Sarah Palin, GOP vice presidential candidate last year, rolls into Minnesota as part of her Going Rogue book tour and Mall of America officials told reporters that the former governor requested English-speaking reporters only.
Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title – a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors.
But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, permitting “only English speaking press.” That’s not a common requirement.
Mall officials, calling the proposed guidelines a mistake, apologized to Palin today for “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.”
In other words, it got out.
The request for English-only reads as an insult to Minnesota’s growing Latino population, especially since Sarah Palin’s answer to Katie Couric in support of the bank bailouts last year reads more like jibberish than English.
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.
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