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July 29, 2009 2:16 PM

Could Palin Be on the Radio?

Posted by Prerana Swami
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Although Sarah Palin resigned with "absolutely no plans" concerning her future, Inside Radio reports that the former Alaska governor may have set her sights on a radio show.

Sources say that Palin representatives have been testing syndicators' interest, although she hasn't made any commitments.

Allahpundit says on the conservative blog Hot Air that a Palin radio show could be successful.

"A live show, especially if she took calls, would be … mind-boggling, and riveting. I'd honestly pay to listen," Allahpundit says.

While Inside Radio calls Palin's potential move an "ironic twist" in reference to Palin’s media battles, Kerry Gold of The Atlantic says that this move would be a "typical Palin operation."

"While it is difficult to imagine Palin succeeding across airwaves given that her speaking style--some call it incoherence--draws much criticism, a national radio show could serve as a potent platform for spreading her views and realizing her resignation-speech mission of effecting 'positive change outside government,'" Gold said.

Although Allahpundit is in favor of a Palin broadcast, they say, "The one downside of a live show: Lots of 'whinin ' about the media. Lots."
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by MarkInOhio August 1, 2009 10:52 AM EDT
Rush makes what he does every day sound easy. It's not. Like him or not (I don't), he is really good at what he does. Palin has one and only one thing going for her: her looks. But you can't see her looks on the radio! All you have instead is that whiny, nasal voice saying "poor, poor me" in a thousand different ways. NOT riveting radio.

If she somehow does get a radio show, she will quit within a matter of weeks (or days) anyway so who cares?
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by odocoileus July 30, 2009 1:45 PM EDT
Claiming that Pallin is an intellectual lightweight gives her too much credit. He statement "We hunt because we eat" implies that all food comes from killing wild animals. She has an agenda and it appeals to a very small group of extremists.
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by ladypirate2 July 31, 2009 2:02 AM EDT
Since you know very little about life in Alaska, I'm going to tell you something about it. In Alaska it's too cold to grow crops most of the year. Six inches below ground they have what is called permafrost. That means that six inches below ground the soil is frozen year round. Therefore, very little vegetables are grown in Alaska. Most of what they have is shipped in. Also they don't raise much cattle in Alaska for the same reason, it's too cold. What beef they have is shipped in and extremely expensive. Also due to the extreme cold and icy conditions that they have much of the year, Alaskans can't always get to the supermarkets, especially if they live in the small towns and rural areas and not in the cities like Anchorage and Fairbanks. Hunting is a necessity in Alaska. Life is much different in Alaska than in the lower 48. Bluntly put, if you don't hunt in Alaska you don't eat! That is what Sarah meant by "We hunt because we eat"!
by ladypirate2 July 31, 2009 3:05 AM EDT
There is something else that I need to tell you. They don't have many roads in Alaska. The few that they have are icy and snow packed in winter. Many of the small villages don't even have roads. They are accessible only by small planes. Getting to a supermarket is impossible. The people in the small villages in Alaska would starve if they didn't hunt!
by drsam8 July 30, 2009 12:03 AM EDT
It depends upon what she will do with it. In her New York Times Op-Ed of July 29, 2009, Maureen Dowd stated that Serah Palin ?now sounds like a demagogue, embodying grievances and playing to people?s worst impulses.? That also is what the Republican Party has become?whining, demagogic, and dredging up primitive impulses as a preferred political strategy for rehgaining power. Within six months of Obama?s Presidency, it has become a Party of ?tea baggers,? ? birthers? and ?racialists.? It?s most outspoken henchmen?Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Gingrich, Dick and Liz Cheney, Tancredo, Kristol, Buchanan, Sessions are not interested in facts or truth. They simply don?t like the fact that a Blackman is President, though the people have spoken. They figure they score best by stirring up raw premordial negative emotions. Ironically known racists are now shouting racism, wildly, against others. They accuse Obama of being a racist, although the optics shows otherwise. Look at white dominance at Obama?s White House. They question Obama?s American origin, ignoring his birth registry in Hawaii. They imply he is unfit to be President no matter how hard and smart he works. They paint Obama as a reckless spender ignoring the fact that he is correcting the errors of the previous Republican administration. Then Dick Cheney said that ?deficit don?t matter.? Cheney and his daughter are re-fighting the war they lost under Bush some of whose policies Obama is up-holding. Buchanan volubly asserts the ?ineliable rights of white men,? ignoring the contributions of others in America?s nation-building.
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by pollroller1 July 29, 2009 10:13 PM EDT
I guess y'all know how many people it takes to kill a moose. Two. One to fly the plane and one to shoot the gun. I know, it's an old joke.
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by pollroller1 July 29, 2009 9:35 PM EDT
I can see mars from my front porch. Can I also have a radio show? Please can I? Please.
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by hungry1968-16 July 29, 2009 9:11 PM EDT
by daffy64 July 29, 2009 9:08 PM EDT
But no one can SEE her on radio. So what's the point?






It doesn't matter.

All you need to know is that she can see Russia, she reads ALL of the newspapers and magazines that are produced everyday, and she can field dress a moose.

She's GOP gold.
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by daffy64 July 29, 2009 9:08 PM EDT
But no one can SEE her on radio. So what's the point?
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by proudmilvet July 29, 2009 9:03 PM EDT
Oh Yeah, the Republican Party is back on the road to Victory in 2010 & 2012! Yeah, & Pigs will Fly!!
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by formrusmcsgt July 29, 2009 8:02 PM EDT
We can only hope she gets a media venue.

Ignorance such as hers really needs to be "showcased".

It'll be a riot!
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by jsilver2th July 29, 2009 7:59 PM EDT
Gosh Darn!

Hey it's no pipleline but that's sure swell-
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by pollroller1 July 29, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
But how about lipstick? Will it still be a pig?
by justsane-2009 July 29, 2009 7:59 PM EDT
i was about to hope that it wasn't true, but the more i think about it, the more i like it...listeners would have to listen to the substance of what she has to say, without the distraction of her good looks.
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by tmittelstaed July 29, 2009 9:59 PM EDT
"...without the distraction of her good looks..."

Good looks? Come again? Maybe if your 40 and still in mommie's basement, I guess.....

Please God, don't ever let me get so hard up that I consider Palin!!!! Barf!!!!
by magicwolf1 July 29, 2009 7:35 PM EDT
I predicted this. Her only niche is the far-right christian (little c) radicals and the rest of the hyper-ventillating, hate-mongering right-wing. The female barracuda Limbaugh - with lipstick! Here, like Rush, she will be enabled to spread the hate - hiding behind thinly disguised banners like 'morality', 'christianity', 'patriotism' and 'gosh-darn that evil, left-wing media'! Most Alaskans are quite pleased Palin quit the governorship. For a woman who ran for governor on a platform of ethics, she proved herself to be the most unethical, erratic and untruthful governor this state has ever seen. I say "good riddance!"
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by excoachken July 29, 2009 7:28 PM EDT
She could not be hired by Right Wingnut radio because to join their Liars Club (Hannutty, O'Really, Bickering Glen and Limppaugh, she would have to be a draft dodging, racist addict-------- Being an air headed Bimbo does not meet their Good Ole Boys Club qualifications.
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by steeepe July 29, 2009 7:26 PM EDT
"A live show, especially if she took calls, would be ? mind-boggling, and riveting. I'd honestly pay to listen," Allahpundit says.

I'd pay to keep her off the air so I don't accidentally find myself hearing her inanity. If Allahpundit thinks she is riveting and mind-boggling, they must not have a life...
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by fedup12 July 29, 2009 8:12 PM EDT
Someone would ask her a stupid question about the Bush doctrine or global affairs or something and she would say something like....

We hunt because we eat stupid libs...
by proudmilvet July 29, 2009 7:18 PM EDT
Certainly everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but whatever she does it will most likely be more of the same.She will take her marching orders from Rush Limbaugh & her show will not contain one bit of constructive dialog. It will be hate the Democrats, hate Liberals, hate President Obama & hate anyone who dares disagree with them. I am a Democrat,but the Republican Party i still once respected has turned the into the party of Joe McCarthy
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by Solarrays247 July 29, 2009 8:39 PM EDT
I agree that it is sad what has happened to the Republican Party, especially over the last thirty years.

When there is a dire lack of enough intelligent, original thinkers within both parties, it is We The People who especially lose out!
by Solarrays247 July 29, 2009 7:15 PM EDT
I think this could be a good thing....but not for Palin....nor the public members who follow her.

This could be very interesting! I think that constant media exposure to the public might be a sure fire away to kill any career aspirations that Palin might have at this time. Can you imagine trying to keep track of her meandering staccato speaking style on radio? Whoa....LOL

I don't think the Democrats have anything to worry about. Just sayin'.
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by troutfishyman July 29, 2009 6:46 PM EDT
The Walmart Republicans will love her. Everyone else would cringe :)
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by saj210 July 29, 2009 6:40 PM EDT
If Palin is on the radio there are certain people who will listen to her.

Folks who enjoy Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Coulter and other hate/fear mongers will listen to Palin. I should also add that those who are not educated will also listen to her.
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by dwilson59 July 29, 2009 7:42 PM EDT
Saj210

are you telling me that 20 million listners that listen to Rush are all dumb?
by tmittelstaed July 29, 2009 9:51 PM EDT
No, they aren't dumb. They are just mentally challenged!!!
by voxpopulus July 29, 2009 6:39 PM EDT
Stick her on Fox with crybaby Beck
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by troutfishyman July 29, 2009 6:37 PM EDT
by pollroller1 July 29, 2009 6:36 PM EDT
This will be the most wonderful radio show of all time. I can hardly wait.




Does it feel like when you need to go to the restroom really bad?
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by pollroller1 July 29, 2009 9:27 PM EDT
Now THAT's funny. LOL
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