Politico reminds us that Donald Trump was not Stephen Bannon's first pick to destroy the country.

Courtesy of Politico: 

Steve Bannon thought he had found his perfect presidential candidate. This person was “an outsider,” someone who was “not part of the political establishment,” “not for sale,” with “an ‘America First’ foreign policy approach” and “a ‘Drain the Swamp’ mentality about Washington, DC.” What Bannon loved most was how this person seemed to “put the American worker—the little guy—first.” 

Except Bannon wasn’t thinking about Donald Trump. The dream candidate he had in mind? Sarah Palin.

Years before the partisan provocateur of the 2016 cycle hitched himself to the upstart populist billionaire from New York, Bannon openly fantasized about transforming the former governor of Alaska into the very kind of anti-politician who could humiliate the elites of both parties, the very kind of norm-defying outsider that Trump, with Bannon’s help, would ultimately prove to be. So he put all his energy into helping the self-described Mama Grizzly eat Washington’s lunch.

Politico then goes on to share with their readers information that is quite well known by those us here on IM.

In fact I wrote about that very fact way back in August when Bannon first jumped on board.

However Politco offers a little more information from behind the scenes:

This was back in 2011 and Bannon, a filmmaker whose credits at the time included an homage to Ronald Reagan and two films on the Tea Party movement, told the National Review that he saw “a direct lineage” between the Tea Party movement and the Reagan Revolution, and he was desperate to find a contemporary Reagan. For Bannon, the upcoming 2012 election was an opportunity to “fight for the soul of the Republican Party.” He told an audience in Chicago in July of that year, “If we want to get eviscerated and have another 2008, all we have to do is run an establishment Republican.” 

It was just a few months earlier that Rebecca Mansour, currently a writer at Breitbart and previously an aide and speechwriter to Sarah Palin, reached out to Bannon to ask if he would make some short videos for a potential Palin presidential campaign. Mansour told Politico recently that Bannon was enthusiastic about her boss’s potential candidacy; it was Bannon, she said, who identified Palin as an “outsider” with a “drain the swamp” mentality. Bannon saw in Palin someone who, in his own words, presented “an existential threat to not just the progressive left, but also to the entrenched country club Republican Party.”

Bannon as it turned out did not produce those short videos that Mansour requested, instead he produced "The Undefeated" which beatified, and white washed her faults, to the point that she no longer even resembled the person Alaskans knew her to be:

Appearing on The Palin Update, a radio show hosted by Sarah Palin obsessive Kevin Scholla on Scholla’s independent network Mama Grizzly Radio, in September 2011, Bannon remarked, “I couldn’t make this film about any other political leader in the country.” He added, “I love all things Palin…Whether she becomes a candidate or not for the presidency, I think these big broad themes of her life and her political life are going to play out on the national level over the next couple of years.” 

Despite the urging from Bannon Palin finally told her moronic followers that she was not going to run for president (You're welcome America.), but that did not stop Bannon from pining over her.

Which ultimately led to this:

On June 16, 2015, Trump announced his candidacy, and the very next day Sarah Palin heaped praise on the billionaire real estate mogul in a Facebook post, saying, “he’s doing something right.” 

Steve Bannon apparently took notice. On July 12, 2015, he penned another column for Breitbart, this one lauding Trump’s 2011 book Time to Get Tough: “Trump’s book clearly lays out serious policy solutions to vexing U.S. problems. Welfare reform, cyberwarfare, energy, illegal immigration and crime, taxes, healthcare, national defense—you name it, Trump offers his plans, often including specific bills and amendments. Best of all, Trump does it all in his refreshingly blunt and authentic voice—the very voice now resonating with a citizenry fed up with the Political Class and its conceits.” 

Then, two weeks later, Bannon made the Palin-Trump populist connection explicitly clear – with a dose of Reagan adulation for good measure. Trump appeared on The Palin Update hosted by Breitbart’s Scholla. During the show, Trump spoke of his admiration for Palin and drew comparisons between himself and the former Alaska governor, while Scholla added that Trump’s leadership style reminded him not only of Palin’s leadership but also of Reagan’s.

So as I have been saying sense the very beginning, without a Sarah Palin there would have been no president-elect Trump.

And now we have even clearer evidence as to how this all came to be.

• Bannon and the angry teabaggers love Sarah Palin.
• Sarah Palin decides not to run for president, but four years later endorses Donald Trump.
• Now Stephen Bannon and the angry teabaggerss, along with the neo-Nazis, racists, and uneducated simpletons love Donald Trump.
• They cannot have their dream of a Palin presidency, so they settle instead for helping (Along with Russia, the FBI, and Wikileaks of course.) this pussy grabbing megalomaniac win the White House instead. 

And now we all get to live in a country as imagined by the dumbest, most gullible, most easily manipulated Americans.

I feel like we're in one of those monster movies where the heroes band together to stop the creature only to learn afterwards that it laid an egg and now the creature 2.0 is descending on the town and they have no more resources to stop it.

Donald Trump's new campaign chief once referred to the Republican leadership as "c**ts." And he's in charge of messaging.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast:

Donald Trump’s new campaign boss—the guy white supremacists are so excited about—once described D.C.’s top Republicans as “cunts.” 

Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign’s new chief executive as of Wednesday, used the phrase two years ago in emails with Breitbart reporter Matt Boyle. Bannon ran Breitbart at the time, and the two schemed about how to get activists to “turn on the hate” as part of a plan to “burn this bitch down.” The emails, obtained by The Daily Beast, are just another reminder that the Trump campaign’s new management is unlikely to play nice with party leaders. 

The exchange was on December 16, 2014. In it, Bannon flagged a Roll Call story about a private meeting Rep. Jason Chaffetz held for about a dozen Capitol Hill reporters. Chaffetz was about to become chairman of the powerful Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the meeting previewed his plans for the committee.

In response to learning that Bannon wrote this:  

“Leadership are all cunts,” he wrote. “We should just go buck wild.” 

Then he wrote, “Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the ONLY thing that will make them do their duty.”

Let's see, a disdain for Republican leadership, deeply misogynist language, and a desire to ratchet up the hatred within the GOP base, yep that sounds like just the perfect guy to run Donald Trump's campaign.

It is also telling that this is the guy who directed and released Sarah Palin's revisionist history in movie form back in 2011.

That movie bombed so hard it destroyed any possibility of Sarah Palin ever returning to politics. (You know that and every speech and interview she's ever giving.)

So one has to wonder exactly how effective his messaging is going to be for the Trump campaign.

My guess, not very.

RAM gets a job.

Courtesy of Breitbart (Of course.): 

The Breitbart News Network (@BreitbartNews) announced today the addition of Rebecca Mansour, former speechwriter and close aide to Governor Sarah Palin, as their Senior West Coast Editor. 

“Rebecca has all the qualities we search for at Breitbart: integrity, intelligence, and fighting spirit. Her indefatigable nature ensures she will be an impact player. Through her work for Governor Palin, she has been in the trenches fighting the political and cultural battles that inspired the rise of the Tea Party and still dominate our national discourse,” said Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon.

Bannon you may remember was the director of that Palin mythological "documentary" The Undefeated. Which in light of recent events seems eve more ironic today.

So seeing Mansour invited to be part of a team now headed by a dedicated Palin worshiper is not exactly surprising.

Of course Bannon was able to get a quote directly from the Grizzled Mama herself about this rather predictable turn of events:

"Rebecca has been a sharp, loyal, and amazing member of my team for over six years now. Though I’m sorry to see her go full-time to another conservative outlet, I’m delighted she’ll be helping change the world for the better by lending her talents to Breitbart. They are so stinking fortunate to get her! Rare is an outfit like Breitbart – they’re most valuable in our culture and the media, fighting the good fight for the sake of this country we love. And I’ll still be bugging Rebecca at all hours – I won’t let her get away that far; every time we encounter an issue that we know the public must be aware of, we’ve been on it, and will continue to do so. She’s the best.”

Well that's a whole lot of BS this early in the morning.

By the way some of you may remember why this "sharp, loyal, and amazing" member of Palin's team has been forced to maintain a low profile these last four years.

It's because back in 2011 she dared to privately criticize the family disappointment, and that became public.  (No not Track. No not Willow. The other family disappointment.)

Well I think we can now expect a lot more articles coming from Palin to show up over at Breitbart.

Gee I wonder who will write them for her?

And of course the next question to ask is why does Mansour now need an outside gig? I think the next SarahPAC filings will help to explain that.

(P.S. Personally I am anxiously awaiting the first mouth breather to post a comment asking why our GinaM. is suddenly so cozy with Sarah Palin. Gonna be some mighty confused trolls all up in here today.)

Sarah Palin lets her psychosis take the wheel on her recent Facebook post. Update!

Courtesy of Palin's Facebook page:  

John Nolte - we need to thank God you're there, calling out unethical reporters. 

NBC - you need to fire your unethical reporter, John Harwood. 

John Harwood - you need to act before you get fired. You lie. Don't be a weasel. Just resign.

Umm..what?

Okay so at this point Palin links to some Breitbart article that accuses CNBC debate moderator John Harwood of lying while addressing Marco Rubio's tax plan.

So that's that, but wait there's more:

GOP Establishment- you need to cure your shrinkage away from holding the left accountable. Obviously leftist lapdogs in the media lie about conservatives. You too often cowardly refuse to defend the mainstream media's target, choosing instead to slyly witness the conservative's record and reputation get pummeled. C'mon, GOP leaders. YOU MUST DO BETTER. We've got our hands full with things like the destructive, burgeoning $18 trillion U.S. debt receiving nary a yawn from old and new Republican machine operators. And, so tragically, with things like breathlessly gleeful media celebrations of the democrats' knighted nominee's "performance" at Benghazi hearings, as four grieving American families try to put one foot in front of the other in their never ending nightmare full of loss. 

A picture says a thousand words about a heart for four dead Americans who sacrificed all in defense of our country:

At this point Palin posts several pictures of Hillary Clinton smiling. Including this one during the laughable Benghazi hearing:

Apparently after eleven hours of grueling testimony Hillary is not allowed to smile or demonstrate relief that it is over.

Now I usually pride myself on my ability to cut through the Palin word salad and find a way to make at least SOME sense out of it, but I confess that the block of lunacy up above is too crazy even for me.

I actually think we might be witnessing yet another mental breakdown.

Update: Holy crap  there's another one!

Look into the mouth of darkness:  

Finally it occurs to folks this idiotic practice of "throwing GOP candidates to the wolves"? Yeah. I've been there. I'm beyond crying you a river... beyond EVER claiming "victim status"... but for y'alls edification, I sure don't remember all this GOP outrage and the establishment's conscience leading to rescue attempts at THAT time. It's sweet how life goes on anyway 😀 

Watch even the first five minutes of Steve Bannon's "The Undefeated" to get a clue. (No thanks.)

After having to sneak in my own personal phone calls to conservative media during the '08 campaign (as Sean Hannity and Alaska's own KWHL can attest) because the GOP machine chose instead to line up those liberal man-eater, out-of-context interviews (suspiciously, rarely were they aired live - always edited to fit the liberal reporters' narrative) well, it was obvious that some highly paid campaign consultants (STILL suckering candidates in to hire them today!) were as smart as a box of rocks. Check this out; and thank you, again, Steve Bannon for being THE one with the guts to hold these yahoos accountable.

And then, and you will not believe this, she actually tries to pimp that crappy "The Undefeated" movie that nobody watched.

 Oh yeah, she is definitely off her meds!

Sarah Palin tells Right Wing blog that she has not yet begun to fight. (Most likely just for more attention of course.)

Apparently Palin went crawling to her buddy Stephen Bannon, (The idiot that put together the Palin hagiography "The Undefeated" and who is now running Andrew Breitbart's website now that he is no longer among the living.), to give an interview that attempts to make her recent break with Fox News seem like a canny career choice.

Here is the link so you can read it for yourself, but if you are like me you probably don't want to bet stupid on your computer, so I will provide the highlights below:

To the question of what is next in her future:

Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out of the comfort zone, and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism. That means broadening our audience. I’m taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation. We can't just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience. (Allow me to translate: I have no freaking idea what to do now! But I'm hoping that somebody will provide me with a pulpit in which to preach my message of common sense, pull yourself up with your bootstraps, down home, conservative, gibberish. Hey, are you guys hiring?)

Focus on the 2014 election is also imperative. It’s going to be like 2010, but this time around we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who don’t give a hoot how they do it in DC. DC is out of touch, obviously. Voices on the right like Mark Levin, Rush, and the writers here at Breitbart have come out strongly against the “go along to get along” politicians who wave the white flag before the battle even begins. We’re not going to be able to advance the cause of limited constitutional government unless we deal with these big government enablers on our side. And this all ties into the problem of crony capitalism and the permanent political class in the Beltway. We need to consistently take them on election after election – ever vigilant. (Translation: I have learned NOTHING from the last election, and am hoping to trick the voters into letting us sneak a few more of those constitutionally illiterate teabaggers into Washington. You know because THAT has really moved things right along for the American people. Oh, and can I have a job?)


As far as long-term plans, the door is wide open. I know the country needs more truth-telling in the media, and I’m willing to do that. So, we shall see. And always in the center of it all I have an awesome, full, exciting, and large family living in a very unique part of America that keeps me hopping! I love it! (Seriously, I'm not kidding, can I have a job?)


The next question is for her to give her opinion on the future of the country under the Obama presidency, you know because her opinion is always so completely, and utterly wrong:

Predicting the future has never been easier because here we are! Already we see higher taxes, a stagnant economy, the same inflationary monetary policies, Obamacare looming like a dark cloud over small businesses, yet another demand for “debt ceiling” increases, continued stonewalling about the tragic Benghazi attacks, a Secretary of Defense nominee who has a history of being antagonistic to our ally Israel, and the attack on our Second Amendment rights by an administration that has no respect for the Constitution or the separation of powers. (Translation: Blah blah, blah, Benghazi, blah blah, blah, Obamacare, blah, blah, blah Constitution. Sorry my translator threw up all over itself.)


The problem is that some on the Right are now skittish because of the lost 2012 election. They shouldn’t be. Conservatism didn’t lose. A moderate Republican candidate lost after he was perceived to alienate working class Reagan Democrat and Independent voters who didn’t turn out for him as much as they did for the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008. Granted, those same voters also didn’t turn out for Obama as strongly either. We had an election defined by a biased media plus millions of voters who sat it out in disgust. As long as we allow the media and GOP establishment to tell us who our nominees must be, we can expect to lose. I’m not interested in losing. America’s next generation can’t afford another loss. (Translation: The reason that the Republicans lost is NOT because conservatism is dead it is because Romney did not bring in the kind of votes that the McCain/Palin ticket brought in, who also lost. Oh and the media did it!)


Finally she is reminded that the MSM has said the Teabaggers are over (Because they are) and that she is now completely irrelevant. does she agree? Gee I wonder how she will respond?

I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season. When it comes to defending our republic, we haven’t begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us. (Translation: I just NEVER learn my lesson, no matter how many times I do a stupid thing, I am always rip roaring ready to do that same stupid thing again! Are you gonna hire me now?)

Okay so I think we can garner from this that Palin does not really HAVE a plan B, but us hoping that somebody, anybody will giver her a job. You no so long as she doesn't actually have to do any work or anything.

By the way did anybody else notice there was no mention of an exercise book? Gee I wonder why?

 Oh yeah, because it was bullshit!

Sarah Palin documentary listed among top ten WORST documentaries of all time.

Courtesy of IMBD

Gee, and weren't the Palin-bots recently heard gleefully making fun of what they believed were low viewer numbers for "Game Change?" (Which of course turned out to be false.)

What do you want to bet that Julianne Moore gets an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the Grizzled mama, and that Game Change wins a ton of awards?  Anybody?

Of course to be fair Sister Sarah also received a nomination of her own for her portrayal of herself in this mythological retelling of her time as Governor of Alaska.

Honestly, is there anybody in the world NOT making fun of the Palin family these days?

Yeah, I didn't thinks so.

Sarah Palin nominated for a Razzie award for playing HERSELF in a documentary. Ouch, that's gotta hurt!

Courtesy of Politico:

The former vice presidential candidate was nominated Saturday for a Golden Raspberry Award as worst actress for her “performance” in the documentary “The Undefeated,” a film about her political career. 

The tongue-in-cheek Razzies, which purport to salute the worst in the world of movies each year, typically are presented the day before the Academy Awards but their schedule was shifted this year - the nominees were released Saturday and the winners (or losers, depending on how you look at it) are to be announced April 1.

I have still refused to sit through the Undefeated, but from what I understand Sarah Palin does the WORST version of Governor Palin that anybody has ever seen.

The funny thing is that Tina Fey won an Emmy for her portrayal of the Grizzled Mama on SNL, and, if early buzz is any indication, Julianne Moore appears to be a lock on at least getting nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Palin in the HBO movie "Game Change."

So it seems that, at least in front of the camera, that EVERYBODY else is a more believable Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin is.

By the way my understanding of the problem is that Palin comes off as too ignorant and psychotic to be taken seriously in the role.

Most brutally honest review of Sarah Palin's crappy propaganda movie I have ever read!

Image courtesy of Azure Ghost

 Courtesy of Pajiba:

So I sat down and watched this movie. It was about a secondary figure suddenly catapulted into the limelight to basically become a star, a hero for many. Everyone attacked the way they talked, the things they said or did, as stupid or backwoodsy. They made fun, said terrible things, but in the end, the hero triumphed by maintaining that lovable folksy knowledge and staying pure to their smalltown honest upbringing. And that man’s name was Tow Mater and the film was Cars 2. 

And that’s two bullshit paragraphs about nonsense and empty rhetoric and avoidance to get to the point that holy fucking fuck me in the shit is Stephen K. Bannon’s The Undefeated the worst fucking thing to happen to American cinema since The Ku Klux Klan discovered D.W. Griffith. It’s not a documentary. It’s a fucking commercial for Sarah Palin. And not even a good one. Now, I’m not trashing the film because it’s one sided. I mean, hell, Michael Moore’s been sweatily doing that for years. It lacks a fundamental dimension to even have sides. It’s literally a chronicling of campaign promises spouted by members of her campaign staff and Republican pundits for a mindmelting two hours, intermingled with a soundtrack and imagery that’s so hilariously bad, I want to show it in every film class to send them all screaming for jobs doing manual labor. Because that’s what real Americans do. They eat three egg omelettes seasoned with pepper spray and true grit and then go to work micromanaging foreigners that shouldn’t even be in America anyway. 

Every time they talk about what a patriot Palin is, what a maverick championing the little people she is, they play soaring inspirational music with actual angelic choirs. If it’s not her publicist, who comprises at least 50 percent of the first part of the film, then it’s Andrew Breitbart or Mark Levin, the hedgehog Costanza whose entire dialogue consists of saying, “Palin Reagan Palin Reagan Palin Reagan.” Or, it’s Palin herself, via the audiobook recording of Going Rogue. It gives everything that whole homemade YouTube feel, like a really really really excited superfan. Whenever they explain the attacks against her, they play dire and sinister music, as if Voldemort were actively attempting to Avada Kedavra her. But that’s nothing compared to the visuals.

You know I have used some rather colorful language to describe Sarah Palin, and her career, myself through the years. In fact I am rather well know for that.

But I have to take my hat off to this reviewer, Brian Prisco, for his completely unfiltered, yet joyful, deconstruction of this pathetic mythological propaganda that Steve Bannon and others hoped against hope would serve as Sarah Palin's reintroduction into national politics and then catapult her miraculously into the White House.

As I pointed out when this film first plopped like a steaming turd into movie houses back in July, there was NO way this was going to fool the average American voter into ignoring what they already knew about Sarah Palin and convince them to support her campaign for President, and of course it certainly didn't. Nor did it convince Palin herself to take the risk of opening her life to increased public scrutiny by jumping into the race.

Gee it's great to always be right, isn't it?

However much like its celluloid inspirations, such as Jason Vorhees and Freddie Krueger, this film, while never gaining much traction, has also refused to die its much deserved death.

As those of us who have Netflix are painfully aware, this celluloid still birth is now available for instant streaming so that it can be viewed in the relative comfort of our homes.  I assume with the lights turned off and our hands over our faces, like we would do while watching any OTHER low budget horror movie featuring a frightening, bloodthirsty creature.

Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! That is soo scary!

They also toned down the cover art a little, making it look more like the "Three Faces of Incompetence" rather than "Ice Station Sarah."

Still unless they completely threw out all of previous footage and replaced it with the John Wayne version of "The Undefeated," I seriously doubt there are more than a handful of people willing to sit through 118 minutes of this poorly filmed tribute to a falsified image of a failed politician.

Even a confirmed masochist would undoubtedly scream his safe word after only about five minutes of viewing this painfully putrid pile of moose poop.

Sarah Palin's 2011 Thanksgiving message. And you thought what happened to those turkeys in the video down below was stomach churning!

Courtesy of the Brody File:

On Thanksgiving, my family’s traditions will reflect the loyal, active, robust, big family life that shaped me. We’re so fortunate to be together to share the making of another year’s memory. In these late autumn days with temperatures dipping to 20-degrees below zero, we’ll brave Alaska’s biting cold to run and skate and ride – just because we can, and for that I am so thankful. Life in America’s Last Frontier is not an easy living, but it’s a good living. (Especially when you have millions of dollars at your disposal.) Here in Alaska, where I’m never without inspiration, an optimistic pioneering spirit still permeates, and harsh conditions force us out of self-centeredness and towards community – often in order to survive. 

This need for selflessness – and the blessings that come with it – sharpened for me almost four years ago when I was given the gift of broader horizons, clarified priorities, and more commitment to justice and compassion for my fellow man who faces challenges and fears. I was granted this through a gift that arrived in a tiny, six-pound, awe-inspiring bundle. (That apparently arrived via Fed-ex.) We named him Trig. 

I know America’s potential for goodness, thus greatness, because I see it every day through my son.(She must mean Track the son who signed up for the military to stay out of jail. Serious patriotism there!) Nothing makes me happier or prouder than to see America’s good heart when someone smiles at my Trig. (Oh she means Trig. Well that was my second choice.) I notice it happens often in airports. Often a traveler passing by does a double-take when they see him, perhaps curious about the curious look on his face; perhaps my son momentarily exercises an uncontrollable motion (Like punching me in the head.) that takes the passerby by surprise. Perhaps, as an innocent and candid child announced when she first met Trig, they think “he’s awkward.” But when that traveler pauses to look again and smile, and maybe tells me what a handsome boy I have, I swell with American pride. ("American pride" is so much better than that common everyday pride don'tcha know?) I am so thankful for their good heart. They represent the best in our country and their kindness shows the real hope we need today. (Because they smiled at a toddler?)

I am thankful that, as in so many areas of life, the bitter people who say bitter things about someone facing challenges are so outnumbered. There have been stinging criticisms, even from people still screaming that Trig should never have been born, (Okay seriously WHO is doing that?) but we know those critics may be the loudest and most malicious, but they’re not the majority. 

To me, when individuals reflect the greater societal acceptance of someone facing challenges, they show the best of humanity – even by offering a simple pat on Trig’s head or a knowing smile shot our way. Conversely, when a society works to eliminate the “weakest links” (as some would callously consider the disabled) or “the unproductive”(as some would callously consider the very young and the very old), it eliminates the very best of itself. When a society seeks to destroy them, it also destroys any ability or need for sincere compassion, empathy, improvement, and even goodwill. And those are the very best qualities of humanity! (Didn't she JUST describe the Republican party?) Those are the characteristics of a country that understands and embraces true hope! America can be compassionate and strong enough as a nation to be entrusted with those who some see as an “inconvenience,” but who are really our greatest blessings. Through Trig, I see firsthand that there is man’s standard of perfection, and then there is God’s. Man’s standard is flawed, temporary, and shallow. God’s standard lasts an eternity. At the end of the day, His is what matters. (I would be remiss if I did not mention at this point that the services which provide for children like Trig are in large part the product of progressives creating programs to care for their needs. The Republicans, like Newt Gingrich, would gladly roll back child labor laws and get those lazy third graders off their ass and back in the sweat shop where they belong.)

So, this Thanksgiving my family will bundle Trig up and grin while we watch him through ice-frosted eyelashes as he curiously takes in all that is around him in the crisp open air. I hope your Thanksgiving gives you the opportunity to find that reminder of what really matters, too. For me, my perfect picture of thankfulness is my perfectly awesome son. With him, all is well with my soul and I know I am blessed. (Hang on, I think I'm gagging to death.)

You know believe it or not I think Palin just MIGHT have written this on her own. Or had only minimal help, because it really sucks.

So apparently it is time to trot out the favorite Palin political/sympathy prop in order to receive some reflected glory since virtually NOBODY is paying any attention to Palin these days. (By the way Trig is perhaps the most mythological creature in Alaska. I understand that there have been more sightings of the Bigfoot in Wasilla, than Trig Paxson Van Palin.)

Clearly Palin is feeling very ignored lately and is chumming the waters with her sure fire attention catching bait, the extra chromosome kid himself, Trig Palin. However as you see she is only willing to have somebody WRITE about her devotion to him, and is unable, or unwilling, to attempt to demonstrate that devotion before the prying eyes of the public. In large part, I understand, because Trig has become an uncooperative handful that the Mama Grizzly is no longer able to parent effectively. She simply cannot risk people seeing  her "perfectly awesome son" defy her, or even hit her, in public.

So now we have had a mass produced thank you note, and this emotionally manipulative Thanksgiving message issued from the "Sanctum Sanitarium" in order to remind her dwindling flying monkeys that she is still relevant. And nothing says "I'm relevant" like hiding in a dark house by a lake in the woods and sending out form letters. Am I right?

By the way, since we are again talking about Sister Sarah, I guess this post would be as good of a place as any to give you a heads up on what took place at the Alaska premiere of Sarah Palin's propaganda movie.

I have NO freaking idea.

Once I realized I could not go, I tried to talk a few people into going in my place, but nobody would even consider it.  So then I thought that surely ONE of the Alaska based websites or newspapers would have somebody there, but no not a word.

Hell even the Sea O'Pee had nothing to report.

So as of this writing I have no idea how many people showed up, what they thought of the fetid piece of crap, or even if the premiere actually even took place.

If I do find out anything I will provide an update, but as of right now I feel pretty confident in saying that it probably stank up the place, like everything else associated with Palin. Though I have to wonder if there was even anybody there to catch a whiff?

Palin propaganda film "The Undefeated" to play in Alaska, only fifteen minutes away from Palin's house, but the Mama Grizzly refuses to come out of hibernation to make an appearance.

Courtesy of the Frontiersman:

Folks in Alaska have their first opportunity to see the movie “The Undefeated” on the big screen Monday. 

Sponsored by the Valley Republican Women’s Club, the Alaska screening also includes a meet-and-greet event with the movie’s creator and producer, Stephen Bannon, from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday at Colony Inn in Palmer. Tickets are $50 each or $75 per couple and include a light meal and a chance to speak one-on-one with Bannon. 

“I’m looking forward to coming to Alaska,” he said Thursday by phone from Washington, D.C. He said this trip to Alaska will be a relatively quick since he is planning to spend Thanksgiving at Fort Campbell, Ky., with his daughter, a recent West Point graduate. 

Bannon said when the movie was originally released, the theatrically company that distributed the film didn’t have any screens in Alaska. “We’ve been actually trying to do this since August,” Bannon said. 

Well this ought to be a great opportunity for Bannon to see first hand how the people of Alaska REALLY feel about Klondike Kardashian, because surely she will attend a premiere that is only a hop, skip, and a jump from her font door?

Won't she?


Bannon said he plans to speak before the film and draw parallels between what happened in Alaska and what is happening in the country. 

What the hell? You mean Palin will not appear at the premiere of a film that is all about HER? What would make an attention whore like Palin skip this?

When the two-hour movie begins, he said Palin is working on a commercial fishing boat. 

“She’s out of the loop in a place that’s out of the loop,” Bannon said.

Now I have read this a few times, trying to make sense of it.

At first I thought that Bannon was saying that when the film begins, it begins with Palin on a commercial fishing boat which I knew to be wrong, because according to this review it actually begins with a bunch of Hollywood types expressing their 1st Amendment right to Freedom of Speech by telling the world what a loser they think she is while using rather colorful language, and then going directly into her childhood.

So then I realized that what he was saying was that Palin herself will be on a commercial fishing boat this Monday when the movie premieres.

Except, no she won't.

Number one I don't believe that Palin actually EVER goes commercial fishing unless it is for the cameras or for political reasons, and number two there is NO commercial fishing happening in November on Bristol Bay, and almost none happening any place else in Alaska either. (See this chart to confirm that for yourself.) It may sound like a ready made Alaska excuse, but it is very likely also a lie.

What I really think is going on is that Palin is terrified to be in the same room with a bunch of Alaskans who KNOW the truth about her past, and her political career in Alaska, while this mythological moosecrap splatters across the screen.

Could you imagine what would happen if Sister Sarah were confronted in front of her pet propagandist with the truth, by real Alaskans who could back it up with eyewitness accounts? Now that would be something to see!

No, Palin won't be there because she is afraid of being humiliated. As we all know Palin is only tough when hiding in the safety of her Fox News studio on Lake Lucille, where she feels free to spew hatred toward our President, the media, and anybody who dares disagree with her. Beyond that she is a coward.

Hey, do you know what? I just checked my schedule and as it turns out I am completely free on Sunday evening around 4:00 p.m..  Hmm whatever will I DO with myself?

No doubt about it, THIS is the appropriate face to make when having your picture taken with Sarah Palin. Updated.

OMGD! She smells like sweaty desperation with a hint of brimstone!

This is from a Reddit link that somebody sent me, which made me laugh out loud, so I thought I would share it with all of you.

Apparently this was taken during the debut of Palin's propaganda movie "The Undefeated."

What do you think is responsible for that expression on his face?

Update: Okay don't ever say I am not responsive to my visitors. Here is the Photoshopped version.

Y'all know you are sick and twisted right?

Todd Palin is confronted by Alaskan in Iowa who reminds the Palins that their BS no longer works up here in the Last Frontier.

Courtesy of SF Gate:

As we told you the other day, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hasn't decided yet to run for president.

One big question she will have to answer is why she quit after only two years as governor. The question came up as Palin and husband Todd swooped through the Iowa State Fair the other day. 

A woman, who identified herself as an Alaskan, questioned Todd about why his wife quit. 

He told her to watch "The Undefeated" -- the movie about Palin made by a conservative filmmaker. 

They got into it, and the exchange ended with the woman calling Todd a "sellout."

God I LOVED seeing that.

I cannot believe that Sarah Palin's personal purse valet suggested to this lady that she needed to watch "The Undefeated."

Hey asshole, we are Alaskans!  We don't need to see the movie, we fucking LIVED it!

That is how we know it is a poorly constructed piece of propaganda that NOBODY wanted to attend and which nowadays cannot even attract donations of pet foods in exchange for tickets.

Which is something that Spokane politician Mike Noder discovered the hard way:

Sarah Palin may not be much of a draw in Spokane. 

That’s one conclusion – and a charitable one, at that – to draw from an event a little more than a week ago at The Bing Crosby Theater featuring the new biographical movie about Palin. Planned as a chance to raise money for charities, food for Second Harvest Food Bank and pet supplies for Spokanimal, it was a disappointment, said organizer Mike Noder. 

Unsure how much it might bring in, and unwilling to run afoul of the state Public Disclosure Commission, he didn’t want to collect money for his low-cost mayoral campaign. But he offered hold the screening and collect for some local charities. 

Admission was free, with would-be watchers urged to bring food or pet supplies or donate to charity. 

“People responding were kind of vicious,” Noder said. Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery wanted no part of the gig and the Food Bank wouldn’t bring down donation barrels, he said. 

The movie, which aired on a Thursday night, didn’t draw a big crowd. Noder estimated it at 50, although others thought it might’ve been half that. The Northeast Community Center Youth Group got the door receipts. The Food Bank got some donations and a plastic grocery bag of food. Spokanimal got some donations and a couple cases of cat food. 

Noder actually got less than nothing: “My web traffic dropped. The association was not good for my campaign.” 

Time to face reality "Tawd." Alaskans know you and your wife pathetic quitters, clearly movie audiences know you are pathetic quitters, and the number of American voters who know you are pathetic quitters is growing everyday.

Bill Maher's New Rule is that the Left needs its own version of the "looney-toon" Teabaggers.

Palin propagandist Stephen Bannon was on the panel last night, and he spent much of the time representing the Teabagger's complete ignorance of how government, politics, and math work. He attempted to attack President Obama several times and to blame the financial crisis on the Democrats and his policy decisions. 

The other guests, Joan Walsh, Dr. Neal deGrasse Tyson, and even chef Anthony Bourdain, kept having to correct the poor imbecile and explain to him exactly why he should have been paying attention in his Civics class instead of staring at the cheerleaders' pom poms.

By the way his celluloid embarrassment,  "The Undefeated," was ONLY mentioned one time.  And that was when Maher was introducing him to the audience.

Now why would Bannon go on a highly rated HBO program and NOT mention the Sarah Palin movie that supposedly he is so very proud of creating? 

(H/T to Mediaite.)

From the "Why didn't somebody think of this before?" file. Chicago Palin-bot just rents the damn theater and shows "The Undefeated" himself!

Courtesy of Time Out Chicago:

It was, for a Democrat-dominated city, a sight as rare as lush trees in the remote Alaskan tundra: a room packed with self-avowed Palinistas. The conservative baby cubs came to a rented theater at the Gene Siskel Film Center on July 23 to suckle at the teat of their “Mama Grizzly” during the first (and, so far, only) Chicago screening of The Undefeated, writer-director Stephen K. Bannon’s unabashed love letter to the onetime vice presidential nominee.

“I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t know if there’s any thought in Illinois. Wasn’t Quinn the running mate of the guy we just convicted?” William Kelly sounded off. The conservative commentator and erstwhile Illinois comptroller candidate ponied up the cash for the theater rental. “If I have to rent out every theater in town so people will see this film, I’ll do it,” said Kelly, only half joking.

See? This movie CAN TOO fill up theater seats!

All you have to do is find ONE guy with deep pockets to rent the theater and show it for free. Isn't that how Star Wars got to be such a blockbuster?  Or wait, maybe that was Deep Throat?

Well I am sure that the people who enjoy this movie are just your regular, every day Americans. (Just like the ones that enjoyed Deep Throat.)

 Nearby, a gentleman in his sixties, wearing a “Palin 2012” T-shirt and carrying a tote bag emblazoned with Palin’s face, discussed his lack of surprise at being surrounded by so many like-minded people. 

“You think this area should be so Democratic and so Obama, and it is to a certain extent,” said the man, a member of Organize4Palin who goes by the nickname Super Yoni. “But there are more of us out there than you know.”

The Illinois branch of Organize4Palin numbers about 100 members, one of the group’s coordinators, Whitney Zahnd, told me. The 28-year-old health-care researcher made the drive from Springfield in her Organize4Palin tee emblazoned with a bear and the slogan “Get your grrr on.”

Okay well maybe "regular, everyday Americans" was kind of a stretch.

But it is not like they are a bunch of shut ins with no social skills or ability to conduct themselves properly in public. Right?

In short time, the chatter grew to a Mama Grizzly roar. A theater employee gently announced to the crowd, “You’re going to have to take your conversation outside.”

Oh.  Well I certainly hope that during their little field trip away from the facility they were not confronted with anything that would disturb their fantasies about Sarah Palin's popularity or demonstrate to them just how far out on the fringe their faith in the Mama Grizzly was to those living in the REAL world.


On the sidewalk, the Palinistas were disheartened, though not stunned, at what they saw. Across the street, the Chicago Theatre’s marquee announced that night’s sold-out show: Bill Maher, the lefty political comedian who famously called their political idol a “dumb twat.”

Now THAT is why it is always so much safer for Palin-bots to just to stay in their mother's basement, where the Cheetos are plentiful, they can troll liberal blogs uninterrupted for hours, and the television is always tuned to QVC.

The epic defeat of "The Undefeated."

You know sometimes an image is almost all that you need to make your point.

This film was doomed from the start, which anybody who was really in Alaska, and knew about Sarah Palin's time as governor, could have easily predicted.  In fact I do believe that I did.

However besides simply indicating how bad this movie was, it is also an indication of how truly inconsequential the Palin-bots have become.  After all they both begged and threatened people to get them to go see this film, and virtually NOBODY responded.

It is very hard NOT to see this as a dry run for Palin's Presidential campaign.

If she does declare in September I have little doubt that the result will look very much like the box office results pictured above. In other words, in the immortal words of my daughter, it will be another EPIC FAIL!

(H/T to Box Office Mojo.)

Update: It looks like Malia wrote something about this as well.

Having run out of theaters willing to show Palin's pathetic propaganda film, now her supporters have taken to showing it in their homes! Can we change the name of the film now?

Yet another hat tip to Azure Ghost, who I imagine NEVER thought her poster would come in this handy!

From the Sea O'Pee (Where else?):

Toni Hagen of Mason City will be hostess for three showings Saturday of a new political film, “The Undefeated,” which promotes former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The film had its premiere in Pella last month with Palin in attendance.

Hagen, a volunteer with a grassroots effort called Organize4Palin, has an advance copy of the film for private screenings and will be showing it at her home in Mason City at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m. Saturday.

I can hear Ms. Hagen's pitch now: "This film is the greatest celluloid epic in this, or any other, century.  And if you don't believe me, come over to my house where I will be showing it on a white bed sheet tacked to the wall of my family room."

You know I wonder if the Palin-bots even take the time to stop and think before they put up a post like this?

I mean come on, you people are not even making this challenging for me anymore!

Update: Well now we know why they have to show the film at their teabagging neighborhood block parties.  "The Undefeated" is down 60.5% at the box office this week.

I guess all of that begging and threatening was just NOT enough to get anybody to waste two hours of their precious life watching this steaming pile of moose shit.

Update 2: You know I think Palin might seriously be having a nervous breakdown. Check out this newest tweet:


@BarackObama you're wrong, threatening to throw seniors under the bus because you refuse to prioritize govt spending.Time to #womanup & lead
52 minutes ago via web

Does this lunatic REALLY believe that Obama pays even the slightest bit of attention to her?

You know I wonder if this is the first time that a person's psychotic episode was captured on Twitter?

You might be able to fool the general public about the success of the Palin propaganda film "The Undefeated," but you CAN'T fool the movie critics!

Image courtesy of the amazing Love and Knishes.

From Box Office Mojo:

Normally, a movie with such poor box office would not receive story coverage on Box Office Mojo, but the furor over The Undefeated calls for an injection of truth.

Even before The Undefeated bottomed out in its second weekend, the movie was a bust in its first weekend, but its boosters latched onto two stats: per-theater average and ranking among political documentaries. The classic tactics of movie spin include bragging about per-theater average and declaring a high ranking in a niche category. The funny thing is that Undefeated's opening didn't rate highly on either front, making the spin extra-egregious.

Within the minor political documentary sub-genre, The Undefeated's $6,532 opening weekend per-theater average ranked 33rd out of the 91 limited openings tracked over the past 30 years, normalized for ticket price inflation. Among all documentaries, it was in the middle of the pack. Hardly worthy of hyperbole. Even if it had little to no advertising, Undefeated had far more media coverage than most other political documentaries and independent releases could ever dream of. The awareness was there.

Undefeated boosters ran with the notion that the movie's opening had the "second highest per-theater average of the weekend, behind only Harry Potter," but the movie was actually sixth in that metric. They also latched onto a press release about how The Undefeated averaged "above $11,000 in top markets." But averages are naturally higher in top markets (that's why they're "top markets") and, without context (how it compared to other movies' grosses in those markets), that was a meaningless statistic.

It's extremely myopic to believe that having one of the higher per-theater averages on a given weekend means a movie is a success, and The Undefeated's second weekend bore that out. Indeed, "per-theater average" is one of the most overrated stats. For limited releases, the most receptive locations are cherry-picked with the purpose to impress with a high per-theater average in order to book more markets. The fewer the theaters, the easier it is to have a higher average.

To put these numbers into further perspective: The Undefeated's ten theaters on opening weekend yielded 159 showings. Using the current average ticket price of $7.86, that means the movie played to an estimated 52 people per average showing or at about one-fifth to one-quarter capacity. In the movie's second weekend, which had 211 showings, the per-showing average attendance dropped to 15.

Damn, I like how this guy Brandon Gray left absolutely NO doubt that this movie was an unmitigated disaster. 


Not really much argument left is there?


Which makes THIS, seem just that much more pathetic.



The path to the White House runs through the theaters across America showing this film.

We need to sell those theaters out! No more excuses, no more complaints. Let’s show the world why we support her. Show them this film! We need your help to make this happen. We can’t sit silently anymore. Now we must act.

Special incentives:

Each Youth For Palin's Youth Brigade member will receive special rewards including $$ compensation and/or a donation to our group (your choice). special recognition, and other items.

Game On!

Personally I think that any parent who encourages their child to pimp this move for Snowdrift Snooki should be brought up on charges of child abuse.


It finally dawned on me who the Palin-bots who are refusing to see the writing on the walls about Palin's pathetic propaganda piece remind me of.  They remind me of those Japanese soldiers who stayed at their posts for decades because they did not realize the war was over.

Team Sarah is now DEMANDING that their members FORCE their friends and family to attend Sarah Palin's propaganda film "The Undefeated." Just buy a ticket Mom, and nobody has to get hurt!

With full credit for the graphic once again to Azure Ghost.

 This was sent to my e-mail from my favorite mole over at Team Sarah.

I will try to recreate it exactly as it appears in the e-mail, including the screaming capitalization's and histrionic changes in font size, just so you can get the full, batshit crazy effect.

A message to all members of Team Sarah

Team,

The movie, The Undefeated, faces an onslaught of the same kind of “invalidation” that Sarah Palin faces from the media establishment.

For those who have been out promoting the movie, and trying to get people in the cities where it is showing to BUY TICKETS NOW, this has been quite a journey.

Movies, ALL movies, have their ups and downs, but you can bet that when The Undefeated has its “ups” the media will ignore that and when it has its “downs” the media will over-hype it, as if “it’s all over because of a bad day!”

Everyone knows that "success" is never a straight line!

The fight to make sure people KNOW the truth about how the ESTABLISHMENT treats ordinary Americans who rise to leadership is only just beginning!

Just because you don't live in a city where the movie is currently playing does not mean you CANNOT HELP! Email teamsarahhq@gmail.com to see how you can help as a virtual ambassador!

Whoever thinks this is going to be easy, here's the truth. IT CANNOT BE EASY!

The stakes are too high!

The opposition is DESPERATE to discredit all that we stand up for!

Hard, however, is not IMPOSSIBLE.

What kind of country do you want to leave your children, one where the values of a Tina Fey rule or one where the values of Sarah Palin are strong?

WHAT WE DO NOW will potentially decide how that question is answered!

How much can you do, how far out of your comfort zone can you go, for your children's future?

Here's what is needed: we need to get people to come to these theaters and we need to beat back the liberal narrative. WE CAN DO this because we MUST do it!

Here’s the WHOLE point of all this- We need EVERYONE in EACH CITY to focus on getting 25 people to come to the movie TOMORROW and THURSDAY!

TICKETS are available here,

IF you live in any of the cities where this movie is showing, or within 100 miles, then WE NEED YOU! If you DON'T live near these cities, we STILL need you!

EMAIL teamsarahhq@gmail.com and we will send you our own information pack!

The movie IS coming to DVD, but even if millions of the DVD’s are sold, the media will STILL try to use whatever WE DO at the box office as a measure of success. COUNT ON IT!

We need to ask people we know in those cities to COME!

Don’t ask, tell! What I mean is, call your buddy up and say, “you’re going to this movie, OK? It’s a done deal, I need you to go.’ Don’t be shy. Imagine your children’s future depends on it.

WE NEED-

CITY HOSTS who live near the cities where the movie is being launched. More cities are being added, so just email and we will put you on a list when the movie comes your way....

VIRTUAL AMBASSADORS- people who can help with social media and making phone calls. You don’t have to LIVE in a city to RECRUIT for that city!

WANT TO LEARN MORE?

EMAIL teamsarahhq@gmail.com and we will send you our own information pack!

Thanks to all who are helping now!

The Tiny Team Behind The Team

 
Visit Team Sarah at: http://teamsarah.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

 Wow!  I mean, wow! That was just, wow!

Well thank God they are not panicking anything, right?  Just imagine how much worse it would be if they lost faith in their idol's ability to draw a crowd on her own and they felt they had to FORCE PEOPLE TO GO TO HER MOVIE! 

I mean seriously?  Who tells their friends and loved ones that they either go see this movie or else?

You know I was worried before, but now I think we are actually seeing the mental breakdown of the Palin-bots playing out in real time.

When she breaks the bad news about not running for President to them, they are going to lose their shit!

Movie critic asks why did they release Sarah Palin propaganda film in theaters, if they were just going to put it on Pay-Per-View anyway? He must be new to the world of the Palin-bots.

Courtesy of Movieline:

In a move that probably should have happened two weeks ago, ARC Entertainment — the Santa Monica-based distributor of Stephen K. Bannon’s Palin documentary — announced that they would make the film available through on demand services starting on Sept. 1, backed by “a multi-million dollar marketing campaign.” Additionally, 250,000 Undefeated DVDs will hit stores around the country on Oct. 4, with a special edition version reserved for Walmart shelves. (How this will all dovetail with Palin’s will-she-won’t-she presidential run remains to be seen.)

“The Undefeated is a terrific case study for a digital cinema release,” said Jill Newhouse Calcaterra, the chief marketing officer at Cinedigm, which is the film’s digital distributor.

Indeed it may prove to be, Jill. However, if ARC and Cinedigm is correct in their respective assumptions — that The Undefeated will play well in the home entertainment market, since a majority of its potential audience probably isn’t able to get to one of the 14 theaters playing the film currently — the question must be raised: why release The Undefeated as a standalone theatrical property in the first place? So stories about how it played at an empty theater could disseminate across the blogosphere and make it look like a joke?

You know THAT is a pretty good question. (Before I go on I would just like to say to whoever decided to release the film theatrically so that we could make fun it, thank you, I really did enjoy that!)

However I think I might be able to answer this question.

You see Mr. Movie Critic, believe it or not the director of this film, Sarah Palin, and her supporters, all believed this turkey could actually fly. (They must have missed the WKRP Thanksgiving episode.)

They actually thought, now get this, that if people were exposed to their highly sanitized version of Palin governing Alaska, that they would be compelled to support her candidacy for President in 2012.

Yeah I know, sounds ridiculous right?

But keep in mind this is not unusual thinking for Palin and her reality challenged supporters.

Don't forget that this is the same woman who somehow imagined that she could force her family to stay with her on a, doomed from the start, bus tour, that she could quit said bus tour after only five days, could then claim that she really didn't quit but only took time off for jury duty, and then could attend a premiere of this film while still supposedly a potential juror, AND that nobody would notice that all of this smelled distinctly to moose poop.

She is also the same woman who believed that THIS clip would put to rest any claims that she was not really a hunter.



(Well I have to admit that answered all of MY questions about her hunting ability, how about you guys?)

Like I said, these people TRULY believed that putting Palin on celluloid and projecting her onto a giant screen, would absolutely convince people that she was an impressive figure worth supporting in 2012.

However in the face of embarrassing ticket sales and universally negative reviews from the critics, it is NO surprise that the producers of Palin's propaganda film have given up on its ability to find an audience in the theaters, and have decided to put it on Pay-Per-View right along with "Sticky Sweet Lesbians" and "MILFs in Heat 12."  (After all in this day and age who wants to be caught masturbating to their fantasy President in a dirty old theater?)

If her sycophants could get their heads out of the clouds, and their hands out of their pants long enough, they might be able to recognize that EVERYTHING Palin is connected with ends up failing (How is that gas line coming along Alaska?), and that EVERYTHING she starts, she ends up quitting.

But I guess that is asking a lot from people who still get their information from this site:

Here Are the Theaters That Will Show The Undefeated for Its Week 3 Comeback

It’s really important to pack these theaters, especially the ones in South Carolina and Ohio. She’s polling well in both states despite the fact that the mainstream and so-called conservative media have purposefully misled Republican and Republican-leaning independents into believing that she won’t run. Let’s force the media to report a Week 3 comeback for The Undefeated.

 I would like to thank the lunatics at the Sea O'Pee for helping me to make my point.

If people will not go to see Sarah Palin's film "The Undefeated" in theaters, then they will just have to take the propaganda to them.

Image courtesy of Azure Ghost

From Fox Nation:

ARC Entertainment, the distributor of “The Undefeated,” the film about Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise from obscurity to national prominence, announced today that beginning on September 1st the film will be available to 75 million homes via Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View access through national and regional cable and satellite operators. The DVD will launch on October 4th and will be available at traditional and online retailers nationwide. ARC is estimating its initial unit shipment to be approximately 250,000 units. A “Special Edition” DVD will contain additional new content and will only be sold in Walmart stores. ARC will continue to expand the limited engagement theatrical release nationwide throughout August and September as demand across the country remains high.

Trevor Drinkwater, CEO of ARC Entertainment, said, “Since the film opened in select markets across the country on July 15th we have been inundated with requests from people wanting the film to be made available in their market. After methodically analyzing the most effective ways to bring this galvanizing film to the widest audience as soon as possible we have determined that continued limited theatrical distribution, Video-on-Demand, Pay-Per-View and DVD sales will be the best modalities by which to deliver this film as widely as possible. We have created partnerships with national cable, satellite and mass retailers to achieve our distribution goals.”

"Inundated with requests" from people wanting to see this film?  Really?


Courtesy of Think Progress:

The Undefeated, the much-hyped Palin documentary, bombed during its second week in theaters, bringing in just $24,000 in ticket sales across 14 screens. The movie’s per theater average, touted as a relative bright spot by promoters, plummeted from $6,513 to $1,713, according to estimates by the industry website Box Office Mojo.

Essentially "The Undefeated" is demonstrating the irony of its name by plummeting even faster than Palin's Presidential possibilities, having added four new theaters this weekend but still losing 63.2% of its ticket buyers. That is not just a defeat, that is an obliteration!

However like any good Palin-bot this dose of reality has not managed to pierce the rose colored fantasy world that apparently envelops directer Stephen Bannon:

Filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon stated, “Given the strong audience reaction we have determined there is overwhelming demand for us to get this film out broadly enough to cover the entire nation in September and October. In a 90-day period from August to November we will be able to effectively cover the nation through multiple distribution modalities.”



You know if I were the cynical sort I might think that Bannon was in a state of panic, and desperately trying to find some new venues to hawk this stinker before he  loses his shirt and forever destroys his reputation due to this albatross of a film.


You know, if I were the cynical sort that is.