Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour

[murdoch]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sarah Palin will travel to the Fort Hood Army post in early December as part of her national book tour, Palin's publisher confirmed to CNN Friday.

The December 4 visit will come roughly one month after a mass shooting on the base that left 13 people dead and 38 wounded.

The stop, which had not been previously announced, is scheduled for the same day Palin signs books at a store in in the Dallas area.

The former Alaska governor is also making an appearance at Fort Bragg in North Carolina during her tour.

The visit was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/13/palin-to-visit-fort-hood-during-book-tour

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[saracat]

1. What a disgusting opportunistic pig she is. She has no standing

and staging a visit to sell books and promote herself by a tragedy is despicable.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Haven't they been through enough?

:crazy:

[Rhiannon12866]

9. +1

My first thought, too... :evilfrown:

[Dennis Donovan]

11. She might as well bring Carrie Prejean and Michelle Bachmann with her...

...and make it a terrifying, traumatic trifecta.:crazy::hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

14. You're right. A lot of people would pay to see that, LOL.

Me, I find any one of them way too scary to take, and that's just on "the TV machine..." :scared: :hi:

[MrModerate]

3. In what context does an out-of-work pol get an official (I'm presuming) . . .

Visit to a US military facility? Or is it because she's a famous entertainer? Is she going to sing and dance and do impressions? (No, that's Tina Fey.)

I really object to them spending my taxes hosting this lying bimbo (no insult intended to truthful bimbos).

[lib2DaBone]

4. How could the right wing call CIndy Sheehan an "attention whore"..

.. and ignore Palin?

[Drunken Irishman]

5. That is unbelievable! Seriously. The most disgusting thing I've heard from Palin yet.

[goclark]

6. Where is her brain?

[TheCentepedeShoes]

7. In the vacinity

of Glenn Beck's former appendix

Edit to add
Seriously, is it common for an author to visit a military base to push a book?
Base personnel could, of course, visit the local Barnes and Noble, Borders or Billy Bob's Bookstore and Auto Repair, but to actually have the author on the base?
Maybe I'm just not up to date (don't answer that, I already know I'm drifting into oldfoggyhood)

[BumRushDaShow]

8. So is she doing USO tours now?

:eyes:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

10. Shirley Mclaine (sp)

Just channeled Bob Hope
He came back: No Way

[johnnie]

12. Whoa!

She isn't anybody important enough to have my tax money being spent on her visit to the base. A private citizen disrupting a military base.. is that normal?

[Tx4obama]

13. If she had really cared about Ft. Hood she would have flown in for the memorial service. n/t

[goclark]

18. Excellent pt. but she couldn't have tried to sell her book

that day ~ well ---- maybe she would, she is that vlassless.

[quakerboy]

15. How does she rate?

If I write a book, do I get automatic entrance to military bases to present my book?

[pitchforksandtorches]

16. She is about a month too late

[superconnected]

17. Eewww, what a place for a book signing. Is she going to stop by all places where mass murderers hit

and turn it into a book promotion event or just the ones with fresh blood on the walls?