Posted on 12/01/2009 11:48:51 AM PST by Baladas
Steve, you just as clueless and disingenuous this afternoon as you were this morning when you first posted this non-sense...
Sarah Palin Uses Private Jet Between Stops on Cross-Country Bus Tour to Promote Book
You have to ride a bus to be a regular person? I guess I haven't been regular in about 40 years.
Actually, I’m not sure that Sarah is paying for this or making the arrangements.
Ordinarily, I believe that the PUBLISHER arranges these book signings, contacts the different book outlets, sets the schedule, and makes arrangements for transportation and how many copies will be signed.
The author can presumably complain if this becomes too difficult.
The publisher is making a bundle off of this book—more than Sarah is. So they obviously want her to get around and make the most effective tour possible. If that involves flying over longer distances, I presume it is well worth it.
They don’t sell more books if Sarah spends days driving across deserts and mountains in a bus. Sorry, but that’s elementary business 101, although no doubt difficult for leftists to understand.
Airplanes are “expensive”? Who knew?!
Also, if she is earning $5 per book and selling 2,000,000 books in a month of touring, that’s about $10m, or $350k per day. $35,000 per hour (10-hour work day).
$4000 per jet hour to avoid wasting several precious $35,000 hours seems like a damn smart use of HER OWN MONEY, doesn’t it?
Scandalous!
If anyone with an active cell in their cranial cavity were to look at the times and places on her PUBLISHED book tour, one would natuarlly consider she was using the buses as mobile promotional billboards (as all professional racers do with the car transporters) and going between the long distance and time short appearances on a private plane. Unless if anyone has an inside scoop on a Prevost that has been clocked at over 400 mph lately.
You know, the goofy thing about all this is the politicians do exactly ther same thing. I know a mechanic that had to deliver ONE OF the Obama buses from the shop where it had to receive some emergency maintenance to Atlanta for the Zero’s next appearance. His stories are hillarious from all of the hand signals he received along the way.
“Controversy?”
What controversy?
Next thing they’ll be calling it a “Scandal!”
Then they’ll give it a “-gate” suffix, like in “Jet-gate.”
They are so predictable and so-o-o empty.
Actually, I suspect that the book publisher is paying, as it probably is for the bus. NOT including who is paying proves that this is just another hit piece. WHO CARES whether she rides the bus, flies commercial, or has a hired plane, as long as taxpayers aren't stuck with the bill.
I have never seen anything like it. She drives the media to ever new psychotic episodes.
Huh?! Last time I looked, she was a private citizen -- no law against traveling by Lear!
GEEZ you would think that liberals were at least smart enough to figure out that if it is an 8 hour bus ride and she needs to be there in less than 4 hours that there are few other choices in travel? DUH
uhhh....it’s called NetJets....you can book time on one too if you have the means (oops....I forgot, you’re making reporter wages...)
The Left is doomed.
Sarah is going to wipe the floor with them.
The left really is disgusting with their false hypocricy. They never criticize their fellow leftist who fly around in jets on the public’s tab. (Pelosi)
Jackie Kennedy.............one
Nancy Reagan...............one
Hillary Clinton.............three
Laura Bush.................one.
“To some stops”. Key phrase.
Go Sarah!!!!
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