Sarah Palin shopping Alaska reality show

The Live Feed ^ | 03/03/10 | James Hibberd

[OldDeckHand]

Sarah Palin -- reality TV star?

The former Alaska governor is teaming with uber-producer Mark Burnett to shop a reality series about her home state, network sources confirm.

Palin and Burnett made the rounds at at least three of the major broadcasters (NBC, ABC and Fox) while in Los Angeles for her taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" this week.

[lady lawyer]

Fox and Friends was reporting it as a “reality show” this morning. If that is false, it should be easy enough for them to find out. She’s on their payroll.

[wagglebee]

I can post my manifesto somewhere if you’d like.

I would suggest doing this sooner rather than later.

[little jeremiah]

A vanity would be good. An inadvertant opus.

[wagglebee]

This is all rather telling and sounds EXACTLY like something Zero would have one of his minions write:

I think our agenda is clear. We are opposed totrailer courts near our vacation homes, all tiny Third World countries that don’t have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the UN, taxation without tax loop­holes, and jewelry on men.

We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don’t find out), a sound dollar, and a strong military with spiffy uniforms.

[Just mythoughts]

I call it a fishing trip, baiting, and then seeing where the fellow travelers take the bait. I mean how old is a person literally or figuratively to use names like Goldwater, Buckley, Sinatra and Reagan to disclose their mental political state.... That bait just does not fit the smell test and does not originate out of one with a knowledge of history.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

I started one. It was wordy.

In general, my political philosophy is that before any action by government is taken, two questions must be asked.

1. Is it constitutional?

2. Will it make it easier or harder for people to achieve their individual goals?

What I am discovery as I get older is how anti-populist I am. My problem is that we live in a populist age. Anti-elitism has become the story of the day. I am pro elite. The problem is that we have had the wrong elites for the last 50 years. I would tend to side with Adams more than Jefferson.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

It’s PJ Freaking O’Rourke.

The CONSERVATIVE humorist.

Surely, someone here has read him. He’s only had 20 best-sellers.

Seriously, I can handle the rest of the accusations. But the idea that posting a quote from PJ O’Rourke is somehow controversial is maddening.

It’s satire for goodness sake.

[wagglebee]

A flag goes up whenever someone says they are a “Goldwater conservative” or something along those lines.

Goldwater was a FAILURE. He was the GOP’s McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis all rolled-into-one. Conservatism DID NOT actually exist before Ronald Reagan recognized that without social conservatism there was nothing.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

I don’t know what that means.

I’m 36. I was born in 1973. I was raised by FDR worshippers in West Virginia. Then educated by godless multiculturalists at Princeton. Fell into the Princeton Tory crowd. Went to law school. Lived in DC. Got married. Moved to Texas. Here I am.

Would you like my social security number? Perhaps some references?

[RonDog]

It appears that Governor Palin is emulating THIS GUY:

From www.coopersjd.com:

Death Valley Days is a long-running American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area.

It was created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman and ran on radio until 1945. It ran from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television series.

The 558 television stories, which had different actors, were introduced by a host. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952-1965, played by Stanley Andrews...

-- snip --

... Following the departure of Andrews, Ronald Reagan became the host.

-- snip --

...Death Valley Days is, judging from sheer number of episodes broadcast, by far the most successful syndicated television Western, the most successful television Western ever in the half-hour format, and arguably the most successful syndication of any genre in the history of the U.S. television market (Baywatch had a larger international market among U.S.-produced syndicated programs).

Presented by:
Stanley Andrews (1952-1965)
Ronald Reagan (1965-1966)
Robert Taylor (1966-1969)
Dale Robertson (1969-1972)

[wagglebee]

It’s PJ Freaking O’Rourke.

The CONSERVATIVE humorist.

Conservatives don't consider him a conservative.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

Well, who the hell made that call?

[ScaniaBoy]

Two maore stories:

Palin pitching TV show

Washington (CNN) - Will Sarah Palin and her family be starring in a new reality television series? Not quite, a source close to the former Alaska governor tells CNN.

While Palin and famed reality TV producer Mark Burnett are in New York and Los Angeles this week meeting with six networks about a new series - a story first reported Wednesday by Entertainment Weekly - the source emphasized that the show would be a "Planet Earth-style" documentary about Alaska.

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, will likely be featured in the show, the source said. But the source added that "it's not going to be focused on her family, or in her house, or in Wasilla.

"She is just going to use her name to help produce and promote the show," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The source said Palin is following up on her promise last summer, when she resigned from the governor's office, to find new ways to shine a light on her home state.

"This is not 'The Osbournes Go North'," said the source, referencing the MTV reality show that featured rock singer Ozzy Osbourne's family. "This is not a reality show based on the Palins."

AND

Sarah Palin show not 'The Osbournes go North'

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is shopping a short television series to network executives, according to a senior aide, but it will not be a reality show “focused on the Palin family.”

A Palin source told POLITICO that during a trip to Los Angeles for a taping of “The Tonight Show,” the former GOP vice presidential nominee met with executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX as well as representatives for A&E and the History Channel.

Palin went to the meeting with Mark Burnett, a reality show producer of CBS’s “Survivor.

Palin will take part in the series, which the source said will be short and not recurring, but her involvement – whether as a producer, host or anything in between – has yet to be determined.

“She’ll take part in some way, but it really still is in development right now,” the aide said.

The focus of series would be Alaska and will be similar to a nature series on the Discovery Channel.

“It will not be focused on the Palin family, Alaska is going to be the star,” the source said. “It will be more ‘Planet Earth’ than the Osbournes go North.”

The source would not disclose the financial stake Palin is hoping to have in the deal.

And that should really settle that, until or if the program is broadcast

[MrRobertPlant2009]

He seems plenty popular here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350149/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271120/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238361/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206853/posts

[Just mythoughts]

I don’t know what that means. I’m 36. I was born in 1973. I was raised by FDR worshippers in West Virginia. Then educated by godless multiculturalists at Princeton. Fell into the Princeton Tory crowd. Went to law school. Lived in DC. Got married. Moved to Texas. Here I am. Would you like my social security number? Perhaps some references?

I expect an honest answer why are you here? Goldwater and Sinatra and even Buckley over the head of Reagan won't cut it. I remember all these, albeit Goldwater only slightly. But Goldwater shed his 'conservatives' stripes and went full blown liberal.

There is a book, I think it is titled Reagan's Wars, and the author's name escapes me at the moment but I will find it IF you are interested so you at your tender age learn what Reagan knew long before he became President and turned this world upside down on the 'we are gods' that became pervasive around this globe under communism.

Communism NEVER died, but keeps emerging from the root system under all manner of titles, liberal, socialist, and most recently the nice sounding word 'progressive'.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

I like Reagan. I wish Reagan were president. (And the Sinatra thing was clearly a joke. Though “Sinatra and The Lost Art of Living” is a must read if you are interested in how to be a real man).

Apparently, the answer to “What do you believe?” is Reagan. I will know next time not be creative.

[BluesDuke]

think our agenda is clear. We are opposed to: government spending, Kennedy kids, seat-belt laws, busing our children anywhere other than Yale, trailer courts near our vacation homes, all tiny Third World countries that don’t have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the UN, taxation without tax loop holes, and jewelry on men. We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don’t find out), a sound dollar, and a strong military with spiffy uniforms. There are thousands of people in America who feel this way, especially after three or four drinks. If all of us would unite and work together, we could give this country. . . well, a real bad hangover.

Mr. Plant was quoting from the introduction to P.J. O'Rourke's collection of satire, Republican Party Reptiles (Atlantic Press, 1988). Since when is quoting P.J. O'Rourke or other satire grounds for the lethal injection?

God help us for quoting the only Marxism worth quoting---Groucho's.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and misapplying the wrong solutions.---Groucho Marx.

(I still think that crack displays more political wisdom than most of what you'll hear from the mouths of a politician or see from the keyboards of about half the partcipants in an online political forum.)

[MrRobertPlant2009]

I have learned better. I will no longer enjoy dated satire.

[wagglebee]

Being right some of the time and being entertaining DOES NOT make him a conservative. He is very straightforward about his social liberalism.

[lady lawyer]

If this is correct, and it is dignified, then it should do no damage to her.