We’ve already checked in with has been – how about the never was?
The Sarah Palin Channel is conducting a fascinating investigation into just how little content it can publish without losing subscribers. Palin has published fewer than 22 minutes of video this month, and even that abysmally small number is inflated. For example, Palin’s post on December 4th is three minutes and 26 seconds long, but the final 1:20 is a SarahPAC video posted to YouTube more than three years ago. The longest video she’s posted this month was her Hunger Games-inspired Ask Me Anything (runtime: 6:44), which, by definition, is just Palin giving off-the-cuff responses to her fans’ questions. And the only piece of content she’s published in the last seven days is a 97-second-long video titled “The Never Resolved Debt Crisis,” that was shot in 2013; this is spun as “never-before-seen” content, rather than a boring bowl of word salad that should have been left in the garbage where it was originally dumped.
I know a few people who vote Republican, but I don’t know anyone who would pay $9.95 a month to subscribe to the Sarah Palin channel. Who are these people? Has anyone here ever met one?
Shakezula
Content is for the liberal lamestream media also you betcha!
chopper
who?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I can only assume this is about the time Sarah went back to Neiman-Marcus forgetting that the McCain campaign wasn’t paying for it anymore?
beth
There you go again with those gotcha! questions, you liberal scum.
sharl
I’ve never met someone who would actually pay for a subscription, but I’ve met people who, upon hearing a mini-rant from me about the Arctic Grifter, would get a quizzical look on their face and ask something like ‘so what is wrong with what she is saying?’ These people, typically, are my family back in Ohio. Love to see the people I love – and can’t do it as much as I’d like – but on matters like this, trips home are kind of a depressing wake-up call. :-(
Fortunately she is mostly old news now, but there are plenty more like her waiting in the wings. Plenty of retirement and SS payments coming to those angry and frightened old white people out there, just waiting to be tapped by these grifters.
Iowa Old Lady
I know people who thought she was great in 2008, but they don’t talk about her any more, let alone fork over money on the odd chance she’ll babble.
Villago Delenda Est
Marks.
Elizabelle
@Shakezula:
That was good.
beth
So she’s doing a half-assed job as a precursor to quitting altogether? Quelle surprise! Who could have guessed?
Violet
Subscribers include organizations and people keeping an eye on her craziness. For instance, Wonkette has a running series on what stupid stuff she posts on her “Channel.” Wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of her subscribers are news organizations.
The problem with this whole Sarah Palin Channel thing is that Sarah Palin doesn’t do work. Making videos takes time. Is work. She’s not going to do that very often. Whoever set her up with this thing didn’t take that into account.
Just Some Fuckhead
Isn’t this a good thing?
schrodinger's cat
I wouldn’t read the content she posts even if you paid me $10.
Villago Delenda Est
@Just Some Fuckhead: Not a good a thing as a meteor hitting the Palin compound and wiping out the entire diseased clan.
mai naem mobile
This is good news for John McCain. No really, it is.
Elizabelle
OT: a blurb on NYTimes web FP:
Like the turn of phrase. Maybe this will wake some Maine Tea Partiers up. Maybe not.
More sea bass, less cod. Lobsters abound, but warming water may allow bacterial shell disease to infect them.
To make it topical: whatever comes out of the Wasilla sledneck’s piehole, science is cool and we need to protect our oceans and the fisheries.
Violet
@Elizabelle: Apparently her daughter Bristol is dating some snow machine guy and they were seriously disappointed not to make it onto the upcoming MTV series “Slednecks.”
SamR
I feel like there’s overlap between them and people who still pay $29.95 a month to America Online.
MomSense
@Elizabelle:
If only. Tried discussing it with tea partier lobsterman to no avail.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Violet: I can’t even tell if you’re snarking
@Elizabelle: some days the environmental news is so depressing that it makes all the other depressing news seem inconsequential.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Yeah. NYTimes has found some fishermen who blame regulators for their troubles. Uh huh.
Continuing to ignore Snowbilly:
Bah Humbug. From BBC News.
The bear got through 2013 with no complaints. One of its tunes is Andy Williams’ It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
Ben Cisco
OT, but I was waiting for this ‘bag to get a hammer dropped on him:
I hope she bleeds his silly ass dry.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
Maybe MTV has standards, and was concerned with the family’s propensity to brawl?
Maybe not …
[ETA: Maybe they’re concerned they can’t restrict the Palins to strictly on-camera, for profit brawling. The Palins freelance …]
Iowa Old Lady
@mai naem mobile: It would serve McCain right if she ran against him for the Senate in Arizona.
MattF
I suppose ‘subscribe to my channel’ is preferable to ‘give me your lunch money’.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Iowa Old Lady: I don’t think she’ll ever do it, but I wouldn’t be surprised is she encouraged the rumors just out of narcissism and spite.
JGabriel
mistermix @ top:
Wonkette, apparently. Maybe TPM, Politico, Gawker, The Onion, etc.
Or do you mean people? As opposed to media companies looking for comedy material?
Violet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I wish I were. I’m not. “Slednecks” is a real show. And Bristol is dating some guy named Joey Junker, who is a professional snowmachine rider.
You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
sharl
OT, just caught the final minutes of Linda Tirado on Kojo Nnamdi’s local NPR show, discussing her book “Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America“. The link to that show is here (podcast should be up sometime this evening, for anyone interested in listening).
Tirado discussed her recent post in Slate, noting how much response she got in comments from her ‘toaster anecdote’:
On Kojo’s show she said a number of Slate commenters took her to task for even owning a toaster – LUXURY! – and some suggested a number of absurd and potentially dangerous alternatives for making toast without such a precious appliance.
I only took a quick look at the comments, and was depressed as expected, though glad to see a fair amount of push-back. I suspect commenter Alabama_Al is spot-on:
ranchandsyrup
I know quite a few. They’re people who don’t really care what she has to say. They seem to enjoy more that Sister Sarah’s existence drives libruls “insane”. By watching, they are driving their enemies insane by proxy.
Violet
@Elizabelle: No, the Palins probably wanted too much money and Sarah probably wanted a fortune for a cameo. MTV producers know how to make shows people watch, for whatever reason. They probably know the Palins would be nothing but trouble for their show.
Mike in NC
Another Christmas without a new Sarah Palin book? Her window for grifting is rapidly slipping shut.
Tree With Water
The arc of Sarah Palin’s “career” gives testament to the adage “you can’t fool all the people, all the time”. The silence from most of her erstwhile supporters can be chocked up to their understandable embarrassment at having been played for a fool by an even bigger fool.
Rand Careaga
Look at it this way: it’s ten dollars a month they’re not spending on ammo.
MomSense
@Elizabelle:
They definitely blame the regulators. It’s a sad situation.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
Has former Capitol Hill communications director Elizabeth Lauten weighed in on that yet? I understand she has a bit more free time these days.
geg6
Yes, they do exist. Well, at least one does. A woman with whom I used to be a fellow boat club member with is a huge Sarah Palin booster. She is the big wingnut on my FB page, no doubt about it. She goes completely bonkers whenever I post something derogatory about Caribou Barbie on FB. She’s continually arguing with me and all my FB friends about how bad the ni***rs are, how Democrats are traitors and how only Republicans are true Merkins. She’s one of the people I’ll never understand. She and her husband are both retired (I don’t think she ever worked) and collecting SS/Medicare benefits, but she adores Paul Ryan. Her husband supplements their SS with working part-time as a security guard at a public high school in a highly diverse town, but she puts down teachers and education all the time and, as mentioned, is quite the bigot. I don’t have many wingnut friends, but I keep her there on my friends list just to see what craziness they are spreading amongst themselves.
replicnt6
When are We The People going to stop eating our boogers?
MomSense
@Mike in NC:
Does this mean we are winning the war on Christmas?
shelley
@Ben Cisco: The people who most need to employ a fact-checker never do.
jl
I guess it’s political equivalent of watching Lawrence Welk reruns.Glad my folks watch Welk, though. Never thought I would have an opportunity to say that.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
You hate me. I did not need to read that name on a Monday.
Elizabelle
@sharl:
Wow. I saw Linda Tirado’s Slate post. I had not seen the initial HuffPost item that brought her fans and a book deal. FYI: the blog link within has expired.
Think I will buy her book. Eye opening. I’ve been tight for money, but never existed on the schedule she’s survived.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Rich Lowry and other GOP guys who see starbursts when she winks at them?
Tree With Water
@Elizabelle: Sarah Palin will eventually bite the head off a chicken on a live televised broadcast, if that’s what it takes to continue her grift. And why not? As long as enough fools exist who are willing to sustain her coffers, it beats the hell out of working for a living.
schrodinger's cat
@geg6: So why are you friends with this woman?
Roger Moore
I assume her subscriber base is made of two kinds of people:
1) Media types who are looking for easy material to show up once in a while, and
2) People who subscribed way back then and have either forgotten about it or haven’t figured out how to cancel.
Group 2 are essentially the same people who are keeping AOL in business.
Roger Moore
@schrodinger’s cat:
The whole point of a YouTube channel is that it doesn’t require any of that painful “reading” business.
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: I couldn’t stand her when she was all over the airwaves and on my TV either. I am not going to pay for that annoyance.
dexwood
@Tree With Water:
May the chicken eat her tongue at the exact same moment.
srv
Hell, that’s way more content than we ever got at PerotCharts.com
Crushed that Truth to Liberal Power project of mine. We could refute all your lies, but 404 man… damn those Bush and Hillary black helicopters stealing Ross’ truthservers.
Amir Khalid
@Tree With Water:
No. Sarah Palin is more of a Lindsay Lohan type than an Ozzy Osbourne. She’s going to keep screwing up one gig after another, and the gigs will get smaller and smaller until they’re invisible to the naked eye.
Liberty60
@dexwood: Now THAT, I would pay $10 to see.
Loneoak
All of ’em.
Elizabelle
Ahhh. Did not realize two hostages were killed in Sydney, along with the hostage-taker. There were 17 hostages in all. Sad.
srv
There’s a FB pic going around of the towers burning and “Why I don’t care how we got information from terrorists”
And then subtitled “Waterboarding is just our form a baptizing terrorists. Merica.”
You can’t make this shit up, in case you were wondering where Moran guy has been.
The Red Pen
I’ve never met a Sarah Palin subscriber, but here’s one from Free Republic:
Yeah… so…
OzarkHillbilly
@Elizabelle:
Screw complaining to the cops, that would make me go postal.
Barbara
I decline to revisit the Facebook page swamp politics of one of my in-laws, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she was still so besotted that she might at least consider subscribing. I have no idea what this woman sees in Palin, because she (my in-law) is smarter, better educated than Palin and runs her own business. Plus her kids are all high achievers.
Shana
@Violet: What I don’t understand about that is how you make money as a professional snow machine ride, not that Bristol would be dating one, THAT makes perfect sense.
Barbara
@The Red Pen: Well, you know, that could be a plant from one of Sarah’s staff members.
Elizabelle
Andrew Sullivan is on vacay this week and his guest bloggers have both posted pet pictures as part of their bona fides.
Sully has a very good takedown of Cheney on MTP (assume it’s Sullivan, since no byline). The Depravity of Dick Cheney.
Not mockworthy.
NorthLeft12
@Elizabelle: I despise that song. It is right down there with Paul McCartney’s “Simply having a Wonderful Christmastime”. Retch.
If I lived anywhere near there I would probably have registered a complaint.
Iowa Old Lady
@Elizabelle: If ever there was a case crying out for extraordinary rendition, Cheney is it.
sharl
@Shana: Not gonna look it up, but as I recall, Grifterella’s husband (Todd, I think?) made/makes a fair amount of money as a professional snowmobile driver. Endorsements from manufacturers (and maybe other sponsor types, a la NASCAR?) are where the money comes from, I think.
NorthLeft12
@The Red Pen: “trenchant” — I don’t believe that word means what that fellow at Free Republic thinks it means.
Tree With Water
@NorthLeft12: Yeah, when a McCartney song misfires, it misfires badly. Fact: the first solo (video) appearance by Paul after the Fabs split up was on the Flip Wilson show. The Beatles were at the height of their reputations as musical magicians, and I was a Beatlemaniac. I looked so forward to it, certain it would sound great. Instead of great, it was Paul singing arguably his most wretched song, Mary Had A Little Lamb. I’m not kidding, that’s the title. You can probably find it on You Tube, but don’t waste your time. I’ll never forget the look on Wilson’s face when it ended, which was a cross between a “WTF was that”? look, and a “OK, well that was incredibly weird now on with the show” look.
geg6
@schrodinger’s cat:
She’s more of an acquaintance than a friend. And she always seemed nice when I knew her (just goes to show that you never really know people). She sought me out on FB, so I let her follow me. I won’t put up with her shit, though. I just tell her the way it is. Since she pursued the relationship, I’m fine with having her around to try to parse the newest wingnut outrage. I’m sure I or one of my many actual real friends will piss her off enough to unfriend me, though. None of us pull any punches or even attempt to be nice about it.
Micherr Markin
The people who would subscribe to this are mirror universe doppelgangers of the people who continue to support a fraud like Anita Sarkeesian.
Fred
I luv me some Sarah Palin. I personally know people who would never have imagined themselves voting for a black man who voted for Obama just so that idjit wouldn’t get within spitting distance of the White House.
Sarah Palin is a world class moron and even right wing racists know that despite all their anti government BS that the oval office is no place for dummies. Or at least right after Dubaya they knew it but they’ve probably forgotten by now. Guvner Perry breaths a sigh of relief.
The Red Pen
@Barbara:
My first thought reading this was, “I’m sure that Palin’s staffers have better things to do,” and then I realized that they probably don’t.
@NorthLeft12:
Perhaps they meant “trenchmouth.”
Gus
This guy for one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×481874
JCJ
@Tree With Water:
Maybe the devil made him do it
schrodinger's cat
@geg6: Good for you. May be you might manage to burst her wingnut bubble.
SRW1
So, ahm, $9.95 for 22 minutes of video, right?
I don’t feel like that puts me in a position to decide on whether that’s a rip-off or not. There’s some important information missing. Like, how many times did Lovely Sarah wink during those 22 minutes. Could make it totally worthwhile that.
morning wood palin
Maybe these guys?
NotMax
@SRW1
Her contract may contain a clause forbidding production of a number of minutes larger than the number of her IQ.
lgerard
@The Red Pen:
best Sarah adoration from the Free Republic ever
Seanly
@sharl:
When I lost my job in Feb ’11, I started looking to favored locations to move at first. Wife & I weren’t enjoying Columbia, SC and were ready to pack up & move. After 3 months unemployed, my list of where to work began to widen significantly. After 4 months, I was already on to merely excluding some states like NJ & TX (I have previously done time working in NJ and wife hates TX). I ended up being unemployed for 7 months and had to move 2500 miles. The company that hired me did pay some moving expenses, but it was still a hard ordeal.
Frankensteinbeck
@Elizabelle:
Narcissist. He is FURIOUS with America that we don’t understand that he is always right about everything. He’s been like this since Obama was elected. Before, really.
He will never be brought to justice. Prosecuting a former president or vice-president for their policies, even if blatantly illegal, is a grey area in the law. Three guesses how the Supreme Court would rule.
cmorenc
@schrodinger’s cat:
OTOH, since she is a voluminous generator of word salad, if the offer was $10/word, I would gladly read as much of her accumulated content at her site as I could for a couple of days, at which point I’d have earned several million dollars at least. But I don’t think I could stay with it long enough to become a billionaire. And if the challenge was instead to read every complete, coherent sentence she posted, I might either starve or go insane before I’d find enough of those to make it worthwhile.
LanceThruster
Maybe the subscriptions come with a pair of genuine x-ray specs and they’re not letting on in order not to crash the site?
TriassicSands
I doubt if just being incredibly stupid would suffice. It must be a combination of having too much money, too little intelligence, and being totally insane. I’d like to think than every penny that is wasted on Palin is a penny that doesn’t go to GOP political candidates and/or PACS.
Villago Delenda Est
@The Red Pen: Wow. How did they manage to condense so much gargantuan stupid into a single paragraph like that?
Zinsky
I’m speculating that it is used primarily for masturbatory purposes. So, the dirtbag pervs who think her skankiness is sexy (Yuck!) only need the five to seven minutes of video I t takes to spank the monkey. Content is irrelevant.
Sondra
I think this is the teevee version of the “vanity press”. People who fancy themselves to be writers will self-publish if they have the money to do it.
She can afford to keep her teevee brand afloat when subscriptions drop off. And there will always be some rich rghtwing sugar daddy out there for her.
Hunter
$9.95 a month? That’s more than Netflix for streaming video, and Netflix has actual content.