her career.

I do believe she faced a lot of sexism in her career. But I also believe she didn't mind stirring up some "isms" of her own -- when it was politically advantageous.

In her book, Palin quotes Dr. Martin Luther King and says she was influenced by the courage of Harriet Tubman. She mentions the challenges faced by her husband Todd, who is part Yupik Eskimo, and his family, and writes about listening to LL Cool J. "Like every other ordinary American, I'm tired of the divisions and the special interests that pit us against each other," she writes. "Whatever your gender, race, or religion, if you love this country and will defend our Constitution, then you're an American."

If this was true, then why look into a crowd of frustrated white people and call them "real Americans" or describe the state they live in as "pro-America"? Who are the fake Americans? Where are the anti-America states? Can the answer be found in her book tour?

I didn't hear any of that red-state rhetoric from her brief speech in Grand Rapids, but by snubbing many racially diverse cities, Palin is repeating that "us against them" message in a more subtle but equally effective way.

She can't blame Katie Couric for that.
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:hmm:
 
Of course, Sarah hates big cities! And I did notice all supporters are white. I don't see blacks. LOL!
 
I will go joggin with her.

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