This video does not show the tomato incident, but talks about it. More interesting is the depicted assembly line:
Here's one of our local news reports:
The following is the closest thing I could find to a Japanese simulation of the event:
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Tomatogate
Posted on: December 8, 2009 12:12 PM, by Greg Laden
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Too bad. This kind of thing just feeds the idea of Palin as a victim of unreasonable left wing bias. It should be easy enough to defeat her based on the nonsense that is in her book.
Posted by: Joel | December 8, 2009 12:45 PM
Here is what they make you go through to get a book signed by her. I've never been to a book signing before, but I somehow doubt these are typical procedures... http://tinyurl.com/yfswkp9
amazing
Posted by: jake | December 8, 2009 1:07 PM
The title of the second You Tube video is "Communist throws a Tomato at Sarah Palin". And we know the thrower is a communist because...
Posted by: Mandrake | December 8, 2009 1:45 PM
@Jake
Now that would be funny.
Posted by: Joel | December 8, 2009 2:24 PM
Mandrake,
We know he's a communist because tomatoes are red.
I worked in book stores for over eight years and worked on a couple dozen signings. At the bigger signings some kind of assembly line is standard procedure. A lot of stores, especially the chains, require you to buy the books from them and show a receipt, though none of the book stores I worked at did. Limiting the number of book one person can buy as a way to keep the line moving is also pretty common. Many celebrities insist on a camera ban. That said, this one is more extreme than anything I've ever been in or seen.
Posted by: John McKay | December 8, 2009 3:16 PM
OH! The yellow banner was a shock! Funny how you can know something is coming and still be so shocked when it gets here. Some of us have such a hard time with new things, but I imagine in a few weeks the comfortable green will be forgotten. NG yellow is the future and I will adjust. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming...
Posted by: momkat | December 8, 2009 4:01 PM
The first video is hilarious...
Talk about a magic tomato. Has anyone considered the possibility that there was a second thrower? Greg... where were you at the time of the incident?
Posted by: havoc | December 8, 2009 4:48 PM
Speaking on behalf of tomatoes everywhere, allow me to say that I deplore this horrible abuse ... of tomatoes.
Posted by: Tomato Addict | December 8, 2009 6:17 PM
I thought communists like grapefruit now. Least, that's what Glenn Beck said...
Anyway, Greg, you might enjoy this cartoon:
http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1636&b=1
Posted by: Alex | December 8, 2009 6:23 PM
It was hilarious that the dufus hit a cop with the tomato. I hope the judge sentences him to read Palin's book and do a book report on it before he can leave jail. I still say they should have tasered the bum.
Posted by: Rumpleforeskin | December 8, 2009 10:42 PM
In other news: There's still time!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michelle-Bachmann-Pancake-Portrait-Painting-Art-Lacey_W0QQitemZ260520443000QQcategoryZ60437QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&viewandbid=260520443000&VER=seller&POS=viewandbid
Posted by: Simea mirans | December 8, 2009 10:58 PM
Simea, that made me want to throw up.
Posted by: Greg Laden | December 8, 2009 11:06 PM
They refer to Palin as a politician. Shouldn't that be ex-politician? aka one who quits to cash in on a book deal while the iron's hot?
Posted by: Rich Wilson | December 9, 2009 4:45 AM