TLC disinvites TV critic from podcast due to fears of terrorist attack by Palin-bots.

Are you all still confused as to how Palin manages to get a pass by many media critics despite the obvious crappiness of her ridiculous reality show/political advertisement?  Perhaps THIS will help to clear things up.

From Jezebel:

Jennifer Pozner, author of Reality Bites Back (from which we published an excerpt last month), was all set to appear on TLC's Talkback Live podcast after Sunday's episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska. Then Pozner wrote a blog post detailing her past and present criticisms of the show: "I've called it a series-long unpaid political advertisement, helping a potential presidential candidate brand herself in exactly the down-home, family-values-having, rugged individualist image she has always favored for herself and her family. I've also been extremely critical of the abject glee the show takes in depicting hunting and fishing in as violent a way as possible, complete with extended scenes of the Palins gutting bloody animals and aggressively beating fish to death with bats." And suddenly, Pozner was no longer welcome on the podcast. Is it because the organizers of the show can't handle anybody even mildly badmouthing Palin? Well, not exactly.

In a post about the Pozner incident, the show's social-media strategist Brian Reich wrote, "We canceled the interview because our planned conversation became, perhaps inadvertently, political." As Pozner pointed out on her blog, the idea that "I'm just too 'political' ... for a show about a former Governor and potential future Republican presidential candidate" is pretty ludicrous. But when I spoke to Reich, he acknowledged that "too political" isn't really the whole story. He explained to me that "the response to her blog post was ridiculously negative — and not negative in the appropriate ways, negative in ways that go way beyond what we're comfortable with." He added that ever since a gunman sparked a standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters in September, "everyone at Discovery and TLC is very anxious about security issues." So basically, they were worried that if they let Pozner talk on the podcast, a pro-Palin wingnut might try to bomb the building.

How often have we heard about this same kind of threatening posturing coming from the Palin-bots? 

Joe McGinniss, David Letterman, Michael Joseph Gross, Me, Margaret Cho, Mercede Johnston, Barbara Walters, the list goes on, and on, and on.

This is how the supporters of Sarah Palin respond to ANYTHING even remotely critical of their queen.

I am glad that Jezebel put these facts out, because until people REALLY see the kind of nut-jobs that Sarah Palin attracts as supporters, they might simply go on thinking she is like every other politician or reality TV star.  But she is not.

She taps into the same kind of angry, ignorant, mentally unstable American psyche that inspires people to blow up federal buildings, or attack Alaska natives on the street, or to hire their own security staff to arrest journalists trying to exercise their first amendment rights. Many of these crazed, barely coherent psychopaths who have, up until now, been leaderless, have found themselves inspired by the regurgitated one-liners, ghostwritten Facebook posts, and crazed Tweets of the Grizzled Mama.

Here finally is a person who is as mentally unstable as they are. Who better to lead them to victory over the "guvment" they feel oppresses them, the minorities they feel have stolen their jobs, and the voices in their head that keep telling them they are worthless? 

However they are also bullies. And the best way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and refuse to take their shit.  Until the media starts to, in Palin's words "man up," she will continue to get a pass by the more manstream media simply because they fear a backlash from her troop of flying monkeys.