Up and down the halls at Fox News High, the kids have turned against the girl who’s always been the center of attention. Will this precipitate the downfall of 2008′s homecoming queen? The stakes are high, and the jokes say it all.
A moment of transparency at Fox News surfaced yesterday on the Internet, as a between-breaks segment from “News Watch” featured the round table exchanging jabs about Sarah Palin’s new television program.
It begins with a candid lead-up to the on-air segment. The talking heads open the topic with a review from “The New York Times” on “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” in which the clincher from a line cracked open of fissure of mockery with the Fox reporters:
LIZ TROTTA: Alessandra Stanley [of the New York Times] had the best line [in her Nov. 11 review]. She said the new [Palin TLC] show was like ‘The Sound of Music’ without the Nazis, without the romance and without the music.
JUDITH MILLER (laughing): Oh, the Washington Post hated it, too … [Post TV critic Hank Steuver] said [Palin has] the kind of sound of a voice when warning you to heed the bears — it would actually scare the bears…. He said you just get the sense that all she’s waiting for when she’s looking at this great outdoors is to get back to her SUV for enough bars to send out her latest twitter about the beauty of the environment.
The discussion returned on the program with similar tone, and the derision culminated in an excellent suggestion to media executives:
… TROTTA: And the numbers keep going down every time she makes appearance, her popularity numbers. You have to keep track of those. The more you see her, the less you like her. And overexposure is something the Democrats have to pray for.
[HOST JON] SCOTT: So you think that –
TROTTA: Plus the fact that they can bank on the timidity of most men, who are so absolutely spooked by feminism that they’re afraid to criticize her.
[ELLIS] HENICAN: Give her something on the Cartoon Network.
To catch up on things, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” centers on the family that America craves to watch on TV. While the former Governor of Alaska enjoys herself in the wild, with her husband and daughters, the focus lists away from the scripted entertainment of typical reality programs and instead documents the political figure with heavy margins that drone out the flak she received from quitting her job with a year of her term left to fulfill.
See Sarah fish, fire weaponry, and the family behave like you’d expect it to, except without homophobic, intense language.
But everyone enjoys a pithy conspiracy, and AlterNet posits that this clip signifies how Murdoch and Ailes are decidedly through with Sarah Palin, hinting that their network will no longer buoy her attachment to the GOP, in particular should she run for the Presidency in 2012. Where’s the evidence? Well, this otherwise “leaked” video first appeared on the Fox News website, before it was uploaded to YouTube by the anti-Palin blog PalinGates.
November 18, 2010 at 9:53 pm, centennial3 said:
i have no interest in watching this tv show, but i do have something to say about it. this is suppose to be a nonpolitical show, and yes, i understand she does not discuss or promote her political views. howevah, can you imagine obama doing a show on illinois, or clinton on arkansas, or mccain on arizona. yes, this is political.
November 22, 2010 at 9:39 pm, Gray said:
A similar program with any of those pundits would put the country to sleep, because, unlike Mrs. Palin, they have zero personal time. Every minute of their day's wrapped around their work. On the other hand, the Palin family is relatively unemployed and “Alaska” is a pork-barrel cover letter.
August 26, 2011 at 5:22 am, Schwabauer said:
i really want to slap all those people. Not that I like Palin, but those crumpets aren’t any sweeter