- By Ian Ransom
As our esteemed blogmaster, JP, has noted, Sarah enjoys a particularly enthusiastic brand of support among the fine, independent-spirited people of the great Lone Star State. The still-shaken hearts at Ft. Hood will doubtlessly welcome a leader of Sarah's compassion and stature, and will embrace the words of comfort and support she'll render in her inimitable, selfless manner. However, if she sells so much as one book, or does one iota of "commerce" on December 4th while referencing the Muslim Terrorist Act Recently Committed, I fear the mainstream media will be poised to crucify her anew.
We all know that Sarah works tirelessly to honor and uplift her fellow Americans without concern for her own benefit, but the magpies in the media have no such perspective. I hear horrific liberal squawkings on the horizon -- squawkings about "questionable judgment" and "poor taste selling books at the scene of tragedy." The media will not care that Sarah's stop at Ft. Hood had already been planned before the Jihadist Attack. Moreover, if those on Sarah's team apparently needed a call from a military official at Ft. Hood, telling them that it was still okay to make the appearance, then someone has obviously foreseen a potentially delicate PR situation. Instincts ought to be heeded at this troubling hour.
Sarah's admirers no longer care what liberal media demons think about her, but I don't think any of us desire to see her subjected to troubles she can certainly avoid. Why walk directly into a potential snare lying in plain view? If Sarah goes to Ft. Hood as planned, I'm convinced she should avoid anything approaching a traditional book sale/signing. Some other sort of supportive appearance, centered upon the fallen and upon their families, would be magnificent. A fundraising gesture would be suitable, along with a clearly modified publicity agenda for her book. Her team can surely confect something ideal between now and December 4th. There are going to be thousands in Ft. Hood who will want Sarah to sign books they've already purchased, after all. They should not be deprived of the opportunity to meet a beloved figure who can give them much-needed moral support at a harrowing juncture.
My point is this: be on guard for potential land-mines during your trip, Sarah. The mainstream liberal media knows how to plant them with as much stealth as the rest of America's enemies.
- Ian
The media is going to call her appearance a photo op. That is to be expected.
ReplyDeleteHer stop there will be full full month after the killings by the jihadist. That's a decent interval.
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I agree, JP. It is a decent interval. The mainstream media are the ones who don't hold her to the same standard as everyone else. A decent interval for anyone else will be a major faux pas for her. But she can circumnavigate that potential trap.
ReplyDeleteI had to sigh at Andrea Mitchell and Meredith Viera yesterday, both of them blatantly taking erroneous excerpts from Sarah's book out of context & then playing bits of the Couric interview to make her look stupid--and both women clearly enjoying it.
Sad, but so typical by now. One would hope they might display enough ethics to at least pursue Sarah's assertion that her substantive replies from the Couric piece were summarily edited-out. Pigs will fly before we see that sort of ethic again, at least from the mainstream news outlets.
My understanding is that this was planned before the attack, as a book signing. If so it should go forward. Depriving the troops and public of Sarah's book signing because of the attack would be unjustifiable. Sarah will be very welcome there, as will her book, and her signature.
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