John Doyle: How Sarah Palin became my new bestie

The Globe and Mail ^ | January 10, 2014 | John Doyle

[2ndDivisionVet]

You can feel the charm when you watch her operate in person, that Sarah Palin. You don’t expect it, but it’s there – the awkward mix of pseudo-authenticity and charisma, the smooth way with a room full of reporters, the way she just carries on, regardless.

Me, I was taken aback. She’s practically my new bestie, now. Squeezed my hand, called me “honey,” even stopped to squeeze my shoulder on her way out and thank me. We had a wee chat and a laugh.

Palin was here Friday for an early breakfast event to promote her new series on a fairly obscure channel, The Sportsman Channel, a thing called Amazing America With Sarah Palin. Introduced by a network executive as “The First lady Of The Outdoors,” Palin took to the podium and gave it her best. The voice, the tone that goes up and down in odd squawks, is familiar, but it sure wakes you up in the morning when it’s unleashed.

“The Sportsman Channel is so bold to ask me along,” she said, with “bold” coming out in a squawk. “I’m gonna work to bust this network out!” she declared and even smiled as she heard a few titters. “You critics are gonna have a ball with me and this new show.”

Then she went into her self-deprecating mode: A demeanour she’s acquired, if it’s real at all, from her political experience, her up and-down-career as a pundit on Fox News and the critical blasting of her TLC reality series, Sarah Palin’s Alaska. “You know how much I love critics and the media,” said a grinning Palin. “So a room full of television critics, I can't beat this combination for pleasure.”(continued)

[Mastador1]

I haven’t been able to listen to Medved for years, too much of an apologist for RINO’s.

[ansel12]

He has become almost campy with his efforts at propagandizing against conservatives.

[namvolunteer]

As soon as I saw Doyle’s face, I knew he’s a lush. Very reminiscent of the dressing down of KYW I-team’s Stan Bohrman by ex-Mayor Frank Rizzo in 1980. Bohrman was stalking Rizzo’s house to see how many police officers were providing security.
This is lengthy clip but it’s a classic:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWHhev-aag

[Slings and Arrows]

Faygeleh?

[RichInOC]

“...these are a few of my favorite things...”

[RichInOC]

I loved that guy in “Are You Being Served?”.

[GeronL]

lolz

[hattend]

No, but I got to see how this strange, polarizing woman operates. Someone else would have been utterly charmed, bought into it, believed her, wanted to vote for her. I could see it happening.

Polarizing? Wonder what this dick said about Obama in 2007? Wonder what he says now?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks onyx.