Meditations on Sarah Palin: Taking the TLC Alaskan Cruise

TLC is quickly becoming the channel I love to hate.  Move over Lifetime and Fox News because TLC is serving up one more hot, steaming pile of a circus freak show family.  The former Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential hopeful finally got her “reality” show and it’s slated to be an eight-part documentary.  The natural beauty of Alaska will be brought to us by Palin on the same network that delivered to us the dissolution of the John and Kate Gosselin marriage.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska will be executive-produced by Survivor’s Mark Burnett.  In a press release, Discovery Communications CEO Peter Liguori said the series will “reveal Alaska’s powerful beauty as it has never been filmed, and as told by one of the state’s proudest daughters.”  And I wonder, will this powerful beauty be revealed from a helicopter as seen through the  view-finder of  a big ole hunting gun?  Nah.  I’m sure we’ll see sweeping vistas, lots of mountains, snow, wild animals, and an oil rig.  I’m betting on scenes of Palin making moose stew, wearing yellow waders and throwing around fishing nets, and showing off her bear skin rug.  I’m sure we’ll see plenty of former first dude Todd, little Tripp, and Trig,  Track, abstinence crusader Bristol, Piper, and Willow (the one who threw David Letterman for a loop).  And I’ll be there in front of the TV like a moth to the flame.

The poor Duggar family really will have some wild and crazy family competition now.