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Rick Sanchez Marvels At The ‘Reaganesque’ Style Of Sarah Palin’s ‘Mama Grizzlies’ Ad

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by Frances Martel | 4:51 pm, July 9th, 2010

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It was only released yesterday, but Sarah Palin‘s “Mama Grizzlies” ad can already count one convert to the Palin Revolution: CNN’s Rick Sanchez, whose starry, flabbergasted awe at the video this afternoon sounded more like a recreation of “Double-Rainbow Guy” than a political analysis. That’s because the ad didn’t quite convert Sanchez to conservatism– he didn’t even seem to notice the political content of the ad. But have you seen the lighting?

Sanchez watched the clip with CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was on Rick’s List to analyze what the ad, meant to promote Palin’s PAC, was really intended to convey. Yellin praised it for bringing Palin back to her roots– “she did her best when she was a mother and a woman speaking for other women”– though, to her, the only thing the ad made her think of was the recurring presence of the grizzly bear on the endangered species list. Palin probably hopes this is not the reaction everyone else had to the clip, and it was definitely not Sanchez’s.

“But it’s not just her,” he told Yellin, “the whole thing is so well put together. I mean, lighting, writing, editing… all those things we have to think about that sometimes is outside of the information.” The text really doesn’t do his exuberance justice. Sanchez is very excited about the production value of this clip.

So much so, that it reminded him of one of the most effective political campaigners in recent history: “It looked Reaganesque, almost like Roger Ailes is suddenly moonlighting or something and working for Sarah Palin, not that that’s an accusation or anything.” Bless his heart, he knows not what he says. Sarah Palin works for Roger Ailes, not the other way around!

Meanwhile, Yellin was still trying to figure out the meat and potatoes of the matter– what the political message of the ad was meant to convey, and who it was meant to convey it to. “There’s one African-American person in the whole ad, that I could see. It’s appealing to a very specific base of voters and, you know, it is a base that Sarah Palin would like to be her base.” Yellin seems to believe that Palin’s fiercely anti-Obama rhetoric is not popular among African-Americans, so Palin has just quit trying to convince them to like her.

It’s hard to blame Sanchez completely for not getting any of the ad’s political meat when it includes such wonky policy initiatives as “Look out, Washington, because there’s a whole stampede of pink elephants crossin’ the line and the ETA — stampeding through — is November 2nd, 2010.” Nor is it fair to bash him for pointing out the quality of the ad– it is pretty well produced. But maybe next time his producers should show Sanchez the ad before they go on air, so he doesn’t start fawning over the pretty colors and suspecting the head of Fox News is affiliated with Sarah Palin on live TV.

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CNN, Double-Rainbow Guy, Jessica Yellin, Mama Grizzlies, rick sanchez, Rick's List, Roger Ailes, Sarah Palin

badr

I am not surprised that the dyke of the Class of ’93 of Harvard would first note something about a black woman.
murf

Who was on Ricardo’s naughty list today ? Anyone watch ? … Anyone ?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

So, Sanchez finally got something right? Good for him. Sarah Palin rocks.
BatBoy

I am over Rick Sanchez, even when he tries to say something nice.

Rick…say something nice for 999 more times….I might try to listen.
roxsteady

Oh please, I saw this on Rachel Maddow’s blog yesterday. And by the way, that ad is full of slogans and talking points. Where was the actual policy ideas? By the way, google Pink Elephants. As Keith pointed out last night on Countdown it’s basically a phrase used to describe drunken hallucinations. While everyone else slobbered over this ad, most people noted that she didn’t really say anything. What else is new.
BatBoy

In Keiths world it describes drunken hallucinations…

In most everyones world it describes a freaking PINK ELEPHANT!
BatBoy

Make that Roxsteady’s world also…..everything has meaning to the left…..

Come back to our world….you wouldn’t see drunken hallucinations…you would simply see….a freaking PINK ELEPHANT!
murf

I tweeted Olbermann about this.. I asked him was that the kinky sex ( pink elephant ) name he gives Michael Musto on their drunken adventures in the basement .. — No reply
ChrisNH

Sanchez does know that the vast majority of the people out there see him as a Jerry’s Kid, right? The word ‘imbecilic’ comes to mind, too.
ImNotBlue

roxsteady says:
July 9, 2010 at 7:22 pm

Roxy… you really expected hard details in a political advertisement? Really?
Big_F-ing_Deal

Haha…Palin made an idiot of herself on O’Relliy again.

Bill made her the hypothetical president and asked her what she would do about illegal immigration. She couldn’t answer one question specifically so he had to spoon feed here.

Bill – National guard on the border?

Sarah – Oh yes

Bill – How many?

Palin – Whatever it takes (great non-answer!!lol)

Bill – 10,000 National guard?

Sarah – Ok

Bill – Complete the fence?

Palin – Sure

Bill – Make those here register?

Sarah – yes

Bill – Give them a green card so they could work?

Sarah – No no, Americans get first crack at the jobs.

Bill – Then what would you do with the millions you let register, let them starve, President Palin?

Sarah – Uh…Oh, then no, maybe we should back up and and not allow them at all.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

She blindly followed Bill’s logic until she didn’t like where it took her.
Then….nevermind.
Even Dana Perino said Sarah had no plan!

What a frickin’ idiot.

It sounds like Bill has a pretty good plan though. Maybe he should run for President.
Or just continue to lead Palin around by the nose if she wins..
Ninja

BFD are you talking about an interviewee following the lead of someone? Kind of like the “esteemed member of the press corpse” When he led the NBPP leader?
Big_F-ing_Deal

Ninja said:
Kind of like the “esteemed member of the press corpse” When he led the NBPP leader?

Yeah. Kind of. I can’t deny it.
I’m not going to be put in a position of defending Tommy’s interview with that racist piece of shit.

That’s on him.
notsofast

There’s one African-American person in the whole ad, that I could see.”

Typical lib racist comment.
Nachi

Yup. Palin does look rather “Grizzly” at that. Yuk!
DrFunke

Palin continues issuing ads that appeal to her idiotic right-wing base but makes everyone else laugh