re: #71 lawhawk

Who owns FoxNews? News Corp.
Who owns Harper Collins, which publishes Palin’s book? News Corp.

It goes back to synergy between assets, and one has to wonder if the higher ups were told to help goose sales by touting big crowds (or larger crowds than those that showed up).

The problem with that explanation, as someone else pointed out, is the abundance of genuine footage showing crowds, for example, at her Grand Rapids, Michigan book signing, and other similar venues. There’s little difference between those and the footage in question.