New York has a special way of letting out-of-towners know they’re welcomed. Our NYC Operative Peter Jernigan was on the ground at Sarah’s presser outside the FoxNews studios, and snapped these exclusive pics of her freshly-remodeled Tour Bus, courtesy of an anonymous Islander.
All the fun’s in the first 20 seconds. The rest is some horseshit criticism of the Dream Act plus reminiscences of her magical night with Donald Trump. Plus smiles and autographs.
....OH, AND AT THE END, SHE MAKES PIPER APOLOGIZE FOR “PUSHING” THAT REPORTER IN PHILLY YESTERDAY. Wotta Mom!
For anyone who cares, Palin has arrived in Philadelphia. Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy, co-authors of Sarah from Alaska, seem to be the Friendly Media embeds on the tour, although it looks like Michael Smerconish got some face-time with the Unplannedidate herself.
PS: I don’t do Twitter, but I believe that “rxn” is a compressed form of the Irish word “ruction”...as in “a row and a ruction soon began.” Or if not, it should be.
Palin was mobbed by over 200 reporters and supporters as she made the brief walk from Independence Hall to the Liberty Bell. In a brief interview as she stood next to the Liberty Bell, she said the chaotic nature of her tour is only out of respect for the other people making visits.
“It’s quite chaotic anywhere we get off on the bus,” she said “We don’t want to interrupt any people or their nice plans for vacation.”
My Dad used to leave me in the car while he shot the shit with guys who owned gas stations, so I know the drill. My inanimate friend was a fuel-pump named “Mr. Squeaky.”
I’m just guessing it’s all about the Mosque, since the Wikipedia list of big-name historic sites is pretty thin…unless she’s got a hankering to apologize to the Indians or visit the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
A political Merry Prankster, Palin clearly relishes her unique ability to confound and surprise her prospective opponents, as she test-drives a possible presidential run that she and her team—with a discernible wink—have publicly billed as something akin to a mere sightseeing trip.
Because, as any Freeper will tell you, Liberal media always promotes the weakest Conservative candidate to run against Our Guy. I only hope she was watching.
At least according to the totally impartial management at FoxNews:
While her just-announced national bus tour would seem to place Sarah Palin a step closer to a 2012 presidential run, her bosses at Fox News are not yet ready to cut ties with her.
“We are not changing Sarah Palin’s status,” Bill Shine, executive vice president of programming for Fox News, said in a statement Thursday.
Relax, everyone! Operation Rolling Thunder board member Ted Shpak was just misinformed when he expressed dismay that Inanity Jane would be kicking off her traveling medicine show on the Mall, where it just so happened that half a million vets on bikes were converging with a purpose unrelated to promoting Alaskan banana oil.
Sarah was invited, by a retired board member who at the point of an off-camera moose rifle allowed as how he’d taken it upon himself to ask the Grisly Mama, news which somehow hadn’t reached the ears of the guys in the organization who actually, you know, are on the board. So just pipe down, OK? Schpak’s concerns that America’s Backstreet Driver (™Strange Appar8us) would be a fifth wheel and knock the event off-balance are entirely meritless, now that we know she was officially given an unofficial invitation, because you know, when there’s a chance to promote herself on the backs of our fallen heroes, you don’t have to ask Sarah twice! Or possibly, even once.
It could have been worse, after all. It could have been her running mate.
The barely awaited million-dollar Palin docuvertisement at which we’ve been laughing our socks off in anticipation looks like it’s going to hit a similar snag to the cult flop Atlas Shrugs unless there’s some devastatingly cunning strategy behind its release during the hastily cobbled together Tragical Blustery Tour.
It’s all very well producing a movie, but how do you get it before the eyes of an eager audience, let alone an unconvinced one? The Demoines Register isn’t encouraging:
“Typical political movies don’t do two cents at the box office,” said Brian Fridley, a co-owner of R.L Fridley Theatres Inc., which has 22 locations and 89 screens in Iowa. “No one cares but the Kool-Aid drinkers, whether they’re on the right or the left.”
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Some Republicans in Iowa have said they’ve written off a Palin candidacy, partly because of her lack of activity here.
But volunteers not affiliated with Palin continue to feverishly organize support throughout the state on her behalf.
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Denise Mahon, owner of the Varsity Theatre near Drake University in Des Moines, said no one has approached her about running the picture, and she has little interest in it. But out of curiosity, Mahon called her New York distributor today to try to track down details about where in Iowa the film will debut.
Fridley, who described himself as an independent-thinking Republican, said he hasn’t been asked to carry the film — and won’t unless film tracking surveys show it would be popular. “We give films priority as to what’s going to do business at the box office and what are good films we’d like the public to see that may have been looked over,” Fridley said.
Fridley said he personally finds Palin “annoying.”
“Why would you do a movie? Are you going to judge your candidacy on whether people want to see the movie or not?” he said. “I think she really shot herself in the foot when she couldn’t put up with the pressure as governor. How is she going to be as president? If she’s under pressure, is she just going to resign?”
Unless Fox makes the arguably illegal move of airing it, which given its length alone is pretty well out of the question, expect it to debut to the faithful few in some hastily hired venue yet to be announced, then probably go the samizdat route via Youtube before sinking without trace.
But the Register did manage to find one person who was enthusiastic:
Avowed Palin supporter Richard Rogers, 61, of West Des Moines said he was excited about the film.
“It’s likely to be helpful because I think a lot of people are confused or unaware what really was happening when she returned to Alaska after the 2008 campaign,” said Rogers, a professional pilot and regional director for Polk and Story counties for the national grassroots group Organize4Palin. “It will kind of be a second introduction.”
The people who’re most confused about what was happening when Palin returned to Alaska after being soundly trounced in the election are her remaining fans. If the media get behind it, it may gain some legs just because it’s Palin and stories about her always attract eyes, but it should also invite scrutiny of the many other threads that remain as yet unraveled from the heaping pile of fail that was Palin’s half-term as semi-detached governor, a number of which are dozing dogs she might be better advised to let lie.
Sarah Palin will announce a bus tour at 3pm today.
It will be in connection with the Rolling Thunder festivities in DC this Memorial Day weekend, either starting or ending with the festivities at Rolling Thunder.
Nice weather. Friendly crowd of veterans. Washington backdrop. Plus, now that the movie’s out of the bag, she pretty much has to quit Fox or admit it’s all a joke, so why not?
There was supposed to be some major “Money Bomb” action when she hit the three million mark, but for all her fans know she’ll be handing their money over to Herman Cain or Tim Pawlenty, once she discovers the joys of a “resort-style” backyard with an in-ground pool. Mama Grizzly lives BIG, bucko.
