One day the Republican Party will look back upon these times and admit that one of the big problems with their party was that it attracted greedy con artists. This is a natural result of their need to elevate willing puppets in order to further a corporate agenda. The very kinds of people who are willing to sell themselves out for big corporations are also the kinds of people who will go rogue on the party and treat it like a cash cow.
So it is that we come to Rogue TV. All Sarah, all the time.
Coming in April or May, Sarah Palin will be launching her own digital channel, “Rogue TV”, on the digital video service TAPP (TV App), sources confirmed to Capital New York. If you are craving more commentary from Palin instead of less, this is where you can find it.
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“Think of it as a video version of her Facebook page,” the source told Capital New York. Oh, goody.
But also, the viewer will be paying to watch recycled footage from Palin’s TLC reality show that you helped fund with your tax dollars, per the convenient and very generous tax incentive legislation Palin passed for TV and film production in Alaska right before she quit. The grift never ends for “small government” conservatives.
That said, Rogue is also expected to feature footage of Palin and her family in Alaska, much as the 2010 TLC reality series, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” did. (TLC’s parent company, Discovery Communications, is an investor in Tapp.)
For this treat, you will dish up $10 a month, which will also ostensibly get you other content on the newly launched TAPP network. Or, you can just go to Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page while replaying her several reality TV shows, and insert daily bitterness at Obama to keep it fresh and free.
Nobody does grifting like the far right. Glenn Beck hawked gold and is now selling his own digital world to the paranoid who just need to know how the government is coming after them today per Glenn Beck’s close relationship with Nazi Chalkboards, and now Sarah Palin, a conservative “King maker”, is finding yet another way to squeeze a buck out of her followers, as if her PAC weren’t enough.
If Sarah Palin were a real conservative, she would never allow the tax payers to fund reality TV shows, especially not that she was making money off of and were elevating her always political messages. But there is no mistaking her record of debt — she left Alaska with a 70% debt to GDP ratio, her record of high spending and socialism — real, honest to goodness socialism, too. I still love her passionate justification for raising taxes on oil companies because the oil company profits belong to Alaskans. This is the same woman who just a few years later claimed that we should do away with all corporate taxes.
But I guess conservatives can’t go it alone; they need taxpayer money/aka “welfare” to fund their lavish life styles and they are too lazy and unmotivated to do an honest days work, being as they are from cushy suburbia where I hear they even have refrigerators and drive Cadillacs while taking handouts from the Uncle Sugar.
Even this digital channel is being subsidized with your tax dollars, given that Palin’s channel will be beefed up by recycling footage from TLC paid for by the taxpayers. But most importantly, this channel gives Ms. Palin yet another way to pick the pocket of the faithful. It’s the modern version of the Tent Revival con. The only good thing about this is that it keeps the crazy contained behind a paywall of sorts.
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