Sarah Palin to host the "Today" show. Really? Eva Braun wasn't available?

[LynneSin]

I'm sorry but morning shows on the main networks (ABC/CBS/NBC) should be as little about politics as possible. Do you think Sarah Palin is going to go in there and be non-partial about the topics discussed? Or will she go in there with her old and tired tirade about how awful the 'liberal media' is and how 'wretched' Barack Obama is. Or if you're going to put someone like Sarah Palin in the 'Today' show why not pair her up with someone who counterpoints her like Dr. Jill Biden or Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood.

Sarah Palin to Host 'Today' Show, Take on Katie Couric


http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/sarah-palin-host-today-show-take-katie-couric-36695

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will guest host on NBC's "Today" show this Tuesday.


The Peacock network may have seen ABC up the stakes in the morning news show ratings poker game. Last week, ABC announced that Katie Couric will be filling in for Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America" this week.

"I see this as a good opportunity to bring an independent, common-sense conservative perspective to NBC. We’re 'going rogue' and infiltrating some turf for a day,” Palin told Breitbart News.

[onehandle]

1. NBC is circling the drain. I was distraught when Comcast bought them.

Now I truly believe they deserve each other.

Let Them Die!

[warrior1]

2. This is really sad for NBC

Do they not know how much she's disliked?

[Chorophyll]

5. I think they know very well.

But this is sure to produce ratings. The "train wreck" theory of television.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. as much as people hate train or car wrecks, what with the blood, the screams the death,

they cannot take their eyes off of them. The same theory applies here.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I was so sure it was an April Fool's Day prank

especially when I saw this list of 'notables' who will be on Today during the week:

'Others stopping by Studio 1A include Giuliana and Bill Rancic, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman, Kim Kardashian, the Duggars, Tori Spelling and Nicki Minaj, who will perform live.'

Alas, it is all true. Today is an unfunny joke.

[onehandle]

6. National Banality Central. nt

[lpbk2713]

4. She'll only be able to appear on camera for a minute or two at a time.

And then she'll have to go wash her hands to prepare for the next segment.

[LynneSin]

7. After 4 years she's memorized most of her keep phrases

Leftovers from her VP debate with Joe Biden. Knowing that they couldn't put her head-to-head on the issues (Biden is a debating champ) instead they trained her like a parrot who squawked the same catch phrases over and over again. All talk and no substance.

[MADem]

8. ...infiltrating some turf for a day?

Is this a "one off?" She's just doing it for a single day?

Pick up the remote and click it. Let NBC see what her effect is on viewership.

If she's the same "draw" as she was with her reality show, she'll tank. No one watched that piece of shit either--five minutes was like an hour of nails on a blackboard.

[hifiguy]

10. Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods will fail at this

as she has at everything else, save her chosen profession of grifting.

[LynneSin]

16. Four years ago she would have

Palin is well trained and has all the 'talking points' memorized well enough that she could manage to do the show and not look like an idiot.

Thing is this - these are talking points geared towards the Faux New crowd, something that should not be on Network morning shows like Today (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC) and the Morning Show (CBS).

[tularetom]

11. In what alternate universe does Palin equal Couric?

I'm no big fan of Katie Couric but to even suggest that putting Palin on opposite her somehow trumps ABC's move is a joke.

The Today show is slowly sliding into irrelevancy. Matt Lauer is a joke and Ann Curry is way out of her depth.

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Who's she putting crosshairs on now?

And why is Today volunteering for bottom of the barrel?

[avebury]

13. Talk about losing all credibility! nt

[stevenleser]

14. Hey Sarah, I can see the NBC Studios from my house!

Unbelievable. The joke is on everyone who watches morning tv.

[joeybee12]

15. It will be sure to do well in ratings because of the rubbernecking...

People alwys slow down to watch an accident, and when it's a major catstrophe, everyone watches.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Qualification: SP hosting only the 8:00 hour of Tuesday's show.

Boil it down to 15 minutes if she's given a 3 minute interview and 1 minute banter a dozen times before the show ends at 9.

[Erose999]

18. I'm in favor of this... pretty much every time she's been put in front of a microphone she gets

taken down a couple of pegs. She will fail at this, the crazy and stupid will be put on display.

[warrior1]

19. Thinking outside the box here

First, doesn't she work for FOX?

Second, would NBC be trying to tie up her time to keep her out of the GOP convention?

[Travelman]

30. Well...

For the first, there's nothing to say that she has an exclusivity or non-compete clause in whatever contract she's struck up with FNC.

Second, it's a mighty long time to the convention. I can't see how this has any bearing on that at all.



I don't ever watch Today or indeed any other of those network morning shows. I'm always out the door before they come on anyway. The last time I watched Today, Jane Pauley wore those horrible orange and brown outfits that dominated the '70s for no readily explicable reason, and Gene Shalit did movie reviews with that ridiculous hair and outrageous mustache.

[otohara]

20. What About FOX? Did She Quit Half Way

through her contract to do this instead?

[bart95]

21. every time you mention her name

you give her another milisecond of fame

[BumRushDaShow]

22. The irony is

she flunked out of 5 colleges before getting a degree in communications/journalism, so that is their out for jumping the shark - her theoretical qualifications.

[Inuca]

23. Andrew Sullivan's take on it

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/04/palin-guest-co-hosting-the-today-show.html

I assume it's an April Fool's, right? It couldn't be that NBC is so desperate for ratings it has to find an unhinged, delusional, inarticulate know-nothing to guest-host its show just to leverage red America against blue?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Apparently this is taking place for ratings week

NBC is obviously expecting '20 car pile-up on the freeway rubbernecking' for the trainwreck that is Palin. People won't tune in to see a so-called common-sense conservative perspective on political commentary. They want to see the bearded lady and the human pin cushion sideshow acts. Comedy central, Maher, Leno, Letterman, et al will have their writing staffs tuning in to take notes.

[crazylikafox]

25. I won't be watching.

If someone else can't resist, please post comments on DU for the rest of us.
Kind of like one person reporting from Free Republic on occasion since the rest of us won't go there. I'm sure if she really sucks we'll be able to watch the results on Utube.

[Myrina]

26. That's what the Pageant Queen has always wanted ...

... not to be a politician or even President, for puck's sake, but to be a talk-show host/tv star!

[abolugi]

27. The Today show

has truly jumped the shark!

[Pisces]

28. This is ridiculous. I can not believe NBC has lowered themselves to this decision. i will be watchin

Katie Couric even though I do not watch morning news just to make a statement. i am disgusted with NBC over this
decision. I think they will regret this choice.

[Blue_Tires]

29. Well, to be fair, Eva Braun ISN'T available...

[Nye Bevan]

31. I invoke Mrs Godwin's law.

(I don't get to do that very often)

[lpbk2713]

32. Frankly, I'd rather see J Fred Muggs.

He was certainly brighter and more talented.

[spanone]

33. nbc is promoting teh crazy....exploiting her insane politics for ratings.