Posted on 11/11/2010 1:43:49 PM PST by onyx
Sarah Palin is the ultimate "American Idol" politician. Plucked from relative obscurity by the McCain campaign, quickly costumed, coached and handed a set list created to play to her strengths, she leapfrogged over the traditional trajectory of a political career directly onto center stage where some viewers/voters loved her and many others didn't.
So although it is unprecedented, it is not surprising that, in the aftermath of her unsuccessful vice presidential bid, Palin would quit her actual political job — governor of Alaska — to pursue a career in television, first as a commentator for Fox News and now as the star of TLC's new reality series "Sarah Palin's Alaska."
A show that is, in a phrase, breathtaking, though not so much in form as function. Certainly the Palins are a great-looking family and Alaska is a great-looking state, but it's not the image of a bear raising itself to full angry height or the grandeur of Mt. McKinley or Willow Palin's boyfriend sneaking up to her bedroom that causes the viewer's jaw to, and not occasionally, drop. It's the fabulous shamelessness, the awful and yet admirable brilliance of the thing. Whether Palin will ever run for office or not, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" sets a new standard for political ads.
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Now, that’s funny!
Although the "Northern White House" lawn has a prettier backdrop.
The funniest thing about the article is the dismissive note about Palin’s fears of being stalked by McGinniss. The article mentions that Mc. has RENTED NEXT DOOR. In a state as large as freakin’ Asia, the man LIVES NEXT DOOR to the Palin’s even as he is writing a hit piece on her. This is coincidence?
Whether it's bad or terrible, the dumb bastards are giving ink and paper space to Sarah and the TLC program and that's all anyone doing an entertainment show can ask for.
The ratings will be AMAZING to the lefties, but those of us on the right that will cause those ratings won't be shocked.
At 9:00 PM this and every following Sunday night, off goes football, and on comes the Palins driving the commies into hysteria.
I'll have at least one TV tuned to it so that cable will count it, regardless if I'm watching or not {but I probably will be}.
Linda Stasi's so white, she makes Gene Shalit look Flava Flav.
It doesn't mean anything. NY liberals love to act like their whiteness somehow has more soul than the whiteness of people who live out in the rest of America and say words like "Golly."
They feel all Malcom X-ish, I guess, at their white wine soirees because they sport a African motifed silk scarf they picked up at Nordstroms. And they watch Oprah, which keeps them attuned to the inner city zeitgeist.
Yes the cream always rises to the top while the LA Times and Mary McNamara sink into irrelevance.
Another left wing rag dying a slow death. They can’t even give that paper away. The other day I was in my local Walgreen’s. The LAT had a guy working inside the store offering dirt cheap subscriptions. The next day, I received an email from them offering the Sunday Times for an entire year for $9.88. That is 19 cents a copy folks delivered to your home. Who is hurting now???
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Sarah Palin, Renaissance Woman Par Excellence, drives Mary McNamara, a second rate TV critic, banannas, among her many enviable talents.
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Let’s see if I’ve been paying attention and get the names right. From left:
Track, Piper, Willow, Sarah, Trig, Todd, Bristol, Tripp
Did I miss any?
I’d rather listen to Palin on Discovery talk about Alaska then to hear Obama on American Idol talk about himself.
Why on earth would someone put this in a review? What has Willow ever done to anyone? (I take it that such a scene is not really in the show.)
Why on earth would someone put this in a review? What has Willow ever done to anyone? (I take it that such a scene is not really in the show.)
Yes. I suspect we’d hear a thing or two about that.
Really looking forward to this series, onyx! I have been to Alaska once, and for a very short time. Love the geography up there.
It’s in the commercial for the show I’ve been seeing.
Yo mean to say that Sarah Palin has a TV show coming on and the LA Times doesn’t like it—?????
Ohhhhhhhh noooooooo!
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