Sarah Palin and her family sneaked out in Washington on Sunday night for what she called an ?incognito? tour of the national monuments, having successfully created a media frenzy and then ditched the press.
Details of the visit were posted Monday morning on her Web site, along with pictures that show her, her husband, Todd, and her daughters enjoying stops at the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial and the World War II Memorial.
In one picture, Ms. Palin and Mr. Palin are sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, looking out toward the Washington Monument, like any other couple might. In another, the whole family is seen standing below a part of the World War II Memorial that says ?Alaska,? their home state.
?Took an incognito tour of our beautiful national monuments tonight,? Ms. Palin wrote on the Web site early Monday. ?We met some great everyday citizens who were also ?taking it all in? in honor of the greatest nation on earth.?
Ms. Palin is apparently set to continue her tour of historical sites throughout the Northeast on Monday, though aides continued to refuse to say where she might show up.
Greta Van Susteren, host of her own Fox News show and a confidante of Ms. Palin?s, also announced Monday morning that she would be interviewing Ms. Palin on her new charter bus ? though Ms. Van Susteren insisted in a statement on her Web site that she did not know where the bus would be headed.
?I do know where she is this morning since I am meeting up with the bus with our crew,? Ms. Van Susteren said. ?She is not obliged to tell me or my crew where she is going. I guess that is like my contract ? I am not obliged to tell Fox where I vacation.?
Ms. Palin announced her bus tour with great fanfare last week and is using it on her Web site to raise money for her political action committee. Despite that, Ms. Palin is acting as though her family is just like any other taking a sight-seeing vacation to see the country.
Never mind the charter bus plastered with images of the Constitution. Or the fact that her family vacation has a name: the ?One Nation Tour.? Or that she is documenting her family?s movements on a Web site that invites Americans along. Or that she might just run for president.
No. Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has made it quite clear that she just wants to be left alone. She doesn?t want to accommodate members of the news media (except, perhaps, Fox.) And she is purposely avoiding any of the overtly political things that most politicians do, like meeting with local politicians.
It is unclear whether she can keep up the pretense of a simple family vacation amid the scrutiny of someone who is thought to be considering a presidential campaign.
Ms. Van Susteren on Sunday blamed the news media for the chaotic situation, saying that reporters had created the frenzy that surrounds Ms. Palin.
?If you think about it, she is free to do whatever she wants,? Ms. Van Susteren wrote. ?Bus ride, no bus ride. It is those of us in the media who are seeking her out (and by watching all in the media, it is intense. Otherwise why would everyone be talking about her?)?
And yet, there would be one simple way for Ms. Palin to turn off that intense discussion. It?s a way that has been discovered recently by the likes of Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality TV star; Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana; Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi; and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas.
She could announce that she is not running for president.
So far, she has not.
Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/palin-family-tours-washington-incognito/
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