Posted on 05/28/2011 5:47:22 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Last night, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Lauren Stephenson reported that the veterans group Rolling Thunder had not invited Sarah Palin to their annual ride taking place this weekend and were dumbfounded when Palin announced her participation as the start of her bus tour. Under the headline “Stealing Their Thunder,” Mitchell suggested that Palin was hijacking their “very serious purpose” with her participation. The piece hinges on an interview with Rolling Thunder’s Ted Shpak, who called Palin’s announcement “a big distraction”:
One day after Sarah Palin announced her bus tour, a group sponsoring a Memorial Day weekend event she plans to attend said they never invited her.
“She wasn’t invited. We heard yesterday she came out with a press release she was coming to Rolling Thunder,” Ted Shpak, national legislative director of Rolling Thunder, told “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” Shpak is one of three members of Rolling Thunder’s current leadership who says he had no idea Palin was coming until it was posted on her website.
“She’s not invited to speak. We’re not endorsing her … (but) we can’t stop her from coming to ride, if she wants to ride,” Shpak continued.
There’s a problem with this story, but to be fair to everyone, it seems to be an honest case of an internal miscommunication at Rolling Thunder. After I read this story last night, I got in contact with Christine Colborne, who handles the media for Rolling Thunder. She explained that Shpak didn’t know that Palin had been indeed invited to ride at the event. The invitation came from a retired board member, Michael DiPaolo, who had connections in Alaska and got Palin to agree to attend.
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“The invitation came from a retired board member, Michael DiPaolo, who had connections in Alaska and got Palin to agree to attend.”
So, he took it upon himself without informing anyone else?
Mitchell is a dried-up lefty skank. I could picture her picking through Palin’s trash.
I think Michael DiPaolo should make it publicly known and personally inform NBC that he invited Palin and neglected to inform anyone.
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
IF only they would be this investigative about Obama and Michelle...
As a veteran and a former scooter driver, I would proudly ride with her.
Wife of Alan Greenspan
Greenspan one of the main reasons your house is worth a lot less than it was and destroyed the housing Construction Industry
Made many Realtors broke.
People like that used to be in prison
That is one thing Michael Moore and I agree on.
People need to be in prison
what a private citizen do is more important than a public official in leadership position responsible for trillion of tax dollars
The Alan Greenspan?!!?! That criminal
Why do I get the feeling that Ted Shpak is probably a lefty?
[Facepalm] Sound like a guy who'd determined to find a way to screw up.
Note to Andrea Mitchell: Take a handful of MIDOL and come back when you can’t stay so long.
Andrea Mitchell is a creepy lesbian stalker.
Don’t you wonder how Andrea would cover Rolling Thunder’s “very serious purpose” if it didn’t afford her the opportunity to attack Sarah Palin? How much time, effort, energy over the past 25 years has Mitchell expended on their “very serious purpose?” Inquiring minds want to know.
Yeah, this seems a little weird. Anyone who is a member of any organization knows you don’t do stuff like this without informing leadership, especially if there can be political fallout.
What you said.
(NBC = Natural Born Citizen for those in Rio Vista, and no...it has nothing to do with Cesarean birth)
Why? Do you actually think that NBC would do anything to correct an error that hurts Palin?
“Why? Do you actually think that NBC would do anything to correct an error that hurts Palin?”
No. But it’s important to have it out there for the world to see and know about. If NBC doesn’t mention it, then that will also be out there. You can’t ignore things like this....they pile up.
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