Obama Attempting To Force Discovery Channel to Drop Palin’s New Show

Change.org (Obama White House) ^ | April 6, 2010 | Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

[TCH]

Here’s a copy of an e-mail sent to me by an operative.

Urge Discovery to Drop Sarah Palin’s New Show

Discovery Communications — the parent company of The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and others, and known for their wildlife-focused programs — is planning to produce an 8-part TV show on Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska is a “reality TV” show that aims to showcase the “powerful beauty of Alaska,” according to Discovery’s TLC website.

But the real Sarah Palin is no friend of Alaska’s natural heritage. While in office, the former governor fought against increased protections for endangered whales and America’s dwindling populations of polar bears in favor of oil and gas development, supported dangerous drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and escalated Alaska’s brutal aerial wolf-killing program.

Yet according to reports, Palin will earn about $1 million per episode from the nature-focused series.

Act now, Send a powerful message to Discovery Communications expressing your disappointment at their action and urging them to drop Sarah Palin’s new show from their programming schedule.

It’s important that the truth about Sarah Palin’s record not be swept under the rug by her celebrity. Palin’s disrespect for the environment and disregard for science and has done real damage to Alaska’s wildlife and endangered Alaska’s natural heritage.

Send a message to Discovery Communications and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve to represent the “powerful beauty of Alaska” in front of millions of people.

Take action today>

Thanks for taking a stand,

- The Change.org Team in support of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

The links in this e-mail take you directly to Barack Obama’s political arm, Change.org,

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/urge_discovery_communications_to_drop_sarah_palins_new_show?alert_id=pPVlHNgGOM_OcAmutHznt

and this message:

Targeting: Mr. David Zaslav (President and CEO, Discovery Communications)

Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

Sarah Palin has signed on with reality TV producers and Discovery Communications to star in a new TV show about Alaska and its outdoors.

But the ugly reality is that as governor for only two-and-a-half years, Sarah Palin escalated a bloody aerial wolf-slaughter campaign that continues to this very day. She even planned to offer a $150 bounty for the severed forelimb of each killed wolf.

Palin also fought against increased protections for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and America’s dwindling populations of polar bears.

Sign our petition to Discovery Communications — and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve to represent the “powerful beauty of Alaska” in front of millions of people.

[geologist]

Who says this article is based on fact? wolves do require thinning, in order to keep them, from killing too many of the moose, reindeer, caribou etc.,

This person sounds like a liberal to me. MO Where facts mean nothing and lies are everything. Pay no attention to these claims.

Sarah fishes and hunts ... all of which is legal and a personal choice. We know her husband is a hunter as are millions of Americans and has a fishing business.

Discovery is smart in getting her for this project. It will definitely up their audience rating.

I look forward to watching this series Sarah is doing on the great beautiful State of Alaska.

Compared to the millions that Katie Couric has been raking in for years, this is a small sum.

[null and void]

There is just NO end to their evil destructiveness, hate and vengeance.

WE are the end to their evil destructiveness, hate and vengeance.

Well, OK they might still hate us when we're done...

[opentalk]

since she works for FOX now, hope they put the spotlight on this during prime time.

[steve0]

Whoops I meant change.gov . Just for the sake of accuracy. Its easy to jumble the .com .gov .org . Anyway its Obama’s unseen hand at the behest and approval of the Glorious leader.

[dsutah]

I see what you mean! “Oh my goodness! Sarah Palin is an evil woman, look what she did all by herself to destroy Alaska! She’s a witch, I tell you! Aaahhhhhhhh.......”

[Maverick68]

One successful, dynamic little lady governor from Alaska with morals and common-sense has sent these evil pieces of zhit into a panic...I love it...

[JenB987]

I think rather than try canceling Palin’s show, Obama should propose to do his own reality show.

I would absolutely tune in to watch Michelle scarf down cheeseburgers and bitch and nag at her husband while Barack escapes to the bathroom to snort lines off the toilet seat and chain smoke a pack of Marlboros. All while the poor girls and Bo do their one-on-one interviews about how much they hate their lives. And maybe see Rham prancing by the kitchen in a tu tu, Joe Biden stupidly bringing pulled pork to the Muslim BBQ and Robert Gibbs trying to spin all the madness as the typical American family.

It would be awesome.

[TCH]

Obama reality show?

That’s an oxymoron in terms!

[AmericanMermaid]

Three words: FOLLOW THE MONEY.

And who is this jerk to decide who “deserves” to present the beauty of any state? That wording itself is disturbing, but nothing surprises me anymore with these Marxists.

[NFHale]

“...and laugh maniacally, while plotting to destroy America with conservatism....”

...while eating a can of beans that she stole from a poor, homeless Inuit Child, shoeless and shivering in the snow, who was traumatized because his pet baby Harp Seal “Toby” was clubbed to death before his eyes.

Evil, evil, eeeeeeeeeeeeevil Conservatives...tsk tsk tsk.

[STARWISE]

;)

[Candor7]

Political Correctness USed as the Nuclear Option too end debate and public information.

This is a measure of how afraid of Palin they truly are.

And we on the right never try to remove the Dems right to speak, which is why they now control the MSM and film.

Now they want to get rid of Palin on TV, but they will not.

Palin knows what she is doing. She is now in their front room and isn’t going to leave anytime soon!

Atta go Sarah!

[rockinqsranch]

This is so typical of the Left. Politics is everything to those people. They eat, breathe, and pass politics. It’s their lives. It makes them feel powerul, and thus makes them feel good. The more they screw-up someones life, the more powerful they feel, the better they feel.

They are like primates ganging up on another, and beating it to submission, or to death. They salivate, and rejoice in their collective sub human power.

Todays target Sarah, because she is truly America. Their real target is America, then the rest of the Free World once they have subdued the Superpower that protects them.

[BufordP]

Sarah Palin's Alaska

Could your survive in the Alaskan wilderness? Take our quiz and find out! Or Just look at these photos of Palin around Alaska!

Discovery Communications has acquired the global rights to SARAH PALIN'S ALASKA (wt), a new eight-part documentary series about the remarkable Governor Palin and her home state of Alaska. Slated to premiere on TLC, the series will be executive produced by Emmy-award winner Mark Burnett of Survivor and Apprentice fame.

"Our family enjoys Discovery's networks," said Governor Sarah Palin. "I look forward to working with Mark to bring the wonder and majesty of Alaska to all Americans."

"Discovery Communications is so excited to help Sarah Palin tell the story of Alaska, and to have a great documentary filmmaker in Mark Burnett helping to reveal Alaska's powerful beauty as it has never been filmed, and as told by one of the state's proudest daughters," said Peter Liguori, Chief Operating Officer, Discovery Communications.

"TLC is grounded in great storytelling, strong characters, and passionate audiences drawn to extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. We are confident SARAH PALIN'S ALASKA will be another compelling television event," said Eileen O'Neill, president and general manager, TLC.

The series reunites the company with Mark Burnett Productions, which co-produced ECO-CHALLENGE, the precursor to Survivor, for Discovery Channel from 1996-1999.

"With a dynamic personality that has captivated millions, I can't think of anyone more compelling than Sarah Palin to tell the story of Alaska," said Mark Burnett. "I'm thrilled to reunite with Discovery on this project, which brings together one of the most fascinating figures of our time with one of the most wondrous places on earth."

[WVNan]

Is there a chance that they might succeed in getting the show canceled? Isn’t is about time we start turning the tables on these people? There are so many offensive programs on the air that we could attack.

[floriduh voter]

Obama’s just being a good dictator, doncha know?

[floriduh voter]

The actor who quit House on Fox tv, quit the White House’s image department. He wasn’t very smart cuz on House, he committed suicide. So, he cooked his own goose drinkin’ the Obama koolaid.

[allmendream]

DECLINING population of polar bears?

Come come, let us at least stick to something we like to call “reality”.

Sarah Palin stopped the Polar Bear from receiving the designation of an “endangered species” precisely because every indication shows that the Polar Bear population is INCREASING!

[WVNan]

Thank you for the instructions.

[Candor7]

The White House should keep its grubby little fingers OUT of this deal. I doubt this is even legal. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This actually is a civil rights violation.Prejudicial interference with employment based on race, and political beliefs.

If Palin were black and leftist, the feds would have already charged the perpetrators.