Posted on 06/02/2011 6:04:35 AM PDT by statestreet
James Taranto has a hilarious column on the harrowing situation in which the press finds itself as it scrambles to keep up with Sarah Palin. It seems the governor — who somehow lacks a sense of gratitude to the mainstream press — won’t tell the television networks where her next stop is. So the reporters are forced to race behind the Palin bus in an effort to avoid losing sight of her. Mr. Taranto quotes a piece in which a producer of CBS News, Ryan Corsaro, says: “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.”
Well, land sakes, let us put in a word for those “bosses.” They are thinking like they’re supposed to think. The template was set by Charles Chapin, who was city editor of the Evening World when the cowboy eloped with the ranch owner’s daughter. The story is told in the foreword to “City Editor,” the memoirs of Stanley Walker. Chapin, it notes, would later go to prison for murdering his wife, a crime that, we would like to think, can be attributed to character traits unrelated to the qualities he displayed as editor. Others may dispute the point.* In any event, it seems that Chapin sent a youngster out to find the cowhand and his new bride, and what followed will be recounted as long as there are newspapers.
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LOLOLOL.
Catch me if you can and the idiot MSM obliges.
Between this story and the Weiner, this whole week has just been hysterical.
God willing, Sarah won’t end up like Princess Di.
She’s in a bus, she’s smart enough to wear a seatbelt, and her driver isn’t drunk. Some junior MSNBC producer is more likely to end up roadkill, unfortunately; seatbelts are for the Little People.
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