From the Daily Beast:
TLC executives have a lot less to crow about this week: Ratings for Sarah Palin's Alaska, tanked after just one episode. The show's premiere last Sunday surprised the television world with 5 million viewers, a ratings record for the medium-sized network. But viewers seem to have had their curiosity satisfied with a single episode. Two million, or 40 percent of them, failed to tune in for more. Worse for TLC, the median viewer age for the second episode was 57—well outside the target adult demographic and 15 years older than the network's typical viewer. Network execs said they expected a ratings dropoff after the premiere, and that the show could have been hurt by the American Music Awards.
It looks like Sister Sarah's planned media blitz to attract more support for her political aspirations is backfiring big time.
Not only is her crappy program hemorrhaging viewers, but her plan to pimp out Bristol in order to garner sympathy and soften her image, has so angered the people watching DWTS that instead she has earned a whole new passel of critics who never really paid attention to her and her dysfunctional family before. In fact she may have single-handedly destroyed the programs future.
I have said many times that the more people see Sarah Palin the less support she will have. And she is doing everything in her power to prove me correct.
But if you want to see Sister Sarah at her most manic, and can stand to sit through almost 50 minutes of her high pitched screeching, you HAVE to watch her interview yesterday with Sean Hannity. I was going to sit down and pick it apart for you, but I am so shocked after listening to it that I cannot even bring myself to listen to is again and point out all that is wrong, crazy, and frightening about it.
Get your bottle of Maalox ready before you start, and good luck.
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
Part Four:
Now I want to point out that NOBODY has taken Palin's words out of context. These are HER words, spoken to a host who is VERY sympathetic toward her, and so she cannot claim that anybody "twisted her words" or "took them out of context."
So if you managed to get through these four videos, or even portions of them, do YOU find her to be a viable Presidential candidate?
I didn't watch the video or her show.
ReplyDeleteShe's rumored to be advocating to get O'Donnell on the next DWTS.
Other GOP frontrunners are developing policy positions while Sarah f@cks around.
I can't believe you still think she's running.
I see no semblance of a brain between these two ass-clowns...I don't even have to watch these clips to know that. More like, "America by Tart."
ReplyDeleteHer face appeared on the screen & it jumped out!
ReplyDeleteThe three tiered Bumpit has the back end of a porcupine attached to it!!
No, she's not a viable candidate. Her beehive is sure looking 1950-60's; she might be a viable candidate to star in GREASE as one of the old teachers.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, she can't run for Pres. She doesn't have the #s. Only 3 million? The median age of her fan base is 57 and they just have to turn on a TV channel. Some of her crowd is confined to wheel chairs, scooters and assisted living; it will be harder for them to get out and vote. She does not bring in the youth crowd and neither do her kids, as is evidenced currently on Dancing With Teabagging Shills.
Now that DWTS is about over and Sarah's show only has six episodes, so what next you ask? Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteHow about something like COPS?
COPS in Alaska where we could see some REAL reality TV:
Todd's sister being arrested after her THIRD break-in of a home in Wasilla (true)
Track vandalizing school buses (true)
Willow vandalizing a vacant home for sale in Wasilla and doing thousands of
dollars in damage with her friends (true)
Todd using his wife's power as Governor to harass his former brother-in-law and then he and Sarah being condemned in the official report about the abuse of power (true)
Underage drinking and drugging with Track, Bristol and Willow (true)
Piper missing so many school days that the COPS are called in to investigate
And then maybe we could see some of the secret phone calls and arm twisting Palin does to keep it all under wraps and out of the "lamestream" media?
A dose of real reality might be nice....just sayin'
I can't bring myself to watch the clips, but I doubt I would be surprised by anything in them. I never watched her TLC show either.
ReplyDeleteI also don't/won't watch DWTS, even though it's Bristol's big night - I assume she will win but I actually think it would be far more Palin-like for her to lose and then continue to build a career on whining about how the "haters" destroyed her for the rest of her life. It's worked for her mother!
I suppose if she doesn't win we will then be subjected to a bunch of lawsuits, vote counting, etc... sound familiar?
Just realized who she looks like. I expect to see Wonkette or some other site to have Palin as Marge Simpson!!!
ReplyDeleteThe hair, the hair!!!!
Bumpited
Hair piece upon hair piece
She is truly coming apart at the seams!!!
I don't understand why these reporters keep saying that SPA was a "ratings record for TLC."
ReplyDeleteAs I have pointed out on another site now, this is NOT true.
Jon and Kate plus 8 has had viewers higher than 5 million at least 2 times.
On May 25, 2009 they pulled in 9.8 million and in June 2009 they had 10.6 million for the divorce episode.
Here are the links again to back up my facts (something the supposed reporters are not doing):
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1785096/jon_and_kate_plus_8_season_premiere.html?cat=2
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/06/jon-kate-plus-8-divorce-episode-draws-record-ratings.html
I think Sarah plans to run & her self-love allows her to think she will win. That is why the second house was built on Lake Lucille, she plans to live there while president! Just like when she was governor of Alaska, it seems like she is really that delusional. Karen
ReplyDeleteThe Hair! Look where the top of her forward ends and how high the beehive is...6 inches - at least! She is seriously entering Marge Simpson territory! She should just dye it blue already.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:56
ReplyDeleteDuring her last book tour, there was an episode of Mall Cops at Mall of America
I believe it was when someone had thrown a tomato and was arrested.
Naked ambition is no substitute for a lack of intellect or common decency.
ReplyDeleteI live in a very conservative neighborhood and yesterday at the local Subway I encountered a group of teenagers, looked 13..17, they were in the booth next to mine and they were having a conversation about Bristol DWTS. They said she was there because of her mother. Then one said Bristol's mother is a bully, she only says nasty things.Another piped up,and she wears only short skirts,my mother does not dress like that!
Perhaps all is not lost as the young see through this Fake and some parents are teaching their children good standards.
OMG....her hair looks like Marge Simpsons.
ReplyDeleteI have managed to get through the first clip...and no, she doesn't sound presidential.
So $arah's Political Propaganda Show's audience on TLC = $arah's Political Propaganda Shows' audience on FOX. She's not attracting any new fans, will not improve her favorables, and may in fact turn off some fans this week with her folksy fish clubbin'. Sarah Palin's Alaska is failing so hard right now, indeed.
ReplyDeleteSome of us on here called this weeks ago. The first ep would do well (well by basic cable standards, that is) and once the hype wore off and people got tired of the Palin Overexposathon, no one would care anymore.
ReplyDeleteShe is one loopy prick tease and she will never win unless there is some big time cheating going on.
ReplyDelete@9:43, All Stupid has ever done is f@ck around. Of course she's not developing policy or coming up with solutions. She thinks she'll get into the WH via Fakebook, Twitter, Fox News and bumper sticker sloganeering. When it comes to having to offer real solutions though, she she'll just quit halfway through and go on tour as a former Half-Term President -- and why not? She got away with it before and people still (inexplicably) take her seriously.
ReplyDeleteThis week the reality show includes Track.
ReplyDeleteIn Part 3 of the Hannity BS interview, she talks about being so proud of Track that at the end of his deploy, for giving up his seat to someone that had family needs at home. He had to wait a month for his return trip.
I'd normally play my violin now but it's in the shop for repair from overuse.
While talking this Track crap, she's ripping a strip from Senator Kerry about something he said (well probably her interruptation). Kerry, who is a Vietnam vet. Track, who I read drove an officer around for a year. Big freakin' difference in their tours. Track was the equivalent of a taxi driver.
She's starting to sound like her pre 2008 self. I saw no mania. I just much frustration with petty gossip. She is in a different position. People don't follow Romney, Pawlenty around and "report" the ridiculous. Yes, Sarah does allow herself more facetime, but the public obviously craves it. Have you noticed when Bristol does post show interviews, the interviewer wants to know exact dialogue that goes on between Bris and Sarah? It's crazy. She taken her chance to do so much good and haters are detracting from that. Someone who's seen the attacks on her family yet continues to fight anyway is not engaging in the "war" for purely personal gratification.
ReplyDeleteShe looks more like Cruella DeVille every time I see her. The evil glint in her eyes, the sneer, the wtf hair, and dead animal pelt on her whatever that was she was wearing. She's turned into a cartoon character of herself.
ReplyDeletewhat on earth is on top of her head? a curled up baby grizzly? a hair hat?
ReplyDeleteOMG it's like two feet high and looks awful.
"shes rumored to be..."
ReplyDeletePlease, Sarah's whole persona is one giant rumor after another. At least Bristol can still be peppy and carefree. She's always seems so content and happy post show. Watch her interviews
No matter what the outcome of the show is, there will be complaining by B & S Palin. And threatening phonecalls from TP. If B wins, she will quit and go on a dramatic weightloss regimen at one of her residences because DWTS didn't work.
ReplyDeleteIf B looses, we know she'll blame the haters. (Anyone who looses does so because people hate them, right?)
I had wanted Jennifer Grey to win, but when B was still on after the forth week, I decided that it was a fix. I'll never watch it again. I used to love it because it was wholesome, family entertainment. We never voted, but we liked it.
It's good that Sarah has so much contol over her stuff; she can't truly blame others for her failure.
SP is like a desperate girl who knows the break-up is inevitable and she is desperately grasping at straws to make herself seem good to keep it going.
Joe Miller has filed a lawsuit against Nielsen rating service.. he claims they did not count all of the viewers that watched SPAlaska.
ReplyDeleteJoe believes the correct number of viewers was 276,000,000 and then add in the other 987,000,000 viewers in China.
How do you get manic from that? Manic is what she exudes in interviews with Oreilly or when she and Glenn go off on some dumbass. Her demeanor here reminded me of her behavior from March 08-April
ReplyDeletePiper missing so many school days that the COPS are called in to investigate
ReplyDeleteWhat is a must to INVESTIGATE in Alaska is the HOME SCHOOL INDUSTRY. Instead of truancy, what Piper and Willow are about is HOME SCHOOL.
It is not only the Palin kids that are abused with those type of HOME SCHOOL people. What is happening to all the poor kids that can't make it and the parents turn to the HOME SCHOOL should be a crime. You would think the few decent home schools would stand up and not allow SARAH PALIN be the FACE OF HOME SCHOOL.
Don't forget her screech to the Christians about the Nanny State and diet when she went off aobut kids not able to eat junk food like her family.
What the fuck is your point?
ReplyDeleteLooks like Willow's BF from SPA 1 has little class as well
ReplyDeleteHere he is taunting a Pakistani on FB in regards to his comments about DWTS...
http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/11/willow-palin-convo.html
yeah who didn't see the ratings drop coming? we all knew it would happen.
ReplyDeleteit's been a pretty bad week for sarah. couldn't happen to a more deserving person. maybe when bristol wins dwts it will make her a little happy for a minute or two. then she'll go back to sniping at everyone, and she'll cry throughout her entire book tour because she will get nowhere near the crowds she got last time.
happy holidays, sarah, lol.
Good Gawd! What's that, that, that THING on her head and *gasp* What's that THING around collar area of her shirt?!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what's scarier, her outfit hair or her voice...
I could not get through it. Same old schtick, same platitudes over and over and over again! I think the clock is FINALLY running on her 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteSarah isn't viable because she is so damn angry all the time. It's just basic psychology that eventually people will turn away from it. Only her most ardent supporters can put up with that indefinitely, and they may even recoil at what all this over- exposure shows about her personality and mindset. They thought they liked her, in other words...
ReplyDeleteBtw, it just occurred to me if Bristol is hiding something, her mother has insisted that any revelations be delayed by at least 2 weeks or so, so that she can sell as many book as possible to her fans (the ones who think she is a wonderful role model and mother).
It's all about the benjamins.
Since when is quitty pants channeling Marge Simpson? How high can that hair go!
ReplyDeleteCan't watch, but in light of the Cell Block Tango on DWTS post below:
ReplyDeletealso from Wikipedia:
"Velma again welcomes the audience with the line "Hello, Suckers," another reference to Texas Guinan, who commonly greeted her patrons with the same phrase. She informs the audience of Roxie's continual run of luck ("I Know a Girl") despite Roxie's obvious falsehoods ("Me and My Baby"). A little shy on the arithmetic, Amos proudly claims paternity, and still nobody notices him ("Mr. Cellophane"). Velma tries to show Billy all the tricks she's got planned for her trial ("When Velma Takes The Stand"). With her ego growing, Roxie has a heated argument with Billy, and fires him. She is brought back down to earth when she learns that a fellow inmate has been executed. The trial date arrives, and Billy calms her, telling her if she makes a show of it, she'll be fine ("Razzle Dazzle"), but when he passes all Velma's ideas on to Roxie, down to the rhinestone shoe buckles, Mama and Velma lament the demise of "Class". As promised, Billy gets Roxie her acquittal but, just as the verdict is given, some even more sensational crime pulls the pack of press bloodhounds away, and Roxie's fleeting celebrity life is over. Billy leaves, done with the case. Amos stays with her, glad for his wife, but she then confesses that there isn't really a baby, making Amos finally leave her. Left in the dust, Roxie pulls herself up and extols the joys of life "Nowadays". "
This whole time, I didn't believe in reincarnation....but I do believe this Palin Family is an ugly train wreck show.
9:58 AM
ReplyDeleteYup--a recount of the DWTS votes! ROFLMAO!
Viewers quit!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Couldn't bear to watch the Fox videos any more than Alaska's Palin or the dance show!
Any kind of political hay she may have made with the highly manipulative cinematic production in Sarah Palin's Alaska has been lost with this bizarre and disturbed interview with one of her most devoted sycophants.
ReplyDeleteThis really is highly untoward behavior of a supposedly respectable figure of influence, unorthodox as she may have been in the last two years. This is teh crazy, Bachmann and Beck crazy.
made it exactly 3 minutes and 26 seconds into the first video...
ReplyDeletecant take anymore...
lady is nuts and repeats the SAME TIRED THINGS OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER...
she is so tired. has nothing new to say about anything
adios sarah!!!!
Gotta Love It!!
ReplyDeleteThe stories just keep on dropping!! Here is MSNBC in reference SPA rating plunge and to the Willow FB rant. The dots are being connected in that the 'stair fence hopper boyfriend Andy', he too was a participant of the racial and homophobic slurs, as seen on the link to Life&Style in the story.
http://theclicker.todayshow.com/_news/2010/11/23/5515754-alaska-packs-bad-news-for-the-palins
http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/11/willow-palin-convo.html
The one exclusion I note is that all the boys ages have been identified EXCEPT Andy's. Do note, that if these are Willow's friends, she's 16 hanging around 18 & 19 year olds.
Sat through clip one...trying to get through clip 2. I honestly don't know who's voice is worse. Palin's or Hannity's.
ReplyDeleteSP's AK, aka TrainWreckistan.
ReplyDeleteOk I just could not listen, but I watched a few minutes of the first one with the sound off. WHAT IS WITH the HAIR STYLE!!!!!!??? What year is this? 1950? It's ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteI know it's superficial but this woman believes she can be president and she presents herself like this?
Does any brave soul want to summarize what she says??
Would love to know.
Perhaps Mercedes blog is down because she made a
Mistake saying the photo of Levi with the hospital bracelet was taken with Tripp. But it was taken with Trig. Check back records other blogs.
The Hollywood reporter on MSNBC is saying Bristol will win tonight. What a farce.
God, I couldn't even make it all the way through part one. All she did was regurgitate the same talking points she always uses.
ReplyDeleteShe's so fucking presumptuous...she'll run *only* if the right person (in her feeble mind) takes on the task.
Boy, Sarah, you never pass up any opportunity to exaggerate do you? I read the FB book posts and I don't seem to recall any of those guys attacking your grandson, Trig.
When have you ever zipped your lip? You seem to have constant diarrea of the mouth when it comes to bad mouthing anyone who annoys or disagrees with you. Thick skinned you are not! I thought you said you didn't read these blogs??? Have you ever counted how many times a day you lie, Sarah??
Seriously, Sarah Palin actually makes me APPRECIATE other empty celebrities. At least they don't go around relentlessly mocking people of fine standing or get in your face if you don't worship them. Sure, Paris Hilton or the Jersey girls have as much to offer as the turd on the bottom of your shoe, but at least they don't throw feces in your face like Sarah does.
ReplyDeleteNo, thanks, Gryphen, I'll take your word for it.
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW, I'm an old lady who despises this wretch and thinks she's a horrible mother and total fraud because she's teaching her kids the same thing--grifting your talentless self.
Hard work, my ass.
Well - I got to 2.46 of the firstpart and couldn't listen a second longer.
ReplyDeleteBut to Anonymous @9.43 - she *is* running for president 2012. she just won't actually *be* president, even if elected.
By any chance - does anyone else pick up the vibe that Hannity is just giving Sarah enough rope to hang herself? He asks her countless questions (in all of his interviews with her) he knows she can't possibly answer. I would be sick to find he was a hero in her downfall. ROFL
Oz
Sweet Lord WTF is that thing on her head? A triple bumpit?
ReplyDeleteI tried to watch, I really did but I can't listen to anymore of her lies and bullshit. Gryphen you deserve a medal for having sat through all 50 minutes.
Is she a viable candidate? LMAO you know she's not nor will she ever be. She says she will wait and see if anyone "SHE" considers worthy will run and if not then she will offer herself up for public service.
Newsflash Sarah, the people decide who is worthy not you.
The only thing this bitch is worthy of is a street corner for 50 cent hookers. Even then most would want their money back.
Won't watch but thanks for the offer ;-)
ReplyDeleteDon't/won't watch DWTS nor any clips.
Don't/won't watch SPA nor any clips.
The reason she gets higher ratings is us "haters" tuning in much like rubbernecking on the highway after a tragic accident.
That's what the Palins are...a tragic accident America is dealing with thanks to McNasty!
Must be difficult conducting such a long interview with the MILF (moron I'd like to forget)while sporting a chubby. Ah, but Sean Vanity is most likely UP to the task.
I wish I had the stomach to listen to her but she is so insane and out of control, I might take a gun and blow up my TV.
ReplyDeleteShe looks insane, absolutely off her rocker.
And that hair !!
Most likely half the audience was sleeping on the couch and merely failed to shut the tv after the prior program.
ReplyDeleteThe book release today - Guess that means 'The Wham Bam, Thank You Scam Tour' starts or would that be 'The Fleecing of My Sheep'!!
ReplyDeletewhoa whoa whoa horsey. I just watched the first part....Sarah claimed to have been a CEO and a business woman. Where did that come from?
ReplyDeleteAnd those time tested truths she was blathering about? Sarah, do you mean like the earth is flat, the sun revolves around the earth, the earth is about 3,000 years old? Or maybe that an elected official should be able to use their office to seek revenge on an ex brother-in-law and no one should question her about it?
And this statement.
"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today, of journalism and I have a communications degree."
Could have fooled me Sarah. what a clumsy way with words you have for having a degree in communications.
And "I studied journalism. Who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of reporting."
OK The question Katie asked you about what you read, that you completely fumbled. Let's break it down. My comments are in parenthesis.
"COURIC: And when (when) it comes to establishing your world view(what), I was curious (why), what newspapers and magazines did you (who) regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world (where)?
It sure seems Like Katie used the who, why, what, when, where method to me.
"PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where, it's kind of suggested and it seems like, 'Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America."
A communications degree? riggghhhhhht.
Rick
What kind of animal is around her neck? That intense shade of pink is too glaring.
ReplyDelete9:56 - great list! LOL.
ReplyDeleteEven though ya put 'em in fronta me, I won't watch all of 'em, or any of 'em, either. Wink. You betcha not.
ReplyDeleteSince Sarah Palin's Alaska is failing, do you think the Palins owe Willow's classmates an apology especially Tre?
ReplyDeleteThe boy new what he was talking about.
Ok I have watched the first two. First of all, where in the FB fight did Tre refer to Trig? Certainly, his first comment was his opinion (and mine) Sarah's new show, but it wasn't one bit hateful. So, lie number one.
ReplyDeleteSecond, what is this garbage about twenty years of experience that qualifies her for the presidency? WTF? She is just throwing that egregious lie out there, hoping it will stick.
"Public service?" Really, Sarah? You don't know what "public service" is, and if you keep on saying it, people are going to suggest that you service the male public on local street corners. You are certainly looking the part, and Gawd knows, you act it.
ReplyDeleteI watched the 1st Hannity clip(that's as much as I could stomach) First she's supposed to be talking about her record which she complained the American public hasn't heard about and instead she goes into a tirade about bloggers who lie about her family everyday. Then she realizes she never answered the original question and says, but we don't really care about that. Not very convincing Sister Sarah.
ReplyDeleteShe finally addresses the Willow situation. She says someone said something bad about her little brother and she used a bad word. The guy Willow called a Fa**ot said the reality show was a failure and said nothing about Trig who wasn't even really in the first episode. She just had to throw him in for effect and to draw sympathy for Willow. She never admonished what Willow did, she just blamed it on all the "haters" and basically told Willow not to worry about it and to keep her mouth shut. Again, no Palin ever does anything wrong.
The rest of this "interview is mostly an infomercial propaganda piece about Sarah and is pretty slickly done.
ReplyDeleteI was amused about her comment that during the run up to the election, Joe Lieberman told her to "hand this over to God, and put your faith in him."
Evidently God didn't put his faith in Sarah tho. God must have put his faith in Barrack Obama. Good on God.
Rick
Do the last two segments have her common sense solutions that she keeps talking about?
ReplyDeleteSarah please take your prom hair and go home!
ReplyDeleteSarah, I hope you really are reading these blogs. I want you to know that you are sick and you need help. Get it please, because you are showing signs of decompensation. That's right. Now go look it up. No one in your world is going to be able to help you when your runaway train jumps the rails. Decompensation.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin reportedly lobbied producers of the ABC hit show "Dancing With The Stars" on Thursday night to bring failed Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell on as a contestent to the next season of the program.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/sarah-palin-christine-odonnell-dancing-with-the-stars_n_787434.html
Is this some type of experiment? Sarah wants to see if Christine gets as fat as Brisket on DWTS.
"viewers seem to have had their curiosity satisfied with a single episode. Two million, or 40 percent of them, failed to tune in for more."
ReplyDeleteMove along folks, there's nothing to see here. Seriously, there is nothing to see here. Hahahaha
Rick
Here's my theory as to why she has so much poop plopped on her head - to distract from turkey neck.
ReplyDeleteThere's not too much that can be done to hide or improve a woman's aging neck.
Hint, Sarah. Don't wear that fur collar again. Not because of PETA or anything noble like that - nah, just because it creates shadows that accentuate the neck wrinkles.
Embrace your age, Sarah. Learn grace and dignity. Oh - and if you take some voice lessons, people might even try to listen to the shit you spout. Otherwise, get a grip and grow up. Please.
Scarah's mug will not be in the audience tonight as she will be in Arizona fleecing her sheep.
ReplyDelete@10:20a.m.,
ReplyDelete$arah Palin IS petty. The reasons most people don't like her are her own damn fault! Alot of what we have heard about Palin is not "gossip." Most of it comes out of her own damn mouth, or is based on her own damn actions. And, what "good" have the Palins done, other than line their pockets with money? $arah "Death Panels" Palin does nothing but lie, and spread gossip, and attack other people.
I'm so sick of the Palins whining about the "attacks" on their family, as if the whole world revolves around them. They are also not the only family, or people that deal with "haters," and end up in tabloid magazines!
If the Palins want it to stop, they call always go back to Alaska, stay there, and STFU!
@10:22,
ReplyDeleteB.S. Brisket is nasty piece of work, just like her mother.
Wow - I made it thru 1st & part of 2nd clips and feel the need to purge....
ReplyDeleteI keep coming back to her constant
"sound bite"
TIME TESTED TRUTHS the FOUNDING FATHERS ENDOWED US WITH....
>like women aren't equal?
>like OWNING slaves?
or is it
>like Trickle Down Economics
What truths are you spewing about?????
Faux Truths -
Conservative backed/financed and manipulated truths?
Bible Truths?
Which or whose bible?
@10:22a.m.,
ReplyDeleteI coundn't care less how "peppy" or "carefree" Bristol Palin supposedly is.
"Watch her interviews."
I don't want to watch her stupid interviews. Why do people keep trying to force these people on us?
P.S.,
Most teenagers with babies are usually "carefree" BEFORE they had the baby, not afterwards.
The first picture is weird. As a Mom, I would showcase the kids front and center. In Palin's world, obviously, her kids take a back row picture.
ReplyDelete@10:23a.m.,
ReplyDeleteShe's crazy. Deal with it.
Does this woman ever breathe? Does she stop talking long enough to inhale? Sure doesn't seem like it.
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteot - I'm amazed that your site is still available. Both Mercede and WTF (Willow) Alaska are having problems. You can't always access them. I didn't know that WTF was that important to SarahPac.
It is said to be about Willow. It may also be about her boyfriend, Andy, and his racist taunts when they all ganged up on FB to bully the other kids from Wasilla. Team work.
I can't sit through these interviews, I think I have to poke my eyeballs with toothpicks this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHe, he, tuetonic and the others beat me to it with the new leak about the raghead comment to that Imran guy. Yes, it did get worse. Imran was actually trying to be reasonable at first until Willow and Andy started in on him too.
Andy is 18, a senior, supposed to be graduating in the spring of '11. Willow is 16 1/2, she turned 16 in the summer, she does have a drivers license. They are still boyfriend/girlfriend .
Willow should be a junior (or in her third year) of high school, right below Andy, but she was sort of in between a freshman and sophomore before she dropped out. I guess with all the school transfers, and weeks missed, she has been left back a grade or two. She was in some freshman level classes this year, and stated she was "too lazy" to be bothered to go to class and do homework. Willow is no longer on Facebook, I guess that was her punishment.
Oh, and I appreciate all the supportive comments yesterday after that Palinbot poseur tried to steal my gig. I only post regularly here on IM and sometimes Alaska WTF, 'cause they rock. I have a little crush on Gryphen, too ;)
Couldn't listen for more than a couple minutes. She just says the same things over and over and over....
ReplyDeleteIf Bristol was a happy, carefree golden child before and now she is a used, abuse and neglected depression... ALL THE MORE REASON TO STOP ENABLING THIS SCENARIO. The people that hate Bristol are the ones that claim to love her and you can see they are turning their backs on helping her.
ReplyDeleteHere is Bristol talking about her thick skin:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns7CJe3WN6I
I'll take a pass, or let Sarah take a fail. Whatever. The comments here are better entertainment.
ReplyDeleteThis "real American" (TM) wishes that Ex-Governor Palin would shut up and stop polluting our "Real American Values (TM) with her drivel, and that the "Real Americans" (TM) who would have bought her book, instead donate the purchase price to some worthy charity that benefits other "Real Americans" (TM), many of whom are going through some tough times.
Who does Palin think she is? Who is SHE to decide who is worthy of running? She couldn't give a crap about "public service." She quit her governor's job. She's full of shit.
ReplyDeleteDo what trannies do, Sarah, to hide their necks.
ReplyDeleteWear a scarf. Wear a turtleneck. Do something because you sure do have grandma neck!!
-- She finally addresses the Willow situation. She says someone said something bad about her little brother and she used a bad word. --
ReplyDeleteNo one (lamestream) will call her out on this one either. Willow was defending Trig. Anything she does is excusable.
What about her boyfriend Andy? Why does Andy hate Pakistan? Did he learn that at the HOME SCHOOL Willow attends?
http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/11/willow-palin-convo.html
I believe if Sarah had made her big 2008 convention speech dressed according to her own taste and her hair as it is now, she would not have been regarded as highly back then.
ReplyDeleteWhere oh where are those GOP stylists when you really, really need them, Sarah? Your policy and solution-free rants are not going to be enough. You've lost your razzle along with your dazzle.
You always know when Sarah is talking rubbish because everyone starts in on her hair or clothes because there is nothing else worth talking about.
ReplyDeletePretty sad, Sarah. Money cannot buy brains, and you haven't chosen counselors wisely so you are stuck in that anti-intellectual wasteland you call your mind. Don't worry, we will send postcards from time to time.
Lol...my son just came home..he is 18. I said look at this, what cartoon character does she remind you of. He immediately said Marge Simpson. He pointed me in the direction of Amy Winehouse for a real beehive.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hairflair.org/entry/amy-winehouse-in-newfound-beehive-hairstyle/
Sarah wants Christine on DWTS not because she wants Conservatives to get more exposure, but because she wants Christine thoroughly humiliated.
ReplyDeleteI bet she thinks chubby Christine will perform so poorly that it will wipe out the memory of Bristol's no talent performances.
Why, I ask you, why would people want to see Christine dance?
Now - Sharron Angle - that would be really wild, but either Christine or Sharron (or perhaps that AZ Governor, she of the drooping face and neck aka Joe Lier-berman sytle) could finish off DWTS.
When will people learn that anything Sarah touches turns to ashes.
Can't wait until it happens to Murdoch's empire. Please oh please - that's what I really want for Christmas - the end of Fox News and the sale of Murdoch's various media outlets to decent journalist interests.
Oh my gosh, deplaning in video 1, she is wearing the exact same pink jacket carrying Trig. This was during the election 2 years ago, so much for returning the clothes.
ReplyDeleteIf Bristol is "peppy" and "carefree," what is she like when she is depressed and exhausted. She's pretty much a bad mouth and downer now, I cannot being to imagine how she'd be if she wasn't "peppy" and "carefree." Some people must have very low standards for positive emotions.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the bots from coast to coast will have to go out door to door and force people to watch so the ratings will go up.
ReplyDeleteWe can't have a fail in Palin-land and it will be a trial run for getting votes in a presidential election.
Y'know kind of the way they had friends and family vote over and over to get Bristol's numbers up on DWTS.
Sarah, do yourself and us a favor and sit quietly for an hour or two - in public without your Blackberry. Just sit, politely, quietly, with quiet dignity. Practice putting an intelligent, thought expression on your face, then sit in front of a camera somewhere and pay attention to one thing and one thing only. Look as if you care about something other than yourself
ReplyDeleteBet you can't do it. Bet'cha, bet'cha, bet'cha.
Ok, folks. Mocking the hair won't work. I believe Sarah gets it that we're trying to intimidate her so she'll change it for a less glamorous & sexy style. I have it on good authority that Michelle Obama is eating her heart out that she can't get that same look.
ReplyDeleteThe one episode of SPAlaska with Bristol and it didn't get even an itty bitty blip in ratings from her DWTS 'fame'? Since Bristol is hoping to get a tv deal out her 'fame', she'd better hope Hollywood isn't connecting the dots.
Gryphen - I hope you'll get a 2nd wind and update the post with the biggies from the Hannity clips. I'm curious but I can't bear to watch them myself. Did I read somewhere that she says Todd is leaning toward wanting to run for 2012? Could this mean he's lost his power in Wasilla?
I hope the story about Willow's racist beau, Andy, gets some press. I think it's an even bigger story than the anti-gay remarks (which weren't made to actual gays). Willow's attack on Imran caught my eye because he was taking both sides and trying to be a peacemaker.
I just cannot, will not listen to her on those clips. But if what I m reading is true - that Sarah is now saying that Willow's FB attacks were in response to comments about Trig - then this marks a new low even for Sarah Heath Palin! Because I read each and every comment in that FB thread and nowhere, NOWHERE was there mention of Trig either generally or specifically. Is this some kind of sick, twisted generalization from "attacking my family" which was itself a sick twisted distortion of the TV show that was "so failin"" - OMG, how dysfunctional and crazy IS this woman?!? Throws down her Down Syndrome child as the justification for her teenage daughter's bullying? Makes my stomach turn.
ReplyDeleteHannity must take something to transport him to the Palin universe for these little love fests. Without the use of some enhancer, a normal person would scream "I call BS" in under 60 seconds.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin seemed less medicated and much more practiced than in 2008. Her handlers are getting their product packaged and ready for the big run. She might do quite well in Iowa and NH on just name recognition.
The GOP will keep Palin in play until a clearly viable candidate emerges. We might be stuck with seeing Palin until super tuesday. After that, she'll need to be glowing and wearing a halo to even get an brief appearance on a local talk show.
Thanks Rick @11:30. As someone who actually earned a journalism degree (though mine ONLY took four years) and went on to work in the field for 10 years, this charlatan offends me to no end.
ReplyDeleteObviously, that whopping semester of 'communications' (whatever the hell that means) classes failed to teach her the difference between journalism and public relations. A journalist's job isn't to make YOU look good Stupid Sarah. If you want to look good, hire yourself a good PR firm (and maybe a stylist.) Despite Fox's bastardization of what news should be, a good journalist is not supposed to let their biases interfere with reporting the news in a neutral manner.
Surprisingly, I found out years ago that, like Stupid, quite a few people in politics don't understand (or don't want to understand) the difference between journalism and PR. Those people have no business attempting to serve the will of the people.
This skanky grifter needs to "offer herself up" to her kids and be a mother for once. BEFORE it's too late for all of them.
ReplyDeleteAt the 6 min mark during the last segment (also in an earlier segment in this interview) she said Bristol said, (paraphrased) "Well we're going to get criticized no matter what we do I better go ahead and dance." Didn't Bristol say in many interviews prior to this that her mom said that to her and not the other way around?
ReplyDeleteThey can't keep their lies straight.
I listened to her, even though her voice is like a car alarm going off in my ear. In the last clip she talks about using "prayer shields." I do believe she just gave us a peek at her national defense strategy.
ReplyDeleteI could only watch the first minute or so. I've been watching past episodes of Lie to Me, and what caught my eye is that when Sean asks if she is going to run, she shakes her head no while answering the question.
ReplyDeleteHearing the viewership dropped made my day! I purposely boycotted and hoped many others were fed up enough with this family's over exposure and bad drama would do the same!
ReplyDeleteThey got their fame & fortune alright, but were quickly figured out for the hillbilly losers they are and now people are saying go away and get off our airwaves.
Palin will continue to vacillate and titillate her crowd.
ReplyDeleteIf she says she is thinking about running, they will donate money.
She will not give up the easy money.
There were 2 women in the 2008 Presidential election cycle. Even though they both lost...
One is now Secretary of State and the other?
Quit her day job that would have given her the experience to increase her knowledge and expertise but..
Has a reality show and news commentator on Fox news.
One kept her child's life private even while in the White House, the other paraded her unmarried teenage daughter across the US.
One can speak fluently and intelligently(I have seen her in person) the other give you a screed on Hannity that makes no sense.
I am at loss for words why we would ever consider sarah palin for any governmental position with the US.
Valley kids are no strangers to making racist comments toward Imran. He's a huge partier, maybe bigger than Johnny C so words get tossed around and shrugged off.
ReplyDelete"Someone who's seen the attacks on her family yet continues to fight anyway is not engaging in the "war" for purely personal gratification."
ReplyDeleteIt's called mental illness, and Scarah has it big time.
Is Mercede alright? Her blog takes me to a GoDaddy page. What's with that? I hope someone will let us know if she and her mother are alrignt. ASAP
ReplyDeletecuriouser 12:56,
ReplyDeleteI first saw the story & pic of the boyfriend Andy on MSNBC site, which connects the dots to SPA
http://tinyurl.com/2bywoaj
Which then led me to the link in Life & Style showing the FB racist posts.
http://tinyurl.com/2de8uo8
I noticed that Life & Style did not block out names as in the first FB pages exposed. Willow's page is gone now and see that she like Bristol use their middle names. I see she is 'hangin' around with 18 & 19 year olds'. No mention of Andy's age but suspect the same.
Better getting it off MSNBC instead of people seeing it from what they would think more as a rag mag and many people not familiar with.
I agree - it needs more exposure
Mercedes' page has disappeared. Instead a Go Daddy page appears.
ReplyDeleteYou guys all rock. Amazingly right-on, intelligent comments. Clarity, logic, excellent anger, and you're also funny and witty. I'm so glad I have you on my side for each episode of "as the stomach turns" with Palin. I'm so glad I have this site, Gryph, to hear voices like my own. Merci. Melly
ReplyDeleteI too earned a journalism degree from a top J-school, then worked in newspaper publishing for more than 30 years. Eventually I founded a successful newspaper, served as publisher for three different newspapers, and worked for two of the very finest large metro dailies in their prime. I have taught, trained and coached reporters and editors and served on the boards of publishing organizations. I am also a gun-owning Texas outdoorswoman, an independent, a pro-choice feminist, and a Christian. Ann Richards and Molly Ivins were my heroes.
ReplyDeleteIt would be difficult to imagine a more offensive woman - political, public, or professional - than Sarah Palin.
AP reporting:
ReplyDeleteABC acknowledges voting issues at 'Dancing'. Network says voting overwhelmed system, but claims every contestant was equally affected Monday -- problem with telephone lines.
It's already starting in the comment section. Note ref to 'Acorn'. Like Palin with Couric, they can't release their death grip on things.
"Looks like the Libs finally got their Acorn voting machine online to bring Bristol down, it really doesnt matter now though since she already made the top 3 or 4 who cares?"
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40342866/ns/today-entertainment/
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteDo you have any information on what's happening to Mercede's blog? Even the cache is not available. What's up?
o/t but whoa
ReplyDeleteHow could we be this stupid?
In case you have not followed the Afghanistan news lately, the US and the world has been hopeful (delusional?) that the NATO assisted meetings (called outsourcing) between President Karzai and Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammed Mansour might lead to some very successful progress in seeking peace in Afghanistan.
Well...stop hoping.
First, according to Bob Woodward's new book "OBAMA WARS," President Karzai has serious mental problems (some just say he is crazy.) If this is true, that is not a good choice to outsource to end the war. You want people who are mentally steady, not unsteady.
And now? do you want more?
It turns out that the Mullah Akhtar Muhammed Mansour is an impostor.
So....to whom have we outsourced settling this war? someone with serious mental problems and an impostor. Yes, we had outsourced to a fake!
And ready for more? who knows how much money (your tax dollars) was paid to the impostor.
Now there is serious back pedaling at the White House and in our military leadership. They are all acting like they suspected he was a fake all along or that it is no big deal. Yeah, right.
So, I guess now Tre can say "told you so" and tell the girls to stuff that so-called apology.
ReplyDeleteThis is a conversation I had with my pre-teen niece today:
ReplyDeleteMe: Do you know who Sarah Palin is?
Niece: Is that stupid woman that says silly things? ..I don't like her, she looks sneaky and mean...
Kids always know even on a intutive level
You can't look very presidential, if you can't comb your own hair.
ReplyDeleteThis is just an observation but I don't think Willow was held back. She may be in some Freshman classes but Im pretty sure she's rightly in 10th grade.
ReplyDeleteRemember at Palin deceptions, Willow was listed on the 7th grade honor roll in April 08
To Willow's defense (maybe the only thing worth defending), it's a very fortunate thing for her to choose homeschooling in the Valley environment. A lot of kids so. At school, she'd be subject to petty drama started by brainless idiots. The valley will probably always be a breeding ground for alcoholic teenagers, from good and bad families alike. That is the small town way. and kids tend to be proud of their roots. With her family's life in the lower 48, I'm sure it's hard to concentrate in living a normal life. Shes the one who seems to enjoy traveling.
ReplyDeleteAnon 2:01
ReplyDeleteI loved Ann Richards. Miss her dearly -- and I'm not from Texas!!
To think what she would say about Palin!! It would have been priceless!!
Anonymous 2:01 continued: AND I am a mother and grandmother, with a special needs chid in the family. If for no other reason, her neglect and crass exploitation in these arenas alone would offend me. See above.
ReplyDeleteThe Bumpit: she is trying to look like her airbrushed pictures. Someone told her that a higher hair-do would make her body look longer and more slender.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, Andy Almon, Willow's boyfriend is 18.
ReplyDeleteHe was 17 when involved in a traffic accident on Oct 30 '09.
http://www.dps.state.ak.us/pio/dispatch/Trooper%20Dispatches%20of%2010-31-2009.20091031.txt
Me and hubby have been laughing ALL DAY about this:
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Paylin girls: You reap what you "sow", pun intended! All those (3)girls are nasty-mean...
Heard of the expression,
ReplyDelete"The higher the hair, the closer to God"
hahahaha
2:30 Anon. -
ReplyDeleteYes, just imagine what Ann would say, or Molly write. Or the sharp ridicule from the pen of Etta Hulme, the wonderfully liberal editorial cartoonist (now retired). Hunter Thompson would have had a field day!
curiouser, Thanks for Andy's info.
ReplyDeleteJust like Charlie Brown's teacher, wahwahwah. I don't understand her and it just confuses me. Please, make it stop. I can't watch the show, I can't even stand to hear the commercials so I have to run for the remote to turn it off before the screech.
ReplyDeleteSarah...
ReplyDeleteWHO writes the articles and/or editorials that you read?
WHAT magazines, newspapers, books do you read?
WHERE do you like read?
WHEN do you find time to read all of those magazines, books, and newspapers?
WHY do you think you choked on such a softball question from Katie Couric, seeing as how you have a degree in communications?
I wonder how often the Palins frequent this blog. Probably daily. I bet they even try to post anonymous comments - ha ha.
ReplyDeleteHey Sarah, since you care only about yourself and your image, I bet you're probably reading this right now -- you are a FRAUD! And you know it :D
I just listened to snippets of the Hannity interview. I get why Gryphen didn't go into detail. Her mental illness is on full display. Her cultish belief system is evident. There are so many lies that someone could write a book about this one interview.
ReplyDeleteGetALife commented at PG about Sarah excusing Willow's FB rant because the boy had previously dissed Trig and Willow was just fed up. Please can we hold her accountable for this disgusting charge?
Willow Paln continues the family tradition of tabloid media whoredom, hypocrisy, lying, and issuing Becky Mansour written statements as her own:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b212886_willow_palin_lashes_out_facebook.html
OMG I just watched Ed Schultz and I wanted to throw up. They had this nit wit winning the election. If she becomes president, I will have to have my cable turned off and get rid of my internet.
ReplyDeleteTo hear Bristle speak the interviews after the show last night, she is so, so much like her mother. She an ad nauseam repeater - no dance experience, never having done this before - blah, blah, blah.
ReplyDeleteShe's been doing this for 4 friggin' months now so the excuse not doing it before doesn't fly anymore.
Ok, Sir, that is cruel and unusual punishment, but you are right ... she is out of her f'ing mind...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, here's a thought for you regarding Gristle's weight gain...
Psych meds! Living with narcisssitic mommie who also has borderline personality disorder would leave ALL her kids susceptible to depression. And do you know what a common symptom for severe depression in young folks is? Substance abuse disorders, So give Gristle some heavy duty antidepressants and a little anti-psychotic for her nerves and voila! Chubbie time!
I don't believe abc and I wouldn't put it past palin to buy the competition for her little girl. They call people that want her off haters. If she could dance that would be one thing, but I want her off because she can't dance. Brandy was much better. Or abc is saying this so mama grizzly can claim that bristol really won, but ACORN screwed with the voting.
ReplyDeleteTo Sarah Palin:
ReplyDeleteWhile working toward my English major at a prestigious, liberal, elite college in the northeast, I took a few writing courses. In one class, the professor went over the methodology in journalism: who, what, when, where, and why. He also added "so what?"
If I were a journalist, I'd like to ask you the so what would you do -- to improve the economy? to keep Americans safe? to gain the respect of the rest of the world? et cetera, et cetera.
Your journalism credentials are suspect, as you don't use them well.
Should you become a contender, I'd like to ask you, Sarah, so what?
@ 11:51 AM
ReplyDelete"...Decompensation."
Or Decomposition? That was my guess yesterday.
LOL
To Sarah Palin:
ReplyDeleteWhile working toward my BA degree as an English major at a prestigious, liberal, elite college in the northeast, I took a few writing courses. In one class, the professor went over the methodology in journalism: who, what, when, where, and why. He also added "so what?"
If I were a journalist, I'd like to ask you the so what would you do -- to improve the economy? to keep Americans safe? to gain the respect of the rest of the world? et cetera, et cetera.
Your journalism credentials are suspect, as you don't use them well.
Should you become a contender, I'd like to ask you Sarah, so what?
I'm tired of waiting for Geoffrey Dunn's book.
ReplyDeleteHe will just have to publish it in volumes, like an encyclopedia, because, obviously, BFO, this "Lies of Sarah Palin" is a saga, not a finite entity.
Reminds me of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series. Good enough to keep you fascinated, weird with just reality enough to keep it believable, strange characters that you just can't make up so it must be true, unendingly cyclical such that you are dizzy and sick by the time you come full circle.
Psychological horror a la Hitchcock; oh, how I wish he were alive to see this one!
Does Joyce Carol Oates need a new story line?
@2:24 PM ""You can't look very presidential, if you can't comb your own hair.""
ReplyDeleteI, too, have noticed in the pictures the last few weeks that her hair looks greasy and strange.
$arah is not taking care of herself, then she tries to fix it up without help.
Remember Jackie Kennedy Onassis' cousins? The crazy ones they made the movie about?
@ 2:16 PM,
ReplyDelete""...the Mullah Akhtar Muhammed Mansour is an impostor....""
Mansour? Related to Sarah Palin's Mansour?
Sarah Palin is in the Al Queda?
That explains it.
Finally. Proof.
"At school, she'd be subject to petty drama started by brainless idiots."
ReplyDeleteSo for home to homeschooling it is out of the fire and back intot he frying pan for Willow.
@ 1:47 PM said,
ReplyDelete"""Willow's page is gone now and see that she like Bristol use their middle names. """
What's up with Bristol's middle name, anyway?
"Sheeran?"
That means $owah PayMe has been workin' this gig for more than 20 years....
Anyone know when this photo was taken of Sarah Palin?http://www.seattlepi.com/photos/popupV2.asp?SubID=4259&page=2>itle=Sarah%20Palin%3A%20Before%20and%20After
ReplyDeleteShe does look pregnant here. I've never seen this photo before.
I've done some research into Barrow Alaska when Sarah was there June 30, 2008 in a blanket toss. One photographer said she was pregnant, yet I found a picture where she was holding a very small baby in her arms and she was bottle feeding.
If you listened to Howard Stern today, this is what you heard..
ReplyDelete"Bristol Palin is the worst dancer ever," seethed Stern. "I'm telling you I could outdance her and I suck d--k. I have no rhythm whatsoever. If Bristol wins I'm leaving America. That's it. I mean, I gotta tell you something. First of all Bristol Palin is the first contestant in the history of Dancing with the Stars to get fatter as the show goes on. It's almost impossible to get fatter. She must be eating everything in sight."
http://www.examiner.com/howard-stern-in-national/howard-stern-says-bristol-palin-getting-fatter-calls-her-worst-dancer-ever
Mainstream media are begining to pick up the Willow Weed story...http://www.examiner.com/the-view-in-national/willow-palin-s-weed-dealer-has-really-good-stuff-video
ReplyDeleteHAHA! Bristol lost! LMAO! Trending in Twitter
ReplyDeleteAndy, Willow's BF, better be using very good birth control. If she shows up PG and they break up - he'll be charged with rape since he's 18. Yes, the Palin's would do and say anything to protect the "image" of another "perfect child" and punish the BF by sending him to jail. Be afraid Andy, be very afraid.
ReplyDeleteJust boring. Same cheerleader speach over and over. Is she wearin' a tractor hat in these videos?
ReplyDeleteNo one in Alaska could drink more than Johnny Chandler. There is no way that Imran can even keep up with Chandler. Have you seen the photos?
ReplyDeletewhy did the tea party moron who posted this on youtube have to use one of my favorite peter gabriel songs - don't give up? as if thesong has anything to do with their crummy movement. the barry williams show song about hypocrites and their hypocrite tv shows would have been more appropriate.
ReplyDeletei could only watch so much of this fox love fest. i can't stand the way that sarah trash talks our president. her language towards him is in itself very unpresidential.
@ 5:37
ReplyDeleteNobody can answer this?
Enuf...
I think that your title for the show should go viral: "Sarah Palin Sees Alaska For the First Time"
ReplyDeleteMy lib kid, home for Thanksgiving, told me that he and his friends have been watching the "Alaska" show because it's so funny. Viewers do not mean voters. I think this sums up SP's misunderstood appeal. It's not about her potential to be a leader. I really doubt there are many people that think she could be a good leader (except for core followers, who are infatuated with her image and have been manipulated into believing that she would be a good leader because she understands them... you know, the type that say they are devoted to their religion but don't really do anything day-to-day to show it, have kids who do things because "they're just kids being kids"... that kind of follower.) Everyone else pays attention to her for curiosity. In the meantime, she loves the attention and money and so far is doing very well at getting people to give her both. And unfortunately the media has an interest to keep her name out there for the same reason... making money, even if it means promoting her when as individuals they would rather not. She's not the first to do this and won't be the last. It would be nice to think that someone who speaks in soundbites, with no independent thinking abilities and is just a mouthpiece, would not be able to last long in the political arena, but the fact that Bush was in office for 2 terms proves that isn't always the case (there are, of course, many other examples of this not being the case). And that's why it takes people like this blog to try to keep it real, even if we don't always believe every post and comment, at least it's a dialog that helps people try to separate what we're fed in the media and what's really going on.
ReplyDeleteI tried to watch but the first five minutes upset me. I'm with Barbara Bush who said, "I think she should stay in Alaska."
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