It’s official. You will now be able to not just watch Sarah Palin offering sage political advice on Fox News, but then switch over to Discovery Channel to watch her new reality show. In a reported $1 million per episode deal, Discovery will feature interesting people and things in Alaska with Palin as the guide.
The show is the brain-child of reality-TV rainmaker Mark Burnett and “will center on interesting characters, traditions and attractions in the 49th state – with the ex-VP candidate as a guide.”
My immediate reaction to this news is how far the Discovery Channel has descended into cultural junk. The channel was once a fascinating collection of shows on science-related subjects that elevated the overall quality of television. As with the History Channel (discussed earlier) with such mindless shows as Ax Men and Ice Road Truckers, Discovery now shows such junk television as American Chopper and Ghost Lab. The Channel has gone from featuring the likes of Carl Sagan to Sarah Palin. That is a study in de-evolution.
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Won’t it be fun to listen to Sarah explain how 5 separate tectonic plates have pushed together in just the last 6000 years to form all the mountain ranges in Alaska?
And to try to explain how the early American Indian ancestors swam the freezing Baring Sea to settle Alaska 6000 years ago and then spread aaaaaaal the way to Tiera del Fuego in just 6000 years.
Oh yeah, and how they killed off all the dinosaurs and turned them into stoney fossils, but left the buffalo, and elk, and wolves and Fire ants and eagles and, and, and did all that in just 6000 years in just 6000 years.
Tootie:
“I can understand why after having sex with each other leftists need the option of abortion.”
isnt that a bit harsh?
Palin is fulla ya betchas and ya knows, etc
There is a petition to boycott the Discovery Networks.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/21/boycott-the-discovery-channel-networks
Live Video of the event: Just started @ 15:42 EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/26/palin-mccain-rally-in-ari_n_515026.html
“Sarah Palin stumps for McCain today”
(especially if she is wearing high heel shoes)
“As our Gannett colleagues at The Arizona Republic report, it’s the first McCain-Palin joint campaign appearance since the 2008 presidential contest.”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/sarah-palin-stumps-for-mccain-today/1
Mike A.–
So sorry to find out you’re one-a-them Ivy League elitists who has brought this once great country of ours to rack and ruin. For shame!
Thanks, Tootie. Now I feel like a complete failure. I’ve got an Ivy League degree and all I get to run is the lawn sprinkler. However, anyone who calls me “prissy” will get the snot beaten out of him. So there.
“There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.”
Edmund Burke
I notice Eddie didn’t bring knowledge to that equation. Wisdom is but lessons learned in acquiring knowledge. As I’ve pointed out elsewhere – not all lessons take with all students. Recognizing that some are less capable of learning does not mean that the stupidest and least educated should rule by default.
Tootie,
I think you missed the point, but hey, keep attacking people rather than arguments, that’ll show everyone your moral superiority.
Gyges:
The thing about scarecrows: They are wussy, fraudulent, dried-up push-overs of puffed-up, bug-ridden, tinder who think they contain the life-blood of the real McCoy.
The crows sit and poop on them.
Tootie,
I’m producing a modern day version of Don Quixote, in which the hero declares himself victorious after defeating a field full of scarecrows. Based on your performance in this thread, I’d like to ask you to audition for the lead.
Oh, I’m reading a good book, it’s called “Idiot America: How Stupid People Got Ivy League Degrees And Went On To Run and Ruin America”.
“There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.”
Edmund Burke
There is only one person in DC who meets that criteria: Ron Paul
Buddha–
“If you’re going to do your homework, Tootie, it must be complete or no credit will be given. Remember to show your work.”
Love that second sentence!
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The book I’m currently reading: “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” by Charles P. Pierce. I wonder why the book came to mind when reading this post about Palin????? 🙂
There was something else mespo said Tootie.
“If there is such a party, please prove it ‘wanted’ her to do something like you suggest.”
If you’re going to do your homework, Tootie, it must be complete or no credit will be given. Remember to show your work.
Furthermore, it seems to me if you rob a bank, you don’t get to “unrob” it, so-to-speak.
And that seems to be the moral framework pro-abortionists would like us to accept.
Stupid leftists don’t know when the “choice” should be made.
This is why they need a “do over”.
I can understand why after having sex with each other leftists need the option of abortion.
you=you are*
mespo: You know of no such party?
Well, at least you honest about what you do not know.