Right, can we all just accept that Sarah Palin is probably going to be the next American president, please?
No, we don’t like it either. But let’s just brace ourselves for the worst, OK? That way, when Sarah Palin does become president it won’t be a shock, like dying of a heart attack; it’ll be something that we’ve all planned for, like dying of an inoperable brain tumour.
Why are we so sure that Sarah Palin is going to end up as president? Because it looks like she’s going to get a reality TV show made about her life, that’s why. And there’s no fighting back against marketing that powerful. Not unless Barack Obama strikes back fast with The Mr President Laffstravaganza Variety Hour. Which he should. Do what’s in your heart, Mr President.
Remember when the Palin family were fun? You know, when Bristol Palin was just a girl who couldn’t keep it in her pants and Sarah Palin was just a woman who would definitely never win any elections because she thought that Earth was created by a fairy six weeks ago and, rather than read any newspapers, she preferred to pay a circus clown and a pantomime horse to act out the day’s current events for her every morning. Good times, good times.
But times have changed. Somehow – and we’re really not sure how – the Palins have figured out how to use the media. Just last week we told you that Bristol Palin had snared a role in a TV show about pregnant teenagers, and now Sarah Palin has launched a media onslaught of her own.
Palin was one of the first guests on Jay Leno‘s depressingly reanimated Tonight Show, and she used the show as a platform for – and we promise we’re not make this up – her stand-up comedy skills. It basically meant that everyone had to sit through a few minutes of Sarah Palin lifelessly retelling jokes that other people had already told about her, but in a less funny way. Which was bad enough, but at least it was short. It’s not like she was trying to sell a Sarah Palin reality show at the same time, was it?
It was? Oh sweet baby Jesus, no. Reuters reports:
The former Alaska governor is teaming with uber-producer Mark Burnett to shop a reality series about her home state. Palin and Burnett made the rounds at least three of the major broadcasters (NBC, ABC and Fox) while in Los Angeles this week. Palin and her family would be on-camera in the show, which one executive described as “‘Planet Earth’ meets Alaska meets her family.”
Planet Earth? OK, we take it all back – that sounds awesome. But only if it’s the bit from Planet Earth where all the chimpanzees kill each other and then eat the babies. Otherwise we’re not interested.
Still, though, we have to credit Sarah Palin with the understanding that appearing on a reality show will give her enough exposure to get elected president in 2012. And so we’d like to wish her well, along with her prospective cabinet of Jessica Simpson, Hulk Hogan‘s wife, Heidi Montag and The Situation from Jersey Shore.
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There’s no way she’ll ever be elected president. Who takes her seriously anymore, besides the nut job conservatives that bomb abortion clinics? The idea that people even think she has a chance of even being nominated is ridiculous. Check, please.
Sarah:
A year ago, I might have agreed with you. I thought that Sarah Palin had made an utter fool of herself, and the idea that anyone could take her seriously as a presidential candidate was laughable.
Now, I’m not so sure. Yes, her constituency is nutjob conservatives. The problem is that there are a *lot* of nutjob conservatives. The other problem is that the nutjob conservatives have a very effective media machine for convincing voters that ought to know better that Bush/McCain/Palin are the only thing standing between America and godless communism, global irrelevance, and a lack of respect for family values.
Still, two years is a long time in politics. Americans forget how disliked Ronald Reagan was two years into his first term as president. If that election had been held in 1982 instead of 1984, things might have turned out a bit differently…
Ummmm… not that Sarah Palin has ever lied about anything else, of course… but didn’t she just tell Oprah that she’d never subject her family to being in a reality show? And now we’re told they’ll be front and center of this one.
And wasn’t one of the things Bristol and Sarah were supposed so up in arms about the possibility that Levi might do an Alaskan hunting focused reality show and (gasp) have Tripp somehow appear on camera?
Obviously, the only people who can profit from Tripp are Sarah and Bristol and Sarah appears to be one of those pathological liars who are able to become to become mega celebrities for… ummm… being pathological liars with a uterus and therefore beyond reproach.
Sarah Palin is a joke I can’t wait until her 15 minutes are up!
WHY NOT! $arah was HILARIOUS on LENO, especially when she said the LAMESTREAM MEDIA (of she is part of now $$$$) should get FOLLOW UP statements to her stupid statements. $arah feels she needs MORE AIR TIME!!!! $he doesn’t get enough,,,(BTW, $arah was ASKED for a follow up statement re: FAMILY GUY, so she LIED on the Leno Show)
Actually $arah took little Trig on the Leno show with her, you couldn’t see him, $he was using him as a foot stool.
$arah/Fabio 2012!
Ron Paul will be President. Sarah Palin wants to bring down the media. By the time she is finished she may well own the media.
Is it true that Todd Palin is going to be on “Dancing with the Stars?”