Where in the world is Sarah Palin?
Apparently there’s a bit of a hubbub amongst a handful of conservative bloggers about a quote in the San Francisco Chronicle. I am kind of familiar with this hack news story format. There is a well selling book that is in a Media firestorm. You find the book seller that is not selling the book. As you can imagine, there are any number of books in the San Francisco area where Sarah Palin’s book does not sell, and does not fit the clientelle. So we get a quote, and the great giant media outlet “Pajamas Media” and “Allah Pundit” seize upon it, and look up some other books they sell. The Washington Times goes on to publish in their section pulling out from mainly conservative blogs.
Incidentally, I don’t think her book is in the Top 20 Best sellers list at Powells, though they certainly sell it.
Palin is not visiting San Francisco. She probably should; I think she would have an audience. But Sarah Palin’s book tour is taking her where her fans are, into every Palookaville and Dix in the nation. In the Internet era, enough people are obsessed with following her that if you really wanted to, you could indeed follow her travels.  I would think that the Thanksgiving Day weekend would be a sort of prime time slot, the people of that township honored by her presence on an American Holiday weekend. This is peculiar. There’s another Sarah Palin minor tempest in a teapot scandal — about the same size as looking into books from bookstores not selling her book — which is making the rounds. The details slide in paragraphs deep in a local news piece. Care if you must, but what is interesting is that Sarah Palin spent Thanksgiving in…
… Kennewick, Washington. Huh. Really? (I should note that I first learned that from Rick Emerson’s website.)
Reading the copy in the Tri-City Herald, I am somehow reminded of something from Sarah Palin watcher Andrew Sullivan. Â The first mention, or one of the first mentions, of Sarah Palin came in the Anchorage Daily.
Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana. And there, at J.C. Penney’s cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, sitting at a table next to a photograph of herself. She wore a light-colored pantsuit and pink fingernail polish. Her blonde hair was coiffed in a bouffant French twist.
”We want to see Ivana,” said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, ”because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.”
And now Kennewick has its own glamour and culture?