Sarah Palin has continued to try to portray herself as "one of us," but while the rest of her staff has ridden from town to town on her "bus tour" promoting her new book, "Going Rogue," Palin herself has been exposed as one of the privileged, not one of us.As reported by The Daily Beast, Palin's bus is full of something besides staffers, but that content doesn't include Palin. It is, however, quite smelly.
The bus itself, carrying staffers and Harper Collins publicist Tina Andreadis, logged more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin seemed to be above traveling by road, as she was using a Gulfstream II 12-passenger private jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour.
The Daily Beast reported that Palin tried to further the illusion with both quotes and interviews from the bus:
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.It's very interesting because the GOP is wont to criticize President Barack Obama for date nights with First Lady Michelle Obama, completing ignoring the fact that it's not all that unusual for sitting Presidents to do such outings, using official transportation (would you want them to be on a commercial jet?). What's unusual is that due to the media attention focused on Obama, it becomes highly publicized.
By the way, it's not just The Daily Beast. Watch this local news report which features Sarah Palin "touching down."
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New Lefty Outrage: Gasp, Sarah Palin Flies in Planes!
Because Palin said this about her book tour when it began:
“I’ll post our progress from the road.”
According to McGinniss this proves that Palin is a liar about using the bus to cross the country on her book tour. Since she has at times been flying, apparently, McGinniss thinks that the "from the road" part of her post makes her a liar despite that it is quite common vernacular to use that phrase when discussing travel. Who says "from the air" when they are talking about traveling?
It’s more proof of the failure to even check a few facts where Palin is concerned with the Old Media haters. They set up their anti-Palin supposition and then craft the “facts” around their plot line. Let’s not have truth getting in the way of a good anti-Palin story, shall we?
I don't care if she out and out lied about flying, but it isn't right to rent a private jet and fly herself around while her staff and publicist are driven in a bus. If the bus isn't good enough for her, then she shouldn't ask her staff to spend so much time on it.
Jessica you're a moron.
Aviation is a very useful tool to move large distances in a short time. This would indicate that Sarah Palin has the ability apply mathematics and logic in the correct manner.
Unlike Mr. Obama's outings, Sarah Palin is not using the TAXPAYER's money on frivolous ego building trips. No, Sarah Palin is using her own resources to further her goals. Moreover, her goals are looking a lot like the goals of MILLIONS of patriotic Americans. Mr. Community Organizer in Chief pay attention to what a REAL grass roots organization looks like. We are coming for you and your Democratzi Party in 2010.
Jessica you're a moron.
Aviation is a very useful tool to move large distances in a short time. This would indicate that Sarah Palin has the ability apply mathematics and logic in the correct manner.
Unlike Mr. Obama's outings, Sarah Palin is not using the TAXPAYER's money on frivolous ego building trips. No, Sarah Palin is using her own resources to further her goals. Moreover, her goals are looking a lot like the goals of MILLIONS of patriotic Americans. Mr. Community Organizer in Chief pay attention to what a REAL grass roots organization looks like. We are coming for you and your Democratzi Party in 2010.
No, DontTreadOnMe, you're the moron for supporting a lying idiot like Palin.
If the line is not good enough for him, so do not ask the staff to spend so much time. Because he apparently never flown McGinniss argued that the "road" of his service makes him a liar, even though it is quite common to use that vulgar word in the discussion of the trip.
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