“Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too,” she told Fox News prior to the official announcement of her candidacy in Waterloo.
Conservative newspaper The Washington Times was first to point out that the presidential hopeful had picked the wrong John Wayne.
“Waterloo’s John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer,” Stephen Dinan wrote.
Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.
"She was told by a security guard that she needed to cover up," nurse-in organizer Danielle Elwood said, "and at that point she felt really uncomfortable and she left the mall for the day."
Elwood organized the protest to raise awareness.
"I was outraged," she said. "I was really upset because moms shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable."
And it is illegal. Connecticut is one of 44 states where it is against the law to restrict or prohibit breastfeeding in any way, including asking moms to cover up. But it's still controversial. Even advocates aren't always so keen on it. Elwood herself doesn't nurse her one-month old in the open.
MSNBC has announced that Ed Schultz will be given a one week suspension without pay for “unacceptable” comments Schultz made, calling Laura Ingraham a “right wing slut,” and then, in a second comment, a “talk slut.”
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