Sarah Palin launched the third day of her bus tour today. This morning, she stopped for coffee in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania and talked to some locals.
(Picture from SarahPAC site.)
Talking to the handful of reporters who have been able to follow her, Palin said she doesn’t support any energy subsidies (including ethanol). Todd Palin remarked that the family’s “been tested” and could handle a 2012 campaign.
Meanwhile, the media continues to try to figure out where the bus will go next. This morning, Sarah Palin headed off to Gettysburg, sans bus, surprising reporters who thought that the bus’s presence at the hotel meant Palin hadn’t left yet. New York Times reporter Michael Shear has decided to stop trying to follow the bus, writing that “Sarah Palin has apparently decided that she can treat the media any way she wants — and they will be there regardless. And she might not be wrong.” An Ellis Island spokesperson has had enough of people calling and asking if Palin plans to stop there. (They don’t know.) At Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell, reporters waited earlier today, hoping that the rumored Palin stop would happen.
Palin, who has long disparaged the “lamestream” media, told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren yesterday that she doesn’t think she “owe[s] anything to the mainstream media.”
“I think it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician and doing things the way that it’s always been done with the media in terms of relationship with them, telling them to come along and ‘We’ll orchestrate this, we’ll script this and we’ll basically write a story for you’ media about what we’re doing every day. No, I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop is going to be,” Palin said.
"...she stopped for coffee in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania and talked to some locals."
From the picture it looks like she stopped to take a cell phone call while in the middle of a conversation with the locals. At least they seemed to have reacted with good cheer to it.
I like how she's messing around with the media.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAgreed. Leadership, defined by the military, is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do.
Charge that hill, hold that line, etc.
So who seems to be the only leader in the political field lately? Guess who.
That Sarah Palin annoys both liberals and the media is just one huge bonus.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe best picture they could post was of Mrs. Palin taking a phone call during the meeting? Sure does reinforce the message that she's listening to "real" Americans.
Just imagine the hue and cry from readers of this site if it had been Mr. Obama.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"The best picture they could post was of Mrs. Palin taking a phone call during the meeting? Sure does reinforce the message that she's listening to 'real' Americans."
Looks like it could easily be, "Hey, my wife's on the phone and she won't believe I'm sitting here with you. can you talk to her?"
Notice the easy-going nature of folks in the picture? Laughing?
Haters gotta hate, though.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLOL, that quote from the NYT reporter is priceless. Compare and contrast to McCain's love affair with the Gray Lady. Or any other GOP candidate for that matter with their timid subservience to the MSM.
Love this woman!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI have lost interest in Palin over the last couple of years and don't support her candidacy for President. However, I have to say I have enjoyed watching Palin play the media like a fiddle. The MSM has become the paparazzi. hee hee
and this: "Sarah Palin has apparently decided that she can treat the media any way she wants"...isn't that what they have done to her for the last 3 years? Sounds like she is using their playbook.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust to clarify, at least one reporter present at the meeting said that Palin talked to a local's wife on the cell phone: http://twitter.com/#!/RealClearScott/status/75568456874999809 So that might have been whose call she was taking.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThanks, that probably explains it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI wonder, though: even among people who like her and among friendly media, she has an allegedly well-earned reputation as someone who is not well-organized: she doesn't show up where she's supposed to be, people make arrangements to see her only to find out she's changed her mind or cancelled without letting them know, etc., etc.
I wonder if maybe the haphazardness of the bus tour is more than just Sarah not wanting to play nice with the MSM. The cynic in me asks: more disorganization and playing-it-by-ear, perhaps?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre you actually trying to pretend that there was any worthwhile material in that hit piece book that was just published?
That is to what you are referring, right? At least say so instead of relying upon weasel wording like, "even among people who like her and among friendly media" (WHAT PEOPLE?) and "people make arrangements to see her only to find out she's changed her mind" (WHO DAT?).
It's like Romper Room up in here, yo.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSarah "Half Term" Palin is sure giving us plenty of comedy. Among today's offerings: "This trip isn't about me."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBurgesJ3 - Then why is she ditching the media and giving them the slip?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse@BurgesJ3 - So, which GOP person are you hoping to be voting for in November 2012?
Thought so. Pie hole. Shut it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOrder66: I understand that asking Palin skeptics which candidate we support is a common tactic of the SarahCult. But I don't really understand the point. For the sake of playing along, how's this: anybody but Palin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA local's wife? Well, that's disappointing.
I had hoped she had called the White House answering machine to leave a message:
"Hey, Obama, this is Sarah. Just here in PA visiting with some clingers. They aren't bitter at all but let me tell ya, neither are they going to let go of what makes America exceptional. See ya in the funny papers"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRush started off today remarking that Sarah looked good in a helmet. Heck, Sarah looks good in almost anything. Looking good is what she's real good at. And sound bites, quick jabs. Serious leadership, knowledge of the world, stuff like that...not so much.
[Tacky captcha. Tack, tacky, tacky. I am not going to watch (and even interact with) a goshdarned commercial video every time I feel like posting. There are other places on the internet to post.]
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's great NRO has found a way to fund their site through captchas.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's a bonus to read the whining.
Sarah Palin uses a Blackberry. The phone in the photo is a flip phone, so it probably is the phone of one of the guys in the photo, as Katrina noted.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think one article said one the guys asked her to talk to his wife.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe arrogance of the media disgusts me. They tear her down for 3 years and then are surprised that she doesn't pay deference to them.
The only thing they deserve from the Palin family every day is the bird. Anything more than that is a bonus.
It's also interesting that the media tries to put her in a box according to their own conventional wisdom. What slow learners they are. Palin does things her way on her own time scale. There's not much conventional about her. If there was, she probably wouldn't have ever been elected governor.
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