Up tonight on TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska: the former governor is waging war on “anti-hunting hypocrisy.”
“See how we fill our freezers and feed our families with home-grown tundra-roaming Alaskan wild game,” wrote Palin on Facebook. “And, PETA, please remember: Alaskans eat, therefore we hunt.”
She also indicated that the episode would showcase the potential for oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “You’ll also see us hunting at the edge of ANWR,” Palin promised, “where you can see the uninhabited lands that warehouse billions of barrels of American energy supplies underground just waiting for the political will to allow responsible resource development.”
And for anyone who considers hunting “controversial,” Palin had this message: “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.”
PETA's having a bad week. The publisher of the video game "Super Meat Boy" goaded PETA into attacking them for free publicity.
The publisher also posted a joke on their twitter: How many PETA members does it take to change a lightbulb? None. PETA can't change anything.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMeh. How about this rejoinder? “If you’ve ever enjoyed a television program or a movie, were cured by a cutting edge pharmaceutical, used a tool or instrument designed by a university trained engineer, were enthralled by art and music, save your condemnation of people who live in cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh..."
Last time I looked, those urban people actually made products and paid taxes. Where I see Americans, Palin and NRO sees "enemies".
BTW, you will never experience this in Wasilla Alaska:
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Palin is making tons of money with her hating urbanites shtick. Too bad the retrograde and inchoate NRO carries her water with stupid, reactionary alacrity.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePositively enlightening. Are people really watching this dreck?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePETA, really? Next she'll take on the metric system. This is pointless cultural antagonism. It's irrelevant, self-reinforcing chest-beating.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat else would she talk about? Hunting is very relevant to Alaskans as well as millions of others in the U.S. and PETA picked the fight to begin with. I also disagree that it is pointless, chest beating antagonism, millions of us are tired of being harassed about gun ownership, hunting, and the freedom to eat whatever we choose to by those self-righteous know nothings at PETA. Whatever the case, it can't hurt her politically in the way that a truly irrelevant attack on the metric system would be.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePalin certainly loves the art of engagement. Since there is no rational basis for the haters of oil, coal, hunting etc. the only thing that happens is that their heads explode...oh the righteous indignity of it all.
A video has been floating around the blogosphere showing the dramatic increase in life expectancy of the world in the last 200 years. No doubt the reactionary left would be without comment on that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUh, no Jason, the "cultural antagonism" runs the other way. Sarah "antagonizes" the Left by continuing to draw breath and occupy space.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSarah's "antagonism" with the Left -PETA included- stems largely from the fact that she simply exists and draws breath. That fact that she does so with such gusto and good humor only enrages them further.
I'm only disappointed that she's not a better shot. That caribou must have seriously had a death wish to stand on the horizon after four misses.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI thought her show was going to be apolitical? I guess they need to juice the ratings somehow. :P
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJason: "PETA, really? Next she'll take on the metric system."
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That's assuming that the metric system is a wildly goofy activist member of the ruling class of the US federal government and has a hand in creating federal laws, of course.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt wasn't so much a warning as a precaution to limp-wristed, whiners and moaners (i.e., PETA) not to go overboard with their hysteria as they did when Sarah and Bristol stunned halibut.
There have been cautions flashed preceding each segment of the series where PETA members and other weak-kneed viewers could turn away from the graphic parts. Of course, those cautions have been flashed for children but certainly PETA and other adult grievance worshipers could conceivably fall into that category.
As for the series being apolitical, name anything in the Palin family's life today that isn't being twisted by others into some political controversy? Reminds me of the 1960s when hysterical fans would play The Beatles music in reverse trying to find some hidden meanings they thought were being conveyed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI couldn't have put it better than the other Jason: "pointless cultural antagonism." You know, some of us conservatives are -- gasp! -- animal-loving vegetarians, as well. You know, respect for life and all that. I'm not easily offended, but this is truly pointless. Reason number 156,943 why I can't wait for her to disappear.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"This is pointless cultural antagonism. It's irrelevant, self-reinforcing chest-beating."
You mean like CAIR and the Ground Zero Outreach mosque?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn Alaska, PETA means People for Eating Tasty Animals. I'm a proud member who hunts the Dakotas.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI agree that PETA is largely irrelevant, but there is a generation (or two) of coddled suburban kids who think that all the things that funded their upper-middle class lifestyle that are not related to the media or finance industries are dirty and should be stopped. This crowd needs to be regularly reminded that they benefit tremendously from the things they deride.
Their hipster low waist skinny jeans for boys made in India by a 12 year old earning 10 cents an hour are ok, but someone hunting a caribou in Alaska where there are thousands is not ok. Go figure.
Sure, the show is an advertisement, but at least its not the taxpayer funded advertisements that so many politicians and government agencies use to sway public opinion.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDon't tell her husband but I think Sarah was looking at me on last night's episode. What a great country this would be if all women were cut from the same fabric as Sarah Palin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDid she really say "never"? If so, she is falling into the idiotic trap the left so often uses, i.e., "You can't criticize pre-marital sex if you did it without being a hypocrite." Nope. I can learn. I did something evil and realized my error. So I can surely object to her hunting if I now believe it is wrong without having to have had a 100% pure history.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePut a check next to "NRA vote".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't see the problem, so long as there is a symbolic copy of “Cap and Trade” legislation pasted on the hairy victim for a target.
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