Sarah Palin Documentary Director Describes Wasilla’s Unusual Taste In Hospitality: Moose Meat?

by Zara Golden | 3:04 pm, September 30th, 2011

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It sounds like Nick Broomfield, the director of the Kick Start-ed doc Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, was caught off guard by post-Sarah Palin Wasilla’s unusual brand of hospitality. ”The people there were very reluctant, but also very hospitable,” he shared with Page Six, inquiring of his 11 weeks as a local. The British muckraker was there in search of an inside scoop on the town’s notable export, but what he found instead was a lot of moose meat.

“Everyone has their own moose concoctions, so the first thing you do is try a lot of moose: moose sausage, pickled moose,” he explained. This is something he perhaps should have expected: warm moose stew is Palin’s oft-cited favorite food, after all.

Less expectant were the difficulties he had fitting in. Broomfield told Page Six that he had a hard time finding a place to stay because there are only two real estate agents in town and both of them assumed he was doing a “hit piece” — an “unbelievably rude” assumption, Broomfield says. Palin, it seems, has become a less than formidable character around town. “She’s only got [husband] Todd,” he found. “She’s alienated her supporters in Wasilla and ruled out a lot of options.”

But it’s not like he would have had an easy time otherwise. “It’s hard to rent a house becasue the only people who rent in the middle of the winder are making meth,” he explains. “It’s the meth capital of Alaska.”

You Betcha! arrives in theaters today as a limited release, and so far, as mostly just a fizzle.

Moose, Nick Broomfield, Page Six, Sarah Palin, Wassila, You Betcha

Anonymous

Where is Wasillia?
Anonymous

Dear Mediaite editor: That’s not a moose in the photo.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

With all these so-called “investigative journalists” snooping & sniffing around Alaska, why couldn’t one have trailed Sarah Palin to where she conceals the Fountain of Youth? She seems to look younger & more beautiful with each passing day. What a gorgeous woman!
Anonymous

You are right. This article is about as lame & phony as Bobblehead Broomfield’s dorky film.
Anonymous

In Wisicosin
Anonymous

No it is not. It’s Sarah Palin!
Anonymous

You and Stoney should date.
Tony the Fist

The best meat is actually elk (the animal in the picture). My family is from Vermont and all my cousins and their nearby Canuck friends say elk blows beef out of the water, with moose at a close second.
http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

Agree on both counts, elk and moose meat
Guest

Uggg. You have to hang elk for months. Roe deer or wild boar for me.
SC

The animal in the photo is a caribou, which taste just like reindeer, which is domesticated caribou. ‘Bou make for an easy hunt. Also, there are far more than two real estate agents in and around Wasilla. The place is crawling with ‘em.
Anonymous

Yeah, but the only two that count in his liberal head are the two who called him out for doing a hit piece on Palin. Why they would do that when in the next sentence he claims that she has alienated all of her supporters in Wasilla. How odd that the “only two realtors” in town are also the only two Wasilla citizens who objected to him doing another hit piece on Gov. Palin.
Hugo Daun

Yeah…it looks like an elk and a wild Alaskan dingbat to me.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

You need to look at more recent photos of Palin, especially without her make-up.
http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

They don’t have an editor. If they did, they would have caught this:

“It’s hard to rent a house becasue the only people who rent in the middle of the winder are making meth,”

Middle of “winder?” Winder is a town in Georgia, and I don’t think there are people who rent in the middle of Winder, GA, who would be remotely related to this stupid movie. Perhaps Zara meant “winter” instead of “winder?” Who knows, but this is not the first horrid piece she’s written for Mediaite.

See this post: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-business-anchor-gerri-willis-cuts-up-her-boa-card-up-in-protest-of-5-monthly-fee/
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P6EXDWBOY7JQYX46KM52I3ABZU P00KIE

I can’t tell which one is Missy Coca Puffs.
http://www.christinebreese.com/article/get-involved-you-are-2012-paradigm-shift-0 Christine Breese

Wonder what the moose (not moose) thinks about all this.