So, I watched this with Steve and was less impressed with Palin’s natural talent at the talk show format. She struck me as surprisingly uncomfortable when the segment required her to interact on camera with her guests, or her live audience…maybe chalk it up to the fact she’s more accustomed to being the interviewee but it wasn’t as easy a fit as I expected.

It’ll be interesting to see and the general reception of it. Hopefully she gets her own show!

Neither Toby Keith NOR LL Cool J were ASKED TO PARTICIPATE! Did they just slap old interviews with people on there? HOW CHEESY, how fitting for $arah!

Right, the LL Cool J and Jack Welch portions (LL will be cut in the actual show) were part of the website, Real American Stories, which was run by Fox News (and is the name of the show).

Not sure what the Toby Keith interview was for but it is more part of the show, with Palin narrating – of course, without an actual interview.

The problem with a special like this is people don’t tune to FOX News to have their heartstrings tugged at. They are tuning in for either the truth unvarnished or comedy. Either way they get their fears reaffirmed or get to laugh.

Glynnis MacNicol says:
March 31, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Up till now I had no particular interest in this special one way or the other. However, Steve’s column paired with your response just induced me to watch so I can test my own beliefs.

I think that Steve is far and away the most unbiased evenhanded blogger here and that Glynnis is running a close second to the always left wing sloppy with her facts Drew . I don’t mean this personally but only as one of the many final arbiters of the product that is produced here at Mediaite.

So, I’ll watch and try to decide which one of you meets my, admittedly biased towards Steve, subjective truth of the matter.

BTW, although I enjoy seeing and hearing Sarah Palin and agree with the vast majority of her political positions I am not a big supporter who hopes and prays that she will run for a big national office. That said, I would be estatic if she were one heartbeat away from the Presidency rather than Joe Biden.

“I would be estatic if she were one heartbeat away from the Presidency rather than Joe Biden.”

I would be too, because I know that she’d quit before she ever got to be that heartbeat from the presidency so she can go make some money. Then Nancy would be the heartbeat away from presidency.

Grammie, Your own hackish behavior here and at the Dollar Dump disqualified you long ago from being considered an unbiased and evenhanded commenter.

“Grammie, Your own hackish behavior here and at the Dollar Dump disqualified you long ago from being considered an unbiased and evenhanded commenter.”

same2u your overwhelming obsession on everything Dollar is just one more thing that shows you are a child. Attacking “Grammie” for claiming she is unbiased? She didn’t do that. Did you miss the part where she said she was biased?

Those Johnny Dollar haters are morons.

Thanks Klucker!

same2u says:

Grammie, Your own hackish behavior here and at the Dollar Dump disqualified you long ago from being considered an unbiased and evenhanded commenter.

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Your inability to read is one of things that disqualified you as such, same2u.

THAT and the fact that you’re as obtuse as they come.

Palin is a work in progress in the world of media image. She’s not nearly as talented as some of the other commentators and anchors on Fox News (and not sure if she ever will reach that talent level). But she does draw an audience…both those who lothe her and those who love her)…

I agree with Glynnis’ analysis; she does not yet seem comfortable in her role as the moderator. She seems more comfortable when she’s giving speeches. Give her time…she’ll get there…

same2u says:
March 31, 2010 at 6:08 pm

Thank you for your assuredly loving attempt to sway me from my evil ways.

It is touching to have such a fine example of loving, open to the nuances of every viewpoint who always searches for all the facts and ponders deeply before sharing your incredibly even handed nary a whiff of personal animus or crude vulgar language. I am deeply honored to have earned your attention.

That said, quick quick a barf bag! Such nauseating hypocrisy always roils my stomach beyond its limits.

BTW, same 2 u too!

same2u says:
March 31, 2010 at 6:20 pm

Thanks Klucker!
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Ever the master at repartee…

As for you Queen Klucker,

regular people bake cookies and cakes. High society gals and urban elitists bake scones and then look down at the little people from their perches.

Dwarfs, look down on you, same2u.

Cecelia, do give me your recipe for scones.

I know it will outshine mine b/c your recipe for Charlotte Rouse with the homemade lady fingers was magnifique!

I’ve been meaning to ask you if you’ve noticed all those ant like creatures that I can just see hustling and bustling way below our elevated perch? How insignificant they are, n’est-ce pas!

I find it positively delicious how this one woman, who really doesn’t say anything terribly controversial (seriously, she doesn’t) or out of the “main stream” for most Americans (who aren’t socialists) is able to gibe all of you the sreaming green apple shits.

Those of you that live to chastise her, did you learn nothing as a kid? When you stop paying attention to something it becomes much less noticeable and important. You detractors are the ones that made her, and continue to buoy her success.

Your idiots for doing it, but we thank you!

Oops “you’re” not your….sorry.

I also find Grammie & Cecelia “delicious” as well! Good job ladies!

@ marcus.lewis : ” Then Nancy would be the heartbeat away from presidency.”

Only trouble with that little scenario of yours is, Queen Nancy will be Speaker no more after November’s elections. The big gavel of hers will be owned by a GOP Speaker of the House. So sorry.

@Steve or @Glynnis: Did you get to see the full show? Is the Toby Keith mostly a repurposed interview or is it mostly biography with some licensed sit-down cut-in?

“Heroism, courage, generosity, a warrior’s spirit – these are the things that unite all Americans,”
Except for we progressives – we just pal around with terrorists, support Fidel Castro policies like Obamacare, and have the country on a march to socialism, right? Nobody hates Palin, but some of us find it depressing that she makes so much money by dividing people like this.

I mean, it seems like her natural talent is whipping up an angry crowd with extreme rhetoric that’s based in emotion, not facts.

(um, is there some beef from another site that is going on here? is this necessary? Johnny Dollar’s alright, I can’t understand how he can defend Fox for anything and everything, but I enjoy his blog.)

@ timzank says: :”When you stop paying attention to something it becomes much less noticeable and important”

Doncha know? The loony left moonbats just can’t help themselves. They keep assuring us every day that Sarah Palin is “not relevant” and ‘She has no chance, no chance in 2012 at all”. Yet the loony left at MSNBC, Newsweek etc just can’t help devoting hours to Sarah Palin every single week. Go figure.

@timzank

well said; ironic, isn’t it?

It is ironic Bias-Media, she could never in a million years be able to raise enough money to afford the amount of advertising they give her absolutely free.. It’s hilarious.

@ da-wdc says: “Nobody hates Palin, but some of us find it depressing that she makes so much money by dividing people like this”

Ummm…the ones you want are Keith Olbermann and Joy Baher. No one, but no one, whip up more hate on TV and makes money from pure hate, more than Keith Olbermann and Joy Baher, the two biggest hate mongers on American TV. But just try getting the leftists to condemn those two haters. Pigs flying….

@smithy

Sorry I didn’t realize you were an oracle and know the future. Even still, I would prefer any GOP person who would be likely to be the speaker over Palin. There’s something I just don’t trust with a person who is (was?) a member of a church that invites witch doctors to pray for parishioners.

da-wdc says:
March 31, 2010 at 6:49 pm

“(um, is there some beef from another site that is going on here? is this necessary? Johnny Dollar’s alright, I can’t understand how he can defend Fox for anything and everything, but I enjoy his blog.)”.

Not really. I would describe it more as a few childish twerps (several who appear to have been banned here) who refused to play nicely with others at both J$P and OW and seem to be compelled to follow some of we commenters from those sites and just can’t give up their brass knucks and switchblades.

Generally I try, not always successfully, but sometimes it gets very old. It is always unfair to all the other commenters but the only entity that can put the kabosh on it here is Mediaite.

Good or bad, controversy surrounds this lady Sarah. She has to be loving the attention and money she’s getting from the people who love and hate her.

Sorry, that should read “Generally I try, not always successfully,” to ignore them….

@smithy re: Olbermann & Behaer

Olbermann goes over the top to be sure. Baher, I haven’t ever watched her so I can’t say anything. I do think that personalities who go over the top should stop with that, and Olbermann is definitely guilty of it. I also don’t think that we can objectively rank who is most over the top. I can say that Beck is over the top more consistently with conspiracy theories and referring to progressives/liberals as communist/socialists/etc. Either way, both are wrong for their rhetoric…. MSNBC is just following FNC’s lead when it comes to rhetoric.

@ marcus.lewis says: :’Sorry I didn’t realize you were an oracle and know the future”

I read the polls. Same polls from Rasmussen that told me 6 months befor hand that the GOP was going to win in VA and NJ, and held steady all the way till November last year’s famous GOP victories in those same 2 states that 0bama won comfortably only a year before that in 2008.

@Smithy

Polls are a measure of the current political atmosphere and opinions. To state that polls are going to predict the future in November is absurd and naive. While it is possible that the GOP may take control of the house, it is far from fact. Polls can’t measure the future, they measure the now. Also, national polls will not predict local elections. So the GOP winning in VA and NJ were state measured polls, and were correct—public approval polls taken on the national level tell us relatively nothing about the local races. I would be more inclined to believe the stat that 95% of the time incumbents are re-elected, and while Americans view Congress badly–they are more apt to think positively of their congressman.

SP is uniquely qualified to discuss heroism and courage. It takes more courage than one can imagine to admit that she had become a distraction and quit in the middle of a commitment just so she could spend all this time in the lower 48 (far away from her beloved Alaska) making all that money. Now she has become a hard core, yet fair and balanced journalist. That makes her a hero by any tea-bagging standard.

@Ted

Well-said.

@ marcus.lewis says: “Polls are a measure of the current political atmosphere and opinions”

Correct. Only thing is, the polls have been against the Democrats for over a year now, and I don’t see anythng in the next 6 months that 0bama and the Democrats are going to do that is any different from the same hard core leftist policies the have been persuing for the last 14 months that sent their poll numbers into the pitts in the first place. Unemployment is still going to be over 8% in November. Deficits will still be hitting new records every month.
Pelosi, Reid and 0bama are by far the three most left wing indiviuals to have ever led this conty since it was founded. They are to the far left of most Americans.

“To state that polls are going to predict the future in November is absurd and naive”

Christie and McDonnel were leading in New Jersey and Virginia as far back as April last year, and continued to lead right into November, despite 0bama personally campaigning 3 times for Corzine (and once for Craig Deeds), including the Sunday befor the elections. But hey, hope springs eternal. Without hope lots of folks would have very unhappy lives. So hope on.

“Also, national polls will not predict local elections”

You might want to go to PPP and Rasmussen web sites and check the polls for the local elections. Heck, the GOP candidates are ahead even in true blue states like Washinnton State, where Rossi is ahead of Pat Murray.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/washington/election_2010_washington_senate

Just check the other polls there in even very liberal New York State, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Delaware all blue states, and you will see what I am talking about.

” I would be more inclined to believe the stat that 95% of the time incumbents are re-elected, an”

Here is a list of Democrats incumbents who are history: Blance Lincoln, Harry Reid, Joe Biden’s former seat in Delaware which is currently occupied by a Democrat {http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/delaware/election_2010_delaware_senate}.

Heck, even Russ Feingold is in trouble in Wissonson{http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/wisconsin/election_2010_wisconsin_senate}.

Not only are we taking the House, we have a pretty good shot of taking the US Senate too, and stopping 0bama’s determined march to turn America into a Marxist ruin.

@ Ted , try governing a state, while a bunch of 0bama/Axelrod financed professional serial bottom feeders continue to launch fraudulent “ethics complants” against you every week(everyone of which was eventually dismmised), putting you presonally into debt by over $500,000, and see where that gets ya.
Sarah Palin’s resignation took courage and guts, when it became apparent that the Democratic Party inspired fraudulent lawsuits were taking up most of her time, costing Alaska millions of dollars, personally costing her more money than she was making and puttuing her in debt, and preventing Alaska’s business from being done. She should be commended for that. Most politicians would rather drink poison than rsign as givbernor, no matter how benefical to the state, it may be for them to resign.

I have looked at the polling, I don’t see where GOP is going to pick off that many incumbents to take over the house. Even if I say that you’re correct, house will be GOP, I don’t think that would be even close in 2012. The turnout in the minority voting will be very pro-obama and the left side of the aisle will prevail. BTW, I did correctly predict the 2004 exactly electoral college vote.

@Smithy: New Poll Shows That Half of Americans Would Support an Openly Gay President

@ marcus.lewis : “I have looked at the polling, I don’t see where GOP is going to pick off that many incumbents to take over the house”

If the GOP is picking off many Democratic incumbents in the US Senate, it means the GOP is picking off many Democratic congressmen in the House as well. They go hand in hand in most elections. You may want to check the Public Policy Polling site as well here:http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/

“Even if I say that you’re correct, house will be GOP, I don’t think that would be even close in 2012. ”

Sorry, but 0bama is hsitory in 2012:
CNN:
“A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that if the 2012 presidential election were held today, 47 percent of registered voters would back Obama, with an equal amount supporting an unnamed Republican challenger. Fifty-four percent of people questioned say Obama will lose if he runs for re-election in 2012, with 44 percent saying the president would win a second term.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/26/cnn-poll-obama-tied-in-hypothetical-2012-matchup/?fbid=ZdN7w4sZLno

Rasmussen:
“Rasmussen: 63% Say Likely The Next President Will Be a Republican, 46% “Very Likely”"

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/most_recent_videos2/46_say_very_likely_next_president_will_be_republican
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r1AxIJszWSA/S7NmIIbWPMI/AAAAAAAAIPI/Bflc6TkI1Vc/s320/cannon2.JPG

“The turnout in the minority voting will be very pro-obama and the left side of the aisle will prevail”

Dream on!

@Smithy….

You say: “try governing a state, while a bunch of 0bama/Axelrod financed professional serial bottom feeders continue to launch fraudulent “ethics complants” against you every week(everyone of which was eventually dismmised), putting you presonally into debt by over $500,000, and see where that gets ya.
Sarah Palin’s resignation took courage and guts, when it became apparent that the Democratic Party inspired fraudulent lawsuits were taking up most of her time, costing Alaska millions of dollars, personally costing her more money than she was making …”

So…it will be easier when she runs for President. The “Democratic Party” will “ease up”.

Uh…

Your peri-menopausal estrogen waning heroine thinks…and you think…that she can’t take the heat of a concerted effort from the “Democratic Party” to file “fraudulent lawsuits”..to the point of resignation…but she can handle the rigors of the run for and God Forbid….assumption of the Presidency?

Childs play compared to what she would have to endure fighting for the ultimate prize.

She ain’t ready. Too stupid and cowardly and no backbone…a failure quitter.

Nothing more than a cowardly grifter, sonny.

How you love her so.

Sucker. You and Fox.

Heh.

“try governing a state, while a bunch of 0bama/Axelrod financed professional serial bottom feeders continue to launch fraudulent “ethics complants” against you every week(everyone of which was eventually dismmised), putting you presonally into debt by over $500,000, and see where that gets ya.
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The one that brought most of the complaints against her was a Republican. Go look it up.

He was a rino, t-bone. Look it up.

@ angrypoodle :”So…it will be easier when she runs for President. The “Democratic Party” will “ease up”

If Sarah Palin shiuld decide to run for president, she will at least have the wherewithal(money to you) to be able to take whatever the Democrats will throw at her, and throw it right back at them, just like she is doing right now. You seem to forget that Alaska specifically changed their laws so every single complaint by anyone at all, with or without any merit, had to be dealt with using goverment resources with the governor personally responsible for his/her own legal expenses.
A law with good intensions, sure, but then the road to hell are paved with good intentions.

“but she can handle the rigors of the run for and God Forbid….assumption of the Presidency?”

Why not?
Sarah Palin is currently taking whatver the Democratic Party dimwits are throwing at her, and hitting them right back, and winning, driving the loony left even more insane than ever.
Chortle

“She ain’t ready. Too stupid and cowardly and no backbone…a failure quitter”

You mean like this guy?
“Chicago Law Prof on Obama: “The Professors Hated Him because he was Lazy, Unqualified & Never Attended any of the Faculty Meetings”
The highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law spoke out on Barack Obama saying, “Professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings.”
Doug Ross reported this and more:

I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about “Barry.” Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn’t even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn’t have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. ”

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/chicago-law-professor-on-obama-the-professors-hated-him-because-he-was-lazy-unqualified-never-attended-any-of-the-faculty-meetings/

We have a lazy Marxist community organiser, who had ZERO executive experience back in 2008, sitting in the White House today.
After him, Sarah Palin, who has had vastly more executive experience than 0bama had in 2008, will be a a heck of a lot better president.

“Sarah Palin is currently taking whatver the Democratic Party dimwits are throwing at her, and hitting them right back, and winning, driving the loony left even more insane than ever.”
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How in the hell can you say that? She’s a political pundit, she’s not in office. She couldn’t take it when she was in office, she had to quit. I hope she does run for President, it will be the biggest comedy show ever.

Laughing at loud at anyone who takes a Gateway Pundit post seriously.

Please lord let Sarah Palin be the GOP candidate in 2012. Democrats would love it.

It would all but assure another 4 years of Obama in the WH.

Oh i have missed this great show but the reviews are so good that i came to know about all the happenings.Well i m quite impressed with Sarah Palin’s statements.
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Olby Sucks says:
March 31, 2010 at 11:09 pm

He was a rino, t-bone. Look it up.

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I don’t understand the uproar. FOX is known all over the Upper South and Lower Midwest for its wonderful teleplays, and the Drop Out Governor of Alaska is an accomplished stand-up comedienne for dimwits throughout Amerika. Isn’t this just more of the same?

@ shootfromthehip says: “Laughing at loud at anyone who takes a Gateway Pundit post seriously.”

Yeah?
You take the insane rantings from Keith Olberman and Daily Kos seriously, no?
And you have the nerve to attack Gateway Pundit which has a vastly superior record on veracity and intergrity?
Don’t make me laugh.

“Please lord let Sarah Palin be the GOP candidate in 2012. Democrats would love it”

I remmember Jimmy Carter and the Democrats saying exactly the same thing about Ronald Reagan back in 1979. Carter’s propagandists calimed they were praying for Reagan to be the GOP candidate in 1980, cause he’d be very easy to beat. We all know how that turned out, don’t we? Reagan won with the biggest landslide in decades. So hey, I am want you to keep on with them prayers of yours.

@ the real john t says : “How in the hell can you say that? She’s a political pundit, she’s not in office”

Because the Demcrats and 0bama’s liberal media lapdogs, spend vastly more time and efforts attacking Sarah Palin than they do attacking any other GOP politcician. And she is hitting them right back, having great fun doing it, taking names and making a heck of a lot of money doing it too. That’s just driving the mooonbats even more insane than never. You just gottta love that.
Chortle.

“She’s a political pundit, she’s not in office”

Yeah?
So why is the DNC sending out talking points every week with her in it?
And why is she galvanizing the Tea Parties and the conservatives and energizing voters more than any other politician (including 0bama) can in this country right now? That just drives you lefties nuts doesn’t it? :)

I can’t slog through all these comments so this may have been said already but…I caught a bit of the Palin special with Glynnis and Steve. Palin’s voice definitely needed modulation – this is TV, not a rally. And that is the kindest way I can put that.

Rachel Sklar says:
April 1, 2010 at 10:08 am

I haven’t seen the special yet but on that I can generally agree with you.

I didn’t notice it the first time I saw her speak, at the RNC Convention (the venue and type of speech?) but I have ever since. She is a very valuable asset to FNC and don’t you think that they will insist/arrange for a voice coach for her?

@ Rachel Sklar says: “I caught a bit of the Palin special with Glynnis and Steve. Palin’s voice definitely needed modulation – this is TV, not a rally”

I’d agree with that. Not just the voice, her delivery needs some umm..adjustmnet too. Her entire elocution needs some work done on it.
Speech coaches are not exactly hard to find.

Ridiculous. What would ANY GOPster know of such words or qualities??? Empty beings!

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