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Sarah and Kate: rumble on the tundra

 

    

Are you ready to have your Monday morning mind blown?  The scuttlebutt is that Kate Gosselin Inc. went on a camping trip with Sarah Palin to be featured on Palin's upcoming reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.  I'll give you a moment...

via Reality Blurred , “recently, the Palins graciously shared their Alaska with the Gosselin family, and that camping trip will be part of an upcoming episode.” And probably the inevitable spin-off, Sarah Palin’s Alaskan Camping Trips with Kate Gosselin."

When news of a Sarah Palin reality show first surfaced I accused skeptics across the political spectrum of overreacting.  She was simply shopping the show, it was unclear whether she would be on camera.  And if readers learned anything from Going Rogue it's that Sarah Palin really loves Alaska, specifically its landscape and wildlife.  It would make perfect sense for her to want to do a travelogue-style show about her beloved state.  Something seems to have gone amiss, most likely the part where TLC executives are involved.

I've criticized and defended both of these women.  By her own admission, Kate Gosselin is a control freak, but I doubt she's the 24/7 bitch on wheels she's been portrayed to be.  Her decision-making skills leave a lot to be desired, but what's done is done.  It's not realistic to expect her to go back to nursing now.  Sarah Palin is equally misunderstood.  Her family was figuratively raped by the media from the second her VP nomination was announced.  No serious person on either side of the aisle can claim she's been treated fairly, and what her children have been put through is unprecedented.  But her staunch supporters have over-corrected by not allowing even legitimated criticism of her, and that does her and the country a disservice.

Sarah Palin's Alaska as a travelogue could be a great show, but a Sarah and Kate cage match under the Northern Lights is a joke and should be treated as such.

P.S. Spoiler alert: Sounds like it didn't go well.

crossposted at KillTruck, Snark and Boobs

Kill Truck

KillTruck is a wife, mother, blogger and native midwesterner now living in Eastern Washington state. She writes about politics, pop culture, parenting, wifing and a few other subjects she has no authority to write about. She has macabre fascinations with prostitution and/or cannibalism. In her free time she enjoys eating and/or drinking her feelings, liveblogging Lifetime movies, thinking about Scott Brown and mocking things she doesn’t understand.

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  1. enoch_root
    August 9th, 2010 - 11:31

    not a fan of Kate. not even a little.

    kind of like a male version of Thor.

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  2. General Tso's Chicken
    August 9th, 2010 - 11:46

    The follow up to the follow up features thor’s mom being sodomized by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Member’s Only jacket.

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    • Thorgina McSaladtosser
      August 9th, 2010 - 12:10

      Is your wife’s abortion scheduled yet?

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      • Kkkunt_Trruck
        August 9th, 2010 - 12:51

        Two o’clock tomorrow, we’re having double abortions, twins, wohoo! I hope we don’t stop-up the baby grinder, they’re made in America so the quality isn’t Japanese Lexus-like. We did consider adoption, but the waiting list for healthy white Russian parents who are willing to adopt an American baby is too long. It’s sad that so many solid Muscovites are up to the ears in healthy white babies and that they’re currently not looking to adopt much. Our little future Vladichkas, Sash, Boris, Misha, Lyuba, and Kolyas that’ll never march in a May Day parade. I’m so full of regret; I might snap my fingers really hard.

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  3. KillTruck
    August 9th, 2010 - 12:16

    I only defend them to the point where when people say they never should have done the show in the first place (and yeah, they probably shouldn’t)I put myself in their circumstances at that time I can see why they said yes.

    There’s a scene in the new season (don’t judge me, I have insomnia) where she has a water filtration expert come to the house, but she won’t let him use her sink to test her water.

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  4. Joe
    August 9th, 2010 - 13:36

    Someone get the dart gun out, thor is off his meds again.

    As far as Kate freaking out in Alaska, what did she expect on a camping trip? Yeah it is going to be camping? Alaskans do not consider driving in an SUV to a luxury resort hotel “camping.” It generally involves going out and facing the blood thirsty beasts of the tundra…no not bears, mosquitos.

    I would have to see what happened, but if Kate went all Diva on Sarah, how is that Sarah’s fault?

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  5. KillTruck
    August 9th, 2010 - 13:39

    Good for you. That was almost relevant.

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  6. Joe
    August 9th, 2010 - 14:11

    Every man considering marriage should take his prospective spouse camping. If she freaks out, run don’t walk.

    Now many women are not particularily into camping or have a family history of doing that. That’s fine. You are not checking them out to see if they know how to split logs, butcher a ground hog with a plastic picnic knife, start a fire with nothing more than a rock and a stick, or operate a dutch oven property, etc. (although if they can do any of those things BONUS!). Nor is it just an excuse to zip your sleeping bags together (although I love to do that).

    What you are checking out is their fussiness factor. A woman like Kate Gosslin would make any man’s life hell. A camping trip would make it apparent immediately.

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  7. BoobTruck
    August 9th, 2010 - 14:51

    Boob attacking is a well known instinct in beavers, especially Momma beavers. They often mistake big, furry nipples for wolverines. When those Beaver Mommas rise up on their hind legs to protect their young things get bloody fast. They can gnaw the tits off a ten grizzly bears.

    Gory is the day a beaver bites your tits off, just a warning for you suburban backpackers.

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    • KillTruck
      August 9th, 2010 - 15:25

      … and that wasn’t.

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    • Thorgina McSaladtosser
      August 9th, 2010 - 17:40

      thor, you are a seriously deranged individual.

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    • Dr. GQ, Beaver expert
      August 9th, 2010 - 19:29

      You are correct. The far northern black beavers, note the plural, that attacked Sarah Palin were particularly nipple starved.

      I was the admitting doctor. Indeed, the lead beaver in this communal pack is well known for its cranium’s size, its learning disabilities, its cartoonishly large buck teeth and, of course, its furryed nipple hungry manner. This attack was particularly vicious and swift. Sarah, having lowered her pants so as to urinate, was particularly unfortunate. Normally the natural noxious odors Sarah emits from her vagina and rectum would be enough to repel a beaver or two, but not the one we call Bong Hit. This one can hold its breath for up to five minutes or more. Bong Hit and his wilding pack of aureola carnivores worked her over good, held her down, smothered her to silent her screams, used an anal probe, drew her blood, height, weight and were measured, stool sample, pap smear, blood pressure, made her turn her head and cough, the whole bit.

      She was lucky to live. Lucky she get impregnated, at her advanced age its not easy, probably multiple and repeated beaver insemination. It was the work of real pros.

      I think she was marked, they’ve been after her and her family ever since she was picked by McCain. Damn Socialist dam builders, lame stream beavers! They make me sick!

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  8. Danger
    August 9th, 2010 - 22:48

    What this thread needs is some Bob Reeeeed!
    (specializing in Thor frisking and extra vowels;)

    Anyone heard from him lately?

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  9. thor's mom
    August 9th, 2010 - 20:31

    My thor is low maintenance. K-Y Jelly, a day-old footlong hotdog, and he’s good to go!!!!

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  10. KillTruck
    August 9th, 2010 - 22:52

    Walmart’s the only word in that one with any truth to it, which is an improvement. You’re really coming along.

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  11. Joe
    August 9th, 2010 - 23:46

    thor, you are thinking of your own dad. You know who I mean, the guy in brown from UPS. Well no one is sure of the actuual individual who spawned you one afternoon, but those men in brown all represent surrogate dads for you.

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  12. thor's mom
    August 10th, 2010 - 01:25

    Gotta love that overnight male!

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  13. Joe
    August 9th, 2010 - 23:48

    thor, I do not want to go camping with you.

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  14. enoch_root
    August 10th, 2010 - 05:28

    Thor – you may be the biggest attn whore on the tubes…

    look at me! Over here! Hey guys! Look at me!

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