Palin Can Now Add “Fake Interviewer” to Her Growing Resume.
Sarah Palin’s “other” TV show is already plagued with scandal. I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.
Her Foxumentary “Real American Stories” is…. wait for it… fake.
The show was touted as Sarah Palin interviewing celebrities including Toby Keith, Jack Welch (formerly of GE), and rapper LL Cool J. The show debuts tomorrow.
Only one problem. LL Cool J had no idea he was going to be “interviewed” by Palin. Apparently the interview was recycled from an old one he gave back in 2008 to someone who was not Sarah Palin. Mr. J, who never gave permission for the interview to be used, discovered the network’s intent yesterday. You can imagine his horror.
Thanks to the miracle of Twitter, he managed to send out an SOS to the progressive Twittersphere - writing last night “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW”
Uh oh. A public relations disaster surrounding Sarah Palin? Say it ain’t so!
We are all left to speculate, of course, why exactly this happened. Could they not find anyone who wanted to be interviewed? Will we be treated to fake Toby Keith and fake Jack Welch? Has Sarah been reduced to the role of “our narrator” because of her lack of interviewing skills? Did she tape this in her garage in Wasilla so they could just plug her in when necessary? Or will the FOX Network pull the Hail Mary of all excuses when the show debuts… April Fool’s!
TVNewser got the following response from Fox News about the Tweet of death from LL Cool J.
TVNewser: “Real American Stories features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith’s interview fit that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.”
In other words, Mr. J…if you don’t let FOX use your moving and inspirational story to make other people feel good and prop up Sarah Palin, you’re a LOSER.
Ouch.
Hey, we were wondering what ever happened to Meg Stapleton! Sounds like she may have landed at Fox. Or at the very least, she’s giving them lessons on how to write using snake venom.
I don’t think Mr. Smith has a problem being associated with inspiration. Perhaps he has a problem being associated with Sarah Palin. Just a guess.
So now, Palin can add “Fake Interviewer” to her resume, right under Gas Commission Quitter, Half-Governor, Pretend Foreign Policy Expert, Unqualified National Candidate and Fake Author.
LL Cool J summed it up best. WOW.
Update: If you haven’t quite yet recovered from your previous shock that Sarah Palin would be engaging in fake interviewing, you may need to sit down… This just in about her interview with Toby Keith:
“Toby was not asked to participate nor has he ever done an interview with Sarah Palin,” his spokesperson said.
[image via The Political Carnival]
Maybe this show is fall out for her TLC show, something to fall back on if the outcry is too loud and TLC either drops it or doesn’t expect high ratings. Once again Sarah is being given a soft place to fall and she will again cry victim. Fox is really the only channel that would take her. OK maybe CNN since they are becoming more like Fox everyday. Just my two cents.
Wow is right! Good for him for sticking up for not wanting to be fake interviewed!
Yowza. You know you’ve hit rock bottom when someone calls you out on lying on TWITTER, no less, and you respond with “I know you are, but what am I? Neener neener!!!”
It’s also fabulous that they sent out this press release for all the world to see their pettiness. In case we needed convincing.
“Fledgling career”!!! He only stars on the #1 new drama of the current television season. I think you are right, Meg has a new job.
It would be amazing if it weren’t so common these days to hear about something faked, phony, or misleading as regards Sarah Palin. Like begets like in this case.
I bet few mudpuppies will be watching her narration of reruns. If she does manage to corner someone to interview, I have absolutely no doubt we will be able to see the best parts on comedy clips.
This woman has no shame about having no talent and little intellect. If I were her mother, I would be so deeply ashamed that I would not venture out in public or be able to look in the mirror knowing I had given birth and raised such a vacuous, destructive child.
If I were on of Sarah’s children, I would get away from and stay away from as soon as I reached the age of majority. I hope hers are not so gullible as to think she will actually share her millions with them – particularly once her star starts its inevitable decline.
Shameless Sarah. Anything for a buck.
WOW. I guess LL should have had more than a 4 year run on his “In The House” sitcom to qualify for “not-fledgling.”
Also, wasn’t that mutant-shark movie the basis for the awesome exploding shark episode of Mythbusters? If so we owe him a tub of awesome sauce.
Okay, once again, I suffer the humiliation I deserve for having rushed a comment without proofing. That last paragraph in particular is shaming me.
Not that it matters to anyone else, but allow me to correct it:
If I were one of Sarah’s children, I would get away from and stay away from her as soon as I reached the age of majority. I hope her children are not so gullible as to think . . . .
My goodness, to knock Sarah about her lack of intellect and then to make so many errors — my face is now the color of the photo posted earlier today.
And millions still think that she is qualified to be president. This boggles the mind.
Also too…..apparently, words have no meaning now, except what you attach to them to achieve whatever purpose you want.
For example:
- “Reload” = get out the vote!
- “Take them out” = voice your opinion!
- “Interview” = promote other people’s interviews as your own interviews
So in honor of words not meaning anything anymore other than what I WANT them to mean, I say this:
“Poodles apples running under over abundantly excessive ACORN”
In other words: “I’m off to lunch, be back soon!”
What? Why you looking at me like I’m crazy???
We can add to sarah’s resume “less than half term mother” also.
Surely, this is an April Fool’s Day joke? Fox? Nah!
She is such a twit.
This show was conceived when the deal was signed last … whenever the heck it was, last year or 18 months ago. I’m surprised to see it airing so soon, since SP has been very busy and has not had time to work on a show. We now have proof positive that she has not ‘worked’ on it.
I don’t think watching a clipping together of old footage is very inspiring. Especially when it is trying to bolster SP’s credentials, which it of course will not to anyone who has a scintilla of discrimination in matters of the media.
I will not be watching. No interest, no cable, and I’ll be in the last part of the last act of Miss Saigon which is far more entertaining, artistic, and deep than SP could ever, ever hope to be. Has a deeper, hard-hitting message about war and the effects of war far beyond what SP is able to comprehend.
The problem is their own advertising is misleading because it names these people as being her ‘guests’. They are deliberately trying to make you think SP will be interviewing these people. Even if they label everything clearly during the show, they’re suckering people in.
Hopefully people will only be suckered for the first one.
If I were an SP fan, I would actually be upset at Fox for not letting her do more on the program than read a teleprompter. In fact, I would start a campaign to demand she do interviews, without a teleprompter, because SP fans all know she does not need one. I would demand Fox respect her like the journalistic professional she is. By golly.
How professional of FoxNews to put out such a snarky, nasty response. Exactly what I would expect from the people who continue to promote Sarah Palin.
The truth is that they have Sarah “interviewing” a country singer (who wears his patriotism on the tip of his tongue) and an ex-CEO. They needed someone who would appeal to the unreal Americans among us. Who better than an African American actor. The only problem is that what African American actor (or singer or pretty much anything else) would get within 200 yards of Sarah?
No “We’ll do it live…@#&*%!” for Palin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
Haven’t commented in a while, but I think this “interview” BS is likely to be like the “ACORN Pimp” interview like what was proven on the BradBlog—->>> that wasn’t ever properly addressed by the NY Times. Stephen Colbert did a “splice interview” spoof with Hannity on the Colbert Report exposing this that was hilarious, and my guess is LL Cool J was smart enough that he wanted no part of this Alaska-Tard project.
Time for a “palinoscopy” to rid the world of this cancer…
sooooo… they’re gonna splice in a clip of Scarah asking the questions ( after many takes and re-takes, I’m sure) of these people from previous interviews?? ahhh yes,,, they can split screen it so it appears she’s actually in the same room with them, just asking the original questions…. hope they don’t forget to cut the replies that have the actual interviewer’s names !! and of course, she’ll read the questions from her palm….
Well once I heard JJ was interviewed by Scarah, I figured something was wrong.
My little slice of home in rural Alaska discussed the weirdness of this latest Scarah move. We decided to give it 24hiurs to see what brews.
We we not disappointed. JJ is far to ethical, morally intune and just a down home guy to associate himself with a fake freak like Scarah Palin.
On the other hand, this could be Scarah’s attempt to associate herself with people of color. *snort*
Just when I think I can’t be surprised anymore by what Sarah Palin or Fox do, I am. Who in their right mind would think that fake interviews would be a good idea? If they want to rerun the original interviews to inspire people, then fine. But making it seem that Sarah has something to do with it? They’re all nuts. And stuck in junior high with Sarah.
Oh, we knew that already. Guess we just needed a new reminder.
Excellent job hammering in those nails, AKM.
And this was a twofer–Faux News and the Sly Liar.
giggle, snort, laugh out loud, tee-hee, ha-ha, woo-hoo.
Health and peace.
http://www.theboot.com/2010/03/31/toby-keith-sarah-palin-show/
also too…it appears that Toby’s interview is fake also…
I guess this show is about how palin will give “live” commentary to fake interviews about real Americans…what a total joke and fraud on everything she is invloved in!
Can she be real about anything?? Well..i guess she is real about being a fake and fraud on everything…just like the live birth of Trig!
24 skip from Asheville, NC Says:
also too…it appears that Toby’s interview is fake also…
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looks like AKM hit the nail on the heat , she is probably narrating from her home studio LOL, what a farce!!
nail on the head (DUH)
giggle, snort, laugh out loud, tee-hee, ha-ha, woo-hoo. The Toby Keith interview wasn’t conducted by Mrs. Paylin, either:
Toby Keith is talking about his patriotic anthem ‘Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)’ on an upcoming FOX News special hosted by Sarah Palin, but his appearance on the TV show appears to be news to the singer himself.
“Toby was not asked to participate nor has he ever done an interview with Sarah Palin,” the superstar’s publicist tells PopEater. Footage of Toby talking about the song was taped back in 2008, as was an interview with actor/hip-hop star LL Cool J who expressed his surprise to his Twitter followers, saying, “Fox lifted an old interview I gave … to someone else and are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin’s show.”
http://www.theboot.com/2010/03/31/toby-keith-sarah-palin-show/
My word, fake hair, fake interviews, fake running, what next? Are we going to find out that even the famous boobs ain’t hers?
Health and peace, mudpups. As everyone knows, I don’t have cable TV (just a cable modem for my Mac). Even if I did, I wouldn’t watch anything on Faux. Glad msnbc.com gives me access to Rachel & Keith; glad I can watch syfy when I can’t get to the bf’s for Caprica. Never have watched Faux; if it weren’t for Keith’s clips (and Jon Stewart’s, which I also watch on the intertubes), I’d have no idea what the fuss is about!
Sarah Who?
What a sham!
After thinking about it, could SP really interview a person professionally? I’ve never heard her once ask anyone one question, except the “can I call you Joe” and “how’s the hopey-changey-thing going?”
She does not give the impression she’s interested in anyone else. Never has, and they know it. This generic show, using a generic host, to do re-run interviews someone else did is hilarious. Does she know she’s being USED by Fox? They are using her as a “prop”, just like she uses people, to get the ratings, at the cost of making an absolute fool out of her.
“Toby Keith was not asked to participate nor has he ever done an interview with Sarah Palin,” the superstar’s publicist tells PopEater. Footage of Toby talking about the song was taped back in 2008.
so she didn’t interview him either….
they are repurposing old clips so she can have a SHOW.
First of all, LL Cool J is awesome. Second, note how the response never actually addressed the issue he brought to light: that his interview was lifted from an older one. It’s the usual trick of pretending they’ve addressed the issue when they haven’t, and then turning it around on the person who did the original calling out.
Too bad it’s not true – I’d LOVE to see Her Quittiness interview LL Cool J. That would be classic. How long do you think she’d last? Two questions? Jeez.
Oh, Bob, good one!!
We can add to sarah’s resume “less than half term mother” also.
choose life, then move on
I’m sure the Palinistas probably would love to hear Jack Welch whose story of his dismantling of GE’s unions is music to their ears. After all, workers should all be happy to just have a job. And who better to point that out than the perfect corporate spokesperson than the half-governor herself?
I knew she wouldn’t actually WORK on the show, but I did think the footage would be shiny and new like her face.
This is beyond my hopes, this EPIC FAIL.
We’ve known for some time that Sarah Palin was a fraud when she ran for VP. The campaign had to completely remodel the woman to make her presentable and understandable (giving her well crafted speeches to recite off a teleprompter). They quickly learned that Sarah Palin was not qualified to be in higher office.
Fox may be learning a little something now too. While the woman still represents rating gold, when left to her own devises she is a nightmare. She needs people to write for her and to feed her clever things to say. She needs someone to properly dress her and fix her hair. She truly is the ultimate Barbie Doll.
Ahhhh Rebecca…………..The woman in question loves being a fool and a tool…..plus the money is good.
Toby didn’t talk to her either?
As Neson Muntz would say “Ha, Ha!”
so, can we assume that NONE of the interviews on this show will be current? I never watch fox anyway, and would never watch her on fox to boost viewership. but i love reading about this. LOL!
Fox cannot even trust her to actually interview someone in person? That’s hilarious.
She is a clown
Yeah, lilybart@33, that’s what cheeses me off – people thinking SP had more to do with the production than she had.
I too thought that at least it would be a current, new undertaking. Silly me, to think Fox would go all cheap on something it probably has no interest in doing in the first place.
Tune in, one and all! See the amazing Sarah Palin read a Teleprompter like no one has ever read a Teleprompter before!! Step right up! Never mind the men (and women) behind the curtain who actually made what you see, they are of no consequence. It is only The Great Sarah who has made this wondrous visage you see, that is, as long as you praise it.
If you criticize it, well, then, it wasn’t Sarah Palin’s idea, she had no control, she kept telling people her ideas and no one would listen to her or let her do them, the problem is that she was ‘too scripted’, they should have just let Sarah ‘be herself’…
Wait, I just read this in “Game Change”.
How long will it take people to figure out, you don’t work ‘with’ Sarah Palin?
Mrs Palin seems to have a THING about Black men. She is obsessing on the president in an extremely unhealthy way. Actually she is stalking him and I get the distinct impression from her that when she attacks him verbally she is feeling sexually excited. Her voice raises into the upper register she becomes flushed and sweaty. Her body begins to tremble as though her legs are giving way. Too bad. So sorry Sarah but in order to get to him you have got go through 10,000,000 Black women like me and Mrs. Robinson. Not to mention Michelle.
As my hero LL Cool J of NCIS Los Angeles says: WOW! What a farce of a show Faux is creating for SP. Unbelievable! And now Toby Keith comes out and says he is also being used. I would then assume that Jack Welch is also old tape? How can a compilation of old interviews given a new narrator/interviewer name SP be a “new” show? Lies, lies, lies – so appropo of Palin!
I’ll wait for the review of the interviews by Keith, Rachel, Jon, and Colbert
Great fodder for other entertainers.
Ooops! Sorry all – I think I inadvertently put everything into italics and now don’t know how to fix it
HA!
How can Palin interview someone when it is a 2 year old interview of a person from a previous interview… with someone else?
Is this what Palin learned in journalism school?
What’s next… will Palin claim to have interviewed Ronald Regan?
Wasn’t you, 1smartcanerican!
WOW, indeed. I’m so over this brunebimbo. I’m absolutely convinced that she’s behind the so called ‘surprises’ that have come out about the non-existent interview agreements with LL Cool J and Toby Keith.
I’m bet she said something to the effect that as part of her agreement to do the shows Fox MUST line up some celebrity guests, whether or not they even know or have agreed to do an interview. I mean, come on, it’s Sarah Palin we’re talking about here. Who would possibly turn down an interview with her?
*end snark*
So 2 of the advertised stars have never been asked to be on her show, 1 refused and the other, will he talk for an hour?
you know when all the other stuff happened like this Meg was always blamed.
She is nowhere near this. has palin been screwing up for real all this time, by her own?
Or the show could be cancelled tomorrow due to a family emergency, the story about willow is going round the ‘net
Two down, two to go. Only real question is, will they also be 2008 reruns?
Whew! Thank gawd those inspirational Americans didn’t actually meet Sarah and weren’t exposed to the mean girl virus.
Oh, and video editors are going to make out like bandits since Fox will need a 24 hour staff of editors to crank out all the fake interviews for $arah’s show. All Fox has to do is film Sarah spewing out about 2-3 hours of word salad gibberish and then send her back to her room so she can eat her crunchwrap supremes in private.
Then, using that pool of tossed words the editing wizards at Fox can piece together fake interviews with unassuming celebrities. Heck, with this technique she can interview her self! At this point the universe will end as it implodes into a singularity as it simply can’t handle the possibility of two shrieking, shrewlike Palin voices babbling incoherent platitudes at each other.
What an excellent time to be alive! This Palin/Teabagger/RNC/WackoNutjobber stuff is just too funny to be true, and far too true to be funny. I can’t wait until my grandchildren one day say, “Nana, do you remember when some people thought Sarah Palin was important?”
Uh oh. No Toby Keith either. Things fall apart.
blooper@46, I am certainly as over this gal as you are with your ‘colorful’ language, but I do not for one minute think she has the savvy (herself) to leverage celebrity appearances nor has the knack of knowing when they would be advantageous to her.
My scenario is: Murdoch negotiated a deal with Barnett (did I remember his name right, her book deal agent?) which included a Fox TV deal. It was probably multi-year and multimillion dollar altogether, and included a vague description of her duties on air (analyst, contributor, and host of series). I do remember the name “Real American Stories” coming out back when the deal was announced.
So now Fox has to produce this show as part of this agreement. And it seems they are trying to spend as little money on it as possible, using old footage, etc. So what does this tell you?
Fox Network doesn’t give a crap about this program, this is just a cheap vehicle for them to to satisfy the obligations of a contract I wish to God that they had never signed (and who knows? They may be thinking the same.)
I seriously think Sarah had zero input as to this program. I think she just agreed to read the teleprompter.
Who in their right mind would even think they could get away with something like this? Didn’t they think the “guests” may have something to say about being faux guest’s? Did they think Toby Keith and LL would be so thrilled with being linked to Sarah that they wouldn’t say something? Have they gotten away with so much crap they thought no one would notice? Un -’effing -Believable!
Ahhh…. I’ve not been entirely italicized for such a long time. I feel fancy!
This is the video I referred to earlier:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/colbert-treats-hannity-li_n_487078.html
Grifter Granny/$P is such an interviewer, to quote Jimmy Fallon,
“Later in the interview, Palin said that President Obama’s economic plans were ‘back asswards.’ Then Obama said that Sarah Palin is ucking funqualified to be talking about it.”
— Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (November 18, 2009)
The compilation video:
http://nutwoodjunction.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarahbus-is-coming.html
What we have here folks, is a lack of intergrity on the part of S’error. Who could ever imagine, she and FOX (owned by Saudi Prince) would be doin’ fake interviews?
terpishore: I agree, your analysis of the whole situation is probably the more realistic scenario, I give her too much credit. Hope my colorful language didn’t offend.
Thanks for your input.
I was surprised they want comments
http://www.realamericanstories.com/sarah-palin/
Terpsichore: Oh, and sorry about mangling your nickname.
Oh my, I am in hysterics at this latest turn of events.
blooper, brown=color=colorful, I thought you were clever
Rene, thanks for posting the comment link again. Last time I was over there there were 51 comments and the last one was dated/timed about 2:30pm est today. I urge everyone to use the link and try to comment and copy what your comment is before sending. Then report back whether your comments are showing up or not.
Maybe they should call Katie Couric, I’m sure she’d love to do another interview with the Hick on a Highwire ( got that from Game Change.)
I hope L.L.responds to that horrible response from Fox, they really are so middle school!
After accusing McCain of being at the original “Tea Party” people will probably be afraid her stupid is contagious and will refuse to be interviewed.
By the way we have 3 cars and 2 are Subarus! I guess we should expect to be stopped and asked how that “hopey-changy” is working out for us!
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Rene Says:
March 31st, 2010 at 12:08 PM
I was surprised they want comments
http://www.realamericanstories.com/sarah-palin/
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the comments lol
i don’t imagine an anti Palin comment would make it through
RENE:
I tried leaving my comment on that web site, but, amazingly, they did not print mine..it looks like only those who adore her have their comments printed.
the palinban won’t care, it won’t be her fault. And then the a$$hole way fox talked about LL Cool J, its terrible.
Rene@59: Read the comments. Now I really have to go to work so I don’t puke. Palinbots out in full force!
Rene….I too left a comment. It wasn’t published. I wonder why?
Someone commented on Rene’s link, #59, that LL., Keith and jack Welch sued to be removed from the show and won. Anyone else hear that?
I didn’t leave a comment.
A couple real thoughts got in there in the masses of love notes. They might be attempting to be fairly unbalanced. I don’t care that she has a show or makes a ton of money good for her. I would rather her be a celeb versus a politician any day of the week. The title of her show is a bit creepy. Geesh. Maybe we can try this post. “There is no blue America, or red America- just America. Our America!!!”
Wow, just when it can’t get any deeper, it gets deeper. 2 “used” people already complaining and the show won’t air for another day. By then, we’ll have Sarah interviewing Hannity, Beck and Orally for some up to the minute talking oinks and lots and lots of commercials for gold and survival packets.
lol, all 3 sued? Boy oh boy, her show is really going to suck w/o anyone to interview. hahahahah
LOL All of the people will prbably refuse to be in her circus!
Fox is guilty of believing their own publicity when it comes to Palin. They probably thought that anyone would be Thrilled to be on her program and get the publicity for it.
Too bad for them that some celebrities actually do care what their name is associated with.
I’m sure there will be others who either don’t care or won’t have a clue that some interview they gave years ago has been dug out of the achieves to be shown on the show.
It appears that neither LL Cool J or Toby Keith were even contacted to let their publicist Know that the tapes would be used. Legally, Fox might have to do that, but ethically, they darn well should.
sheeezz..talk about a nonshow.
Zyggy,
Thats what someone said in the comment section on the RealAmerican page, Renee posted the link. We can only hope it is true!
I am still trying to figure out if Sarah was ever a ‘City Manager’, which, if I am not mistaken, is different from being a mayor. I heard her describe herself as a ‘former City Manager, former Mayor” etc. on at least two occasions. I believe it was the famous ‘talking points on the hand’ interview and the Jay Leno interview.
LOL. It just gets better and better.
They’ll have to drop Toby Keith too.
Some Faux staffer is furiously going through the archives trying to find another name celebrity interview to substitute in.
Meanwhile the set people are recreating the backdrops for Palin and someone is putting the questions on a teleprompter so they at she asks the exact same ones that the original interviewer asked. The director is studying the old footage to make sure the cutaways happen in the correct spots.
And for what? To make Palin look legit?
Give it up. She’s a liar and a quitter. And now she is a cheater. And it isn’t just crib notes on the hand. You could construe this as plagiarism. She is copying the other interviewer. No original work of her own.
Why is Palin so popular? Is it so that the ignorant and uneducated can live in hope that they too could be a Governor, get a multimillion dollar book deal or become a media celebrity?
Have we sunk this low?
Is there nothing that can finally make Sarah Palin go away?
I Hopey she reads off her hand for her non existant interviewees, then everyone will Changey the station. =)
Sarah, me thinks faux is getting ready to throw you under da bus….soooo many lies…gonna catch up with you…
Jack too? Who will be left?
Hmm.
Maybe Sarah can interview the Governor of Alaska, the Mayor of Anchorage and one of the past IronDog winners.
Do you think Parnell, Sullivan and Todd would agree to an interview? Would she be able to handle it? Are they celebrities enough for Faux? We know they’re real Americans as defined by Sarah.
Perhaps she can interview an unwed teen mother that has turned her life around?
That way Bristol gets a paycheck too.
Bad day for Sarah! She may have to work and really learn how to host a show. And, since Drill, Baby, Drill has now gone beyond those three words, she might have to learn how to converse about oil beyond talking points. She has to change her speeches,etc, etc. Chaos—Karma!
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mlaiuppa Says
Meanwhile the set people are recreating the backdrops for Palin and someone is putting the questions on a teleprompter so they at she asks the exact same ones that the original interviewer asked. The director is studying the old footage to make sure the cutaways happen in the correct spots.
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if i was the original interviewer i be pi$$t
So, who is Sarah going to interview, Toad The Post?
They posted my comment, surprisingly enough. Maybe it was the exclamation point?:
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I love the idea of a show like ‘Real American Stories!’ What a great chance to show everyday citizens that a narcissistic, incompetent , greedy hypocrite can still make boat loads of cash by exploiting the stupidity of the uninformed.
Can’t wait for her first solo interview. Maybe Michelle Bachmann is available….?
Ooohhh all the comments are in italics! Cool!
And also too…..HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH!!!! Toby Keith interview FAKE also?? Too??
This is TOO delicious! I mean, really?? Really??
So we’re just cold faking interviews now? What’s Quitter gonna do? Narrate her way thru old clips of interviews?? Is this quite possibly the most moronic media stunt in the history of EVER?
Hey you guys – did you know that I directed a movie?? YES! I did! It’s called “Avatar”! I stood next to the telly and made comments while the movie played so ipso facto, I directed it! Please give me my Oscar now.
instead of faux news apologizing to LL for getting it wrong, they spit their venom and attack and insult him personally…the only way they know how to communicate…it’s shameful!
On second thought, this is a brilliant idea. Too bad they didn’t think of this before the Couric interviews. Palin could have just sat opposite old clips of Katie and read her answers off her palm. Instant credibility!
Wouldn’t surprise me if all those “guests” turned the tables on Palin and QUIT. Would serve this fraud right. And Faux News, too, also, there.
And who the hell watches this kind of junk TV at 10 pm anyway?
I like the italics too, but it takes my eyes time to adjust…I would like to see our mini alien avatars back…they were cute.
Palin is largly faked so why not a fake interview.
It so avoids all those embarassing Duh moments.
And without permission. Oh My!
How typical of the Republicans to use things, like copywrited songs, without permission.
“‘Real American Stories,’ which according to the Los Angeles Times will spotlight “real-life tales of overcoming adversity,” debuts this Thursday (April 1) on FOX News.”
Change the promo write up to:
“”Maybe Real American Stories / Old Interviews / You never can tell”. “Real” life tales of (real?) people overcoming (possible?) adversity. Maybe. Or just old Bugs Bunny cartoons.”
I too was very attached to my alien avatar. It was as if AKM picked each one out especially for each one of us!
Just wishful thinking I’m sure.
But surely Fox has good enough professional contracting staff to make sure that the network has permission to use extensive footage of these people.
Assuming that. Maybe Ailes has realized what at dud Sarah has shown herself to be in her comentary spots and is trying to get her to exit.
I can’t imagine that BillO and Beck want a ditzy female in or their sthick.
If so they are about to learn that Sarah is nothing if not grabbing and she has a grip of steel.
In order to get a post published on the Real Americans comment page, you gotta be pro fox, pro sarah, a moron (pretty much one circle on a Venn diagram) or liberal sounding to be accused of being a hater. My second posting to posted.
It reads…..
Sarrah Palin is a merican who is grate and swell. She is a woman that deserves to be out fo the kitchen and makes enouff money to hire help to feed her childerens. Like me also.
Good news….my first posting is up as well!!
Caribou Barbie is a fraud and a complete joke. Her ghost-written book is full of lies and the ghost-interview show will fail as well. I was a life long republican until S’error was introduced by McCain.
And John McCain should be brought up on treason charges for that alone.
Faux is stuck with her contractually…so what to do with her? …sounds like they’re going to just have her introduce pre-taped past interviews that other people did (according to my understanding of what I’m reading here). If that’s true, they know they should limit her talking as much as possible. I say they supply her with a glenn beck white board and she just stick draws what they’re about to show. it’s the safe bet! no screeching, no agenda pushing, no my-beliefs-are-better-than-yours, no lying (oops, they already did that)…my bad.
OOOHHH! Just got home from work, read all the posts, and gotta got watch MSNBC – with a cold adult beverage!!!
Who forgot to close the tag?
I think, to be fair, like someone said above, Sarah didn’t have “creative” input into this – someone just decided to repackage old footage with her narration. cheap, easy, and it wouldn’t have to depend on her “skills.”
Maybe it is my elderly eyes…I find the italics hard to read.
Laughing at B in CO…..alien avatars. I used to think of them as critters. That was exotic enough for me. I would love to see them more often too…..although I am still smarting about being called a bed bug.
Well if Faux is stuck with her don’t have anything pretaped or prepared ahead of time for her. Make her talk as long as possible until it becomes the ultimate word salad, or until her head explodes from trying to keep her lies together. We know she can’t think on her feet. The more people hear her screechy voice and incoherent blabbering the less they will like her.
Has she given her Las Vegas speech to the booze distributors yet?
Have we heard anything from Jack Welch yet? He must have objected or they wouldn’t have removed him from the video along with the others. (Or maybe it was a preemptive move.)
How long before some of the others in the video come forward and say they want nothing to do with this moosecrap either?
“a program that could serve as an inspiration to others”
Really! Fox viewers would feel uplifted by the LL CoolJ story?
Give me a break
Please, please, please do not watch Sarah tomorrow night. Fox already enjoys too high viewer numbers. I know a lot of us tune in out of disgusted curiosity (guilty as charged) but we must stop and stop in a big way…that’s the only way we can make Palin and the monkey tang network go away. (By the way, I have no idea what ‘monkey tang’ might mean…it just seemed to fit.)
Using Sarah Palin to put a glossy shine on an old product you’re trying to repackage and sell to the public as new and fresh.
Why am I getting a sense of deja vu, a feeling that this new series is actually a rerun?
Not only do NOT tune in, but if you are out at a business that has Fox News on, ask them to change the channel or turn it off, I do and it works.
omg don’t sweat it. i can’t even get through more than a couple seconds of a youtube clip and the only fox show i watch is Bones. my son watches their regular network but no one in this house turns on fox news ever, and wouldn’t even if we had cable tv
just checkin’ lol
oops that smiley i just posted was actually
to see if i could turn off the italics – i couldn’t
story has hit yahoo news…THOUSANDS of comments, and had to REALLY search for a palinbot one….hehehehehhe!!!
Falin and Fox= Fake, Fraud and Phony!
I think we are in italics mode whether we like it or not. I am a non-violent person but I would like to give Tawd’s wife a bang on the ear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P237zpWbPRM
Many thanks to Mag the Mick for reminding me of this.
I had to lmao at them giving the former half term gov a “cheat’ed interview” — figured since she already had the answers – she could make up the questions that way and really (oops rilly) make it look good.
Wonder if she can do anything with sincerity.
We have her biography written by a ghost writer –
her city manager job (that the city had to hire someone) –
writes her core beliefs on her hand -
talks only to FAUX since she gets the questions ahead of time -
Fake husband
Fake kids
Fake ta-ta’s
Fake religion
Fake sincerity
Fake folky
Fake accent
Fake lips
Fake face,
and now fake interviews.
all around Fake.
Oh yeah,
Fake author
I’m sure there are more.
I just saw a comment on Huffpo regarding the fake interviews that Palin will be doing that brought things into perspective.
Thinking back, it didn’t really surprise me (and most of us) that Fox bought Palin (literally). However, I, like others, always wondered when their little brains would click on to understand that they bought a pig (with lipstick) in a poke. Sure, we thought, they are ideological soul mates but really…she is a fraud, so surely they’ll see the error of their ways.
What we forgot, and what the follow comment spells out, should have been obvious to us all:
“Fraud News Strikes Out !”
Faux having permission to use the footage is meaningless.
Certainly they can air it. But they can’t shut the people up whose footage they are using.
If Toby Keith and LL Cool J and others what to expose Faux for recycling and cut Palin in the process, Faux can’t stop them. I’m sure Faux does NOT have any type of non-disclosure or gag order regarding reusing the footage.
This is just a train wreck. No matter what they do now. She tanks if she attempts a live interview and she’s ridiculed if she uses the tapes.
And yes, it is a form of plagiarism. And yes, if *I* were the original interviewer I would be screaming too. Unless I’d been paid off or pressured to keep my mouth shut. But it won’t help. You can bet right now there are people combing YouTube looking for the original footage. Right after Palin’s show airs, the blogesphere will be burning with posts of the originals trying to beat everyone else to the punch.
Any subsequent shows they try to do will be worse.
Get out the popcorn. It’s going to be highly entertaining.
97 Irishgirl Says:
March 31st, 2010 at 2:07 PM
“Maybe it is my elderly eyes…I find the italics hard to read.”
I wasn’t going to say anything but…. since you mentioned it.
I’m mildly dyslexic, things like curley letters and white on black, even Celtic Divas white on dark blue, as much as I like her site, swim like I was drunk. I don’t go to her site as much as I would like, its just to hard to keep those swimming around letters in focus.
And yeah, I definately resemble the older eyes thing, also too.
Everybody who wears glasses knows the problems of eye fatigue with computers. It’s almost impossible to sit at a proper distance from the screen for reading print.
102 OMG Says:
“(By the way, I have no idea what ‘monkey tang’ might mean…it just seemed to fit.)’
In the present case it’s Tarzan’s buddy “Cheatuh.”
There’s a CW song in there somewhere.
I can’t wait for Daily Show, Colbert Report and David Letterman. (I don’t watch Kimmel but wouldn’t be surprised if he said something too.)
There may not be anything tonight about the change in the line up. But there might be something tomorrow.
Now, isn’t it interesting that Palin’s show airs at 10pm Thursday, too late for Daily Show and Colbert and they don’t broadcast on Friday. And repeats on Sunday. That means that Stewart and Colbert have to wait until Monday. If Palin thinks that will save her, think again. It just gives them 4 days to write it up and edit the footage.
Letterman, on the other hand, does air on Friday.
I wonder if Palin will get another top 10?
Tee hee.
Marnie…..are we going blind?
This has got to be an April Fool’s joke.
Palin faked her way across Alaska, and she made a mockery out of our beautiful state. I hate to think of what she would do with this show. Frankly, we just want her to go away. Maybe she could live in a few other states for a while and give us a break!
Now, Palin is faking her way across America, with fake interviews. Why doesn’t that surprise me? No live guests – no hand notes to read. Greta should have taken a lesson in Palin 101 when she came up here to Alaska. Tomorrow Greta will be preempted for one show, soon Palin will preempt all Greta’s shows. My message to Greta: Watch your back, Greta – she’s comin’ right at ‘cha! And I’m sure she’s reloadin’. Soon Greta will find out what all Alaskans know: With friends like Palin – who needs enemas!
Fake Interviewer – hhuummm.. that’s not really a stretch for the Swag-Hag…. BUT, when you have headlines in the Phoenix main newspaper that reads: “Palin show drops LL Cool J after he complains” who do you expect pee-baggers to believe?? TRUTH or Cluster-Fox??
Here’s the link…. you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried…
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2010/03/31/20100331sarah-palin-show-drops-ll-cool-j.html
Have a listen to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYA1R4vQaA&feature=related
It reminds me of that hopey changey thing!
117 Irishgirl Says:
March 31st, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Marnie…..are we going blind?
Nope. But hey, if we live long enough……
Like I say I’m mildly dyslexic. Letters are sometimes hard to distinguish. Think looking in a mirror and seeing one reflection from the surface of the glass and one from the silver backing and trying to focus on both at the same time. But like everybody and everything getting older matters. That 18 year old 20/20 is a long way away.
There are all sorts of versions of dyslexia, different ways it manifests. My theory is that reading, and certainly reading print, are recent evolutionary mutations and nature is still working out the details. Still in R&D so to speek.
Sorry for the spelling
What is she going to do, just sit there watching other people interview her “guests”? Man that interviewin” must be real hard! Something 5 colleges never covered I suppose or maybe she missed “Askin’ Questions 101″ while packing up and moving to the next place.
“I don’t think Mr. Smith has a problem being associated with inspiration. Perhaps he has a problem being associated with Sarah Palin. Just a guess.”
Hahaha. Your wit is golden.
I don’t even know who LL Cool J is…..but he obviously won’t sell out his integrity for a cheap shot at publicity on Palin’s new show.
The more troubling aspect is that the show’s name (Real Americans) subtly promotes Palin’s divisive political rhetoric from the ’08 campaign to the present…..The idea of “real Americans” vs “the other.” The name of the show ordinarily wouldn’t have been a problem, but for the fact that the new hostess of the show is the one who created this very destructive political theme.
“It’s time for all good men to”…..stand up against liars and hypocrites!
@ #119 Winski
Yeah, that’s the way the liars at FOX will control the publicity damage from this story……They will want to look in control, so they’ll spin that they dropped him.
Gee, under this “interview” technique, Palin could interview Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. And it’s the perfect format for her – no need to prep and no unexpected answers to her “questions.”
MonaLisa says it is not my fault that everything is in italics, but it happened right after I tried to put three words in italics. I highlighted them and then entered ‘ctrl-i’ and next thing I know, all the comments are in italics! So, if I did this inadvertently, I truly apologize. If, in fact, I did not cause this to happen, then I once again believe in coincidences
I’m with the others who have a problem with the italics. If a comment was only one or two lines I could handle it, but more than that and It turned into blurs for me.
I do not know if this has already been posted but here is another take on the Fake, Fraud, Phony, “Real” Americans! It is quite interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100331/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1387
Shows actual commercial.
i am liking ll more and more. i might just buy a cd in thanks and appreciation!
I’m guessing that Fox’s choice of title, “Real American Stories” was not an accident. Their writers are well aware that one of Palin’s themes during the ’08 campaign was the distinction between “real” Americans and people who are somehow undesirable – like those millionaires who fly about in private jets and get complimentary free stuff at Hollywood award ceremonies ….. oops. Seriously, the show’s title is a flat-out dog whistle to her followers in whom she encourages resentment and anger.
Keith O says she’s basically a narrator!
Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaa!
a narrator ????? oooohhhh!!!!!! She’s gonna read off of BOTH palms !!!
I retweeted Mr. J last night and pasted it for you guys. I was killing myself laughing. This fiasco will undoubtedly spin in her favor eventually, but those who choose to know what a fraud she is will still know.
I applaud LL Cool J for coming out against this as he did and I’m not surprised at all how Fox reacted. I am one of those who watch NCIS LA and as I said last night (twice I believe)… He’s dang HOT. Like him even more now.
Won’t be watching this, I refuse to watch anything on Fox News, doubly so if the Quitter Queen of the Teabaggers is on.
The quality of this tape is terrible. I babysat this guy. He is my next door neighbours grandson. They call him God in school. He can literally do anything.
and the italics is bothersome to me, too, and I have great vision. I’m sure it’s just a setting that needs to be unset and AKM will fix it as soon as she sees it.
kinkee wizards
I anxiously await your early-Friday-morning review of the show, AKM. You are brave and strong-of-stomach beyond measure.
Now she’s going to speak at a California State University. Looks like her confidentiality clause may take a beating.
I have no problem with having controversial speakers at universities supported by my tax dollars and former tuition payments. I do have a problem with them hiring controversial speakers who actually have nothing to say, don’t back up what they do say with facts, and who use the platform to stir up people to do stupid things.
I also have a problem if they’re using my tax dollars while raising tuition during hard financial times to pay ridiculously high speaker’s fees. And, while I have no proof, I don’t see her speaking for free. Do you?
They should also have another speaker to offer balance. Perhaps FLOTUS.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0331/Planned-Sarah-Palin-CSU-speech-stirs-California-protest
Forgot the link!!!
OMG #102 says: Please, please, please do not watch Sarah tomorrow night. Fox already enjoys too high viewer numbers.
Not a problem…for those who cannot restrain from their curiosity, watch it on youtube where the viewer tally won’t register…or watch any other show that I’m sure will cover it. Also, when I find out who the sponsors are, I will boycott them as well.
Dom’t mind me. Nite.
yikes at the spelling…don’t
Night Irishgirl!
The really ironic (and karmic) aspect of this FOX debacle is that Palin’s “Real American” show was rolled out to correspond with the roll out of her Tea Bagger’s tour. Without a doubt, Rupert Murdoch and the others behind Palin’s political image thought they were damn near geniuses in this tandem promotion of her brand of politics: Palin, out on the highways and byways, screeching her demagogue’s tripe to “real Americans” while Palin, on screen, is holding court with “Real Americans.”
Yeah, pretty much blew up in their faces….as usual.
When are the geniuses at FOX ever going to learn that it’s a myth that Palin has been hampered by poor handlers! The American public caught on to the REAL Sarah Palin because of her gaffes, her jaw-dropping ignorance, and her divisive rhetoric. She exposed herself…..and the media reported it. She’s not a victim of the media….She’s a victim of her own limitations and hubris.
No amount of rebranding, repackaging, or spinning is going to make a silk purse out of a nasty little sow’s ear.
Note the jazz themes and driving bass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdizL4on-Rc
He was way ahead of his time even back then….
I bet Sarah Palin even fakes it in the bedroom.
It kinda seems to me that this is more of a reflection of “who/what” FOX is, rather than Palin. (Well, except for that whole “birds of a feather” concept.)
It’s the network that promotes its own shows, and this network has proven just how it defines “fair and balanced” over and over again. This is just one more example of their willingness to do anything at all to get what they think they want.
my 2 cents worth, that’s all.
Nan
I agree with everyone, Palin is her own worst enemy. stupid person without morals. However, I was perusing the candidates for Anchorage Assembly, and will be holding my breath. We have some more ditzy people running for assembly this go around. scary. If you haven’t researched them yet, here’s a start: http://www.adn.com/2010/03/19/1191130/josh-roberts.html
http://www.adn.com/2010/03/19/1191096/andy-clary.html
Clary helped Sullivan’s campaign and is also a member of Prevo’s church.
I’m sorry, but who in their right mind watches Fox?? I refuse to expose myself to their “fake news”??? Its not news its political drivel, they make it up as they go along. Take Glen Beck, (please), O’Reilly (again please) ad nauseam, it just figures they’d put scarah on the payroll. She fits right in, no credibility, political b.s., just posturing, sucking up, take the money and run. Just be sure you can keep the lst dude in a manner to which he is becoming accustomed. Is it true that the only duty of the mayor of Wasilla is signing payroll checks? If so that must have been a big challenge for her, did she print her name? Fox does not enjoy high rating numbers, they are far behind MSNBC and CNN. BTW whats the status of the Discovery channel exposing the country to scarah’s Alaska?
So, she is just doing intros and pre/post commercial commentary on previously recorded footage. I bet she has already recorded her parts (that someone wrote for her). Toby Keith probably only commented because he want to meet Sarah in person.
@Lee323 #144 When are the geniuses at FOX ever going to learn that it’s a myth that Palin has been hampered by poor handlers! The American public caught on to the REAL Sarah Palin because of her gaffes, her jaw-dropping ignorance, and her divisive rhetoric. She exposed herself…..and the media reported it. She’s not a victim of the media….She’s a victim of her own limitations and hubris.
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in a nutshell…amen!
Perhaps former AP writer Steve Quinn can interview her.
His well documented torrid affair with former Palin aid Ivy Frye would make him an ideal candidate.
Quinn’s crediblity is as good as the people at FOX.
AP booted him out of Alaska, then fired him so he came back for more.
Funny he got here just after Megan Stapleton stepped down.
twain12 #64 I posts 3 comments two my own one copied from here about real Americans and how all o0f us are.and they were all posted it just takes a while for them to go thru about an hour I think it was.Not with this name though
Just listened to a few seconds of her blurb and I have to say she seemed more comfortable and her voice wasn’t so screechy and she wasn’t running words together and running out of breath like during her quiting speech,She did not sound half bad except for her saying real Americans when I don’t think she knows what a real American is or is about.
Bill Maher is on the Jay Leno show—-He had a few choice words for Palin and Karl Rove. ha ha!!!!
As far as Palin on Fox news—I don’t understand how she can interview someone who is not present—–does one call that an interview?
If I was one of these persons that she is to “interview”, and I wasn’t asked to be on the show, I would sue all of them—-including Palin.
I never watch Fox News, but I am tempted to do so, just to see how much she fouls up. Maybe they could re-name the show—-”Comedy Central”.
I’ve tried to find something on the FOX TV web site about this show “Real American Stories”. I can’t find it anywhere. Is there an even remote possibiltiy that this is a FOX April fools joke? They gave it less than 24 hours notice, from what I could tell, it doesn’t show up on their web site, and just the whole thing looks like FOX’s idea of being funny. Just a thought.
Maybe Greta quit and Palin was rushed in as a substitute. Oprah must be laughing.
I looked at some of the comments at the yahoo story. This one cracked me up and I am sharing it because it made me laugh after a long day at work:
“What is funny is that LL Cool J will outsmart Sarah Palin any day of the week. This is a woman who scratches her ears with her hind legs.”
My dogs did not find it amusing….
She adds a whole new meaning to the word oxymoron.
you can drop a rock into the mineshaft of her ingnorance but there is noooooo bottom .
Hahahahaha, flex, I’m waiting to hear the splash….waiting….waiting…
ABC has a segment in their news casts called American Spirit that highlights individuals who overcome adversity. The difference is there is a real reporter doing a real interview. Guess this is Faux news way to try and make her look legit. Trouble is, it’s lazy and lame to just dust off old interviews and add a narrator with no new content. The whole thing is an epic fail. I’ll stick with American Spirit.
The “premier” of a new interview show typically has the biggest and brightest on board right out of the gate.
In Palin’s case, the premier of her show has, it seems, two fake interviews. Do we know if she interviewed ANY of the guests named in the promos?
I went to the link and posted a comment but it never appeared. It looks like the site stopped accepting them sometime yesterday. Here is what I tried to post:
[…I am appalled that Fox News would stoop so low as to recycle old interviews without the guests’ permission and make the interviews appear as if Mrs. Palin was the interviewee. Not only does this upset me, but Fox’s response to Mr. Smith is unacceptable. Mr. Smith merely pointed out that he had no knowledge that his two year old interview would be on the show, nor had he ever spoken to Mrs. Palin. He did not say anything derogatory toward Fox or Palin, he simply pointed out that your network was misrepresenting THE TRUTH.
For you to imply Mr. Smith is anything but a true american or that he ‘didn’t want to be a part of something truely inspirational’ is dubious at best.
Shame on you Fox News! Shame on you Sarah Palin! I am a true american! I have many ‘real american stories’ but you ma’am will never represent me nor my family. We were taught that the true character of an individual is their actions not their words. I do not accept your forced perception of what a ‘true american’ should be. Your description is narrowly defined and inclusive, bigoted and full of hatred. You may say what you believe with a smile on your face, but the daggers in your eyes and your heart far outspeak your words.
Wow, when even Toby Keith rebels at being used as a pawn for Palin, what can be next?
Will Jack Welch’s interview be plumped up to fill in the empty spaces?
This is her “big debut” as a correspondent? hah Using her to introduce filler ??
Poor girl, even FOX won’t spend any money on a real show with real people in real time…what oh what could they be afraid of? Not making their money back? Exposing their wonder girl?
It just doesn’t get any better than this. I haven’t checked today, but yesterday the show was listed on the Direct TV guide.
Never has there been a more BWAHAHAHAHA moment.
Fox wishes LL Cool J “the best with his fledgling acting career?” The man has been in movies since 1998 and has a starring role in a major network television series. That’s hardly “fledgeling.” Not only did they call him a jerk for not wanting to “serve as an inspiration for others,” they insulted his acting skill.
F.Y.I. Toby Keith is a registered Democrat. A conservative Democrat but still a Democrat. I am sure that LL Cool Jay has no problem “serving as an inspiration for others”. Perhaps he’s unwilling to serve as a tool for the Fox network and a prop for Mrs. Palin. Especially without his consent and without proper compensation. LL Cool J’s “fledgling acting career” looks a lot better than Mrs. Palin’s fledgling journalism career. After all, he actually does the work he’s credited with doing. P.S. How do you Alaskans like Mrs. Palin’s stated desire to “own Alaska”?
FOX makes me want to listen to and watch everything LL Cool J has ever performed.
FOX is trying to spin that a Grammy award-winning performer and actor of 20 years (plus or minus) is a whiny fledgling (i.e. ignorable), not an accomplished, media-savvy artist … when just seconds before they had been using him as such to lead their show?
I had been assuming that FOX is not fooled by Mrs Palin; it’s just that the network thought it could handle her better than experienced political handlers …. but now I’m not so sure….