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Posted: Sun 29 Nov , 2009 9:38 pm
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Truly frightening... :help:



Meanwhile, over here we just got the NCIS "Palin" episode :lol:

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Posted: Tue 01 Dec , 2009 5:17 pm
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Well well well. We now discover that now only is the Palin book filled with lies and half-truths, but the entire PALIN BUS TOUR is something of a fraud in and of itself.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and- ... hoax/full/
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On her book tour, Sarah Barracuda pretends to be one of the people. But she's really winging across the country on a private jet.
As much of her entourage, including HarperCollins publicist Tina Andreadis, risked a collective case of White Line Fever, covering more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week, Sarah Palin herself seems to have remained above it all, apparently cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II 12-passenger jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour.
More than two weeks ago, quoting Andreadis, USA Today reported that Palin would be “making two and sometimes three stops a day, traveling in a bus painted with the cover of her book.” And just before the tour started, Palin herself said on her Facebook page: “I’ll post our progress from the road.” To further the illusion, the populist heroine gave televised interviews from the bus, including one to Greta Van Susteren en route to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
To further the illusion, the populist heroine gave televised interviews from the bus, including one to Greta Van Susteren en route to Fort Bragg.
Last week I was in The Villages, the fantastical Back to the Future-style retirement enclave north of Orlando, when Palin popped out the front door of the bus to greet the thousand or so worshipers gathered outside Barnes & Noble. I thought she sure looked good for someone who had been riding a bus for a week, changing diapers—as she said—all the way. Publicist Andreadis, by contrast, had the worn and harried look of someone who had been earning an honest living by riding a bus for a week.
It seems now that Palin hasn’t been on the bus, except for short hops between local airports and hotels and book-signing sites. Instead, as first reported by the Alaskan blog Palingates, she’s apparently been aboard UJT750, the Gulfstream American twin-jet that she first boarded at Westchester County airport shortly after noon on November 18, bound for Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the first stop on her tour.
The full activity log for UJT750 can be found here. The bottom line is that the plane’s goings and comings track Palin’s tour perfectly: from Grand Rapids to Washington, Pa. and then to Rochester, N.Y., Roanoke, Va., Fayetteville, N.C., Birmingham, Ala., and Jacksonville and Orlando.
On November 25, the plane carried Palin, her parents, her two youngest children and her Aunt Katie to Pasco, Washington, for Thanksgiving. And there it sat, at Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco, for four full days, which is a lot of inactivity for a plane that rents for more than $4,000 an hour. But it was Thanksgiving weekend and the Pasco-Richland area was where Palin wanted to be.
Palin apparently returned to New York Sunday night. At least UJT750 was scheduled to take off from Tri-Cities at 6:55 p.m. EST with an 11:30 p.m. arrival at Teterboro, N.J., anticipated. Her next signing is not until Thursday, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Presumably, she’ll fly to Fayetteville and then board her bus again for the short ride to the local Sam’s Club. Presumably, she’ll also fly over the much greater distances that separate the stops on the western half of her tour, which stretches from Dallas to Minneapolis. Will she continue to pretend she’s riding the bus?
I emailed Tina Andreadis and Jonathan Burnham, HarperCollins’s publisher, yesterday to ask:
--How much is Universal Jet Aviation charging?
--Is HarperCollins paying?
--Will Sarah continue to fly throughout the second half of the tour?
--Does anyone else ever ride on the plane with her?
--Can you give me a list of where she actually stayed overnight from Nov. 18 until her arrival in Tri-Cities?
--I assume she did not use her own name checking in: Can you comment on my information that she used "Sheeran," her mother's maiden name?
--In regard to the other plane used on Nov. 19-20 in Ohio and Indiana, was that supplied by [Billy Graham’s son] Franklin Graham?
Burnham did not reply. Andreadis wrote back: “Harper has no comment on the logistics of its tours.”
Oddly, Palin herself let the mask slip a couple of times on Twitter. At 9:48 p.m. on Nov. 21, she wrote, “Just got off flt.” A few hours later, she wrote, “Landed in VA.” Other than that, except for the side trip to Asheville, N.C., for dinner with Billy Graham—aircraft provided by Billy’s son, Franklin, and his evangelical organization Samaritan’s Purse—Palin has played along with the charade. Indeed, she may have insisted on the charade.
There is, of course, nothing the least bit inappropriate about flying from place to place on a book tour. Back in the day when publishers still sent non-celebrity authors out in public, I flew on all of mine. It’s the only sensible approach. And if someone will spring for an executive jet, all the better. On the other hand, nobody tried to pretend I was riding a bus.
What’s wrong in this instance is the apparent fakery created and sustained for the sake of building pseudo-populist appeal—and selling books. Sarah Palin and HarperCollins have consciously tried to give the impression that she is doing her book tour by bus when the evidence suggests she is not. At every stop, she’s been filmed getting off Big Blue looking rested and radiant. She dazzles onlookers and interviewers with her seemingly bottomless reserves of energy. And no one suspects she may secretly be hopping on and off her main means of transport, UJT750, and resting up in hotels.
Both Palin and the publishing house that has invested so many millions of dollars in her seem to have felt it would send the wrong message to let the “common-sense conservative” be seen winging her away across the country just like any other good old-fashioned Republican CEO.
The people with whom I spent 18 hours in The Villages last week, waiting for Palin, would not begrudge her the luxury jet. But they’re not going to like hearing they’ve been had.

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Posted: Tue 01 Dec , 2009 5:54 pm
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Hey, thanks, sf. Interesting.

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Here is an ABC News story about it complete with video of the private jet ..... its very very nice.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sarah-palin-b ... id=9211087

Back in the Sixties, there was a phrase .... "limousine liberal" ... used to describe rich folks who took a limo to a leftist rally and screamed about 'eating the rich" and 'getting down with the revolution'. It became a funny stereotype.

I wonder what you would call Palin on this whole idea?

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Posted: Wed 02 Dec , 2009 2:29 am
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Eh, this is a non-story.

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Posted: Wed 16 Dec , 2009 6:48 pm
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This is priceless ... in more ways than just the obvious. More road stories from the Palin "bus" trip.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14003093
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Sarah Palin not only annoyed leaders of the Utah Republican Party when she didn't have time for them during her book signing stop in Salt Lake City last week. She also took off from her hotel after arranging for a last-minute hair appointment without paying the hairdresser and leaving her to cover her own valet parking. But Rhonda Halliday of Images Hair Studio and Day Spa wants to give Palin the benefit of the doubt. She thinks the lack of payment was unintended, and someone on Palin's staff just dropped the ball.
Halliday was called by a friend at 8 a.m. last Wednesday and was told Palin needed her hair done that morning. Halliday had planned to take her 3-year-old to the dentist for her first filling that morning, but arranged for her husband to get off work for that chore.
She was told to meet the group at the Monaco Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City and to just leave her car with valet parking.
After being ushered to a room on the 15th floor and given some instructions (don't talk to Palin unless she talks first) she did Palin's hair while the former Alaska governor chatted with her family. Then, the Palin party left to get to the book signing at Costco on time.

Halliday was the last one out of the room because she had to put her equipment away, then watched as they all drove off without anyone mentioning payment or a tip, which is common when the hairdresser travels to the client for the appointment. When the valet attendant got her car, he said that would be $10. She said she was with the Palin party and assumed they would take care of parking. That was news to him, so she had to fork over the $10.

She says her friend has contacted Palin's assistant and was told to send them an invoice.
She did get a book and some nice pictures, though .

Unintended benefits : Sarah Palin might have miffed the Utah Republican Party and left her hairdresser unpaid, but Helen Rappaport, a Utah Democrat, was thrilled with the former Alaska governor's visit to Salt Lake City. Rappaport stopped at the Salt Lake City Costco to do some shopping, unaware that Palin was scheduled to be there for a book signing. So Rappaport, after noticing the parking lot full of cars, was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to maneuver her shopping cart through the store with hardly anybody in the aisles. She also got a prescription filled with no wait.

While going through the check-out lane, again with no wait, she told the clerk she forgot to get some grape tomatoes, which she loves, so she would be right back. That's when the bells went off. The clerk told her they had no tomatoes that day. No tomatoes? At Costco?
As she was leaving, she noticed a man with a store manager's name tag and asked him why they had no tomatoes. He informed her the store did have tomatoes, but they were taken off the shelves for a few hours. It turns out that Palin had been pelted with a tomato at an earlier stop on her book tour and the management at the Costco was determined it wouldn't happen here. The manager told an employee to go into the storage area and get Rappaport some tomatoes, which he gave her for free.

So, because of Palin, Rappaport not only got to shop with no lines, she got free tomatoes.
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Posted: Wed 16 Dec , 2009 6:56 pm
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She got pelted with tomatoes? That's the first I heard of it. You would have thought that would have been bigger news :scratch:

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Is this the writer's sarcasm or a real instruction?

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I do not think that was sarcasm but rather relating a fact of the story. Some people view givers of service as servants of a lower station. Instructions like that would fit such a mindset.

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She's not a queen and even if she was, this is a democracy, not a monarchy. No one is above anyone else. I still don't know whether to say it is a real instruction or not. Always possible the way some staff treat their messiahs.

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Sarah wins a prestigious end of the year award:
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Sarah Palin wins: 'Death panels' declared 'Lie of the Year'

By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's claim about so-called "death panels" has landed her on the political equivalent of Santa's naughty list: PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year."

Palin earned the dubious honor last week for her Aug. 7 assertion on Facebook that people would face "death panels" under the health care overhaul bill as proposed by the House of Representatives this summer.

It was such a falsehood that the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking Web site gave it a "Pants on Fire" rating on its Truth-O-Meter in August. And this week, Palin's truth stretching was seconded as "Lie of the Year" by an overwhelming 61 percent of PolitiFact readers who cast votes on the editors' pick.

At the time, Palin wrote: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care.

"We agree with Palin that such a system would be evil," PolitiFact's editors wrote at the time. "But it's definitely not what President Barack Obama or any other Democrat has proposed."

Palin's claim about death panels -- although disproven and widely derided -- came to define the health care debate in the pivotal month of August. That's when lawmakers were home for their summer recess, facing constituents who showed up at raucous town hall meetings with questions about what’s in the health care legislation being debated by Congress.

The provisions Palin referred to in the legislation gave Medicare patients the ability to seek paid-for counseling for end-of-life issues, such as living wills. Nothing was mandatory about the counseling provision, which Medicare previously had not covered.

Although she has been rebuked repeatedly as a liar for her remarks, Palin this week continued to repeat the assertion that health care legislation might include “death panels.” On the Twitter account she’s using to promote her new memoir, “Going Rogue,” Palin wrote on Tuesday that it was important people pay attention to the legislation.

She used the social networking Web site’s vernacular to bring up the topic again: “merged bill may be unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal: R death panels back in?” Palin wrote from her Blackberry.

The Senate is set to pass its version of a health care bill on Thursday morning; next month, the House and the Senate will begin working next month on combining their two versions of the bill.

Palin's falsehood did have a few runners-up. They include an assertion about the H1N1 virus by the man who landed the job Palin wanted last year: Vice President Joe Biden. In a April 30th interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Biden claimed that "when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."

Not so, said PolitiFact, which talked to scientist Tony Overfelt of Auburn University. The particles from a sneeze "might travel a row or a couple of rows or something like that," Overfelt told them. "They're really not going to travel up and down the airplane as our vice president said."

Ultimately, though, only 1.7 percent of PolitiFact readers thought Biden's germaphobic claim worthy of "Lie of the Year."
Clear a dead moose off the mantle baby and make room for the gold. :toast:

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Time Magazine also had it as the Untruth Of The Year
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packa ... 62,00.html


Also from Time Magazine, the top Palin spoof of 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTXJSyTjo

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My mom got her book for Christmas. :help: :oops:

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Lidless,

Don't you know that Time Magazine is nothing more than a Liberal Commie Sociolist Nazi Rag

I have no idea how it can be both Communist and Sociolist at the same time, but according the right wing talking heads they are the same thing, and Time Magazine is the Grand Puba of all Liberal Media rags. At least that's what I've been told by um by....people.

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Lidless wrote:
Also from Time Magazine, the top Palin spoof of 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTXJSyTjo
Wow! That was brilliant! When it said "College Humour" I thought it was going to be something a couple of kids had thrown together. Was I wrong!

And I think they actually should make that movie. :D

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:LMAO: Loved it!

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Nice cartoon. Reminds me of this comment from Mark Steyn, author of the controversial book America Alone:
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Not long after America Alone came out, I happened to be in the L Street branch of Borders in Washington D.C. and was pleased, as authors are, to see my opus on one of the front display tables and a potential customer hovering over it. Alas, on closer inspection, he turned out to be hovering over the adjoining volume, The Playboy Book of Celebrity Nudes. So my anticipatory frisson was misplaced, although presumably the author of the Playboy Book would also have been pleased, it being hard work writing all those captions. Anyway, while I was cruising the adjoining table, the potential customer came slinking back, glanced at (I believe) Nancy Sinatra dishabille, wandered off, wandered back, glanced at (if memory serves) Victoria Principal, wandered off, wandered back, and finally picked up Playboy with intent to purchase. At that point, discretion getting the better part of valor, he slipped it under a copy of America Alone and sauntered nonchalantly to the checkout.

No complaints from me. I gather similar purchases accounted for about 60 percent of my sales.

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Another oddity explained:
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What was most troubling, according to Schmidt, was the fact Palin repeatedly confounded Biden's name during the [debate] preparation process, referring to the then-Delaware senator as Sen. O'Biden. Aides were so worried that such a mishap in the actual debate would prove catastrophic that they advised her to simply refer to her opponent as "Joe."

"It was multiple people – and I wasn't one of them – who all said at the same time, 'Just say, Can I call you Joe,' which she did," Schmidt tells Cooper.
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