“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Series Breaks All Viewership Records on TLC, & Her Use of “Refudiate” Wins Endorsement of Academic Groups (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 15, 2010
That odd, sloshy-popping noise you may hear in the distance are Palin haters’ heads exploding like balloons filled with water (or lime Jell-O, for simulation of gushing brain matter) squeezed to the point of breakage. Or launched off a rugged Alaskan cliff.
The debut of Sarah Palin’s new cable series on Alaska has broken ALL viewership records on TLC. ALL.
As in all of TLC’s broadcasting history.
More people tuned in to watch Palin’s debut than normally tune in on any given night to watch MSNBC’s liberal hatemongers — combined — including King of the Leftist Liars Olbermann.
Will Palin be able to sustain those high numbers week after week for two months? I honestly don’t care if she does or doesn’t — her wildly successful debut speaks for itself — but you KNOW that the liberal media cares. And, they’re praying fervently for her to fail, or “refudiate,” or something. Or at least score fewer viewers than “The Ed Show” or “Countdown” or whatever Chris Matthews’ low-ratings, leftist leg-tingly show is titled.
“Hardball,” that’s it… I keep thinking it’s titled “Goofball.” My bad.
Oops, another liberal head explodes. Way to go, Sarahcuda…
Sarah Palin’s Alaska – Out Here Being Free
From AOL Politics Daily, Sarah Palin Scores Big With ‘Refudiate’ and ‘Alaska’ TV Show:
Her recent poll numbers suggest a slump, but Sarah Palin definitely scored two home runs Monday. The debut of her new TV reality series, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” set a ratings record for TLC Sunday night, and a mash-up word she made famous, “refudiate,” was named “word of the year” by the New Oxford American Dictionary.
The new TV show, which features Palin fishing, watching bears and doing other outdoor activities with her family, delivered 4.96 million viewers Sunday night, the “No. 1 program launch in TLC history . . . besting the ‘What Not to Wear’ series launch in 2003,” according to a TLC news release. Many writers and critics said Palin is hoping to bolster her image and her chances for a 2012 presidential bid with the TV series, but others said it just showcases Alaska’s natural beauty and Palin’s insights.
“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” runs for seven more weeks.
And in another coup over her critics, Palin’s use of the word “refudiate” won the endorsement of a decidedly academic crowd. The New Oxford American Dictionary proclaimed it “Word of the Year.”
“From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used ‘refudiate,’ we have concluded that neither ‘refute’ nor ‘repudiate’ seems consistently precise, and that ‘refudiate’ more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of ‘reject.’ “the New Oxford American Dictionary said in a press release.
Palin is not the first politician to use the word, but she set off critics when she tweeted in July that “peaceful Muslims should “refudiate” a mosque planned near the site of the terrorist attacks in New York City. When bloggers took her to task, she fanned the flames by referencing Shakespeare: “‘Refudiate, ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-weed up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare like to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”
Exclusive First Look: Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC
From Gateway Pundit, Leftie-Heads-Explode… Sarah Palin’s TLC Debut Breaks All Records:
They may have to order a few more of those grief counselors…
Sarah Palin’s Alaska documentary broke all records last night on TLC.
From TV Squad, ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ Premiere Draws 5 Million Viewers, Breaks TLC Records:
The debut of ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ brought in huge numbers for TLC, making it the highest-rated series launch in the network’s history.
The first episode in the eight-part series was seen by 5 million viewers. According to Variety, the series brought in 1.6 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic, but mostly skewed older. Viewers over 35 — 3.9 million of them — accounted for the majority of the audience.
From The Marlboro Express, New show puts Palin in limelight:
Sarah Palin’s new television series showing her fishing for Alaskan salmon and scaling a glacier is the kind of free media exposure most politicians can only dream about.
Will her reality TV show translate into a Republican presidential campaign for Palin, the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee? Or will it expose her as a publicity hound lacking presidential gravitas?
And the current guy in the Oval Office ISN’T a shameless publicity hound lacking in “presidential gravitas”? Make me laugh, make me laugh.
These are questions circulating among Republicans as Palin remains coy about whether she’ll seek her party’s nomination to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama in 2012.
“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” premiered on Sunday on the TLC network less than two weeks after Republicans made big gains in Nov. 2 congressional elections. Political analysts agreed the show can only help soften the image of the former Alaska governor who most Americans see as an uncompromising Tea Party conservative and deeply polarizing figure.
Palin, 46, has her work cut out for her. A Gallup Poll last week said 52 percent of Americans view Palin unfavorably, the highest percentage holding a negative opinion of her since Senator John McCain picked her as his vice presidential running mate in 2008.
The first TV episode showed Palin in her element: fishing with her family as brown bears cavorted nearby, struggling to climb a glacier in Denali National Park, preparing for a Fox News appearance from her lakeside home and complaining about an investigative journalist writing a book about her next door.
“This is none of his flippin’ business,” she says of author Joe McGuinness.
Politicians usually have to spend millions for this kind of exposure. Adweek estimated Palin could receive up to $US2.25 ($NZ2.91) million in free media exposure per episode, or $US18 million.
“In other words, if Palin were to make a run for the White House in 2012, TLC will have gifted the world’s most famous ‘hockey mom’ with an unprecedented tide of soft-focus campaign support,” Adweek reported.
Sarah Palin’s Alaska Sneak Peek: The Mama Bear
From The Powers That Be, Palin Challenges Karl Rove: ‘Come See Me in a Man’s World’:
One reason I’m a Sarah Palin fan is because she has an innate ability to cordially reduce her male critics testicles to the size of Raisinettes without compromising on class. Here’s yet another example.
Karl Rove is on record as saying that Palin doing a reality sort of television show in Alaska “doesn’t help people see her in the Oval Office.”
In other words, “That’s a chick-ish, unserious thing to do for somebody who may run for president.”
Palin lobbed that weak volley back into Rove’s court:
She told People magazine in an interview this week that the show was an opportunity to showcase Alaska and its hard-working people, adding that she hoped it would ‘correct some untruths out there’.She also shrugged off recent comments by Republican political strategist Karl Rove who said that making a reality TV show diminished her credentials as a serious contender for high political office.
‘I’d like Karl Rove to come up to Alaska and see me being in a man’s world,’ Palin told People magazine.
In other words, “Come hang out with me for a couple of days, city boy.”
That could be fun. Maybe Sarah and Karl could take a boat ride toward some bears for a game of “let’s see who soils themselves first”…
From Riehl World View, Sarah Palin’s Alaska: “Shoot to where it’s going, not to where it’s been”:
“I think that the left is not going to like it, NOT because she comes off poorly, but because she comes off so humanly and well,” says Melissa Clouther, who attended one of the preview screenings of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” premiering tomorrow night at 9 p.m. on TLC. USA Today reports the show’s producer Mark Burnett, “who has dealt with outsized egos of celebrities such as The Apprentice’s Donald Trump, says he was surprised by the Palins’ casual nature” …
Always a class act — one of myriad reasons leftists fear and despise her.
Love this snarky tidbit from RefudiateObama2012 in the GP comments section:
Not a bad week for an idiot. Her QE2 speech was acclaimed by many including the WSJ Editorial Board, her Open Letter To The Congressional Freshman was praised, her show is a hit, and refudiate was recognized by the Oxford Dictionary. If she was intelligent, I wonder what she could do? Maybe she could make gold from base metals. Afterall, as an idiot, she can make liberal heads explode from over 4000 miles away. She can relieve the bladders and loosen the bowels of really smart people without ever laying hands upon them.
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And yet the liberals still want us to believe Sarah Palin isn’t significant and they don’t fear her. In a pig’s eye.
H/T to Sarah !
Rove should resign himself to the rear of the theater to better observe the reaction of the audience.
I dont think 5 million viewer will win a stay in the white house i think it will take over 50 mill like last election. I am a liberal and i hope she wins the republican primaries. cause she will be easier to beat than the good old huck. But knowing the republicans she wont make it out of the primaries. But good luck
And yet, a man with only 140 some odd days as a senator and a terrible attendance and voting record in the US Senate, plus a sketchy past, somehow became president – anything can happen in this country, Roger. They said Ronald Reagan could never be elected because he had been an actor and was too old – many said that John F. Kennedy could never be elected because America would not accept a Catholic president. Many liberals in our history were against civil rights, against blacks and other minorities, against women voting…
Never say never, Roger – America will usually surprise you.