LoveNotHate wrote:
Sarah Palin is a self-professed 'redneck'. So her show may find an audience, since other 'redneck' programming such as 'Duck Dynasty', 'Honey Boo Boo', 'Moonshiners', 'Buckwild', 'Call of the Wildman', "Whites of West Virginia" are so popular.
The popularity of these shows is said to be because they relate to the rural working class people. I would also add that perhaps the airheadedness, vapidness you describe, actually gives it a folksy feel to which people can relate. She talks like a real person.
" I would also add that perhaps the
airheadedness, vapidness you describe, actually gives it a folksy feel to which people can relate. She talks like a real person"
^^^which is exactly the problem with the right wing and its voters. They enjoy and respect stupidity. And they allow stupid people to influence their vote, just because they can "relate to it." Given my background and how I grew up, I should be right in her demographic, along with that of Duck Dynasty and "Dr." Phil and the like, but I recognize that in the case of George Bush2 and some of these other shows, this "folksiness" is fake, pretentious and contrived with the implicit intent of manipulating voters. In Palins case, I don't believe it is fake. She really is an airhead. Clueless and manipulative. Just like Paula Deen, who is also coming back with her own tv network, and I bet she finds a way to use her network to make a political statement and not just go back to cooking as she did before.