New FCC Rule

There must be at least one Palin on TV at all times.

L to R: Todd,  Nutterbutter, Bristol, Thumbtack, Other Bristol.

Bristol Palin Says Reality Show Will Present Her as a 'Grounded, Normal Mom'

Because what is more normal than being followed around by TV cameras all day?

And what could be more "grounded" than the idea that you deserve to be treated as a celebrity without having accomplished a damn thing?

Palin will star in her own reality TV show. "Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp," will feature 10 half-hour episodes that will air on the Lifetime network starting June 19.
 
Palin, 21, sat down recently with "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts to talk about the show.
 
Asked what it was to have cameras watching her every move, every hour of every day, she replied: "I don't really think you get used to all of it but Tripp was used to it the whole time.

But then, he's a lot more mature and intelligent than I am!

Roberts also asked Palin how her mother felt about her doing the series.
 
"You know, she supports me and she knows that I have good judgment so she is definitely in support of it," Palin replied.

Um, at what point have you demonstrated "good judgement?"
I think your mother saw an opportunity for you to get a bunch of money without doing anything and said "hell, yeah. You should jump on that scam right away!"

And the young woman's strong support of her mother is clearly demonstrated in the show, when she engages in a heated verbal exchange at a bull-riding bar with a man whose political views are different from those of her famous mother.
 
"I think if somebody is going to talk poorly about my mom, I am going to pick and choose my battles and a battle like that, I chose to confront him and see what the real problem was," she said,

Aww, she's already talking gibberish! Sarah must be so proud!

 

Proudly as a peacock of where I would! 

Mama Grizzly!

"and I'm excited for viewers to see the real me in that, because I'm sitting there all tough and shaking and I'm acting tough and instantly when it's over, it's like, 'OK, there's the real Bristol,' because I am calling my boyfriend, I'm calling my mom. 'Ah, get me out of here,' people are going to see the real Bristol in this show."

So even Bristol doesn't know who the real Bristol is? You see the "real Bristol" when she's "sitting there all tough," but then the real Bristol is calling her mom and her boyfriend? The real Bristol says "ah, get me out of here?" I don't get it.

She added that the real Bristol Palin is "a grounded, normal mom."

Ah, that's the real Bristol. Just a normal, grounded mom picking fights in redneck bars from 1981, I guess, because who still has bull-riding in a bar these days?

But sometimes, one Palin is not enough.

TV: Todd Palin to be on ‘Stars Earn Stripes’

Yes, Todd. The quiet Palin. The Kourtney to Sarah's Kris and Bristol's Khloe.

They're the Kardashians of right-wing politics would be the main take-away from that joke.

By Lisa De Moraes, Tuesday, June 19, 7:43 PM

Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, is among those competing in NBC’s new reality series “Stars Earn Stripes,” the network revealed Tuesday.

This is not entirely surprising, given that “SES” exec producer Mark Burnett also exec-produced Sarah’s TLC reality series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” And late last year, word around Hollywood was that Sarah and Burnett were pitching a reality series about Todd’s career as a championship snowmobile racer. Apparently, there were no takers.

No takers? Who wouldn't want to watch a show about a creepy secessionist trying to escape his atrocious wife's enormous shadow by riding around in a snowmobile and referring to it constantly as a "snow machine" even though a snow machine is something entirely different, a machine which makes artificial snow for ski resorts? I know I'd watch that. Under certain circumstances.

 

Yeah, that would do it.

 Each week on “Stars Earn Stripes,” the competitors, teamed with members of the military or law enforcement, will attempt to complete “missions” inspired by military exercises. The winnings will be donated to first-responder and veterans groups. Todd, for example, is playing for Armed Services YMCA Alaska, NBC said.

Wow! I'm pretty sure that's the first time a Palin has ever done anything to benefit anyone else. I mean, I'm sure he's getting paid to be on the show, and he is helping feed the family fame-addiction, but still. Armed Services YMCA sounds like a good cause. Not good enough to forgive the upcoming "Real Housewives of Wasilla" show, but still. Pretty nice.

Um, you get re-elected?

You get to have rehabilitating your image become a cottage industry?


You get huge fees for making stupid speeches?

MI House Treats Female Reps Like Disobedient Children.

Via C&L:

June 14, 2012 07:00 PM
Michigan State Legislators Ban Female Reps From Speaking

Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas has informed Minority Floor Leader Segal that Reps. Brown and Byrum will not be recognized to speak on the House floor today after being gaveled down for their comments and actions yesterday that failed to maintain the decorum of the House of Representatives. 

Wow! That is just. . . wow!

So what did they say that was so horrible that they had to be banned from speaking?

Apparently, one of them said "vagina."

 

Oh, sorry! I should have warned you such a horrifying word was coming.

Rep. Lisa Brown had this to say: "I'm flattered that you're all so concerned about my vagina. But no means no."

Apparently, that word is just too shocking for the delicate sensibilities of the Michigan  Legislature.

 “What she said was offensive,” said Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville). “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.”

Oh my God! Could you imagine the fainting spells if women were subjected to hearing the "V-word?"

I don't know how to break this to you, Mike, but I'm pretty sure women aren't offended by vaginas. They're offended by asses like you trying to control them.

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Greetings from the Great Smokey Mountains

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Going to be out of town for a few days. And the keyboar on th laptop is messed up. So posting will b a bit spotty or non-existnt for a fw days.

Another pastor who doth protest too much.

There's sadly nothing shocking about a minister spewing anti-gay hate like this from the pulpit:

“To be . . . have a tendency to be effeminate or homosexual is just as wicked as to have a tendency to be a womanizer . . .  What is our response? . . . First of all, there is a danger of reacting in the flesh, of responding not in a scriptural, spiritual way, but in a fleshly way. Kill them all. Right? I will be very honest with you. My flesh kind of likes that idea. 

 The only thing that makes this particular instance interesting is the minister's name.

Leatherman

His name is Leatherman!

Leatherman: I Long To Kill Gays “In A Fleshy Way”

First of all, there is a danger of reacting in the flesh, of responding not in a scriptural, spiritual way, but in a fleshly way.

Generally, when a preacher uses the term "the flesh," he is referring to the physical desires of the human body. Not only sexual desires, but also the desire for food, drink, comfort, etc. But mostly sex.  So, I guess Rev. Leatherman feels a stirring in the flesh when he thinks about the gay?

  

LeatherMan!

So Leatherman's church has a website whose home page now begins with this disclaimer:

Pastor Dennis Leatherman and the Mountain Lake Independent Baptist Church never have, do not now, and never will advocate the incarceration, mistreatment, and especially not the killing of homosexuals (or any other group of people). 

And I think that's a pretty good indication that you're doing a good job of spreading the Love of God, when you have to issue a statement saying you're not in favor of mass murder.I know Jesus was constantly being misunderstood like that. His disciples would say "Rabbi, here are the five loaves and two fishes. You do want us to murder these 5,000 people, right?" And Jesus would be all like "Murder? No, I said feed them! What the Hell?  Well, it's an honest mistake and no harm done. I guess I'll have to really enunciate from now on!"

Their site also contains a transcript of the sermon in question, which includes tidbits like:

And so I am going to speak tonight on homosexuality and the Bible. I hate even talking
about this behind the pulpit, to be honest with you. I feel dirty just talking about it.

Hmm, I wonder why. . .

I grew up outside of Philadelphia, just north of Philly and little suburb and sometimes we would go down into the city for various reasons for different things. And there were certain parts of the city where you just tried to avoid. They were dirty. They were dangerous. They
were very unpleasant. And so you tried to stay away from them.
. . . And we would drive down and we would get through some dangerous and nasty parts of the city and mom would say, “Don’t look at anybody. Just stare straight ahead. Don’t look at them.”
Why? Because it was just dangerous. You could get hurt

Oh, the number of injuries caused every year by looking at dirty people!

“Homosexuality is wrong. Amen, preach it. We need to put them all in prisons and
we ought to fence them in.” The same judgment on sodomy, God says the same
consequences for sodomites is the exact same thing that should be for
adulterers. Come on, now, let’s be consistent.

So, all the adulterers should be penned up together? You know what that sound like to me?

 

Also, there's a weird shot at Seinfeld:

"But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the
house round. . . And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? 

Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”32
. . . That word “know,” get this, that word “know” comes from the Hebrew
word (yaw-dah’). Ever heard that term? Yada, yada, yada. It is a Hebrew word for
sexual intercourse.
Don’t tell me these yard birds on TV that make that phrase popular did not know what
that term meant. Don’t tell me that. They are Jewish.

 

I Knew!

 

Speaking of phrases and their origins, the term "Yardbird" is an old slang term for prisoner. It's like saying "Jailbird." It refers to the exercise yard most prisons have. So, why refer to the cast and writers of Seinfeld as "yardbirds?"

 

Oh, right!

Oh, and just for the record, here is an actual photo of rev. Dennis Leatherman and his beard: