Screechy-voiced grifter Sarah Palin was unable to sit in a room and feign interest in some other person’s dull fucking life, so her Real American Stories will be chock full of previously aired interviews amidst the platitudes, word salad, and gratuitous g-droppin’:
Hours after LL Cool J complained that Fox News was recycling an old interview with him for a new program hosted by Sarah Palin, representatives for the country musician Toby Keith, who was also listed as a guest for the show, made a similar charge against the cable channel.
In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Elaine Schock, a publicist for Mr. Keith said: “I have no idea what interview they are using. Toby’s talked to Fox a number of times, and I had no idea that this was going to be on Sarah Palin’s special. Fox has never contacted me — not now, not when they were putting this together, not at all. I have no idea what they’re using.”
Mr. Keith, whose songs include “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue,” was announced as a guest on “Real American Stories,” a program that Fox News has scheduled for Thursday night. Ms. Schock said he had not been interviewed by Fox News since 2008. Update: In a subsequent email message, Ms. Schock said that the interview with Mr. Keith likely happened in early 2009.
Asked if Mr. Keith was ever interviewed by Ms. Palin, Ms. Schock said, “Absolutely not.”
I would suggest changing the name of the show to Sloppy Seconds with Sarah Palin.
Normally I would be concerned that a comment like this would keep me off cable teevee, but Erick Erickson seems to have lowered the bar for everyone so I’m still fucking golden…
Anderson Cooper or bust, bitchez.




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This must be some kind of tri-fecta. The network known for completely insane bullshit hires the empty politician known for completely insane bullshit to do an interview show that, it turns out, she either can’t or won’t actually do–resulting in completely insane bullshit.
Well, in b-school, they do teach you to stick with what you’re good at, eh?
And they are VERY good at that.
Paylin could interview herself. She could ask herself all the tough-gotcha questions, none of those fucking softballs like “is Tangent really your baby”. She could wink at herself (and back at herself) and do the gun-hands-pointy-thing and then quit halfway through………
I believe this is one of those ‘elite’ technikes that you learn from oversampling journalism schoolz/
Don’t critisize higher learning folks!
I hear she’s interviewing Kurt Cobain next week.
and Ronald Raygun?
Wait – she’s the incarnation of Max Headroom!
Please use spell-check n the phuture. U misaspelled lurnin’….
Only if turkeys are being slaughtered in the background…
I’m not understanding the show. She’s faking interviews?
Not quite that bad: Sounds as if she would have been in her home studio just introducing two yr.-old interviews, & maybe some file footage.
Record companies used to release promotional albums featuring “interviews” with artists. One side was an interview with a generic host; the other side was just the answers, and a script of the interview was provided so that any local DJ from any crappy low-watt radio station in any podunk burg could stage an “interview” with a real big star!
Saruh’s handlers at Fox “News” just added video. So it’s, like, retro chic, ya know? The kids on their YouTubes will eat it up!
TBogg should replace Leno.
I was kind of worried that I’d have to give up my LL Cool J fantasies since from the ads he appeared to be headlining with Palin. Very happy to know that I can dream on peacefully.
Wasn’t Nixon who said, “if we’ve lost Toby Keith…”"?
Also. 2.
I like your tag for this one: “Shut up dumb lady.”
“Real American Stories.” Interviews, not stories. Not really done by Sarah Palin. With some Americans. So, one out of three. Sounds about average for Bill Kristol’s most famous discovery.
TBogg, I laughed until I cried.
Josh Marshall’s brief post on Sarah Barracuda was also quite funny, if you haven’t been by there yet.
OT: The life and times of Dana Loesch This will show you how often I pick up the RFT these days because the name did not ring a bell at all.
Palin has one thing in common with Ronald Reagan: both of them have to be kept away from any situation that might reveal that they’re a taco shy of a combination plate. The only difference is that Palin needs this kind of handling at age 46 whereas Reagan didn’t need it until he was in his late 60′s.
On her “new” Discovery Channel series, she’ll be pointing at pictures from old issues of National Geographic.
Damn, where’s a good sex tape when you need one?
That’s what conservatives call progress…
Oh my starbursts, I haven’t laughed that hard since the last time the Ohioan Tropic John Boner threw one of his fake tantrums on the House floor. Thanks!
Give her a green screen and she’ll interview the world. But her audience will look just like the ones on Let’s Make a Deal for some reason. Odd that.
“So, Mister… can I call ya Ell-Ell? How’s that hip-hoppy-changey thing workin’ out for ya?”
The perfect channel for Sarah Palin: http://live.twit.tv/
Maybe she’ll have time on her show to explain this:
http://washingtonindependent.com/80942/palin-left-alaska-with-debts-equal-to-70-percent-of-its-gdp
But one thing every state is doing, including Alaska, is camouflaging its debts by not releasing how much its state employee pension funds will owe — or how far behind it is on its contributions to said pension funds.
Less than a year after then-Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) quit the government to pursue other projects,Alaska leads the way in its debt-to-GDP ratio when its unfunded pension obligations are taken into account, followed by Rhode Island, New Mexico, Ohio and Mississippi. And although Alaska’s ratio is far lower than Greece’s, it does give the state a debt-to-GDP ratio similar to that of Jordan and Palin’s favorite health care resource, Canada, and a higher ratio than Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, India, the Philippines or Uruguay.
Geesh, you’d think that while she was spreading all of that oil wealth and buying her popularity, she might have paid down some of that pension obligation.
I can’t help thinking of her as no mere grifter. She’s more of a power-grifter.
Indeed. I believe Milionaire Matchmaker could shred her in a NY minute. Ohhh, that’d be must see TV.
Her Alaska nature show will probably include B-roll of nature scenes that weren’t even shot in Alaska.