Sarah Palin Booktour 12-2-2009 Springfield MO
The News Leader
Palin told an estimated crowd of 5,000 packed in Keeter Gymnasium at College of the Ozarks that despite her resignation, she is moving on “in the battle with new strategy.”
Or as her father, Chuck Heath, put it: “He said after my resignation speech, ‘Ah, she’s not retreating, she’s reloading.’
Palin was the keynote speaker tonight during a convocation that honored World War II veterans and others connected to the private college with “Great American” awards. Palin was the inaugural recipient of the award for her contributions to promoting patriotism, said College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis.
Silver Dollar City co-owner Sharon “Sherry” Herschend, an alumna of the school, was among seven people who received a Great American Award from the college. The military veterans participated in a program where they visited battlefields with students to teach the young people about sacrifices their elders made, Davis said.
As part of Palin’s speaking contract, College of the Ozarks sought to ban reporters from covering the speech. But the News-Leader and other local media outlets obtained free tickets and sent reporters to cover the speech from the bleachers.
Sarah Palin Bus Tour Hits Speed Bump With Private Jet Controversy
source
Rogues, it seems, will be rogues: As she promotes her new book with an equally hyped down-home bus tour, former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been jetting to some stops on a Gulfstream II private jet, which rents for $4,000 an hour.
According to the blog Palingates, which first reported the story, Palin took the plane on Nov. 21, 23 and 25 between book tour stops in Rochester, N.Y., Roanoke, Va., Fort Bragg, N.C., Birmingham, Ala., and Orlando, Fla. On Nov. 25, she then flew to Pasco, Wash., for Thanksgiving and was met at the airport by a bevy of journalists who filmed the landing.
Larger media outlets have since played up the apparent bait-and-switch. Yesterday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer introduced a segment on Palin’s private-jet use by saying that Palin “frequently can be seen photographed in front of the bus that she took on the road. But … you don’t often see photos of her in front of a very expensive private plane she’s been taking.” Correspondent David Wright then noted that Palin was traveling in style even as “her fans camped out in the bitter cold, just for the chance to meet her.”
Palin responded to the reports Tuesday afternoon on her Facebook page. “If you’re scratching your head wondering why my flight and hotel logistics warrant news coverage, join the club,” she wrote.
Wild Thing’s comment……
So Palin has a private jet she takes to fly the long distances, whoop-dee-do. Why not, it doesn’t bother me one bit. I want her to be safe, to travel easily and why does it matter if it is in a bus or a plane. The left hates her so much.
Oh and I’m sure they’ll be right on that Nancy-Pelosi-flying-free-of-charge-in-military-jets thing anytime
now. ( tapping my foot, waiting, waiting, waiting )
Nancy Pelousy takes a GOVERNMNET jet that costs US $30,000 and hour to operate and that is okay.
Obama goes to China with SEVENTY ONE vehicles in his little parade (all shipped there via US government jets at the taxpayer’s expense on probably half a dozen jets) costing untold MILLIONS of dollars and the left doesn’t whisper a word.
For Pete’s sake, are these same people outraged because Al Gore flies around in a private jet while telling the rest of us that our carbon output will destroy the earth?” NO they don’t mind at all.
I have never seen anything like it. She drives the media to ever new psychotic episodes.
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
The operative word is private. She is taking a private jet at times. These flights are not paid for with tax money. It is called capital enterprise. Yes, Algore also flies around in a private jet. However, while he is doing so he is telling the rest of us not to. That is hypocrisy.
Amazing how they’re going after Palin with everything they’ve got. What they don’t realize is the more they go after her, the more people see their hypocrisy.
She is picking up the tab out of her pocket, as Tom says, she is not condemning anyone else who does it on their own. Want to fly in a private aircraft, even own one? Get off your ass and off the government payroll and earn your own way in the world. That is free enterprise, it is good for all.
She’s paying her own way, so they should have nothing to say about it. She’s not letting the taxpayers pick up the tab like Nazi and her Pelosians is she? Sometimes if events are in other states a day apart, you HAVE to take a plane, otherwise you may not make it in time.
The media loves to do this. They just did it with Huckabee, too-oh he pardoned that cop killer. But they don’t go into that the guy skipped bail and ran, now did they?
Sarah has done nothing wrong but the media sure has.
Thats exactly it, she’s paying her own way, so if she has two signings in two remote areas so what. Shit, obama wasted 150 thousand dollars on a 3 hour date that the Taxpayer footed the bill for, I didn’t harpy say word one then.
This is just sour grapes.
very odd to say the least…the more they yell, the less they are respected..especially with something this trivial…
Palin “frequently can be seen photographed in front of the bus that she took on the road. But … you don’t often see photos of her in front of a very expensive private plane she’s been taking.” Try landing a Gulfstream in a shopping center parking lot. The libs accuse Palin of being stupid, shallow , and a hypocrite. Didn’t their (libs) Mommy tell them that when you meet boorish, undesirable people , don’t pay them attention but ignore them and they will go away. The libs need to ignore Sarah and she will simply go away.. HMMMM???
Was reading Sarah’s book, she mentioned the drive from Valdez to Anchorage in the winter in her Jetta with the kids, to spare campaign expenses. In the summertime it’s a long haul, in the winter it’s downright ugly, Thompson Pass is a treacherous pass, 20 ft of snow is nothing and once over the pass you can expect -40f or more cold, between there and Anchorage. I drove it twice in the winter, once at -45F out from Glennallen to Sutton all I can say is she is one awesome woman. Show me a Dhimmi that will put themself and family on the line to save taxpayers money. They are so intimidated by a self reliant, confident and conservative woman who is patriotic. Stuff that up your Gravitas, Dhimwits!!!
I agree, it is her own money. They are going
to go after her no matter what she does. So
she should just keep doing what she does.