Alaska’s Million Dollar Baby
Well boys and girls, it looks like we’ve got ourselves a bidding war. A&E and The Discovery Channel are both after the former almost-one-term governor, turned failed VP candidate, turned reality TV star wannabe. Pick me! Pick me!
Sarah Palin is following a trajectory more Kardashian than Politician, demanding a big paycheck in her quest for reality TV stardom. After shopping her “TV docudrama” to major broadcast and cable networks, two channels – A&E and Discovery – have expressed interest in the project, which is tentatively titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Palin is asking for $1 million to $1.5 million per episode, considered a “hefty amount for a first-year cable series.” The show – executive-produced by reality television guru Marc Burnett – will feature the former governor touring her home state, completing activities such as visiting fishing boats or trekking to a gold mine. There had better be a caribou hunting episode or else this really has no business calling itself a Sarah Palin Alaska show
Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Oh, the possibilities… Will we again get to enjoy watching Palin pick fish while in full makeup and Carhartts? Is the field dressing of ungulates in the picture anywhere? Perhaps the nickel tour of City Hall in Wasilla, or we could check out a copy of Going Rouge – An American Nightmare at the Wasilla Public Library (if it hasn’t been banned).
She already had the state once, and blew it. I would rather she didn’t try to claim it again. And what does an ex-governor do with a million and a half dollars an episode? You could probably fund a campaign with that kind of income. Or buy a LOT of clothes.
And to answer your next question, yes, the Alaska Fund Trust is still active, and taking your donations to help poor Sarah Palin pay for her legal bills. (A tiny violin begins to play) Why if you tally it up, that’s like an entire half a reality TV episode… surely she shouldn’t be expected to pay for it herself! She’ll let her fans do that.
I’m thinking of all the bumpits she can buy with that money. =)
Maybe she plans on showing her cabins in the woods that didn’t cost her anything but the sight they are sitting on. Her getaway in the woods where she can get away with everything illegal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-alan-grayson/grayson-versus-palin-the_b_505122.html
to read the unexpurgated comments of Alan Grayson re she-who-will-not-be-named.
Health and peace to all.
@thatcrowwoman: Abi gezunt, and good shabbos. Next time, no OJ. It’s too acid-forming, and one needs to alkalize to get well. Herb teas (feverfew, boneset, sage, etc., water (warmed or cool water with lime or lemon slices), and stay warm — lots of blankets over the flannel sheets.
I just emailed both of those channels and told them off. In a nice way, of course.
OH– can she figure out a way to do this from her living room? Maybe just give an intro and voice over? She is such a hypocrite.
She will have a show on how to steal a trampoline from the Gov’s mansion, how to “switch babies” Alaska style, home schoolin children w/out any educational effort and finally tax cheating also too!
High Plains Grifter
Reality series are becoming quite “played out”: Even Jessica Simpson’s new show is struggling, and she’s better looking and a lot smarter, even though she’s not a viable GOP candidate for the Presidency.
In any case, if Animal Planet picks up the show, congratulations are in order.
The grifter chronicles, gaw~ will she ever go away…??
“Reality show”?
Wow. Didn’t know she even knew the meaning of the word.
And whose reality is it, anyway? Oh! Maybe that’ll be the title of the show!
“Whose reality is it, anyway” Come see the Word Salad inventor ‘splain away the lack of fish in Lake Lucille… while you bait your hook! More like Discovery and A&E are nibbling on the hook she’s baited. I thought better of both of ‘em, really.
Humpf.
how to shoot wolves from a plane, drill in ANWR etc.
I’m NOT watching this hypocrite
Maybe she will do some shootin’ of wolves from a helicopter. She would be far better off in something like “guns and ammo”. I don’t want her respresentin’ any part of my state ever again.
Doesn’t A&E know she has no love for the arts????
Shouldn’t Alaskans demand a cut. If she is going to be showing off the state, the state is a costar with the almost-one-term-gov, therefore the state gets some bucks.
I would rather shove my fingers down my throat and throw up then watch that paylin thingy on TV.
I really hope they pass with the “Palin hook” – they can find many, more qualified AK citizens that could actually inform & educate the lower 48 about Alaska than the former half term gov. who will give the “tourist” tour and a bunch of “fluff” pieces rather than “REAL” Alaska.
Good communicators who are educated and willing to research to show how unrestricted mining run-off kill rivers & lakes, weighing sustinance hunting vs tourist sportsman, environmental impact of Exxon Valdez decades later and long term effects of the pipeline without proper maintenance.
“Will we again get to enjoy watching Palin pick fish while in full makeup and Carhartts?” Beside the makeup, did no one else notice the French nails she was sporting then? As a fish picker in my youth, that cracked me up.
AKM, could you include links to both channels in your post? They need to hear from REAL Alaskans (you know, the ones that don’t quit!). If we learn of when a film crew is scheduled to arrive, it would be fun to give them a “welcome rally.”
Gadzooks! ~ does the woman have ANY idea how trite and trivial she is purposefully making herself? Is she THAT clueless about how much more of a laughingstock and joke she is purposefully shopping herself around to become?
Any sane person would be utterly mortified that the hopes and dreams they held for their life had so steadily –and rapidly– disintegrated and disassembled to such a state; that their life had irretrievably devolved into it being the possible subject of a cable TV series.
Not $arah, though; she keeps sashaying down the path to total irrelevance and self-destruction without a reality-check-thought in her overly-ego-swelled head. How embarrassing for her!
Since she, from all indications, is incapable of doing so, I feel embarrassed and ashamed *for* her. beth.
Money. . . It’s all about money. She has become a greedy b!tch. She wants as much money as she can grab, and she wants it now. Don’t ever expect her to run for office. Being a politician is too hard, not when she can be on teevee and plaster her name and face on a book and make millions of dollars.
Easy money. . . .
Shopping for a reality show and using her kids as props? Now, where have I seen that before? Oh, yes Octomom meet Sarah Palin.
Not to worry. 15 seconds of that voice and viewers will scream, turn off the TV, and stomp on the remote.
I’m insulted. It’s not her Alaska to call all her own. She doesn’t even know what it means to e Alaskan. Phony Grifter. I for sure won’t watch any show of hers and will disuade all my friends not to either!!
Emma Says:
Money. . . It’s all about money. She has become a greedy b!tch. She wants as much money as she can grab, and she wants it now. Don’t ever expect her to run for office.
Never mind the Presidency, how is this going to affect her newly crafted image as a crack political analyst on Pox?
After she quit her oath to the people of AK she has the NERVE to use the state to make more money for HERSELF!!!!!!!! The idea of giving part of the proceeds to benefit Native Alaskans would never cross her pea sized brain. I really think this is the biggest insult of all to the people of AK. She royally screwed the state and now she’s back for more. Is there anyone in the state that would actually participate in this charade (letting her film them or their businesses)? There should be a huge outcry from the citizens of AK.
15 – Here is A&E: feedback@aetv.com
Here is Discovery. This is a webform. http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations
I used both this morning when I sent my comments.
I didn’t know the Discovery Channel was for hiring hosts that disrespect, plunder, slaughter and destroy the environment and the creatures living in it. Don’t they also have shows that talk about global warming?
If they have her show on they have zero credibility and I hope they lose many viewers.
I think an e-mail is in order!
On the other hand, if they show her speaking in front of a herd or pack of anything ( wolves,
moose, caribu, reindeer etc..) and they start to stampede due to her screeching, all of our problems with Sarah may be solved ! I may just have to watch that episode.
I suspect it will be a challenge to shoot outside the confines of her own home, unless it’s strictly scripted and controlled. All those middle fingers in the background raised to the cameras on locations and all……
Disturbing & pathetic. Possible change of title: “One Cold B**ch–Sarah Palin’s Alaska”
Just when I thought there was something on TV for children to watch, without sex, violence and bad language—-along comes Sarah. Time to cancel all channels until they provide REAL entertainment.
Something is not clear to me here – is Sarah herself saying she needs to be paid at least 1 mil per episode, or is that the budget that ‘she’ (i.e., Marc Burnett) is asking for producing each episode of the show?
While I can certainly see her wanting that much, I can’t see how any station could afford it. What kind of advertising revenues would they have to take in in order to pay her a mil plus all the production costs (per episode!), plus (presumably) make a profit? I just don’t see how it can happen. There is way not enough interest in Sarah Palin or (I’m sorry) Alaska to support that.
However, another question I had has been answered, thank you AKM. That Marc Burnett plans to be exec. producer. I’m sure that’s the only reason anyone is even agreeing to meet to discuss this … what I see as a lackluster idea. But at least with Burnett on board the execs think a product, and a decent one, will be delivered.
But what is still unclear is just exactly what it is. Is it more of a ‘reality’-type series that will follow SP’s traveling around Alaska, more or less unscripted, or is it, as he was reported to have said, more a documentary a la “Planet Earth – Alaska Edition” with Sarah Palin as host, meaning someone else writes it and Sarah reads from a script or even a teleprompter, something she can do reasonably well?
I am disappointed that A & E and Discovery Channel are even considering it. I do not think it will be Entertaining and certainly has nothing to do with the Arts as I know them (unless John Coriglione is going to write the score, Twyla Tharp do the choreography, Julie Taymor do the puppets, and Morgan Freeman the narration … oops, they already decided on a narrator …). And I expect some actual scientific facts and research out of Discovery Channel programming, call me funny. Who is doing that? What if a researcher on the staff for the program reports polar bears are endangered and the writer writes in the narration something like “the polar bear population has decreased from [insert statistics here] to [insert statistics here]. If we do not work to enact legislation to save these magnificent creatures, they will all but disappear from Planet Earth.” Will Paid Host and Mouthpiece Sarah Palin actually read what the writers write for her?
That’s why I bet it will be nothing like a real documentary, nothing like “Planet Earth” and will be eminently forgettable and uninteresting. Of so little interest to most of the population that anyone wanting to make money from it should run far, far away from it.
My guess? Marc Burnett does not know Sarah Palin at all. I think he is in for one rude awakening if he continues to be associated with her in this venture.
Anyone remember “Jay Hammond’s Alaska” on the Alaska PBS channels back in the 80′s? Gov. Jay Hammond was a great man, a Republican, and the man responsible for assuring that all Alaskans would profit from oil wealth by setting up the Alaska Permanent Fund. He was also an old bush pilot, and his shows regularly featured trips into gorgeous places where he’d inevitably run into old friends who told great stories. it was homespun, modest and probably one of the best PR efforts ever done in Alaska. And I’m sure that if he got paid anything, it was an extremely modest amount. His class, humor, and huumility put people like La Palin to shame.
ah, but who will pay the medical expenses of all the people who suffer aneurysms from being overexposed to the sound of her voice on these shows?
By the time it’s produced people will be asking, “Sarah, wow?” Oh, her. UGH.
Mag the Mick (@27) — I was just about to bring that up – he must be rolling in his grave. RIP Gov Hammond – he was a True Alaskan!
This is too disgusting for words, much less to give any thought to. I know she won’t be in Juneau – ha! She’s not liked here, not one bit.
However, smile…we got her twitty face & screechy voice off the Iditarod website, so enjoy that as a victory! People wrote scorching letters and made phone calls, and poof! she was gone. She would lie about it if you asked her, but 1) she always lies and 2) why would anyone want to get close enough to ask her anything? I’m afraid her hair is actually evil snakes and they will strike! She is Medusa reborn. That didn’t end so well, did it?
Should have been “didn’t end so well for her, did it?”
old clip, but sums up Alaskan-Grifting-Granny very well…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj-Xr0irhE
see how deep Palin rabbit hole goes…
http://intheknow7.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/palin-family-piggy-banks-portrait-of-american-grifters/
If she cared about Alaska and still wanted apolitical career, she would give the money the show makes to Alaska charities and NOT all crisis pg centers.
The Quitter wants to get paid representing the State again! She has no shame.
This is how she is “progressing” the state, by “progressing” her bank account. She makes so much and donated so little from Sarah Pac, disgusting.
So all those Alaskans villagers last year who were going through a rough winter – they got cookies. Now, Sarah’s giving heart is giving yet again by presenting her precious wonderfulness on reality tv episodes on Alaskan soil. While it may help Alaska’s tourist industry, it doesn’t help those who need affordable health insurance premiums, or those who have lost jobs, benefits……yep, in this very uncertain economy, with uncertainty for many worried families, Sarah whisks right onto our screens, yacking how great Alaska is and how great SHE’s got it.
I’ll bet she’d love to do a musical dance number, “The Hills are Alive” (The Sound of Music) twirling on a plateau overlooking the mountains, screeching at the top of her lungs.
Wonder how real Alaskans feel about this. She continues to rape the 49th state.
That Discovery Channel link really makes you jump thru the hoops to leave a comment… Here’s what I told them.
Discovery Channels are relied on for factual reporting. Your pursuit of $arah Palin to represent and show Alaska is not in yours or Alaska’s best interests. She does not represent Alaska and many Alaskans and Americans have no respect for her or her views. You can do better for a lot less money and keep the respect of your viewers.
I don’t think they will find enough Alaskans to support her and filming anything private. She and her cameras will have to go way out in the wilderness and hire some people to pretend to like Sarah. That would be funny if she had to film for months at a time in the middle of nowhere. She could shoot moose and make all kinds of moose receipes for her and her family and crew. Well, that’s what she boasts about, being a great hunter and loves to fish, so that would be a pefect show. It’s God’s will that Sarah go back to being with nature, living on the land…….reaping what she sows!
OMG I am so so so so sick of hearing her name associated with anything in Alaska it makes me want to barf….I will NOT be watching A&E OR DISCOVERY ever again if they make her some kind of idiot’s showcase. And I’m writing emails to both of them to that effect. This has finally gone too far.
Ahhh yes, and the locust plague continues its scourge on Hollywood. Hey, no sympathies from me, you want her, you got her. Good luck Marc Burnett, I advise you to keep a close watch on those purse strings and get yourself a good, no, VERY good lawyer. You will need it sooner or later.
How ironic that a woman demonstrably detached from reality now has her own….”reality” show.
There is no cable channel in the world, including FOX that will pay a million dollars an episode. Even at the height of fame and ratings those awful Gosselins only got $50-60K.
Sarah is putting herself on par with Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of Friends with a track record of NOTHING.
Good luck with that Quuen of Delusion…I guess we’ll see ya if you ever leave Grasper Island.
this is the letter i wrote A&E. will some pups help me out and write one to discovery channel. my fingers are hurting today.
Dear Sirs, Please reconsider offering any reality show about Alaska to Mrs. Sarah Palin. I have been following her career as mayor of Wasilla AK and as governor of that state. In my humble opinion the people of Alaska deserve a better representative than the fore mentioned former governor. I suggest you do a better job of vetting this woman than the McCain campaign obviously did.
If you are truly looking for a person of character and intelligence. A woman who can write and who is beautiful you could do no better than Jeanne Devon of The Mudflats Blog. If you look on the right hand side of the blog you see Flicker images that Mrs. Devon has taken and that has entertained a blogging community that stretches across the globe. I sincerely hope that you will not proceed with Mrs. Palin as spokesperson for this lovely state. I can assure you that you will lose me as a viewer. I would be terribly sad because I enjoy watching Manhunters and the First Forty-Eight Hours. I appreciate your courtesy in reading and considering my words.
terpsichore @26 brings up a good question regarding just how much SP would be getting. Sort of like the book deal. I would love to see an audit of the expenses vs profits from “Going Rogue”
Did Harper Rowe pay for that big bus, or did Sarah? Who paid for meals and hotels – remember the whole “famn damily” was there at one time or another.
When you figure you have to pay a producer, director, writer(s), camera crew, etc, plus the transportation to all these far-off
places she’ll be going, I don’t think she, personally, will be netting that much.
Another thought: Wonder if she’ll be taking them to western Alaska to show them how much they loved her cookies? Wouldn’t it be fun if all the villagers refused to leave their houses, and they had to import other natives? Ann Stronheart – whattcha think?
Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Wouldn’t that be the cosmetics counter at JCPenney’s?
“Sarah Palin’s Alaska”
The title is disgusting in its unwarranted possessiveness…..and ludicrous in the images it evokes:
Troopergate; ethics complaints; abruptly quitting the governorship; grifting off the taxpayers; forcing rape victims to pay for their own kits; 254 dead patients in the Medicaid system; disdainful ethnocentrism and lack of compassion towards the Western villages’ food and fuel crisis of ’09; anti-environmental policies toward animal and land resources; lining her and her friends’ pockets with money and jobs; her dysfunctional and troubled family/ extended family, including publicly fighting with her grandbaby’s 19 yo daddy; and perhaps most importantly, erroneously propagating the message that she ( a willfully ignorant, vindictive, and unethical person) is the prime representative of a “Real Alaskan” and a “Real American.”
Just imagine the possibilities!
A&E can place Palin right between ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ and ‘The Sopranos’. In her ‘reality’ series, Sarah the Bitter B*tch, each week she’ll track down someone she perceives did her wrong – from grade school right up to McCain’s handlers – and she’ll attempt to shoot them from a low-flying plane. Katie Couric could be the target for the season premiere. For added suspense, Couric will be able to hide behind newspaper boxes.
Of course, the MSM will fail to notice that Palin is committing cold-blooded murder on television every week, and will continue to debate whether Palin will run for President in 2012.
From my experience reading this blog and the hearing the voices of real Alaskans, reality of ANY kind, Alaska, and Sarah do not go well together. Much less to watch the dam* thing. GAH.
Well said, Lee323, as always.
I think she has gone beyond her sell-buy date.
C’mon, people–you’re all missing the obvious here.
The Discovery Channel is the home of ‘Mythbusters.’ For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it involves two ex-movie FX guys who try and verify myths/urban legends, often with the aid of high explosives.
I see the show going like this–Sarah comes out and states one of her inane platitudes–”Thanks, but no thanks;” “Transparency in Government;” “energy authority;” etc., etc.–followed by Adam and Jaime, who proceed to destroy her lies on camera.
Win-win, here, folks–Discovery doesn’t have to gear up for a new show, but gets the added, addled, eyeballs of the C4P/Team Sarah crowd; Sarah doesn’t have to do anything (and god knows she’s proven herself to be masterful at that), and we get to watch the train wreck unfolding and becoming more marginalized every week. She should be able to provide them with WEEKS of material.
Question – I have heard Palin say on two different occasions that she had served as a City Manager – ? I don’t recall hearing this as part of her resume until she mentioned herself in two different interviews in the last few weeks. Was she ever a City Manager – ? which is a job distinctly different than being mayor – – isn’t it?
aussiegal77–And add to that the irony of her loud protests against “reality” shows, at least until BP got asked to be on one and then this “opportunity” came along!
Left a comment at Discovery, but it’s a very hard to wade thought heir compulsory choices.
She is a loon. If America votes her into power…..watch the rest of the world run.
Writing from Alaska 50
I think she says Sh*tty Manager but editors keep changing it.
She is like the dinner guest, that simply will not leave. Someone call the cops! She is trespassing now!
Here’s the text of my email comment to Discovery:
I am a born & raised Alaskan, currently residing in Canada for work purposes. I oppose 99,9% of all things related to Sarah Palin, given that she has exacerbated & fomented hate in Alaska and the rest of the U.S. If you purchase any program that she is promoting I will cancel our cable subscription to Discovery, will never buy a Discovery product for my children, and will further ask that my family and friends do so as well. There is nothing that Sarah Palin has to offer about the state of Alaska, or any other issue or place, that has substantive value to intelligent questioning consumers. I am vehemently opposed to any project that allows her a platform for her “real America/Alaska” falsehoods. Regards,
This really really makes my blood boil. Yes I will cancel the Discovery channel if they put her on it. Add to the coffers to that she can incite hate and promulgate falsehoods about my home state? I don’t think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gah, this makes me so angry!
You’d think they’d learned their lesson after Jon & Kate, The Duggers and OctoMom.
This show is so going to fail.
I hope A&E avoids this like the plague.
TLC I don’t care so much about after they stole Project Runway from Bravo.
#56 SMR
I tried to send email to Discovery this morning but could not find email address.
Any help in how to contact them would be appreciated.
No offense to the great state of Alaska but Palin’s Alaska? I think not, not ever! These folks need to hear from viewers.(or possibly former viewers!)
Thank you SMR. I always love to hear your take on things.
I think she has the expertise for this. She can show us Russia from her home studio tower!
Then, she can show us how she defended the entire U.S. of A. from Putin by shootin’ him down with her bow and arrow as he rears his head over her house ( oops! Was that a swan? Piper, we’re havin’ swan chili tonight. Can you dress this former, half term flyer?)
Then, she can pull out fish from Lake Lucille (you can tell they’re ready for eatin’ when they’re just driftin with the current.)
Eddie Burke will now have time to guest star. His red t-shirt will pull in lots of viewers. (Well, Eddie, isn’t your shirt just the funniest! And am I hearin’ right, that you’ve paid to have a bill introduced that’ll repeal the 19th and 13, 14 and 15th amendments and the voting rights act? That’ll get us Our America back, you betcha!)
Whoever would possibly seriously consider this woman for anything but a circus clown (and she’d be bad at that–too much work) should be fired.
One thing it shows, though. She’s getting bored with her analysis position on FOX. It’s too much work, she’s stressed because she’s realizing everyone she talks with knows way more than she does, and speaks better, as well. And she doesn’t want to do any real homework. Even making T1 look up how many windows on the Statue of Liberty (what a colossally stupid thing to think anyone would ask you, or that anyone would think you stupid for not knowing) was more than she wanted to do. My guess is that she’ll be seen less and less on FOX (though it doesn’t seem to have been that much since her big launch (something like an ocean liner with unbalanced ballast).
She does fit in with the reality show crowd, though. They all seem to be grifters wanting to live of exploiting someone else.
Irishgirl @ 54 ” I think she has gone beyond her sell-buy date.”
GOOD ONE!!!
I just heard 2 commentators on “The Ed Show”, who both agreed that this probably means she won’t run for presdient, and that the shows would flatter her, and by no means be a real “reality” show. Sounded more like they thought it to be more of a travel guide.
My to emails have been sent.
This is just TOO MUCH to even consider!!
Cathy in Texas–further up-thread somewhere there were links to Discovery and A&E.
tigerwine Says:
March 19th, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Sounded more like they thought it to be more of a travel guide.
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Travel guide???????????????????????? She barely owns a passport. A travel guide to what!? Filene’s basement? Kmart clothing clearance? RNC Nieman Marcus sale? Air travel from Texas to Alaska while pregnant? Oh, and don’t forget canceling one’s plans when others are depending on you.
Palin’s Alaska? You mean white, rich, and racist? Wonder how the Tea Baggers will take to her how…then again, who cares.
Baker’s Dozen–maybe a travel guide on how to get to the Nordstrom’s cosmetics counter to see Ivana?
Buttercup is more Tonya Harding than Kardashian.
Irishgirl: Her sell-by date passed a year ago. You mean her smell-by date.
All I can say is ONLY IN AMERICA! What is next? Maybe Dancing with the Stars? Sickening!
Loving the Mythbusters idea!
lol
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Irishgirl Says:
March 19th, 2010 at 1:39 PM
I think she has gone beyond her sell-buy date.
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yep yep. she is rancid and sour. also. too.
I can say nothing!
Night all!
No, no; Dog the Bounty Hunter AND SP’s Alaska TOGETHER in the pilot episode, sure not to fail, like a car wreck on rails.
On a slightly different trail, does the Alaska Fund Trust disclose how much they have raised for the impoverished Palin? Or have they seen the silliness in continuing to raise funds for her legal defense? Or is this trust really have some alternative purpose?
In 2007, about 58% of households in the US had only ‘basic’ cable. I imagine that, between the analog-digital conversion and the current economic situation, that figure is much higher now.
I dunno about others, but my provider lists both A&E and Discovery Channel in the next tier up from ‘basic’.
This is not as necessarily as fabulous an idea as Sarah hopes it is. But she’ll milk it for a season (unless it ends up being actual work!) and she’ll be canceled.
THEN she’ll show up on HSC to hawk boxed DVD sets, free gun-rack with every purchase, gosh-darnit ACT NOW!
“feature the former governor touring her home state, completing activities”
Hahahahaha!
They made a funny!
Writing From Alaska @ 56: If I recall correctly, when $P was first elected Mayor of Wasilla, after the librarian/book banning fracas, there was talk of recalling Sarah, which only settled down after she hired a city-manager.
I just figured out how the Animal Planet feels Sarah is qualified to represent their show. It’s from the interview she did in front of the turkey slaughterer!
Now she’s an expert on all animal kingdom of AK, she’s such a natural….. (disaster)!
Can anyone determine if the Alaskan Trust Fund has paid any money to Van Flein for Bristol’s case? Would that be improper use of funds or can she do anything she wants with them? I think an article should be created about how her adoring fans are stupid enough to keep giving her money when she’s making millions in all her scams. Maybe that would wake up a few people and stop them from wasting their hard earned money on this greedy, vile woman.
In fairness, TV by the Numbers is reporting that Discovery has passed on the project. It doesn’t sound like it really fits with their programming.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/18/sarah-palin-seeking-1-million-to-1-5-million-per-episode-for-reality-show/45432
As for this article, I like how the blurb says she’ll “complete” various activities. Right. Because she has a proven track record on completion.
Anna @ 89 – Thanks – that’s good news!
I sent my protest e-mails to A&E and Discovery. I also mentioned the wolf massacre in Denali Park and the outrage felt by their viewers and lovers of animals.
One thing about upgrading beyond basic (had to due to switch to total digital) is that I can block whichever channel decides to run her show. I don’t need her pollution in my house.
She wants a million and a half per episode?? Sheesshhh… did Jerry Seinfeld ever make a million per episode for his show? Except for that dud of a finale, his show was way beyond anything she could ever provide.
MonaLisa: Yes! Will you take Palin for $500?
I say that because it happens I know WAY too much trivia about this trainwreck as well!
Andrew Sullivan has a special series called the Odd Lies of Sarah Palin and she made two whoppers on Hannity: City Manager. And fishing in dead Lake Lucille.
Begin Theme Music here: Dueling Banjo’s. Announcer: “It’s the Sarah Palin Show!” (applause) ” Brought to you by Sheep’s Clothing! And Maizee’s Mirror’s On The Wall!!!” And now……heeeeeeeeeeere’s Sarah!” (Palin peeks at hand and reads, Walk On.)
Episode One: Lying for Dummies
Episode Two: Receiving Per Diem for Dummies
Episode Three: Quitting for Dummies
Episode Four: Cancelled due to hostess quitting by passing the ball to Joe the Plumber to “progress” the Discovery Channel and A&E.
Excellent, Desa. Mind if I throw in an oldee by goodee?
Episode Five: Troopergate re-inacted.
bubbles, you wrote an excellent email and hit the nail on the head. I nominate using Jeanne Devon as well.
Lilybart:
I will not take her for five hundred
or even for that figure sund’red
I would not trade her for a fig
(who needs an o’er-paid lipstick’d pig?)
I do not like her fear or hair
or draggin’ Piper everywhere
I need no stewardessy tart
so please, PLEASE! Keep her, Lilybart!
Have not read your comments, because I just returned home, but…
I am about to barf already… but it does not end there:
The realization of not merely my own, but our combined inability to affect change in both the political and environmental realm is overwhelming.
Don’t be overwhelmed. It’s like being in a room with a million buckets. All we can do is put one drop in each one. It seems like nothing is happening, but it is. We have more affect than we think we do. How do you think the Conservatives got a foothold? Alaska used to be pretty blue. But enough drops in enough buckets fills them to overflowing. We just need to start dripping back. AKM
Lee323 you are so on target. Hope you emailed that text to both A&E and the Discovery Channel, altho the hoops you have to jump through on Discovery to get a message to them is DAUNTING. I don’t think they like comment!! Both of these award winning channels need to look elsewhere for new ‘content’….its NOT with Sarah Palin.
Good subject, Mudflats..I enjoyed reading it.
1. $1M an episode is remarkably high for this kind of production
2. I would spring for PPV to watch her (personally) shoot and field dress a moose.
3. The silver lining to this cloud of absurdity is that even if she gets $100K per episode, it will permanently derail her political aspirations. Sarah may think she’s motivated by political power (to progress those 7 mountains thingies), but her behavior clearly shows that she is really motivated by dolla dolla bill.
But, even considering the above, OY.
@97 Mona Lisa (inCT)
Thanks for the Dr. Suess redux. We do not want her at all. Anytime. Anywhere. Anyhow.
You made me laugh.
89 Anna Says:
March 19th, 2010 at 6:13 PM
As for this article, I like how the blurb says she’ll “complete” various activities. Right. Because she has a proven track record on completion.
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Now, now. She DID complete 5 pregnancies. According to the Right, that’s all you have to do. Then the kid’s on their own. No parentin’ or supplin’ required.
Actually, I think I want her to do the show. She’ll be out in the middle of nowhere, ad libbin’ and answerin’ questions, when, lo and behold, a tourist with 5 kids of his own comes by. Why, it’s Alan Grayson, just hangin’ out in Alaaassssska and askin’ the former half termer some really fun Alaaaaasssska gotcha questions to which he gives the answers when she can’t. Sneaky director. Didn’t he clear it with her first? Now that’s a show I could watch!
Updated moldy oldy Million Dollar Baby:
I found a whiney 5 cent baby
At the 5 and 10 cent store.
She was sellin’ huntin’ permits
And when she winked those eyes,
I kept buyin’ permits
Until the crowd got wise.
I haven’t read the previous comments but hoping there is a link to Burnett. I will definitely give up Survivor (only one we still watch) if he puts this slink in the mix.
Done.
Both A&E and Discovery/TLC should be contacted and told that if they dare to buy Sarah’s packaged pablum in light of the recent slaughter of the Yukon/Charley collared, protected wolf pack they should count on a drop in their ratings swifter than Kate minus Jon or OctoMom. Not only with the Sarah Sideshow be shunned but their entire lineup 24/7.
If that doesn’t work, watch those channels for a few days and make a note of their top 10-20 sponsors. Then contact them and tell them if they buy time on Sarah’s show you will no longer buy their products. They’ll pass that message to the cable networks.
from the diagonal@99, I almost hurl my late-night pita chip nachos last night. Our 11pm news was pushed back to after midnight due to college basketball, so we got home fro the show in time to watch it, and there, on our local NBC affiliate, was a story (to be fair, more like a blurb) about the possible show deal. It included a picture.
The barfy part is that the news execs felt that it was in any way ‘newsworthy’. I am happy to hear reported upthread it looks like Discovery is passing. Smart move, Discovery!
But in this blurb, the news reporter clearly said that it was going to be produced by Sarah Palin AND Marc Burnett.
Maybe that’s why they decided to pass.
Maybe we should all be writing Marc Burnett and warning him about what he’ll get if he tries to work with her. We all know there is no working ‘with’ Sarah. You can only get along with her if you work ‘for’ her, or at least not try to cram your ideas down her throat.
like booger on your finger you just can’t get rid of …. disgusting.
@102 strangelet, I suspect that’s why the major networks passed on it – $1.5M a pop is pretty ridiculous for a show of this kind. I’m sure they also considered that shows get more expensive, not less, as they get older. I don’t see this going more than one season, but I guess that’s all the more reason not to invest this much money in a program.
Besides, I don’t really see it fitting in with any of the networks’ lineups. Maybe as a summer program, but I’m pretty sure this is the wrong time of year to be shopping a summer program.
dowl @ 103: My birthday was March 2nd!
Please tell me this is all just an early April Fools Joke!
Lee 323
You have correctly identified McCain’s Playmate!
The Grifter’s a real “pro” (and that isn’t short for ‘professional”)
Writing from Alaska, Sarah was NOT a city manager. That’s just another one of her lies. The fact is, she hired someone to do that job while she was mayor, reportedly under pressure to do so. Technically, Wasilla has a “strong mayor” form of government. Some mayors have opted to do the whole job on their own, others have filled that position, which is usually called something creative, like “Deputy Administrator,” but is essentially the same thing.