Showing posts with label reality show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality show. Show all posts

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Arnold Schwarzenegger will NOT "be back" on The Apprentice. Blames Trump for poor ratings. Update!

Courtesy of Empire Online:  

Fans of Celebrity Apprentice are about to lose the show's biggest asset as Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be returning to host another season of the show. "I learned a lot, I had a great time, it was a really great opportunity," Schwarzenegger said, speaking exclusively to Empire. "But under the circumstances I don't want to do it again."

"It's not about the show," he explained. "because everyone I ran into came up to me and said 'I love the show... but I turned it off because as soon as I read Trump's name I'm outta there!'" 

"NBC did everything they could to promote the show and [producer] Mark Burnett did a fantastic job. No one really knew that this was going to happen and I think that everyone was caught off guard." 

"When people found out that Trump was still involved as executive producer and was still receiving money from the show, then half the people [started] boycotting it."

"Even if asked [to do it again] I would decline." Said Schwarzenegger. "With Trump being involved in the show people have a bad taste and don't want to participate as a spectator or as a sponsor or in any other way support the show. It's a very divisive period now and I think this show got caught up in all that division."

Of course as we know Trump blamed the low ratings on Schwarzenegger.
And then just today Trump went after Schwarzenegger again.
However I would agree with Arnold on this one.

Trump's name is now toxic.

Unless Trump wants to also blame his poor approval ratings, the rejection of Ivanka's clothing line, and small inauguration crowds on Schwarzenegger as well.

Personally I always thought that the contrived conflicts in The Apprentice were an insult to the viewer's intelligence, but apparently there are a number of people in this country with no intelligence to insult.

I would also classify them as "Trump voters."

Update: Arnold responds.
Nicely done.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Woman sues due to injury suffered while filming fake reality scenes for Alaska reality show.

Courtesy of ADN:

Susan Aikens, who stars in the reality television show "Life Below Zero," has sued the series producers, alleging she was injured while being forced to film dangerous scenes for fictitious narratives. 

Aikens' grievances largely center on a producer who she alleges was verbally abusive and intimidated her and other crew members. 

The producer demanded Aikens drive her snowmachine into overflow, according to a civil complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. She was badly hurt in a crash and then made to wait for medical treatment so desirable footage could be captured, the complaint says. 

The 32-page lawsuit lists multiple defendants including the BBC and three of its subsidiaries, producer Aaron Mellman, and unnamed crew members. It alleges the defendants breached a contract, interfered with Aikens' business and intentionally caused her emotional distress.

Years ago my daughter, who worked on some of these shows, clued me into to just how fake they all are. 

In her words literally EVERYTHING that happens is scripted, including fights, love affairs, and yes dangerous incidents.

I think this lawsuit is great in that perhaps it will pull back the veil and allowing potential viewers see that it's all bullshit.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Hey remember that Sarah Palin judge show? Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Courtesy of Radar Online: 

RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Sarah Palin’s hopes for a reality courtroom show have been dashed. 

“The show has been killed,” a syndication TV source told Radar. 

The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential nominee, 52, reportedly inked a deal last winter with Warm Springs, a production company based in Montana.

Still, “Though Sarah has obvious talent as a commentator, she didn’t resonate with the audience as a judge,” noted the source of Palin, whose stint with FOX News also recently came to an end.

"Didn't resonate with the audience." What, couldn't they find an audience of nose picking farm animal molesters to sit still that long?

Well it's a good thing that Radar Online picked his up because it fell off of my radar a long time ago.

I knew from the very beginning that this was a non-starter.

After all the woman is an idiot.

I would think that Honey Boo Boo has a better shot at sitting behind a bench and handing down legal decisions than Sarah "Are my kids being arrested again?" Palin.

I don't know what is in Palin's immediate future, and I don't think she does either, but we can all rest assured she will fail at it whatever it turns out to be. 

Because that is what she does, fail.

Friday, January 06, 2017

Donald Trump takes time out from his busy busy day of not accepting the findings from the intelligence agencies to throw shade at the guy who replaced him on "The Apprentice."


Gee I can hardly wait until the Toddler-in-Chief is responding to world leaders by dissing them on Twitter.

It will be like watching a reality show where civilizations might actually be destroyed.

For his part Schwarzenegger had a pretty good response.
So we now live in a world where Conan the Barbarian is actually more diplomatic and sophisticated than the man leading our country.

Oh, aren't we blessed?

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Producer from the Apprentice is astounded that people bought their bullshit and elected their fake reality star to be president.

Here are a few excerpts from this article over at Vanity Fair:  

The Apprentice contributed to that. People lapped up what the producers were putting out, and the danger became real as news directors, desperate to compete with ratings, started putting music under soft news stories. Facebook started pushing altogether fake news. Opinions on Twitter became truths over lies. People were prone to clickbait no matter how salacious or factually questionable it was, and the entire journalism world turned on its head. 

At the very same time, some clever producers were putting forth a manufactured story about a billionaire whose empire was, in actuality, crumbling at the very same time he took the job, the salary, and ownership rights to do a reality show. The Apprentice was a scam put forth to the public in exchange for ratings. We were “entertaining,” and the story about Donald Trump and his stature fell into some bizarre public record as “truth.” This is nothing new, and the impact it’s having on the history of the world is best depicted in the Academy Award-winning film Network, a satire.

So essentially just about everything that people think they know about Trump's "success" was written for the caricature of himself that he played on TV.

The producer, Bill Pruitt, also ads this: 

We are masterful storytellers and we did our job well. What’s shocking to me is how quickly and decisively the world bought it. Did we think this clown, this buffoon with the funny hair, would ever become a world leader? Not once. Ever. Would he and his bombastic nature dominate in prime-time TV? We hoped so. Now that the lines of fiction and reality have blurred to the horrifying extent that they have, those involved in the media must have their day of reckoning. People are buying our crap. 

You have probably all read comments by that insignificant little troll POS who keeps remarking that liberals are "lost in the wilderness." But the ironic part of that statement is that liberals knew that electing Trump would abandon this country in that wilderness and so we fought hard to prevent it. 

And we are not by any stretch of the imagination alone in that wilderness, the conservatives, racists, Islamophobes, and Xenophobes are right there with us, they are just too fucking slow on the uptake to realize it.

In fact the ONLY people who are not soon going to be stumbling around in the darkness looking for a way out are the big business folks who are about to have the best, most financially lucrative, four years of their careers.

And Donald Trump is signaling that truth with every new cabinet member he puts in place.

I mean does anybody REALLY think that the new Secretary of State Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is going to put the needs of this country ahead of the only company he has ever worked for?

Or that Rick Perry is NOT going to fuck up the Department of Energy?

Or that the WWE's Linda McMahon knows dick about small business?

Or that Betsy DeVos does not believe she is on a mission from God to destroy the public education system?

Let's face it Trumpsters, you got tricked into watching a nationally broadcast reality show and convincing yourselves it was real.

And now you get to witness what happens when scripted reality crashes head first into actual reality.

Unfortunately the more intelligent of us, the ones who saw this coming from miles away, the ones you derisively label as "libtards," have to experience that reality right along with you.

Friday, November 18, 2016

Duck Dynasty has been cancelled. See, not all news is bad.

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

Duck Dynasty will end after the finale of its current season, the Robertson family and A&E announced following the season premiere Wednesday.

“We’ve decided as a family for this to be the final chapter of the Duck Dynasty series,” Jase says in the announcement, with Willie’s wife Korie noting that the family might be back for “a special for two.” 

The series finale will air April 12.

And once it's off the air America's cumulative IQ will steadily start increase. If we're lucky it might even get high enough not to vote for Donald Trump in 2020.

In truth I blame some of Trump's success on these reality shows because they made histrionics and outrageous comments common place and acceptable.


Without the "Jersey Shore" and "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" we might not have a president heading to the White House who made "grabbing them by the pussy" a campaign slogan.

So I am glad to see Duck Dynasty off the air, and I hope it is soon followed by every other brain cell murdering reality show as well. 

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Bristol Palin's ex on her mothering skills: "She's the worst mom EVER! I'd be f**ckin' devastated if I had a kid with her."

Okay so that clip was from 2012, and in response Levi Johnston decided that he had finally had all he could take and wanted to try one more time to get his son back into his life.

So as you all know his initial attempts hit a brick wall called Bristol Palin, who at that time had all of the power, all of the money, and no reason whatsoever to give him his rights as a father.

Ultimately that led Levi to my door, and what happened next I detailed in this post.

Now let me point out that even at that time Levi was adamant about taking the high road and not attacking Bristol. And in fact he never once said that she was a bad mother.

However as we talked about all that had happened up until that point it was pretty clear that she was certainly not going to be nominated for mother of the year.

Nor was it likely that she was going to give up control without a serious, costly battle.

Courtesy of a Johnston family confidant.
Yep, a costly battle indeed.

So after two years of the back and forth filings which were designed to drain Levi's financial resources (Sorry Bristol I screwed that up for you didn't I?), finally both parties came to an agreement and everything appeared to be settled.

Note that I said, "appeared to be settled."

It was around then that some misleading stories were leaked to the press saying that Levi owed over $80,000 in child support.

So Levi tried to set the record straight. Twice.

Now notice that there was still no attack on Bristol in those posts and articles.

However they resulted in this: 

Life & Style Weekly has exclusively learned that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s son Tripp, 7, has been actively trying to have a fling with her. 

“He’s been texting Bristol, asking her to hook up again. He actually wrote, ‘Come cuddle me,’ and ‘Come lay that sexy a-- down right up tight next to me and watch a movie with me,” a source reveals.

For the record what's written is not exactly accurate. But it did hurt.

Ultimately Levi and Sunny's relationship grew stronger, and today they are doing very well.  Very well indeed.


So surely, I thought, now Levi would want to release me from my promise and let me do my thing.

But nope. Still wanted to be the good guy.

Pissing me off here buddy.

So I made a deal, once I revealed our friendship I would not post anything directed at Bristol specifically, and focus instead on the bigger story about his time with the Palin family and what he saw, IF Bristol did not go after either me, him, or Sunny directly.

I can't say that either he nor Sunny agreed to that, but then again it was not up for discussion. 

After some initial rumblings I even let Bristol know of my intentions.

As you now know that was not how things were going to work out.

Which brings us to this post today.

Like I said earlier I received a lot of interesting information from the Johnstons, their friends, and their family members over the last two years.

Much of it Sunny and Levi did not want to ever see on the internet.

However this is my blog, and ultimately my decision.

Thursday, June 02, 2016

Apparently Sarah Palin's new motto is "Make me an offer."

Courtesy of Palin's Facebook page: 

🇺🇸🌟🚌ON THE ROAD AGAIN!! 🚌🌟🇺🇸 

This is the perfect time for a 🛣 road trip! Our family has enjoyed many of them - especially in this bunkhouse on wheels! Memories to last a lifetime in this beautiful rig; you can make your own positive, indelible memories in this motor home that we've enjoyed enormously. 

We've had to park our beloved Dynamax too far away from Alaska 🏔🐻so decided to let it go to others who have that same bucket list item we have: loading up the crew, hitting the wide open road, truly experiencing America! 🌟🇺🇸

(Have I mentioned how much I hate emojis? Cause I do.)

At the end of this post is a link to Premium Coach Group who is apparently selling this hunk of junk for the Palins.

So the Palins are selling the Arizona house, this beast of an RV, and apparently anything else they can find lying around.

Why do I get the idea that the Wasilla Wendigo is not entirely convinced that her "Palin Rules" reality show is going to solve her money issues?

I am starting to get a whiff of desperation.

Well it looks like Bristol will have to get busy and trap some other poor slob into paying child support, or else somebody in the family might be forced to get a...gasp....job!

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

MSNBC seems to be laboring under the delusion that Sarah Palin's new gig as a reality TV judge could make her millions. Hah!

So get this from MSNBC: 

According to TMZ, producers for a long-rumored new reality court show have lobbied to trademark “Palin Rules” as its title. The program, which will be in the same mold as “Judge Judy,” “People’s Court” and “Judge Joe Brown,” was first reported on back in March, with the show’s producer Larry Lyttle pledging that the former 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee will preside over “the courtroom of common sense.”

Okay so that's all relatively factual and we covered that here yesterday.

Here is where MSNBC goes off the rails: 

This is certainly not the first time a Palin has dipped their toe in the reality show genre. She hosted “Sarah Palin’s America” for two years on TLC, headlined “Amazing America With Sarah Palin” for the Sportsman Channel, and later launched an ill-fated subscription channel largely devoted to her political screeds and daily life. Her daughter Bristol has broken out as a reality star in her own right, with a high profile stint on “Dancing With the Stars” as well as a Lifetime series – “Life’s a Tripp” – which last just one season. 

Still, her stint as a TV judge could prove to be her most ambitious and lucrative foray into entertainment to date. If “Judge Judy” is the model, Palin could become a millionaire many times over. Currently, that show’s star – Judy Scheindlin – is earning upwards of $40 million a year, making her the 43rd highest paid celebrity in America according to Forbes. And Celebrity Net Worth reports that Scheindlin is worth a total of $250 million.

Okay so first MSNBC lists off all of Palin's failed attempts to start a successful franchise, which of course includes the fact that she was unable to renew her contract with Fox News, and then it goes on to suggest that this time she could somehow become just as successful as the very qualified and entertaining Judge Judy.

Which begs the question, "In what universe could that happen?"

Not only is Palin uniquely unqualified to render a legal judgement on anything, after all she has been sued over copyright infringement, her family was involved in a brawl which required a police response, and her son is currently facing a court case over domestic abuse, but she also demonstrates no ability to hold an audience past the first couple of episodes with any of her attempts to break into TV.

Sure a number of folks will tune in to the premiere just in the hopes of seeing her crash and burn, but if that does not happen and instead it becomes as routinely boring as her internet channel, reality show, and Facebook page, that audience will disappear as quickly as political candidates requesting her endorsement. 

Remember that as of right now, NO networks have even demonstrated an interest in this program, much less offering to pay her millions of dollars.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Josh Duggar wants to return to reality television to spread the good word of the Gospel. Just kidding he needs money.

Courtesy of Hollywood Gossip:

"Josh is determined to fix his image so he can make a comeback," a source close to the family tells Us Weekly. 

"He'll stop at nothing to get back in front of the cameras again, especially because he's broke and has no prospect of work. 

"Getting another reality show is the only way he can think of to make real money." 

Josh has been a public figure for long enough to know that any post-scandal comeback starts with an apology tour, and he's already making plans to sob his way through a contrite interview or two: 

"Josh is having Anna reach out to people like Dr. Phil and Megyn Kelly so he can have his mea culpa moment," the source claims. 

"If that goes well and people are sympathetic towards him, he is sure he can convince TLC to give him and Anna a spin-off - something to do with healing their marriage within the Christian faith."

Hang on a minute, I'm fighting my gag reflex.

You know scandal is not that a child molesting pervert is negotiating a pathway back into America's living rooms.

The scandal is that it will probably work.

What's more the first episode will likely attract millions of viewers and ultimately be a big hit for TLC.

And that my friends is why we currently have a narcissistic sociopathic reality star now within striking distance of winning the White House.

This is who we are now. This is what we have become.

Monday, May 23, 2016

Reality show "The Biggest Loser" was in fact the "Biggest Scam."

Courtesy of The New York Post:

Following a controversial study that claims to explain why almost all “Biggest Loser” contestants regain massive amounts of weight, numerous ex-Losers reached out to The Post to dispute its findings — exclusively revealing that the show encouraged contestants to take street drugs while starving themselves and to lie about how much weight they were losing. 

The federally funded study, conducted by Dr. Kevin Hall at the National Institutes of Health and published two weeks ago, says changing metabolic rates, hormone levels, and genetic predispositions explain post-show weight gain. 

What’s missing, former Losers tell The Post, is any examination of the show’s secret and brutal tactics, which include providing illicit drugs to contestants and submitting them to questionable medical exams by the show’s resident doctor, Rob Huizenga, known as “Dr. H.” 

Huizenga collaborated with Hall on the NIH’s study. 

“People were passing out in Dr. H’s office at the finale weigh-in,” says Season 2’s Suzanne Mendonca. “On my season, five people had to be rushed to the hospital. He knew exactly what we were doing and never tried to stop it.”

I think it is well established that I hate all reality shows.

However there are a few which really earn my disgust, and this is one of them.

As a former personal trainer I know exactly how hard it is to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

And the fantasy offered by this program was potentially quite damaging to the viewers.

Anybody who thinks they can spend a couple of weeks or months changing their diet and working hard at the gym and that it will make a long term impact on their physique is buying into the snake oil sold by the producers of this program.

Yes exercise and dietary changes DO help trim the fat and build muscle, but it ALWAYS happens incrementally and only has a lasting effect if it is maintained after the initial weight loss.

I am not at all surprised that the show used some form of stimulant and starvation tactics to get the contestants to lose weight.

Not am I surprised to learn that there were long term side effects.

What I am surprised about is that this show is even still on the air.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Sarah Palin to pimp her new judge show at the National Association of Broadcasters show.

Courtesy of TV News Check:  

Sarah Palin will be at next week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas taking meetings to promote her prospective syndicated court show, TVNewsCheck has learned. 

In addition, the formerly untitled show now has a name — Palin Rules — although it’s being characterized as a “working” title that could be subject to change, sources say. 

According to multiple sources, Palin will be sequestered in a hotel suite where she is expected to meet-and-greet programming executives from station groups who will be in town for the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention. 

The meetings will represent the first time that station programmers will get to meet Palin and, in the process, get to know her and size up her potential as a prospective TV judge.

I wonder if she will meet-and-greet them while wearing a towel?

Cause we know she does that. 

Here are a few more details: 

Among other things, the show’s developers are considering having Palin be addressed on the show as “Governor” rather than “Judge Palin,” perhaps to play up her past role as governor of Alaska and play down the fact that she has no real-world experience as either a lawyer or a judge. To amplify that point, she might not wear judicial robes on the show either, sources say. This consideration might also be why the word “Judge” does not appear in the show’s working title. Whether or not her show’s set would resemble a courtroom, however, is still not known.

Personally I am not sure that calling her "Governor" is any better than referring to her as "judge."

Did they consider "Quitter?" Or "Fame whore?" Or perhaps my favorite "Madame Mooseknuckle?"

I wonder if these people realize that typically "Palin rules" are any damn thing she can get away with until the authorities tell her she can't?

I would suggest betting on whether she gets a nibble on the show idea or not, but since we know that Palin will have those Belmonts fully inflated and strapped firmly into place I imagine some poor horny idiot WILL make an offer.

That only leaves the amount of time before she quits or the network pulls the plug up for debate.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Companies angered to learn that their products featured in commercials which aired during the Duggar's new show.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:  

Companies who learned their commercials have been airing on a new show about the Duggars are none too happy, and making sure their ads do not run when TLC airs its new program Jill and Jessa: Counting On. 

InTouch spoke with seven companies who were not only upset when they heard this news, but also said they were taking measures to make sure it would not happen again on the network. 

The companies included; Cici's Pizza, The UPS Store, Verizon Wireless, Pure Michigan, White wave Foods, Choice Hotels and Mattress Firm. 

Cici's said; 'When we learned one of our ads was placed adjacent to controversial programming, we took immediate action to stop it.' 

The UPS Store meanwhile said the show would be put 'on our list of exclusions as well as any other potential Duggar programming.' 

Verizon said they did not intend to be on the show and had no control where their ad ran while Choice Hotels said if an ad ran it was an 'error of the network.' 

Pure Michigan may have been the most firm however, saying; 'We contacted TLC immediately after learning about this mistake, and have been assured no Pure Michigan ads will run on this program moving forward. 

'The Counting On program does not meet our brand guidelines.' 

Can't hardly blame these companies. After sex abuse and incest do not exactly sell more pizza and wireless phones.

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to put these grifting hypocrites back on TV, but I hope they enjoy the backlash from their advertisers.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Sarah Palin is getting a new reality show. And this time she gets to judge people. Update!

Courtesy of People:

Move over, Judge Judy. There's a new TV courtroom judge coming to town – and it's none other than former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. 

The onetime vice presidential candidate has been tapped to preside over a new reality court show that would premiere next year. She signed a deal in February with Montana-based production company Warm Springs, a source close to the process tells PEOPLE. 

"It's a production deal," the source explains. "What happens next is she'll meet with stations, make a pilot and sell it." 

Warm Springs first approached Palin with the idea in 2015 and has since put together a team that includes the TV executive who found Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown.

You know you'd think when hell freezes over there would be some notice in the paper.

Of course as we know Palin has no law degree, and her only legal experience is trying not to get caught for breaking the law.

However leave it to her to find a way to put her son Track in front of a judge who WON'T toss him in the clink and throw away the key.

It's been so long I'm confused, do we start taking bets on how long before she quits this one NOW, or AFTER it premieres?

Update: The Daily Mail has pictures of Palin leaving the hospital where Todd is recovering from his snowmachine accident.


In pictures obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Online, Palin appeared tired and tense as she left Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Alaska last Friday after flying home from Florida where she had been campaigning for Donald Trump.

Oh I have no doubt that she's "tired and tense."

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Comedian Natasha Leggero not only nails Bristol Palin's "fame" BS but predicted what a Donald Trump presidential campaign would look like. (NSFW language.)

The only correction I have is that Bristol was not working in a dentist's office when she was offered the DWTS gig. She was "working" for the same dermatologist who she is "working" for today.

Other than that this is spot on.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Wait, so suddenly Bristol Palin thinks Levi Johnston is a "great dad?"

 Posted with the caption "This daddy makes it to every school event!" on Sunny Johnston's Facebook page
So this showed up on ET Online yesterday:

"Levi is a great dad," Palin told ET in a statement. "We have a great co-parenting relationship and Tripp loves him." 

Palin's rep, David Martin, explained that his client and Johnston, also 25, are currently awaiting the court's decision to "wrap up this case." 

"Child support in Alaska is calculated based on a mathematical formula in the Civil Rules. The parties are not allowed to use a different formula or forgive or excuse nonpayment," Martin said. "They are also not allowed to demand or accelerate payments. The court is charged with figuring out the amount of past child support as well as the future child support obligations."

(By the way this David Martin dude is the same guy now in charge of Bristol's Instagram account and the one that her mother clearly hired in order to gain some semblance of control over her daughter. )

Soooo, Bristol's official statement is that Levi is a "great dad."  Isn't THAT interesting?

Especially since she has spent the last seven years trying to convince the world that he is a deadbeat dad and a rapist.

And let's not forget this contrived scene from "Life's a Tripp."

I actually know some of the behind the scenes info on this episode and the facts are that Levi was contacted only about two hours before he was supposed to show up, and Rex Butler, his lawyer at the time, told him not to go as it was clearly a set up.

I don't typically agree with Rex, but this was a good call on his part as the entire episode was framed to paint Levi as a loser and a man-child who was not an active participant in his son's life.

I would remind everybody that the entire reason that Levi hired Rex Butler, and agreed to all of those magazine and television interviews, was to fight for joint custody of his son.

That is all he has ever wanted, and that is what he has spent the last seven years fighting for.

So if Bristol is now finally putting out a statement saying that Levi is not a deadbeat dad, but rather a "great" one, that is only because he finally beat her and she is essentially waving the white flag of surrender. 


Tuesday, February 02, 2016

The Duggars WILL return to reality TV. Pretty sure that's sign of the Apocalypse.

Courtesy of Christian Post:  

Fans of the TLC series "19 Kids and Counting" will be happy to know that the series will be back for another run. 

The stars of the series recently suffered through some scandals when it was revealed that Joshua Duggar took part in AshleyMadison.com, a website that serves as an online dating site for married men. With the family known as devout Christians, the news of Joshua's infidelity led to the show's cancellation. 

By the way the participation in the dating website is the ONLY reason given for why the show was originally cancelled.

There is no mention of Josh Duggar sexually abusing his sisters, the family's attempt to cover that up, or the fact that Josh Duggar physically abused a porn star.

How very Christian of this news outlet to provide cover for the Duggars once again.

Well so much for TLC or the Duggar family learning anything from this experience.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

President Obama will make even reality shows temporarily cool tonight.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

He helped make tea from catkins, ate a salmon pre-chewed by a bear, and discussed why people would drink their own urine. 

On Thursday night, President Obama will appear in an episode of the survivalist reality show “Running Wild With Bear Grylls,” part of an effort by the White House to highlight the perils of climate change. While trekking in the Alaskan wild, the president and Mr. Grylls, one of reality TV’s biggest stars, bemoan the rapid retreat of a vast glacier. 

But the episode also reveals Mr. Obama as a leader made claustrophobic by tight security, a father who is worried about appearing cool to his daughters, and a man who likes pushing through a forest and scrabbling over rocks to reach his campsite. 

“I think you assume that someone with that kind of responsibility and power is somehow different from the rest of us,” Mr. Grylls said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “So it’s surprising to see how he really is.”

I think my distaste for reality shows is pretty well understood by now, but having said that I will totally be tuning in tonight at 9:00 Alaska time to see President Obama hanging out in the Last Frontier. Or as I like refer to it, home.

Not only am I jazzed to see the show, but this gives me a chance to repost my favorite President Obama pictures of all time.

I think that President Obama should forget about going back to Chicago when he leaves office, and move here instead.

I know that the crazy lady by the dead lake might have given a bad impression, but most Alaskans are very hospitable and President Obama made quite an impression while he was here.

Or has he forgotten?

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Pretending to be "real" Alaskans is bad enough, but when you lie to get a PFD....well nothing pisses us off more than that.

Source
Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch News:

A Juneau judge rejected a plea deal Thursday that would have allowed stars from Discovery Channel’s wildly popular reality television series “Alaskan Bush People” to avoid jail time for lying on applications to get the Permanent Fund dividend checks given to Alaska residents. 

“There needs to be a higher punishment to act as a deterrent,” said Juneau Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg. “If you knew you could catch everybody, maybe you wouldn’t need to punish each of them as much.” 

Pallenberg said 30 days in jail would be appropriate for the crime, though he couldn’t impose that punishment Thursday. The case against members of the Brown family will resume in early December. 

With the rejection of the deal, Billy Brown, the 62-year-old patriarch of the family, and his 31-year-old son Joshua "Bam Bam" Brown also withdrew their guilty pleas. Under the proposed deal, the two men had pleaded guilty Wednesday to one misdemeanor count each of second-degree unsworn falsification. Prosecutors would have dismissed many other charges if the deal went through. 

Last October, the Brown family -- Billy Brown, his wife Amora “Ami” Brown and four of their children -- were charged with a total of 60 counts of first-degree unsworn falsification and first- and second-degree theft linked to dividend applications submitted from 2010 to 2013.

Personally I have never heard of this show.

Partly because I have never seen a show about Alaska, which really reflects what it's like to live in Alaska. But mostly because the only way I would watch a reality show was if somebody held a gun to my head, and even then I might choose the bullet.

Like I said though Alaskans would probably give these assholes a pass for being phonies, IF they had not been getting Permanent Fund checks under false pretenses. 

You know when the fund was first established it was supposed to provide annual monetary amounts based on length of residence.

As a lifelong resident of Alaska I was all for that, plus it would have had the added benefit of keeping people from moving up here simply to get their hands on the money. Which today is the same for everybody, so long as you have lived here at least one year.

And if that guideline had remained in place it would have made what the Browns did much more difficult.

With that in mind I hope these guys get a nice long stay in our correctional facilities.

Perhaps THEN they will have been here long enough to have earned the label "Sourdough."

Of course being in jail they STILL will not earn that PFD check.

P.S. By the way if you are watching any of these stupid reality shows as a way to lean about the Last Frontier, you are an idiot. And trust me, you still don't have a clue.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Mike Huckabee on the Duggars: "Well, out of 19 kids, y’know, as far as we know, 18 turned out pretty darn well"

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Appearing on CNBC with John Harwood, Huckabee was asked if he had any regrets about previously holding the Duggar family up as “a model of everything that was good and decent about family,” in light of Josh Duggar’s fall from grace. 

Duggar has admitted that he molested several of his sisters when he was a teen and conducted multiple adulterous affairs as an adult. 

‘Well, out of 19 kids, y’know, as far as we know, 18 turned out pretty darn well,” a smiling Huckabee said. 

“That’s a pretty good percentage,” he continued, “And I don’t think you disparage..” as Harwood cut him off. 

“I can just imagine quite a few people who feel disparaged about things you’ve say about gay rights, gay marriage, and would think ‘Heh, hypocrite,'” Harwood pressed. 

“Look, I’m not to defend anything of Josh,” Huckabee replied. “Nothing to defend. But I don’t think you can disparage the entire family because one of the members did some pretty bad things.”

Yeah you know that might make sense if Josh's parents had actually got him the help he needed when they first found out, and had not covered for his abuses which allowed him to continue preying on his sisters and family friends. 

Oh and if the family was not made up of anti-gay, fundamentalist assholes, who survive by bilking idiots on the internet and broadcasting their lives on reality TV.

Besides does anybody REALLY believe that the rest of the family "turned out pretty darn well?"