Sarah Palin's VIP Treatment Questioned By Democrat

Palin and her family have received VIP treatment just about everywhere they went: a private guided tour of Mount Vernon, early admission into the National Archives, and private tours at all the federally managed National Park Service properties they visited, including a 10-person escort of national parks employees and New York City police officers at the Statue of Liberty.


The Palins also bypassed long lines and avoided crowded exhibit rooms — and hitched a ride to the Statue of Liberty on a National Park Service boat from New Jersey, avoiding the often hours-long wait for the public boat from lower Manhattan.


Park Service spokesman David Barna said celebrity visits to national parks are extremely common, and they are accommodat­ed as much to protect other tourists from disruption as to provide VIP treatment to stars.

It's one thing for private businesses to close their stores to the public in order to allow celebritie­s in to shop unbothered by the huddled masses, but it's entirely another matter for the government of the US to treat some Americans as better than others.
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