I’m predicting that Murdoch’s deal with Sarah Palin will turn out exactly like his deal for MySpace: an expensive, public humiliation.
For those who haven’t heard, Sarah’s new show will include interviews with L.L. Cool J and Toby Keith. Actually, the show will be Sarah presenting old interviews with the stars. Both Cool J and Keith have let it be known they have never met Sarah.
That is because no TV executive in his right mind would put the woman in a studio interview that wasn’t tightly-controlled, even as a host. Sarah would probably refuse to do that kind of show anyway because presentation is pretty much all she can handle.
God forbid she has an actual conversation with someone who’s not a sycophant; and homework on a guest? Fuggetaboutit.
Worse, Sarah Palin without a script could very well turn into the How Sue Sees It segment on Glee:
There’s enormous potential downside because this Alaskan flake melts down easily. Murdoch and Ailes will never find a use for her that makes back anything like the money they will spend — but that is not the point of having her on the air. She’s the face of the right’s new permanent revolution, after all.
Like MySpace, she’ll never quite go away; she’ll just linger there sucking up revenue.
