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May 31, 2011 7:13 PM
Michelle Malkin
COLUMNIST


“The Boys on the Bus” exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news in 1972. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus — and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. We’ve come a long way, baby.

Amid frenzied speculation over her potential presidential campaign plans, former GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin launched an all-American road trip with her family this Memorial Day weekend. Establishment media types didn’t get reserved seats or advance notice of her itinerary. Palin rubbed the Washington media mob’s institutional sense of entitlement right back in its face. “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,” she jabbed.

Robbed of the reflexive genuflection customarily paid by publicity-seeking candidates to the political press, scribes, cameramen and producers on the campaign trail began howling louder than the Rolling Thunder Harleys that Palin rode along with on Sunday in Washington, D.C. One miffed CBS News producer, Ryan Corsaro, pouted that the O.J. Simpson-style media caravan giving chase to Palin had created hazardous working conditions for all the intrepid news correspondents.

“I just hope to God that one of these young producers with a camera whose bosses are making them follow Sarah Palin as a potential Republican candidate don’t get in a car crash, because this is dangerous,” Corsaro said. Puh-lease. As if traveling America’s highways to historic tourist spots were akin to driving in an armored tank on Baghdad’s road of death.

In Philadelphia, a pair of news helicopters braved treacherous conditions to monitor the enemy on the ground. Soon, editors tracking the story from their cubbies will be filing workers’ comp claims asserting exposure to secondhand exhaust fumes from Palin’s bus. And I’m counting the minutes until some cub reporter double-parks somewhere in hot pursuit of Team Sarah and demands that she pay his ticket. I mean, how dare Palin “make them follow” her!

As my friend and blogging colleague Doug Powers put it: “Reporters whining about Palin are like kids who can’t reach the cookie jar because she keeps moving it.”

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/lapdogs-119028-malkin-media.html#ixzz1
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Originally posted by kaneman:
She is a god. Plain and simple.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Palin's a moron, plain and simple. She has zero integrity and even less credibility.

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Well she definitely seems to know how to capitalize on her popularity, or the fact that people don't like her, or perhaps both. She's making lots o money at it.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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