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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...

The cameras and national press will be treated to a - still tieless! - Mitt Romney spooning up chili and kicking back with the folks on Thursday in Stratham, New Hampshire, site of the presumed Republican frontrunner's official campaign announcement. Romney's real action, though, is unfolding far from the Scammans' lovely farm. Looking to lock in his status as the field's most able fundraiser, Romney has a coast-to-coast schedule of fundraisers slated for the remainder of June. According to a schedule obtained by National Journal - which includes a preview of a July event in London, England - the former...

NEW YORK — Fresh off her Times Square pizza summit with Donald Trump, Sarah Palin carried on with her tour of the Big Apple Wednesday, paying visits to such treasured landmarks like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Although Palin was greeted with hand shakes and smiles from local admirers, her visit to New York wasn't immune to some hometown detractors. While Palin and company met with top brass at FOX News headquarters in Midtown, an unknown vandal managed to tag the former Alaska governor's patriotic-themed "One Nation" tour bus. "I, the media whore," read a hand

MSNBC HOST SAYS AMERICAN FLAG IMAGE BREAKS FEDERAL LAW You gotta hand it to the left. When they get after somebody…they get after somebody! The loons at MSNBC have been after Sarah Palin from the get-go. In yesterday’s post, I wrote about Palin’s handling of the MSM – MSNBC included – during her bus tour. Martin Bashir, (best known for his slimy interview with Michael Jackson), has his panties in a bunch over the whole thing – and he has a new plan of attack. Apparently stupified that Palin is playing his comrades like a collective fiddle, the MSNBC host...

Sarah Palin's bus tour treats reporters like paparazziPosted by Brian Montopoli May 31, 2011 1:07 PM Sarah Palin and her advisers are refusing to tell members of the media where she is going on her current bus tour - and the former Alaska governor seems to be enjoying the cat and mouse game that's resulted. "I don't think I owe anything to the mainstream media ... I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this, and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop's going to be," she told...

A helmeted Sarah Palin (some girls really can wear anything) launched her bus tour with Rolling Thunder, ramping up speculation about whether she’s in or is she out. Naturally, the slavish press is following her every move, hoping for some real or imaginary gaff they can use against her. The media is “confused”. Palin is snubbing the press and talking to actual humans instead. Taking collective cluelessness to a new level, the press is perplexed as to why she would avoid them. Whatever she’s up to, Palin is forcing the media to deploy a lot of expensive resources to follow...

Day 2 of Sarah Palin’s bus tour, and the former vice presidential nominee has prompted little more than confusion over exactly what she is up to. Palin started Memorial Day at the National Archives in Washington, but the only reporters who made it to her brief media availability there were those who happened to see tourists posting on Twitter that they had spotted her. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55905.html#ixzz1NtFjnTfe

WASHINGTON -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will travel to Iowa next month as part of her nationwide bus tour, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told RealClearPolitics. Palin's trip to the nation's first voting state -- where she has not yet set foot this year --will further escalate the already feverish speculation that she is leaning toward a White House run.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R), who has been largely out of the public eye through much of the spring, will reemerge Sunday as she begins a national bus tour that will put her back in the spotlight and no doubt renew speculation about a possible presidential bid. The tour, the first of what will be a series of such journeys over a period of weeks, will start on Sunday in Washington at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally and work its way north along the East Coast. She will visit other parts of the country later, stopping at symbolically...

PALIN TO HIT THE ROAD Thur May 26 2011 Sarah Palin will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend on a tour of the Northeast -- with a stop in New Hampshire -- aboard a red, white and blue bus emblazoned with the words: "One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty & Justice For All." Developing....

U.S. lawmakers keep quiet about Guantanamo tourBy Lesley Clark | The Miami Herald Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Rep. Allen West toured the secretive Camp 7 at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — where the alleged Sept. 11 plotters are held — but wouldn’t say Tuesday what he saw. “There’s nothing more I can say other than the fact I saw Camp 7,” the Broward Republican told reporters on a conference call, hours after he and a bipartisan delegation of House Armed Services Committee members returned from a daylong tour of the offshore detention camp. “It looks like a Camp 7.”...

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is fighting a congressional attempt to end federal funding for the organization with a nationwide bus tour, dubbed the "Truth Tour." The organization's bright pink bus advertises various Planned Parenthood statistics and health data, but it does not include the number of abortions the organization has performed. In 2009, Planned Parenthood clinics performed 332,278 abortions, according to a fact sheet on the group’s Web site. Also, in fiscal year 2008-2009, Planned Parenthood received more than $363 million in government grants and contracts, including federal taxpayer dollars through Title X family planning provisions.

President, Vice President and other administration officials to tour country to highlight vision for the future. The White House sent News 2 the following press release on their plans... ___PRESS RELEASE BELOW___ President Obama, Vice President Biden, Members of the Cabinet Fan Out Across the Country, Highlight Vision for Winning the Future WASHINGTON – This week, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and members of the President’s Cabinet will travel across the country to highlight the President’s plan for winning the future and creating jobs by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building the rest of the world. In tonight’s State of the Union...

Itinerary for President Obama's visit to Indiana Tuesday Posted: Nov 22, 2010 11:20 AM CST The president and vice president are flying into Kokomo Indiana Tuesday as part of their White House to Main Street tour. Air Force One and Air Force Two will arrive Tuesday morning at Grissom Air Reserve Base. The President and Vice President always fly separately for security reasons. While in Kokomo, President Obama and Vice President Biden will tour the Chrysler Group's Indiana Transmission Plant II. The president will give remarks following his tour. FOX28 will stream those remarks live on this website. Check back...

GOP to kick off 'Fire Pelosi' tourBy the CNN Wire Staff September 15, 2010 -- Updated 0545 GMT (1345 HKT) Washington (CNN) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kicks off a 117-city bus tour in Washington on Wednesday morning as part of the party's effort to retake the House of Representatives. The tour is called "Fire Pelosi" after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would lose her job if Democrats lose control of the House. Republicans need to win 39 seats during midterm elections in November The "Fire Pelosi" campaign began in March after the House voted to pass a...

<p>Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50.</p> <p>His death was confirmed by the French government and the French cycling federation. Fignon said in June 2009 he had advanced cancer of the digestive system and was undergoing chemotherapy.</p>

TOKYO (AP) — Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are welcoming a decision by the United States to send its first ever delegation to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, but are asking for something they aren't likely to get — an apology. Tokyo has praised the decision to send U.S. Ambassador John Roos to the Hiroshima anniversary on Friday, though some survivors of the attack, which is seen by many in Japan as an unjustified use of excessive force against a civilian population, say they have mixed feelings.

By • Published: Jul 20th 2010 2:31 PM EDT Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador buried the hatchet over Monday’s controversial chain-drop, but promise to fight to the death up the Col du Tourmalet on Thursday. Schleck and Contador hugged each other behind the podium presentation following the close of Tuesday’s stage and say that their friendship is intact despite the hubbub of Contador’s actions on the Port de Balès. “(Alberto) came to apologize to me, that means a lot,” said Schleck, who wears the best young rider’s white jersey. “That shows he’s a champion and that he has character.” Contador...

LAS — More of everything. That’s what Arizona Republican U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl said is needed to secure the U.S.-Mexican border. They spoke after touring parts of the border near Douglas with area law enforcement leaders on Saturday. “A tremendous amount of progress has been made, but as we also heard when we said, ‘What do you need?’ the answer was essentially more of everything,” Kyl said. When the senators visited the same stretch several years ago, none of the fencing had been constructed and many of the cameras and lights were not in place. Kyl pointed...

Paul McCartney was reportedly "shaken up" by an incident that happened after a concert in Mexico City. Police had to rescue the former Beatle after a mob swarmed his tour bus. A source says that even McCartney's security detail thought it was just another ho-hum standard giant crowd enveloping his tour bus until things got out of hand as youths started scaling the bus. It escalated from there as they got on the roof of the bus and started jumping up and down. The mob dispersed when police were dispatched to the scene. McCartney's management is said to be re-evaluating...