Posted on 11/15/2010 11:38:17 AM PST by This Just In
I am confident that by now, you have all read about Sarah Palin's Alaska program. I'm also confident that you have all been witness to the MSM's overtime/overkill effort to destroy Sarah Palin's reputation.
One of the barrage of tactics the MSM has been resorting to is to brand Sarah Palin's Alaska as a "reality tv" show. Some of your have been guilty of assisting the MSM by posting stories which include the description of this particular show as being a "reality" program.
I would like to encourage all my fellow Freepers out there to call the show what it really is; a travel program. Let us refrain from helping the MSM in their consumed desire to destroy the Palin family's reputation and political endeavors.
Well, We liked it.
It’s always great to let other folks see what we see everyday.
If you don’t like Sarah, then at least watch it for the scenery and wildlife. They gave a pretty good showing of the bears and pictures of McKinley. Next week dog sledding!
So call it what you want to, I’m just glad that lots of folks gets to see a bit of real Alaska!
Did you read her comment that I posted?
“Reality TV” is an oxymoron.
The result of over usage of one word to describe a variety of television productions/shows; from documentaries to sitcoms.
The term ‘reality’ began with staged shows such as Jerry Springer et.al., which featured ‘real people’ not celebrities. Thereafter, any show depicting people in their normal (or abnormal) daily activities used that term. Lazy, but inevitable.
If I hear the term ‘reality show’ I immediately think of Anna Nicole Smith & Ozzy Osborne. I never watched either one!!!!!!!
If they don’t like Sarah I can’t understand why they’d be watching in the first place. It’s a sick obsession. Like McGinniss.
Andrew Jackson was a tough SOB who fought duels and came from the backwoods. He was a fine president.
Abraham Lincoln split rails and was seen as a country bumpkin. I don't much care for him, but he accomplished his goals in tough circumstances.
This country has not had that sort of president for a long time now. I don't know if we're ready for that sort of president again, but I do know one thing: We cannot keep on doing what we've been doing. Ivy League educated, ruling class dimwits who do not cherish our heritage and/or do not understand what it means to raise a regular family, work a regular job, or meet a company payroll -- we've had enough of that.
Sarah is not like the others we have had to put up with for these past oh-so-many years. Maybe America doesn't want what she's selling, but I know I sure do.
And once again it has nothing to do with liking or not liking Sarah Palin (read that post again), I don’t think she’s the right candidate for President...but that has nothing to do with me liking or not liking reality TV...this thread was on an entirely different subject (a reality TV show) than Palin for President. If they had a reality TV show about any candidate I wouldn’t like it. I said I don’t like any reality TV! and that’s the truth!
I can understand if someone doesn't like it, but it was done fairly well, much better than most of the anti-Palin trolls are saying. I didn't like her use of the word "flippin"....sue me, it just sounded dumb.....
Most conservatives would have enjoyed it, but at times you and pissy only want to make anything she does seem bad.
Then why did you watch? Just curious.
Reality Shows are not real at all. They may use real people, but they are carefully scripted and carefully edited. While the scripting may not be rigid, a certain plan is set out for each episode, including the “dramatic curve” which is to climax in a particular incident.
For instance, my daughter happened to be bartending at a club during the filming of a Bachelor episode. She watched and listened as the participants were coached and directed what to say and when , and what the reaction should be. The four women were told to start out friendly and to gradually become hostile to one in particular. The insults were to accelerate until Candidate A threw a glass of wine on Candidate B. Etc.
You have to be really naive to think that these shows are raw reality.
If you're calling me a liar, then you can just go piss off.
Take it anyway you choose.
When anyone starts a comment with, "I've got to be honest here", "In all honesty", "Truthfully", any thing that follows is suspect, and if you can't see that, then you can't be a liar, you have to be able to discern reality to be a liar.
I caught a couple glimpses of the nice scenary of Alaska in the previews, which the show did have. I expected and wanted it to be more of a travelogue with Palin showing us places in Alaska.
Retired, are you? ... with lots of time on your hand.
And to add to that, like I said in my first post on this thread...I don’t like to see family interaction on TV (for one it makes me feel odd peering into someone else’s private lives...and for another I don’t think it can be “real” because they know they’re being filmed.)
If I want “reality” I don’t have to go far. We’ve got enough “reality” to deal with in our family, on a day to day basis, LOL.
Ok. So, you were disappointed that you didn’t get to see more of Alaska. But that was an expectation on your part. Not anything that Sarah herself did wrong. Right?
I watched the show nearly in its entirety.
More time on the Palins, less time on Alaska.
But answer this simple question: What do the following 3 things have to do with Alaska?
1) Making cupcakes and licking the beater?
2) keeping boyfriends away from daughter’s bedroom?
3) piper calling her mom by her first name?
That’s the stuff of reality tv.
My conclusion: Reality TV. But if folks like it, so what?
I’m not saying Palin did anything wrong. That wasn’t my point. My point was I don’t like reality tv...no matter who it was. Even if Ronaldus Magnus himself had done a reality tv show, I probably wouldn’t have liked it.
I didn’t think it was bad. I didn’t watch the whole thing, Saw some clips later today.
I don’t think she is bad for doing it either. I don’t think it was pesidential either, but that is in the eye of the beholder.
Some fans who aren’t die hards may not like the idea.
I figure her die hard fans will love it no matter what.
Others who aren’t sold yet on Palin, this may or may not help.
The lefties will love hating it .
I actually don’t watch reality TV much. The closest I usually get on a routine basis is the First 48. LOL
Come on, you love to hate pissy. In Palin’s words “he is shakin’ things up”.
If anyone thinks it’s a reality show, try voting Piper off it.
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The new Kate + 8 is a reality program, right? Nobody gets voted off of that show either. Although I wish she would get voted off.
Right. That’s what I meant. Well, pfft, nothing wrong with that.
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