Posted on 12/23/2009 8:10:15 AM PST by kristinn
Excepting her bang-up performance at the Gridiron Dinner this month, Sarah Palin has an infamously fraught relationship with the media. On the one hand, frenzied coverage of her memoir ginned up sales. On the other hand, non-stop scrutiny of her clothing choices allegedly ruined a family vacation. There are costs to being constantly in the spotlight.
Now she's taken some measures to control the message. Three Alaska bloggers who crossed Palin while she was governor have found themselves banned from attending her book signings. Jesse Gryphen, Dennis Zaki, and Shannyn Moore--plus an unknown fourth--are blacklisted at Palin events. Gryphen tells the story:
I turned around and came face to face with a local police officer who quickly apologized and then informed me that I was on the "banned list".
"I am on the WHAT list?" I asked.
"The banned list sir, I am going to have to escort you off of the property. This is a private event." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
In Rochester, New York some International Socialist Party member threw eggs at a stack of GOING ROGUE hitting some of her helpers and fans.
I say he was an International Socialist. I don’t know or care what he says he was. The Internat’l Socialists were in the parking lot protesting her.
The same group tried to disrupt prayers outside the city’s Planned ParentHOODLUM bldg. It took seven or eight police to monitor the situation.
There are so few of them but it is still disturbing.
Palin 2012
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They will probably end up on Meet the Press as some sort of “Palin experts” in much the same way that the feeb from the Daily Kos was given a seat last weekend.
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."
“It’s about time that Palin’s people got more serious about protecting her from this raffraff.”
Somehow, riffraff doesn’t seem to be adequate enough to
describe those creatures who follow Mrs. Palin like locusts.
IMHO
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.
As a private citizen, Sarah has every right to determine who comes to her events.
Unlike the White House, where gatecrashers are welcome! ::rolls eyes::
Good. I’d have paid to get to be the officer that had the opportunity to kick those witches and monsters out.
Posting photos of that Gryphen woman is child-abuse.
I think the fourth was Andree MacLeud, she is a whack job who has attacked Sarah in the past. Good for Sarah, don’t let these whackos in. They trash her then are shocked that they are not allowed in. Why would they even want to come, they don’t like her..what idiots. Go home fools and go praise your failure of a leader
Ha ha! Good for Sarah!
AM was in court yesterday, for the 4th time, over the private email thing.
She has lost the previous 3, yet the Court let her file again. I am not alone in the anger over the waste of time and resources McClod has forced on the State.
Andree is missing a few screws, heck, she is missing all of her screws. Sarah refused to give her a job after she became Governor, Thank God, Sarah saw that whacko coming a mile away
Of course not. If someone puts on a theatrical production, do I have the right to walk in and loudly proclaim that the actors are faking it, and the performance isn't real? The same principle applies - the people who want to enjoy the positive event with Sarah Palin have a right to not associate with those who don't.
Ya, even the local papers are starting to see “Stalker” in the recent activities.
We might get lucky and AM will move someplace more to her liking - say, Mexico or even the South Pole.....
Take a gander at the comments page. People still believe Sarah isn’t Trig’s mother.
Good grief.
Because they are empty headed idiots. They should be more focused on the travesty that is taking place in Washington D.C right now then to be obsessed with someone’s uterus
That putrid poofter Sullivan has been "out" for some time, now ...
;'}
I’m so happy to read about this!
Thanks for the ping.
Excellent!
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