Revealed! Sarah Palin Is Not A Diva

by Glynnis MacNicol | 8:37 am, December 31st, 2009

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Sarah+Palin+Launches+Book+Tour+Memoir+Going+QZVLyBBx6Fyl Talking Points Memo has got its hands on Sarah Palin’s events rider for her book tour. For those of you not familiar with the term rider it is basically a list of instructions and requests (demands) sent ahead to event locales for the people in charge of organizing said event. It is also often a measure of how demanding a person can be and/or how highly they think of themselves. For example Van Halen famously demanded all the brown M&M’s be removed from their dressing rooms.

Anyway, you will be happy (or surprised, depending) to hear that Sarah Palin invokes no such demands in her Going Rogue rider. Beyond the banning of four bloggers (excerpt below) — Todd’s working the door when it comes to them — it’s fairly straightforward and mostly aimed at easing the experience for fans.

The four banned media folks, meanwhile, are all local Alaska bloggers who appear to have personally ticked off the Palin’s in one manner or another.

Alaska, Gawker, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Talking Points Memo

LNSmithee

It’s great, Editor Glynnis, that you use Gawker as a news source. How very … (ahem) credible of you.

For those of you who demand more: For the REAL, TRUE, COMPLETE, UNFILTERED story of why these people were banned from the Palin event, here’s where you should begin: Disturbed Losers Banned For Good Reason

These hateful, obsessed stalkers were as welcome at a Palin book signing as Larry Sinclair would be if he was brought as a guest to the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. But maybe I’m wrong — for consistency’s sake, Glynnis, you may believe that the President should suffer the indignity of being within shouting distance of someone who accuses him of a cocaine-and-fellatio tryst in his limousine and the subsequent contract murder of a gay choir member in Rev. Wright’s church.

BTW: It’s Day 31 of your “Birthers Compare Obama To An Ape” Lie, Glynnocchio.
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Glynnocchio! That’s cute. Like Tom Collicchio? Glynnis! I didn’t know you could cook?!?!

Also, Smithee? That’s a DUMB last name. Your plans for tonight probably suck.
LNSmithee

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Also, Smithee? That’s a DUMB last name. Your plans for tonight probably suck.

Maybe, by your standards. But on the other hand, I plan to have a clear head and no hangover on Friday morning. You?