I’m tired of Sarah Palin — I doubt she’ll be the Republican nominee and if she is, she’ll be crushed in the general election. These numbers on how voters feel about a Palin endorsement are stunning: 37% are “very uncomfortable with this attribute”, while only 7% are “enthusiastic about this attribute”. So it’s really no surprise that, despite all the media starbursts, no one actually watched her “Mama Grizzly” video:
In the week since it was first posted on Palin’s Facebook page, which boasts over 1.8 million backers, the video has drawn 368,000 views. Yet despite her large following, only 33,000 people watched the video via Facebook, according to YouTube statistics. That means only one out of ten viewers found “Mama Grizzlies” through Palin’s social network—and under 2 percent of her Facebook community watched the video. So who did watch “Mama Grizzlies”?
Mostly traditional news readers and Palin detractors.
Almost a third of all views came through an article on Yahoo! News, for example, while ratings for the video ran almost two-to-one for “dislike” over “like.” “The bulk of the views seem to come after it had been covered in the mainstream media,” observes Pete Warden, a social media analyst who has studied Palin’s Facebook strategy. “
To put that in perspective, this video of some kid imitating Ian McKellen reciting the lyrics to the theme to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has drawn 624,000 views (personally, I prefer his rendition of Saved By the Bell, but that only has 75K views). Who’s the real genius here?
beltane
You’re right. Sarah Palin has reached the point where I am not even interested in laughing at her anymore. She is just dull and boring and passe and ready to perform free concerts at the county fair. Maybe she can lay low for a few years and then come out with a nostalgia act in Vegas. They don’t do Hollywood Squares these days, which is really where she belongs.
Poopyman
Ah, but she’ll still be the Right’s darlin’ after The Wedding of the Century.
If she bothers to go, that is.
(Why the press is still following these hillbillies is a mystery to me.)
gmf
“I doubt she’ll be the Republican nominee…”
Don’t you mean, “I hope she’ll be the GOP nominee?”
Am I wrong to hope for that myself? I’m seriously considering throwing a few dollars her way if she runs. She’s the crazy-cherry on the top of the Republican shit sundae.
Her running would guarantee a Obama win in 2012 & would hopefully split the GOP in a spectacular fashion.
Palin 2012 !!
Elizabelle
OT, but I just saved a PDF of New York Times online page.
Congress Passes Financial Regulation Bill
subhead: Few Republicans Join Effort to Change Rules on Wall Street
Goldman Sachs to Settle with SEC for $550 Million
Oil Flow from Well Has Stopped as Cap Is Tested, BP Says
This is all bad news for Democrats, of course.
Mama Grizzlies? Meh. Although I love the Economist’s suggesting that 2 years time might help Mrs. Palin to improve her credibility. Ain’t gonna happen.
DougJ
@gmf:
Of course I hope she’ll be the Republican nominee. But I don’t think she will be.
Brachiator
But if Palin can get Levi and Bristol back together, surely she can heal the nation.
More seriously, it’s unlikely that Palin could ever be the GOP nominee. But she has value in keeping the tea baggers excited and rallying GOP donors.
Also, too.
Davis X. Machina
@gmf: The president makes less per year than a second-string shortstop. Even with the book deal and the bio-pic, and the backhanders from supporters, it’s a lot of work, and on balance it’s too short a con..
Joshua Norton
If you gave 5 monkeys 5 typewriters, they could come up with a speech for Sarah Palin. In 5 minutes.
Napoleon
OT, but Goldman Sachs settles with the SEC for $550m.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/07/reports-bp-makes-progress-on-oil-gusher.html
Third Eye Open
My Facebook strategy includes posting at least one article from Fark, at least once a day, and then digging through the friends of my friends to look for cute girls. Perhaps I am doing it wrong.
blahblahblah
Get to work, Todd! If ever there is a woman who needs to learn a little discipline in life, it’s Sarah Palin:
http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/warmup.html
suzanne
The only reason I give even a tiny shit about Sarah Palin anymore is because I am sickly fascinated by her family drama. I realize this makes me a bad person, but seeing Bristol and Levi on the cover of TrashWeekly filled me with warm, tingly schadenfreude. I won’t tell you what I did next.
Instead, I’ll show y’all new pet pics.
Here’s my little Scout. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43523433@N08/4795591194/
And the lovely Luna puppeh, who is obviously adjusting nicely. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43523433@N08/4795119285/
Joshua Norton
Oil Flow from Well Has Stopped as Cap Is Tested, BP Says
And in other news, the Titanic has finally stopped sinking.
ricky
Is Mama Grizzly part of the reality series she signed up to do?
Crashman
DougJ, Master of Title-Fu.
ricky
@Third Eye Open:
What, praise the Invisible Hand, does a Social Media Analyst analyze?
ajr22
Ya I don’t get why Palin’s social media gets attention. I mean a guy with the last name 85(Chad Ochocinco) has 800,000 more followers than her.
licensed to kill time
The amount of attention she gets from the mainstream media is baffling to me, and completely out of proportion to her abilities or accomplishments, spindly as they be. In fact, those seem to exist primarily in her own mind and the fervid imaginations of her rabid followers.
Spindly Sarah, that’s my new name for her.
Oh, and on the subject of Bristol and Levi? I bet a dollar that she’s knocked up again. Hence Levi’s public apology, kissy face with the matriarch, and the shotgun wedding. My 2 cents.
Chat Noir
@Elizabelle:
Steve Benen:
And Democrats are supposed to lose their majority in the House in November. My head hurts from all the cognitive dissonance that is flying around that meme.
@suzanne: Cat and dawg! Is Scout a tortoiseshell? And I love the name Luna for your new pup.
Bobby Thomson
@blahblahblah: Further confirmation of Poe’s Law.
Mojotron
some kid imitating Ian McKellen reciting the lyrics to the theme to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
I mistakenly thought of “Ian MacKaye” instead, somebody make that youtube please
How do you do? I don’t believe we’ve met
My name is Will, West Philly was my set
Bobby Thomson
@Chat Noir: Cognitive dissonance only if you cling to the belief that elections are determined on the basis of a clash of ideas, or even rational thought, rather than macroeconomic forces.
Swing voters vote their pocketbooks. Always have. Always will.
Third Eye Open
@ricky: You got me, but good work if you can get it, I suppose.
blahblahblah
@Bobby Thomson:
Is that anything like “Natural Law”?
BruinKid
Aw, I thought the Greg Sargent link was a new thing; it’s from June 24th. I had been wondering why some of the commenters there were talking about outdated polling until I saw the time stamps.
Still, good to know, and I hope they keep asking that question so we can get some good trendlines.
PanAmerican
She’s fan service for reactionary GOP asshats. As far as interest in what she’s spouting, they’d rather watch her porn doppelganger take it up the backside.
eemom
the ONLY good thing, in the entire universe, about Sarah Palin is what TBogg does with her. Check out today’s post; it is a masterpiece.
Srsly, the man deserves a Pulitzer — if that means anything given who they’re awarding them to these days.
Warren Terra
@Crashman:
Indeed. I wasn’t really paying attention, and so didn’t make sense of the title until later – but this one was just inspired.
JCT
@Elizabelle:
Is that the current waiting list time for a brain transplant?
CalD
Sarah who?
Jody
Well, there’s really no comparison when you think about it. That Ian McKellan kid has talent.
NR
Don’t be so sure.
I think you vastly underestimate the damage that Obama’s corporatism has done, both to himself and to the Democratic party.
Davis X. Machina
Has her daughter really done anything terrible enough to be called ‘Snowpack Snooki’ by tbogg?
No.
Is it still awesome?
Yes.
CalD
OK, much as I hate to expend a single keystroke more on Sarah who, hows about if Palin and Fred Thompson teamed up for an indie run? They could call themselves the mama and papa grizzly party (or some appropriately folksy-sounding shit like that). They were made for each other. Their tag-line could be, “No, really! We’re serious.”
Now that’s the ticket.
Davis X. Machina
@NR: Why, if he had just held out for the public option, I’d bet he’d be in the 65-70% range.
With U6 at 16%.
Uh-huh….
Lane Haygood
Holy #$%#. That’s my best friend’s YouTube channel. Small world.
Elizabelle
@Chat Noir:
Thank you, mon black cat favorite. Had not seen that.
I think our professional media is interviewing each other, which is how they missed the Obama phenomenon and desperation for change too, for the longest time.
Time for the “optics” to change.
Re media: we need to pay them less and make them get out more. Even to the suburbs, never mind the Applebee’s salad bar.
Talk about numerous professional classes with perverse incentives for not doing their jobs with the public good in mind.
New Yorker
But Levi and Bristol getting back together shows she’s getting her house in order, and she surely intimidated Levi into total surrender much as she will the media once she begins her campaign. And with the unemployment rate sky-high in 2012 and Iran rattling its nuclear sabers and Christianists looking for divine guidance from Queen Esther, SHE WILL BECOME PRESIDENT!
Sorry, Sully is off this week and I figure someone had to pick up the slack.
Albatrossity
@ajr22: Yeah, but since we’re talking about FaceBook followers, and the teabaggers are all either racist morons or ancient fogeys hoping for the reincarnation of Alf Landon or St. Ronnie, I’m amazed that she has any FB followers. In fact, I suspect that at least half of them are left-wing bloggers or late-night comedy writers looking for fresh material.
joeyess
Never underestimate the power of Wingnuts At a Primary.
Especially this brand of wingnuts.
JGabriel
DougJ:
To be fair, that kid’s video has been up July 2009. He has an 11 month head start over Palin.
As one of the apparently few who watched the Mama Grizzly video, all I can say is that it managed to pull off being batshit crazy, boring, self-worshipping, and grating all at once. In other words, typical Palin.
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Warren Terra
@NR:
I’m not in love with Obama’s abject failures on civil liberties, or with his moderation on stimulus and regulation – but try to maintain some tenuous grip on reality: Obama’s approval rating, today, is higher than Ronald Reagan’s at the same point in his Presidency. And this despite all of Obama’s relative disadvantages (a unified, rejectionist, and often vituperative opposition party instead of Tip O’Neill; a media much less dedicated to puffing up his Presidency; an entire opposition movement dedicated to his personal, not just political, destruction, both motivated and unhinged in no small part by race; and, most importantly, a vastly worse economic recession).
And I at least hope that you underestimate the good that Obama has done for the Democratic party with the Affordable Care Act, with what stimulus and FinReg he did manage to achieve, and with the effect on long-term public perception of his consistent, and consistently rejected, attempts to meed the Republicans halfway.
PIGL
@blahblahblah: I can’t tell if that’s a spoof or serious. Creepy as hell, either way.
Michael
I’d rather watch porno bloopers than Palin propaganda pieces. At least with porno bloopers, you know you’re going to gain some useful information….
suzanne
@Chat Noir: Awwww, thanks. :) Scout is indeed a tortie, but is mostly black. When I adopted her as a kitten from a friend, she was completely black except for one toe. The tortie markings came later. Luna wants to play with her *so bad*, but Scout will have none of it. The only “accidents” we’ve had housebreaking Luna have been because she gets so revved up and excited, and she just pees from all the excitement.
Probably much like Sarah Palin, come to think of it.
New Yorker
@joeyess:
I dunno. I don’t think John McCain was the first choice of wingnuts in 2008. Isn’t he pretty much hated by the Ann Coulter set?
JGabriel
@Poopyman:
Remember how, in the 90’s, the press were all over Hill’s & Bill’s crazy brothers – Hugh, Anthony, and Roger?
The Palin brood, including Sarah, is the winger equivalent of the crazy Rodham & Clinton boys, but without Hill & Bill to moderate the insanity.
.
blahblahgurgleblegblah
@PIGL:
But isn’t that what Christ meant by: “Turning the other cheek”?
Hal
Sarah Palin can win dammit! All she has to do is continue with her current strategy:
1. Post some inane, general ramble about some Obama policy you disagree with on Facebook. Make sure to use “Founding Fathers” or Ronald Regan, but don’t actually discuss in depth the policy specifics. (Not like you know any real details anyway.)
2. Go on Fox news show to back up claim. Only Fox will do, as you know anyone else would actually challenge your contentions and ask you to explain yourself.
3. Follow up with twitter post repeating step one. Make sure to mention something vicious in describing yourself; Grizzly Bears, Pittbulls, Naomi Campbell with a black berry.
4. Repeat ad nauseum until 2012.
Bill Murray
Everybody knows the Real Genius is Val Kilmer.
and if not him I think I qualify since I have watched none of those videos. Not that I don’t watch plenty of stupid stuff.
and the best TV show song cover is Husker Du’s “Love is All Around”, which was the theme for the Mary Tyler Moore Show
DougJ
@BruinKid:
It’s old, but it’s the most telling poll I’ve seen on this topic. Also too, it’s not that old.
maus
@Bobby Thomson:
What they THINK will happen to their pocketbooks. Faux-independents aren’t very well-informed.
steve
I’m amazed at people who follow national politics and think ideas and candidates matter in the general election. They don’t. In the 9 presidential elections of my lifetime, 8 of the results–almost 90%–can be predicted by the rule
Is economy good?
Yes->keep incumbent
No->replace incumbent
it has nothing to do with who the nominees were, or their intelligence, or their policies. Whether the GOP nominee in 2012 is romney, palin, or a friggin guinea pig, a look at the unemployment and GDP growth rate will tell you the election results in advance.