Palin’s Fox Flop and Flyinureye!
~Palin interviews Reagan or whoever.
The one and only Sarah Palin has debuted on Fox with her magical series “Real American Stories” in which, she interviews people who she’s never actually interviewed.
LL Cool J was the first to say, “Huh?” in a tweet the day before the show, saying he’d never been interviewed by Palin and that Fox was using him to drum up ratings for her show. And Toby Keith was the second.
But, as they say in Hollywood – The show must go on! And it did.
Now, the reviews are in!
While she managed to get some of her favorite themes across — government is bad, corporate America is good, I will exploit my family for money — the show was nothing more than a collection of semi-tear jerking stories spliced with some one-liners. ~Gawker
“She made the former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has his own talk show on Fox News called “Huckabee,” seem like Jerry Lee Lewis.” ~Allesandra Stanley, The New York Times
Despite her time on the campaign trail and in front of often-unfriendly cameras, Palin still has an eyes-locked-on-the-teleprompter stiffness.” ~L.A. Times
I’m sorry… eyes locked on WHAT?
The canned quality of Real American Stories — tales of uplift about people who help others — seemed designed to showcase Sarah Palin as a good reader of the TV-studio teleprompter and a sympathetic listener to guests in the studio. ~Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
I’m sorry… a good reader of WHAT?
The debut on the Fox News Channel of Sarah Palin’s “Real American Stories” Thursday night turned out to be like one of those shows that’s on when nothing’s on and yet there is air to fill — like infotainment you sometimes see on empty channels in hotel rooms, or the stuff that’s playing on the little TV screen at the gas pump nearest the rental-car center. What are we watching exactly?
Hank Stuever, The Washington Post
Yup. Pretty much what we expected. Next steps for our bland, yet perky Oprah wannabe? Well, at first Fox was saying it was Palin’s new series, then they started calling it a “Palin special” and now I’ve seen a reference to the fact that it’s a series, and Palin simply hosted the first episode. Whatever it is, we’ll have to wait and see.
Who knows? We may be treated to a thoughtful one-on-one interview with Ronald Reagan. Or Nixon. Or whatever.
Actually, I’d love to know what Eisenhower would think of things these days. Or maybe JFK. The Palin magic may just provide some answers.
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A hat tip to flyinureye for the Faux wrapped in faux graphic! And speaking of flyinureye…. (drumroll please)…. fans of the Mudflats graphic guru will be thrilled to know that he now has his own blog! You can visit any time you like RIGHT HERE! It’s been great fun working with fly over the past couple years, and it’s really fantastic to see the Mudflats Art Department expand out to the wide world. I had the pleasure of meeting the elusive Mr. Fly several months ago. We drank coffee, and laughed and solved the problems of the world. I got to meet the equally awesome Mrs. Fly as well. They’re over there —-> on the blogroll under “Alaskan Blogs” for your clicking convenience.
*Warning* When you do click over there, which I know you will, make sure you are NOT consuming food or drink. Flyinureye is definitely a spitting/choking hazard. And I mean that in a good way.
hahaha caw Caw CAW!
Excellent !
After her awful interview with Bill-o a week or so ago I would bet he has enough pull with Faux to tell them not to put that bubblehead on HIS show again. Now Faux appears to be looking for any format that can promote the
investment they own.
The stories may have been tear- jerking, but Palin seemed more intent on her performance. She seemed to have no real empathy- but would put on a sympathetic face once in a while that just didn’t look real. I only watched for a very short time, so maybe I missed something. Doubt it though.
and also, too, mazel tov, flyinureye!
….museum joy…
Love your “I’m sorry .. eyes locked on what?”
OMG, it wasn’t even tolerable. I could barely watch but forced myself to try a few minutes. Really ironic was the dog that helped the boy…told to pick up a pen, the dog laid down and looked at it. It was as though the dog had been drugged into numbness, couldn’t really perform well.
That kind of marked the theme for the show…told to perform, Sarah laid down and looked at us with a sad, I’m a loser half smirk on her face.
Overall, I’d say it was perfect!! FOX’s star is a D-lister.
Even if I had cable TV (which I don’t, and probably won’t), I would never tune in to Fux Noise, especially while they’re featuring their new poster girl for the wrong, I mean right.
I cannot listen to her without wincing, and looking at her is almost as painful.
I wish her all the luck she deserves, which is NONE.
The show sucked. Which comes as an absolute shock to all and sundry.
What a great analogy for the expanse of…..nothing…..between Palin’s ears!
“……..when nothing’s on and yet there is air to fill…..”
Flyinyoureye…. you are the best. thank you for the wonderful art you have given us pups. love to you and Mrs. Fly.
Discovery Channel has got to be thinking aught oh about now. Is that ink on the contract dry already?
Frickin’ hilarious. Love the graphic.
She is a puffed up, mean ol’ piece of crap….and I’m being nice. All those MORANS who are paying big money for this grifter to speak for them will get what they deserve.
I didn’t watch it and I would never watch it. I’ll leave that to people who are forced to watch it for money so they can write a review.
Gee. With these glowing reviews, I wonder how the Discovery Channel feels about their new investment?
Can anyone say, Duped?
BTW, the teleprompter comments were the best.
KaPow!
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What did they do to her eyebrows? I didn’t watch the show but did catch a clip on a blog…luckily her caret (symbol) brows distracted me from her grating voice.
Can anyone tell from analyzing her face/features and coordinating that with her travel schedule just when and where these segments with the studio audience might have been videoed?
Obviously the Fox production staff had to lone up these same people and , I presume, pay travel costs to get them all in the room at the same time, It’s curious. I would really love to know a lot more about how this show was designed and produced.
I seriously doubt Sarah had any input into it at all. I think she agreed to the idea because of it’s name, and she was fine with agreeing to take on the job they described to her – reading a teleprompter, and memorizing a few bits of question topics to interact with the ‘real’ guests (not Toby Keith or LL Cool J). She thought she could handle that job just fine. Of course, she also had no problem thinking she could handle the job of being VP of the US, which, by definition, means you think you can handle the job of being President of the US. Her hubris is pretty high on the scale (I thought hubris was one of the seven deadly sins, not one of the seven virtues or even one of the seven dwarves).
I am confident this show will not continue for very long, with her as host, at least, and I know her appearances altogether on the channel will dwindle. The only reason she is there at all is because it is part of the deal that R. Murdoch made with her negotiator Barnett, for a combined book/media deal – not all that uncommon. I suspect the money negotiated was a lump sum over a certain number of years (I’d be surprised if it was more than 3 from her book release) and her obligations to provide media content to Fox were vaguely described so that Fox could alter her status – analyst, contributor, host, narrator – as they needed. Trust me, they do see how unprofessional see is and will limit and cancel her appearances as soon as they can. I am positive her appearances on Bill O and Hannity, etc. are only because of contract clause. Even the great Bill O cannot tell his bosses to renig on a contract.
I have the feeling Murdoch thought she’d be better at the job than she turned out to be. But then, that’s exactly what McCain’s people thought when they went out on the limb to invite her onto the ticket as VP – sure, she’s an unknown, but she’s a state governor, she must know SOMETHING!
And they found out that she did not, for the most part, posses the basic knowledge of the world that one would expect from a college graduate who had become the governor of a state of the US.
Anyway, my brain is going off into more threads about this because there really are many layers – it is as though this show is a symbol of what SP is and can (or cannot) do, or do well – but this post is way long enough already!
Once again I guess all we can really say to the idiots who do not listen to us from our now years of experience, either in person or via reading at Mudflats and other wonderful, fact-filled blogs about SP, you will reap what you sow with her. She is not easy to work with. She has, as has just been demonstrated, a rudimentary, stiff (unpracticed) and unpolished manner of reading material she is not familiar with or comfortable with, and cannot be trusted to ad lib in the manner you want for your programs.
Hope Discovery Channel executives are watching – that’s the kind of excitement, enthusiasm, and engaging repartee you will get out of Sarah Palin on camera for your program. Popping off the screen? I think not. Stiffness, inappropriate and amateurish hand shapes, uncomfortableness? Yeah, that’s what America loves in a host … NOT.
What a retard, oops, repeat Sarah is! She’s nothing if not predictable. She’s having someone else read the reviews this morning and she’s busy sending out gooey email apologies to the uppity ups just like she did during the election to the McCain staff handling her.
Sarah doesn’t like to be nice, and she doesn’t like to be handled – her folksy thing is a maneuver to manipulate people – always. She has to get immediate gratification when she’s playing all homey and nice and if not, her nature is to revert into her snarkiness. I’ll bet a million bucks that she hates this show, and she is only doing it because of the money and contract. Anyone with a critical eye on the show can see that she’s just disengaged. This isn’t her forte so to speak!
Meanwhile back at the ranch, she’s back stabbing everyone at Fox, from the teleprompter monkey to the writers, camera & lighting people and their dogs. It’s all their fault, remember?
Sarah, for a very long time, has used the Alaska mystique to her advantage. She learned early on that there were certain things you could say or do around Outsiders and they would be easily impressed (Alaskans get busted for this all the time – shame on them!). Her smarts isn’t brain power – it’s observation power of the people’s reactions who are in her space or on her radar. Then she added a phony accent to top it all off, and pretended to be someone she is not.
Sarah gets her energy from others (and Red Bull) – it’s the narcissist way. When she is surrounded and fawned over, she loves it and uses it all to her advantage as quickly as possible. But this show – not really interviewing anyone and probably doing it from an echo chamber on her Grumpy Granny Compound or wherever she was – nah, it’s not exciting enough. She’s zoned out.
Sarah, you are a Repeat and a Zoner. You totally suck. I hope you are stuck with this venue until you kick and scream and wing your bumpit at Rupert Murdoch.
#3 boodog, you would think fux would know better than to have her host a show that called for a display of human compassion. Don’t they remember the vp debate when Vice President Biden teared up about his first wife and child being killed in a car wreck? The nitwit acted like nothing was even said she was so eager to start prattling and screeching about her favorite subject “me, me, me.”
I watched a tiny clip of it, as always anything with her involvement, it was quite puke-worthy. Maybe her and seany insanity can be hosts together. She can brag how she grifts “real ignorant Americans” and he can boast about ripping off the dead soldier’s children from the freedom concert’s proceeds. Yea seany, you’re a great American. Those two should hook-up.
MUYS: Missed you.
“Meanwhile back at the ranch, she’s back stabbing everyone at Fox, from the teleprompter monkey to the writers, camera & lighting people and their dogs. It’s all their fault, remember?”
My thoughts exactly. That’s her MO.
I suspect that Palin will start channeling Mona Desmond very soon…
Remember the details that emerged about her catatonic meltdowns during the campaign? Think about the comments regarding her stiff stare and telepromter reading style…..
Another catatonic meltdown? If not then, I’m sure she is having a meltdown now after reading the reviews.
It’s amazing how she could bring her snark about (“bad” government and “good” corporations) to a show that is supposed to be about uplifting stories. Gawd, she is an awful person.
MUYS- GRUMPY GRANNY COMPOUND!!! Awesome…well played and the perfect moniker for the Casas Palin.
I knew this would be a snoozefest…I’d rather watch the Real Housewives OF NYC catfight at fashion shows Thursday nights at ten.
16 Martha Unalaska Yard Sign
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Some of us figured her out her first day on the national stage on 8/29/08. My mom had her figured out by her voice, before she ever saw her with McCain.
This Fox stuff is for the remedial learner’s group.
Palin has been thoroughly mediocre in each and every one of her various enterprises. Luckily, she’s been embraced by a minority-presumably also mediocre-delighted to see someone “just like them” in the national spotlight.
As a grifter, of course, she’s has been anything but mediocre!
Palin Recants Politics, Persona
In a surprise move on the FOX News Morning Show, former Alaska governor and current 2012 pre-candidate Sarah Palin broke down and offered an apology for not only her crypto-redneck politics, but her entire media-crafted persona. “I’m actually not down-home at all,” wept the former John McCain running mate, as she removed her designer eyewear and dabbed at smeared mascara with a square-cut manicured fingertip.
Palin explained to the shocked hosts that her publicly stated disbelief in evolution and global warming, hatred of wolves, “ignorance” of basic geopolitics, and folksy twang were crafted by the New York advertising agency Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. The agency, whose board of directors includes Karl Rove®, carefully tested the persona on focus groups to ensure approval among her core constituents, Americans who are opposed to education, health, and the “environment.”
In actual fact, Palin revealed, she holds an advanced degree in conservation biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she wrote a dissertation on the theoretical implications of endogenously changing carrying capacity.
“I’m so glad to be free of that God-awful twang,” said Palin. “And you know what? I just love polar bears. Love ‘em to pieces.”
In the wake of the revelation, the Discovery Channel announced it will not air its planned 2010 reality TV show Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
…from Huffpo comments / venice6
***Tell Discovery to Pull Sarah Palin’s Show!” petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/806038917
That comment from Venice6 nailed it.
Her audience is the people who don’t realize The Colbert Report is satire. As though this Granny Grifter would have been able to ask Jack Welch with his M.S. and PhD degrees in chemical engineering any coherent questions, even with the aid of a teleprompter.
I just caught a 60 second clip of the programme on the HuffPo. The general consensus seems to be that it was bland and boring. I am not surprised. Since when did Granny Paylin care about anyone other than herself….you can’t fake interest.
In comparison, thatcrowwoman recently posted this on the last thread in repsonse to not using the word *lurker.*
“silent observer, quiet watcher, faithful reader…I was all of them for a year and a half…Not a peep did I make, but many deeds did I undertake…I have always felt welcome and at home here.”
I also had the good fortune to travel to the USA last year and I was amazed at the efforts of Mudpups to help those in need. I had made some contributions to some of the causes but they paled into insignificance when I heard of some of the real sacrifices others had made. Tired Mom, I am thinking of you especially.
Anyway, my point is *walk the walk and talk the talk.”
Sarah is a complete phoney.
Oh, and don’t forget to give Flyinureye some love.
http://flyinureye.wordpress.com/
Do any of you remember watching a Seinfeld episode when Elaine drew eyebrows on her Uncle Leo? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FevMimZyeLI
They so remind me of Palin’s new eyebrows. =)
AKM, Thank you for providing a place for us to play in the mud. We’ve lurked, and learned and then finally put a toe into the muck all the way up past our knees. I do enjoy you all. Spring is popping and it’s time to get those hands dirty. Guess I should thank mean girl Sarah because with out her we would have probably never met. Good puppies, one and all!
She needs a “Grumpy Granny Jumps the Snark” show instead.
Completely off topic, but came to mind when reading all this talk about Palin the me, me, me self centered b*&ch.
21 year old daughter goes out today and spends her very last 70 bucks on candy, easter bags and grass to make each of the 85 residents at the nursing home she works at (for 8.25an hour) an Easter gift. She figured if she was stuck there on a holiday away from her family, she might as well make someone elses day! In addition, she made a big fat basket for one resident who is 55, but has the mentality of a 7 or 8 year olf. She’ll have one of the night nurses leave it in her room so she wakes with a basket from Mr. Bunny.
That’s what Palin will NEVER have. A freakin’ HEART!
I didn’t watch but enjoyed reading the reviews. Thanks.
For over a year, I keep hearing how inept Palin is and how her popularity would wane and she was on a downhill slide. Some are saying this show on Fox will be her downfall. Based on all her past miserable failures, I’m losing hope that anything will make her “sit down and shut up.” As far as Fox realizing what a no-talent, uninformed, uninspiring performer she is, why does anyone think that will make any difference to them? After all, they still have Glen Beck, don’t they? I don’t think Fox cares, and I don’t think Palin cares either, as long as she gets paid.
I think she will go on spouting hatred and lies and, sadly, that there will always be an audience for that.
I’d love for someone to convince me otherwise.
Paula, that is so touching and you must be so proud of your daughter. And you are right..Palin doesn’t have a heart.
Thanks for the heads-up about the flyinureye site. Just came back and was very impressed and pleased! There were many images I had missed and all were a delight to a progressive! I really enjoyed seeing that he was responsible for the dragon image for shipbright’s posting on the water problems developing between China & Tibet that will affect seven other countries in SE Asia. That image stayed with me.
Check out Alan Schroeder’s opinion piece on HuffPo. Delightful.
I’ve been waiting for someone to comment on Cenk Uygur’s opinion piece on HuffPo with its memorable line from Rep. Steve Cohen: , “When I saw John McCain stand behind Sarah Palin, he looked more like a captured soldier in North Vietnam than he did a United States Senator,” reflecting his opinion that Sarah and her pals had taken him captive in their movement. She certainly dominated that platform and was dressed to do so.
I watched the show. Liked the story about the boy and his dog. Don’t see why they needed her. Good thing it was scripted. She really didn’t know what to do or where to look. Guess she reads her palms and notes better than a teleprompter. As usual she was useless. The audience didn’t seem like they knew when they were suppose to clap. (or for what)
Love her or hate her, we saw a side of Sarah Palin last night that must have caught observers at every end of the spectrum by surprise.
That would be her boring side.
Read more: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/04/02/sarah-palins-new-tv-show-polite-professional-and-oh-so-boring/?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0jz1I1i8M
From what I’ve read, SP is the Wonder bread of TV hosts.
Bland, boring, palatable to non-adults, and with no particular value.
(Sorry, Wonder Bread)
I actually like Wonder Bread for French Toast. So along the same lines, perhaps SP is good for soaking.
Could you just imagine her as a dinner guest and the sparking conversation?
sparkling
Hey! Wonder Bread was the proud sponsor of the Sarah Doody Show, co-starring Toddabell! And the Palin Gallery.
I watched the first three interviews and thought the stories were touching, but when it came back to Palin it was jarring. Her emotional smugness just didn’t connect. I tried to look at it with a non-judgemental way and just couldn’t. The whole room looked like a science project of white coldness. Very boring. I don’t mean race. It was all white. No colorful couch, chairs, decorations, etc. Not good.
As for inspirational stories, I really like ‘undercover boss’ which touch also on human stories.
Do you really think that Reagan would find Palin as the Hopey Changey that the Republicans need or want?
Looks like Fox is planning to reair the Palin Special on Sunday 9pm EST. YUCK
The major reason that Palin’s show came across as flat or boring is that she’s essentially all about negative energy and controversy. Casting Palin in a show with “inspirational” and “uplifting” themes was akin to mixing an acid with a base solution.
Ironically, Palin’s “Real American Stories” achieved exactly opposite of what was intended by Palin and her cynical handlers: Instead of creating synergy with Palin’s political persona and rhetoric, a positive show about good folks who happen to be American actually sharpened the CONTRAST of her negative, bigoted political shtick about “real Americans.”
The only things that Palin “inspires” relatively well are anger, bigotry, and fear.
Great job, flyinureye!
Change.org has gotten into the petition for Discovery Channel to drop Palin. They link you to Defenders of Wildlife.
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/urge_discovery_communications_to_drop_sarah_palins_new_show
I’m beginning to wonder if Sarah has any personality or a sense of humor! From what I’ve read, she didn’t seem to be very popular in high school and none of her college professors remembered her. Could it be that when you first meet her, you are impressed but after you get to know her, it turns ugly? Is that why she went to five different colleges?
Interesting questions…
Sounds like the Reader’s Digest style happy shorts are meant for the codger demographic. The way my grandmother thought Liberace was sweet.
47 KateinCanada Says:
He had something to admire. He took a talent and vamped it up and entertained a lot of people with it. He was also plain silly.
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Sounds like the Reader’s Digest style happy shorts are meant for the codger demographic. The way my grandmother thought Liberace was sweet.
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Liberace raised kitsch to an art form!
I saw a clip of the first 30 seconds of the show. If, when I taught 6th grade, I’d gotten a piece of writing like that, we’d have had a lesson on the meaning of “trite.” Who wrote that drivel? Did Ms. Journalism Major In Name Only write it, or was a (now probably former) writer for FlopSnooze?
$ARAH’S LATEST SCAM! Along with FAUX NEWS……….
Image Making…and she AIN’T NO KATIE COURIC!
Hopefully her continual exposure of her ignorance will give enough people grifter fatigue that Faux noise will finally give up on making Scarah the Queen of the USA. I pray for the day she will finally go away into well deserved infamy.
Even the New York Times is finally onto her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/television/03watch.html
You betcha!
flyinureye’s blog rocks!
“Casting Palin in a show with “inspirational” and “uplifting” themes was akin to mixing an acid with a base solution.”
Good one, Lee323 (#44)
This is her format.
When she was running for Governor, I always called her “soundbite Sarah” because the canned answer was always the same regardless of the question. I fear for our world that so many can be duped by such a simpleton.
Terpsichore @15——Maybe it was superinposed?????
I watched for a very short time, and something didn’t add up.
It was like watching old Lawrence Welk reruns. Yeah, it was that good.
From NY Times review:
“So you,” she told a young woman who risked her life to save a stranger, “having a kind of a downer day being in a valley, to then have been at this peak now, Angelica, because of your selfless action.” “So kudos to you and thank you so much.”
HUH? My Gawd, she is dumb.
All in all, she did pretty darn good. She’s now where she thinks she aught to be, I hope(fingers crossed).
She will get richer and richer and let’s just hope she doesn’t use that money to come back here and screw things up more then before.
What a country..Elect’s an actor for Pres, Reagan, and runs a beauty wantabe for Vice Pres..Jeezz!
Less than mediocre, she is flat, spoiled, very bad and cheap champagne.
In other words a dud.
Dear Lord – in the past year you have taken away my favorite actor (Patrick Swayze), my favorite actress (Farrah Fawcett), my favorite musician (Michael Jackson) and my favorite pitchman (Billy Mays).
I just want to let you know my favorite TV and radio personalities are Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin.
Amen.
Flyinureye! Really Good,fabulous art work
ks sunflower I did comment a couple different times because it seems like my comment wasn’t accepted,maybe because of links about McShame.
SP from what i have read and heard about her and of course her talking herself made me think she has always been the stereotype of the mean girl,locking someone in a locker,taking someones cloths while they were in a shower after gym ect.Just a plain old mean girl and it seems her parents encouraged it.
Fiddler on the Roof LOL