The Plague of Palin Spreads

I can’t stand the utterly incompetent, anti-American, and boorish Sarah Palin, hence I usually steer clear of Palinesque stories. However, this makes me angry, because it is a look inside corporations not just endlessly kowtowing to and promoting her extremism, but actively practicing discrimination to make it easier for her by staging the world she is exposed to in her publicity tour/run for the White House. Palin might be able to see Russia from her home, but foreigners sure as hell aren’t allowed to see her.
This is a good reason to never, ever shop at the Mall of America. How about renaming it the Mall of White Evangelical Dipshits.
The only place for discrimination in America is in a textbook to remind us of our shameful past so we won’t repeat it.
On Dec. 7, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will be at the Mall of America to sign copies of her new book. In advance of her visit, mall officials sent out a message to reporters: If you don’t speak English, stay away. The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Silva reports:
Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title — a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors.
But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, [permitting] “only English speaking press.” That’s not a common requirement.
The mall is now apologizing for the communique, calling it “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.” (”In other words, it got out,” writes Silva.) A publicist for Palin’s publisher says it’s “not the message the governor wants to send out.”