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Obama Attempting To Force Discovery Channel to Drop Palin’s New Show
Change.org (Obama White House) ^ | April 6, 2010 | Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

Posted on 04/06/2010 9:15:47 PM PDT by TCH

Here’s a copy of an e-mail sent to me by an operative.

Urge Discovery to Drop Sarah Palin’s New Show

Discovery Communications — the parent company of The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and others, and known for their wildlife-focused programs — is planning to produce an 8-part TV show on Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska is a “reality TV” show that aims to showcase the “powerful beauty of Alaska,” according to Discovery’s TLC website.

But the real Sarah Palin is no friend of Alaska’s natural heritage. While in office, the former governor fought against increased protections for endangered whales and America’s dwindling populations of polar bears in favor of oil and gas development, supported dangerous drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and escalated Alaska’s brutal aerial wolf-killing program.

Yet according to reports, Palin will earn about $1 million per episode from the nature-focused series.

Act now, Send a powerful message to Discovery Communications expressing your disappointment at their action and urging them to drop Sarah Palin’s new show from their programming schedule.

It’s important that the truth about Sarah Palin’s record not be swept under the rug by her celebrity. Palin’s disrespect for the environment and disregard for science and has done real damage to Alaska’s wildlife and endangered Alaska’s natural heritage.

Send a message to Discovery Communications and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve to represent the “powerful beauty of Alaska” in front of millions of people.

Take action today>

Thanks for taking a stand,

- The Change.org Team in support of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

The links in this e-mail take you directly to Barack Obama’s political arm, Change.org,

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/urge_discovery_communications_to_drop_sarah_palins_new_show?alert_id=pPVlHNgGOM_OcAmutHznt

and this message:

Targeting: Mr. David Zaslav (President and CEO, Discovery Communications)

Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

Sarah Palin has signed on with reality TV producers and Discovery Communications to star in a new TV show about Alaska and its outdoors.

But the ugly reality is that as governor for only two-and-a-half years, Sarah Palin escalated a bloody aerial wolf-slaughter campaign that continues to this very day. She even planned to offer a $150 bounty for the severed forelimb of each killed wolf.

Palin also fought against increased protections for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and America’s dwindling populations of polar bears.

Sign our petition to Discovery Communications — and let them know that Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve to represent the “powerful beauty of Alaska” in front of millions of people.


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1 posted on 04/06/2010 9:15:47 PM PDT by TCH
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To: TCH
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2 posted on 04/06/2010 9:17:19 PM PDT by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: TCH

Can’t wait to see the show! American Stories is great too.


3 posted on 04/06/2010 9:18:15 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (FR - my online family. From Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
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To: TCH

SOMEONE REALLY FEARS SARAH PALIN!


4 posted on 04/06/2010 9:19:12 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The PLANTATION Party is at it again (the DEMS) ....trying to make slaves of everyone)
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To: bicyclerepair

Once again the dopes are oblivious to free promotion. The lefty stench is everywhere .


5 posted on 04/06/2010 9:20:41 PM PDT by fantom (,)
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To: TCH; All

Is there no limit to this man's ego?



6 posted on 04/06/2010 9:21:00 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: TCH
OVER HERE
7 posted on 04/06/2010 9:21:48 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.......Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: TCH

obama is sickeningly unethical.


8 posted on 04/06/2010 9:22:05 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: TCH

Where can we email to support all programs with Palin?

;-))))


9 posted on 04/06/2010 9:23:02 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: TCH

The White House should keep its grubby little fingers OUT of this deal. I doubt this is even legal.


10 posted on 04/06/2010 9:23:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TCH

I heard that she had the Alaskan National Guard helicopters machine gunning wolves and Eskimos, and that she would watch the videos and laugh maniacally, while plotting to destroy America with conservatism.


11 posted on 04/06/2010 9:23:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Why are the non "social conservative" Republicans so unconservative?)
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To: babyfreep

Commercial slander comes to mind


12 posted on 04/06/2010 9:23:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TCH

There uis no blow so low
that a DemoLeftie wont go below.

Slimy Obama. Show yourself as just how slimy you and yours are.


13 posted on 04/06/2010 9:26:35 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: goodnesswins

They are really scared sh**less of her, aren’t they? Lends a whole new slant on the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”!


14 posted on 04/06/2010 9:26:39 PM PDT by pankot
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“I doubt this is even legal.”

Since when did THAT ever stop a Communist?/s


15 posted on 04/06/2010 9:27:07 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The White House should keep its grubby little fingers OUT of this deal. I doubt this is even legal.

Like that has even ever stopped the @#$%^...er, uh, Tyrant in Chief. Legality and rules are for us little people.

16 posted on 04/06/2010 9:28:27 PM PDT by mplsconservative (0bama = Epic Fail)
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To: ansel12

The way the Commie media reports it, you would think SHE was up in a chopper shooting wolves. BARF!


17 posted on 04/06/2010 9:28:45 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

They have to be sued. Sarah Palin has enough dough from her book to do that. It will also help her creds vis a vis the Rats. Bring it on, Bummer.


18 posted on 04/06/2010 9:29:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: ansel12
I heard that she had the Alaskan National Guard helicopters machine gunning wolves and Eskimos, and that she would watch the videos and laugh maniacally, while plotting to destroy America with conservatism.

I bet Dingy Harry wish he used that one on the 100 people that showed up to kick off his campaign....:o)


19 posted on 04/06/2010 9:30:37 PM PDT by Niteflyr ("Just because something is free doesn't mean it's good for you".)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Dang... and I did a title search too!


20 posted on 04/06/2010 9:35:59 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: BP2
"Is there no limit to this man's ego?"

Looks like the spirits are with him...
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21 posted on 04/06/2010 9:36:39 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is doing to America what Roman Polanski did to his victim, but without lube.)
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To: TCH

I’ll be watching in more ways than one.


22 posted on 04/06/2010 9:37:20 PM PDT by BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL (Onward thru the smoke, mirrors, and B.S....)
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To: SumProVita

I would guess you may ask Palin’s people at her website, etc.


23 posted on 04/06/2010 9:37:31 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: TCH
Sounds like a bunch of tree huggers who were mad because Palin wouldn't kiss their butts while she was Governor.

Like everything to do with the current administration, this one stinks on ice.
24 posted on 04/06/2010 9:38:33 PM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: TCH

“Dang... and I did a title search too!”

Glad you didn’t find it the first time. Otherwise lots of people wouldn’t have even seen this.


25 posted on 04/06/2010 9:38:59 PM PDT by nralife
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To: TCH

Hey Obama!

Sarah want’s to know if she will be able to see the Potomac from her new House.


26 posted on 04/06/2010 9:44:09 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Domain lookup for change.org:

Registrant Name:Ben Rattray
Registrant Organization:Change.org
Registrant Street1:709 Douglass St
Registrant Street2:
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Registrant City:San Francisco
Registrant State/Province:California
Registrant Postal Code:94114
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27 posted on 04/06/2010 9:47:13 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: TCH; Admin Moderator

You prolly didn’t see it because it’s over in bloggers/personal and you were in news/activism.

Hey admin mod, could that other thread be pulled over into news/activism? This is more than a blogger note.


28 posted on 04/06/2010 9:48:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I thought that when you did a search, the action covered ALL of FR’s niches.


29 posted on 04/06/2010 9:50:26 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: TCH
You might have to select Everything first.
30 posted on 04/06/2010 9:51:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TCH

They really are afraid of her aren’t they?


31 posted on 04/06/2010 9:51:59 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: TCH; All

It is time to flood the White House with an overwhelming sh*tstorm of emails. Any takers?


32 posted on 04/06/2010 9:52:18 PM PDT by 60Gunner (But there's this one particular harbor...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

OH! Gee, and I am not even a “nooohbeee” ;)


33 posted on 04/06/2010 9:52:56 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: TCH
Inuit say Baffin Bay Polar Bear Population is not decreasing

Polar Bear Policy Challenge

"The polar bear's numbers have been going up, not down. Even under the most conservative projections in the government's own scientific model, there will be at least 20,000 polar bears in the Arctic over the next four to five decades-that's more than double the number there were 50 years ago." stated PLF Principal Attorney Reed Hopper.

34 posted on 04/06/2010 9:54:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Illegal? LOL! Commies don’t have to obey no stinking laws.


35 posted on 04/06/2010 9:57:42 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (END THE WAR ON LIBERTY!)
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To: TCH

Barry Braaaak Hussein Soetero Obama, I stretch my sphincter in your general direction, you louse!


36 posted on 04/06/2010 9:58:28 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: TigersEye

Also, note that the polar bear is a natural adaptation of the grizzly bear. Globull warming is the only reason why anyone expects a shortage of polar bears.


37 posted on 04/06/2010 10:01:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TCH
The Grizzly bears love the pipelines because it keeps their toes warm - they use them like highways -

and the caribou population around the pipelines went up - they have their babies under the pipelines because of the warmth - and the grass is green also, because of the warmth.

And yes, we must protect those sweet wolves -

http://www.wytv.com/mostpopular/story/Police-Confirm-Woman-Killed-by-Animals-in-Alaska/MJ67tixkWUS6ku-tcUF4AQ.cspx

Police Confirm Woman Killed by Animals in Alaska

38 posted on 04/06/2010 10:02:34 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7

Wolf and domestic dog are now considered the same species.


39 posted on 04/06/2010 10:03:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SumProVita

I would contact the Discovery Channel. Here is the address for their page for comments or questions.
http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations
Also here is the page with all of their contact questions on it.
http://dsc.discovery.com/utilities/about/viewer-relations.html
What really gagged me was a Nature show with Oprah. I wouldn’t watch that if you paid me and I love many nature shows. Sarah is obviously a person who knows much about Alaska but Oprah and nature, I think not.


40 posted on 04/06/2010 10:04:58 PM PDT by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Quite right, which brings me to the next link I planned to post. ;-)

Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to 'Inconvenient' Truths

This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.

Suppressed EPA report, meet suppressed polar bear report. You both represent inconvenient truths.

Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.


41 posted on 04/06/2010 10:05:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: TCH

This will only make the program more desirable...Discovery is probably hoping this protest goes viral and generates even more free PR.


42 posted on 04/06/2010 10:06:46 PM PDT by bigbob
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THIS FALL on the Discovery Channel...despite popular demand...

Obama's KENYA.

43 posted on 04/06/2010 10:07:20 PM PDT by alancarp (Calling all states: Reduce the cost of doing business and jobs will flock to your doors.)
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To: TCH

Another petition I saw over at change.org:

Demand Public Registries of Animal Abusers


44 posted on 04/06/2010 10:11:06 PM PDT by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre?)
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To: bigbob

Sure hope you’re correct... BUT, just to be safe... Our side had better get on the phones.


45 posted on 04/06/2010 10:14:18 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Since when is illegality an issue at the White House?


46 posted on 04/06/2010 10:18:01 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Bellflower

I must be pretty dense. I can’t find a way to voice my support for Sarah Palin’s show on those links.


47 posted on 04/06/2010 10:25:00 PM PDT by WVNan (I hate the liberal news corpse..)
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To: TCH

Tell the educated idiot to go blow! Expose the anti-american PUNK!


48 posted on 04/06/2010 10:28:43 PM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: goodnesswins

Sarah is “commander zero’s” greatest threat.


49 posted on 04/06/2010 10:29:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Bellflower

Bumping THAT!!!!


50 posted on 04/06/2010 10:29:53 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!!)
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