Not Running for Nothing
When Sarah Palin makes The Superficial because she’s teaming up with C-lister has-been Kate Gosselin (of “John and Kate Plus 8, Until I Divorced His Ass, Now It’s Just Kate”), let’s be serious. She doesn’t want to be the next President, she wants to be the next Oprah.
July 23, 2010 3:19 pm
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Starbursts
43 Comments
43 Responses
tamied - July 23, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
What? You don’t see Sarah and Kate as a viable 1-2 ticket for 2012?
muddy - July 23, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
You betcha. Oprah has more money.
Silver Owl - July 23, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
Palin isn’t serious about any job. She’s just making the rounds to collect what money she can from rubes that will give it to her. lol
DougJ - July 23, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
I’ve been in the car for the last seven hours…is this real or a joke?
Michael - July 23, 2010 | 3:24 pm · Link
I’m disturbingly drawn to Kate Gosselin and her mean assed, dominating attitude, even though it would be like throwing a hot dog into a closet.
demo woman - July 23, 2010 | 3:24 pm · Link
I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
SB Jules - July 23, 2010 | 3:24 pm · Link
Aren’t they both on the “learning” channel?
I confess—I used to watch Jon & Kate et al. The kids were incredibly cute & I liked the husband. I never liked Kate. Now I know why.
Comrade Javamanphil - July 23, 2010 | 3:25 pm · Link
I would agree she’s not running is a viable conclusion if we are dealing with a sane, intelligent and rational human being. I think we can see the basic flaw here.
frankdawg - July 23, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
She learned this shtick from Newt. She will always be ‘thinking about running’ ‘planning on running’ or ‘deciding to run’. It keeps the money flowing in from the idjits & gives her access to media that allows the con to continue.
She, like Newt, will never run because that would cut off the funds (they would come under FEC scrutiny etc) and require her to do actual work.
Jason In the Peg - July 23, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link
@muddy: and no small amount of power either.
JCT - July 23, 2010 | 3:31 pm · Link
@frankdawg:
And therein lies the rub. Has this grifter-quitter worked at anything, ever? And the political equivalent of gold-digging does not count.
Yech.
dpolitico - July 23, 2010 | 3:34 pm · Link
A new thriller: The Wasilla Witch Project
Kate and Sarah, two grizzly mamas, take to the woods to film a new reality show while secretly being stalked by Levi and Bristol who desire their own reality show. Will the grizzly mamas discover the deceitful duo in time? Or will Levi and Bristol steal the limelight! Tune in to find out who gets the most money and the best reality show first!
JD Rhoades - July 23, 2010 | 3:37 pm · Link
@SB Jules:
Mine is a house divided. The womenfolk are all Kate fans. The Boy and I think she’s just awful.
BGinCHI - July 23, 2010 | 3:37 pm · Link
Or the next host of Hee Haw.
Brachiator - July 23, 2010 | 3:37 pm · Link
So, is Kate Gosselin a Mamma Grizzly, or just plain old gristled?
Violet - July 23, 2010 | 3:37 pm · Link
@DougJ:
It’s real. Story came out last night. TLC (Kate’s show’s network) and Discovery (Palin’s show’s network) are sister networks or something, so they’re cross-promoting. Apparently the networks have done this kind of thing before with other reality “stars.”
Sarah Palin is going to run. But unless she gets her way and doesn’t have to answer any media questions or do any work, she’ll quit part way through and blame someone or something.
Today she’s blaming the media for her quitting as Governor of Alaska, according to some interview on the Daily Caller. Won’t pimplink for obvious reasons.
licensed to kill time - July 23, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
Nothing would please me more than to see Sarah ‘Sparklybits’ eventually end up on some cheesy reality show that I will never watch.
scav - July 23, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
You. Fiends. the thought of the a Sarah Starbursts Book Club has now crossed my mind and its too hot to to be spending hours in the bathroom puking and I’m running a real risk of dehydration here already.
JD Rhoades - July 23, 2010 | 3:42 pm · Link
@Violet:
I’m hoping that, when she does, she goes into an epic shrieking meltdown in public. On-camera would be nice, but her FB page might do as well. Then I can turn to the Palindrones and smirk “And THIS is the person you wanted running the country?”
QuaintIrene - July 23, 2010 | 3:43 pm · Link
Ugh, two people who can only point to their fertility as their sole contribution in this life.
Where art thou, Oct-o-Mom?
Violet - July 23, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
She may think she does, but she doesn’t really. Oprah works hard. Sarah Palin doesn’t do work. There’s no way she could be an Oprah, first and foremost because she won’t do the work. Even with a production team to do a lot of the work for her, she wouldn’t be able to keep up.
It would be pretty funny if she got a TV show. It would not do well after the initial ratings gawkfest. She’d fail miserably and they’d cancel it or send it to an obscure timeslot. Sarah wouldn’t like that. If she’s not the center of attention, she’s not happy.
Ed Drone - July 23, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
No way—that’s too much work! Even if it were a weekly show, Sarah Quitter wouldn’t be able to do it more than six shows, and one of those would be a clips “greatest guests” show.
I don’t care what she does. If she actually runs, her shortcomings will come out much more than with her grifting appearances, where she sets the agenda (Sharron Angle learned how to do a press conference from her, for instance).
Ed
John Cole - July 23, 2010 | 3:46 pm · Link
Fine by me. Oprah doesn’t have nukes and can’t invade Iran.
JD Rhoades - July 23, 2010 | 3:47 pm · Link
@Violet:
And when it fails, her disciples will complain bitterly about how it was the “liberal media” what done her in.
JD Rhoades - July 23, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
@John Cole:
Yet.
GregB - July 23, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
It seems like only yesterday when the political right was having a collective shit-fit over candidate Obama acting like a celebrity.
Violet - July 23, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
@JD Rhoades:
They can complain, but number don’t lie. If she didn’t get the ratings, her show would be canceled.
Speaking of numbers, I read that Romney has far outraised Palin in donations for this last quarter. He’s definitely running, and the way the Republicans work, it’s his “turn.”
Jody - July 23, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
Media celebrities make more money and are less accountable to the public than elected officials.
Just ask Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.
artem1s - July 23, 2010 | 3:51 pm · Link
@John Cole:
tell that to Tom Cruz
QuaintIrene - July 23, 2010 | 3:53 pm · Link
Out of curiosity I took a look at that site. Sweet Jebus, is there a more whiny, petty little twerp than Tucker Carlson? Two topics seem to be his obsession, Journolist and Olbermann. And he’s picking at them in the most ridiculous ways.
maus - July 23, 2010 | 3:54 pm · Link
@John Cole: Yeah, she’s really not any dumber than anyone else on Reality TV, or that much worse for America than say, Oprah.
BGinCHI - July 23, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
Can’t Obama just have her disappeared or something?
What are we paying the CIA for?
Ivan Ivanovich Renko - July 23, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
@Violet:
Is that necessarily so?
I honestly don’t trust the ratings numbers for television shows any more than I do bond ratings agencies. Also.
JGabriel - July 23, 2010 | 4:05 pm · Link
John Cole:
Fix’t.
.
Comrade Mary - July 23, 2010 | 4:07 pm · Link
Oh, crap. This is the Palin thread?
Here. And another.
dan - July 23, 2010 | 4:31 pm · Link
“She wants to be the next Oprah.” Naaahh, she’s not even aiming that high. She wants to be the next Kate Gosselin.
wes g - July 23, 2010 | 4:35 pm · Link
Geekologie! :D :D :D :D
Brachiator - July 23, 2010 | 5:36 pm · Link
@John Cole:
She doesn’t need to. This brings to mind a PBS mini-documentary about the Oprah Effect
Oprah may be having a subversive impact on burkha moms all over the Middle East.
FlipYrWhig - July 23, 2010 | 6:28 pm · Link
I’ve been saying for months that Palin and Gosselin are two incarnations of the same type. Vapid, vindictive queen bees. I had enough of that nonsense as a high school dork.
To really cap off the Palin phenomenon she should appear as a Real Housewife. Or as a mentor for Snooki.
Hal - July 23, 2010 | 6:28 pm · Link
That much vapidness could tear a hole in the fabric of reality. We could all be sucked into a black hole!
LosGatosCA - July 23, 2010 | 11:24 pm · Link
The new show is ‘The Eight with Kate and her Hate plus Jon and a Date’ or TEWKAHHPJAAD for short.
hoosierteachergirl - July 23, 2010 | 11:38 pm · Link
Who. Fucking. Cares…! Please stop feeding the machine of this numbnut (Palin, that is; though Kate is overly lame at this point too) by giving her air time! Let her shrivel up and blow away!
frankdawg - July 24, 2010 | 11:01 am · Link
@QuaintIrene:
Simple answer to simple question – No, there are none more whiny.
@Brachiator:
Form this note to His Noodley Appendages. I am not an Oprah fan at all but if she can lay the seeds of social awareness into backward societies she will have done more for world peace that all the diplomats of the last hundred years.