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Posted on 12/21/2010 1:09:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin.
They have become two of the most incendiary words in the English language, right up there with WikiLeaks and obesity epidemic. "Sarah Palin." Say it, write it and evoke instant wrath or rapture. In the last year, she's become not so much a person or even political figure as a brand, a rhetorical franchise of multimedia proportions. Summoning a working mother's multi-tasking skills, Palin spent 2010 puttin' it out there on all the platforms, from book publishing to Twitter, but television is her home base.
Here's a woman who quit her job as governor of Alaska to pursue a career in television - first as a commentator for Fox News, then as the star of her own reality series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Here's a woman straddling two worlds, a frontier filled with rifles, snowmobiles and fishing expeditions, and a meta-media landscape into which she sent her daughter Bristol as a safe-sex emissary and a "Dancing With the Stars" contestant. Here's a woman who understands that the here and now of American politics is not so much transparency as it is familiarity, that the message is nothing without the medium and you don't need to be a leader if you can be a symbol.
A lesson she learned from President Obama.
Like Palin, Obama got his big break on TV. In 2004, a virtually unknown candidate for U.S. Senate delivered a rousing speech, and a star was born. He was young, he was handsome, he uttered stirring words with conviction. Sensing his moment, Obama unrolled a personal story that spoke to many - a fatherless boy with roots in two races who projected serene resolution, familial dedication and a Rat Pack-like cool. Americans wanted change; he made change look easy. In four years, he was president....
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Antidote - my daughter’s formerly Palin hating girlfriend thinks she’s OK now due to her reality show.
I resent the comparison, but does she have a point, or not?
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She does not. She’s a concern troll.
That's what it's come to. People who watch these shows shouldn't be allowed to vote. I'm a Palin fan, but I think going on lamestream TV should be beneath her.
ML?/NJ
Quit as Governor to pursue a television career? Oh, shut up already. They never get it right do they?
Why?
In today's world, if you don't make yourself known on lamestream TV, you won't ever be President. TV is where most of the campaigning is done.
Ronald Reagan was known primarily as a star of lamestream TV.
She shoots, mushes across the ice pack, pans for gold, and logs trees.
I am in love and in awe all at the same time.
People who watch these shows shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
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LOL. But those who star on them can not only vote but also run for prez? That’s funny.
I think the Palin 2012 game plan is taken straight from Axelrod and Plouffe.
Except she wants to rally real Americans instead of left wing dirtballs.
Ping!
Complete lie.
Mush you doggies...Woo...Hoo..
Considering the state of the Union, I am no longer sure that I care how she get’s there... as long as she does.
Sarah Palin is no symbol, she is the leader of the American People Power movement.
She is everything the socialist tyrants of the Lamestream media wish they’d never seen. She is easily the most astute and brilliant politician of the last 100 years.
Eat your heart out Mary McNamara!
Pelosi hires Spielberg to Rebrand Democrats
Lawmakers say she is consulting marketing experts about building a stronger brand. The most prominent of her new whisperers is Steven Spielberg, the Hollywood director whose films have been works of branding genius. Lawmakers said Spielberg has not reported to Pelosi with a recommendation.
Spielberg has been a power player in Democratic politics for years, working on everything from President Bill Clinton’s millennial celebrations to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He endorsed Hillary Clinton in the last presidential race, but since then he’s helped fundraise for President Obama.
But, the news that he is advising the leading Democrat in the House on building a strong party brand would seem to be a different — and more expansive — role than Spielberg has played in the past.
Why?
Because only Demcrats are allowed to shape our entertainment culture!
No Conservatives on TV, in Hollywood, music, Academia, the MSM, nothing!
We have ceded it all to the liberals.
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