Posted on 05/31/2011 12:37:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Sarah Palin's bus tour treats reporters like paparazzi
Posted by Brian Montopoli
May 31, 2011 1:07 PM
Sarah Palin and her advisers are refusing to tell members of the media where she is going on her current bus tour - and the former Alaska governor seems to be enjoying the cat and mouse game that's resulted.
"I don't think I owe anything to the mainstream media ... 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's going to be," she told fellow Fox News employee Greta Van Susteren in an interview from the bus.
Yet the reemergence of the GOP's larger-than-life 2008 vice presidential candidate - who says she is strongly considering a run for president - is undeniably news. Which is why more than a dozen national news outlets have sent reporters and producers out to try and follow Palin.
Since Palin and her team won't share where the potential candidate is headed, reporters and producers have little choice but to simply stay close to Palin's bus. This has resulted in scenes of the Palin bus tooling down the highway followed by a caravan of 10 or 15 vehicles - including a massive CNN bus - all trying to make sure they don't lose sight of the Palin bus.
It adds up to a dangerous situation, says CBS News Producer Ryan Corsaro.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
The Palins should continually heads down backwoods country roads and stop in the middle of nowhere to have cookouts. Can’t you just see all those MSM types looking at their watches and cussing..LOL
You just asked the $64,000 question.
Perfect analogy!
OH boy can you see them following an empty bus to a far away car wash where they could besurrounded by hundreds of people dressed in Palin 2012 t shirts and video cameras asking why they are hassling Sarah? IMHO this should happen on the day she decides to announce so only a pre selected group can make the announcement you knwo the ones who have treated her with respect and allowed them a summer vacation....
I just had a hilarious idea.
Find someone that resembles Sarah’s general look and size and have her waiting at a rest stop somewhere. Palin goes in..the double comes out. Then Sarah takes the doubles car and drives to some city to hold a rally...it all comes down and the press troops are following the bus somewhere far away from the action.
It would get wall-to-wall press coverage for days...you can’t buy that kind of publicity. :-)
What’s the difference?
None of us owe anything to the MSM. It’s a criminal enterprise.
Raw Video: Sarah Palin in Philly (Must see video of Piper in action)
This is about control. By them having to follow her not knowing where she is going next it puts her in control of the media and they hate it. This is how they translate their hatred into another attempted media lynching.
Is it true she sent her bus to Baltimore, with press following, to visit the sites in DC? If so, what a great maneuver!
“I think to start with, we ignore some of these reporters and their requests for us to comment and be interviewed,” she said. “We know going into what they are going to do to us to as conservatives — so, why participate in their game?”
Exactly. There is nothing to gain from cooperating with the left wing media complex.
I predict a big future for that particular line.
Brilliant.
This country NEEDS her or someone like her, but alas, we will get what we always get....
This country NEEDS her or someone like her, but alas, we will get what we always get....
What’s annoying,is you and others whining about what someone else posts instead of just scrolling on to the next comment.
Someone should photoshop the "Where's the birth certificate?" billboard in there.
“Sarah Palin’s bus tour treats reporters like paparazzi (”I don’t think I owe anything to the MSM”)”
Considering that the MSM deserves no better treatment than something you’d scrape off your shoe, she’s treating them better than they deserve. Remember when Obama kicked some reporters off his campaign airplane because he didn’t like the way they were treating him? I heard no complaints from the MSM then...
Sarah’s playing the MSM like a fiddle.
Someone else mentioned she should give a false itinerary. It would be interesting to see how many rent-a-mobs show up at those sites.
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