The Anchorage Daily News pretends to be confused about Gov. Sarah Palin’s travel plans. It asks whether the governor will going to New York City and Washington, D.C., this weekend:
The Chicago Tribune’s political blog and others are reporting as fact that the governor is going to be Fox News’ guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
But it’s not clear if that’s true.
ADN quotes Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton:
“The governor may be on the East Coast this weekend to attend state events and meetings. If she is there, the governor may accept one of the standing invitations for dinner.”
The left-leaning McClatchy newspaper then asks whether Gov. Palin will appear at New York’s Alaska House for an Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute event there and take part in NCNA listening tours across the lower 48. Again, Stapleton responds:
“If there is something that she can do that benefits Alaskans or Alaska or allows her to keep Alaskans first, she’ll participate.”
Whenever there is an event which would require the governor to leave the state, we are treated to this sort of political theater. The actors know their parts well and don’t even need to rehearse their lines, so often have they repeated them.
One would think that The New York Times is purposefully putting American’s in harm’s way with its latest travel section vacation suggestion. If it isn’t doing it on purpose, it certainly is acting almost criminally negligent over its reader’s safety abroad. Back on March 22, the Times suggested that 
