Half-Term First Dude Todd Palin Will Be America's Newest Reality Star Now, Because
So! Got any exciting TV-watching plans now that "Mad Men" is back on its usual two-year hiatus? Oh, you are going to watch "Stars Earn Stripes," because that is a thing, and it is going to be hosted by terrifying unblinking robot General Wesley Clark along with "'Entertainment Tonight' and 'Dancing with the Stars' alum Samantha Harris"? Good, good. Sounds reasonable. And it'll be "reality" "stars" teaming up with tough (and presumably hot) military men and ladies to do, like, missions? Hmmm. Who's gonna be on it? "[B]oxing royalty Laila Ali, actor Dean Cain, former NFL player Terry Crews, singer Nick Lachey Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street, NBC’s 'The Biggest Loser' trainer Dolvett Quince, and WWE star Eve Torres." We don't know what any of those words mean. Not sure we're thrilled with this television choice so far, America. Is there anything that could make us watch this?
Sarah Palin husband Todd is among those competing in NBC’s new reality series “Stars Earns Stripes,” the network has revealed Tuesday.
Right, so: no.
Now, we remember back to the heady days of the 2008 Republican convention, when all of a sudden the announcement of snowbilly grifter Sarah Palin as John McCain's special naughty princess caught all of America by surprise -- all of America except readers of Your Wonket, of course, who were the only people who had ever heard of her, because of how she was a GILF.
And we remember people like Andrew Sullivan (maybe we are just confusing Sullivan with Greta Van Susteren?) thinking Todd Palin was a pretty studly "first dude" with his Oakley wrap-around sunglasses and his phlegmatic monosyllabicity. (That is, he stood around doing an impression of a tree stump like a dumb fucking cunt.)
Yeah, we didn't get it either. And now we can continue to not get it, together, when this scintillating bit of red-blooded American Television Programming (from Mark Burnett!) debuts in August with the half-term first dude (half-dude?) attached. Presumably Bristol Palin's reality television program, "Life's A Tripp," will have been canceled by Lifetime by then and Willow's "Sixteen And Pregnant" will have taken its place, or maybe we'll get the oldest one, Trepann, on "Celebrity Rehab."
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I'm pleased to say that the name fails to bring any thoughts to mind, and I hope it stays that way.
I'm forever pissed off that Griftzilla and her trashy brood have hijacked neural connections in my brain that I'm sure I could be putting to better use. It's like knowing about the Kardtrashians - worthless information that's annoying as hell to have in your head, but there's no way to un-know it.
I believe he had a brief manufactured pop career, but was more famous for having a reality show while married to some other manufactured pop star or something. Which is why basically the only thing that comes to mind when I hear his name is seeing that clip on <em>The Soup</em>.
You could always leverage those Griftzilla from Wasilla neurons for reminding yourself and others that there is a Dominionist plot to <a href="http:\/\/www.narwatch.com\/tag\/transformations-movies\/" target="_blank">transform</a> the country into a theocratic hellhole. That&#039;s largely what I do with her.