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Sunderland "reality" show preplanned before Abby's misadventure

Posted on 06/13/2010 7:22:19 PM PDT by LouieFisk

(Info derived from linked article)
Sunderland "reality" show was preplanned before Abby's misadventure:

Adventures in Sunderland (Reality TV Show) Distribution Rights: Magnetic Entertainment Exec Producer: Magnetic Entertainment

"A family oriented Adventure show, based on the Sunderland Family of Thousand Oaks, CA. We follow the family in their day-to-day lives as shipbuilder Laurence Sunderland and mother/teacher Marianne try to balance work and family."

http://www.magneticent.com/html/projects.htm

"Magnetic Entertainment" is the sponsor of the ill-fated voyage. (pdf list of sponsors)

http://abbysunderland.com/images/sponsors/abby_sponsorship.pdf


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: abby; abbysunderland; nosurprise; pubhounds; publicity; realitytv; sail; sailing; sunderland
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To: LouieFisk

From another thread: “Mrs Sunderland, who is pregnant with the family’s eighth child...”

Maybe Mr. Sutherland ought to go on a solo sail around the world and give the Mrs. a rest.


21 posted on 06/13/2010 7:56:23 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: toldyou
"Thanks for the thread..first time I heard of it. I’m not surprised though!"
You're welcome, I have to give credit to the source from which I grabbed "just the facts". I didn't link it quite right so it didn't appear in my first post. I just stumbled on the guy and his article, the facts he relays are pretty obvious.
Is Abby Sunderland just another reality TV scammer?" by Andy Martin. His site:ContrarianCommentary.com
22 posted on 06/13/2010 7:57:18 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LibFreeOrDie

That should be Mr Sunderland.


23 posted on 06/13/2010 7:57:42 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: GatorGirl

VERY interesting. Balloon boy II.


24 posted on 06/13/2010 7:58:33 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: LibFreeOrDie

hehehehehehe


25 posted on 06/13/2010 8:00:13 PM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: Crim

>> So much for this not being a publicity stunt...

Funny... I don’t see any of yesterday’s Abby worshipers on THIS thread.


26 posted on 06/13/2010 8:06:16 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: LouieFisk

Let’s not diminish her skills or achievement, however. She was the youngest to round the Cape of Good Hope solo and got halfway around the world. Very impressive.

But the outcome was almost inevitable due to the timing (not only the winter aspect but the fact she only owned the boat for three months before her departure and two of those months were spent tricking it out with sponsorship logos and retrofitting the gear) and the parental pimping unforgivable.

They deserve as much attention as Octomom has garnered. Pretty much none. Let each of their other six kids try to beat each other to be the youngest. This bunch is about as loathsome as it comes.

Besides, the book has already been written. Lionheart, the Jesse Martin story.


27 posted on 06/13/2010 8:06:47 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Funny... I don’t see any of yesterday’s Abby worshipers on THIS thread.”

Not even when they are getting pinged to show their faces...


28 posted on 06/13/2010 8:09:04 PM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: LouieFisk
These parents are lower than whale poop. I wish the authority that recognizes records in sailing would make the boat put up bond for any cost related to rescue or admin expense for a country. Plus require 18 years old as the entry level.

I am so frosted about this. Sending your kid to her potential death is child abuse in the first degree. The kid failed, was behind schedule, put in for repairs and was then advised by her father to continue the march. Put those parents in a Dingy in the middle of the Southern Ocean in Winter. Let's see what hero's they are. That girl was facing weather worse that what crashed her for the next two months.

Honor the rescuers. The fishing boat crew that got her lost production, and the captain, almost his life. Fell into the water. I'm hot about this.

29 posted on 06/13/2010 8:11:55 PM PDT by Pit1 (Not illegal immigrants. They are CRIMINAL BORDER CROSSERS.)
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To: spectre
Betcha it's not reported there are many teens who have asked their parents if they could sail around the world solo...And their loving parents said "no"..

"Dad," I said, "I want to go to the moon."

... This is the third line of Chapter 1 of a book which I'm sure is familiar to many.

30 posted on 06/13/2010 8:13:24 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: org.whodat
Indeed, I'm waiting with bated breath for comment from all those suckers who thrilled to believe this kid's "brilliant seamanship skills" enabled her to defeat 90 foot rogue waves and return alive!
31 posted on 06/13/2010 8:17:08 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

I’m amazed at the number of people that think we need to have children risk their lives to support their parents. It not the 1600’s, the 1500’s the 1700’s, are the 1800’s. We don’t have children doing slave labor anymore, third world countries do.


32 posted on 06/13/2010 8:25:04 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Nervous Tick
I kind of irked some supporters but I was right. There is always the other side of the story.
33 posted on 06/13/2010 8:25:10 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: hinckley buzzard
thrilled to believe this kid's "brilliant seamanship skills" enabled her to defeat 90 foot rogue waves and return alive!

She didn't. She failed and good people bailed her butt out. She didn't defeat anything.

Read some of the worlds finest sailors at this site. Many rail against the hair-brained scheme.

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=102689&st=2600

34 posted on 06/13/2010 8:28:18 PM PDT by Pit1 (Not illegal immigrants. They are CRIMINAL BORDER CROSSERS.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

ping!

You’ll love this!


35 posted on 06/13/2010 8:29:38 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: MamaB

>> I kind of irked some supporters but I was right.

I seriously irked some Abby supporters. The whole idea that if you don’t worship this young fool and her parents for what she did, then you aren’t really a conservative — that REALLY got under my skin!

FRegards


36 posted on 06/13/2010 8:30:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Crim
Wow, that's some thread. With all the kool aid drunk on that one, no wonder they are obsessed with being "pants-pissers." Really something. Wonder how they feel now that the truth comes out and they find they were all worshipping "Balloon Boy II?"
37 posted on 06/13/2010 8:32:55 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Maybe he should be "dismasted" for awhile.
38 posted on 06/13/2010 8:34:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well right now the effort is to save face with distractions and assclownery...

Some of them already have alot invested...

When I screw up I just admit it and move on...ego is a terrible thing to live on...


39 posted on 06/13/2010 8:35:50 PM PDT by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
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To: Pit1
I don't disagree. I was reacting to the histrionics on a thread from yesterday. "Congratulations and great work"--for this? Sheesh.
40 posted on 06/13/2010 8:38:00 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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