WaPo TV Reviewer: Sarah Palin’s a ‘Fruit Bat In Fleece and Gore-Tex’
The Washington Post is getting out ahead of the pack in hating the new Sarah Palin reality show on TLC, “Sarah Palin's Alaska.” It isn't really about whether the show is entertaining. TV critic Hank Stuever tore into the Republican VP nominee with relish from the first sentence at the top of Wednesday's Style section: Who is this woman, this fruit bat in fleece and Gore-Tex, clenching the side of the rock face above a glacier, screaming “Tahhd! Tahhd!” at her husband, piercing the tranquility of the Alaskan paradise? Isn't this the kind of person whom forest rangers usually despise? The one whose loud command to heed the bears actually startles the bears? The hapless camper whom taxpayers have to rescue at great expense after she loses her Verizon signal and gets hopelessly disoriented? read more
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WaPo TV Reviewer: Sarah Palin’s a ‘Fruit Bat In Fleece and Gore-Tex’
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on November 10, 2010. Filed under