The Return of the Arctic Fox: Sarah Palin, the Queen of All Media

palin-newsweekI sense a great disturbance in The Force. It is as if millions of Liberal voices screamed out in frustrated anguish…and then, started whining like babies.

The New York Post reports the reason for this prelude to a mass seppuku by Liberals and Vichy Republicans, alike (but…I repeat myself)

Sarah Palin is heading back to the world of reality TV.

The former US vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor will host a new weekly series on the Sportsman Channel — the network devoted exclusively to the hunting, fishing and shooting lifestyle — premiering in April 2014.

“Amazing America with Sarah Palin” will be “an anthology of stories that explore some of the most original, interesting — and sometimes inspiring — people, places and pastimes connected to America’s outdoors lifestyle,” according to the announcement.

Palin was previously the subject of the 2010 TLC reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” which explored the state through the eyes of her and her family — husband Todd and their five children — and was canceled after one season.

She is also a contributor for Fox News Channel.

Okay. so, you’re saying..is that all? A sports show? Heck…that’s nothing.

Hold on a second, Maverick. Have you been hiding under a rock?

Tony Lee of Breitbart.com reports that…

The Duck Dynasty family welcomed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Louisiana Saturday while Palin was on a book tour for her best-selling blockbuster book, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.

“Happy, happy, happy!” Palin, who has often commented that her kids think the Duck Dynasty family is cooler than she is, wrote on her Facebook page. “Thanks to the Robertson family and the Duck Commander team for welcoming us to West Monroe, LA!”

Palin, who met with Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson at the NRA convention this year and urged the GOP to embrace life like the Duck Dynasty star, took a photo with members of the family and the Duck Commanders, including star Duck Commander Phil Robertson. Members of the Robertson family were holding copies of Palin’s book, which highlights American exceptionalism and embraces the role of God and faith in society. Those themes have helped make Duck Dynasty one of the most popular television shows in history.

Lee also reported that…

….Praising Duck Dynasty for its record ratings and its star for speaking out against the country’s abortion culture, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said Republican leaders in Washington should be as bold as the Duck Dynasty cast and “wake up” to hear some duck calls from outside the Beltway.

In particular, Palin blasted Republican establishment leaders in Washington, saying Americans were “not rooting for your social truces.” Her comments were in reference to the truces that former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and prominent financial backers of New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie have called for.

She praised “Duck Commander” Willie Robertson for speaking out against abortion and said his type of boldness is what Americans “desire and deserve.”

‘Todd and I had a great time meeting Duck Commander Willie Robertson at this year’s NRA convention. And just the other day, Phil Robertson offered some of their refreshing trademark plainspoken talk that so many crave from our leaders in Washington,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “Speaking on the issue of the sanctity of life, Phil reminds us that all life is God-given, no matter how small or how special.”

Palin also praised the “Duck dudes Duck dudes for speaking their minds, and for their boldness in living the American dream of LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — reminding us all that it’s only with freedom that anything is possible.”

“Like those 3:00 am wake up calls to join my dad duck hunting in the canoe before the school day began, it’s time our politicians wake up and hear some Duck calls from far outside the beltway,” she wrote. “The self-made, hugely successful businessmen (and women) of Duck Dynasty made history this week with the ‘most watched non-fiction series’ in TV history. What’s most interesting and inspiring is to see the number of young people tuning in to watch this all-American, hard working family — and learn the key to their success (as well as tips on how best to bag the ducks!).”

Why is someone, whom all “the smartest people in the room” predicted would be a has-been by now, more popular and more visible on the National Scene than she has ever been?

Back on May 20th of this year, Bernie Quigley, writing in his Blog on thehill.com, observed that

What Palin offers and represents is — to reawaken a phrase from the ’60s — an earth-based or reality-based cultural alternative or conservative counter-culture to the aggregate establishment of the East (and Hollywood).

Mr. Quigley is correct.

There is a Culture War, which has been going on in our country for a while now, between the Republican Establishment up in the Northeast, and Conservative Americans, living in the Heartland.

What’s has gotten under my skin for quite a while now, is the hubris involved.

Now, I have several dear Conservative friends in the NE. Heck, my bride is from Michigan. She moved down to Mississippi 30-plus years ago, and has never left. If fact, she used to perform in Civil War Battle Reenactments on the Confederate Side.

That being said, the “Northeast Republicans Club’s” standard, as exemplified by their last Convention, and the subsequent Presidential Candidate Nomination of Mitt Romney, is to look down their noses at the rest of the country, as if we are a bunch of hicks, because we still believe in Reagan Conservatism.

They view Sarah Palin and Phil Robinson and his family, the same way. They believe that anyone who is not from Hahvahd, some other Ivy League School, or, their region of the country, is a stupid bumpkin.

If being an American Success Story, like Sarah Palin and the Robinsons, is being a “stupid bumpkin”, I’m a 22 year old Dallas Cheerleader named Buffy.

I suggest that the self-proclaimed geniuses, up in the Beltway, leave the Northeast sometime and travel throughout the Heartland of this great country.

They might learn a thing or two about  Patriotic, God-fearing Americans…who still comprise the overwhelming majority of citizens in this country.

Until He Comes,

KJ

5 thoughts on “The Return of the Arctic Fox: Sarah Palin, the Queen of All Media

  1. Kent Hanscom's avatar Kent Hanscom

    “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” was never Cancelled, It was only intended for the eight shows and was never intended to be a continuing series……………….. .

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