Sarah Palin is co hosting the Today show next week? OMG

[mfcorey1]

I can hear the clicking remotes as they switch channels.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/04/01/today-show-flips-out-brings-in-sarah-palin-surprise-guest-to-ward-off-katie-couric/

NBC and the “Today” show are flipping out over Katie Couric guest hosting ABC’s “Good Morning America” this week. On Tuesday, “Today” will use Sarah Palin, failed candidate for many things, to try and blunt Couric. Couric, of course, is credited or blamed with derailing Palin with a famous interview on the “CBS Evening News” in which Palin couldn’t name a newspaper she read for information. NBC is so angry that Couric–who co-hosted “Today” f0r years–is going to be opposing them, they’ve chosen this path. It may do them more harm than good since the average “Today” viewer is certainly not a Palin follower. She’s a Fox News creation. But “Today” is suddenly being portrayed as in ratings trouble, and Ann Curry seems to be getting the blame. It’s very unlike the “Today” show to be defensive. Meanwhile they’re touting a surprise guest for tomorrow– “A legend returns”–is how they’re billing it. Is it one of their prior hosts–Jane Pauley or Bryant Gumbel? Is it John Legend? Is it J. Fred Muggs? (You’re too young to know a chimp actually co-hosted “Today” in the 1950s. Really.) And then, to make things more interesting, Oprah is coming to see Gayle King on rival “CBS Morning News.” This is after King swore to me in my Parade interview that Oprah would not be a guest there for some time. It’s been less than 90 days since King and Charlie Rose took over that show. So all bets are off, everywhere.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. What? Why are they letting that twit host?

Seems odd to me, but whatever floats their boat I guess.

[mfcorey1]

3. M perry seems to think it is to counter Couric's co hosting

of Good Morning America. All about ratings.

[One of the 99]

6. So it is Katie vs. Sarah again?

I do have to say that I would love to see Palin knocking back a few with Hoda and Kathie Lee.

[newspeak]

18. the only reason people like ann coulter and sarah palin are still around

to spew absolutely ignorant things is because the media gives them validation. So, what does that say about our mcpravda today? I think murdoch has helped shape a media that is shallow, low information, ignorant and sometimes absolutely mean. Oh, and I especially like how some news outlets have salesmen pitching certain products on the news.

And, now I know how the author came up with the Hunger Games. A story in between the decadent, cruel roman empire and the current faux shallow reality shows. And what is disturbing about the hunger games is most of the people becoming immune to such brutality, cruelty. Where vanity and materialism is prevalent. I can see sarah palin, with that maniacal smile as the game show host.

[freshwest]

4. Just mainstreaming fascists, just like the 'nature' channel did with their 'Sarah Does Alaska' show.

[HipChick]

30. Anything for ratings...this must be a slap in the face for actual journalists

[FarPoint]

2. Oh for Chrissake!

[freshwest]

5. Her worshippers will believe it's for 'Christ's Sake.' Don't think 'Jesus' would, though...

[mfcorey1]

7. I wonder if Forbes is doing an April Fool or is this for real?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Gotta be April Fools.

[cindyperry2010]

9. are we sure this

isn't an april fools joke?

[mfcorey1]

10. Well, here is a link to the Today Show website. Seems that it is true.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/

[global1]

22. The Only April Fools Will Be The One's Watching Her......nt

[onehandle]

11. Time to write angry letters, folks. nt

[ewagner]

13. look at today's date n/t

[onehandle]

21. This is Forbes, not some lousy Gawker site.

I hope is a ruse, but I see no evidence of that yet.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Melissa Harris Perry just talked about this on MSNBC

so I don't think it's a joke. That NBC is foisting Palin on an audience that largely hates her just to get back at Couric is strange. Is NBC doing this for sensationalistic purposes (like putting a talking parrot on the air as a host) to increase ratings or out of spite? It kind of shows disrespect to NBC's audience to put a much disliked braindead fool on the show as the host.

[CTyankee]

36. Oh, so THAT was the prank that MHP's staff played on her!

I had just tuned in and wondered what that was all about. She was laughing about it and saying she was gonna get 'em for that! Then there was a camera shot of the producer in the control room laughing his head off!

Cute...

[Ecumenist]

14. Next week, the sounds of gunshots to televisions are shot and screens shattering, will ring

throughout the land.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. The Late Night Comedians are going to have a field day with this one

Palin can't go ten seconds without a gaffe. Letting her co-host an entire show will be a treasure trove of hilarious moments.

I won't watch but I do look forward to others reporting on it.

[otohara]

16. Half The Country Will Tune Out

well, half the country of people who still watch the Today show.

Remember when everybody watched it in the 80's....Jane Pauly, Bryant Gumble

[Kalidurga]

17. Impeccable timing with this announcement...

I will wait til tomorrow to see if the joke is on the American public or the Today show.

[mfcorey1]

19. According to the show's website, she will host on Tuesday. nt

[Kalidurga]

20. Then I would wager the joke is on

the Today Show.

[global1]

23. Maybe They'll Let Her Do The Former Lauer Piece......

"Where In The World Is Sarah Palin?"

[K Gardner]

24. So, NBC is trying to "mainstream" Sarah Palin? Aren't they part of the 'elite liberal

media'?

This is really disgusting. NBC has always been my choice for "nightly news" at 6:30. I don't watch any of the big three morning or talk shows.

But from now on, my 6:30 viewership will go elsewhere.

[southernyankeebelle]

26. Don't let her fool you. She has always wanted to be party of the MSM. She is a fake as a governor

and fake as a christain

[alp227]

47. Try CBS with Scott Pelley or better yet the PBS NewsHour.

PBS NewsHour can be seen live 6-7pm Eastern at www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour

Or on most PBS stations in the Eastern Time Zone.

[Odin2005]

25. April Fools???

[intheflow]

31. That's what I'm hoping!

[Cirque du So-What]

27. 'Others stopping by Studio 1A...

...include Giuliana and Bill Rancic, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman, Kim Kardashian, the Duggars, Tori Spelling and Nicki Minaj, who will perform live.'

C'mon!

[tanyev]

28. "So, [guest I am interviewing], how was your experience affected by ME?"

She's going to make it all about herself.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

29. Will she use a teleprompter or her hand?

[hexola]

32. I've been saying all along - she is not a conservative...

I think she wants to go back to her original profession - broadcasting - and, hang out in NYC...with a more liberal crowd.

Who could blame her...?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

33. It is April Fool's day

Whether this is true or not, it's apropos.

[Gregorian]

34. I wonder if the FCC will fine them for showing their boob.

Real nitwit tv. If you're a regular viewer, now's the time to turn it off. If you don't watch, maybe this is real entertainment.

[wendylaroux]

35. APRIL FOOLS!!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. The first comments on the NBC site date from Saturday afternoon

sodakhic

Sarah Palin, the most exciting female in the world.

Reply#1 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:46 PM EDT

A J Billings

Exciting to the 80 year old guys in wheelchairs maybe

#1.1 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:55 PM EDT

amwa-4124402

I guess you lead a very dull life.

#1.2 - Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:28 PM EDT

http://allday.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/31/10959821-this-week-on-today-secret-legend-to-visit-sarah-palin-to-co-host

[Beaverhausen]

42. those comments are great!

[polly7]

41. Ah geez ................ ! nt.

[lunatica]

37. Crap!

I got taken again!

drat!

[Beaverhausen]

39. She will quit midway through Wednesday's show you betcha

[polly7]

40. I don't know the show. Do they have audience members?

Maybe they'll all be supplied with those really big foam hands you can write on.

[alp227]

45. just a morning show, no audience.

It's serious news for the first 30-60 minute then entertainment and living and other filler the other 3 hours.

[wendylaroux]

43. oh wait

this is true.

[alp227]

44. Jay Leno did a better job guest hosting in '03

[UTUSN]

46. I like that it is likey a disaster. nT

[BigDemVoter]

48. I tuned the Today Show out L-O-N-G ago. . . .

It's more like a televised "People Magazine"-- long on celebrity gossip and SHORT on anything of substance. How appropriate.

[spanone]

49. this is how america mainstreams radicals....make them appear normal

[unkachuck]

50. "Sarah Palin is co hosting the Today show..."

....better to have her hangin' with lauer, curry and roker than out loose on the street....