I guess in order to confirm my intense aversion to Sarah Palin and all that she represents, I watched part of the first episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska on TLC. I won't be watching it again. It is not hyperbole to say that the hair on the back of my neck started to rise as I watched this horrible woman strut and preen about, proving just what a narcissistic idiot she is.
And just like all narcissists, she thinks she has the world on a string. She moves about in public like she's a movie star, and clearly revels in the attention. In fact, the whole Palin family is starting to wear the look of the entitled and the famous.
In this first episode of her new "reality" series, there is much of this moving about in public with Palin squeaking and squawking and leaving off of the "g's." As obnoxious as this kind of footage is, something more disturbing starts to show its face. It soon becomes sickeningly clear that this horrible woman truly enjoys killing innocent animals, fish, and any other poor creature that finds itself unlucky enough to wander into her path. I guess we already knew this from her skill at field dressing a moose (which is essentially disembowling the poor animal before hauling it off to your Neanderthal cave), as well as all that gutsy wolf-killing from helicopters; but in this new TLC/Discovery series, it is even more revoltingly clear that this awful woman really does not appear to possess even a modicum of respect for other creatures who happen to live on Planet Palin.
The show features Palin and her dullard daughter, Bristol, out on a fishing boat and on the dock afterward doing the "real work" of the hoi polloi--and "gettin' up real early to do it." So we learn a few things as viewers: Apparently once halibut are pulled out of the water on a hook, they are clubbed "between the eyes," so that they don't flop around and "bruise their own meat." Once stunned, their throats are slit while still alive. Nasty, right? But, oh ho! Palin is right there, lapping up the instructions from the boat captain on how to perform this wonderful set of procedures. She cheerfully does it herself, then eggs on the slack-jawed Bristol, carping at her to yield the club with more "vigor" when she clubs the halibut.
Their mother-daughter bonding involves billy-clubbing halibut. "It felt awesome gettin' some aggression out," Bristol says about clubbing. Then Sarah says, "I was proud of Bristol. She got that billy club and she started stunnin' those fish. I was looking at her out of the corner of my eye thinkin' I wonder what she's picturin' as she's makin' her mark there on those fish." Boston Globe
Later, Palin holds the still-beating heart of a halibut that has been artfully pulled out during the live gutting process, and chirps "that's weird," before she casually tosses it overboard.
I've sent my letter to Discovery letting them know what I think of their new program. I've told them they've lost a viewer. I also probably won't eat halibut again, and I certainly won't sit and watch Palin abuse and kill animals again under the guise of "good, honest work."
In case you'd like to register your own complaint: http://corporate.discovery.com/...