Sarah Palin on Discovery Channel - Call discovery and ask them to give us a break
Offline Hi, I am very new here, just joined last night, so I hope this post is OK. If it's not, the mods are welcome to remove it, I won;t fly in a rage 
I have read in places that Sarah Palin is about to close a deal with Discovery Networks to host a "reality Show" set in Alaska. Apparently her entire family is going to be featured (lucky us) but the deal has not gone through yet.
I have been calling friends for the past couple of days to ask them to call Discovery Networks and complain about having Sarah Palin on a Science based network.
Then it occurred to me that if I can post the news here I may get a lot more traction. I don;t know about you, but the Discovery network is pretty much all I watch on TV (with a few exceptions) and the idea of having to see Palin strut around Alaska makes me want to put my TV on the front lawn and set it on fire. Or maybe change the channel. Anyway, I think her presence on Fox News is already too much of her.
I have the direct line to the President and GM of the Discovery channel W. Clark Bunting: 240-662-2000 Of course, he doesn't answer the phone but if you could call and tell Discovery to pck a better host for the show I think you'd be doing a favor to humanity. Tell them to put the show on some religious channel, but not on a science channel.
You can also go to the Discovery Networks web site or forum (http://community.discovery.com) and complain there I believe, but their forums are terrible. It takes you 20 minutes just to sign in.
Anyway, I hope this is relevant and I hope not to be the 100th poster with the same info.
Cheers, glad to be here.
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I just remembered that when you dial the 240-662-2000 number in order to get to Mr. Bunting extension you have to dial the first few letters of his last name: B - U - N - T
Sorry.
I laughed, and then I cried.
I think Sarah Palin should be on discovery, and in national geographic as well. She could be a missing link the "homus palin milfus".
Faith is the word but next to that snugged up closely "lie's" the want.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in god, in none."-Charlie Chaplin
As long as Coulter is not involved...
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
OK, so we are talking about the same channel that has Cash Cab and the show about the tomb of Jesus?
Just checking and seriously, I have nothing wrong with Cash Cab. In fact, every time I go to NYC, I write the cab number on my wrist with a sharpie just in case. Hey, I really do need to go to battery park via 125th st.
But seriously, why is that shit allowable but Caribou Barbie must not be?
Also @kapkao: You do have to admit that Billy Clinton would hit anything with two legs and three hole, even if it was Anne Coulter. Although, in all fairness, Coulter would never hit anything that wears a rubber and will not pay for the resulting kid.
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I'm now going to have nightmares because of what you just said.
"Yes, Mr. Clinton? Your ex's lawyer just called. In addition to a pending custody battle, she now claims that you, wearing a glove, have infringed on her reproductive rights. She is suing you for wrongful intent of fucking. You're due in court in two weeks."
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
Yes, that same channel. Or maybe I should say network.
I guess you have a point. Although I like Cash Cab too and one could make the argument that a quiz show is at least somewhat related to knowledge and pop culture.
Look, I am not saying that the Discovery Network is a are example of scientific rigor. No more than the History Channel is. Just yesterday I was browsing the "On Demand" offerings of the History channel and save for a WW2 show the rest was crap like "American Pickers", "Pawn stars" and other stuff unrelated to History except in a very remote way.
Ditto for Discovery. They do have a lot of crappy shows.
However, in all of TV the Discovery networks are among the few that do give a platform to science documentaries and on occasion they have great programming.
I frankly don't care about Sarah Palin political view in a scientific context. What I find objectionable is that she is famously a believer in Creation. Her public views on the creation/evoltion debates during the past elections were heavily coached by her team not to make her sound like an intellectual midget but in reality she is a sterotypical creationist.
If anyone thinks it is right to have someone that believes the peaks and geology of Alaska are 6000 years old taking us for a tour of the state, then by all means watch it. Personally, since I pay my exorbitant cable bill in large par to have access to the Discovery Network Channels and few others I find it offensive that a Network claiming to be supporting science has someone like her hosting a show.
If the show ends up being on the Travel Channel I'd be a lot less furious. But from what I heard that's not going to be the case.
as far as Discovery having "the life of Jesus" and other shows on the topic, frankly I don't see the issue. I watched some of those shows and I found them pretty well done. Just because I am an Atheist doesn't mean I am not interested in a semi-historical figure (jury still out on that one) that whether I like it or not has influenced history and the thought of western civilization for 2000 years.
In fact, I find the bible fascinating, even if it is for reasons opposite the ones most other people do. So I don't begrudge DC for that.
Another reason I would prefer Mrs. Palin not host a show on Discovery is that her idea of a good time, like shooting wolves out of helicopters, really infuriates me and I believe goes against the message most other documentaries on the network supports.
Those reasons are enough for me to want to try to kill the deal. The other side, meaning the medieval bigots that Sarah Palin more or less represents, are constantly organizing to complain about atheist initiatives, reporting them in the same segment with the calf born with 2 heads and generally taking our general viewpoint and either directly ostracize it or report it in a ridiculous light.
I'd like to make my voice heard a bit more and give them a bit of their own medicine whenever I can. In this case, I can vote with my opinion and with that of those that may agree with me, as well as with my dollars. I see nothing wrong with that.