Half Governor, Half Assed, Total FLOP~!

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Well, it’s zooming around the blogosphere… last night’s anchor / documadeup shit commentator, Sarah Palin has let down the Faux News crowd with a less than riveting performance. Her hicupish speechafying, make it up as you go style has even pushed off the nutters towards another network. We’ve discovered a venue that pretty much all agree she is a total FLOP at… Barbara Walters she ain’t. The ‘news magazine’ format phizzled.

The majority of reviews give less than two stars in a five star meter. From CBS news review:

[The Sarah Palin-hosted “Real American Stories” debuted on Fox News last night, and the reviews are less than glowing.

In the New York Times, Ahahad O’Connor writes that the “relatively tame” broadcast featured the Fox News contributor “clearly reading from a teleprompter at times, but appeared relaxed and natural — almost more comfortable than she sometimes appeared on the campaign trail — when interviewing guests.”

The Times‘ Alessandra Stanley said Palin “retreated into canned television formula,” deeming the broadcast a letdown. “Ms. Palin, who mostly narrated taped stories about inspiring Americans — a war hero, a philanthropist, a boy with cerebral palsy and his service dog — gave a competent, but generic performance, as cheery and bland as any news anchor’s in the mainstream media she deplores,” wrote Stanley.

In the Los Angeles Times, Mary McNamara writes that “surely only the most jaded among us could object to a television show devoted to inspiring tales of “real Americans,” among them a heroic Marine and a millionaire who paid for the college education of thousands of children. And yet: “As a host, Palin brings little besides her name and all that it has come to mean. Despite her time on the campaign trail and in front of often-unfriendly cameras, Palin still has an eyes-locked-on-the-teleprompter stiffness.”

In the Washington Post, Hank Stuever writes that he wasn’t sure what to make of the show. “The debut on the Fox News Channel of Sarah Palin’s ‘Real American Stories’ Thursday night turned out to be like one of those shows that’s on when nothing’s on and yet there is air to fill — like infotainment you sometimes see on empty channels in hotel rooms, or the stuff that’s playing on the little TV screen at the gas pump nearest the rental-car center,” he writes. “What are we watching exactly? (A commercial? News?)”

Deeming the show a “letdown,” he adds: “No hopey-changey. No missed cues. Palin’s show, which Fox News will air ‘periodically,’ is innocuous, flat and political in only the most coded of ways. It’s like a Barbara Walters special for that particular media consumer who always complains that they never report any good news.”

In the New York Daily News, Palin’s show got two stars out of five, though the low rating was ascribed to the production, not the host.

“Palin is disconnected from the show,” writes Richard Huff. “Having her follow the taped pieces with interviews gives the production the feel of a telethon, without the pitch for money.” (Many of the interviews were taped a year ago or more; LL Cool J complained when he learned that an interview with him would be used, and he was subsequently dropped from the show.)]

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13 years ago

Great headline Gwen – She is surrounded by, and employed by, people who tell her she is wonderful. Her public appearances are staged to feature adoring crowds. When somebody decides to tell her she is to shallow for the type of work she is in, it will all end in tears. She couldn’t take the heat in Alaska.

13 years ago

That immature little idiot with the aggravatingly shrill voice should not have even gotten an audition, let alone a hostess spot on a cable network show. Of course, the standards are so very low over at Fox “News” that they’ll let any screaming meemee have a show.

13 years ago

The only thing she seems to do with consistent success, if that’s what you call it, is giving the same snarky, smartass speech to adoring audiences. Other than that she is as Jon Stewart described: she’s like an onion, but without the layers.

13 years ago

Lazer… I really like that~! Dude, very good.

Happy holiday to all of you who are observing a resurrecting kind of weekend! I’ve always considered “Good Friday” a good luck day… don’t know why…just have. Have you a good ‘un whatever you are celebrating this week. 🙂

13 years ago

The Palin … she is what she is … from nothing she came to nothing she will return.

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13 years ago

I am not surprised Gwen. This woman is like the emperor without clothes. He didn’t know it and she doesn’t know it. She has been made famous and is convinced that she is now capable of doing almost anything. Clearly, and as evidenced by these reviews, she is not.

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