Sarah Palin's Alaska First Look (found this clip posted on NPR)

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 00:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsydVZbw5o8   Posted on YouTube: April 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: waitwaitdtm Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 01, 2010 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 1624

 

[SharonRB]

1. I can't listen to the voice. n/t

[Wickerman]

2. cute

and well done.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. It IS a parody right?

Because holy shit if anything could turn me into a vegetarian, this twit could do it

[tabatha]

3. good grief, how lame

brainless, and kitschy

[BuckeyeX]

4. Aaron Copland

After listening to Sarah's soundtrack, I wonder if she knows that Aaron Copland was gay?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. She said foot-long hot dogs twice

Freudian slip?

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. a whitewash for caribou barbie

That Mark Burnette would produce this new "reality" series makes me now wonder how good of friends he is with his fellow countryman Mr. Murdoch.

Its using all the power of television to rebrand Palin as just a down home all American goody two shoes mum who just happens to be running for office in the future. Hitting all the right notes of God, Guns, and Country that will play great in rural America.

I am guessing they won't be having on any casualties from her political career. Burnette will make sure there are no turkeys in the background.

I wonder if a national network would have allowed a 6 part reality series about the life of Obama, how he grew up and beat the odds etc.. done completely one-sided, leaving out anything controversial. And run this fluff piece during the time many were speculating he may run for President.

Its her only way to win, and I am personally afraid it may work. I know because I am a reality TV junky to some degree. I know how you can get invested in personalities and depending on how the producers/editors decide to shape a character by leaving out some shots and including others, you can feel empathy for some and feel you know them. But this knowing is all based on being shaped into a character either good or bad by the shows producers. The power of TV is astounding. I fear this is a way to mold Sarah's image into some kind of small town saint, who has a sense of humour and whos family is, gosh darn it, just like my family.

[zeemike]

7. And that is the hypnotic effect of TV

It really does get into your head whether you know it or not, or whether you know that it does.
Keep projecting an image over and over and it becomes real even if we know it is not.

[1American]

8. Palin's Alaska

WHAT? This from the ex-"governor" who quit the Alaskan people to persue personal gain?
WHAT? This is the woman who espouses democracy yet insults Alaskans by not fulfilling her duties?
WHAT? This is the far-right selectee by old man McCain to run for vice president?
WHAT? This is the person who believes in witch craft yet disbelieves evolution?
WHAT? This is the woman who has her daughter raise her child along with her own?
WHAT? This is the woman who eggs on the tea party yet disavows them?
WHAT? This is the woman who calls herself a Republican yet is fighting to replace it?
WHAT? This is the woman who clearly wantS to establish a right-wing religious theocracy?
WHAT? This is the woman who accused Obama of "paling around with terrorists" yet courts the KKK and skinheads?

WHAT? DOESN'T HER RHETORIC SOUND AN AWFUL LIKE HITLER'S IN PRE-WAR GERMANY?

[thereismore]

9. Well done! Twice bigger than Piper... and just as tasty? nt