ALASKA ON TV

TV being what TV has become, I haven't spent much time lately in front of it. Commercials being what commercials are, I don't even do much channel surfing anymore. But last night I caught Sarah Palin's Alaska show on TNT.

Not bad. She killed a caribou and help dress it out. She hiked, she tented in bear country. She even talked like a guy using the word "frickin'", I believe. I know she used "flipping" a time or two in the vernacular, cussing without actually cussing way.

Sure it took her seven shots and two rifles, but hey, she did it. She even had a nice way of quoting Ted Nugent about how the caribou had had a good life and now he was going to provide food for a good family for the Winter. I liked that.

I like Sarah. Not enough that I think she should be Prez, but she's a tough gal to take all the guff that comes from the territory in the political arena. Certainly she was mishandled by her party in the 2008 election, but she's more popular and more disliked now than then. I have no idea what her tv show will do for her reputation and standing. But I'll tune in again.

People seem not to like her because she represents more traditional women than most. Yet this show, which also highlights some halibut fishing reveals that she's not a prima donna.

When I listen to her speak (she has some weird kind of twangy, nasally accent that I don't like) and hear her "Ubetchas", I recoil. But when I think of others in the public eye, Sarah Palin's not all that bad in comparison. Yeah, I guess you could say I like her.

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