Sarah Palin Launches Subscription-Based Online Video Channel. With expenses outstripping fundraising the newest venture continues her crusade to live well off of the anger and anxiety of others.
The former Republican Alaskan half-term-governor-turned-VP-candidate-turned-Tea-Party-Pundit-turned-reality-TV-star-and-Fox-News contributor trotted out the Sarah Palin Channel this Sunday evening on her Facebook page.
“Tired of media filters? Well, so am I. So, let’s go rogue together and launch our own member-supported channel! This will be OUR channel, for you and for me, and we’ll all get to call it like it is.”
According to Variety, Palin’s newest con will be offered with the help of TAPP, the online-video venture formed by former NBCUniversal chairman Jeff Gaspin and former CNN U.S. president Jon Klein.
“I want to talk directly to you on our channel, on my terms, and no need to please the powers that be. Together we’ll go beyond the sound bites and cut through the media’s politically-correct filter.”
Subscriptions will reportedly cost $9.95 per month, or $99.95 for a one-year plan. Content for the channel will largely be based on Palin’s speeches, commentary, Q&A sessions, and other curated items. There will be features about her family and their “adventures” in the “great outdoors.”
The channel’s website gives some “sample” videos of what users can expect (old footage drawn from previous appearances): One shows Palin answering user questions on “Obama’s addiction,” another is the former governor talking about not fearing the dreaded “i-word” (impeachment), and another is her 30+ minute speech before the 2014 Western Conservative Summit.
“Together, we’ll go beyond the sound bites and cut through the media’s politically correct filter and things like Washington, D.C.’s crony capitalism….We’ll talk about the issues that the mainstream media won’t talk about and we’ll look at the ideas that I think Washington doesn’t want you to hear.”
OH! And just to make sure you get the underlying theme of this new effort, the channel’s home page features a national debt ticker, and a countdown clock to President Barack Obama’s last day in office.
Palin’s website exists as a fundraising tool for herself, her family, and her staff who are paid by the site despite its avowed intention to support conservative candidates.
Per Sarah Pac at Open Secrets SARAH PAC Reported the following for January 1 through Decemeber 31, 2013.
Total Receipts: $1, 177, 802
Total Spent: $1, 210, 057
Begin Cash on Hand: $1, 149, 939
End Cash on Hand: $1,117, 684
Were did the money go?
Unclassifiable: $105,000.
Fundraising: $202,800.
Administrative: $52,700.
Media: $6,500.
Strategy and Research: $33,800.
All other: $679.
Candidates: $5,000.
SarahPac claims that its purpose is to “Formed in January 2009, SarahPAC is a federally registered political action committee (PAC) dedicated to building America’s future by supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation.” http://www.sarahpac.com/…
Palin’s fundraising at the site has declined steadily.
Her 2012 report shows revenue of more than $5 million.
For More Info or to Subscribe (gag!) go to https://sarahpalinchannel.com/
Crossposted at Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/28/1317233/-AT-LAST-The-Sarah-Palin-Channel-you-betcha
With the Sarah Palin Channel, the GOP information loop gets smaller and smaller, and further and further from reality. If it continues in this direction and I expect it will, GOP media will progress to 3am infomercials. FOX News may not go away, but its already famous for being a load of crap so I don’t care.
Never give a sucker an even break! In 2009 The Koch brothers through Dick Armey and his Freedumbwerks front created the Astro-turf Teabaggers. I’ve concluded that all Teabaggers are Koch’s suckers in an Army of Dick’s.
‘Teabagger’ was the term the Koch brothers originally named the people conned into thinking they were joining a grassroots movement to ‘save Merika’. They bankrolled Dick Armey and his Freedumbwerks front to found and fund the astro-turf group in 2009 telling low information people it was a ‘grassroots’ movement through Faux. These people even stapled teabags to their own hats! They have been trying to change their name since late 2009 to the ‘Tea Party’ after they realized what the slang meaning of Teabagger meant to most non faux viewers. I am not aware of any racial connotations in the term Teabagger in and of itself, though it has been widely noted that most klanners and neo-n@zi’s are teabaggers. Hope that this helps but baggers are not too bright and carry badly spelled signs against themselves while riding their socialist funded medicaid/medicare scooters and oxygen tanks also too.
Palin-Bachmann 2016 fer jebus! glory! Y’all come git yer screech on ya hear? LOL I started posting that 12/07 on HP, 4 identities ago!
@KT,
I agree with your version of what Palin and the Tea Party are all about. 🙂
@AdLib,
Thanks for confirming my belief. I do agree that Palin is creating something that could amount to a mindless regurgitation of misinformation for those who would listen. For the rest of us, she is a joke, a detriment to the country and should be treated as such. Reverence or disclaimers or any other such effort to give anyone an impression that somehow someone was trying to make her less intelligent in this nation is ridiculous. Her blatant attempts at trying to make a living using the political system of this country, her family, and any other tactic she can think of to make money without working deserves no respect from me so, I for one don’t intend to go out of my way to provide a disclaimer unless “I” feel it is warranted, as you can see, in this case I don’t believe it was.
@MurphtheSurf,
monicaangela says:
08/01/2014 at 6:38 AM
No disclaimer is needed, the content is the same whether slowed down or sped up, those are her words.
MurphTheSurf3 says:
08/01/2014 at 11:27 AM
I respectfully disagree.The presence of the headline, and of the CBS Evening News Logo is misleading. Since the video is not a part of an acknowledge satiric platform (like Colbert, for example), I tend to be cautious in matters like this.
So because you tend to be cautious, everybody else on this site has to do what you do? Is that it? Don’t you think that is a bit autocratic on your part?
I have read your opinion, your opinion is not my opinion so I suggest we agree to disagree and move on.
The message is the same whether it is played forward or backwards also too MA. Rotten word salad.
And then there is this priceless gem!
Wow, they are really getting touchy about Palin videos arent’ they. It appears you have to watch this on Youtube…playback is prohibited on other sites by the owner…very interesting. 🙂
From the great film “Game Change.”
Which was taken from the equally great book of the same name. McCain would have placed this ignorant and arrogant woman within one heart attack of the Oval Office. I think it is true that McCain was convinced by his staff that she was a diamond on the rough, a quick learner, and a hard worker. None of this was true and when he learned differently he should have jettisoned her. In not doing so, he made a mockery of hi campaign slogan: Country First. Nope. ME First.
Even Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager said the film was very accurate. He said he thought highly of Palin in the very beginning, but soon began to realize what a colossal mistake he and McCain had made by picking her as McCain’s running mate.
Much to their dismay, they began to see what a psycho she really was.
I have seen interviews of him and boy does he squirm when his role in this colossal muck-up is the subject!
Monica, I have to reply up here. The real reason Gramps picked SP was that he thought all the women Hillary voters would suddenly turn republican and vote for Palin because she was a female. That really shows his ignorance of women. I also blame his campaign manager. What idiotic reasoning. It shows how little the McCain team thought about the American voters at large. “Oh, they just want a woman on the ticket, so let’s go with Palin.” What a senile old fool McCain was/is.
You betcha KT, I’m still trying to figure out which of the two on that team was the least intelligent…wait, let me change that to which of the two on that team was the dumbest. Dumb and Dumber, that should have been the title they used for that pair. 🙂
Sarah strikes again:
🙂 🙂 🙂 😉
And again:
And again:
And again:
Okay, that’s all folks!!!!! Take it away Murph….
Manna from heaven for comedians everywhere. 😎
Each of your examples underlines my oft-repeated point:
McCain would have placed this ignorant and arrogant woman within one heart attack of the Oval Office. I think it is true that McCain was convinced by his staff that she was a diamond on the rough, a quick learner, and a hard worker. None of this was true and when he learned differently he should have jettisoned her. In not doing so, he made a mockery of hi campaign slogan: Country First. Nope. He made it clear that it was “ME First”.
Do you have written proof that this woman is ignorant and arrogrant? Or is this an opinion of yours? Where did you get this information? LOL !!!
Your own video choices support my description.
Sarah is ripe for mocking,it is what the right deserves.Arguing with them is fruitless.
“Arguing with them is fruitless.” I agree if you are arguing with Tea Potties. There are some middle of the road Republicans who can be persuaded.
In my part of the world those in her vein dominate so finding ways to engage them is a necessity.
She is and her importance lies in what she represents in Tea Party political culture.
And what does she represent in Tea Party political culture pray tell.
The movement’s political culture has been described a mix of libertarian, populist, and conservative thinking focusing on the national debt, the federal budget, tax policy, and federalism vs. statism.
And you believe she represents that? Really. LOL !!
The themes are all over her statements.
The Tea Party, and Palin represent
at first, getting the black man out of the White House, and now they represent damaging the democratic party by constantly bashing the black man in the White House.
This is what the Tea Party is all about. 😎
Murph, I think you misspelled “Tea Potty”.
There’s something about Sarah that just invites creative nicknames. I thought the best one was “The Tundra Twunt” — until I read the most recent one: “The Great Whore of Babble-On. Now on Channel 666.”
Yes, and yet so many continue to take her seriously as the real deal.
LMAO!!! I vote for number 2….Perfect!!!!!!
I’m no math expert but those numbers under “Where did the money go” don’t add up to the receipts.
The don’t until you toss in the cash on hand for the next year. You can carry over funding.
BTW: Stephen Colbert registered the domain thesarahpalinchannel.com for all sorts of future mischief…
Miles “Stay Tuned” Long
If he hadn’t done it, Maddow would have….why didn’t her people do this…because they really are incompetent.
Yeah, I posted a link to it below. Funny stuff ahead.
Good luck with that. LMAO!!!!!
This video has been “played with”. I am NO fan of SP- quite the opposite….BUT whoever did this….slowing down the playback rate whenever she speaks may be making a joke but ONLY if it is presented as such and not as an accurate depiction of the interview.
I’ve seen this video before, and it is intentionally misleading. The video played at normal speed is damaging enough on it’s on. That famous Couric interview with Sarah the bubble head really speaks for it’s self.
I think the Couric interview was actually one of the main reasons McCain/Palin lost the election. We should be a bit grateful to old Tundra Tart!
Another main reason was Tina Fey.
Bless her heart!
The best reason was the fact that John McCain picked Palin because he thought she was a better candidate for Vice President than Mitt Romney…You just can’t make this stuff up. 🙂 The republican party is definitely a clown show. LOL!!!
When you have friends like John McCain, who needs political enemies? That was surely the thinking of Mitt Romney today after the aforementioned said he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 over the former Massachusetts governor because she was the “better candidate”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/john-mccain-says-he-chose-sarah-palin-as-his-running-mate-in-2008-instead-of-mitt-romney-because-she-was-the-better-candidate-7956860.html
GC, Tina was hilarious as SP! She brought attention to her “airheadness”!
There i no reason to alter her interviews. They are inherently awful for those with half a brain.
Evidently there is…there are still those that follow her as though she were a bona-fide politician, and a true spokesperson for the republican party.
Whoever doctored the video did it for its comedy effect, and to emphasize for those who apparently aren’t swift enough to understand just how embarrassing this should have been for the people of this nation. Imagine, a vice presidential candidate of that caliber representing a nation that professes to be one of the greatest on earth….LMAO!!!!
And those who follow here despite the evidence will not be swayed by the falsification of evidence.
I still do not know the source of the video. I do not find it funny.
I read a commentary about the video that pointed out that her slowed speech can be taken as a symptom of being mentally impaired, intellectually challenged or chemically addicted, and none of that is funny.
Murph, so many youtube videos are done by individual people, just trying to be funny, satirical, dramatic…..etc. Something they can show to their friends, to adopt an appearance of someone who is creative.
The video does not upset me in the least. It was simply an attempt by some individual, to garner a few laughs. I think the creator of the video failed, because none of it makes her sound “drunk.” It’s obviously just been slowed down, at least the audio portion.
It’s not like this was some concerted effort by a progressive organization. There are hundreds of videos like this on youtube, if not a few thousand.
I agree that it should not be tampered with for several reasons. First, she makes a fool of herself without help. Second, if it isn’t labeled as changed the TP could use that against us. And I’m sure there are other reasons, I’m having a “Rick, can’t remember” moment.
I think that when “our side” takes up the tool of the “other side” we look weak and in the wrong. I object to it strenuously.
Our side?
The “other” reactionary; “our” progressive.
Monica, I am curious. Have you any reaction to the comments from myself, KT, or Nirek about the nature of the video….tampered with and not labeled as such….? Where did you find it? Was it from a satirical site or from a site that seemed to be presenting it as bonifide?
I also believe the video has been doctored,I placed it here for the humor it presented when I saw it. I believe it presents a clearer understanding of what a normal person giving the answers she gave to these questions would have to be…..DRUNK.
I saw that interview with Katie Couric, remember it as though it was yesterday, and at the time said to myself, she must be on drugs or drunk. A candidate for vice president of the United States of America giving responses such as she did. Horrible, and to think, she still influences some of the citizens of this nation with her garbage…Unbelievable.
I made my point about this video in another reply. I won’t repeat it.
Hey there….I just left this note for KT…I think it sums up my thinking on the video:
“I know….I just suggest that it is helpful to include a disclaimer with a doctored piece of network video.”
I REALLY appreciate how much you have contributed to the life of the Planet….no critique of you in all of this…none….I know you knew but others may not AND I still don’t care for the effect that slow down has as I don’t find humor in giving the impression that Sarah is “slow” (in the old sense of that word) or drunk (as the son of an alcoholic). If I am being overly sensitive, I do not intend to be.
I KNOW that we can count on you to contribute really interesting comments, info and insights.
It appears you assume others are less intelligent than you, and that those that would be defenders of Palin would not have seen her interview with Katie Couric and realize this was doctored. You know what happens when you assume I hope.
Next, you take an inordinate amount of time to compliment me on my contributions here as if to say…I enjoy your comments but more action like this will cause punishment. Are you a part of the administration here? If you are that will give me cause to reconsider my participation here.
Next, as a progressive, you seem to be awful touchy about a video that I placed on the board for its comedic value. Leads me to believe you may be something other than what you claim you are.
Next, just as you questioned the video, anyone who was unaware of the fact that the sound had been tampered with, but not the actual content could as easily as you did ask me the same question as you did.
By the way, we all contribute interesting comments here, and up to now haven’t been censored for our input…I truly hope it remains that way.
Hmmmm…..I make no such assumptions.
A single sentence (“I REALLY appreciate how much you have contributed to the life of the Planet….no critique of you in all of this…none….”) is not inordinate praise.
I am not admin and made it clear that I was not being critical.
I am a progressive and take an interest in clear presentation especially on a thread under an article I authored.
There is no censorship at work here. Your contributions remain in place.
Hey monicaangela, no one is moderated here on The Planet for expressing their POV, whatever it may be, on any issue (with the exception of trolls aiming to disrupt this site).
To protect and encourage freedom of expression here, we do seek to keep conflicts centered on the issues instead of the people expressing them.
I do think we’re in consensus here on Sarah Palin probably not being awarded a Nobel Prize or a Mensa membership in the foreseeable future (though her awareness campaign to encourage preparation across the U.S. for a real Sharknado is bringing her a great deal of attention).
Murph, It’s been on youtube for years.
I know….I just suggest that it is helpful to include a disclaimer with a doctored piece of network video.
No disclaimer is needed, the content is the same whether slowed down or speeded up, those are her words.
I respectfully disagree.The presence of the headline, and of the CBS Evening News Logo is misleading. Since the video is not a part of an acknowledge satiric platform (like Colbert, for example), I tend to be cautious in matters like this.