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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat show in development would make YOU subscribe to Sarah Palin's awesome new cable channel?
By now, surely youve heard the awesome news that Sarah Palin launched her own subscription-based online network The Sarah Palin Channel where everyones favorite half-wit can reach her huddled masses directly and bypass those pesky politically correct media filters. And its only $9.95 a month!
When we heard the news about PalinTV we got pretty excited. Were paying a fortune to Time Warner Cable for 665 channels of drivel; why not make it 666?
And you gotta respect Palins faith in the free market. If shes giving the people what they want with the trivial exception of health care, reproductive rights, gay marriage, fifth-grade science, or common sense well, thats what Americas all about! Cant possibly do any harm. It might even be fun!
Some of Americas most cherished shows have been comedies and science fiction. So, if she sticks with what she knows best, how can the Palin Channel go wrong?
Well, heres a problem. As anyone whos ever worked in media knows, you need variety. Finding good and varied content is by far the most enduring challenge of any media enterprise, and it takes a village of twelve-year-olds to come up with ideas. But, it turns out, Palin is responsible for all the content of her namesake channel. Period.
We havent gone behind the pay wall yet, but, if its going to succeed, Palins internal brain trust will have to do better than what its homepage (sarahpalinchannel.com) suggests. Its populated with filler like a Word of the Day feature and a cynical countdown clock to the end of the Obama administration.
And, as The New Yorker (which generously went behind the pay wall) points out, the Palin Channel so far relies too heavily on clips like ones where Palin reads a story to her son, or pops up in her kitchen to discuss vegetables.
Thats less compelling then a dead dear on the roof of a jeep.
Palins concept of programming is why top media execs down fistfuls of high-blood-pressure medication with their liberal-elite grande iced half caf triple mocha latte macchiato every morning.
But fear not! Governor Quit is never far from spewing new ideas. And we have proof. We were fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at the Palin Channels development slate. We cant say for sure that all of these shows will make it past infancy or make the Palin Channel a powerhouse media giant, but we can hope.
We want the Palin Channel to succeed! If Palin is up to her schoolmarm glasses in spec scripts and tedious production meetings, shes too busy to be on the streets shouting that Shakespeare made up just as many words as she did.
So take a gander at this sneak-preview peek of all the shows being considered and remember: Palin herself is overseeing the content! OK, now: tell us which show would make YOU want to subscribe?
(Reposted by authors from original article and poll at http://lesterandcharlie.com/2014/08/01/betcha-by-golly-wow/)
jwirr
(39,215 posts)bondwooley
(1,198 posts)to make her go away?
That sounds like a square deal.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)bondwooley
(1,198 posts)a Kickstarter campaign.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)site with hackers and porn and we can save the money.
bondwooley
(1,198 posts)a $666,000 kickstarter campaign to send her to the Russian house that she can see from her porch....
jwirr
(39,215 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)But the boyfriend's birthday isn't until November and I'm sure Sarah will have moved on to a new grift by then. I'm sure I'll come up with something else weirdly terrible.
bondwooley
(1,198 posts)a Bachmann bobble-head. She's running again for president because "Practice makes perfect."
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)I'm the coolest/weirdest girlfriend ever, just ask him!
bondwooley
(1,198 posts)fayhunter
(221 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)It is still a good idea to keep track of her, insignificant as she's becoming.
bondwooley
(1,198 posts)Is what glues people to her.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Foreign born Obama bad, weak (except when he uses too much power), - must impeach...
Lame stream media...
I quit - now buy my book..
Thinking about running for something - send money to my PAC
Bus tour so I can talk like a mean girl about everyone...
Freedom...
Patriots....
True Americans good - Russians bad (except Putin who is a real man unlike Obama)..
Abstinence (except my kid)..
Nanny state (sucks on a Big Gulp)...
God told me...
Lock and Load...
Liberals this and liberals that....
Watch me and Taaawwwddd make some mooseburgers...
Death Panels...
Immigrants go home...
Drill Baby Drill...
Screeeecchhh - squaaawwwkkk - (something unintelligible and nonsensical while winking repeatedly)...
and on and on and on
I think that about sums it up.
fayhunter
(221 posts)LOL!
REP
(21,691 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Ah wait nahhhhh I wouldn't pay a penny to subscribe to her Idiocracy network.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)It's where money grows, donchaknow?
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)scrubthedata
(382 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)busted for coke possession episode
I'm IN!!!!
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)scrubthedata
(382 posts)A ten second interstitial.
mainer
(12,017 posts)I'd pay to watch that.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)That needs to run 24/7 until it sinks into her defective fans' brains that she is taking them for a ride.