I don't know that it's a huge deal that she is rejecting non-english speakers... a lot of peopeople agree with this sentiment. The non-english thing could be an issue in 2012 if she runs for President. Might hurt with hispanic voters. You have guys like jeb who would deliver speeches in Spanish.
And forcing people to address her as "governor" before they can ask a question... that's a little weird to actually REQUIRE it, but whatever. Not really "regular folk" of her to require a proper title, but probably not that big a deal.
You might be able to see Russia from Sarah Palin's home state, but that isn't an excuse to speak Russian.
Authorities turned away reporters who didn't speak English from a Palin event in Minnesota this week, demanding that reporters address the former Alaska governor only in English and refer to her only as "governor."
Event planners at the Mall of Americas now say it was only a "misunderstanding." Palin was scheduled to appear as part of her book-signing tour.
"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," the Chicago Tribune's Mark Silva wrote Wednesday night.
"But the mall also was banning foreign reporters," he added, "permitting 'only English speaking press.' That's not a common requirement."
Mall officials apologized have since apologized for distributing the guidelines, calling the move "an internal communication."
But they went a step further, perhaps showing a few too many of their cards -- instead of just leaving at an apology, they added that the problem was that the guidelines were "inadvertently distributed."
"In other words," Silva quips, "it got out."
A spokesman for HarperCollins, Palin's publisher, was quoted as saying, "That should never have been in any kind of press release. That's not the message the governor wants to send out.''
