Thanks to Sarah Palin, it’s “Oh Crap, What Did We Do?” Eve at The Discovery Channel
What were they thinking? Good question. Discovery Communications obviously missed that whole “Sarah Palin is toxic to everything she touches” memo that went out. The creation of Sarah Palin’s new wildlife show on The Discovery Channel was like watching a baby about to suck on a lemon, or your best friend walking down the aisle with a total bonehead. You just want to yell, “Nooooo! Don’t do it!” but its too late. Sometimes people must just learn their own lessons.
Behold the Discovery Channel’s lemon slice and bonehead fiance all rolled into one:
It has been said over and over by her former opponents in Alaska, “Don’t underestimate Sarah Palin.” I would submit that you should also not underestimate those who do not underestimate Sarah Palin. The campaign against the Discovery Channel’s new program “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” which features one of the most infamous and controversial wildlife eradicating ex-half-governors on the planet, has been stunning.
Apparently many people were paying attention, and found it a tad ironic that someone who was involved in suing the federal government over listing polar bears and Cook Inlet beluga whales as threatened species, encouraging the aerial hunting of wolves, gassing of wolf pups, snaring of bears, and shooting cubs should have a warm fuzzy “ain’t it beautiful” show on the Discovery Channel. After all, the last nice thing we heard from Palin about Alaska wildlife was in her book Going Rogue where she told us how great wildlife was… next to the mashed potatoes. Now she’s on some kind of metaphorical beach walk, stepping gingerly over the bodies of sea turtles in her Naughty Monkey pumps telling us to keep drillin’ because “every human endeavor involves risk.”
An online petition has already garnered more than half a million signatures in opposition to the program. The Facebook pages and Twitter feeds of Animal Planet, Discovery, and TLC have been swamped with comments of outrage. Now, the latest protest has come in the shape of bus shelter ads, metro station ads, and even a giant banner. all surrounding the headquarters of Discovery, just in time for their shareholders meeting on May 5. Ouch.
Defenders of Wildlife has led the charge in an attempt to get Discovery to drop the show. Their action page contains links to the petition site, and links to share the story via a variety of social media. Join the party HERE.
WOW, that is one serious ad.
The link on the word “Ouch” will take you to all the ads. Very powerful.
chilling and very powerful. did you post these elsewhere? …huffpost? thx
AKM, please, please, please cross post this at Huffpo! Let’s take it viral!
Wow. Those ads are heartbreaking. Perfect for what needs to be done.
The ads are amazing and chilling. I signed and sent a donation and posted it to facebook. It’s amazing how things can take off once they hit facebook or twitter and I’m sure I’m not the only one posting the link.
I can only hope someone at Discovery listens. Thanks AKM
I wouldn’t hold my breath. If enough nutjobs tune in so that the show is profitable, they won’t care who gets pissed off. Look for an advertiser boycott to send them a message that sinks in.
Please join in….we have entire sponsor list posted and have been targeting them also. Sadly, Palin herself, is paying Discovery as a sponsor also.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=112214718799023&ref=ts
yea DOW! we can’t quit, right? …the other side is supernaturally relentless…I can’t continue to feel hopeless, like nobody hears us!
I’m especially ‘down’ b/c I just tried to make oatmeal cookies…tastes like some ingredient was missing…tastes like crap…threw them out! I blame recipe.:)
It’s ok, try try again! I’m sure the next batch will be delicious!!
this came to mind when I blamed the recipe…I added another definition for pullin’ a palin:
‘blaming everybody but yourself”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/pullin-a-palin-now-in-the_n_228545.html
Sounds like the time I made a lemon pie and forgot to add sugar. I didn’t realize I had left out the sugar until the next time I made it. At first I blamed it on the eggs…they must have been bad.
It was also the first time my new in-laws came to dinner. I couldn’t believe they ate their slices of pie…that’s southerns for ya’…
I just made some yesterday! Yummmmmm.
Try adding just a couple tablespoons of molasses — really good.
thanks, I will have to give this another go. It was the first time I used cooked whole oats…don’t know what happened. ;-o
You know that recipe on the back of chocolate drops for making chocolate chip cookies? (Nestle’s Tollhouse I think they were called) -
Use a half cup less flour and add one cup (dry) rolled oats. Perfect every time. Especially if you leave in the choc chips and walnuts!
(BTW, don’t pre-cook the oatmeal. The best results come from using rolled oats – the oats you’d use to make the kids brekkie – and use them dry, right out of the box.)
Good luck!
Oh boy! I’ll bet they were a mess!
Reminds me of telling my brother how to make a baked potato: wash it, poke some holes in it with a fork, microwave it for about 8 minutes then finish off in the oven at 350 to finish it off and crisp up the skin. A few weeks later I asked him how his baked potato came out. He said “fine, but I can’t get the soap taste off the skin. You TOLD me to wash it!”
Or you can do what I do – use the recipe on the back of the Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate chip package and leave out all the ingredients except the chocolate chips. Yum. My favorite snack and I cut the calories by just having the chocolate chips.
we made meatloaf the other night and usually use bread crumbs, but didn’t have any, so we used rolled oats instead…and it was the BEST meatloaf ever!
I got so confused by this thread that I made meatloaf the other night and used chocolate chips instead of bread crumbs!
LOL
Sarah Palin…it’s just how we’re wired. Youbetcha, you horse’s ass (or moose’s ass in your case).
With the way the new delivery system works, I don’t see the whole article, so when I read “The creation of Sarah Palin’s new wildlife show on The Discovery Channel was like watching a baby about to suck on a lemon, or your best friend walking down the aisle with ….”
… and my head filled in the blank with “Freddy Krueger”.
Now after seeing the D of W’s ad, maybe that’s not too far off the mark.
I too hope they listen. I am sooooooo tired of having to say “I told you so!” when it comes to SP, because if they would just listen to us, it would save them a lot of time and money and then they wouldn’t have to raise their advertising rates (causing those product prices to increase) and the companies wouldn’t have to up your monthly charges (or at least not so much so fast) causing you to drop them and go back to rabbit ears which suits you fine because you know ABC, CBS and NBC all had the good sense to tell her to go take a metaphorical if not literal hike.
Toxic Sarah.
$arah Palin of dead Lake Lucille.
Hope Disc Chn can Moose Up and admit hiring $$Palin might be a HUGE mistake.
Wow indeed. Those are powerful.
those are some kicka$$ posters — i think i love the wildlife federation. everyone be sure to sign the petition and add your own two cents.
Defender’s of Wildlife doesn’t pull any punches. I first heard of them here AKM and have been donating ever
since then. The wolf issues were the first really terrible things I heard about her and that was enough for me.
Thank you AKM, makes me feel like I can make a little bit of a difference by supporting them.
ditto
Well done, Defenders of Wildlife! I wouldn’t want to be a shareholder seeing that!
Watching the twit who quit is like water-boarding.
I guess I’m too accustomed to the taste of fresh, tree-ripened lemons to get upset about a baby biting into one. Now seeing a baby with a chile pepper …
Those ads are good. I think they’ll compel some second thoughts from Discovery. I put two of Defenders of Wildlife’s videos on my Youtube channel last year, and they still are drawing very emotional comments. I think Palin and Cheney stand alone in their ability to offend sensibilities in such a profound way that the anger they evoke can be considered traumatic.
I got a call from them today and we had a very in depth conversation about “her-want-to-be-majesty” and although I responded to the call that our financial resources have been committed to our upcoming trip to the gulf coast to dispose of deceased wildlife and to try to rescue those creatures we can, they were determined to go ahead with these posters.
Good on them!
Were we not already stretching our resources to go to our polluted beaches in the South(and possibly East), I would TOTALLY sponsor one of these ads!
tawd worked for BP…BP had many violations under her tenure as oil czar-ass and gover’not. BP comitted CRIMES and is on PROBATION in AK. Still, also too.
wow!,,i didn’t know that.interesting.
This is capitalism at work. Palin of course will miss the connection.
The product on offer is a show on Discovery Channel with Palin, the consumers are clearly not happy. The shareholders will in turn have to weigh risking Discovery’s stock price falling and them losing money on their portfolio. So….will they stay with the product? Or listen to the consumers and supply something that everyone actually wants?
If they do not – then they lose customers and everyone, including Palin, loses money. Welcome to Capitalism, Sarah. The invisible hand of the market forces can, sometimes, smack you up side your head.
Uh wow. Those posters really lay it out.
It’s the truth and it’s about time people started seeing more of that.
Please take a look at the Discovery website. While they sponsor many channels that feature fine nature programs (and some of my husband’s favorites “Mythbusters” and “How It’s Made”), they sponsor a number of channels and programs, good and bad.
Sarah’s program is headed to TLC, The Learning Channel. Now, please visit them, and see for yourself what a bunch of TV schlock they pass off as “learning.” There is little on The Learning Channel that mirrors the nature programming on the other channels.
I wish that the dead wolves had traction over at TLC, but considering their other subject matter, the wolves will be a hit. I think that we also have to direct our efforts at refusing to buy anything that their sponsors are offering. Moral issues, yes, and pocket book issues, yes, also, too.
I agree. Threatening to boycott the sponsors would get more attention than just boycotting the show.
This is about the Discovery Channel committing fraud by producing a nature show with Sarah Palin.
If they wanted to give her a hunting show on the outdoor network, it would at least be honest.
The bottom line is she is intentionally extremely divisive. Any business that wants to give her money and visibility should be made aware that she offends many people. They need to consider how that reflects on their product.
yep…I’m with boycotting the sponsors
You sure hit the nail on the head! TLC, home of Kate Gosselin and her 8 children who support her, the Duggars, members of the Quiverfull cult. Oh no, I don’t watch that channel any more. May have to look for lists of sponsors of the Palin Fiasco.
Learn to “Kill and Spill”….
Time to tell Mike Rowe that I have a dirty job… that of telling one of his advertisers that I will no longer watch anything on Discover and, consequently, not his show due to them giving Palin a show.
Man’s got to know his limits.
Damn. I rather like Mike Rowe, the few times I’ve see him (generally at the in-laws, where the teevee has to be on something, and “Dirty Jobs” is at least interesting). Nevertheless.
Yippee! I’ve been signing every petition I can find from day one! I feel great!
Well , basically , they f^*ked up.
So where do I log on to send Defenders of Wildlife a few hundred dollars? I suspect the corporate officers at Discovery are doing a “u betch ya” when they vote to tell the executives they are dropping her like a hot rock.
Hell, I’ll do one better. I’ll match my donation to the DOW to National Geographic if this can end Sarah’s diatribe on the Discovery Network.
Damn, I love the power of the people.
WHOA !!
Danny Young , is that you from the grave ??
Damn!!! and i love you…. thanks……. bubs
Discovery needs to know that there is a price to hiring Sarah Palin beyond her paycheck. I wrote them weeks ago informing them that I WILL boycott any and all sponsors of her show. I don’t have cable, specifically because I refuse to put even 1¢ of my own money in Rupert Murdoch’s pockets. However, if à la carte choices for cable come to pass, I would probably get cable, minus FauxNews (and Fox anything), AND minus Discovery Channel anything.
Aside from her repugnant environmental record, she has openly encouraged her sheeple flock to engage in acts of violence against her perceived political enemies. She is a liar, a narcissistic grifter, a failed ethically challenged partial former governor, and an imbecilic clod. Why the hell would Discovery want to associate itself with her?
She doesn’t stop.
http://www.abc15.com/content/entertainment/localevents/story/Sarah-Palin-returns-to-the-Valley-for-Phoenix/FvfNNpbMHk-MaRJK0s5IKg.cspx
PHOENIX — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will soon be returning to the Valley, this time as the keynote speaker for the Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservations Second Annual Heritage Banquet.
Governor Palin, who is also an avid hunter and angler, will share her views on wildlife conservation and the importance of protecting Arizona’s hunting and fishing heritage for future generations of sportsmen.
Pete Cimellaro, the Heritage Banquet Chairman, said that there is perhaps no one better than Palin to speak about their organization’s goals and to serve as a role model for women and families to participate in the state’s wildlife conservation efforts.
Cimellaro praises Palin’s successes in showing the country that hunting, fishing and conservation is an important part of the lives of millions of Americans.
The event will take place at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on Saturday, May 15 with the dinner program starting at 5:30 p.m.
AARRGGHH! As if we don’t have enough problems with racist immigration laws and asshat sheriffs, now we have to have the quitter queen too? It is just too damn much!
She was in Tx last and I am so glad she is gone, There was hardly anything in the news about it. I bet she was shocked.
s/h said “last week”
Maybe this is a new trend of media just plain getting sick of the same old same old from her. Danger is that she will amp up her vile rhetoric to get noticed. But then again, the more cynical she becomes, the more people will be turned off.
This is pretty good timing cuz Palin won’t be able to help herself. She’ll screech and snark and bark her way thru the AZ and IL speeches cuz she’s pisssed about DOW slamming her. It should give the Discovery execs an earful of what kind of person they are signing on with. Maybe that will further persuade them to cancel her stupid show on their network.
i am glad to hear that… think Texans have had enough?
She must have some bills to pay cuz she is EVERYWHERE! She’ll be in my Chicago next week! UGH!!!
Ewwww, where? I did hear that Kirk and all the other Repub politicians are somehow “otherwise engaged”. Too bad, we were so looking forward to pics-with-Palin to bap them over the head with during the upcoming campaigns.
Hope she gets asked for her citizenship papers while she is there!
I, too, can pretend I know stuff, speaking in a way that’s hard to follow and tell people what they think they want to hear…for the big fat paycheck! there’s a ton of gullible, desperate people in this world, and palin preys on them and they love it!
You know, with Sarah’s limited command and obvious difficulty with English, I’d say any Arizona trooper would be within his rights to pull her over and demand proof of citizenship, also, too, you betcha.
She could be an illegal Canadian dontchaknow.
I sincerely hope the execs at Discovery are paying attention – but I’m always afraid that all they can see is their bottom line – and right now Sarah still draws that portion of viewers who would otherwise watch Gilligan’s Island reruns somewhere else.
Television execs don’t care what sort of person they attract just that they attract lots of them *sigh*
Hey! I’d watch Gilligan’s Island reruns! Wouldn’t watch anything with the former half-term gov tho, especially not something so hypocritical as a nature show. I might watch a news clip of her embarassing herself; that’s even funnier thanGilligan stepping on the Professor’s coconut radio!
I clicked on “Ouch” and I don’t think I will be able to sleep after seeing that. I wrote Discovery Communications a couple of weeks ago and told them I couldn’t believe they would give Ms. Palin a platform on a channel dedicated to science and discovery. She doesn’t believe in either of them and furthermore, she disagrees with almost all of what they probably air. I’ve signed all the petitions, sent a letter to Discovery, and will boycott the channel and any sponsors that back this craziness. I can’t wrap my brain around a teevee show with Sarah Palin pontificating about the beauty and nature of Alaska on the Discovery Channel. It does not compute. (Will she bring up the “drill baby drill” mantra during these tapings?
I signed the petition, I called, I emailed and I am considering a campaign of harassment if the production crew is anywhere near me…Sarah Palin is the Spawn of Satan…
Satan treats his spawn very well. power,wealth,approbation…all these things can be yours if you will just kneel down and worship Him……..uh…..here Satan here . doggonnit!! where IS that Satan fellow.(make smiley).
So where do we find out who the Discovery Channel sponsors are? I tried searching it, but didn’t find them. I want to start RIGHT NOW boycotting any sponsors who sign on to Sarah Palin’s vicious and phony posturing. Palin is perfect at Faux news because everything about her is Faux.
I, too, was looking for such a list if it is available without actually watching the Learning Channel. I will certainly boycott sponsors attached to this effort. Please post if you know a source.
The show hasn’t gone into production yet so there aren’t any sponsors. I’m hoping that the shareholder’s meeting today will result in the show being pulled from the channel’s “go” list. If not, it will take some time to find out who the sponsors will be – if the channel can find any.
Sarah is doing the voice over on the show and most of the footage will come from film the channel already has – just recycled from other shows. That means there won’t be much actually happening in AK with regards the show.
the learning channel is owned in part by Murdock and also some billionaire from Saudi Arabia.
boycott fox news and it’s sponsors. same difference..i would love to see Murdock stripped his citizenship and made to divest himself of fox and all other communication entities in this country.
Typical Palin…lots of money for little actual work. Wonder how pleased Fox is with spending a million busks to turn her living room into a TV studio and then her running around everywhere BUT home to make more money? I thought she quit because she loved her kids so much? And typical Fox…let’s run old footage and call it new…this network needs to go away.
I hope McCain is having a lot of buyers’ remorse over this devil woman he sent to the lower 48. She is vindictive, narcissistic, an habitual liar, and a pimp for the oil industry. I just shake my head when I read posts from her supporters about how she “speaks from the heart,” and “talks about real solutions.” Huh? Are we listening to the same woman? I guess they think she writes her FACEBOOK policy posts, too. The ones that actually are in English and occasionally in proper paragraph form? The giveaway there was the word “naivete.” I doubt she could even pronounce it, since she cannot say “nuclear.”
I give no credence to a quitter who refuses any questions that she hasn’t been pre-coached with the answer, and refuses to sit down with anyone not in Murdoch’s employ to have a conversation. She is a fraud, and the sooner we can get her off the national scene, the better for the US.
Susan, that part of the latest Facebook post that used the word naivete’ was quoted on Olbermann (last night’s I think) and when the quote came up on the screen with the correct French diacritical mark (unlike mine) I nearly shouted at Mr. Terps “She did NOT write that!”. She knows the word naive, but I doubt she would know how to pronounce ‘naivete’ correctly if she came across it in a book.
I crack myself up. As if she’d be reading a book with an ‘elitist’ word like that in it.
I had a lovely late afternoon lunch with my daughter. She and hubby don’t have a working TV so she wasn’t aware of the scope of the oil spill. When I told her, she had tears in her eyes. I didn’t mean to make her cry, but that was my first reaction as well. It’s nice to know that my 28 year old and her 31 year old sister are caring people who love and respect wildlife and the environment.
the actual event isn’t funny at all, but David Letterman made a joke tonight, something like (don’t quote me): the number of dead wildlife caused by the Gulf oil spill could equal the number of dead wildlife from one sarah palin hunting trip.
Gov. Sarah Palin’s “Discovery” documentary series will be a joy & delight for her fans, a ratings bonanza for Discovery Channel, and a gold mine for her sponsors. Bring it on!
I’m guessing that Palin’s show will focus more on people and places than wildlife. Perhaps TLC needs to be made aware of her record of (not) taking care of people in rural Alaska during her short time in office. She’ll lie about all she did for them during their time of need (after all having someone else bake those cookies was a lot of work)…Alaskans need to set the record straight about the fraud who pretended to care about others.
Is there any way we can make a donation in Sarah Palin’s name? (I believe this was done once before with another non-profit).
Seriously, in light of her recent comments about Drill here…Drill now…can they be serious about promoting this woman for a show about Alaska (considering the oil spill in Alaska and the destruction there).
I have already started boycotting ANY and ALL Discovery Channels. I will boycott ANY and ALL advertisers to sponsor this toxic program.
Don’t forget to call today to voice your objection.
Defenders of Wildlife has done a great job on this matter? How come we are not seeing a big effort by other Earth friendly organizations. Palin’s destruction isn’t limited to wildlife…it’s anything to do with nature.
Palin reminds me of the evil CEO in Avatar who is wiling to destroy anything and everything in his quest for the valuable mineral (in Palin’s case…oil) that brings almighty dollar. Destroying nature, a sacred culture, wildlife, people…anything to get the almighty dollar.
Palin’s latest statements about “trusting big oil” is frightening. It’s obvious that she is not “for the people” but has been bought and paid for by big oil.
Discovery should think hard about this…as should any advertiser considering sponsoring her program.
She trusts Big Oil and Big Business because that’s where the $$$$$ is.
That is the sum total of her parts – $$$$$. She’ll say anything, endorse anyone, support any cause for $$$$$. She has no convictions whatsoever. Bought and paid for to the highest bidder.
well said!!!
I think it’s the other way around. Cameron had people like Sarah Palin in his mind when he created the script. She is a great role model for that character.
I thought the same thing when I saw Avatar. I’m sure that Cameron had some very specific real people in mind for the various characters, especially the evil ones pretending to be the good guys. It was masterful. But I don’t think fans of SP or Bush or their ilk saw the parallel. They seem blinded to any criticism of their idols, so I’m not sure they will actually believe anything on the posters about Sarah.
However, the sponsors might pay more attention – that comes down to dollars for them as well. And if that’s what it takes (boycotting them), then we need a list.
Yes. How true.
Boycott – Check
Donate – Check
Match donation by employer – Check (love that one)
OMG, listen to her latest tweet.
“Gulf: learn from Alaska’s lesson w/foreign oil co’s: don’t naively trust- VERIFY. Livelihood affected by spill?Don’t sign away remedy rightsless than a minute ago via OpenBeak”
I thought Todd worked with BP for the last twenty years!
How is that diplomatically, foreignally policy thingy working out for you Granny….sez I reading from the poor man’s teleprompter. (That is my excuse for the spelling).
Sorry, wrong thread. I’ll move it to the open thread.
Signed and sent to others. Thank you so much for the link! It does my heart good to see how dedicated and inspiring others are.
My favorite line of hers is when she says she’s “representing the typical, hard-working American.” No kidding? I don’t anyone who made 12 million dollars in nine months by telling lies in stilettos. I don’t know anyone with a special needs toddler who leaves him thousands of miles away with her sister to raise. I don’t know anyone who does so little for so much money. I don’t know anyone who thinks so little of this country that they belittle the elected government every time they open their mouth. Only Queen Sarah.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THE IQ OF SP, AS WELL, THE PHONY INTERVIEW OF SP, BY THE CANADIAN RADIO GUYS! sorry for the shouting
It’s like asking Hitler to do a documentary supporting Israel.
She will eat her young on tv if she can make a buck from it.
As if most of the people on this thread won’t watch at least one episode of the show. It’s like a train wreck, you can’t possibly look away. I am certain we’ll be treated to highlights on themudflats as well.
The real question is whether a sponsor would like their brand associated with a train wreck. And whether the Discovery Channel would like a nature show sponsored by a gun company. Or whether an outdoors equipment manufacturer wants their backpacks and outerwear associated with a gun-nut hunter.
God: ” Sarah, you shouldn’t have quit as governor. I needed you to meet the needs of the people of Emmonak. Violence has risen and I needed you to stop it. Corruption is abounding in my beautiful state. ”
Palin: (blink)………….(crickets chirping)……………………….(blink)
Beelzebub: ” Mrs. Palin….your bus and your check is waiting. The TeaBaggers Rally is about to begin. and you’re having dinner with Rupert, Michelle and Glen. Your new slogan will be, ” How’s that hopey changey thing workin’ out for ya. Don’t forget the Discovery Show. ”
Palin: ” You betcha! Let’s go rogue!………………………….my check is…..where?….. ”
Beelzebub’s Assistant: ” Didn’t take much for this one to fall, Boss. ”
Beelzebub: ” Next.”
When is the Discovery channel Palin cluster-badword scheduled to start airing?