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Friday, June 3, 2011
Boomer with Attitude Palin bus tour got favors from fed workers she bashes as 'do-nothings'
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:11 PM
No Republican politician bashes government and government employees more than Sarah Palin. All those “do-nothing, faceless bureaucrats” and employees “feeding at the public trough” just make her sick. Except when she wants them to do her a few special favors, apparently. Palin, former half-term governor of Alaska, has been reaping a whirlwind of publicity from the press she routinely disparages, so why shouldn’t she be just as much of a hypocrite when it comes to people with “gummint jobs”?
As Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress deftly points out, one of the things keeping Palin’s bus tour “going smoothly is, in part, federal employees” – like the ones who opened the National Archives early so the Travelin’ Palins could see the place, unmolested by those common everyday tourists who don't have their own reality shows. The Washington Post reports that the Palins got private tours and were allowed to skip lines at National Park Service (NPS) sites, and NPS employees bent over backward to accommodate Palin’s publicity stunt every step of the way. As Rosenberg quips, “maybe when [government employees] are helping her out, they don’t count as ‘faceless’?”
It’s interesting, if not maddening, that Palin can take what amounts to a private tour of the East Coast’s federal parks and historical landmarks after she has spent many an interview bashing federal spending on the very organizations that keep those landmarks and parks open and available to the public.
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Spot on target, John. Feds better be response ready for every crisis or the wrath will fall - but of course the republicans and many others uniformly bash the feds until they need them to save the day - whether for a Palin publicity stunt tour or to put out a wildfire or save a life. Great story.
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Politics has always been this dirty. What is different today is the competing 24/7 news stations who do not vet anything they are handed, they just read it on the air and then beat it to death for days. Why is any news agency paying any attention to Sarah Palin? She is not running for anything, she is not in charge of anything, she is not an expert in anything, and she seldom says anything intelligent. So why is a press entourage following her everywhere she goes? Watch the news on WBTV (3) sometime. The news readers hold their new I-Pads up and read from other people's web sites on the air. I guess that is what passes for journalism these days. Then, if that is not bad enough, there is Fox News and AM talk radio...
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