Palin Going Rogue Planning Alert
20 November 2009 5:05 pm by Taylor Marsh
Norah O’Donnell’s reporting of Sarah’s Going Rogue tour as it hit Michigan has created news. First, for what she said about the crowd, which I wrote about earlier this week. It was foreshadowing:
“This is a line that stretches all the way back… another 1,000 people to see Sarah… It’s 9:00 o’clock in the morning and she’s not here until 6:00 pm tonight…. [...] You know what it is? It’s a connection. … Palin says she’s treated unfairly, treated unfairly by the media, by Newsweek magazine …and the people in middle America feel treated.. unfairly.” – Norah O’Donnell, MSNBC
Next, when O’Donnell asked a young, 17-year-old Palin fan about her anti-bailout t-shirt. Did the young woman know Sarah supported the bailout? All hell broke loose from here, with the Weekly Standard attacking O’Donnell, and the young woman hitting back at “the liberal media and their crafty schemes.” Everyone else piled on from there, with progressives going to town on the boos you can hear in the video, but also some of the angry comments on Sarah’s Facebook page.
There’s another angle no one wants to acknowledge. The reason this happened in the first place. Bookstores aren’t prepared for Palinmania. There hasn’t been such a fuss at bookstores since Jacqueline Susann concocted her Valley of the Dolls selling scheme.
When you look through the over 1,200 comments, Palin still comes out ahead, way ahead. And again, Palin’s fans don’t care about details, they’re attached to the woman. They relate.
One thing is for sure, Palin and her people need to coordinate with the book stores where she’s going to land. It’s not a stampede, but there are expectations.
I’ve captured just a few of the comments, trying to take a little of each, though I did have to search for the complaints, as they’re well outnumbered.
