Not every attendee was welcome. Dennis Zaki, an Anchorage photographer and videographer who until recently ran the Web site Alaska Report, checked in at the media table and was told by Wasilla Recreation and Cultural Services Manager James Hastings that he wasn't welcome.
"He said because this is a paid event, they can ban anybody they want," Zaki said. He didn't fight it, he said.
Zaki said he was told that he and a couple of Alaska bloggers were on the list, with photos to identify them.
Hastings said Zaki was right -- the signing was a private event paid for by Palin's publisher, Harper Collins, and Zaki and the others were not invited.
"At the end of the day, if something had gone wrong, it would have been my responsibility," Hastings said. "If I take three minutes on Google I can see that, given the nature of the people who were here, it wasn't in his (Zaki's) best interest to be here. He and others could have found themselves in a negative situation."
Damn generous description by the ADN.
Dennis Zaki is the sleazeball Trig truther who started the Palin divorce smear last summer. He also lied his way into a private event with Palin and Michael Reagan last June where no videos were to be allowed, shot a video and sold it to CNN.
Just another lefty dirtbag.