Sarah Palin retreats even further into the Right Wing bubble.

That's right bitchez I got a new video show.

Courtesy of Capital:  

Fox News contributor and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be launching her own digital video channel, tentatively called “Rogue TV,” a source familiar with the project told Capital. 

The channel will be available through Tapp, the digital video service founded by former CNN chief Jon Klein and former NBC Universal entertainment executive Jeff Gaspin. Subscriptions will cost $10 per month. 

Rogue is expected to launch in April or May, and it would be one of the first of the digital channels offered by Tapp. 

Palin’s channel will feature video commentaries from the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, discussing current events and political issues. 

“Think of it as a video version of her Facebook page,” the source said. 

That said, Rogue is also expected to feature footage of Palin and her family in Alaska, much as the 2010 TLC reality series, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” did. (TLC’s parent company, Discovery Communications, is an investor in Tapp.) 

It will also have advice and guidance from Palin, such as tips for parents and recipes. There are also tentative plans to have subscribers engage in regular video chats with Palin. 

Representatives for Tapp did not respond to a request for comment on the plans.

Can you believe she is calling it "Rogue TV?" 

Well of course you can, what else would she call it, "Hockey Mom radio?"

You know this might finally be the perfect venue for Palin. A radio show that asks very little from her but to post the same content that she currently pays ghostwriters to write on her behalf for Facebook.

It's like scratching your ass like you do everyday, only this time somebody is paying to watch you do it.

Well at least this answers the age old question where do Fox News contributors go to die??

It is the same place that Glenn Beck went after HE was drummed off of the air at Fox.

And hey he is not doing too badly over at Blaze. I mean he's a whole lot crazier, but apparently there's a market for crazy.

So who knows, Palin might do very well in this arena. After all she is at LEAST as crazy as Glenn Beck. Probably crazier!

The only question is how long can the woman whose picture now sits next to the word "quitter" in the dictionary be willing to stick this out? And how long will her rapidly disappearing fan base be willing to pay $10 a month to listen to her babble like a schizophrenic who missed their last dose of Thorazine?

Only time will tell.

What is interesting is how isolated this radical group of Right Wingers, like Palin, Glenn Beck, and Herman Cain. have become.  They are no longer considered reasonable enough to have an easily accessible platform and are instead now forced to find little media pockets where those of a like mind can seek them out and listen to their insanity for a fee.

If only Charles Manson had possessed the foresight to wait a couple of decades, instead of rotting in jail like he is today, he could have had his own show (Helter Skelter?) right alongside Sarah Palin and the other not ready for prime time lunatics.

Did any of you watch the Jon Stewart/Bill O'Reilly debate last night? Update: Now includes debate video.

To answer my own question, no I did not.

To be honest I actually forgot it was on until late in the evening, but I had also decided earlier that I would not watch it because, well essentially because I pay a pretty substantive cable bill and flatly refuse to pay even more by watching anything on pay-per-view.

In other words I am a cheap bastard.

However according to Politicususa it looks like it was possibly something worth paying the additional handful of  dollars to watch:  

The debate contained a surprising amount of substance. O’Reilly brought his Fox News talking points, and Stewart brought facts. As O’Reilly and Stewart battled over entitlements, The Daily Show host asked why it is okay for a businessman to take advantage of tax break, but poor people can’t take advantage of program that will give them something they need? Stewart pointed to the connection between government investment in infrastructure and the success of the country. 

After questions about the Middle East, the discussion turned to media bias. Stewart said he doesn’t believe that the mainstream media networks are activist organizations, but Fox News is an overreaction to perceived media bias. Stewart compared Fox News to Lupus. O’Reilly launched the standard defense of Fox News being the conservative equalizer. Stewart answered that anytime you have audience where more people believe the president is a Muslim than believe in evolution, you have a problem. 

When they discussed healthcare, O’Reilly gave the standard conservative position about buying insurance across state lines, and Stewart argued for single payer. 

Jon Stewart was really on his game with his messaging. O’Reilly seemed to be there to play his foil, and offer up the standard conservative/Fox News talking points. There were long stretches of the debate that were lacking in jokes, but heavy on substance. Stewart was intent on calling out the b.s. of the right and especially the right wing media. 

The comedy weight was on Stewart, and it turns out, so was the intellectual burden. O’Reilly was in full bloom, and playing his Fox News character. Bill-O was there to represent the right, and he put their flimsy arguments and talking points on full display.

Wow, well that sounds fairly entertaining. I kind of wish I had seen it.

To be honest part of my hesitancy was that I thought it would be played for laughs and not a weighty enough debate about anything of substance. But it sounds like Jon Stewart took this seriously enough to use it as an opportunity to shame Fox News and the Right Wing concerning their ridiculous arguments and fact free assertions about the President. And THAT is something I wish I had not missed.

If any of you saw the debate please weigh in and let us know what your thoughts, and if perhaps all, or a portion, of it shows up on the internet at some point send me a link and I will certainly post it.

Update: Here is the debate in full for those who missed it. (H/T to cuppajava.)

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.