Sarah Palin's Alaska Breaks TLC Ratings Record

The premiere of sarah Palin's Alaska broke TLC's ratings record by attracting five million viewers. More importantly, the series attracted 1.6 million viewers in the coveted 18-49 range of folks who are apparently the most willing to blow wads of cash on advertised products. The series was competing against Sunday Night Football as well. It is usually a show killer for the impressionable 18-49 viewers/shoppers.

Predictably, there have been political overtones in the generally lukewarm to cold critc opinions for the series. Nevertheless, I am not going to chalk up the vast majority of negative to political bias. Most of those negative reviews have deemed the show boring. Said opinion is more a matter of some New York or Chicago journalist who cannot comprehend why anyone would watch a travelogue period. Or a show in which Chuck Norris fights bad guys as a straight laced Texas Ranger or any other of the myriad shows that last seven or more seasons, but no one outside of flyover country can comprehend why.

In spite of Karl Rove’s declaration doing this show is un-presidential, (Bush 43 chopping wood in the Texas summer=presidential; Palin hunting and fishing in Alaska=un-presidential) it is only going to solidify her image to all parties. If you are a conservative who likes her, you are going to see her as more of a real person. If you are a progressive who does not like her, you are also going to see her as real person, which for some reason is bad in the liberal mind. The latter’s fear Palin will seek the presidency is only going to make the former more likely to rally around her.

Meanwhile, Tina Fey wins a comedy award for reasons known only to the demon to whom she signed a Faustian pact and thanked--Sarah Palin.