The TLC spokeswoman who dealt with controversies over "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and "All-American Muslim" lists "Sarah Palin's Alaska" her most "sensitive project." Gee, I wonder why?

Courtesy of the New York Times:

Every public relations executive has to manage a crisis from time to time. But in the last few years, Laurie Goldberg has had a career’s worth.

As the top spokeswoman for the cable channel TLC, Ms. Goldberg has handled the spotlight on Sarah Palin’s reality show, the rise and fall of “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” and a legal spat over “Sister Wives,” a show about polygamists, just to name a few. Last month, it was a documentary-style reality show about Muslim families in Michigan, “All-American Muslim,” that suddenly became a press sensation. A man in Florida called for an advertiser boycott, and Lowe’s, the home improvement retailer, listened. By Dec. 12, reporters were calling, cable news producers were scrambling and politicians were fuming. 

“We’ve been fairly prominent in the pop culture,” said Eileen O’Neill, who oversees TLC, “and I don’t think I would have had the confidence to navigate it without Laurie’s skill set.” 

Personally I would have thought that dealing with the backlash directed at the "All-American Muslim" show would have easily qualified as the most sensitive that this woman had been forced to deal with.

But I would have been wrong.


Perhaps Ms. Goldberg’s most sensitive project was Ms. Palin’s reality show, for which she put aside her strong Democratic views. 

She traveled to the Palins’ home in Wasilla repeatedly, dining one night on smoked caribou and salmon that had been hunted and fished by Todd Palin. (They do this just for show. There are plenty of places to get food in Wasilla, that does not have to be hunted by Todd Palin, or Papa Heath.)

She even baby sat the children one rainy day when, in a programming stunt of sorts, Ms. Gosselin went camping with Ms. Palin. In the ensuing episode, Ms. Goldberg can be seen listening to Ms. Gosselin list her grievances about the trip — “I am freezing to the bone. ... I’m hungry.” (In case you forgot that episode, you can see an excerpt here.)

“I felt like Forrest Gump,” Ms. Goldberg told Ms. O’Neill when she returned. 

In an interview, Ms O’Neill joked: “I’m still paying for that trip.” 

Ms. Palin’s series ended last January, but just a couple of weeks ago, reporters started asking whether the show would have a second season. (There are just some “initial conversations” going on, Ms. O’Neill said.) 

Asked at the time whether TLC had any comment, Ms. Goldberg pecked out a one-word answer on her iPad: “Nope.” 

Gee I wonder what the most "sensitive" part was for Goldberg?

Was it pretending that Sarah was not a lunatic? Filming around the real scandalous things happening in the home? Or dealing with Palin's bizarre mood swings? (Though admittedly Gosselin's had to be fairly difficult as well.)

Or perhaps it was just having to sit around, as a good Democrat, and listen to these under educated morons trash the President, and wax philosophical (Using that term loosely here.) about how great the country would have been if only Sarah "freaking" Palin had been the VP?
 
By the way, despite Mark Burnett's teasing on Palin's behalf, it certainly does not sound like TLC is terribly interested in working on a season two of SPA, now does it?

Bill O'Reilly calls the Mama Grizzly out about her reality show and Snowdrift Snookie insults America's feminists AGAIN!

"Strategery?" Has Palin been watching Stephen Colbert or something? (No of course not.  If she were she would not be so damn ignorant!)

Nobody calls Alaska "America's Fort Knox" except Palin and her "butt-boy" Joe Miller. And it is both a stupid and false thing to say.

And that damn show of hers does NOT promote Alaska.  It promotes Sarah "freaking" Palin and that is all! If anything it is turning people off to the idea of visiting our state by the hundreds.

"No Mommy don't make us go to Alaska, they have bears waiting to kill us in our sleep. And they beat fish to death with baseball bats!  And if that ex-Governor of theirs is any indication, the people are all lunatics!"

"I am sorry I am not so hotty-totty?'  What in the hell does that mean?  Was the idiot trying to say "hoity-toity?" Gee do you think she really mispronounced it?  Or was she trying to squeeze the last little bit out of her naughty librarian shtick?

And no, a liberal woman could NOT be a Mama Grizzly because they do not overreact to every single perceived slight like Grizzlies are known to do in the wild, and Palin is known to do on Facebook. Instead they are much more reasonable and thoughtful mothers who are perfectly capable of protecting their young, but tend not do so in a way that embarrasses their cubs, and makes them fodder for the tabloids.

By the way REAL Mama Grizzlies do not just teach self reliance. They also teach their cubs to scavenge for food, steal a kill from a smaller predator when possible, and to eat garbage when they find a landfill or unsecured trash can.

You know that DOES sound quite a bit like Sister Sarah's parenting style!

I have to imagine that EVERY single time Palin starts spouting off about feminists portraying women as weak and incapable of caring for themselves, that there are TRUE feminists and women's right pioneers all over this country who fantasize about getting five minutes alone with Palin and showing her which one of them is actually the weak one. Palin either seems to have NO understanding of the battle for women's rights in this country or she is purposefully lying about it to fire up her male supporters who visualize feminists as motorcycle riding, mustache wearing, dykes.

P.S. About Alaska WTF and the Willow story.  Yes I know what it is about.  No that is NOT why I was in Wasilla on Wednesday.  And there is much more to the story than what AKWTF put up, but it is not my story to tell, so that is as much as I can say. Sorry, but I don't ever betray a trust.

Sarah humiliates Kate Gosselin on today's episode of "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time."

Today's show starts off with a bunch of misinformation.

No, Alaskans do NOT go to the gun store as often as they get a haircut. Even in Wasilla.

No it is NOT as common to see an Alaskan camping with a gun strapped to their hip as to see a Blackberry in New York.

Bristol is MUCH skinnier during the filming of this than she was on DWTS. (Sister Sarah's joke about he National Enquirer and the need to hide Bristol was lame. And much of the  "brutality" that she claims to see in politics, is what is reflected back from the mirror when she looks into it.))

Here come the Gosselins!

That voice!  I wonder how the Gosselinis resist the urge to flee?

Is she really going to slam Joe McGinniss again?  Yep she is!

Now the Grizzled Mama is frightening the children about the possibility of being eaten by bears, before they go camping.  How nurturing.

That joke about outrunning your friend in case of a bear is an old Alaskan joke.  Sounds mean coming from her, but I have said that myself.

Now they are trying to scare Kate.  Not a hard task.

And Willow looks like she would rather be ANYWHERE other than spending time with her mom on camera.

Once again it is painfully obvious that Palin knows NOTHING about guns! NOTHING!

Watching Sarah dealing with the kickback from the shotgun tells anybody who has experience with firearms that she has none.

OMG! Even city girl Kate Gosselin did a better job of shooting than Palin!  She hardly even registered any kickback.

However they are showing Palin hitting the target over and over again. I am thinking she had help during the editing.  Doesn't she have final say in that area?

Now the kids are at the "House of Heath" and Papa Heath is showing them his collection of animal skulls. Why is the theme music from "Psycho" playing in my head? ("Norman? Is that you?")

Hey Heath's dog fetches antlers just like Joe Miller does!

Chelatna Lake for the camping trip.  And it is NOT exactly the middle of nowhere.  Not by Alaskan standards. (By the way, NO bear with an ounce of common sense would go anywhere near a camp full of laughing and screaming children.  The best bear deterrent is NOT a gun, it is a passel of loud energetic children.  Sarah's gun purchase and false bravado is ALL for show.)

Is Palin using a machete to chop off small branches from a log TOWARD her leg?  ALL outdoors people know to cut out, away from the body, NOT towards your body!  What an idiot!

Kate is starting to complain. Her role is to apparently be the only one less comfortable camping than Caribou Barbie.

Damn, I have to run an errand.  I will come back afterward and try to fill in the rest.

I'm back.

Somebody asked if Alaskans go camping in the rain. Yes, we do.  We often don't have much choice if we want to go camping at all.

Chuck telling the kids to make noise and that it will keep the bears away, is exactly right.  At least he knows what the hell he is talking about.

Though to be honest Sister Sarah's high pitched caterwauling would keep every bear from a ten mile radius on the run away from their camp.

I had an ex-wife much like Kate Gosselinn.  Pity me.

Jesus, ANOTHER we can see Russia from Alaska reference?  Can't she let ANYTHING go?

You know the Gosselinn kids are kind of cute.  I hope they did not get too stupid by hanging out with Sarah.

Wow, Palin is pooping all over Gosselinn!

This whole episode was obviously designed to pump up Palin's Alaska woman credibility, by comparing her to the carefully edited together segments of Kate bitching.

I think it would be only fair, for Kate to give HER take of the episode on her own reality show.  Don'tcha think?

Jimmy Kimmel has a new take off on the Sarah Palin/Kate Gosselin TLC crossover.

Okay that is pretty funny.

I may have to start watching Kimmel's show.

Courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel: Sarah and Kate annoy Alaska.

I dare you not to laugh at this.

Color me confused, on the next "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the first time" is she going to pretend to hunt caribou, or pretend to protect Kate Gosselin from bears?

In the preview I put up yesterday TLC led us to believe that Sarah Palin, her dad Chuck Heath, and some guy who actually knows what he is doing in the woods, were going to go hunting because Sarah's freezer was low on meat and she forgot she lived only five minutes away from the Carrs Grocery store in Wasilla.

But now we see Palin doing her best John Wayne in drag impersonation in front of Kate Gosselin and then ridiculing her behind her back.  Which, by the way, seems like a much more realistic depiction of WHO Sarah Palin is in real life, an arrogant back stabbing bitch.

I am not kidding.  If you went to Wasilla and asked passersby where the "arrogant, backstabbing bitch" lived they would ALL point to Palin's house.

Well now I don't know WHAT to expect on Sunday. (Mystery cleared up.  US Magazine changed their video, and it now gives December 12, as the broadcast date for the Kate Gosselin episode.  You can see a preview by clicking Gosselin's name in the link above.)

Will we see Sister Sarah breaking Alaska Fish and Game laws by hunting for Caribou without a proper permit?  Or will we see Sarah tease and make fun of her out of state guest in order to make herself feel superior?

Or maybe we will see some combination of the two, where Sarah takes Gosselin out into the woods and shoots her out of season and then comes back to the camp and teases her eight children about never seeing their mommy again. (You know I think THAT'S the one that sounds the most like the Grizzled Mama!)

By the way if Kate Gosselin was REALLY relying on Sarah Palin to protect her from ANYTHING then she has not been paying much attention as to how Bible Spice Barbie takes care of her "friends."  Just ask Elizabeth Hasselback.

Kate Gosselin complains that Palin's family had better food than her family on fake reality show "camping trip."

From Celebitchy:

Kate Gosselin’s much-hyped Alaskan camping trip with Sarah Palin turned into a nightmare when [Kate] suffered a diva-like meltdown - and stormed off despite Sarah’s please.

The reality show star stayed at the campsite for just two hours of the planned two-day adventure - and left amid an avalanche of insults, complaints and tears, the Enquirer learned exclusively…

On July 26, Kate plus her 8 and a full TLC film crew arrived at the Palin’s Wasilla home.
Kate decided right then she didn’t want to go camping because it was raining.

The plan was for the Palin family - including the ex-governor, her father and brother - to give Kate and her brood a taste of the Alaskan wilderness. They would fly on seaplanes to the remote site for activities, including fishing, panning for gold and the two-night campout.

Katie’s bodyguard Steve Neild persuaded her to get on the seaplane to fly to the campsite, but she was complaining the entire time - about the weather, the food and rustic atmosphere, revealed the insider.

At the campgrounds, the mega-mom’s mood turned even more sour when she saw the bathroom facilities.

“They handed her a bucket with a toilet seat on top,” said the insider.

“Kate said, ‘What the hell am I going to do with this!’

“Then she burst into tears and started moaning that she wanted to leave.

“When it was time to eat, Kate opened the cooler prepared for her and the children and three another fit when she saw prepackaged mini meals.

“There were tiny pieces of cheese and processed meats along with crackers and a few condiments.

“She said ‘My kids can’t eat this crap, they need a real meal! Then she started griping - in front of Sarah - that the ex-governor’s food was better than hers.

“Sarah’s meal was grilled hamburgers and hotdogs!”

Kate was also disgusted by the primitive conditions at the campgrounds and let everyone know it.

“I can’t have my kids stay in a dirty place like this,” she fumed, according to the close source.

Sarah was shocked but bit her lip, said the source. “She said ‘Come on, give it a little time, it’ll be fun, we’ll make it fun.’”

While the stunned TV crew apologized profusely to the Palins, a cabin with modern conveniences was arranged for Kate and the kids….

“Selfish Kate ditched the Palins, who spent the night in their tents,” said the close source. And the next morning, everyone flew back to the family’s Wasilla home, a day earlier than planned.

All I can say is that I hope like hell THIS shows up on the broadcast!  Watching Palin be out diva'd by Gosselin would be very entertaining.