Posted on 06/06/2011 5:11:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sarah Palin is one of the most media-saturated figures today, as filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon of the new film “The Undefeated” points out. Yet, watching the film, the details about the ex-governor that have remained unknown to the ‘lower 48’ will stun the viewer.
The film itself has an interesting origin. The Palin team approached Bannon after the 2010 election about a film, but he wasn’t interested in the short video project they mentioned. Bannon decided to do a film that the Palin team had no editorial control over, although they did help him gain access to several key players from her time in Alaska. For those wondering whether Team Sarah wanted “The Undefeated” to come out in conjunction with some sort of presidential buzz, Bannon says that the team never expressed interest in or exerted any pressure on a movie release date.
Though the film production timeline was not, it appears, done with any kind of presidential 2012 campaign in mind, it is capable of giving people a second impression of Palin and one that could prove useful in a 2012 discussion, because it’s a documentary based on facts that show the governor as an astute leader and a smart woman, unlike how she has been portrayed for the better part of three years. Bannon himself is a Harvard grad and was impressed with how Palin governed the state. He also said even some liberals in the entertainment industry are garnering a great appreciation for her as a person of substance.
Maybe that’s because “The Undefeated” takes the better part of two hours to highlight something that many people have glossed over –Sarah Palin’s legislative accomplishments.
Americans hear the generic, cliché phrases about how Palin cleaned up the good old boys network in Alaska and improved the state’s energy infrastructure. But this movie gives you the facts and details reasons behind those clichés – it draws heavily on interviews from those who knew Alaska best, newspaper clippings and TV coverage of her time as an elected Alaskan official, and it is sewn together by narration from Palin herself that the director borrowed from audio of her book, Going Rogue.
As governor, Palin actually did comb through the Alaskan budget line by line and powerfully wielded the veto pen. She implemented important reforms to Alaska’s oil industry and pressured Exxon to start drilling again in Point Thomson after holding leasing on the land for years. The film includes an old TV report about the businesses that came to Wasilla thanks to its new pro-business atmosphere, fostered by Palin. And, unlike the Democrats who talk a big game about taking on Big Oil, Palin actually took on Big Oil with a tenacity that should make her Nancy Pelosi’s hero, releasing the stranglehold that those companies had on the oil resources and industry in her state. She didn’t stand for corruption in the Alaskan government – her ethical stance, in fact, was a key factor in the popularity that allowed her to run for governor.
What did her critics do? They responded by calling her a Spice Girl or some variation of Nordstrom girl – and this was back during her Wasilla days, way before the national media ever began launching torpedoes her way. Palin’s response? She won re-election as mayor of Wasilla with about 75 percent of the vote. She had an over 80 percent approval rating as governor.
It’s the sentiment of Bannon’s movie: think again before you underestimate Sarah Palin.
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This should be her campaign slogan: "Palin 2012. Ineluctable. Look it up."
It’s like when you’re trying to assemble a rifle bolt by hand and you have the main spring pushed on and compressed, and you turn around to look for the keeper pin and your finger slips off the spring. All that compressed energy released at once is a (sometimes painful) wonder to behold.
Thanks very much!
I’m dying to see it!
She’ll win Iowa.
WOW! BEAUTIFUL!
Just like she did in Alaska, she will cut the GOP off from the gravy train and they know it. In politics, you do not attack what you do not fear.
What kind of President would we rather have. One that is scrutinized and in turn, wants to do the very best job possible, or a lazy moron wandering about vacationing and playing who is lauded while accomplishing nothing?
They are blinded to all other accomplishments, a woman who did it on her own, no ivy league school, no powerful father, no powerful husband to carry her to the position of Governor.
Karl Rove....aka...Tokyo Rove....already on list; in fact, damn near the top.
Yes, she made a huge mistake by going into the Katie Couric interview thinking it was friendly. After all, they had both worked their way to the top in male dominated fields and Sarah was led to believe it would be a friendly interview. She won't make the mistake again.
“Should she run and should she win in a landslide, the Lame Stream Media, the slimey democRats and ‘stars’ Will have to be committed to an insane asylum”
I’m hoping so. I just had a huge argument with an old ( and very liberal ) friend where I was called an “ideological zombie” for being a Palin supporter. She certainly drives the left completely crazy. :-/
I hope somebody is keeping a list of all those journolist scumbags, Progressive losers, RINO Republicans and assorted Dems who are trying with all their energy to savage Sarah. (Their effort isn’t working, but it is revealing.)
We might need that list one of these days. Then we might need to start crossing names off that list.
Pawlenty is saying that NOW.....he mandated them when governer though... talk the talk does not = walk the walk
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incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny.
Yep, that's our Sarah!
The one thing I fear because it might throw her off a bit is McCain turning against her. She had better be prepared for that possibility.
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