Friday, November 8, 2013
In order to drum up interest in her Christmas book, Sarah Palin chases controversy and fans the flames of religious strife.
Former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be in the Wausau area next week to promote her new Christmas book, exactly one month after she took to Facebook to weigh in on the Wausau School District’s religious music controversy.
Palin will be at Walmart, 4300 Rib Mountain Drive, from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 14 to sign copies of “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.”
Rib Mountain will be Palin’s fourth stop on her national book tour, she announced Wednesday on her Facebook page, and her first visit to the Wausau area.
In the book, Palin calls for people to publicly celebrate Jesus Christ during Christmas and say “Merry Christmas” to one another.
In October, Wausau School District administrators placed new limits on religious music performances by school groups, including an elite choral group at Wausau West High School called the Master Singers. Many in the community said the school district’s religious-music restrictions were akin to an attack on Christianity.
Last month, Palin posted the following to her Facebook page: “Thank you to all the Wausau, Wisconsin, residents who showed up to protest a wrongheaded school directive against Christmas carols. Wausau showed that there is power in unity as we battle against Scrooges who want Christ out of Christmas. My new book tackles issues like this one. It explains the steps we can take to combat the Scrooges so that we may forever protect the heart of Christmas from those who seek to diminish its true meaning.”
More than 41,600 people have “liked” that post since Oct. 14. (Many of them bots paid for by money from SarahPAC no doubt.)
Of course Palin has recently posted about a number of incidences which she has classified as attacks on Christmas, Christianity, and family values in preparation for this book tour. Including the textbook "controversy" in Florida, the cemetery grave marker "controversy" in Colorado, the military "controversy" concerning Evangelicals, and so on.
Many of these places are near book stop tours, and I have little doubt that Palin will use them to help attract interest in her newest ghostwritten toilet paper dispenser.
Essentially if seems that Palin has structured her book tour to take her to places which she believes she can identify as ground zero for the "War on Christmas," and thereby a "War on Christians."
It seems obvious to me that she is openly courting religious zealotry and hoping to anger Christians to the point that they will buy her book as some kind of statement against what she identifies as an attack on their faith and "their" holiday.
Much like Palin it is ugly, it is ignorant, and it will more than likely be a failure.
Later in the Wausau article they suggest that the local Wal-Mart is prepared for large crowds, but I have a feeling that will not be necessary. There will be a few looky-loos but for the most part nobody really cares.
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