Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Bristol Palin will not be attending the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. ...
...TMZ.com reported that Bristol was "telling friends" that she may enroll at an Arizona college. And because Maricopa is "just miles" from the Cronkite School, the website connected the dots and reported that Bristol would soon be a Sun Devil.
Never mind the fact that the Bristol's home is more than 35 miles from the school.
But the Washington Post started repeating the rumor, and the Huffington Post repeated it and the Wall Street Journal got involved.
The problem, of course, is that it was never the case.
"She is not a student. She hasn't applied. It is pure fiction," the dean of the Cronkite School, Chris Callahan, said Tuesday morning. "If anybody had called and asked me that, we would have been glad to tell them." ...
And,
HollywoodLife.comspoke exclusively with a representative from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication about how the school would embrace the famous Alaskan if she were to apply in the same field as her mother.
“If Bristol’s application does come across our table we will treat it just like everyone else’s and thoroughly look it over,” the representative informs us. “But we can’t confirm or deny anything right now.”
But GossipGirl, writing for the Cleveland Leader, just stated:
... Bristol Palin is planning to go to college in Arizona and recently purchased a house there. Now, the rest of the Palin clan is hoping to follow suit and permanently relocate to the much warmer locale. ...
What are the facts? Bristol Palin bought a house in Maricopa, AZ. She has not applied to ASU's Cronkite School.
I don't know which Bristol Palin these people are talking about.
About a month ago, Howard Stern said, "Bristol Palin is the first contestant in the history of Dancing with the Stars to get fatter as the show goes on. It's almost impossible to get fatter. She must be eating everything in sight." Last night, Kathy Griffin said of Bristol Palin, "She's the only contestant in the history of the show to actually gain weight. She's like the white Precious. She's like the white Precious."
In 1950, when a Washington Post music critic said that President Truman's daughter, Margaret, couldn't sing, Harry Truman lit into him, writing in a letter: "I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below."
Where has Sarah Palin been? Why hasn't she come to Bristol's defense? Sarah just sits there and lets Kathy Griffin and Howard Stern say that Bristol is fat and getting fatter!?
"Give 'em Hell, Harry!" wouldn't have put up with it.
Here we see Sarah Palin trying to get the cobwebs out.
Two weeks ago, the ratings for Sarah Palin's Alaska collapsed. They were down 40% from the ratings of the first, debut show. The next week, ratings were up 17%. Woo hoo? No. Let's put things into perspective.
Suppose we buy a stock for $100. When it drops 40%, it has to go up $40, which is 66% of its price at $60, to get back to $100. So, the show's ratings then went up 17%? Let's see: 17% of $60 is $10.20. So, our stock is now priced at $70 plus change. Our stock is still way down. It's down 30%!
Of course, things can change. TonightTomorrow December 12th, the show's competition may not be as strong as it's been, and Kate Gosselin + kids are making an appearance.
Kate's show has drawn more viewers than Sarah's show has ever drawn; she's more popular. Won't we have to attribute any improvement in the show's ratings, tonighttomorrow December 12th, to Kate + kids' fans turning out to watch?
As with all things, "It ain't over 'til it's over," but Sarah Palin's show might have had a better reception if it had been more about Alaska than about Sarah Palin.
For another bit of perspective, Dancing With the Stars' final episode had about five times as many viewers as Sarah Palin's Alaska had when it premiered. Bristol won't be old enough to be President for some time, but she's already much more popular than her mom.
Update: The NY Daily News has an article about Kate Gosselin's appearance on the show. According to that article, the "entire episode" with Kate won't be shown until December 12. The article has a link to Us Magazine, where a trailer can be seen. I am not so sure that Kate will be on tomorrow night.
"Bristol Palin a Pawn in Mom Sarah's Lamesteam Media War" noticed that Bristol Palin's 'Facebook posting is well written and uses a lot of two-dollar words like “canard” and “incredulity.” ' At one point, the article calls MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who doubts that Bristol wrote the Facebook posting, a "fathead," but then the article expresses doubt about whether Bristol actually wrote the Facebook posting.
Whatever! But Bristol's Rebecca Mansour's line, "What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity," is a problem. Try removing the double negative: "What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with sincere credulity." Still don't know what it means? Join the club.
That's my $0.02 on that matter.
Finally, what would life be like without Palinman (Palin' Man?):
He's a Superhero? To see Sarah Palin portrayed as a Superhero and read about some real ones, you may like "Sarah Palin: Superhero (?!)" (And pick up some holiday movie tips, too.)
Update, December 5th: I'm sorry about the confusion over what's on tonight's show. The episode with Kate + kids will be on December 12th, not tonight. Tonight's show -- December 5th -- is about hunting.
Sarah must be aware of the show's troubled ratings. She is now trying (Sunday, Dec. 5th) to gin-up a controversy over hunting in an attempt to attract more viewers. She's tweeting things like, "Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather couch or eaten a piece of meat, save your condemnation of tonight's episode." Do people hunt cows?
Update, December 5th: ABC News' The Note has written quite a bit about tonight's show and mentions some of the upcoming shows. Of tonight's show, the column wrote: " ... Palin seems to relish not just the hunt itself, but the political language surrounding it. Her books are loaded with references to “organic sources of protein,” which is a long way of saying say “wild animal meat.” And while she alludes to the idea that the show is somehow controversial, it doesn’t seem that there has been a giant public outcry. Palin seems eager to pick a fight here, even if no one is fighting back." ... . [emphasis added]
While they were on Dancing With the Stars, Brandy and Bristol worked together on their facial expressions.
Controlling the facial muscles is a useful ability and something that can be learned. Gary Faigin's The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression and Edward Dwight Easty's On Method Acting are two interesting, relevant books.
This isn't something for the squeamish, easily outraged, or fans of Sarah Palin: New York magazine's Daily Intel column ran "Metal Concept Band Gwar Provides New Imagery for the Words Nailin’ Palin." Gwar is a bi-partisan band -- something I learned at NOISECREEP -- but there are more subtle -- figurative rather than literal -- ways to eviscerate a politician.
Jeb Bush is siding with his mom, former First Lady Barbara Bush. Barbara Bush let slip on Larry King's show that she thinks that Sarah should "stay in Alaska." Sarah retaliated by blaming the Bushes for wrecking the economy. Imagine that! Now, Bush and Reagan fans have it in for Sarah, because by blaming the Bushes she implicitly blamed Reagan.
Finally, Ted Casablanca writes in his column, The Awful Truth:
"Celebrities like to say they'll move to France if a conservative is elected, but with her lack of global policy experience, you'd have to move to Mars to get far enough away to be safe from the havoc she and whoever she appointed as Secretary of State would wreak."
—A very well connected D.C. insider told us about the capital's future if indeed Sarah Palin was ever elected President.
Looks like we aren't the only ones feeling a little iffy about this missy big-hair trying to get her foot in that oval office!
Tickets to Mars!
Update: Failed Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has a book deal!
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