Boy if Sarah Palin wanted to make sure that people are still talking about her she certainly found a way to do so last night.
It seems that just about EVERYBODY is talking about her new pay-per-rant web based TV channel.
And in response journalists are signing up for the free first month's subscription in order to adequately cover the lunacy that is sure to emerge from a Sarah Palin without a media filter to make her appear at least slightly sane.
But not I.
If I had a religion it would forbid me from doing anything to contribute to Palin's monetary gain, EVEN if by doing so I could more effectively dissect her lunacy, call her out on her lack of education and intelligence, and generally mock her at will.
No the way I figure it, if Palin says some thing on her silly little channel, to her handful of silly little paint eaters, that is not news.
And if it IS news, then some poor schlub who is being forced to follow it by his editor will write something up, and I will gladly report on THAT.
I also would discourage all of you from signing on even for the free trial.
As somebody already pointed out, those numbers will be used to suggest Palins' level of popularity and even if the majority of them are critics, journalists, and trolls, a subscriber is still a subscriber in Palin's book.
By the way perhaps the most interesting thing about this new endeavor is that Palin called on the "lamestream" media folks to help her with it.
This from the Daily Beast:
Jonathan Klein, the former president of CNN’s United States operation, and Jeff Gaspin, the former chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, are just the sort of lamestream media elites that Sarah Palin is constantly railing against.
But, because this is America, where capitalism is the great equalizer between liberals and conservatives alike, a little difference of opinion hasn’t stopped the former governor of Alaska, Republican vice presidential nominee and right-wing political icon from joining forces with two blue-state media entrepreneurs to launch her own subscription-based online TV channel.
That means that at least these two believe that there is money in them thar fake bolt on hills, and they are hoping to get a piece. (Of the action, not Palin.)
Will it actually be successful however? I seriously doubt it.
For example get a load of this:
“We’ve been talking to the Palins for a while”—since their initial contact last year her with the ex-Guv’s lawyer-agent, Beltway establishment gatekeeper Bob Barnett—“but we really began talking in earnest a few months ago as her timing came together,” Klein said. “She’s got a complicated life. She does have five kids and three of them are at home, and she’s got a handful, running around the country giving speeches.”
Two of those kids—sexual abstinence advocate and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Bristol, 23, mother of Tripp and the ex-girlfriend of Tripp’s father, Levi Johnston; and middle school student Piper, 13, her mom’s frequent travel companion to all those high-dollar speeches—are also starring on the new channel’s web site. Bristol has her already-established blog on the site while Piper has begun to record her own video commentary. Meanwhile, Sarah’s mother, Scrabble aficionado Sally Heath, will be providing a word of the day, Klein said.
So the question you have to ask is what kind of subscriber is going to be interested in the ghostwritten posts of Bristol Palin, that they can find for free on Brancy's blog, and the video diary entries of the prepubescent Piper Palin?
My guess would be only those the MOST intoxicated from drinking the Palin brand of Kool-aid, and recent SarahPAC filings have shown that number to be dwindling at quite a clip.